Eyal Beit-On 15 contatos

Tommy Hilfiger and Family Overlook Central Park

The Hilfiger family’s new home is perched on one of the highest floors of Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. The family bought the two-floor condo on the corner of Central Park South and Fifth Avenue in 2008.
Tommy’s Wife, Dee Hilfiger says:
“We tried to incorporate as much of the history... more »

Everybody Must Get Stoned

“In feature films about John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon and George W. Bush, Oliver Stone, gave free rein to his imagination and was often criticized for doing so”
Writes Larry Rohter of the New York Times. During the recent New York Times interview, Rohter wrote that Stone stated, ... more »

Unpublished Kafka to see Light of Day

For more than 40 years, the treasure trove of unseen and unpublished possibly important Franz Kafka works lay stacked in piles in a humid apartment in a Tel Aviv suburb. The cache consisted of thousands of decomposing postcards, letters, manuscripts and drawings by the Czech-born Jewish writer. ... more »

Big Problems for Big Coal USA

Every day that the chances for a Climate Change Bill drift further from the shore, the coal lobby becomes increasingly optimistic.
Friends of Big Coal on Capitol Hill, however, are insisting that they put the partying on pause. The Fat Lady has not yet sung the song for the coal industry —... more »

The World’s Most Expensive Bra

There are some women who spend months if not years searching for the right sports bra. So often is the list of must-have features extremely long: straps which stay up, chafe-free, strong support and hold, easy putting on and taking off, no digging into the skin – OW! I hate that! , no locker room... more »

Two Sides of Gaza

Hard Times…
For those familiar with social policies in Saudi Arabia the following should not come as such a surprise:
According to a new Hamas law, women in Gaza are forbidden to smoke tobacco water pipes; the latest in a year long campaign to enforce gradually a strict life code on the... more »