| MY TRAVELS: PREPARING FOR THE BIG TRIP | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:53:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | I review this list before every "big" (international, usually) trip, and choose the tips that are appropriate for that particular trip. Months ahead Start looking for special deals. Research the area you'll be visiting and your mode of travel, especially if you are planning foreign travel. Check the expiration date on your passport. Take care of medical and dental checkups and vaccinations. After consulting your physician, consider starting an exercise program to prepare your body for the extra exertion. Make reservations. Three weeks ahead Watch the weather so you can pack accordingly. Check cameras and purchase new batteries or memory. Arrange to have your home checked periodically.... | |
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| | | Brighton historian scrutinizes new landscape New book delves into ... | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 12:51:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | The news media are in a state of change. Over the past decade, traditional outlets such as newspapers and evening television news have been supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by 24-hour news stations and cable news channels, online news sites and blogs. Brighton-based historian Judy Daubenmier focuses on this new media landscape in her new book, "Project Rewire.'' Part of the Informed Citizen Series, which aims to collect the best blog entries on U.S. social and political issues, "Project Rewire'' is a book of media criticism. It specifically looks at how Internet media cover traditional media. Other books in the series include "Untidy: the Blogs on Rumsfeld'' and "Special Plans: the Blogs on Douglas Feith and the Faulty Intelligence that Led to War.'' "The whole idea of the series is to try to find the best articles on one topic because usually when you read the Internet you start out on one topic and you click on a link and pretty soon you're reading stuff that's far afield from where you started out,'' says Daubenmier, a Brighton resident and part-time lecturer at the University of Michigan.... | |
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| | | Looking good is just a lesson away! | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:50:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kanpur brides-to-be are shelling out big bucks for beauty courses. After pre-wedding traditional courses like cooking, knitting, stitching, etc, bridal beauty courses are the latest fad among city girls. Conducted by beauty salons, the courses cost quite a bit, but would-be brides just don't want to compromise on looking pretty and are ready to pay up the exorbitant amounts. Kanpur Times explores the trend. There's a whole gamut of courses comprising lessons in manicure, pedicure, facial, hair treatment, etc. Consultations with dermatologists for skin care and fashion advice is also being offered. "We offer a choice between a two, three or four months' course with different programmes and different charges. For instance, in the two months course that costs Rs 5000, with 40-45 days of lessons, informs Radhika Maheshwari, owner of a beauty salon in the city.... | |
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| | | You can never be too thin | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:52:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | When youre hungry, take a nap. Shower, drink tea, numb your taste buds with teething gel, give yourself a manicure. Do anything but eat. These are some of the tips that pro-ana, or pro-anorexia Web sites offer to those who choose to restrict their eating. These Web sites gained popularity the last few years as a kind of support group and community for those who have accepted anorexia as a lifestyle rather than a disorder. They have also become a source of national concern as those with eating disorders reinforce self-destructive habits and ideals through the Web sites. Before this year, there was no actual study on the effects of viewing the Web sites, but two MU researchers, Anna Bardone-Cone and Kamila Cass, have published a pilot study in European Eating Disorders Review.... | |
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| | | Cheap Date: Chill with a martini and manicure, or a cup of joe | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:55:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Yes, Friday is the 13th (in October, no less), but weve got plenty of prospects thatll have you feeling lucky all weekend long. Keep the cash in your pocket, because where youre going you wont need much come date night. From a big show at New Moon, the best coffee spots around and another Oktoberfest to martinis, manicures and Monday Night Football - Cheap Date knows best. Fans of Oshkosh folk band Jackson Street Polecats should hit New Moon Cafe, 401 N. Main St., Oshkosh, from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday. Why, you ask? To catch their last Polecat show before member Jeff Mitchell moves to New Hampshire to join a roller derby team (thats straight from their Web site at www.aaron-baer.com/polecats.htm). The band began in Oshkosh in 1998 and has played across the United States.... | |
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| | | Guy grooming | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:51:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Your landlord gets his back waxed, your lawyer has his eyebrows trimmed and your favorite politician indulges in a manicure on occasion. They just dont talk about it. Well-groomed men, step out of that closet. Youre welcome in any of the valleys salons for treatments that range from facials to pedicures. The Spa at Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole even offers a Man-o-cure for those hardworking hands. Manscaping the removal of male body hair is only one component of a hip, put-together guy, says Ginger Root stylist Rob Hollis. Guys do manicures, facials, Hollis said. Theyre getting color, not just for gray, but for a change. Were definitely seeing more men in the salon, pulling them out of the barber shop and giving them more modern looks. Guys are getting waxing, separating the eyebrow.... | |
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| | | MIA's south terminal getting retail face-lift | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 2:56:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Touring Miami International Airport's South Terminal concessions area is hardly the ultimate shopping experience. There are empty stores with exposed electrical pipes, unpainted walls and cement floors, all covered with dust and dirt. But this spring, when the 1.5-million-square-foot terminal opens, passengers will see curving walls with colorful storefronts, where they can buy a portable DVD player, grab a guayabera, snag a travel iron or slip in a manicure. The Miami-Dade County Commission recently awarded contracts for 24 stores in the terminal, representing all but one of the planned retail shops. The national and local retailers will cater to passengers on about 23 airlines operating in the South Terminal, carrying an expected 25 percent of MIA's travelers.... | |
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| | | Pamper yourself, fight AIDS with 'ManiCURES' | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 10:56:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | With "World AIDS Day" approaching on Dec. 1, the socially progressive, San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants is offering Chicago-area residents and hotel guests alike a stylish way to help local folks battling HIV/AIDS. And they can help from right inside the colorfully hip Hotel Allegro. From 5-7 p.m. Thursday, the hotel at 171 W. Randolph and Bacardi USA will host "ManiCURES for CARE." In exchange for a $5 donation, patrons can sip a Bacardi Red Ribbon cocktail, including the "Limon Red Ribbon-Tini," "Grand Melon Poinsettia," or a glass of vino rosso. For another $5, women can enjoy a five-minute "Red Ribbon Mini-Manicure," featuring a coat of crimson nail polish. And big spenders, whether female or male, can drop an extra $2 and get a "Red Ribbon Hand Massage" from the folks at Relax and Rejuvenate (who provide the in-room spa services to Kimpton Hotels).... | |
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| | | Every little thing matters . . . | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:55:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | The subject on looking and feeling good has become my chosen topic time and again because I want to remind everyone and stress the importance about making a good impression. First impressions, good or bad, matter. As they say, it takes only 30 seconds to make a good one and the rest of your life to correct a bad one. .... | |
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| | | Foxy Gets Sentence Over Manicure Assault | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:57:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | (AHN) - Hip Hop Singer Foxy Brown will spend the next three months under probation, in anger management classes and far away from the manicurists she assaulted over a $20 price tag for at least five years. On Tuesday Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, tried to retract her guilty plea she entered in August saying she now believes she was acting in self defense and was coerced. She was sentenced by a Manhattan Criminal Court Judge who threw out her request. Brown's attorney Franklin Rothman said, "This was self defense. This was a scuffle over payment of a $20 manicure and she panicked. She had bad advice two months ago." Rothman also argued that neither of the victims in the case had any medical records to show their injuries. Brown told reporters, "I'm a fighter.... | |
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