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...played for Cleveland. He spent most of his career there, and only two years ago faced those same Red Sox in a bitter playoff battle, then cast as a villain. He will face CC Sabathia, who also played on that Cleveland team and has been a New York icon for a few short months. Sabathia has, for the third year running, inspired the support of fans in a different city...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Cutthroat Sports Culture | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

America is the land of second acts, but still, a gay former child actor who loves magic isn't supposed to return as an icon of cool masculinity. Yet at 36, Neil Patrick Harris, who played a genius teenage doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D., has used rat-pack swagger to climb the hosting rope in record time, from emceeing the TV Land awards in April to the Tonys in June to the Emmys on Sept. 20. He's up for his own Emmy this year for his role as an over-the-top straight guy in the CBS sitcom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Patrick Harris: Emmy Host with the Most | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Coco Chanel in an actual classroom in Coco Before Chanel, the meticulous, somber new biopic of the fashion designer before she became an icon. But throughout writer-director Anne Fontaine's film, the young Coco (Audrey Tatou) is a student, quietly gathering the elements of what will be her style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coco Before Chanel: The Making of a Fashion Icon | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...It’s ridiculous,” said one patron who is known to staff as “Karen the Milkshake Lady” and has been coming to Herrell’s everyday since 1985. “This is a Harvard Square icon...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Loyal Fans, Herrell's Milkshake Licked by JP | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

Made in Texas Though Jones wanted his new stadium to be an icon, he stopped short of hiring name architects like Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster or Herzog & de Meuron, the guys who have added star power to stadium design over the past few years. Why butt heads with a big thinker when you've got some big thoughts of your own? "We really knew what this building was going to look like," Jones says. "What I needed was a good listener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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