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Gender Trends

... base, as mothers and daughters, too, are drawn to his well-tailored shirts. SOHO'S MEN'S BLOCK Male shoppers are seeking spaces of their own, and Crosby Street in New York’s SoHo neighborhood offers them just that. Saturdays Surf NYC, a surf shop and coffee bar that sells menswear, books, and skateboards, first set the tone for the strip several years ago. And as The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, the cobblestone streets between Houston and Howard are now home to a range of likeminded ...

The Urge To Splurge

... | Shoes | Alcoholic beverages not at a bar/ restaurant (e.g., wine, beer, hard liquor) | Dining out (e.g., restaurants, takeout, fast food) | Tech and accessories (e.g., mobile device, headphones) | Beauty/grooming (e.g., hair care, makeup) | Groceries | Nonalcoholic beverages (e.g., coffee, soda, energy drinks, juice, water) | Entertainment events/experiences (e.g. theater, concerts) | Accessories not including shoes (e.g., wallet, jewelry) | Traditional media (e.g., books ...

Parental Advisory

... craft soda rather than a craft beerWAYPOINT PUBLIC Waypoint Public in San Diego caters equally to parents and kids. For adults, it offers 30 taps and 300 bottles of various craft beers. For kids, it has provided an astro-turf covered play area complete with books and games. Everyone wins.ROCK AND BREWS The growing number of Rock and Brews locations around the country are often packed with families. The concept makes good on its rock and roll promise thanks to backing from Gene ...

The New Age

... cult IFC series Portlandia and “Enhance Your Lighting,” a mock infomercial directed by oddball comic geniuses Tim and Eric for GE. - KID STUFF - YA LIT While given “young adult” as a genre label, YA books are actually intended for teen- and tween audiences. Nonetheless, actual adults, both younger and older, are fueling the YA fiction trend that’s propelling books like The Fault In Our Stars to both the top of bestseller lists and to Hollywood. ADULT PRESCHOOL NYC’s Preschool Mastermind is a ...

Life Resume

... that of my parents’ generation. It’s a running joke among my friends. We all seem to live up to the stereotype: living for today, taking every experience, cashing in even when we don’t have the cash. Nine-to-fives no longer register accomplishment, only resignation. BRETT, 24Right now it’s all about trying to grow personally and have experiences that you can share with others in the world. Reading many books, being up on all the latest music, digging for the great unknowns, learning a new language ...

The Sexual Mehvolution

... systems that enforce its taboos. - Sexual Healing - FAB VIBRATORS Gay social network turned flash sale site Fab sells millions of vibrators on its site, positioning them as lifestyle products rather than taboo devices. The products are among the most successful on the site. NEW LOVERSThis year Badlands Unlimited launched the first three titles of New Lovers, a series of erotic novels written by women for a new generation’s sexual imagination. The books are intended to be colorfully hot reads for ...

The Freeform Movement

... involve a competition, but rather celebrates them for their own merits.Companies with brick-and-mortar stores should consider allowing consumers to utilize their space for unstructured or creative experiences, and brands without a physical presence could consider creating pop-up spaces for this purpose.  - FREEFORM WISDOM - THE OVER-SCHEDULED CHILDOne of the first books to highlight the downsides of overscheduling, The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap from child ...

State Of The Art

... a novelty, the A.I.’s developers are excited about the underlying algorithm’s potential application for other problems that require generation, such as translation, summarization, and chatbots. Harry Potter FanFiction Botnik Studios created a Harry Potter story-generating bot that wrote a three-page Harry Potter chapter after being trained on all seven books in the series. Multiple writers helped construct the excerpt through algorithmic suggestion and authorial discretion.Scrubs Script ...

Mind The Gap

... son’s intention to dress as Elsa from Frozen for Halloween went viral, as fans applauded the breaking down of gender boundaries. Adele likewise made headlines when she let her 3-year-old son wear an Anna (Frozen) costume while visiting Disneyland.LET TOYS BE TOYS UK-based campaign Let Toys Be Toys is asking the toy and publishing industries to stop limiting children’s interests by promoting some toys and books as only suitable for girls, and others only for boys.GENDER BABY FOOD The Anxiety and ...

Parenting 101

... for their children to just be kids, and they seek to accomplish this by having them experience what they did at a young age. Nearly six in 10 parents in the U.S. (58%) and half in the UK (50%) say they watch or plan to watch certain TV shows and movies they saw as a child with their kids, and half in both countries say the same about playing board games and reading books from their youth. They also look back fondly at food they enjoyed while growing up, with 51% of parents in the U.S. and a third ...