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He’s a writer who doesn’t write. Well past his mid-20s, he still does drugs that go up your nose. He drinks in the morning and has more sexual partners in a week than your Uncle Terry uncouthly claims to have in a year. He is a man who, in normal conversation, uses words that without one’s eyeglasses might appear to read “aunt” or “hussy.”Hank Moody, played by David Duchovny on Showtime’s “Californication...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drugs, Dirty Deeds Spell Success For Showtime | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...back. It was as if he were reassembling the band: Roberts, the merchandising guru; Wanda Herndon, who left in 2006 but returned to run global communications; and Arthur Rubinfeld, the company's first vice president for store development, who has known Schultz since the two were in their 20s. Schultz holed up with them and others he'd promoted from within at the Palace Ballroom in downtown Seattle for three days of 14-hour strategy sessions. The retreat started by listening to Beatles music and talking about how great icons reinvent themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks Looks for a Fresh Jolt | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...take you to a place more menacing than the one you are trying to escape. It is escapism that leads Chris, a fortysomething traveling salesman trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, to a street corner in north London. There, he propositions Roza, an illegal Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about her life as the daughter of a communist partisan. They forge a friendship, with Chris visiting Roza often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis de Bernières: Going Nowhere | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...grilled wild salmon with roasted-shallot bread pudding--but I don't feel like sitting down to eat it. But gourmet-food trucks, staffed by trained chefs who have worked in high-end restaurants, have been appearing on city streets throughout the country. "People in their 30s and late 20s are not caught up with trying to impress people by going to the most luxurious establishment and throwing money around," says Jerome Chang, 31, who dispenses $5 crme brle out of the Dessert Truck in New York City. "It's about getting really good ingredients made with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meals on Wheels | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...nurse responded. "I'm Thomas. I'll be taking care of you." (Thomas is a pseudonym for a nurse in his mid-20s.) Then, in a tone of uncertainty, Thomas said under his breath, "Nauseous and dizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Experience | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

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