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Last year the City of Tacoma introduced food waste recycling - you all got those little brown bins to collect all types of food scraps, which you can then toss in the bigger brown bin to be picked up and composted by the City with the rest of your yard waste.

Of all the competitors at Panther Coffee on a recent Friday night, Jed Baxter slurps the loudest.

Meat Market's Sean Brasel is having one good spring. First, the chef was proclaimed a "grilling god" by Food Republic .

What makes Goldman Sachs alumni at the center of international finance? Is it pure talent and business acumen, or is there more to the equation, then grooming the best and the brightest? The answer lies in the indisputable perquisite that places .

Yesterday, the front page of the New York Times brought joyous news : "Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy."

When Sarah Schulman's November 2011 op-ed on "pinkwashing" appeared in the New York Times , I had a conflicted reaction.

NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY? Just because she represents tabloid culture, doesn't mean Kim Kardashian is not entitled to privacy, safety and discretion.

The novelist Judy Blume with her son, Lawrence, who has directed a screen version of her 1981 young-adult book "Tiger Eyes."

Two years ago today, the Film Society of Lincoln Center proudly opened the new, state of the art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center to the public! We kicked things off with a preview weekend chock full of panels, parties and events, plus a free all night marathon of cinema favorites.

Native advertising is all the rage in publishing right now. The Atlantic and Forbes are doing it, as are the Washington Post and The New York Times .

Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia this mornings, arresting nine owners and managers charging them with harboring and hiring illegal immigrants, according to a report this morning from The New York Times.

The steamed, er, esteemed Rev. William Barber officially kicked off "Moral Mondays" on April 29th, and as we get ready to head into our 7th Moral Monday march now is as good a time as any to provide a primer of sorts on how Moral Mondays are being reported on by what some have for years called our "state-run media."

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's has ramped up his regulatory push in his final days of office and has a new endeavor - another one - to bring about a city filled with healthy people: food waste recycling.

This weekend's New York Times Magazine had a long feature on how artist James Turrell has "knocked the art world off its feet," partly by opening three major shows in different cities inside a month.

Madonna hasn't lived in the duplex at 41 Central Park West for about four years.

Today, the New York Times reported that outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg will follow up on his February comment deploring food waste by establishing a program to allow households to recycle it through city-collected bins.

How's this for a weekend conference: Some of the smartest people in the world are gathering in New York to try to figure out how to build lifelike copies of humans ... to be eventually uploaded with the contents of a real human brain.

She and her parents voted at the Imam Sadegh University, where most of Iran's cadre of bureaucrats are trained.

Driver's license photographs and biographical information of most Americans would be accessible through an expanded Department of Homeland Security nationwide computer network if the immigration legislation pending before the Senate becomes law.

In Rachel Donadio's June 10, 2007 New York Time Book Review , she astutely picked up on an interesting trend in the form of art imitating life, only this time it is software imitating the writing process.