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| Martha Stewart Living |
| May 2008 |
Okay, so painting a room isn’t brain surgery. But that doesn’t mean it is easy. To get a smooth, professional-looking finish, you’d do well to hire a professional. But if you’re the ambitious (and meticulous) sort, you can certainly achieve expert results on your own.
Copyright © 2008 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Reprinted with permission. |
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| The Washington Post |
| September 21, 2006 |
| Seventeen-year-old Jaimie Mertz of Gaithersburg found the perfect dress to wear to homecoming last year at Richard Montgomery High School: a strapless frock in burnt orange silk with a sash of cream-colored crushed velvet. Perfect, except for the nearly $200 price at Anthropologie. So Mertz made a similar version of the dress herself. Oh—and without a pattern. The old-fashioned hobby of sewing—long considered the frumpy cousin to now-chic knitting—is undergoing a dramatic image boost. Years ago, sewing clothes was seen as a way to save money; such garments were “homemade.” Now it’s a way to express a personal style, and the results are “handmade.” |
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| Philadelphia STYLE |
| September 2006 |
| It’s 11:30 a.m. on a Saturday in late summer and the streets of Fairmount are as calm as a suburban cul-de-sac. Yoga moms with mats tucked under their elbows head home from a nearby gym. A few late risers start out on dog walks with their pugs and Yorkies scurrying ahead. Young couples meander the about the narrow streets—many of them trailed closely by their real estate agents—as they imagine a future for themselves in this urban paradise. |
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| The Washington Post, Home section |
| June 1, 2006 |
| I'm very lucky to have a mother-in-law
with whom I get along famously, though
she does have one minor beef with
me: I don't iron my tablecloths. On
more than one occasion she has offered
to take them home with her, fretting
over my wrinkled linens as if they
were neglected orphans. This is a
woman who, when growing up in Sicily,
watched her mother iron everything
from underwear to handkerchiefs to
towels. At 93, my husband's grandmother
still irons her kitchen washrags every
week. So when Rowenta, maker of top-of-the-line
ironing products, invited me to test-drive
some of the company's newer models,
I knew exactly where to turn for an
expert opinion. |
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| DiningOut Magazines |
| Spring 2006 |
| Across the nation and around the
globe, restaurant owners are tapping
more than celebrity chefs to draw
attention to their dining establishments.
They’re commissioning celebrity
designers and architects such as Karim
Rashid, Frank Gehry and Todd Oldham
to reimagine the whole experience
of eating out. “I can hardly
imagine a major chef not putting serious
amounts of time and money into design
these days,” says Tim Zagat,
CEO and founder of the Zagat Survey.
“In some ways, that’s
how a major chef defines him or herself.” |
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| POZ-Special Edition |
| Winter 2005 |
| Ask Latinos about politics, religion
or baseball and they’ll rant
for hours. Ask them about sex and
you’ll hear crickets chirping
in the quiet. Sexual silence is as
much a part of Latino culture as rice
and beans. It’s instilled in
us as niños when we’re
taught that sex before marriage is
taboo—and that’s assuming
it’s mentioned it at all. Those
of us who don’t get good information
as kids have trouble discussing sex—and
making healthy and safe sex decisions—later
in life. |
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| The New York Times,
Job Market |
| September 26, 2004 |
Employment researchers, and employers
themselves, are increasingly acknowledging
that having sick employees stumble
in to work and slog through the day—a
phenomenon they call “presenteeism”—is
not just painful for the employees,
but can also hurt the company, because
ailing workers are unlikely to perform
at their normal level and they may
also infect others.
Copyright
© 2004 The New York Times, Co.
Reprinted with permission. |
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| New Jersey Monthly |
| October 2003 |
| It’s tough to pick the executives
from a crowd gathered for a picnic
on the front lawn at Goya Foods’
Secaucus headquarters. Even in their
cuff links and dress pants, they mingle
seamlessly with fellow employees wearing
dusty baseball caps and jeans. The
company’s president and CEO,
Joseph A. Unanue, stands at a table
of office workers, eating a fully-loaded
hamburger without a plate to catch
the inevitable dribble, while his
son and chief operating officer, Andy
Unanue, mans the buffet table in a
blue Goya apron, clacking a pair of
tongs. “Quieres un hot dog?”
he asks. “Barbequed or boiled?” |
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| New York Post, NYP
Tempo |
| October 15, 2003 |
| It was embarrassing enough for Adele
Nieves to be called a “gringa”
by her grandparents in Puerto Rico
because her Spanish was shoddy. But
when the 29-year-old New York native
was passed over for a job and separate
business-related trips to Mexico and
Spain because of her poor Spanish-language
skills, she realized she had to learn
her mother’s native tongue—pronto. |
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