January 31, 2010 – 11:57 am
Here’s what it looks like:
The $250 hammer: it doesn’t have a security system, it doesn’t have gold inlay, and hell, it doesn’t even play MP3 files!
Called the Mini-14 TiBone and made by Stiletto Tools , a manufacturer of high-end (meaning expensive) tools since 1849, the TiBone’s claim to fame is that it’s made of titanium. According to Stiletto’s website, [...]
January 30, 2010 – 9:10 am
You may be asking: What are these?
These are Clouds, a set of fabric tiles that can be folded along pre-creased lines in multiple ways to create a myriad of patterns.
Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Danish manufacturer Kvadrat, each tile can be mounted on a wall to make a topographic pattern or hung from [...]
January 29, 2010 – 2:50 pm
I wish getting my kids to eat vegetables was as easy as changing a light bulb or tightening a screw. Celebrity mom Jennie Garth seems to have the answer: If you grow it, they will come. Her new original web series Garden Party premiered on iVillage last week.
Garth, of Beverly Hills, 90210 and What I Like About You fame, infuses [...]
January 28, 2010 – 12:44 pm
Love her or hate her - there is no denying the force of Martha Stewart. Over at the Hallmark Channel, they’re apparently in the love camp. Earlier this week, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. and the Hallmark Channel announced a multi-year partnership including the exclusive rights to televise original episodes of The Martha Stewart Show.
Starting in Fall 2010, the home [...]
January 27, 2010 – 10:28 am
Got a few giant jars of pennies and can’t think of what to do with them? Try this:
This is the floor of The Standard Grill in New York City’s Standard Hotel. Selected by the restaurant’s designers—Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer of the Roman & Williams design firm—this unique floor is right at home in a building that [...]
January 25, 2010 – 10:00 am
Mega film and television producer Peter Guber and his wife Tara continue a 10-year run of selling off properties. This time it’s a 4,324 square foot home, one of three adjacent properties Los Angeles, California, purchased by the Gubers between 1991 and 1996. The price tag: a meager $16,250,000.
Guber is the guy behind movies such [...]
January 22, 2010 – 1:14 pm
Good news for the New York tri-state region: HGTV and Food Network are back on the air. Who knows how many bathroom walls have crumbled, how may kids have gone without dinner in the three weeks since screens went dark. Service was suspended on New Year’s Day when Cablevision and the Scripps Network failed to reach an agreement on [...]
January 20, 2010 – 2:11 pm
This past weekend, I was lucky enough to view an art exhibit called Tools in Motion, Works from the Hechinger Collection at The Brevard Art Museum in Melbourne, Florida. I caught the exhibit just as it was closing, and I’m glad I didn’t miss it. Despite being small, it was very impressive.
Works in the collection range from Stephen [...]
January 18, 2010 – 11:09 am
Recently, the case holding my socket set broke, sending an explosion of sockets all over the garage. I didn’t have the time to properly organize them by size and type, so I tossed them all into a bag and vowed to get another case.
Now, a few weeks later, there they are – still sit in the [...]