I’ve written several times — including yesterday — about how it was to stand outside my office on 9/11, watching the World Trade Center towers burn across the street. I spent last night watching documentaries about that day and realized that every time I saw an image of the buildings collapsing, I tasted the smoke…
In the News
10 Years Later: “Essential Acts of Witness”
I’ve been thinking about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 for a year, especially about a 2003 story by Tom Junod, published in Esquire, called “The Falling Man.” The story is about a photo of an unidentified man plunging from the World Trade Center — one of the many people who jumped from the buildings to…
“I Thought Everybody Else Was Lost.”
The tenth anniversary of September 11 is coming up, and that day is very much on my mind. There’s a well-written story on Poynter.org called “How The Wall Street Journal’s improvised 9/11 battle plan helped it to a Pulitzer.” It quotes MrB extensively about the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of 9/11. He was the Wall…
Jewelry in the News
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story by Heidi Mitchell called “Jewelry Style Waits for No Man: Buy It for Yourself.” Here’s the lede: “For jewelers, a market is emerging for their baubles: the women who actually wear them.” I’m not sure how to react to this. Since I launched my jewelry business…
Wendy Brandes Jewelry in September’s W Magazine
I’m thrilled that my turquoise-and-carnelian Hathor swivel ring appears — carnelian side up — on page 401 of September’s issue of W Magazine. Thanks, W peeps! For more information on the Hathor ring, as well as lots of photos of the ring and matching earrings, read my November 2010 Jewel of the Month blog post.
Things I’ve Read in Newspapers
Today the New York Times wrote a story about maternal deaths in Uganda. These paragraphs jumped out at me: “It also raises broader questions about the unintended impact of foreign aid on Africa’s struggling public health systems. As the United States and other donors have given African nations billions of dollars to fight AIDS and…
The Beastie Boys, Bug Vacuum and Bigfoot
Last month, I was so bored on an airplane that I started flipping through American Way magazine out of desperation. To my surprise, there was a laugh-out-loud interview with Mike D (Michael Diamond) and Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) of the Beastie Boys (The third Beastie, MCA [Adam Yauch], is being treated for cancer and didn’t participate)….
I Hoped It Was a Hoax, but Amy Winehouse Is Dead
Sure, she was a wreck for years, but people have come back from worse places, so I always hoped Amy Winehouse would pull herself together. Like MichaelK of Dlisted said, “I thought Amy Winehouse would outlive us all and make a million more albums and throw spit bombs at a million more bitchy fans. You…
Sending Love to the People of Norway
I visited Norway four years ago this month. MrB and I went to Oslo first, then through the fjords to Bergen. It was one of the most beautiful places I’d ever been, and I’ve been wanting to go back since the moment I left. So sad to see what happened there today.
Makeup Attacks … and Is Attacked
Last week, a busybody speculated aloud that my favorite red lipstick is full of lead that will give me cancer. (My reaction can be summed up by this 2008 post.) Right after that conversation, I saw that lots of news organizations were picking up a story about a pair of Dutch artists — Lernert Engelberts…