Paul Drinkwater/NBC Conan O’Brien released a statement Tuesday saying that he no longer wanted to be the host of “The Tonight Show” on NBC if it appeared at 12:05 a.m. Mr. O’Brien’s brief run as host at 11:35 p.m. is to be cut short next month, as NBC decided to restore his predecessor, Jay Leno, to…

CHICKEN liver is what the restaurateur Danny Meyer calls a torpedo. Left to its own devices, it may be unappetizing and unpopular, but when paired with what he calls an enhancer — applewood smoked bacon in the case of the chicken liver on the menu at Tabla, Mr. Meyer’s Indian fusion restaurant in…

David Quinlan is a normal guy with day job and just a bit of coding experience. But he and a friend lived the dream and cranked out a simple iPhone app in a weekend. Here's how they did it: "Thai, salad or ramen?" It's lunchtime on a typical Thursday and it strikes us that millions of people all…

John Mackey at a store in Austin, Texas. To “the people that really dislike us,” he says, “Whole Foods is a big corporation, so they think that we’ve crossed over to the dark side.” Credit Photograph by Dan Winters John Mackey, the co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market, refers to the…

The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. That’s why most people make complex stuff. Simple requires deep thought, discipline, and patience – things that many companies lack. That leaves room for you. Do something simpler than your competitors and you’ll win over a lot of…

Sadly, Thanksgiving's feast lasts but a few days, depending on how fast you plow through leftovers. But at Dave's Chillin-n-Grillin in Eagle Rock, a city district north of downtown, the traditional holiday meal is served every Thursday - on a bun. It's called the Pilgrim: For $7, patrons get a…

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My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there's a worse swearword than fuck. "No," I say. There's a silence. "You're lying," he says. "There's none worse than fuck," I say. Joel narrows his eyes. "I know you're lying," he says. He leaves the room. On Saturday I take Joel to…

Like most people, I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release remastered versions of all 13 albums by the Liverpool pop group Beatles, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes. The entire proposition seems like a boondoggle. I mean, who is interested in old…

O n my 18th birthday, the marketing department of the Gillette Company sent me a surprise gift: a SensorExcel razor. Back then, in the mesozoic era of razor blade development (circa 1995), the SensorExcel was the latest in state-of-the-art swizziness, with its five "soft, flexible microfins" which…

30 Rock occupies an unusual place in the television landscape. It’s far from a hit—its ratings would have meant cancellation on just about any other network—but because of its leading lady, snarky sense of humor, and satirical digs at the network that airs both it and the show within its show, it’s…

GAME MAN Alex Rigopulos, a founder and the C.E.O. of Harmonix Music Systems. Big eyes(reflected from a photo in his Boston office) were watching. Mark Peterson/Redux, for The New York Times GILES MARTIN WAS conjuring spirits, or perhaps summoning gods. The tools for this ritual included a pair of…

THE JUDGES Burger of the Month Club members decide where to place Zaitzeff, a financial district storefront, in their rankings. Benjamin Norman for The New York Times ONE by one they approached the counter at Zaitzeff, a storefront in New York’s financial district, and repeated the words like a…

On Those “Entitled” Twenty-Somethings Apparently people in their 20s are a bunch of entitled whiners . I also hear we’re afraid of hard work. I’m rather sick of hearing it. Of course we have a sense of entitlement–we had an understanding with the older generation. We followed through with our half…

Jon Hamm and January Jones, channeling their Mad Men characters. Photographed at the Lightbourne House, in Lyford Cay, Nassau, the Bahamas., styled by Michael Roberts. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Michael Roberts. The thumbnail history of Hollywood goes something like this: Once upon a…

Do you have a favorite drunkard? Some amazing man or woman, past or present, who stands colossus-like atop the Big Keg, the ground below littered with crushed empties and the blacked-out carcasses of lesser beings? A verging demigod, whose prowess with a bottle leaves you shaking your head in…

Liz Steyer after breakfast with three of her four children, ages 5 to 16. Laptops and cellphones are banned during meals. Jim Wilson/The New York Times Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast.…

THE simple hamburger isn’t so simple any more. Over the last decade or so, there has hardly been a serious chef in America who hasn’t taken a shot at reinventing or improving it. They have trained their skills on every element, from the precise grind of beef to the ketchup and pickles. Some have…

“The beat of my heart has grown deeper, more active, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were all the time storing up inner riches…My [life] is one long sequence of inner miracles.” The young Dutchwoman Etty Hillesum wrote that in a Nazi transit camp in 1943, on her way to her death at…