![]() ![]() 2013). Alia and Bob Penchina represented … MTV reality show True Life, in a case arising from the plaintiff’s participation in an episode of the show titled “I’m a Chubby Chaser.” A Manhattan state court rejected the plaintiff’s breach of contract, fraud, and other tort claims, ruling that those claims were barred by a release the plaintiff had signed and later alleged had been fraudulently obtained. Meet Alia Smith, a partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, “a law firm serving the needs of creators and providers of virtually every type of content in virtually every kind of media.”Īlia’s practice focuses on defending publishers and broadcasters against claims of defamation and other newsgathering torts and representing them in connection with access, FOIA, subpoena, copyright, and trademark litigation…. So I suppose if you’re going to drink at the fountain of Allison Benedikt’s parenting advice, she’s living the two-full-time-parents-with-middle-class-jobs gig pretty truthfully, nanny or no nanny. They’ve got three kids and Allison is earnest and often too overwhelmed to open mail, even with a nanny. “I love that they go to a socioeconomically diverse school” ( 2/26/14 Episode) Since we pay our babysitter $16/hour, I rarely get to see the restaurants we talk about.” “My husband, reluctantly, and I, wholeheartedly, have chosen to raise our kids in Brooklyn… We pay $3,000 to rent a 1200 square foot apartment… We have 1 bathroom for 2 adults and 3 kids and a dog, we don’t have laundry in our building. In a super candid moment on the Mom and Dad are fighting, Allison says: The couple received quite a bit of coverage from crazy blogs for a reflective piece by Allison that is excellent. He does fun stuff, truth to power in that Gawker way. One surmises that John adores vocal fry. In other news/demands: Put Dahlia Lithwick on permanent status on the Serial Spoiler Podcast. So this is another fun Slate couple, and who knows, maybe they’ll become a media power couple if this whole white flag thing takes off? “If I had married someone who was like, ‘If you were an attorney right now we’d be making a quarter million dollars a year,’ it would be much harder.” (Curt Rosengren, in an " article“ in Worthwhile "magazine" ) Fein, whom she married after changing careers, understands “that the single most important thing is that both people be happy on Monday morning,” says Lithwick. Part of her journey has been surrounding herself with people with similar values, including her husband, Aaron Fein, a former architect who also left behind his “professional” career to pursue his passion for art. When digging for some insight into their relationship, I found this: It’s taken him almost 10 years to complete the task in time for the 10th anniversary of Sept. flag alone seemed out of balance.” So, he decided to re-create all 193 flags of the United Nations in white-on-white. He began with the American flag but quickly realized, he says, “The U.S. Here’s his flag art, which (this is cool, this is really cool) is:įein began to make national flags out of white fabric, using sewing, embroidery, and appliqué to fashion in monochrome the design that would, in ordinary circumstances, have made a colorful banner. He is described as an “architect, sculptor and installation artist for the better part of the past 20 years” by Tablet Magazine, the same vitriolic folks that decried Allison Benedikt and her husband (I guess they’re on the Slate beat too). Meet Aaron Fein, a visual artist who appears to have spent ten years of his life to create a peace flag exhibit. ![]()
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