| Nine ways to splurge your tax rebate (and one way to save)
Even though you earned it, it feels like you hit the lottery when your income tax check comes in. The IRS says New Jerseyans who made less than $75,000 in 2004 averaged about a $1,907 return. Even if the check's for $100 or $1,000, it's going to burn the proverbial hole. So, if you're not going to save it -- or not going to save all of it -- here's some ideas of hot items you can buy that'll make you feel like you've splurged. 1. Splurge: comfort
Buy some clothes at American Apparel. They've got the raunchiest ads and that means the softest T-shirts. Start your shopping at americanapparel.net 2. Splurge: for your ears
Get one or two or all of these five recently released or soon-to-be released albums that offer some good tunes -- Timbaland, Good Charlotte, Kings of Leon, Bright Eyes and Paul Wall.
RETAIL NEWS ROUNDUP: Week of April 15 to April 22 2007
CoStar News is expanding its retail real estate coverage under the direction of Senior Editor Sasha Pardy to bring you a weekly feature covering the gamut of retail acquisitions and mergers, retailer expansion plans, new store openings, store closings, new retail developments, significant personnel changes, and more. In addition to appearing every week in the national news section of our web site, you may also request to be one of the first to receive the Retail News Roundup via email by contacting the editor at spardy@CoStar.com This week in the Roundup, CoStar reports on Rite Aid's acquisition of rivals Brooks and Eckerd, BI-LO supermarket going up for sale, Target's unprecedented growth plans, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf opening its 500th store, new shopping centers planned by Cedar Shopping Centers and Regency Centers, and more.
First Homeowners Move into Lakeside Preserve
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Atlanta, GA, United States, 03/28/2007 - Though homeowners have only recently moved into their new home at Lakeside Preserve, they are already raving about their home. The South Fulton County community is being built by McCar Homes. .
SXSW Fest Erases Indie/pop Divide
As South By Southwest's annual gathering of the indie universe kicked into full swing, rock's biggest mainstream magazine ran an online piece painting it as "a festival struggling for authenticity." If you can identify any one of the half-dozen ways that statement is insanely problematic, you can probably imagine what the experience of being there was like. Mostly, the Rolling Stone story wondered whether the festival was getting too "mainstream" and "corporate," which seems exceedingly nave — there's no other event in which bands could be more conscious of themselves as products, critics more conscious of themselves as tastemakers, and fans more conscious of themselves as discriminating consumers. If anything, SXSW is indelible proof that accelerated culture has obliterated any meaningful difference between "underground" music and its "popular" antonyms — the blogosphere has dragged all of that into the same mainstream pool of consciousness.
We can all get along: Faithful flourish in Kensington’s melting pot
The crossroads of faith: Khalifa Hassan, a native of Pakistan, worships at the Al-Mahdi Foundation mosque (top) on Coney Island Avenue, just blocks away from the International Baptist Church (center), where pastor John Morgan leads the congregation, also just blocks away from the Inglesia Pentecostal on Church Avenue (bottom). .
Palo Alto Bowl already missed
At 11:30 a.m.Wednesday, teacher Kathy Wilson was still shepherding little stragglers out of the Palo Alto Bowl and into the waiting Peninsula Day Care Center school bus. The roundup concluded one of the center's popular bimonthly outings. "They love it. They go crazy," Wilson said. But those field trips to the bowling alley may have to be rerouted in the near future. Libby Glass, development project manager at Barry Swenson Builder, confirmed Tuesday night that her company probably will complete a deal to buy the bowling alley site at 4329 El Camino Real by April 30 and build a "brand-name" hotel there. That means nearly 20 bowling leagues and regulars at the alley's Tuesday and Sunday night karaoke events and Thursday 50-cent beers night will have to find a new venue. Russell Smith, owner of Phoenix Construction, said the league his company sponsors, the Phoenix Vanderbeek Classic, closed last week after at least 20 years because members knew the alley was for sale.
Mmmmm. . . tastes good
Uh oh, time to put on my "nice clothes" and "good shoes," head up the street to my Montgomery County church and place my nickel in the collection plate. I knew there was a catch. You don't get something for nothing in this world, especially religion. I'm merely doing what I've been instructed to do by my guardians, and I haven't the foggiest notion why. That's how I remember Easter as a child. As an adult I no longer attend a church on Sundays or holidays, but I'm still a believer. I believe in the "big head" in the sky and his son. I mean that with all due respect. I believe in God and Jesus, so don't write the editor about my column - unless you want to burn in hell along with the nonbelievers and evildoers. That's how I remember Easter as a kid goodies! There was no significant religious meaning or overtone to this "holy" day in the households that I was raised by.
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