Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The year has thankfully grinded to a halt...but indiejourno's quest to keep you entertained and informed continues. So, we decided to paw our way through our archives and dig out the most read stories on our site. There were really no surprises! »
Tags: affairs, Glenn Beck, Haagen Dazs, jackson hieghts, Pranav Mistry, Radiohead, sandra lee, Tiger Woods, Twitter, us army rapes, Vikram Pandit
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
We hope that the New Year will ring in not just great times for your personal life but also your professional life.
And if you are one of the few that has managed to wrangle a job offer, but want to take up the salary offered, up- just a notch, then here are some ideas... »
Tags: Career Advice, careermag.com, how to negotiate salary, Job Hunt
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Would Jack Kerouac kick back and hammer out his poems in a smooth jazz café? Maybe, if it had wireless internet. My current dig has everything you want- great coffee, reliable wireless, plenty of seating, and a happy little collection of local Brooklyn newspapers that old men ingest while they sip tea and watch... »
Tags: ageing, Apple, Email, fear, jack kerouac, Janos Marton, magic, mouse, new year resolutions, steve jobs
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
It has been a fantastic Indie decade for the city, contributing more unforgettable albums to these fragmented ten years than any other time since the CBGB’s heydays in the late 70’s. Be it The Strokes’ "Is This It?" or TV on the Radio’s "Return to Cookie Mountain" and Dear Science or Vampire Weekend’s eponymous... »
Tags: angel deradoorian, animal collective, anthony hegarty, Bibek Bhattacharya, Business Today, CBGB, crying light, david longstreth, dirty projectors, epilepsy is dancin, indie rock, japanese butoh kazuo ohno, julian casablancas, led zeppelin, merriweather post pavilion, MORE, phrazes for the young, Pitchfork, stillness is the move, temecula sunrise, temencula sunrise, the crying light, the stokes, The strokes, this is it, Tv on the radio, vampire weekend, year in music new york, youtube
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
On any given day, you would find day worker Jose Manuel at Hart Park, 69th at 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights. The painter from Mexico comes to the park each morning hoping to be picked up for work. On Tuesdays, a mobile soup kitchen run by St. John's Bread and Life provides him and his... »
Tags: Hart Park, Jackson Heights, New York, NYC, NYC, Queens Chronicle, Queenscrap blog, racism, Smriti Rao, soup kitchens, st.john's bread and life, Sunnyside, undocumented labor
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Yes. It is coming to an end. Thank god. »
Tags: JibJab, Obama Peace Prize, sanford affair, Tiger Woods, Year in review
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
We have now been at war in Afghanistan for 3000 days.
That is all.
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Tags: Afghanistan, war
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Peer into any chick-lit lover’s bookshelf and you might spot the obligatory Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Devil Wears Prada and the terrifyingly titled Skinny Bitch. Page after soppy page details the travails of heroines who stumble and bumble through their diets, makeovers and professional lives—only to emerge skinny, chic, successful and finally with that... »
Tags: Bridget Jones Diary, diets, fat chick, how to lose weight, joan mad men, lorraine duffy merkl, Mad Men, manhattan media, our town new york, peggy olson, Skinny Bitch, Smriti Rao, The Devil wears prada, yo-yo dieting
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
If you don't look hard enough- chances are you will miss the brand new Christmas tree at Carl Sohncke Square Park located at the intersection of Woodside and Roosevelt Avenues at 58th Street in Woodside.
Once you have homed into the tree, you will notice, the baby tree is barely three and half feet tall... »
Tags: new york parks department, NYC, NYC, sohncke square, woodside, woodside christmas tree
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
It may have been one of the coldest days this season, but that did not deter angry protesters from gathering at 54-11, the Woodside residence of Youssef Al-Khattab, a Jewish convert to Islam and an open Al-Qaeda sympathizer.
On Sunday, a handful of protesters gathered outside his home in ankle-deep snow in a rally organized... »
Tags: Al qaeda, jewish defence organization, New York City, NYC, NYC, Revolutioninfor.com, Taliban, woodside, youssef Al khattab
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