Like clockwork at year's end, media pens were pushed to record 2010’s best. Regardless of expertise, everybody and anybody have gotten in on the opinionated act and no category of popular culture has gone untouched. The compilations began to flood my inbox at the end of November, arrivi… Read full post »

Beyonce chopped Santa’s tree when she dropped $2 million on a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport for hubby Jay Z’s recent 41^st birthday. I mean, why settle for a sleigh when blasting from 0 to 60 mph in a 2.5 second burst is a speed demon’s wet dream?   

For entertainment royalty… Read full post »

Twice in my lifetime, I’ve witnessed political spirit steeled in change shatter a ceiling that once favored good old boys: first, in an African-American’s election to the U.S. presidency and now with Houston’s 50^th and first openly lesbian mayor-elect Annise/… Read full post »

  Vanity Fair deserves a fist bump for its examination of an addiction rarely acknowledged by medical professionals. In the December issue, “Addicted to Cute” dissects how marketers are capitalizing on society’s embrace of any and everything cute.

As intended, the… Read full post »

Plans to devour the Big Apple had been in motion for months. The red-eye flight reservations were booked and arrangements to bunk with Carmen’s childhood chum, Chad, a southern transplanted New Yorker, had been made. Other than Vegas where sin attraction tickets are redeemed 24/7 365 days… Read full post »

When I got a call from our Nova Scotia-based partner detailing a U.S. dealership’s suddenly closed doors in August, it signaled the start of the Big 3’s sputtering engines. Though the Big 3 are Motor City-planted, the automotive stall has far reaching effects some 1300 miles… Read full post »

Guess what. I trekked to the polls to vote early with the usual expectations, navigating sidewalks clustered with campaign posters amidst a sprinkling of political wannabes, surprisingly, I was put into a political box never assigned to me before.

My allegiance to the courageous men and women who sh… Read full post »

Before it’s off to the races with my disaster recovery rants, it would be self-centered and callous not to acknowledge the lives Hurricane Ike shattered. In convincing Ike Turner fashion, the abusive hurricane left 27 dead (approximately 400 residents have been reported missing) and shredded la… Read full post »