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Listen, if you’re going to take advice from a celebrity, I think that Mollie Ringwald should be a pretty trustworthy candidate. “Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick” is her new book. She was nice enough to answer some questions for us. The book serves up a literary dish of intelligent [...]

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A man named Itamar Gilboa is in the Israeli art spotlight this spring. His art debut in Israel just finished exhibiting at Jaffa’s Dresdner Gallery. Jaffa is the 6,000 year-old old city of Tel Aviv. A very cool place. The exhibition entitled, “Chief” deals with a man’s dream of becoming an Israeli Defense Forcs Seargent [...]

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Born in Hong Kong in 1964, Jacqueline Fleming was raised and educated in Singapore and England. Having adventurous parents was a plus for an adventurous spirit – Jackie and her family traveled extensively during her formative years, and young Jackie began to form the well-fueled muse from which she would, in the future, draw to [...]

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David Gerstein is a masterful painter and sculptor. He works with hand painted, serigraph, silk screen printing and cut out steel, creating a brilliantly colorful multi-layered universe inspired by Graffiti art, Pop art and other modern types of artwork. David Gerstein’s repertoire includes large scale urban sculptures, currently displayed around the world, wall sculptures, small [...]

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Here at My Unique Gift Idea we love seeing original functions for recycled books, so we were really psyched to see that Manhattan’s McNally Jackson Books has integrated an incredible array of bound book decor in their new renovated cafe. The independent bookseller joined forces with Front Studio to renovate the bookstore’s existing café into [...]

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Shoppers, hello! In the mood to let fashion and spirituality breath a little? I am! In a tech mood? Me too!!! Actually I was surfing the Web a little this morning and noticed that iPad reviews by tech writers have begun surfacing, most shining a positive light on Apple’s latest dooda. Walt Mossberg, the personal [...]

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Shraga Landesman is an Israeli-born artist based in Haifa. He was born in 1954 and studied painting and sculpture at Oranim College of Art and in Tel-Hai College. His work is widely exhibited in Jewish Museums in New York, Paris, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. Shraga considers as his sources of spiritual muse, the Bible and the [...]

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Have you heard about the flick, Coco Avant Chanel, starring Audrey Tatou? I watched it over the weekend. Her portrayal of Chanel is remarkable. The best part of the movie however, was the wardrobe. All I wanna do now is wear men’s suits, and straw hats, and sailor stripes, and lots more tweed. Whether it [...]

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The first ever shopping cart was invented in 1936 by Sylvan Goldman. Sylvan was the owner of a chain of grocery stores in Oklahoma, called Standard/Piggly-Wiggly. The first cart was constructed by adding two wire baskets and wheels to a folding chair. With the help of Fred Young, he designed a sellable version in 1947. [...]

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Want to hold a business conference or a virtual family reunion, via the web, but don’t want to have to worry about the crappy quality of your web cam? Check out what’s new from HP. Why, it’s a solution to dinky web camera blues for video conferences, called HP SkyRoom. HP SkyRoom provides “high-definition video [...]

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