The online resource for getting lucky.

Tico Torres (left) and Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte at home in New York.
Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work has appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, Town and Country, and L’Uomo Vogue. Tico Torres is a fashion stylist who, in addition to collaborating with Rodriguez-Duarte since the beginning of his career, has worked […]

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 A platter of ox and dog penises.
A friend and I were discussing a recent article in Vogue magazine about the restaurant scene in Beijing. When I mentioned this article to my boyfriend, he forwarded me a link to the (English) online edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel [HERE], which ran an article about a restaurant in Beijing that specializes […]

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Most people know that it’s bad luck to boast of good fortune. And many say that people (dating back to pagan times) knocked on wood as a way of acknowledging and securing favor with the gods who dwelled in trees, particularly if they had said something that drew attention to their good fortune. “He who […]

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Inter Milan footballer Luis Figo was accused last week of killing a black cat that lived at the football club’s training ground, believing that it would turn the team’s luck around following a string of losses.
Vittorio Feltri, editor of the Libero newspaper, sparked the controversy when he alleged in an article that Figo had deliberately […]

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Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly’s wedding was supposed to be a fairy tale affair. Here was the dashing favorite grandson of Queen Elizabeth II (and for those who care, 11th in the line of succession to the British throne), marrying a beautiful working-class girl from Canada. But the wedding became dogged by bad luck last […]

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From one of our loyal readers: 
We have our own little lucky charm here at Methodikal. It’s called “The Nitti.”
It all started when we were at our old ad agency. Seth, my business partner, and I were sitting around reading the Boston Globe when he was stopped in is tracks by a photo in the obituary […]

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On the surface of it, there are few things in life that seem less lucky than poo. (My sister, who recently had a baby, tells me that “poo” is the term of choice for new parents, who, I guess, spend a lot of time thinking and talking about it.) But actually poo has a long […]

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Cameron Diaz’s new movie What Happens in Vegas opens today, and with the scathing reviews the flick has been getting—this one from the New York Times is likely more entertaining than the movie itself—Diaz is going to need all the luck she can get to prevent a box office disaster. Thankfully, according to columnist Stacy Jenel Smith, […]

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Welcome to the Luck Guide!
A wise old man (actually, it was Confucius) said, “The more you know, the more luck you will have.” In an effort to follow his sage advice, we’ve created this blog as an online resource for anything and everything lucky–bringing together news, stories, and trivia from around the world. We hope […]

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 Photo by Katie Hargrave
Anyone who hasn’t been in a coma for the last few months knows that today are the primaries in Indiana and North Carolina—the two biggest states left to vote in the primary season. It appears, from recent polling, that Obama has survived the Jeremiah Wright debacle and it is thought by many […]

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