Category Archive: Online Work

Five Months Later: What’s Happened to Everyone at Men’s Vogue

Five Months Later: What’s Happened to Everyone at Men’s Vogue

What happened to the rest of Men’s Vogue? An entire magazine existed one day, with a full staff, and then one day it didn’t. This might be an interesting project, to track down an entire masthead’s worth of laid-off staffers. Here’s what happened.

 

The hassle-free holiday flying guide

The hassle-free holiday flying guide

You might want to thumb a ride with Santa Claus, because flying the nonfiction way isn’t going to be so jolly this holiday season. With fewer flights, more fees and a 20%-to-40% hike in fares, you need a serious strategy.

 

11 mileage-obsessed questions

11 mileage-obsessed questions

It’s never been easy to buy a car, but with soaring gas prices, you may have a lot more to ask about what’s best for you. Here are the answers.

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 11, Olathe, Kansas

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 11, Olathe, Kansas

One of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, Olathe was reportedly named for the Shawnee word for “beautiful.”

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 12, Highlands Ranch, Colorado

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 12, Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Just 12 miles southeast of Denver, Highlands Ranch is a young unincorporated community — only 27 years old this year. Settled by Native Americans long ago, it remained a series of farms and ranches until the 1980s brought suburban development.

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 28, Gilbert, Arizona

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 28, Gilbert, Arizona

In the early 1900s, Gilbert was known as the Hay Capital of the World. Today it is a bustling small city and the fastest-growing town in Arizona in the last decade.

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 30, Chandler, Arizona

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 30, Chandler, Arizona

Feathered hats may not be the rage anymore, but Chandler’s annual Ostrich Festival certainly is: It’s the town’s nod to the ostrich farms that used to dot the area.

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 32, Bolingbrook, Illinois

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 32, Bolingbrook, Illinois

Not too many places near Chicago can go by “village” anymore, but Bolingbrook claims the title proudly.

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 33, Loveland, Colorado

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 33, Loveland, Colorado

In the late 1920s, Loveland’s Spring Glade orchard was the largest cherry orchard west of the Mississippi River, contributing to a million-dollar cash crop.

 

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 39, Shawnee, Kansas

America’s Best Places to Live 2008: No. 39, Shawnee, Kansas

With a heritage of pioneering and fur trading, Shawnee has roots going back long before Kansas was a state. Once a small farming center, Shawnee’s population has boomed, more than tripling in the last three decades.