With the Grammy's just behind us, the Super Bowl this Sunday and the final season of LOST starting this week, we've barely gotten up from our TV sets. See how America's wallets are following its viewing habits. read more

As an artist and sculptor, Toland Grinnell was represented by the renowned Mary Boone gallery (dealer for artists including Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel and Ross Bleckner). In 2004, when he and his wife, SunHee Grinnell, the Beauty Director at Vanity Fair, had their son, Roman, Grinnell shifted courses, creating a line of chic bags for families to tote their stuff. These days, Grinnell is focusing on the restoration of historical buildings, primarily in his hometown of New York City. And on weekends, he is an avid snowboarder. While he had dabbled in eBay previously, his snowboarding habit has transformed him into a religious user. Now he turns to eBay for equipment for most of his new projects, not to mention the occasional discontinued toy. read more

Iris Apfel, an 88-year-old New York society figure, interior designer, and co-founder of textile design company Old World Weavers is style incarnate. She’s been incorporating ideas that magazines are touting like they’re today’s news into her wardrobe for decades. Principles that include mixing high and low (“the less it costs, the better I like it”), celebrating ethnic styles (“my tastes go to the exotic"), and accessorizing the little black dress to create “umpteen” outfits have always been part of her style lexicon. She says, “I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.” Eighty-seven of this style icon’s ensembles are dramatically showcased in “Rare Bird of Fashion The Irreverent Iris Apfel” at the Peabody Essex Museum, on view through February 7th. read more

Since the devastating earthquake in Haiti just over two weeks ago, eBay-related charity auctions have raised over $1m for organizations supporting the relief effort. Even Hollywood hasn gotten into the act, with celebrities including Ben Stiller, Conan O'Brien, Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana, Ashley Judd, Stephen Colbert and many more auctioning personalized products and experiences with sales to behefit Haiti. This week, our Pop Culture Expert is following these auctions along with other headine-making stories. read more