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Wrap: The Packaging Summit
Coffee lids that change from crimson to mauve as the cup's contents cool. Sex-toy filled tubes for hotel minibars. Pop-top plastic fruit containers to replace metal cans. Before innovations like these get to consumers, they're shown at the Packaging Summit, home to the Ameristar Awards (aka "the Oscars of packaging").
Originally published May 2008, Fast Company
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AOL's Greatest Hope:
With the online-ad market expected to hit $42 billion by 2011, AOL's headlong rush into advertising makes plenty of sense. Following the 2004 purchase of Advertising.com, the company has gone on an acquisition bender, snapping up specialized ad servers with the intention of building the world's largest third-party network, dubbed Platform A. Here's how it all fits together.
Originally published April 2008, Fast Company
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Illuminate: Light + Building:
This biennial, which bills itself as "the world's biggest innovation platform for lighting," puts the sector's smaller trade shows into the shadows. (Lightfair, we're talking about you.)
Originally published April 2008, Fast Company
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With Car Sharing, More Means Less
As car sharing gets bigger (thanks largely to Zipcar), so does the ecological impact: fewer cars on the road and tons less CO2 emissions in the air.
Originally published March 2008, Fast Company
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When Elizabeth Crane burst onto the literary scene five years ago she was heralded as a bold, undeniably unique talent - a female writer to put on the shelf beside the literary likes of George Saunders and Dave Eggers. And rightly so: her two short stoy collections, All This Heavenly Glory and When the Messenger Is Hot, mixed an experimental writing style with a playful, often absurdist sense of humor, packed with plenty of emotional reverberation...
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Originally published February 25, 2008, VenusZine
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Cappuccino, Frappuccino...Teapuccino? If the owners of Argo Tea have their way, people across the United States will soon be turning to the tea leaf, rather than the coffee bean, to help get them through their morning commutes. The Teapuccino, a blend of black, red or Earl Grey tea mixed with steamed milk and froth, debuted when Arsen Akavian and Simon Simonian first opened the doors of Chicago-based Argo Tea in June 2003...
Originally published September 24, 2007, Nation's Restaurant News
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Midwest Current's picks for this spring's must-visit events.
The Duluth Home Grown Music Festival began as a birthday party, with a handful of bands and a few cases of beer. Nine years later, it's grown into a massive annual showcase of "rock and/or roll devil music." Duluth, April 27-May 4.
Originally published January 2008, Midwest Current
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Forget waiting for the weekend. In a city where winter spills into April, Chicagoans know how to savor every moment of the day - whether it's on lunch break or Sunday morning at Maxwell Street Market (the Veronica Lake Band starts playing at 9:30 a.m.). So head outdoors for one of these triple whammies of sunshine, good food, and great music...
Originally published July 2007, Chicago magazine
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Cate Kennedy's debut collection is about two things: death and dying. In the first story, a young woman's girlfriend is in a coma following an auto accident and the woman must decide whether to take her lover off a respirator. In the second, an aging athlete puts the 15-year-old family dog down, almost as an afterthought. The third story takes place entirely in an airport, where a woman dying of some unnamed disease is trying to calmly smuggle three kilos of cocaine back into the country for one last drug-tinged hoorah. And in the fourth - well, you get the idea...
Originally published Winter 2007, VenusZine
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Jessa Crispin started Bookslut.com with two goals in mind: she wanted to score free books from publishers, and she wanted a new way, besides Minesweeper, to kill time at her day job. Now the monthly Web literary magazine has become her day job, read by an ever-growing fan base of booklovers eager to read reviews, columns, author interviews, plus a daily blog where Crispin dishes out her acerbic opinions about the woeful state of publishing...
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Originally published Spring 2007, VenusZine
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