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Hollywood Boulevard will be closed from Highland Avenue to Orange Drive this week as workers prepare for Sunday’s Academy Awards in the Kodak Theatre. It’s a minor annoyance for those of us who live in the neighborhood, but it is exciting to have the Oscars happening right next door. As for me, I’ve only seen four of the ten nominated films for Best Picture so…
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About a month from today, athletes from the around the world will converge in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Men and women will speed on skeletons, skis, bobsleds, and skates. They’ll curl and shoot and launch their bodies off ski jumps at almost 60 mph. And while these games will be green with the Vancouver Olympic Committee’s efforts at sustainability, all that ice and…
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Ooh-la-la!
There is something so chic and elegant about feathers in fashion and they are definitely having their moment. But one has to wonder why they are not considered animal cruelty the way fur is.
While most feathers used in fashion do come from animals that are by-products of the meat industry, the animal rights group, PETA, reports that there’s no kind way to obtain these…
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