Topic: Greenwich Village

Blowing Up Boring

Medical and pharmaceutical sales recruiting. Not exactly my idea of a sexy industry bustling with personality. But I was impressed when I checked out the website of a friend of a friend who has a med & pharma sales recruiting firm, ...READ»

Greetings from Idea City

Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, and the PGA Tour stop here first for their ad campaigns. Inside the new headquarters of GSDM, home of the scarcest resource in business: great ideas.READ»

Work/Life: The Persistent Pull of Bob Dylan

This week, back in 1961, Bob Dylan took the stage at Folk City in Greenwich Village for the first time.  And he has a lot to answer for.  Anyone over forty, at one time or another, has been seized by momentary, but repeated, ...READ»

Shopsin's: Authentic to the Core

"In his feature debut, noted artist, illustrator and video-director Mahurin celebrates one of his favorite restaurants -- Shopin's, a Greenwich Village institution. What emerges is a hilarious and heartfelt hymn to individuality, ...READ»

Hot Diggity Dog! Design That's Good Enough to Eat

Take one baguette, slice it in half, impale it on a warm spike, add any of six sauces into the resulting cavity, insert one of five grilled sausages and serve. That's DOGMATIC: the Gourmet Sausage System. If you're looking for ...READ»

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The Malcolm Gladwell Reader

By the time you finish a Gladwell article, you feel as if you've watched a movie and read an academic journal all at once. Your brain is exercised and entertained, your perspective changed. Many of his New Yorker pieces inspired parts of The Tipping Point and Blink. But not all of them: Here are four provocative articles worth checking out.READ»

How We Sell

If shopping is the great American indoor sport, why isn't it more fun? Why isn't it easier? Why isn't it better? Paco Underhill, founder of Envirosell Inc., decodes the secrets of retail design to explain the rules behind how we shop.READ»

New Snapple Taste-Test: No HFCS, Fewer Calories. But the Taste?

What's an iced tea got to do to get respect these days? That's the question that tormented Snapple executives as they saw their product get squeezed in the bodega and pizza shop refrigerator cases by an assortment of enhanced ...READ»

• Knowing When It's Time For A Packaging Makeover
• What a Packaging Makeover Can Do For Your Company

Ludacris -- Rapper Turned Entrepreneur?

When I overheard an excited murmur about how Chris Bridges was setting up a restaurant in Atlanta, I didn't think anything of it. Neither the name nor the act seemed worthy of much interest. A little while later the name popped up ...READ»

Where Are You on the Talent Map?

What's the secret to power hiring? Location, location, location. If you want to attract the right kind of people, it's not enough to be the right kind of company. Your company needs to be in the right kind of place.READ»

Say it Isn't so Taco-Bell

As a fast-food connoisseur, I enjoy many different take-out eateries from Chik-fil-A, to Subway, and even McDonalds at times, but my favorite place has always been Taco-Bell. The tacos, flavorful, the nachos, deliciously messy and ...READ»

Italian Restaurant in Red Bank Defies Turbulent Trends

Why would a restaurant open its doors in Red Bank New Jersey in this economy? Is veteran restaurateur Michael Bitici insane?READ»

The Temptation Of Superfly

Its genre-busting all-night jam-athons evolved into the country's biggest music festival--and turned Superfly Productions into a real business. Can it stay alive without losing its soul?READ»

Building a Better Movie Business

It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble?READ»

Beau Dozier

About Beau Dozier music Lykke Li, Live In New York, By Kurt Loder Swedish pop phenom and possible Stateside star-to-be Lykke Li played the second date of a U.S. minitour on Thursday night, a sold-out show at a Greenwich Village nightclub. The crowd seemed very NYU, and many of them were singing along to the songs. This was no tremendous surprise: Li's debut album, the dazzling Youth Novels, was only released in this country last week, but her various European videos have already scored more than 2-million hits on YouTubeREAD»

Rush Hour

Russell Simmons, the godfather of hip-hop, has used street smarts and a platinum Rolodex to create a $300 million conglomerate. Now he's flexing his political muscle. Come inside the frenetic world of a modern entrepreneur.READ»

Starwave Takes the Web ... (Seriously)

CEO Mike Slade has assembled a team of the best and brightest to create the Web's first real company. All they have to do is meet five tough challenges.READ»