Link Love: Tea Party tees, Preggers Diet, GE Babies, & A Facebook Scam
August 19, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Current Events, Featured, Leisure & Culture
Genetically engineered babies. A new hormonal treatment is said to be able to treat congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a genetic disorder that can interfere with the development of genitalia. The Los Angeles Times article writes: “in severe cases, girls are born with male-like sexual organs although they usually have ovaries and a uterus.” The treatment is [...]
The Nuclear Family On Film
August 2, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Leisure & Culture
The Kids Are All Right might be the perfect modern film about the nuclear family in the 21st century that Sam Mendes will wish he made. After all, the family is his beat. It’s kind of an ironic beat since his seems to be falling apart, but aren’t most of us just holding it together [...]
Tiger + Britney = Gossip Rag Profits
July 1, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, The Daily Bitch
There’s nothing a gossip rag loves more than a celebrity trainwreck and London newspaper The Sun has the scoop on two big ones. Let’s just note that The Sun is a gossip rag-cum-tabloid newspaper, so the credibility is not high. But apparently Wednesday was a big day for this paper as they reported that child [...]
LA Sample Sale Alert
June 2, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
The Cooper Building in Los Angeles will be host to a sample sale this weekend offering feisty ladies a chance to dive at stylish casual threads for adults and kids. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 4 and 5, the Cooper Building will offer loads of discounted clothes from the following brands: Splendid [...]
Medical Marijuana Measures Make Waves
January 20, 2010 by Francesca Cheli
Filed under Current Events, Featured
Blueberry. Skunk Diesel. G-13. These are all different types of grass, the illegal drug New Jersey just legalized for medical use. Weed has been given to cancer patients for years to help with nausea and appetite but recent studies show new pluses and minuses associated with herb.
Target Taps Food Network Star For Kitchen Gear
January 9, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Nutri-Life
If you use her new kitchen products, will you look like her? Seriously there is something we already covet from the latest star product line designed exclusively for Target. Pop the top!
Curated Cosmetics: ABC Carpet’s Beauty Bar
December 21, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
If ever there were such a thing as curated cosmetics, ABC Carpet & Home has defined it. Their recent first-floor expansion focused on building a new section devoted entirely to beauty, to usher in fall with a well-planned beauty bar of sorts. From 10 to 15 brands, they selected six to be sold on the ground floor of the Flatiron store. [...]
NYC To Rate Restaurants’ Cleanliness?
December 17, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Current Events, Featured, Nutri-Life
It is scary to think of what might happen if the New York City board of health decided to move ahead with a proposal to publicly rate local restaurants. But, anyone that remembers the rat issue with the former West Village KFC location might welcome this proposal. The move is just in the voting stages, [...]
Abre Los Ojos: Origins Offers A Wakeup Call
November 3, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Paints & Potions
Surviving the first few days of each week might be easy if Origins gave us free eye cream and espresso every week. But, we are not alone and we are not ungrateful. So, we invite you to head over to the select Origins stores (listed below) Tuesday and Wednesday November 3 and 4, to try [...]
Kim Kardashian Enters Beauty Biz
September 1, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Current Events
The curvy Armenian LA beauty best known for her reality TV show is entering the beauty world with a fragrance deal and beauty editor nod. According to WWD, Kim Kardashian has inked a deal with Lighthouse Beauty to create her first fragrance, due out in Spring 2010. This comes amid reports that Kardashian scored a [...]


