This sign, brought to my attention by a co-worker, is in our office's ladies bathroom, just inside a stall door. I took this pic while being chaperoned by the lovely Miss Sarah Hepola. 

I should take this opportunity to say that we adore the building staff here.

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In recent months, as I've turned my attention to Salon and helping prepare it for a redesign and many new features, Thomas Rogers has nimbly overseen Open Salon, carefully choosing Editor's Picks and consistently building fascinating and entertaining covers for Open Salon. It can be a tricky, content… Read full post »

This sign, at the entrance of Salon NY headquarters, quite possibly strikes a poor first note.

That's what's left of my parents' charming, windowed back porch after a tornado blew through their small Midwestern town Wednesday night, tearing off roofs, downing giant oak trees, and miraculously not harming a single person. In a few short seconds, a funnel cloud blew past, tore up the po… Read full post »

If you're a film lover or an animal lover, or both, you've probably seen the glowing reviews,  read and listened to the interviews, or been riveted by the resulting news coverage.  You're probably so on board with the Louie Psihoyos' film "The Cove," that you're ready to call your Congress… Read full post »

FYI -- pass on to anyone you think might be a good fit:

Art Director / Senior Designer--SALON

Salon is looking for an innovative, energetic Art Director / Senior Designer to join our small, talented design team and help design new products, new features and support daily production design. You… Read full post »

I suppose, if I were fishing for big traffic numbers, I should headline this EXCLUSIVE PICS! J.LO KISSING ANOTHER MAN!

Ah, but that's getting ahead of myself. You see, my block in the West Village of New York City is particularly charming -- or so says Hollywood's shoot scouts. It's… Read full post »

This week: Scott Rosenberg, Salon co-cofounder, and the man who first  got the ball rolling on Open Salon before leaving in 2007 to write his new, great book, "Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters," (Crown). 

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In case you missed it, our gracious sponsors are hosting a cocktail event tonight where you'll get to taste their mysteriously intoxicating concoction. If you're in San Francisco, stop by! I know Joan is planning on going, and will likely bring some other Salonistas with her. Those of you who are… Read full post »

How the Birther Movement (explained pretty well here) captured the angry right-wing imagination remains a mystery to me. But poke around on any conservative political site  -- or listen to talk radio -- and you'll soon find a fervent army of true believers as determined as they are zany.  J… Read full post »

There was something strangely poignant (sniff) about discovering, on my birthday, an inspired video ode to these iconic polar opposites from my misspent youth. (Via mashable.) Kurt Cobain, meet Rick Astley. Rick, steer clear of Courtney.

(If you're unfamiliar with the weird ar… Read full post »

I''ll be interviewing the screen legend for Salon in the very near future, and I thought I'd probably benefit from a little Open crowdsourcing. So I throw the question to you:

What would you ask Meryl Streep?

Thoughtful responses most appreciated! 

(Below: Streep as Julia Child in the trailer f… Read full post »

Catching up on my podcasts, I just listed to Terry Gross's interview this week with Joseph O'Neill, author of last year's literary sensation, "Netherland."  She asked him what his reaction was when he found out President Obama was reading the book. O'Neill's response:

"Well, I mean, I'm a bit… Read full post »

Ole Salon pal Farhad Manjoo wrote an interesting piece this week on single-topic blogs, how they hold a particular allure with the publishing industry, and how many of them seem to originate on the blogging platform Tumblr. It's an interesting read to me for a few different reasons: 

• Ope… Read full post »

Scott Rosenberg! I'll be videochatting with him shortly, and will post the result next week.

Scott is a Salon co-founder and came up with the original idea (and name) for Open Salon. His new book, "Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters," just came out,… Read full post »

Attention film fans! We want you to weigh in on one of the summer's big cultural questions: "Bruno," good for the gays or not?

In one corner, in Salon, the brilliant and debonair  David Rakoff thinks he's bad, very bad. "Baron Cohen's Brüno is a gay minstrel, in… Read full post »

Open Chat No. 3: The Squirrel. 5 minutes. A glimpse at the man (peeking, barely) out from behind those bright eyes and bushy, um, tail. And yes, that's a lovely black statue of a squirrel, recently purchased for the man himself by, as he calls her on the blog, the "Wife-asaurus."… Read full post »

I'm in SF for a few days, and Joan and I thought we'd grab an after-work cocktail with any OS'er interested on Tuesday, somewhere downtown.

If you're around, and feeling thirsty, email me at kerry at salon dot com -- I'll email you the details tomorrow when we figure it out!… Read full post »

We'll post a gallery of your posts on the cover beginning Friday. Be sure to tag your submission: fourth of july. 

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Well, what a dark day this turned out to be. Just hours after we heard of Farrah Fawcett's sad but expected passing, we've heard that Michael Jackson has died. It was a surprise, but perhaps not wholly unexpected. We've been watching a slow, painful arc to Jackson's story unfold for several… Read full post »

We're rolling out integrated advertising on all pages today, for Open Salon and its members, to help you start profiting off of all your fine work here. You need to join Google's AdSense ad network to launch the ads and start earning money off of them. To do that, sign up… Read full post »

A friend was Googling former "Falcon Crest" star Lorenzo Lamas (ah, free time!) and stumbled upon this  -- which naturally has led to much speculation. I'll confess, I once hoped of being best buds with LoLa. Cruising around Southern California on our tricked-out choppers. Jamming to Queensr&yum… Read full post »

Sactogator, for a very elaborate fantasy that, come to think of it, makes a whole lot of sense.

Don't miss all of the other fine responses to our Open Call in the archives right here.

That's it for me -- I don't even have to tune in tonight!… Read full post »

O'Reilly fan, Obama nemesis and Open's own personable Pincushion Man, Mortimer Hayden Smyth.

Mortimer was among the first to enter our contest, but he's hardly the only good one; check out the videos here for some good ones. And if you created a video and it's not showing up there,… Read full post »

From a member's email to me today:

Is there any way to get rid of these spammy messages from members (usually going to a hundred different people) advertising their brilliant post? This is a way to get me NOT to read it, it's so obnoxious. I often can't tell… Read full post »