Refinery29

New York is turning into a giant shopping mall…in a good way. Based on an easily navigable flash-based floorplan, Refinery29 is a website launched just over three weeks ago that is dedicated to the best shops in the five boroughs. Their clean design (thanks to Agnieszka Gasparska, the lauded graphic artist and sometime Fischerspooner collaborator), along with friendly info-icons, handy "receipt" sidebars highlighting store basics, …

Let’s Lazer Tag Sometime

Tonight, July 7th, San Francisco's Arrow bar hosts the 3rd installment of Tigerbeat6's monthly night of the uncharacterizable. All we know is it will be fun. This weeks line-up includes live dance rock from New York-based Shy Child and a set by the DJ who moonlights as a journalist Philip Sherburne. Look for more electro-fun every 1st Thursday.

Vanity Fair: Where One Design Guru Surfs

Paul Warwick Thompson might not be an Internet junkie—he spends only a few hours a day online—but he knows a well-designed Web site when he sees one. That's because Thompson, 45, is the director of the Smithsonian's New York City–based Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States exclusively devoted to design… Given his credentials, it's no surprise that Thompson has an …