Richard Branson

Jean Grae Picks Christmas Sweaters For Talib Kweli, Sean Price and Pharoahe Monch

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Jean Grae is one of the world's most talented twitterers. When not lighting up her timeline with talk about Christmas sweaters, the Great Yam Debacle and the fol ... More >>

A Man's Story

Ashton Kutcher's Going To Space. Sadly, He's Not Staying

​There's good news and bad news: Fact-phobic Dude, Where's My Car star Ashton Kutcher is heading to space. Unfortunately, he's not staying.On his blog yesterday, Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Group, announced that Kutcher would be the 500th person to get shot into space on Virgin Gal ... More >>

Q&A: Industrial Strength's Lenny Dee On Distorting Electronic Instruments, Sampling Pantera, And "Draft Ponk"

Born Leonard Didesiderio in 1968, Lenny Dee got his start in the music business as a teenager, working in the studio with Nile Rodgers and Arthur Baker while making his own dance 12-inches, most famously in tandem with Frankie Bones. The two of them were instrumental in bringing British rave to Broo ... More >>

Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Loses Control, is Destroyed

via Blue Origin​A spacecraft funded by Amazon head Jeff Bezos lost control during a test flight and was destroyed, the Wall Street Journal reports. Blue Origin, a commercial space company Bezos funds, is believed to have launched and lost the unmanned craft on August 24th. In a letter written ... More >>

Can Brit Marling Shine Bright Enough to Carry Another Earth?

Richard Branson Talks Legal Drugs at NYC Press Conference in the Waldorf

Esther Zuckerman ​This morning, a bunch of high-powered people packed into a suite on the 33rd floor of the the Waldorf-Astoria to talk about drugs. Even though that might elicit thoughts of a Charlie Sheen-style bender, the meeting was, in fact, a press conference announcing a report from the ... More >>

Richard Branson and Friends Gathering Tomorrow in NYC For Drug Legalization

Very powerful man​Tomorrow at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Virgin boss and billionaire Richard Branson will appear with former presidents from Brazil, Switzerland and Columbia, together representing the Global Commission on Drug Policy, to present a report that calls for an end to t ... More >>

Richard Branson Is Planning to Create Island Full of Lemurs

​Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire and chairman of the Virgin group, is planning one of the most extravagant displays of socially conscious wealth we've ever seen. The New York Post says that he wants to fill one of his privately owned islands with endangered lemurs in order to build ... More >>

Virgin Galactic is Accepting Applications for Astronauts; We Applied

​On the Virgin careers website, Virgin Galactic has posted a want ad for Astronauts. They have three positions to fill, and we have sent in our application for consideration. They informed us via auto-reply email that if they feel we are an appropriate candidate, we will be asked to interview. ... More >>

The New York Observer vs. New York's $100M Cult: The Top 10 Lines

​Have you read this week's New York Observer cover story, entitled 'Poor Little Rich Girls: The Ballad of Sara and Clare Bronfman'? No? You should. It's about: Absurdly rich young heiresses. Absurdly rich young heiresses to the Seagram's Gin fortune -- among other fortunes -- who lost $10 ... More >>

Paula Deen Hit with Ham; Dog Ice Cream Arrives

​New York has dog bakeries, dog spas, dog therapists, and now dog artisanal ice cream. Lactose-free Blizzard Dog is the brainchild of a 16-year-old boy upon seeing how much, well, dogs love ice cream. Corn and carrot flavors are more popular than chocolate (carob) and vanilla. [NY Times] It s ... More >>

Be the Wolverine of the Photocopier: Studies in Crap Carves Up How to Be a Business Superhero

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ How to Be a Business Superhero Author: Venture capitalist Sean Wise Date: 2008 Discove ... More >>

SWELLS! ATTACK!: Steven Wells's First and Last Column for Sound of the City

About a year and a half ago, a pitch fell into my lap from Steven Wells, the infamous NME writer who'd been highly praised and enthusiastically recommended by a determined string of collegial forwards. ("Crazy, brilliant Brit," went one such thumbs-up.) Wells wanted to write a column for this blog j ... More >>

Complaining to the Rebel Billionaire

In what's being called "the world's best passenger complaint letter" (or just a slow news day in England), the Telegraph has published one's man complaint letter to Sir Richard Branson following a nasty meal on a Virgin flight from Mumbai to Heathrow. The letter is over one thousand words, features ... More >>

Iron Man, Mighty Avenger

Robert Downey Jr.'s comic-book hero a thing to marvel

SWELLS! ATTACK!: Love, Death, Sex, Facial Fishnets

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Tumbling Dice

'New York Press' Backer Linked to Bahamas Lawsuit

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Star Crossed

Cancerous Cells?

Voicing Concerns About Wireless Phones

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Rose is all angles and bedroom eyes— a '50s movie bad girl, but one who should never be reformed.