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After hearing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar at the City Club of Cleveland on Feb. 14 speak about President Obama’s vision for the new energy frontier, which is largely a full-steam ahead agenda for fossil fuel extraction, and then reading that more than 800,000 people signed a petition to their U.S. Senators to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and nearly 2,000 people in Frankfort, Ky., called for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining that same day, it was clear that Obama’s energy plan does not align with the sustainable energy future many Americans want.
Salazar said Obama’s energy blueprint focuses on tapping into all of the energy resources of the U.S. and that the Department of the Interior will play a key role in mapping out a future that will bring about energy security for

“The great secret that all old people share,” Doris Lessing once told O Magazine, “is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.” These words aptly describe not only novelist Hilma Wolitizer, 82, but also the social landscape evoked in her superb, recently published novel “An Available Man.”
Edward Schuyler, its main character, is a quirky 62-year-old science teacher whose wife and great love, Bee, falls to cancer after a long, happy marriage. After Edward’s stepdaughters place a personal ad for him in The New York Review of Books, he finds himself besieged by available older, single women. The intangible presence of Bee accompanies Edward as he grapples with renewed life, loss, love, and sex.
A brilliant writer of social comedies that often play out in the domestic sphere, Wolitzer is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and

Many people — even those who profess to have a great love for the arts — often have trouble distinguishing between the artistic process and an artistic product. Most are consumers who eagerly buy tickets to arts events, purchase books, visit museums, and have a passion for sculpture, painting, and other forms of art.
Many will purchase e-books, DVDs, posters, lithographs, and greeting cards without ever having to think of the artistic process that went into the creation of these products. What they pay to see, however, is very much the outcome of someone’s artistic process. Whether it is a museum display about the Impressionists, an operatic performance, or a fashion show, they are paying for the end result.
For some people, placing a value on art is of paramount

Valentine’s Day is over. The flowers now start to wilt. The unwanted chocolate truffle with the jelly center sits, waiting for its day in the garbage. And the photo booth photo strip will begin its new life on someone’s refrigerator.
What’s better than a photo booth when you’re in the early stages of becoming crazy in love with someone? It has all the characteristics of a mini couple’s

Rick Santorum is a bottomless cup of repulsive, dangerous and misguided views. He’s a radical far-right Republican who, in spite of this seemingly endless primary process, hasn’t choked on his own tongue yet — at least from the point of view of conservative Republicans. The rest of us remember his ridiculous “blah people” remarks from last month, but I imagine his use of a Southern Strategy dog whistle only helped his reputation with primary voters.
Nevertheless, his comparatively chokeless campaign appears to have elevated Santorum to be the latest driver of the GOP clown car even though, at the outset, he was pegged as one of those quadrennial D-list candidates who would drop out of the race before or immediately following Iowa. Instead, he won Iowa along with three more states this

Mompreneurs are in love with technology. It’s truly a gift that allows us to run our own biz efficiently while being available for our kids at the same time. When I started my business Moisture Jamzz, Inc. in 1993 only “techies” were utilizing the

You know the picture. Everybody does. It’s Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic man in a circle and the
square, the figure known as Vitruvian Man–or, as Tim Howard, a producer at Radiolab once aptly put it to me, “the naked guy doing jumping jacks.”
But if everybody knows the picture, almost nobody knows anything about its story. When I began looking into it, a couple of years ago, I discovered, to my great surprise, that nobody had even ever written a book on the

Jenny Kang is the practically the poster child for New York street style — she is the Fashion Editor for New York Magazine, after all.
The Chicago native, who has described her style as “preppy sportswear with punches of fun,” knows how to pick out ideal spots to cool her heels between shows. We asked Kang to dish on her favorite hotels, and of course, her favorite designers.
Right now she’s loving Proenza Schouler, Miu Miu and Givenchy, but is most looking forward to the Marc Jacobs show this NYFW. “The way he presents his collection is always innovative, almost like fashion theater,” says Kang.
Check out her favorite New York City hotels (hint: there’s one she really loves) for New York Fashion Week below.
Q: What’s your favorite hotel near Lincoln Center (a.k.a. where NYFW is staged)?
A: The Empire Hotel.
Q: Is there a hotel bar or lounge that you like to hang out at the most?
A: The Rooftop of the Empire Hotel has stunning views — hanging out here is a great way to

Remember that time, right after and extending from 9/11, when there was much incendiary, spittle-flying, vein-popping debate about whether there was a good Muslim to be found anywhere on this earth? Pundits, politicians and just plain people couldn’t seem to wrap their brains around the idea that even within this seemingly fire-breathing religion there were many who did not support terrorism, did not subscribe to specific hate-filled passages of the Koran, did not believe all non-Muslims were infidels, everyone in the West was Satan or fatwas against writers and cartoonists were the best way to make a point.
“OK,” they were challenged, “then where are your leaders, your Imams, your cultural mentors to stand up, denounce terrorism, speak out loudly against hate and intolerance?” It was suggested — no, demanded — that moderate Muslims step up and make themselves known. They had “an obligation,” opinion leaders insisted, to show their faces, assert to the world that they, as moderate Muslims, did, in fact, exist; proof that not ALL of the faith were honor-killing, genital-mutilating, women-oppressing, terrorism-facilitating West-haters. For those Muslims for whom bridging the gap of hate and cultural divide was essential, that challenge was met in a myriad of ways, by many people, and in a wide variety of

This isn’t your parents’ world anymore — its one constant is instability. We are staying single longer — or “Going Solo,” in the words of author in Eric Klineberg, and choosing to live alone. Traditional families have been replaced by all sorts of new forms of partnerships and parenting.
We change our jobs and even our careers in a heartbeat (or at the whim of the economy); more and more of us are launching our own businesses. Author Dan Pink calls it the “Free Agent Nation.” The entrepreneur Ben Casnocha wrote a book called My Start-Up Life in which he claims: “Each of us is CEO of Me, Inc.” No company can grow and thrive without a business plan.
Our teachers, counselors, parents, and professors didn’t prepare us with a business plan for our lives or for all the hiccups, pitfalls, and accidents that await us along the

Ask any parent, or for that matter, any student — they’ve always known that good teachers are better than bad ones. And those of us lucky enough to have had one or two can remember the long-term impact of a really great teacher. Recent research, however, gives us a more concrete understanding of the potential economic magnitude of teacher impact. In their rigorous study, “The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers,” Raj Chetty and his colleagues estimate that substituting a very poor teacher for an average one in one school year could increase each student’s age-28 earnings by nearly $200 per

We just enjoyed our annual all-staff meeting and our art department shared some of the best of the new photos in our arsenal. In our business, photos are a powerful way to share our enthusiasm for a destination (and to sell things).
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There is no denying we love a good wedding cake on Style Me Pretty. Fondant or buttercream, tiered or layered — wedding cakes have a way of making a delicious statement on your big day — and that is something we can stand behind.
But what if you want that statement to be a bit louder, and the classic cake just doesn’t cut it? Well, we’ve rounded up some wedding cake alternatives that are 100 percent Style Me Pretty approved. Full of the style we love and the spunk that will leave your guests talking, these non-traditional desserts will surely be trending in the wedding cake category!
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Some couples don’t have the sweet tooth that demands a three-tiered wedding

Four decades ago Richard Nixon, a once famously hawkish Republican president, cut a deal with the Communist overlords of China to reshape the world. The result was a transformation of the global economy in ways that we are only now, with the sharp critiques of Apple’s China operation, beginning to fully comprehend.
At the heart of the deal was a rejection of the basic moral claim of both egalitarian socialism and free market capitalism, the rival ideologies of the Cold War, to empower the individual as the center of decision-making. Instead, the fate of the citizen would come to be determined by an alliance between huge multinational corporations and government elites with scant reference to the needs of ordinary working

The first time I saw “Wonder Pets,” I started texting several friends — some parents, some child-free — “Omygod put on Nick Jr. right now. There is a duck who can’t say her r’s and a turtle and hamster and they are wearing capes and saving a baby panda!” The ones who didn’t ignore me (likely the same women who hit refresh on Cute Overload a few hundred times a day) were excited. But, most of my mom friends laughed at my

This week’s “American Idol” had a lot of lost time to make up for, after dedicating one full episode to watching the contestants systematically succumbing to some kind of plague and passing out all over the hotel last Thursday. As entertaining as it might be to watch the star-less sequel to “Contagion” play out among emotionally volatile reality contestants (i.e. not entertaining in the slightest), I believe we all signed up for this show to watch some actual singing, and thankfully, that was in ready supply this week.
The episode opened where last Thursday’s left off (thus irritating everyone), with the first team about to

We first had the idea about creating co-sleeping diagrams when we spoke about how little sleep we both got. Each of us co-slept to varying degrees but anytime our babies slept on or near us, we noticed how utterly uncomfortable we were. Once Andy, a designer, thought of drawing a birds-eye view the ideas exploded out of our mouths. We now have a list two pages long of every conceivable and inconceivable body

I should really not leave my house, because when I do, I get annoyed by the people I encounter. As you may know, I’ve got two rugrats and a shopping addiction, so I spend a lot of time in children’s clothing stores. The other day I was in such a store. I was moving as quickly as possible and trying not to interact with anyone.
That being said, I couldn’t help but notice little

Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 14 of ABC’s “Revenge,” entitled, “Chaos.”
After months of anticipation, we finally discovered the truth about “Revenge’s” dirtiest little secret: Whose body was on the beach?
“Chaos” had so many twists and turns that for a second I really thought that I had no idea what was really going on anymore, and in true “Revenge” fashion, the last five minutes may have left us with more questions than answers. However, at least the season’s biggest mystery was finally solved.
Daniel was not the body on the beach. Like many of you may have guessed, it was actually Tyler’s

A Pre-Grammy Conversation with Bob Clearmountain
Mike Ragogna: Bob, here at the Grammys watching over the sonics of the Bruce Springsteen segment. What are some of the things you look out for when it comes to the right mix on Bruce?
Bob Clearmountain: The thing with Bruce, and any artist like Bruce, is that the most important thing is the song, getting across the meaning and the character of the song. Bruce is almost like an actor in that he creates a character for each of his songs. He wants to make sure that the narrative of the song comes

A few weeks ago I was feeling pretty off my game. I had caught a cold that gave me a hacking cough, incessant nose-blowing, and a magnetic pull to my bed that made me even less eager to play “Zombie Mommy” with my boys.
Then I got some crushing work news. Not crushing in and of itself, just in that last-blow-to-the-fighter-in-the-ring

It is late fall. The sun is delicious and warm. I give my girls an early lunch and bring them out back. We are way ahead of schedule for the afternoon kindergarten bus and I want them to soak in this radiant

A White House Dinner symbolizes a grateful country–but it’s only a start.In December, after eight years of combat, 32,000 Americans wounded, and 4,400 lives lost, the President told America that the Iraq war was over. And civilians nationwide began organizing parades–most notably, one for 100,000 people in St. Louis. Now, the President and First Lady are planning a historic White House Dinner -called “A Nation’s Gratitude” -for 200 Iraq veterans and their spouses from all 50

Most people have no idea what goes on inside the LGBT movement. The basic questions of who actually controls this $161-million enterprise, and what their strategy is, and how they arrive at it, remain unexplored, off-limits to media and the LGBT community alike. What we do know is that after 60 years of movement struggle, there is clearly still no intention among the top-1-percent donors in charge and their private corporations — the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — to even file a bill for full equality anytime soon.
Rather, the Task Force sent folks to Capital Hill on Jan. 26 asking for employment-nondiscrimination, pay-equity, anti-bullying and safe-schools laws, tiny additions to America’s civil rights laws, which protect race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, and disability from discrimination expansively in all societal