Locally Sourced: Meet Four Dallas Entrepreneurs Who Turned Their Passion Into Profit
Founders of companies like Bailey’s Blossoms and Baublerella show that doing what you love can lead to success.
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Ellie Beeck, Sofia Krusmark, Jenny Rudolph, and Paige Walters
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D CEO
December
2020
Courtesy of Bailey’s Blossoms
Children’s accessories, designer boots, jewelry cleaner, and candles this list might sound like ordinary items found in any boutique, but the entrepreneurs behind these Dallas-based products are building their brands on deep-rooted passions.
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Pretend It’s a City is not a fun watch. It should be. A Netflix docuseries about the writer and Manhattan socialite Fran Lebowitz complaining about New York? The definition of fun. Yet, watching Lebowitz wander around pre-pandemic Manhattan in a giant overcoat and taupe scarf, scowling at the city in all its mask-free, lattice-shaped grandeur, it is hard to stop thinking about how painful an experience it is now that the city – and Lebowitz within it – is out of reach.
Lebowitz is not a fashion icon, but she is a style icon. Embodying the sort of intellectual New York world she covered in her 70s column for Andy Warhol’s magazine Interview, she might find the idea amusing. But we will never know, because she will never read this, since she doesn’t have a phone, or a computer. Her only Tweet, posted over a decade ago, reads drily: “thank you for following me you people are uber sweet”.
First inmate dies at N.J. prison ravaged by COVID
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
Myron Crosby, 58, tested positive for the coronavirus at the federal prison on Dec. 28 before being transported to a local hospital on Jan. 7 due to “breathing difficulties,” according to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
The agency said his health “continued to decline after being admitted to the hospital.”
He died on Jan. 22, the BOP said.
Crosby, of Springfield, Mass., had been incarcerated at Fort Dix since September 2019, where he was serving a 14-year sentence for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin.
Crosby, according to court documents, previously warned the BOP and a federal judge that he was susceptible to the deadly effects of COVID-19 due to his health and underlying conditions he had.
Man In NJ Federal Prison Dies From COVID After Being Denied Compassionate Release
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An inmate at the federal prison at Fort Dix, NJ has died after testing positive for COVID-19. It’s the first coronavirus death of a prisoner infected at the facility after cases surged for months and lawmakers raised concerns.
Myron Crosby, 58, died Friday at a local hospital, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Gothamist/WNYC Monday morning. The Massachusetts native was taken in for treatment 10 days after he tested positive for the coronavirus on December 28th. The BOP said Crosby was initially placed in medical isolation and transferred to a hospital when he had trouble breathing.