PR for People Monthly JULY 2016 | Page 5

From Boston, Alison Harris writes about Tim Lemp who contributes to Boston’s fashion scene via Visual Merchandising. He does windows and we don’t mean washing glass!

Boston’s Ashley and Katie Hess are coming on strong with their curated fashion blog called The Party of Two.

From Yonkers Rapper DQ the don Derkquon Battle is rapping about Yonkers’ from where he lives lives in the Schlobohm Housing Projects—or "Slow Bomb" projects.

In this issue Matt Robinson launches his food column Matt’s Meals. From Tragedy to Treats is a story about a Grieving mother who turns pain into pain. Matt Robinson (on food) joins our other monthly columnists, Barbara Lloyd McMichael (on Books), Oliver Roth (on Broadway), Dean Landsman (On Digital Strategy) and Bill Lulow (on Photography).

Artist David L. Laing takes pride in seeing his designs colored. Ancient Runes is the headiest coloring book to hit the market. Perform the pose, pronounce its characteristic sound and/or color its hand-inked design. This coloring book’s unique format catapults it to the forefront of the new market trend of coloring books for adults.

Fashionista Olga Szwed is launching a charity event Compassion with Fashion on August 3rd to raise funds for two small children who have life

threatening medical needs.

Our cover story this month features Joe Boldan whose new apparel brand Ya Joe! dresses the forgotten men of fashion. Read more about Joe’s journey in the apparel business.

Our Career Changes Editor Sally Haver reports what it was like to be part of Wellesley’s 55th class reunion. As an alumna from the class of 1961, Sally Haver’s article is a rich microcosm covering life’s joys and sorrows, all of the aspirations we have when we are young, and what it means to look back on one’s life with humor, generosity and wisdom.

Patricia Vaccarino can’t resist analyzing the Presidential Election strictly from a P.R. perspective. Check out her article that looks at our top Presidential candidates as if they are the twerps who annoyed us in Middle School.

July – in – Brief