Saturday, January 28, 2012

Paints & Potions

Beauty Emergency : Stolen Moisturizer Beauty Emergency : Stolen Moisturizer

I’m not lying when I say the low point of this week was finding out someone... 


Ann Taylor Reveals New Celeb Face Ann Taylor Reveals New Celeb Face

Ann Taylor continued its streak of celebrity models with the addition of Kate Hudson,... 


Amex Joins Flash Sale Space Amex Joins Flash Sale Space

American Express recently announced a new multi-year e-commerce deal to boost online... 


Ame Ame Opens First Boutique Ame Ame Opens First Boutique

Woman-owned functional fashion brand Ame Ame is opening its first boutique in the... 


Target: Kid Hipster Looks For Less Target: Kid Hipster Looks For Less

Jobs are like relationships– both start with a honeymoon period, the rush... 


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Nutri-Life

Is A Kahluaccino Coming Soon? Is A Kahluaccino Coming Soon?

I’ve dreamt of the day Starbucks would get a liquor license and now it’s... 


A Simple Detox: A Personal History of Binge ________ A Simple Detox: A Personal History of Binge ________

It was 2008 and I was at a friend’s birthday-cum-going away party. She, a... 


Beverage Trend – Single Brew Coffee Beverage Trend – Single Brew Coffee

The latest beverage trend is about the medium not the product. Single brew coffee.... 


Aussie Researchers Find Sugar Compounds With Positive Potential Aussie Researchers Find Sugar Compounds With Positive Potential

A trio of researchers in Australia have discovered a sugar compound that could help... 


Food Distribution Giant Reveals Nutrition Trends Food Distribution Giant Reveals Nutrition Trends

One of the biggest distributors of organic and natural foods, UNFI or United Natural... 


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Leisure & Culture

Six Notes on Juneau, Alaska Six Notes on Juneau, Alaska

I arrived in Juneau, Alaska about 17 hours after I left the Boston area. I must confess that I did expect most people to be baseball hat and flannel wearing men with pickup trucks and maybe that’s not far off though this is also Subaru country. But, city folk need to admit that often times we associate a simple life with simple minds. There are plenty... [Read more of this review]


Data Whore: Why I Splurged on a 64GB iPhone 4S Data Whore: Why I Splurged on a 64GB iPhone 4S

Frustrated to near tears the other night I rang Verizon Wireless and asked if I could upgrade three weeks early. The nice southern belle on the phone got manager approval to do so and recommended, after I asked about size, the 16GB iPhone. I was thinking even if it wasn’t big enough, I’d have a lot of music stored not locally, but on the... [Read more of this review]


Taschen Hosts Almodovar For Signing Taschen Hosts Almodovar For Signing

Publisher Taschen is hosting Spanish Film Director Pedro Almodovar on Monday November 14 for a book signing. The man behind Women on the Verge and Volver has a new book out, The Pedro Almodovar Archives, complete with more than 600 images and a film strip from Volver. ©Stephane Kossmann Paper Magazine Publisher and Editor in Chief Kim Hastreiter... [Read more of this review]


UK Entrepreneur Creates Texting Smoke Alarm UK Entrepreneur Creates Texting Smoke Alarm

The UK’s Matthew Newman has created a product for those paranoid folks like myself that check their oven and door multiple times a day to make sure the former is off and the latter is locked. Newman’s company, ELS, developed a product called Firetext, which with the help of a Lithium battery and a GSM module, can text users when their smoke detector... [Read more of this review]


Why We Love Showtime

What Showtime does is to glamorize the failures of contemporary commoners skirting the edge of normalcy. Nurse Jackie has a soul but serves her own kind of justice while she works doubles in a NYC hospital, fueled off an affair and a little nose candy. Californication chronicles the love and mistakes of those individuals that are a bit more gifted... [Read more of this review]


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