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...difference between corporate dominance of media and online do-it-yourselfers is the difference between oligarchy and anarchy. Sure, we may no longer be inundated with Hollywood and Madison Avenue products like the Monkees, the Spice Girls and the Phantom Menace, but we will get an avalanche of what is essentially vanity publishing--work by people who in earlier times would have been told to come back to the editor or producer when they had developed their talent and skill to a minimum standard. Popular culture no longer belongs to artists and audiences but to technocrats and trend spotters. What...
Have I benefited from the new economy? The answer is definitively yes. Will I ever pay $385 for a zinc-and-steel ironing board? The answer is definitively "not in this lifetime." MICHAEL OAKLEAF Madison...
...Madison, Franklin and Washington meet Gusmorino, Griffin and Smith...
...year. "Customers really respond to products that involve new thinking and connect with their souls," says Target v.p. Ron Johnson, who launched the Graves line before switching over to Apple's business-development team. Not surprisingly, the department-store chain, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has become the talk of Madison Avenue, not to mention Main Street. And this year, as Target nears the opening of its 1,000th store, Graves has been joined by the doyen of design, Philippe Starck, another Alessi regular, and Target's hometown hipsters, the young design team Blu Dot. Says Dziersk: "This is the principle...
...Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...