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Tyra to the Bank with a Book

October 25th, 2011 · No Comments · New Stuff

Share.. American supermodel Tyra Banks who is never far from the spotlight with her ubiquitous television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. The talented Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America’s Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and she is the host of her own talk show, The [...]

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Hookah Smoking California

August 24th, 2011 · No Comments · New Stuff

Share..According to the Los Angeles Time, Hookah use is on the rise in the state of California with usage rates increasing more than 40% over the last couple of years. A hookah is a water pipe and hose from which one smokes specially made, often flavored, tobacco that is heated as smoke passes through water [...]

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The way to the right Espresso Machine goes through CoffeeMachineAdvisor.com

June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · New Stuff

Share..I cam across this site recently and I loved the idea. An Espresso machine is a high ticket item for the house, and one you need to decide on carefully, this site helps make the decision. CoffeeMachineAdvisor.com is a wizard that helps you select the Espresso machine that is the right fit for your breakfast [...]

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Lady Gaga = Lady, uh-oh

June 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, New Stuff, Reviews

Share..Shopping for music? Lady Gaga’s new record, “Born This Way“, set another record this week. Alas, not one that she will be happy with. Sales of the album fell by 84% from its hot (yet discount-inflated) opening week. That’s the steepest drop-off in sales, expressed in a percentage basis, of any of the seventeen albums [...]

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Adam and Adam, Sarandon and Vanilla Ice!

June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, New Stuff

Share..Actress Susan Sarandon of Thelma & Louise fame recently signed on with her daughter, Eva Amurri, for a part in the brand new movie, “I Hate You Dad“, a production by Adam Sandler in concert with Andy Samberg. According to our sources, James Caan has been added to the cast, too. In the movie, Sandler [...]

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New From Iris Apfel

May 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, New Stuff

Share..Iris Apfel, fashion icon is having the best week ever. First, she launched a brand new jewelry collection with HSN and then her apartment photo-spread in the new issue of Architectural Digest was finally unveiled. With a price range between $20 and $150, the Rara Avis collection will debut this September on HSN exclusively: “I [...]

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George Porgie!

May 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, New Stuff, Quotes

Share..After a decade and a half of legal trouble and not enough music, George Michael is making a comeback. He announced a new tour and album at a press conference at London’s Royal Opera House. “I have a serious problem with the fact that every time I made a mistake and every time I let [...]

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Balmain American Flag Shirt

May 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, New Stuff, Reviews

Share..A Balmain’s tank had many a fashionista and patriot alike irate this Mother’s Day. The “Embellished flag-print silk tank,” a starred and striped shirt perforated with burn holes and attached at the seams by safety pins costs only $1,515. Actually it is sold out on Net-A-Porter.com. Celebrities such as Kate Bosworth and Ke$ha have recently [...]

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Roald Dahl, Part of a Complete Balanced Breakfast

April 14th, 2011 · No Comments · New Stuff, Reviews

Share..One book publisher recently realized that children, even from the age before they can read, pick up cereal boxes from the breakfast table and scan the back of them for information and games. By replacing the games with an excerpt from a book, perhaps it will spark an interest in literature. Puffin is the publisher [...]

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New Role for Natalie Portman

April 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, New Stuff, Reviews

Share..In the brand new medieval ‘stoner‘ comedy “Your Highness,” Natalie Portman plays a warrior princess who leaves the drug use to co-stars James Franco and Danny McBride, however, she admits being a big fan of the subject matter and genre. Portman told Entertainment Weekly: “I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I [...]

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New Line By Rachel Zoe

February 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, New Stuff

Share..Rachel Zoe debuted her new line with an article in WWD, followed by a show in a Manhattan loft. While the first feedback on the line was generally positive, a TwitPic from Jane Keltner DeValle (Teen Vogue’s Fashion News Director) shows that Zoe has gathered inspiration from a shoot that she styled for the magazine [...]

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Now In Vogue The Kabbalah Friendship Bracelet

January 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Handmade Jewelry, Kabbalah, New Stuff

Share..Friendship bracelets are hand-woven bracelets given from one friend to another to signal sentimentality. Unlike the Kabblah red string, made of thin red wool and worn or tied around one’s left wrist (the receiving side), friendship bracelets do not ward off the Evil Eye. The effective factor in the latter type of bracelet is the [...]

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Burberry, Prestige in The Holy Land

December 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, New Stuff

Share..The world-famous British trademark, Burberry , opened its doors recently in the State Square at the heart of Tel Aviv. The store is to have three levels and be spread out over 300 meters (more than 980 feet). The store will be selling items for women, men and children, from the tailored Burberry London collection [...]

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The CitiKitty Solution

December 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · New Stuff, Unique Gifts

Share..Sick of cleaning-up after your cat? Your kids? Your husband? Banging your head against the wall because the animal psychologist could not teach the family feline respectable manners? Toil no more. CitiKitty has a product that cleans-up the mess the cat dumped in. Every year, the 88.3 million felines in America add eight billion pounds [...]

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Debut Novelist, Adam Levin Tells All To The Chicago Tribune

November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · New Stuff, Specials

Share..Adam Levin is the 33-year-old writer of “The Instructions“, a 1,030 page debut novel about a violent yet genius 10-year-old with a Messiah complex. Levin says he was a smoker for a long time and has a parrot who he is protective of and his apartment smells and looks like “an old man’s apartment.” In [...]

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