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...industry, R.J. Cutler ’83—director and executive producer of “The September Issue”—has managed to capture and eternalize an iconic moment in fashion history, and with it, an intimate look at the foremost fashionista of past 20 years. Amidst fashion’s pop cultural boom, awash with reality television shows and mediocre celebrity clothing lines, Cutler managed to wriggle his way into the offices of Vogue—the last bastion of classic luxury journalism—to chronicle the creation of a single issue...
...things that came up during this poll, and the story now is going to kind of reflect this idea, is that while volunteering is down, people have changed the way they are consuming. For example, in the past year, record numbers of people bought a green product. Record numbers of people bought a product from a company that shows social responsibility whose values they like...
Race, if not racism, has long tinged politics in Atlanta. The city saw a dynamic population shift in the 1960s, from a heavily white population to a majority-black makeup that neared 70% in the 1980s. But while the legacy of the segregationist past caused strains, the city never fractured along racial lines. "Atlanta is a city that has been built on black hope and white pragmatism," says Gary Pomerantz, who wrote the Atlanta history Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn. "Race isn't everything in Atlanta, but it is in everything...
...center of political gravity was the city's public housing. But the tactic of busing poor African-American voters from the projects is no longer viable, even if there were a machine dedicated to it. The projects have been bulldozed or turned into mixed-income developments over the past two decades, Meanwhile, Atlanta's black mayors encouraged affluent whites to move into blighted or vacant areas of the city, and the real estate boom of the 1990s made it happen. In the past decade, Atlanta has elected whites to a number of city-wide offices, including the council president before...
...travel consultant in Charlotte, N.C., says that while FIFA's got all the major hotels and chains booked solid, there are other options, including private homes available for rent, boutique hotels, B&Bs and guesthouses. "This type of accommodation has exploded in South Africa in the past 10 years," she says. "It is really a good value and much more personal...