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  • ‘U’ alumni work to change the image of Detroit Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:59AMIn 2008, Detroit landed on Forbes’ annual list of “America’s Most Miserable Cities,” and hope that its automakers could compete with foreign counterparts dwindled. As the city’s population continues to decline and its unemployment rate remains higher than the national average, the fear that Detroit is slowly disintegrating remains steadfast. read more
  • Front Pages with David Dominé [Louisville Magazine] Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:26AMby Lynnell Edwards David Dominé, the “Bluegrass Peasant,” is the author of several travel books and cookbooks including Ghosts of Old Louisville and, most recently, 111 Fabulous Food Finds in Kentucky, which features some of the region’s best eateries.    This article appears in the July 2011 issue of LouisvilleMagazine. To subscribe, please visit loumag.com .     read more
  • It's good for you: Plunge into a -110 C sauna Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:32PMOverlooking Lake Okanagan, in Vernon, atop Mount Royce, I found nirvana. On its summit is the Rolls-Royce of spa hotels.
  • PhoneFactor Helps Banks Meet Updated FFIEC Guidance for Online Banking Security Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 3:46PMOut-of-Band Transaction Verification, Like That Provided By PhoneFactor, Is Recommended as an Effective Control Against Online Banking Fraud
  • Architecture 101: No permits, no parents, no clients, plenty of plywood for architect Sellers and friends Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 4:42AMMount Raspberry? The Mad River Valley mountain where David Sellers and various artist and carpenter compatriots built houses in the mid-1960s had no name when they got there and started messing around with lumber and tools.
  • Finger Lakes tops in New York for beautiful scenery Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 4:32AMTravel editors rate Finger Lakes region among best routes for a scenic drive in the Northeast.
  • The Westin La Cantera Resort Celebrates 10th Anniversary of the Palmer Course Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 11:19AMThe Westin La Cantera Resort is proud to announce the 10th anniversary of The Palmer Course; a championship class 18-hole golf course created by golf legend and award-winning course designer Arnold Palmer and the Arnold Palmer Design Company. Â In celebration of the 10th anniversary, the resort will run a summer golf promotion from June 20-August 28, 2011, that will give golfers the chance to ...
  • American Water Named in Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 9:58AMVOORHEES, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced today that it has been named to the 2011 list of 100 Best Places to Work in IT by IDG’s Computerworld magazine. This honor is presented annually to 100 organizations that challenge their information technology staffs while providing ...
  • American Water Named in Computerworlds 100 Best Places to Work in IT Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 9:56AMAmerican Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced today that it has ...
  • Architecture 101: No permits, no parents, no clients, plenty of plywood for architect Sellers and friends Saturday, June 18, 2011 @ 7:26AMMount Raspberry? The Mad River Valley mountain where David Sellers and various artist and carpenter compatriots built houses in the mid-1960s had no name when they got there and started messing around with lumber and tools.
  • Reading our city, through architecture, from A to Z Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 1:51PMIn February 2009, Steve Paul, The Star’s senior writer and arts editor, set out to discover some of the things that make Kansas City what it is. The series, “Architecture A-Z,” sought to determine the role architecture played in creating the experience of Kansas City. Here is a recap.
  • Biennale di Venezia Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 5:19PMPadiglione della Polonia - Biennale di Venezia - Dettaglio mostra
  • Podcast 98 Transcript: Web site optimization Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 4:13PMIn this podcast, PROFIT Editor Ian Portsmouth chats with Peter Freer, the principal and client strategist of MessageWorks Communications, a marketing and communications agency located in Toronto.
  • Name You Need to Know: Lijiang, China - the "Venice of the Orient" Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 9:25AMName You Need to Know: Lijiang, China, the "Venice of the Orient"
  • Reflections on a changing media in a city also reinvented Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 6:31PMLETTER FROM LINZ:The capital of Upper Austria has become a centre for arts and education and was thus a perfect venue for a conference on print and online cultural magazines, writes PAUL GILLESPIE
  • Carla Leitao: 'City Come A-Walkin' Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 4:59AM"...During the day I have only the power of those who sleep in the day - far fewer, so I am limited. Though I'm bolstered...
  • Yard & Garden Earns First Place in 2011 Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) New Media Award Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:27PMThe Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association announced its annual award winners at the TOCA annual conference in Asheville, NC. Â This year's recipient for First Place in the 2011 TOCA New Media Awards' Publishing category of Podcasting was Yard & Garden magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Gregg Wartgow for "c-Systems President Discusses Soft Power Acquisition." Â Wartgow serves as Editor-in-Chief ...
  • Seattle's Suyama Peterson Deguchi takes Midcentury to next century Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 12:07AMDry rot spurs scope creep of the most excellent kind for a Seattle home on lake's edge. Under the guidance of Jay Deguchi and project architect Sean Kakigi, a new master suite was only the beginning.
  • Land Arts of the American West, a Texas Tech Program Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 6:52PMA program at Texas Tech takes artists and architects out of the classroom and onto the road for months, across 7,000 miles of the West, to use art as a way of thinking about land, environment and politics.
  • Bandon Dunes - Worth the Effort of Getting There Thursday, April 21, 2011 @ 5:41PMIt's the greatest golf resort you've never been to (well, most of you, anyway). At first glance, it's almost as if founder and visionary Mike Keiser wanted to ensure failure when he conceived and executed the ethereal Bandon Dunes Resort on the remote coast of southern Oregon.
  • Edenton, N.C., named one of 11 prettiest towns in America Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 10:09AMEDENTON, N.C. Forbes.com has named Edenton one of America’s prettiest towns, the only one of the 11 listed that lies in the southeastern United States.
  • Ita Buttrose on kick-starting a sexual revolution Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 3:15AMWhen she was founding editor of the ground-breakingly frank Cleo magazine, Ita Buttrose spent a lot of time talking about sex.
  • The paper tigress Sunday, April 10, 2011 @ 10:08PMNow approaching 70, the irrepressible Ita Buttrose shows no signs of slowing down. Helen Pitt talks to the grand dame of Australian publishing about sex, feminism and singledom.
  • Charles A. Birnbaum: Tree Hugging Is Back in Style Friday, April 1, 2011 @ 11:05AMThe Olmsted Elm served as one of the most symbolic living witnesses to the birth of landscape architecture and city shaping in America.
  • Dramatic new art museum unveiled in Mexico City Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 3:56PMThe world's richest man, telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, gave a sneak peek Tuesday at the new museum in which he plans to show his vast collection of art and collectibles, including priceless pieces by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Italian master Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Author David Owen says dense cities benefit the planet Wednesday, March 9, 2011 @ 5:06PMConnecticut-based writer David Owen makes the case that the Hong Kong of the Hudson is a model of environmental sustainability.
  • Seattle's Fisher House offers a place of peace Saturday, March 5, 2011 @ 9:09PMFisher House puts up families of veterans who are receiving treatment at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System. The idea is that patients get better more quickly knowing their families are close by and well-cared-for.
  • Mexico's Slim unveils new art museum in capital Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ 10:51PMThe world's richest man, telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, gave a sneak peak Tuesday at the new museum where he plans to show his...
  • Mexico's Slim unveils new art museum in capital Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ 10:37PMThe world's richest man, telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, gave a sneak peak Tuesday at the new museum where he plans to show his vast collection of art and collectibles, including priceless pieces by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Italian master Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Rubenstein: Highland Links uncertainty needs to be addressed Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ 8:25AMParks Canada has yet to indicate whether it will provide financial support to assist in repairs
  • PSID honors 10 Iconoclasts on its 44th year Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 8:17AMTHE Philippine School of Interior Design starts the first quarter of the year with a grand alumni homecoming. Billed as "Home After Forty-Four," the event marks the first ever alumni homecoming ever since the institution has been established in June of 1967.
  • Neal Rubin: Signs of life captured in Detroit Monday, February 21, 2011 @ 3:37AMNo one is saying that the crumbling wreckage of Detroit isn't ... well, crumbling. Or wrecked. Or even beautiful, in its own debris-strewn way. What irks David Clements about what's become the standard set of pictures of the city is that the image is incomplete.
  • Company News: Plumley Engineering, P.C., adds Elizabeth McCormick to Baldwinsville office Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 6:05AMAlso news from Green & Seifter, Certified Public Accountants, PLLC, Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith, P.C., and more.
  • Kids know what they like Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 3:14AMRichmond children know a thing or two about park design. The Garden City Park Play Environment, which local school children helped design, has won the 2009 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.
  • People on the Move on Feb. 13, 2011 Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 9:17PMAdvanced GeoServices Corp. Eric R. Conrad, P.G., former president of E. R. Conrad & Associates LLC, has joined the company. Mr. Conrad has worked in the public and private environmental planning and regulatory fields since 1979. He is a Pennsylvania li
  • Pittsburgh’s Best Hip Bars/Hangouts Tuesday, February 8, 2011 @ 5:13AMIf you're looking for a unique place to spend some time with friends and family, look no further. Based on picks from Pop City and Pittsburgh Magazine, here are some of the most unusual places to hang out in the 'Burgh.
  • Landscapes of Extraction: Industrial Impacts Mar the Planet [Slide Show] Friday, February 4, 2011 @ 11:14AMMountaintops leveled . Tar sands scraped and boiled. Water taps aflame . These are just a few of the ways that mankind's quest for fossil fuels manifests itself, beyond the obvious utility of being able to power a home or business or drive a car. [More]
  • Frank Gehry Sings a New Tune Wednesday, January 26, 2011 @ 9:43PMThe famed architect’s futuristic concert hall, open this week in Miami Beach, is irresistible even to classical music novices. Cathleen McGuigan on Gehry’s latest masterpiece.
  • Choosing Change, Urban Landscapes, Walking, and Gelato: Creative Mornings Talk with Designer and Writer Alissa Walker Monday, December 20, 2010 @ 4:43PM        By Heather Parlato /Special to LAist As a graphic designer, I’ve been reading Alissa Walker in various design publications for years. She’s been somewhat of a household name for designers and architects, but when I started seeing her name pop up with other credits, like Good , Fast Company , Longshot Magazine , helping produce DnA for KCRW , speaking on and moderating panel discussions ...
  • Economists to be featured at U of A business forecast luncheon Wednesday, December 15, 2010 @ 9:23AMThe Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will host a panel of nationally recognized economic forecasters for its 17th annual Business Forecast luncheon on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011.
  • Mom and Pop focus on plight of American elm tree Saturday, December 11, 2010 @ 5:08PMMom: Okay, Pop, I've got a question for you.  Do you know what our state tree is?  Now.... take your time
  • Weather : 48.8° | Wind SE2.0 mph Wednesday, November 24, 2010 @ 5:30AMA Salina man who became internationally known for innovative work on the forefront of school design died Sunday, leaving four public school buildings and much of the former Marymount campus behind as his legacy in Salina.
  • Quite Novel — Novelist Josh Weil visits Albion Friday, November 12, 2010 @ 6:45AMOn Nov. 11, novelist Josh Weil, winner of the New Writer’s Award from the GLCA, visited Albion as part of the English Department’s fall reading series. Weil’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals as well as The New York Times. Before he gave a reading from his debut work, The New Valley, a collection [...]
  • Green Industry Excellence Awards Presented at GIE+EXPO 2010 Thursday, November 11, 2010 @ 10:04AMLOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The winners of the annual Dealers in Excellence and Pros in Excellence Awards were announced October 29 at the GIE+EXPO in Louisville, Ky., the Green Industry’s premier event.
  • Green Industry Excellence Awards Presented at GIE+EXPO 2010 Thursday, November 11, 2010 @ 9:54AMThe winners of the annual Dealers in Excellence and Pros in Excellence Awards were announced October 29 at the GIE+EXPO in Louisville, Ky., the Green Industry’s premier event. The awards are sponsored by Ariens Company, STIHL Inc., Yard & Garden magazine, Green Industry PRO magazine and GIE+EXPO.
  • Fiu professor Marilys Nepomechie compiles book on Miami architecture Thursday, November 11, 2010 @ 9:45AMAn FIU professor has complied a 336-page book about Miami’s ever-changing architectural styles.
  • Very Alternative Modes : LA Architect Way Ahead of Chinese on Car-Swallowing Bus Tuesday, November 2, 2010 @ 4:29PMWhat trumps a Chinese-made car-swallowing bus? Only the "Landliner," a bus-swallowing transporter that graced the cover of New York magazine on February 24th, 1969. LA-based Craig Hodgetts (CalArts' School of Design, firm Hodgetts + Fung), helped dream up this...
  • ‘Southern My Way' serves up simple, fresh, healthy updates of classic dishes Tuesday, November 2, 2010 @ 11:44AMThough she laughs at the suggestion, Gena Knox is something of a Southern Martha Stewart. Knox’s new cookbook, “Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors” (Gena Knox Media, LLC, $34.95), is lavishly illustrated with color photographs of places, people and food that capture a homey but elegant sense of style that readers of “Martha Stewart Living” will instantly recognize.
  • AOL Announces Winners of 25 for 25: The AOL Grant Program Thursday, October 28, 2010 @ 7:00AMAOL today announced the winners of 25 for 25: The AOL Grant Program on AOLArtists.com. Created in honor of AOL’s 25th Anniversary, AOL has awarded twenty-five, $25,000 grants to innovators and visionaries – tomorrow’s groundbreaking artists, journalists and creators who believe in the power of ideas.
  • Up Next, Recaps & Links Monday, October 4, 2010 @ 11:30AMStories, Links and More From CBS News' "Sunday Morning"