Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
Cintra Wilson fails. Obese mannequins prevail.
Cintra Wilson took her Critical Shopper column in the NY Times to the new Herald Square J.C. Penney yesterday. And it confirms that she is an asshole. I don't have a problem with her hating on the clothes--as the Times' resident "critical shopper," she is well within her right to take a gander and not like the options. Though I have to ask, is [...]
Is McPilates a pain in your back?
Just stumbled on this post on the NYTimes site since it hit number 1 most emailed. Apparently there is new research that debunks a popular study that caused a boom in core training with the focus on the transverse abdominis. The writer, Gretchen Reynolds, says that this particular study gave rise to pilates with the idea that strengthening the [...]
NamasteMoFo!
Twice this week I have read about non-new agey yoga. This month's Yoga Journal is all about doing it to music, and today's NYTimes profiles LA yoga guru Vinnie Marino, who was lead to teaching yoga by Grace Slick and kicks off his class with Led Zeppelin (maybe they are so old, they now qualify as new age?). Vinnie trains the requisite [...]
A check up and an Orange Julius
How's this disparity? On May 11, the New York Times penned a lengthy piece on how, even with the recession, “Concierge Docs” (where well funded types pay a lot of money each year to have more personal relationship with their physician) were still doing bang-up business. On May 12, the New York Times penned another lengthy piece about hospitals [...]
