By Archie Jacobson If the world turned into a Twilight Zone episode tomorrow and storefront dummies became real overnight, I’d be heading over to Macy’s in a flash, with maybe a stop at Extaza on […]
by Dick Acorn Editor’s note: the following is an email stream from Dick Acorn as the layoff went down. Eggshells Wednesday, 6/23, 11:25 am Like Grand Central over here – managers running around, people getting […]
by Dick Acorn Moonachie, NJ – June 7, 2001 – Printing industry employees from pressroom porters to the executive suite collectively shrugged and uttered a figurative “so what?” on news that printing executive Hal Stottard, […]
“A Drinking Life: A Memoir” by Pete Hamill Review by Rich Sheppard Lacking in this autobiographical examination of a “life of drinking” is any sense of whether the writer changed or not. It seems he […]
By Dick Acorn It is utter madness to attend a live football game on Sundays when you should be home in you hearth nursing hangover and woody while reclining in the comfort of your own […]
“Downtown — My Manhattan” by Pete Hamill Review by Richard Sheppard For someone who wanders the streets of Manhattan in wonder, at the people, energy, and scale and beauty of its architecture, reading Pete Hamill’s […]
“Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan” By James Maguire Review by Richard Sheppard Mention Ed Sullivan in 2006 to anyone under 30, and they may, more likely may not, recall his two most […]
by Dick Acorn Some time ago, AGT (Applied Graphics Technologies) and APT, sister companies, were thinking of sharing 4 floors of offices at 28 West 23rd Street. In fact I think at one point, AGT […]
“Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq” by Stephen Kinzer Review by Richard Sheppard An informative if skewed summary of what the author almost universally describes as “unprovoked” American overseas adventures. From […]
Worst 10 Acorn Jobs by Dick Acorn Entering the job schedule at Applied Printing Technologies Climbing inside the freezer and chipping out ice at Carvel Ice Cream Stocking and organizing hundreds of small gift items […]
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