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NYC: A Great Place To Visit. But…
English: A Toyota Prius hybrid taxi in New York City. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sitting in the airport lounge waiting to hop on the plane to NYC, where I will spend the week in my company’s New York...
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NYC: As Seen On TV
New York is one of the most iconic American cities: known around the globe as a cultural nerve center. Manhattan and it’s surrounding buroughs don’t just house a disproportionate amount the nation’s...
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A Jewish American New York Story: Swinging Into Modern Times
My father was a second generation American: born to native New Yorkers in 1934. A swing generation baby, he grew up at an interesting time in the history of New York and our now waning industrial...
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“Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing Out The Creative Class?
This fascinating ethnographic piece in the New York Times Style section got me thinking today. If you live in an urban center or watch Portlandia then you know what I am talking about. Traditionally...
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thenarcissisticanthropologist:amen. Having dreamed of living in New York and experience the reality of it in the early 2000s I am inclined to agree…. Originally posted on Plumbing For The Pipe Dream:...
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From Natural Resource Commodity to Criminality: The Canadian Maple Syrup Saga...
About a year ago I got an email from a coworker in our Toronto office about a maple syrup heist that became global news – and shortly thereafter was the inspiration for my first Freshly Pressed blog...
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From Low Culture To High Art: The Punk Rock Uniform
Featured in the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times today is a journalistic tribute to context creating pop culture, inspired by the exhibit at the Metropolitain Museum of Art in New York...
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In Jeans We Trust: Celebrating 140 Years of Levi’s
If I asked you where Jeans were invented I be your first guess would likely be AMERICA! Or maybe it would be China – given where most of the things we buy are made. Fact is you would me mostly...
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Be still my beating NYC HeART
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative suburban mother) the...
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