For some who live in cold-weather places, wearing flannel and fleece pajamas underneath your pants is an invaluable trick. I’ve been doing it for years.
Now there’s something called PajamaJeans. You can get creative and call them PaJeanas or Jeanamas.
“We were noticing that people were wearing their pajamas on airplanes and in grocery stores. But a lot of people have mixed feelings about it because they think it’s inappropriate and sloppy,”
“We thought, why don’t we develop something that you’re comfortable hanging around the house in or even sleeping in, but it looks acceptable when you go out of the house?…A lot of people wear their workout clothes out. But we thought it would be easy to take a pair of jeans, style them similar to a yoga pant, give them all the jean detailing, but make them stretchy and soft so that you wouldn’t mind wearing them to bed,”
she said.
She added that,
“The cool thing about the fabric is that the outside looks like a typical twill but it definitely has more of a jersey feel. And the inside is really, really brushed, so it almost feels like the inside of sweatpants or fleece.”
“We thought it was perfect for the woman Oprah calls a ’shlumpadinka’ to kick it up a notch. She can still be casual and comfortable, but she can look like she’s snazzy and stylish,”
said Buonanno.
“[It] took us all pleasantly by surprise,”
John Gilbert, PajamaGram’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
“We knew we had a great product that would appeal to many women, but the speed with which they flew out the door was amazing. It feels great knowing we’ve created a product that can give women everything they want, and demand, in a favorite pair of jeans.”
And to tell you the truth, despite the gimmicky name and concept, the jeans themselves actually look pretty hip…..
After just eight minutes of bidding at Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s life-sized sculpture L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) was sold for £65,001,250 ($US104,327,006).
The winning bid, which opened at £12million, was made over the telephone by an anonymous buyer.
The sculpture, which is considered to be one of the most important by the 20th century Swiss artist, was estimated to sell for between £12 million and £18 million.
More than ten rivals escalated the price, which eventually hit the £65 million mark.
A Sotheby’s spokeswoman claimed that it was the highest for any work of art ever sold at auction.
The former record was a Picasso painting, Boy with a Pipe – Picasso’s haunting Rose Period portrait of a youngster called “Little Louis”, who used to hang around his studio in Paris. In 2004, this piece was sold for $104 million (£58.5m).
Before that, the previous record of $82.5 million, was paid for Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet in 1990. It became the first $100 million painting ever. Melanie Clore, Co-Chairman, Impressionist & Modern Art, Sotheby’s Worldwide, said,
“The competition which generated these exceptional results demonstrates the continued quest for quality that compels today’s collectors.”
She also said:
“Ten bidders competed for the Giacometti, which had been estimated at £12-18 million. Its success, as well as the success of many other works sold this evening, demonstrated both the continued quest for quality that we had seen in New York in November as well as the market’s response to works with attractive estimates. This was without question one of our most exciting sales ever.”
In a bumper night for Sotheby’s, one of the other highlights of the Impressionist and Modern Art sale too exceeded all expectations: Gustav Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone went for £26,921,250, far above the £12 million to £18 million estimate.
It proved to be a record price for a Klimt landscape and the second highest auction bid for any work by this particular Austrian painter. Paul Cezanne’s Pichet et Fruits sur une table was sold for just under £12 million.
The talented sculptor Razia Gershon was born in Israel and has focused her artwork from an early stage, on the human body and its aesthetic possibilities.
In her early career, Razia studied modern ballet under Gertrud Krauss and classical ballet under Mia Arbatova. She graduated from the Wingate Institute and worked as a physical and ballet educator. Also a graduate of the Avni Institute of Art in Tel-Aviv, Razia pursued her studies under Tania Preminger and David Zondelovitz, professors in art academies in Russia. Later, to add a ribbon to her formative years, she attended art history lectures with Professor Marcel Mendelson at Bar Ilan University.
Razia’s bronze sculptures are all presented in figurative classic style, based on and inspired by the human body, its movements and ballet steps. The sculptures are cast in bronze, and despite the hardness and rigidity of the material, the beholder sees and feels the elegant motion, and gentleness expressed in each statue.
Among the highlights of Razia’s prolific work include a bronze garden sculpture series of various animals and sheep, in particular. The comic bronze figures have become the artists’ trademark in Israel. In 2006 she completed a new series of Horse Sculptures including six pieces to her collection.
Notable pieces have been presented to US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Israeli President Shimon Peres, and most notably the late King Hussein of Jordan
Razia Gershon works at her studio in Ramat Hasharon, Israel where her private bronze collection is on display.
Razia’s statues can be found in private collections in Israel and abroad.
The studio may be contacted at (US) 646.797.2846 or (IL) 054.453.6053. Email: Info@RaziaGershon.com or snail mail:
88 Derech Rishonim
PO Box 1373
Ramat Hasharon
Israel 47100
The producers have said they hope to resurrect Oscar’s ratings and make the show more fun by building on the changes introduced at February’s ceremony, which tinkered slightly with the way awards were presented and featured Broadway-style musical interludes.
“Very early on, we talked about a pairing as part of our concept of the show, having tradition and also freshness walking hand in hand,”
Shankman said …
“Steve anchors it in so much tradition and Alec … besides being a former Oscar nominee, he is just hot, hot, hot right now. And the two of them I know adore each other.”
A pair of hosts helmed the inaugural Oscar ceremony in 1929: Douglas Fairbanks and William DeMille, then president and vice president of the film academy, co-hosted the show. The last time multiple hosts graced the Oscar stage was in 1987, when Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan shared the duties.
“In the modern television era, this is the first time there will be two co-hosts on the same stage,”
academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said Tuesday.
Splitting hosting duties between two funny fellows ups the show’s fun factor, Mechanic put it as
“taking a little starch out of the shirts, so to speak.”
“We can move things along more easily by taking out some of the stilted banter that goes on between presenters and let the hosts guide us through the evening,”
said he. Martin has hosted the show twice before, in 2001 and 2003, and has appeared as a presenter several times. Baldwin is a first-timer as Oscar host, but did play the part of co-presenter in 2004. Baldwin, 51, star of NBC’s “30 Rock,” called the Oscar gig “the opportunity of a lifetime.” He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for his supporting role in “The Cooler.”
Martin said that he is
“happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin.”
The 64-year-old entertainer is currently on tour in support of his latest banjo album. He and Baldwin share the screen in Nancy Meyers’ film “It’s Complicated,” out in theaters now.
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At a hearing today in the custody battle between Sandra Bullock’s current husband, Jesse James and his ex-wife, porn-star Janine Lindemulder, a judge ordered that Lindemulder be allowed to make daily phone calls to her 6-year-old daughter, Sunny, who currently resides full-time with Sandra and Jesse.
However,
“No visitation rights were granted at this point,”
Orange County Superior Court spokeswoman Carol Levitzky said. James and Lindemulder, currently serving a four-month stint in a halfway house for violating her parole in a tax-evasion case, were both present for the proceedings. Sandra could not make it.
Even the phone time ruling didn’t come without resistance from concerned dad, James.
James said:
“She texts at least twice and up to 20 times a day, demanding to talk to Sunny…But sometimes she’ll go a week at a time where she doesn’t make a call…[Lindemulder] has no filter on what she tells [Sunny] about prison. There’s a lot of conversation about prison or jail and things that I don’t think a 6-year-old can comprehend or process.”
Jesse James also said in court that while Lindemulder had fought for and won Christmas custody of the girl, she never actually materialized on the holiday, and in fact had missed four of her past five scheduled visits. Ouch! Sorry Sunny.
The hearing will be continued on June 14, and while the judge praised James and Lindemulder for being able to make progress despite the media hoopla, both were ordered to undergo joint counseling once a month.
The hamsa is a palm-shaped amulet seen mainly in the Middle East and North Africa. It is often used in jewelry and wall hangings, as a defense against the evil eye.
Its origin is said to be found in ancient practices associated with the Phoenicians of Carthage.
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Archaeological evidence indicates that a downward pointing hamsa used as a protective amulet in the Middle East, predates its use by members of the monotheistic faiths. It is thought to have been associated with Tanit, the supreme deity of Carthage whose hand was used to ward off the evil eye.
The hamsa’s debut in Jewish culture, and its popularity particularly among Sephardic Jews, can be traced through its use in Islam. In the middle ages, Jews sometimes call it the hand of Miriam, alluding to the sister of the biblical Moses and Aaron. Five (hamesh in Hebrew) represents the five books of the Torah. It also symbolizes the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “Heh”, which represents one of God’s holy names. Some believe that the five fingers of the hamsa hand remind its wearer to use their five senses to praise God.
The hamsa is popular as a charm most often worn as a necklace, but can be found as a decorative element in houses, on key chains, on other jewelry items. If you are in the market for modern hamsa art, there is a lot of good shopping online.
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Nicole Richie, daughter of 80’s pop master Lionel, mother of two, friend of Paris Hilton and newly brunette, covers the March issue of British Marie Claire. Inside the pages she tries to squash rumors of an eating disorder.
“I felt it was a little unfair to say someone has an eating disorder when they don’t. It’s extremely insulting and irresponsible,”
she told the magazine.
“An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease. I don’t think you can lightly say someone has a disease unless they are openly telling you that they do.”
Nicole started looking frighteningly skinny towards the end of 2004 while filming ‘The Simple Life.’ In 2006 she sought medical treatment at her father’s urging to stop the frame of hers’ from shrinking any further.
Now looking healthier but still quite slim for a new mom – she gave birth to her son Sparrow in September – Nicole doesn’t feel like revisiting that time.
“I’m just one to live in the present and enjoy the time that I’m having…Going into my past is just not something that I do. Right now I’m just living my dreams.”
I think that I have just found the most handsome piece of casual Jewish-inspired jewelry that I’ve ever seen.
It is a beautiful Tree of Life pendant on a string of Turquoise. The pendant includes the Tree of Life symbol with a Star of David cleverly formed in the center.
In Hebrew, the tree is known as “Etz Ha Haim”. The Tree of Life is associated with fertility, immortality and birth.
However, the symbolism of the Tree of Life isn’t found in just Judaism. Actually many different cultures and religions around the world perceive the Tree of Life as a symbol of harmony, birth, fertility, and immortality.
In Judaism it has several origins, one from the Book of Genesis, and one is the symbolism of the energy which channels back and forth from each of the ten sfirot, in Kabbalah.
The Tree Of Life pendant dimensions are 1.5″ across, and it is silver plated. The necklace is 15″ long and is made from beautiful Turquoise beads. It is also available with Jade beads. Truly something special.
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A Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class, lost her balance, fell into “The Actor” and tore it.
The unusually large canvas, measuring 77.25 by 45.38 inches (196 by 115 centimeters), sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15 centimeters) in its lower right-hand corner in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located on the eastern edge of New York’s Central Park, could or did not explain what caused the woman to fall.
The Met said the damage thankfully did not impact the “focal point of the composition” and that it should be repaired in the coming weeks ahead of a major Picasso retrospective featuring some 250 works at the museum opening on April 27.
Painted in the winter of 1904-1905, the work hails from Picasso’s critical Rose Period, when the artist shifted from the downbeat tones of his Blue Period to warmer and more romantic hues.
The period also hints at Picasso’s later embrace of abstraction, which gave life to his signature cubist style.
Donated to The Met by automobile heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy in 1952, “The Actor” features an acrobat striking a dramatic pose against an abstract backdrop. It was painted on a used canvas that already contained a painting.
Not long ago, Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) lived side by side in peace and harmony. These days the story has changed. First, Apple rejected Google Voice for the iPhone; next, Google CEO Eric Schmidt quit Apple’s board; and then Google launched Nexus One, taking direct aim at the iPhone. Now, Apple is in talks to replace Google as the iPhone’s default search engine with one-time arch-rival Microsoft’s Bing. Meanwhile, Google is positioning YouTube to take on iTunes with a new movie-rental service.
Meanwhile…
After almost a decade of speculation, Apple will unveil its touch-screen tablet PC this Wednesday at 10 a.m. at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater. While Apple is still refusing to confirm the device’s existence, eight years of media “tablet rumors” provide a vivid — though often inaccurate — idea of what the thing may do.
The hamsa is a palm-shaped amulet seen mainly in the Middle East and North Africa. It is often used in jewelry and wall hangings, as a defense against the evil eye.
I think that I have just found the most handsome piece of casual Jewish-inspired jewelry that I’ve ever seen.
Not long ago, Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) lived side by side in peace and harmony. These days the story has changed. First, Apple rejected 
