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How You Spend Your 20s (And Early 30s) Will Define You

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Gramarcy Park Boy’s mother got him a book for Christmas entitled, SoulPancake and in my sinus-overhauled state once upon a time, I spent some time flipping through it where I came across a quote by Thomas Merton:

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”

that made me think, how you spend your 20s (and early 30s) will define you. [Read more...]

April 28, 2013

Don’t Forget To K.I.T.! … BFFs?

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By: Alexandra Campuzano, guest blogger

For the past few months I’ve been adjusting to life in a new city.

Anyone who has made a change from a city they consider home to a city that is virtually the opposite of home will understand the transition is tougher than anyone might have warned you about.

Prior to the big move, friends who had made similar transitions tossed bouquets of advice my way.

“Don’t forget to keep a weekly and monthly budget”, “Make sure your place has a night guard”, “Have a few months of rent and utilities in your savings account, you know, just in case”,”Don’t be afraid to live off Cup-o-noodle—it’s a perfectly decent meal.” [Read more...]

April 9, 2012

Gen-Y + Valentine’s Day = Single’s Guide!

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Everyone says it, we Millennials define ourselves more by our interests and passions, than our careers.

Some say, that’s the reason we stay single longer than the generations previous to us.

So without belaboring that… a few suggestions from moi to você: [Read more...]

February 3, 2012

Technology and Apps: To Trust, That is the Question!

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By: Alexandra Campuzano, guest blogger

Late last week I walked into Subway craving a tuna sub with all the toppings.

As I bee-lined way to the order counter, I noticed one of my co-workers at a table neglecting her BMT (rude!). She was preoccupied and her forehead had those ‘This does not look good’ wrinkles as she intently looked at her phone. I stopped by to say ‘hello’ and see if she was okay.

Turns out, she couldn’t find her debit card.

She’d looked everywhere.

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So I asked her if she was Googling her banks number on her phone. [Read more...]

October 17, 2011

Our Digital Culture: Is It Limitless?

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By: Alexandra Campuzano, guest blogger

We’re two years shy of our next presidential election and the race has already started.

In a 2:10 video titled “It begins with us” President Obama officially announced his run for re-election. His outreach didn’t stop with the video. His team organized emails and text messages to his supporters.

Video, email, and text messages … not the traditional approach to launch a political, much less a presidential, campaign.

But then again, our world is redefining ‘traditional’. Traditional these days seems to have been transferred from the pen and paper and TV to our iPhones, Androids, Blackberries, and tablets.

Are we all better for it? [Read more...]

April 21, 2011

Lost in Translation: MTV’s Skins v the USA

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As with Being Human and Coupling, Skins is just another British import our American-television industry has butchered, skinned (no pun intended) and watered-down into fizzled-blah. Yes, I know fizzled-blah isn’t a term, but it works.

The premiere of the US version was Monday January 17, 2011 on MTV and was met with no shortage of critics, naysayers and fans.

Much of which is still vastly apparent a week later, as the Parents Television Council continues to push [Read more...]

January 28, 2011

The Fashion Fence: Luxury Brands and their Social Media Strategy

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By: Amanda Montgomery, guest blogger

When we were growing up and often fighting with our siblings then tattling on them immediately to start trouble your wise parents probably said,

“There are 2 sides to every story. Let me see what your brothers/sisters have to say.”

In a recent article for Forbes, journalist Lauren Indvik approached the story surrounding luxury brands (Jimmy Choo, Burberry, Marc Jacobs, etc) and what occurs when these labels attempt to incorporate social media into their marketing campaigns.

As it turns out, there are several sides to the story about whether social media will generate an increase in sales, and more importantly raise top-of-mind awareness for luxury brands. [Read more...]

November 9, 2010

Drugs, Sex & Lies Revisited: Sweet Valley Re-Emerges 10-Years Later With CONFIDENTIAL

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Holy heck and some, the drama of the drug-infested, kidnapping-crazed, sex-obsessed world of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High series has returned!

Mark thy calendars because 1983 will return with a lusty, vengeful twist on March 29, 2011.

That is the date set for the release of a new book, Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later.

At the popularity of its fame, Sweet Valley High were the books for young girls across the globe as they chronicled the drama-filled lives of 16-year old twins Elizabeth (the good one) and Jessica Wakefield (the not-so-good one), the “perfect” California twins with eyes “exactly the colour of the Pacific Ocean.”

The new book, to be published in hardcover form, is not a teen book [Read more...]

October 21, 2010

Oldies Are Kurt Cobain & Mobile Phones To Tell Time, Is This Really GEN-Y 2.0?

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Each year, since 1998, the administrators at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a cheat sheet for their professors on the incoming freshman class and fall 2010 is no different as the class of 2014 (born in 1992) gets ready to attend university.

This cheat sheet is called the Mindset List and its purpose is to tell professors (and any other faculty who would care to read) about the “cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.”

Initiated in 1998 by Tom McBride and Ron Nief, the Mindset List offers a unique and more importantly, a culturally aware look into young America. Or does it?

With the release of the list analyzing the class of 2014, what’s different?

Or for that matter, what would surprise the non-millennial? [Read more...]

August 23, 2010

TV’s Portrayal of PR Women is Detrimental to the Profession’s Future

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When entertainment skews reality and falsifies the rational perceptions of the real world, Houston, we have a problem.

That is what television’s portrayal of women in public relations is to today’s up-and-coming young women.

I would know I’m one of them. [Read more...]

August 12, 2010

Writing Is…… – #NAACP #NAACPLDF

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Dear Pink Book readers,

I typically do not introduce guest bloggers, but I would like to take the opportunity to introduce you to Mr. Lee Daniels, the Communications Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Daniels recently as the NAACP LDF is a current client of mine.

After reading, COMMENTARY: Writing, Society & the Lack of Education Plaguing Our Nation, Mr. Daniels had some insightful and great comments to share.

Over the past 35 years Mr. Daniels has reported for three of the most well-known and prominent media outlets in the United States, WGBH-TV in Boston, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He has edited The State of Black America, Opportunity Journal and the National Urban League. Mr. Daniels was at the Urban League for nearly a decade and was also the ghost-writer for the weekly, syndicated and acclaimed column, “To Be Equal.”

Without further ado, guys and dolls, I give you Mr. Lee Daniels…

:)
Sasha x.

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By: Lee A. Daniels, guest blogger

As one who has been fortunate enough to live out a childhood dream – being a reporter and writer of non-fiction all my adult life — your commentary of April 7 about the decline of good writing skills reminded me of my grappling with this very issue in the seemingly long-ago mid-1990s: when computers were primitive by today’s standards and cellphones as we know them today barely visible on the horizon.

The cause, I decided then and am even more sure of today, lies in the negative impact of technology.

Let me explain:

I was then teaching expository writing to first-year [Read more...]

April 26, 2010

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} The HIRED! #GenY

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It was the worst of times, it was the best of times in these cities to which we, Gen-Y, are living and notes on The Alchemist later, this Gen-Y was hired. :)

If I could write a letter to me… I would tell me what I’m going to tell you …

If you’ve been following me on Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn — you’ve noticed something drastic and something just looks different… [Read more...]

March 1, 2010

{Bookworm} Relocating for an Entry-Level Job by @HeatherHuhman

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I, like so many other people on the job hunt, am looking outside of my hometown for a place of employment because I don’t want to limit myself and I want to broaden my options.

For me, my choice of cities outside of Miami, where I currently reside, are Orlando and New York City. In order to lend a hand to my search, I was recently bestowed a copy of Heather Huhman’s Relocating for an Entry-Level Job: Why You Probably Have to & How to Do It.

Interesting title, isn’t it? I’m sure you can relate. [Read more...]

January 27, 2010

{iStyle: Team Tavi}

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By: Jenn Ortiz

Here we go again…

The hot topic in the fashion world this week, as it has been several times in the past, is the validity of teen fashion bloggers. Many members, and spectators, of the fashion industry have been quite vocal about bloggers like Tavi, Jane, and BryanBoy. It all began with a video of Tavi Gevinson reporting on Rodarte for Target along with the announcement that she would write a column in the January issue of Harpers Bazaar. Elle editor Anne Slowey and fashion writer Lesley Blume had a thing or two to say about the situation. Blume repeatedly called Gevinson a novelty, and Slowey implied that the young fashionista couldn’t be capable of writing her own material, that she must have a “Team Tavi” of support, since Gevinson didn’t maintain the same voice in [Read more...]

December 11, 2009

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} Welcome to Generation Recession

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It was the worst of times, it was the best of times in these cities to which we, Gen-Y, are living. Last week, I asked if the recession was good for Gen-Y. This week I would like to talk about the repercussions.

Enlightened or traumatized? That is the question.

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I read an article in the New York Times called “Generation OMG” –

In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later.

Insane isn’t it? [Read more...]

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