The H&M showroom in Soho needs interns for the Spring 2010 semester. (Just think of all that Sonia Rykiel lingerie!!)

Duties include everything from your basic administrative tasks to keeping up correspondence and appointment...

Chelsea’s post (did anyone else notice that it’s spelled “ADVENTUERES”?) reminded me that David NeSmith’s cartoon, EL GREED, is hilarious and poetic-pithy. You can view them all online, or for $4 you can order a handsome���20p chapbook from Publishing Genius. Also, I’ll send���a copy to the first three commenters who say they want one for free. [...]

This morning the four big magazine publishing houses--Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Inc, Meredith-- and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp announced their much-talked about joint venture to create digital storefronts for their products and the technology...

• Tokyo Scum Brigade vs. Kazuo Umezz Parts 1 & 2 The big news! My friends at TSB have begun serializing their in-depth interview with Kazuo Umezu! They were lucky enough to visit the Makoto-chan house in person, have lunch with Umezz & Demerin, and...

As Alitalia reorganizes after bankruptcy, it is selling 180 paintings, drawings, prints and other works that once adorned its first-class cabins.

If you're in Milan anytime between now and February 14, 2010, I highly recommend that you check out octogenarian avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibit at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Kusama lives in a mental hospital in Tokyo, but she's still a prolific producer of art filled with dots...

Pascagoula, Mississippi is a favorite Fortean town, where the lore involves a mermaid, a "singing" river, mysterious abductions, and, my favorite, a Phantom Barber that terrorized residents in 1942. He apparently broke into ten homes and snipped the hair of sleeping women. Police eventually charged...

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PLASTIC SURGERY • The number of women requesting collagen injections for their feet has increased fivefold in the past year, according to doctors in England. The injections make heels less painful to wear. The procedure costs £240, or about...

My latest Guardian column, "Streaming will never stop downloading," argues against the idea that streaming can "solve the copyright problem" because "no copies are made." This is technically untrue, and the more we pretend it isn't, the worse it will get for us. First of all, while streaming music from Last.fm is a great way to listen to music you haven't discovered yet, there's no reason to believe that people will lose the urge to collect music. Indeed, the record industry seems to have forgotten the lesson of 70 years' worth of radio: people who hear songs they like often go on to acquire those songs for their personal collections. It's amazing to hear record industry executives deny...