

Today’s media world allows anyone to be a celebrity and makes it easier than ever to claim your 15 minutes of fame.
But have you ever noticed that often the people who deserve the most attention are hiding from the limelight while those clamoring for the spotlight often have very little of value to add to the mix?
In the good ol’ days, VIP status was earned…
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My daughter recently sent me some of her travel pics—she’s quite a talented amateur photographer. And this got me thinking about cameras and picture perfect style.
It used to be that to take great pictures, you had to understand things like lenses and apertures and shutter speeds. Then automatic cameras came along that could make all the proper adjustments so that, most of the time, your…
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I’m feeling very inspired this morning. But I’m not feeling very vintage-inspired.
During LA Fashion Week recently, I attended a fashion show that featured a line of vintage-inspired dresses. And while the silhouettes were all right, the fabrics were all wrong. They looked cheap and—dare I say it?—gaudy.
Which isn’t to say all vintage-inspired lines are cheap and gaudy, but…well…even the best vintage-inspired lines…anyway you slice’m and…
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The bloodsuckers of True Blood have returned to HBO for their fourth season and you may or may not be inviting these vampires into your home on Sunday nights.
But, if you’re like most Americans, you may be surprised to learn that you are entertaining about 40 energy vampires each day that are feasting on 10% of your electricity.
Fortunately, fighting off these energy vampires is soooo much easier…
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July 7, 2011 by
Mary Kincaid in
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In one scene from Sex and the City 2, Samantha and Miley Cyrus both arrive at a Red Carpet event wearing the same dress. Fashion disaster, right?
I mean, a dress would have to be super-extraordinary to transcend the decades (and years of gravity!) that stand between a teenager and a woman in her fifties. And this particular dress, cut up to here and down to…
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