It was 5:30 p.m. on a frigid December 23rd in NYC, the eve of my holiday break after a tough few weeks of scrambling to meet deadlines. All I wanted to do was get home to Connecticut so I almost didn’t answer the phone (after months of consoling my depressed...

Mostly, I tend to ignore People Magazine. I know I shouldn't. All that hype about “Brangelina” and “Gossip Girl” might not interest me personally, but I know that wherever stars lead, consumers follow. <img...

Wednesday night, web editor Harry Sheff and I attended a GQ-sponsored event for Ray Ban at Bloomingdale’s SoHo store. It was a consumer event, but we thought we’d stop by to see the turn-out. After trying on a few pairs of Aviators and Wayfarers and...

As I sit in front of my laptop in St. Paul, Minnesota in the house I grew up in, scouring the wires for news to write up, I started putting together a timeline of Twin Cities retail. Initially, I was trying to get a better grasp of the history of the dearly...