You can book a room in any hotel, but at the Library Hotel you can select which books will be in your room. On the fourth floor, far from the madding crowd downstairs enjoying the complimentary daily wine and cheese, guests can rest in a room filled with Russian novels. The sixth floor’s rooms... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-12-02 18:27:16 UTC ]
Old school newspaper hawkers will be handing out copies of the ‘Gotham Gazette,‘ a newspaper inspired by the new show ‘The Penguin.’ Given the semi-annual world-ending events and the bevy of unhinged, heavily costumed folks behind them, a comic book universe would be an objectively terrible... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-09-19 14:04:17 UTC ]
Sound & Vision was so revered that Apple brought its first iPod to its offices by hand. It’s now a victim of the industry it coveredSound & Vision once commanded respect. Sony, Netflix, even 60 Minutes all visited the magazine’s 45th floor offices north of Times Square. Apple... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-08-21 13:30:07 UTC ]
Molly Baz, the cookbook author whose recent billboard for breastfeeding brand Swehl was deemed too spicy for Times Square, is following up that controversy with a new sponsorship. Baz, in a timely alliance with Kellogg's, will become the first pregnant woman to appear on... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-06-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
The campaign, featuring pregnant and near-nude celebrity cookbook author Molly Baz, was deemed indecent by a billboard company ahead of Mother’s Day. In case you missed it, last week, Times Square was the home of a 45-foot billboard featuring an image of pregnant celebrity cookbook author Molly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-05-14 22:45:00 UTC ]
If you weren't familiar with breastfeeding brand Swehl before this week, you surely are now. This week, the company's 45-foot billboard featuring cookbook author Molly Baz, her pregnant belly, a rhinestone bikini and two lactation cookies covering her breasts took over... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-05-14 21:45:47 UTC ]
Times Square is no stranger to women's bodies, but a particular advertisement recently stirred controversy, reflecting deep societal tensions surrounding motherhood and female sexuality. The ad promoted lactation cookies in a provocative campaign by breastfeeding startup... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-05-13 20:32:01 UTC ]
In September 1939, Elizabeth Hardwick took a Greyhound bus to New York to pursue a doctorate in 17th-century English literature at Columbia University. A few years earlier she had visited the city with two high school friends, staying at the Hotel Taft in Times Square. The women’s accents had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-16 09:55:56 UTC ]
It opened against the backdrop of gun assaults across the nation. It’s been criticized for gore and a sympathetic portrait of its homicidal protagonist. And it received an R rating for violence. All of which could add up to why Warner Bros. has been promoting “Joker” as more of an arthouse... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-07 17:33:36 UTC ]
HBO’s popular drama series “The Deuce” is set in Times Square in the 1970s before the New York neighborhood was purged of its X-rated movie houses and adult book stores. But the cleanup of the cable network’s own red light district is already complete. Earlier this summer, HBO quietly removed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The angst was palpable at Digital Media Strategies 2016, an annual industry conference held on Wednesday and Thursday at a hotel in Times Square.While there are myriad challenges facing the media companies of today, combatting the power and market share of the social media giants -- often called... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s six p.m., and I’m at John Marshall Media near Times Square in New York City, sitting in the recording booth where Kathleen McInerney has been narrating two audiobooks back-to-back for the past eight hours. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
For some people, the new year arrives when the ball drops in Times Square. But for this devoted book lover, it's not 2014 till that first copyright page says so. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]