Maybe you’ve seen the 2010 short film The Wilderness Downtown, which is both a long-form video for the Arcade Fire song “We Used to Wait” and an advertisement for the Google Chrome browser—the only browser on which it can be watched. When you fire up the film, a search bar invites you to enter your […]

It’s an unwavering reality—entrepreneurs need money. The best laid business plan won’t ever come to fruition without financial backing behind it. So today we’re talking dollars and cents. There are myriad ways to fund your business and every entrepreneur’s journey is different. Through the experiences of three entrepreneurs, we’ll look at the main types of […]

The IRS tax filing deadline of April 15 is fast approaching and if you haven’t done so already – it’s important you take all the steps necessary to ensure you filed correctly. Furthermore, tax returns remain open to audit for three years after the date filed, so any filing mistakes you make now can come […]

It requires creativity, not only in your prose but during the job hunt, to find how you can turn your writing skills into a career. Writers, like salesmen, are needed everywhere and must do well in playing the chameleon. They are sometimes required to market themselves as a Swiss army knife of the written word […]

Mike Caren’s recording facility in West Hollywood consists of six new and decently appointed studios off a main hallway with black-and-white pictures of Atlantic artists hung on the walls. He has been in the business since he was a teenager at Beverly Hills High School. In the old days, he explains, a day in a […]

A storm is coming, one of those heavy Nor’easters, and you’ve got friends over.  Everyone is lounging. Booze flows, someone breaks out a joint, and you decide the time is right to introduce Black Moon’s Enta Da Stage with its hard, melodious vibe—and then the lights go out. What do you do to pass the […]

When Sophia Loren was born in 1934, in a tiny ward for unwed mothers in the Clinica Santa Margherita in Rome, Benito Mussolini had been in power for around 13 years. A few months prior, Italy had held national elections, with Mussolini’s National Fascist Party winning a less-than-surprising 99.84% of the vote. The state was […]