Story via BusinessWeek. By Bobbie Johnson It’s been a tough few months for Reed Hastings. Since announcing an unpopular price hike in October, the Netflix (NFLX) chief executive officer has presided over a grim cascade of events that has seen the company’s prospects plummet. His drastic answer to the price problem—a surprise plan to separate [...]
Join the Young Friends and others at the University of Pennsylvania’s garden with drink specials, and live music every Wednesday from June 22nd to August 24th this summer from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The event takes place at 3260 South Street in Philadelphia, PA and is free to Penn Museum members. “A wonderful garden [...]
News critic and social-media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart discusses his new book – Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World. The event took place in New York City on July 6th, from 6:00-8:30 PM at the Harvard Club of New York, 35 West 44th Street. Mr. Breitbart spoke about his latest book and a [...]
The event took place in New York City on July 6th, from 6:00-8:30 PM at the Harvard Club of New York, 35 West 44th Street. Mr. Breitbart spoke about his latest book and a reception followed immediately after. Righteous Indignation begins with Breitbart’s coverage of the ACORN scandal and his subsequent rise to becoming one [...]
Private Gardens of Connecticut a lecture by Jane Garmey, Wednesday, July 13, 11 a.m., at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT. Noted garden writer and contributor to the New York Times, Jane Garmey takes a rare glimpse into some of the most evocative, beautiful, and original private gardens of Connecticut – some [...]
Neil Kadisha, former Qualcomm Director and current Managing Partner of Omninet Capital, LLC, applauded Phoenix House’s successful 8th Annual Triumph for Teens event, which raised funds to support its teen residential treatment centers, family therapy and prevention centers. For more than 25 years, Phoenix House of California has been working with Southern California’s most [...]
Things got downright violent in Vancouver last night — when angry fans RIOTED IN THE STREETS after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins in a 4-0 asskicking. Cars were flipped and burned, windows smashed and stores were looted by drunk/angry hockey fans as police armed with pepper spray, tear gas and flash-bang grenades rushed to break it up. Local [...]
We stay focused on Palestine and Israel in this next interview with award winning journalist and author Rula Jebreal. When approached to write a book about her rise to becoming the first woman to anchor a news show in Italy, Rula Jebreal could only think of her native country, Palestine. As a teenager Jabreal reveled [...]
On May 24, 2011, The American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center, and The Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted a presentation of “Reckoning With Torture: Memos and Testimonies From the ‘War on Terror’” at The Walter Reade Theater. The performance featured readings from formerly secret government documents, videos and original art that highlight the [...]
New York City Opera chief George Steel spent last week in meetings with his department heads, deciding how to cut the company’s 48-person staff. After taking the arts world by surprise a few days earlier with the sudden announcement that it was leaving Lincoln Center, plans for where the opera company would go and what [...]