Dan Greene

The N.B.A. scoop merchant prepared for the rookie draft by hunkering down at the Westin in Times Square and spending eighteen hours a day on his phone.

The entrepreneurs behind elahni, a “wellness speakeasy” that serves nonalcoholic “adaptogenic tonics,” hit the sauna and the cold plunge before downing some shots.

For four hours a day, four days a week, Santana had been filming promos and luring passersby to try Uno Quatro, a new Uno variant that involves connecting four tiles with matching numbers or colors on an upright grid. For this she was being paid the handsome and branding-aligned salary of forty-four hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents a week—more than even most of her apprentice stock-trading contemporaries were making. She demonstrated her pitch: “It combines the concept of four…

Eisenberg has now sold hundreds of told-you-so’s, at almost two hundred bucks a pop. While traditional duvet covers open on one side, requiring a bed-maker to awkwardly slide a comforter through a single entry slot, Eisenberg’s Nuvet unzips on three sides. He likens the situation with traditional duvet-cover design to “having two pieces of bread and trying to smush the meat in, or the tomatoes.” He pressed his palms together horizontally to illustrate. “That’s a really stupid way of making a san…

The setting: the second-floor basketball court at Nike’s headquarters near Madison Square Garden, where some Heat players would be gathering to shoot around. Jaquez came straight from the airport, in off-white sweats and matching sneakers. Adewumi had arrived wearing a black Adidas tracksuit. A Nike rep, noticing the attire, provided a new, appropriately branded one instead. (“Much better,” she said, after he changed.) They headed for a chessboard, which was set up at mid-court on a high-top tab…

Kareem Rahma and Andrew Kuo devised “Subway Takes” to solicit controversial opinions on the train, like why men should sit to pee.

The handful of Kamala Harrises who aren’t the Vice-President review the perks (wayward donors) and the perils (threatening phone calls) of their name.

In need of stocking stuffers? How about a Rolex Datejust, owned by the former mayor and put up for auction after he was found liable for defaming two poll workers?

Before signing on to Marielle Heller’s film about postpartum distress, Taylor Krasne ape-walked through Malibu and impersonated a “crab-alien” thing.

Benjamin Moshes, a senior, and his brother, Joshua, a freshman, built the Web site that congestion-pricing watchers rely on during a family trip to Japan.