Douglas Rushkoff (SHS '79) has published 10 books detailing an increasingly fierce critique of digital society. His latest book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, is published by Portfolio Penguin on 3 March.

The New York premiere of Dan O'Brien's play The Body of an American will play a limited engagement February 10 through March 20 at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Opening night is set for February 23. Dan O'Brien was honored as a Scarsdale Distinguished Alum in 2011.

George Zimmerman, honored as a Scarsdale Distinguished Alum in 2012, has raised the curtain on the second act of his career, launching a tuxedo rental and tailoring service.

By VALERIE ABRAHAMS of the Scarsdale Inquirer, November 28, 2014

“There is no one path; no right or wrong college” to find success, Scarsdale High School alumnus Dan Rosensweig told juniors and seniors as the moderator for a panel discussion with distinguished SHS alumni in the Little Theater Friday, Nov. 21. “Evidence suggests wherever you go [to college], if you follow your passions the opportunity to go into any field is available to people who come out of this high school,” he said. “Focus attention on doing some of the right things and being willing to take risks and take chances.”

To illustrate his point, Rosensweig invited six alumni who have traveled along very different paths to share their stories. The panelists were: Suzanne Nossel, ’87; Mara Liasson, ’73; Andrew Ross Sorkin, ’95; Jon Oringer, ’92; George Kliavkof, ’85 and Tom Rogers, ’72.

Artist and now writer Marcia Gloster Ammeen recently published novel ¨31 Days: A Memoir of Seduction¨ details the affair Marcia had almost 50 years ago while studying painting at Oskar Kokoschka’s School of Vision in Salzburg, Austria and how it marked the beginning of an intense relationship that would change her life. Forty-five years ago, Marcia put her canvases and brushes aside to begin what would become a long and successful career as an art director in NYC. For all those years, she never painted. In writing the book, she realized Bill Thomson had changed her life, and 48 years later, he changed it again.  Marcia said that telling a story that was a secret for so many years has had an amazing impact on her life. She feels 20 years younger and lighter, energized and excited about life. Most importantly her creativity has returned.

Holland Cotter writes in the Art & Design section of the New York Times on September 25th that artist Nicole Eisenman´s ¨Dear Nemisis, Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013¨ is ¨a spicy and tightly edited midcareer survey of one of the most interesting New York artists to come out of the 1990s.¨ Cotter goes on to set the scene of art and culture in the late 1980´s and early 1990´s, weaving in the narrative of Eisenman´s life and career - he also writes in great detail about several pieces in the collection:   ¨In a 2006 painting, “Mountain Man,” the face is slathered on, the nose a thick dollop of squeezed-from-the-tube red pigment. The features look oddly edible, as if they were meat and candy and already being nibbled away at. A 2011 picture called “The Stranger” is different in every way. The face is painted a solid, textureless black, the features defined by patterns of fine drawn or incised white lines. The image is as crisp as a Luba mask or a Japanese woodcut.¨

Henry Fountain, a science writer for the New York Times, recently wrote an article on the White House´s science adviser, John Holdren, and his influence on Obama´s environmental policies.  Mr. Holdren, who has had a very prominent career in academia and policy-making, has been very instrumental in shaping many of the administration’s policies, ¨including its biggest on climate change — the plan to cut power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, the main contributor to global warming.¨

Jon Oringer, the Founder and CEO of Shutterstock, recently wrote an article for recode.net entitled ¨The Myth of Venture Capital¨ in which he details some of the lessons he has learned about raising money in the tech start-up space.  A great excerpt from the article: ¨Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems, the one thing standing between them and their dreams. This is a dangerous mindset for several reasons. For one thing, it’s not necessarily true. Prominent and successful VCs like Fred Wilson will tell you that data actually shows that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success. He writes that “less money raised leads to more success.”

Elizabeth F. Fideler, a research fellow at the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College, has written a captivating op-ed piece in the National Journal entitled ¨Why Seniors Are on the Job and Staying There.¨  In this piece, published this past February, Elizabeth explores why the trend of labor-force participation rates for men and women 55 and older are on the rise.  Elizabeth asks why the participation rate of older workers is increasing relative to the other age groups, especially while at the same time baby boomers are reaching conventional retirement age and, according to the BLS, are exiting the workforce in large numbers.