By Corey Noles, Correspondent With October baseball well underway and history already being made, this is a good time to look at some of the greatest comebacks of all time. A couple of this year’s comebacks even make the list. The list is not comprehensive, and many didn’t make the cut. The teams that […]
Lesa France Kennedy of Nascar on Taking the Lead in a Family Business
This interview with Lesa France Kennedy, chief executive of theInternational Speedway Corporation and vice chairwoman of Nascar, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Your grandfather, Bill France Sr., started Nascar, and you grew up in the family business. What are some early memories for you? A. My brother and I did a variety […]
Fandango taps Kenan Thomspon for massive marketing push
by: Annlee Ellingson staff writer for L.A. Biz Meet Miles Mouvay — a movie lover so fanatic he smells like popcorn butter. Played by “Saturday Night Live’s” Kenan Thompson, he’s the new mascot for Fandango in the ticket seller’s largest marketing campaign yet. Fandango introduced the character today in a multi-million dollar ad campaign encompassing television, […]
Superbrain Yoga: 3 Minutes That Maximize Brain Power
by Ana Prana A baby is born into the world with around 100 billion brain cells (neurons), give or take a few million. The brain is so important to the human species that four weeks after conception, an embryo produces half a million neurons every minute. In fully developed humans, a complex system of 300 […]
Customer Experience: It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It
At 575 Madison Avenue, providing Office Space in New York City, WWBC’s reputation for customer service is second to none. Enjoy this article by Blake Morgan , Contributor for Forbes “I can’t stand the sound of my own voice!” This is essentially every person who ever attempted to set up a voice messaging service for themselves. There can easily […]
A Brief History Of Star Wars Canon, Old And New
BY: James Whitbrook When a franchise is around for four decades, it can get impossibly unwieldy to try and grasp its lore — and Star Wars canon is no exception. Here’s a guide to the origins of Star Wars Canon, the rise and fall of one of the most prominent Expanded Universes in fiction, and where […]
1969 The Amazin’ Mets
Article from www.thisgreatgame.com In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. A lot of people thought he was overreaching. Had the President instead said that the hopeless, lovably pathetic New York Mets would win the World Series by decade’s end, they […]
Deadline Looms for Historic Ocean Liner’s Move to Brooklyn
by Evan Bindelglass (writing for Curbed) What might be the greatest ocean liner in American history has only weeks left before it will likely have to be sold for scrap. The SS United States sailed back and forth from New York to Europe from 1952 to 1969, during which time she set the record for fastest […]
America’s Best Cities for Fall Travel
by Katrina Brown Hunt for Travel and Leisure Even bears prefer Chicago during the autumn. “It’s cooler, the trees on Michigan Avenue are turning colors, and it’s a great time to visit Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos,” says Lillian Polz, the head of a Chicago marketing firm. “The animals that were lethargic during the summer—like […]
A Brief History of Campaign Mudslinging, From 1796 to Today
BY JOHNNY GOODTIMES We love to gripe about today’s negative campaigns, but presidential elections have always been dirty, dating back to the 18th century. It all began in 1796, when Alexander Hamilton, writing under the pen name “Phocion,” attacked Thomas Jefferson on the pages in Gazette of the United States, a federalist paper in Philadelphia. Newspapers […]
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