Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes, the saying goes. What about until you’ve swaddled your iPad in his sweater?A new company, Frederick James, will let you do just that, in the castoffs—or forcibly-removeds—of Bernard Madoff, the reviled Ponzi schemer currently serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina’s Butner Federal [...]

Ram fans, rejoice. Mickey Rourke will be back on the big screen as “the Russian villain in Iron Man 2,” which means that Gwyneth Paltrow and Rourke could quite possibly be co-stars. Don’t you think they’ll get along just smashingly? [Variety]
Sport trend tracking: Shootin’ and skiin’ is the next big thing. [NYT]
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No one likes to start the new year on a downer, and yes, there are many things to be cheerful about. Well, there’s Obama, anyway. And a new Michael Cera movie coming up. In regards to everything else, though, it’s all pretty much in the “to hell in a handbasket” category. The state of the [...]

Is Michelle Obama the fashion industry’s one-woman stimulus package? Designers up and down Seventh Avenue (and the rest of us) are kinda, sorta hoping so.
In other pre-inaugural news: Feeling conflicted about how compulsively attached you are to your beloved mobile device of choice? Take solace. Barack Obama can’t live without his, either. Although, we [...]