In The Spotlight
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A Woman Scorned…
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Arby’s Had the Meats…
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White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
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Have a Margarita
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It’s Actually Not a Dollar…
National
A Woman Scorned…
This post is about abortion. Viewer discretion is advised… When is abortion NOT controversial, so I felt it was necessary to open with the equivalent of a movie black screen MPAA warning… you’ve been warned… The right to have an abortion was decided via Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973 by a 7-2 vote […]
Consumer
Arby’s Had the Meats…
Why can’t chicken restaurants just sell chicken? To that end, Arby’s is now making burgers. But not just any burger… a wagyu burger. Before I get into what wagyu is, I want to talk about Arby’s… and Burger King… and Dominos Pizza. Everyone is trying to diversify. But is it working? So wagyu beef is […]
Diversity
White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
This is a documentary more than a film and I’d like to treat it as such with a full feature account of its contents as opposed to a review of the quality of the production. There are no actors with whom a performance needs to be dissected and no story to be told with color. […]
Consumer
Have a Margarita
My introduction to tequila was in a dive college bar in the form of a shot glass. Not a lot of quality attached to that experience… It was more than 10 years later that I took a minute to consider – tequila, like all other spirits has a top shelf too. It happened in New […]
Markets
It’s Actually Not a Dollar…
Did you know that all dollar stores don’t sell item exclusively for a dollar? Like most consumers, it is natural to believe that a store with the word DOLLAR in its name means everything is a dollar. But it really means everything in the store is economical like a dollar… Let me explain… There are […]
The Final Curtain on Awards Season
The last of the awards events is the Oscars, so, I decided to respond to the 84th Annual Academy Awards on the day of leap year because the oddity of both seemed so simpatico… My overall impression of this year’s Oscars...
The Oscar Hypothesis
I don’t know why I put myself through this every year. What I think about films and what the people in Hollywood think about films are oxymorons. It’s diametric at best. I think that’s why I dismiss the term “Oscar pred...
The Road to Super Tuesday…
January turned out to be an interesting month for the Republican Presidential candidates. A correction in the Iowa caucus results and an upset in South Carolina. My thought is that we walked into February even and I feel like I...
The Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards were bittersweet this year. Whitney Houston’s death gave everyone pause for whether a celebration of music was still appropriate. But, the show must go on… LL Cool J opened the show and got right to th...
Super Bowl XLVI: Double or Nothing
One thing we can count on as Americans is our love affair with Super Bowl Sunday. People who don’t normally watch sports – Football in particular – will stop what they’re doing to attend a Super Bowl party. I gu...
