May 23, 2013

Magic Johnson’s Meat Company Suffering Because of Pink Slime

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*AFA Foods, a ground beef processor owned by Los Angeles private equity firm Yucaipa Cos. and  Magic Johnson filed a bankruptcy petition seeking protection from creditors, blaming, in part, bad publicity over products containing so-called pink slime. The companysaid it sought bankruptcy protection because it was “faced with an immediate and unanticipated liquidity crisis” and [...]




Anika Noni Rose to Star in NY Philharmonic Staging of Company

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*Anika Noni Rose will be among the celebrities starring in the New York Philharmonic production of Company this spring. The stage and screen actress joins Patti LuPone, Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert and Martha Plimpton in Company, to be staged April 7 to 9 in Avery Fisher Hall, according to the New York Times. Harris [...]




The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: When One Door Closes Another Opens

*They called her on the telephone last week to tell her she was being terminated. She had worked at the same company for nearly four years, two in the same position. Although she enjoyed most of her co-workers, the perks that came with her position and the health benefits that all of America seemed to [...]