Danny Groner

Steve Jobs reshaped the landscape of technology and design during his lifetime, and the impact of his vision lives on inside the work of millions of his disciples. One of Jobs's most essential and effective discoveries was that "People process information visually," as author Carmine Gallo put it....

The Listserve promotes itself as an "e-mail lottery," on its site where one person gets the chance to email thousands of people anything he or she wants. Any topic, any length, anyone. This social media experiment has drawn over 18,000 subscribers to date and it begs the question...

The two halves of Peter and the Starcatcher are so radically different in tone and message that it's as if you're seeing two different plays pushed together as one. The first act had a loose and complicated plot that leaves you a bit uneasy at the intermission. It's set on...

I was intrigued, like many others were, by the Wall Street Journal's story earlier this week about how the Jacksonville Jaguars are changing up the free agency game by asking prospective players to bring along their wives for their recruiting visits. Jaguars general manager Gene Smith and new...

Be prepared to see more of the first lady in the coming weeks, according to reports. She'll be returning this weekend to Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards and then will appear on an episode of The Biggest Loser in April. "We share a common goal with the first lady...

In the new off-Broadway Actors Company Theatre production of Neil Simon's Pulitzer-winning play Lost in Yonkers, the Kurnitz family returns to the stage with intense bickering and implicit love. The play showcases more than just one family's hardships in getting along and getting by; it also grapples with the conflicts...

A picture of the Miami Heat team wrapped in hoodies circulated around late last week, the team's way of showing support for Trayvon Martin's family and all the other black teenagers who might be unfairly targeted by police or law enforcement vigilantes. Martin was murdered inside a gated...

The New York Jets acquired always-controversial quarterback Tim Tebow last week in a move that has some NFL fans perplexed. "The only reason Woody decided to bring the circus to town is to make money and distract the Jets fans from their misery," wrote one fan. One thing's...

After a January 6 episode of This American Life, the popular radio program, went viral, reporter Rob Schmitz began to wonder how much of the story was true. Mike Daisey had shared his accounts at Foxconn's factories in his off-Broadway show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and...

Along with the revival of Carrie, the musical based on the Stephen King novel, comes the amazement and curiosity that such a production exists at all. A story about a young girl who exacts revenge on her peers for years of torment and trauma does not exactly lend...

NFL fans and commentators are up in arms amid revelations that acclaimed coach and coordinator Gregg Williams encouraged his defenders to injure opponents, for which they'd collect bounties. Many were quick to point out that both Kurt Warner's and Brett Favre's careers were seemingly ended by hits they...

I saw a great foreign film out of Israel called Footnote that's been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at next weekend's Academy Awards. The movie, which has already won other awards overseas, was screened at Yeshiva University's Ring Family Film Festival, and included a talkback with director...

During the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night, rapper M.I.A. gave the finger to the hundred million fans watching around the world. It didn't last very long, but in the days since the incident, practically everyone except for the singer herself has apologized. Even if M.I.A. isn't...

It's Super Bowl Sunday and all anyone in Indianapolis can seem to talk about is Manning, Manning, Manning. Their hometown hero, Peyton, that is. With doctors clearing the older Manning brother to play, and the Colts looking like they won't be keeping him, speculation is growing...

"He made a mistake, but I think Joe Paterno still lived an incredibly positive life. He goes down in my book as an incredible human being,'' former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said about Joe Paterno after the former Penn State coach's death on Sunday. Amid the outpouring of...

A local politician in Louisiana made headlines last week when he announced a push to ban the wearing of pajama pants in public. "I saw a group of young men wearing pajama pants and house shoes," Caddo Parish District 3 Commissioner Michael Williams said. "At the part where...

On Tuesday night, the young Minnesota Timberwolves team seemed lost and overmatched in the second quarter against the ferocious Bulls. That is, until Ricky Rubio all but took over, mounting a late-half comeback that cut the Bulls lead from 24 to just 6 at the break. Yes, it helped that...

Now that the NFL's regular season has come to an end, some of this year's also-rans are already searching for new identities, new beginnings, and new management. The coaching carousel can be volatile, especially at the start of the off-season, but the problems run deeper for some struggling franchises. There...

There's something wrong in Sacramento, says Ailene Voisin in The Sacramento Bee. "Paul Westphal has a mess on his hands, the type of dirty laundry that has nothing to do with sweaty socks and soaked towels and everything to do with that type of finger-pointing that threatens job...

"I am older than time and there is only ever one story," says the character Hetaira, a spirit who shadows the action in the new Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones. Hetaira, played by Liz Mikel, is the odd one out, but also the greatest source of wisdom -- and...