Thanks to Facebook, the concept of “defriending” has become part of the online culture. But in the real world, breaking up is a lot more difficult.

Tyler Brûlé, whose media empire is growing, is the one to ask if you want to know what’s the Next Big Thing.

A group of young, ambitious writers and editors have created a scrappy online journal and roving clubhouse that functions as a kind of Intellectuals Anonymous for the city’s literary underclass, one that has been largely ignored by the publishing establishment.

Clean-cut young men have been asking for the same haircut: buzzed on the sides, longer on top and slicked back with a dab of pomade.

With its new “I’m a Mormon” ad campaign, the Mormon Church is seeking a more fashionable face. But some of what’s deemed cool these days — beards, scruffy clothes, tattoos — raises eyebrows.