Archive for the ‘Buying Things’ category

Long ago, in 1994, when SoHo was still saturated with major galleries, the design curator Murray Moss opened a shop, succinctly called Moss, that would grow into a stage for Gaetano Pesce, Maarten Baas, Studio Job, and other design superstars to make their debut. Along the way, he accomplished such other tastemaking coups as singlehandedly bringing Tupperware back into fashion among chic [...]

After a catchy pilot that aired last week on SyFy, Lost Girl takes the viewers further into Bos troubled history. The episode starts with Bo and Kenzi at the store, buying things for their place. Bo sees a man and her urges are revived. Kenzi notices the look in Bos eyes and says they dont [...]

This story appears in Money amp; Investments section of the Feb. 13 issue of Forbes Magazine. Jeffrey Gundlach doesnâ??t understand why bond investors are so obsessed with rising interest rates. Theyâ??re moving to cash, theyâ??re buying short-term debt, theyâ??re even switching to dividend-paying stocksâ??all to avoid the potential for paper losses on bonds if and [...]

The Spellbinders of Downingwood took home the silver cup Friday night at the Irvington Town Hall Theater after out-spelling rookie team the Reservoir Dogs on the word “skeuomorph.” Champion spellers Madlyn Walton, Eva Mininberg and Karl Weber attributed their win to the composition of their team. “We have one Greek on our team, one former [...]

Like so many other things, planning a funeral from the memorial service right down to the prayer cards has found its way to the Internet. Des Plaines-based BasicFunerals.com allows customers to work with a licensed funeral director to arrange a funeral or cremation from anywhere via keyboard. Information and pricing is on the companys website. [...]

McGuinty must restrain himself

February 9th, 2012

Change text size for the story Print this story Report an error Premier Dalton McGuinty announced plans to restrain his governments spending last week. This to address Ontarios $16 billion deficit and threatened credit downgrade. McGuinty suggested the answer lies in things like health care reform. That typically means delisting and defunding more medical services, [...]

The China Sourcing Fair will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center from July 10th through 12th, giving North and Latin American buyers the opportunity to interact with and purchase from the best and brightest Chinese manufacturers. The 2012 fair will be the second in Miami, after a successful launch in July 2011. Global [...]

Travel and tourism complaints flooded in after Qantas grounded its fleet in November and when Tiger Airways was temporarily grounded by aviation authorities. The category rose from sixth to fourth. Consumer complaints with Qantas and Tiger Airways has arched up the tourism side, Mr Roberts said. A new entrant to the top 10 was complaints [...]

Holiday 2011 is being hailed by many as a kind of breakthrough for so-called m-commerce: people buying things on smartphones and tablets. Actually it was more of a breakthrough for smartphone shopping. Only a handful of sites mainly Amazon and eBay are actually seeing transactions through their mobile apps. The expectation is that consumers will [...]

By Peter Kamuri Shopping from supermarkets is a pleasurable exercise. Here, you get most of the things you need under one roof and at generally reduced prices. More so, the displays allow shoppers to have ‘a feel’ of what they are buying, besides the flexible shopping hours they get any day of the week. However, [...]