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With links to reviews by Bilge Ebiri, HOFFSTACK (Jordan Hoffman’s Substack), Alan Scherstuhl, @AWolfeful, alana mohamed, Serena Donadoni, Tatiana Craine, Devika Girish, KYK, Daphne Howland, and @thekingbulletin

Grateful to have contributed to the The Village Voice and been edited by one of our most conscientious, clear-eyed and astute editors and writers ever in Alan Scherstuhl. I hope we all get to work together again somehow. Thinking especially of him and the staff today. Let's carry on!

Finally, a piece about the Village Voice that gets the paper I knew (guess that means I’m in the piece). Photos are marvelous. documentjournal.com/2019/04/the-vi…

what a beautiful nerd

Punk returns just when we need it to

Music pumping from open car windows is the cherry blossoms of sound.

just remembering the cutesy children's prayer that explicitly plans for the contingency of dying in your sleep

2022'S NOTEWORTHY RETAIL STORIES How Macy's set out to conquer and lost | By 2007, Macy's had already replaced scores of local #departmentstore names with their Macy’s star and ripped away their #privatelabels. bit.ly/3jQ1AHd #brands #retail #retailtrends Daphne Howland

Retail industry groups are laser-focused on "organized retail crime." But stores and malls face legal, business and moral consequences from a far more devastating crime -- mass shootings -- and their problem is escalating. retaildive.com/news/mall-targ…

🇺🇸 How Gap lost its khaki soul: Can the brand that once defined and even elevated American style get its vibe back? bit.ly/3QkIoPC

If there's one topic that has dominated retail discussion this year, it's shrink! As Daphne Howland points out: the issue is complex and often clouded by imprecise data - sometimes from the industry itself. Grateful to have my comments included: retaildive.com/news/retailers…

NRF updates crime report to address faulty numbers retaildive.com/news/nrf-updat… via Retail Dive great work by Daphne Howland in questioning data (from 2016!) that had been trotted out to bolster claiming about the scale of shoplifting.

Grateful to work with On the Media on this very important story about what we know -- and especially what we don't -- about retail crime.

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