How One Woman Is Saving The Book Industry--The Old-Fashioned Way
There's a story about Sarah McNally that seems lifted out of one of the plots of the 60,000-plus volumes she sells at her Manhattan bookstore. As documented in a piece about her in the New York Times,...
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Office Yoga Does Not Have To Be Awkward
There's no question that to survive in today's 24-7 work world, many of us have had to make a lot of adjustments and sacrifices. Yet for all of our adaptability, there is one thing that people have...
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How Noah Kerner Gets Inside The Minds Of Millennials
Noah Kerner has a simple career philosophy: "You have to do what you love in this short life." And what he loves are startups. So Kerner has created not one, or even two, but three companies that have...
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How Pharrell's Creative Director Is Making The World Happy
Pharrell Williams recently told a magazine that he used to be "the guy next to the guy." It was an apt description for a man who spent much of his two-decade career as the behind-the-scenes producer,...
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How AudioSalad Is Saving Indie Music
When Iain Catling relocated from his native England to New York City, his first new friend was Deane Thomas. They met at a bar a few days after he arrived in the city and "found that we shared a common...
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Twoople Aims to Eradicate Annoying On-Hold Music
Your cable is out, and you've been on hold for 31, no 32, minutes waiting for someone to help you. Today, even with all of the tech-savvy ways to communicate, if you want to talk to a business, you are...
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Jason Moran Is Expanding What It Means To Experience Music
What do you do after the world declares you a genius? Take your twin sons to school, if you're Jason Moran. In 2010, the jazz pianist and composer was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the...
View ArticleHow TuneCore Is Making Record Labels Unnecessary
The music industry used to be a very different place. Artists would make a demo or figure out another strategy for getting discovered and signed by a record label. That label would then pay them an...
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You May Be Thirstier Than You Think
What do athletes, famous musicians, water-deprived parts of the world, and nearly three-fourths of Americans have in common? They are all at risk for dehydration. Not what you were expecting?At the...
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How To Make Money When Airlines Ruin Your Trip
A few years ago, Nicolas Michaelsen was headed to Seville, Spain. Typically that would be a good thing. Yet it soon became his personal nightmare. "I had a layover in Madrid," he says. "But the...
View ArticleThis Company Is Putting The Homeless To Work--As Tour Guides
When Lisa Grace was on maternity leave from her marketing job in Barcelona, her employer fired her. The British expat could have returned home to take advantage of the more woman-friendly employment...
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Mama Glow Is There For You From The Birthing Room To The Boardroom
We are living in the midst of a pop culture obsession with motherhood. Famous baby bumps and celeb post-baby body reveals are hard to avoid, whether you're reading tabloids or serious news. Yet one...
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This Company Is Changing How Women Go Nude
Men get asked the question "boxers or briefs" as if that is the fundamental undergarment question. Women wish it were that simple. Instead they contend with: Wireless or soft cup? Thong, boy short or...
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This Woman Is Changing Ex-Felons' Lives--And Her Own
Three seemingly unrelated events changed the course of Mary Cunningham's life—and has the potential to change the lives of men and women who have passed through the American prison system. First,...
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The Key To Rebranding Cannabis Is More Soccer Mom And Less Bob Marley
Despite the recent dramatic changes in the world of marijuana—hello, THC-infused lemonade legally sold in L.A. dispensaries—there is one holdover from the past that won't go away. Ask most people who...
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Brooklyn's Weeksville Is Where Hipsters And History Coexist
For the past few years, Brooklyn has been charmed. From the New York Times to the HBO show Girls, the media has taken to calling this borough "the New Brooklyn," a place of coffee shops and artisanal...
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A Long Walk Through Brooklyn With Collaborative Fund Founder Craig Shapiro
It's easy to imagine the founder and managing partner of a Manhattan venture-capital firm speeding through the streets of New York in the back of a car with a driver, juggling two smartphones and...
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A Day In Harlem With TV Personality And People Connector Bevy Smith
While most who know her would describe Bevy Smith as a woman about town, the radio host and TV personality admits that she rarely leaves Harlem. Born and raised in the northern Manhattan neighborhood,...
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Eternal It Girl Molly Ringwald Is Busier Than Ever
Having just wrapped up a packed morning taping talk show The Chew, Molly Ringwald attempts to answer a question about what she's currently working on. "I'm promoting the film Jem, which was out on...
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How Brooklyn Is Helping To Put Philly On The Food Map
One entrepreneurial couple turned homesickness—and pretzels—into business success.Philadelphia is just 100 miles from New York City, but it felt as far as Australia for Leon Kirkland. A native of the...
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