The latest from Japan, the NYT’s writers missing in Libya and the super important pay-wall the Newspaper is officially implementing this month. Plus, it’s St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with the 50 healthiest beers and some Pot Pie (it’s in vogue).
1. St. Patrick’s Day. Another day for people to act like fools without repercussion (at least that’s what you’re telling yourselves). Check out our official guide to the parties happening tonight in and around NYC:
[The Official St. Patrick's Day Guide 2011]
- The 50 Healthiest Beers. [TDB]
More importantly, it’s our L.A. editor, Emily Green’s birthday. Go pay her a visit and send some love to our better half on the West Coast.
2. Japan in crisis. The struggle to recover. [Atlantic]
[Photo via Beastie Boys]
- The Times has curated a list of Twitter peeps that are on the ground in Japan. [@Twitter]
- Video. A dog refuses to leave his injured dog buddy, keeping him company and keeping reporters at bay. [BaxterP]
- Hideaki Akaiwa, a 43-year-old Japanese man took self help to a whole new level when he put on a scuba suit and went out to look for his wife and mother. He found them both! [LATimes]
- Radiation to reach California on Friday, but nothing to worry much about. [NYT]
-Bill Nye the Science Guy explains what is happening in Japan to me. Makes me oddly feel better. [NYT]
This is the last known photo of the journalists: [MSNBC]
The missing journalists are Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid, the newspaper’s Beirut bureau chief Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer, and photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario. In 2009, Farrell was kidnapped by the Taliban and later rescued by British commandos.
4. The NYT is finally going to start charging for it’s online content. I, for one, couldn’t be happier to support the Times, even if the prices seem a little steep. Beginning March 28th, visitors to nytimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month without paying, and then they will have the option of buying one of three digital news packages:
“$15 for a month of access to the Web site and a mobile phone app; $20 for Web access and an iPad app; and $35 for an all-access plan” [NYT]
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. explains how NYTimes.com will implement digital subscription in “A Letter To Our Readers” [NYT]
5. The Times does a fashion trend piece on….Pot Pie. SEE?! Totally worth paying for! 
[NYT] [Photo at left: guests including L'Wren Scott's bf Mick Jagger being served pot pie at the designer's recent fall 2011 show].
6. Last night, The Council of Fashion Designers of America chose its 2011 CFDA Fashion Awards nominees and honorees. Lady Gaga came out big, being recognized with a fashion icon award. Check out the other honorees and nominees here: [WWD]
7. CDC reports that life expectancy at birth rose to 78.2 year in 2009, an all-time high. [WSJ]
8. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she will serve only one term in her post, and will not return should President Obama be re-elected in 2012. Clinton also ruled out a run for the White House:
9. What Happens If You Replace ‘Not Having Sex’ With ‘Not Eating Food’ in the Observer’s Latest ‘Young People’ Trend Story? Chris Rovzar hits this trend piece out of the park. [NYM]
10. New bikini photos of bride to be Kate Middleton were released. She looks really fit! Check them out as well as these other Royals in their bathing suits. [TDB]
11. Michelle Obama has signed a deal with Crown Publishing to write a book about healthy eating and the White House garden. The first lady received no advance for the deal and will donate all proceeds to charity. It is scheduled for publication April 2012. [WaPo]
12. The top ten reasons couples break up. At least according to 1,400 Cosmo readers. [Cosmo]
13. In the words of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, “The classics are always modern.” These 21 products more than prove the maxim. Now the stuff of legend, they have made a lasting impression on consumers—and sales. [WWD]
I myself love the mascara, clinique moisturizer and Cetaphil. Here’s a full list of the products: [CarolineK]
14. Cheap food prices may be a thing of the past. Americans spend only about 10% of their annual incomes on food, compared with as much as 70% in other countries, but with prices climbing, some economists wonder whether the nation’s abundance of affordable food is history. [LATimes]
15. Nevermind Kyle’s foul language to get the point across. This is pretty ridic. Check out the front page headline on Yahoo.com yesterday. “The headline, five days after a world catastrophe, in the midst of a Middle Eastern revolution, while soldiers are still dying in an unjust war, while our country still bobs up and down in state of instability, and the headline is f*cking TOAST?” #theworldweliveinnow. [NedHepburn]
16. Facebook “Likes” More Profitable Than Tweets. The company announced Wednesday that an average tweet about an event drove 80 cents in ticket sales during the past six months, whereas an average Facebook Like drove $1.34. [Mashable]
17. Take a look at a younger Catherine Zeta-Jones: [CommedesFdown]
18. And then, take a look at what the Today Show’s Al Roker looked like in High School. So good. [Today]
19. Want a quickie with your sweetie? In Hong Kong, there’s an app for that. [TheDaily]
20. This is neat. The “Brain Bulb” from solovyovdesign helps you literally light up your thinking cap. [InspireMe]
21. Tommy Pickles Should Be 21 Years Old Right Now. Revisiting The “Rugrats” as an adult. [ChiaraAtik]
22. Julian Assange on the dance floor. Pics or it didn’t happen…yeah this totally happened lol: [Forbes]
23. Check Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s fabulously extravagant wedding cake, snapped in 1947 at Westminster Abbey. The new royal couple has just announced the bakers of their wedding-day sweet—and it’s a team of Welshmen, or something! Think it’ll tower like Gran’s, or achieve more modest heights? [VF]
24. U.S. sales of Diet Coke overtook those of Pepsi-Cola for the first time in 2010, making the diet soda the No. 2 carbonated soft drink in the country behind Coca-Cola, industry data are expected to confirm Thursday. [WSJ]
25. Summer’s right around the corner, and, as temperatures in NYC start to finally raise, many of us will start thinking about bikini season. Let the ab enhancer help you out a bit: [Hez]
26. Finally, will leave you with this adorable video of what could be Stanley’s cousin demonstrating what Stanley does pretty much every afternoon at this time of day:
Well, that’s all for me today, do you have something to include in tomorrow’s Reading List? Email me: Rachelle@guestofaguest.com!
