Today’s Workplace

Office Romances: Are They Working? By Stevie Sobieski We all gasped in horror when Phyllis walked in on Dwight and Angela in flagrante delicto during the season four finale of The Office. But, are office romances really all that shocking? According to a 2003 survey by the American Management Association (AMA), the answer is no. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said […]

2009 Is When The Fat Cats Got Fatter …

… And The Rest Of Us Got Scraps 2009: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted By Robert Reich Reprinted from his blog at robertreich.blogspot.com In September 2008, as the worst of the financial crisis engulfed Wall Street, George W. Bush issued a warning: “This sucker could go down.” Around the same time, as Congress hashed […]

2009 Film Recap

Best & Worst Movies of 2009 by Scott Marks Usually I scramble to put together an annual Top Ten, but for the first time in over a decade there is an overabundance of quality movies, enough to warrant a Top Twenty! There is one qualification for a film to appear on this list. It must have screened in a San […]

Winding down the year…

Photos from the end of 2009 It’s going to be a new decade, and here’s hoping that 2010 will be a lot better. Not that 2009 was all that bad, but let’s admit it, it could have been better. As the economy has had a year to recover from the global banking meltdown as they’ve called it, we can only […]