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...Eisenberg knows how to shop. He can see through marketing campaigns, advertisements, and all the subtle nuances behind a store's attempt to make you spend your money. In his new book, Shoptimism the former executive vice president of clothing retailer Lands' End (and former editor-in-chief of Esquire) examines why we shop, how we buy, and what sort of tricks the advertising industry tries to play on us. (Watch TIME's video "Are You Ready To Shop...
...think we'll ever go back to previous overwrought spending? Not for a while. I think things are going to get better, but I think there has been a fundamental change in people's heads. We are not going to stop buying, but we may not shop to the degree we did in the past. I really think we are going to be more measured for the foreseeable future...
...machine’s unveiling had been the day before, but the shop maintained all the buzz and novelty of a miniature, latter-day Great Exposition. In the back of the shop, a crowd of about 15 onlookers pressed around an attendant performing a demonstration. A graduate student couple beamed at each other. Old men shook their heads and grinned...
Huff's play outshines the two other Chicago offerings that have opened so far this fall: Letts' Superior Donuts, a relatively formulaic comedy-drama about a crusty inner-city doughnut-shop owner and the black kid who comes to work for him, and Oleanna, Mamet's scathing account of a bogus sexual-harassment charge that was too polemically freighted back in 1992 and has the added disadvantage of seeming dated today. But collectively, they showcase much of what makes Chicago theater so distinct and vital. The City of Big Shoulders produces big-shouldered theater as well--thematically ambitious, emotionally juiced...
Ultimately, though, the evening served less as a talking shop and more as a call to action. The three actors were adamant that hands-on experience is necessary for anyone who wishes to understand the problems faced by young, vulnerable people in cities today. For them, this is nothing less than an ethical imperative. “There’s really no excuse for us not to go into these neighbourhoods and try to help out,” Sohn said...