comeback

AIG is on its way to eclipsing Bank of America as the turnaround story of 2012 as it prepares to report earnings after Thursday's close. Analyst bullishness and a New York Fed asset sale have shareholders pumped.

In years past, power lunches and quick meals on the go were standard fare, with brown bag lunches relegated to second-class citizen status. A cold meat sandwich could hardly compare to a delicious burger and fries. That began to change in 2008, and 2009 is set to be the comeback year for brown-bag...

Some of my fellow twenty-somethings have been known to confuse the three-piece suit with the tuxedos we rented every summer for the first five years out of college but that's set to change in 2009. The Fashionising blog recently picked out the three-piece suit as one of the styles set for a...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. My first real job outside of babysitting was for an odd local fast food chain in Portland, Ore. called "Arctic Circle." We were famous for three things: our fry sauce, our enormous taco salads,...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Neither my husband nor my eldest son will eat pie crust. As I believe my talents in the pie department are at least an A-, it's my theory that the vast majority of today's pies have so...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Before Martha Stewart was even born; when Mid-Century Modern was in the future; before anyone had come up with the moniker "shelter mag," House & Garden magazine had already hit its stride....

This post is part of our series on people, places and things that have found new life in 2008. Evidently, every entertainment idea possible has already been thought of. How else to explain the resurrection of old television standards into new series (Knight Rider, Bionic Woman) and big-screen...