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...mail and e-commerce, add e-office gossip. In industry after industry, the kind of chat that once occurred at the water cooler is moving online. Journalists are hooked on Jim Romenesko's MediaNews poynter.org/medianews) a site that in addition to aggregating news stories about the media posts e-mail from media professionals. (A recent topic: a schoolyard fight between journalists and p.r. agents in which the reporters accused the flacks of being overly aggressive and underinformed.) Investment bankers prefer vault.com where they can keep tabs on which of their colleagues is getting richest and who's sleeping with...
...office hallway or over an after-hours beer. At their best, these sites can be as salacious as a hot rumor whispered over a cubicle divider. The Velvet Rope, a music-industry insiders' site, traffics in scuttlebutt about which acts reputedly lip-synch. And as with off-line gossip, sex talk is encouraged. Vault.com recently had a series of postings about a purported call-girl and call-boy ring at a large New York City investment firm that features celebrity look-alikes, including a ringer for the late John F. Kennedy...
...would ask you how you're doing, but any idiot who's glanced at a newspaper or overheard a snippet of water-cooler gossip knows you're doing just fine. Quite a feat you pulled off in Louisville this weekend, shuttling Bob May back into obscurity and cementing your reputation as a golfer for the ages. If I were wearing a hat, I would take...
...festival of female bands, artists and speakers, open to both sexes. Workshops range from guitar lessons to basic auto mechanics, "girls only." Besides Sleater-Kinney, other nationally known Olympia acts performing include Bangs (a blissful marriage of the Go-Gos and the Ramones), the Need, and the Gossip. The bands from out of town are also formidable (Cat Power, the Rondelles, Bratmobile), but it's no coincidence that it's happening here...
...ride away. The realization that different life paths exist, besides corner-loitering or stoop-sitting, is the only way that the next generation of Southie kids will be able to move out. Leaving the close-knit Southie community, where everybody is related in some way to everybody else and gossip quickly spreads from stoop to stoop, means breaking the protective ties of familiarity, of entrenched tradition and overcoming the fear of the unknown. Only faith in a better life elsewhere will provide enough spark to fuel their departure...