MUGI – My Unique Gift Idea

Share.. With Black Friday quickly approaching, you might be looking for a great deal before the holiday rush comes in December. One of the best ways to take the hassle out of shopping is to use online stores. Black Friday is the number one shopping day in the world. Wouldn’t you like to get the [...]

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Share..Clarence Clemons died from a stroke he suffered last weekend. He was only 69 years-old. Bruce Springsteen gave a statement saying: “Clarence lived a wonderful life…He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything [...]

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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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Share..On Monday, the private ancient coin collection of Wolfgang Masser was auctioned in 112 lots in Tel Aviv. When he moved to Israel from Switzerland in 1969, Masser’s infatuation with ancient coins began to ripen. Now 83, Masser recollected about his early collecting days in the Holy Land: “One could really find and acquire coins [...]

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Share..There is something about the autumn that gets the creative blood flowing in us. We see some of this manifested in the Festival of Sukkot. As Jerusalem Post’s Jordana Horn wrote: “An international succa-building competition based in New York City has pitted famous and not-so-famous artists and architects against one another in an attempt to [...]

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Share..Found on the sixth and seventh floors of the Pacific Department Store in Yungho City, Taiwan, about nine miles from Taipei City, is a unique shopping experience. The Museum of World Religions, which opened in 2001, is the brainchild of Master Hsin Tao, a Buddhist monk who spent more than a decade renouncing the world. [...]

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Share..The mystical properties of crystals have been extolled widely for many centuries and each culture has its own beliefs surrounding them. Crystals and gemstones have been used for jewelry, healing and metaphysical uses since man first discovered how to mine them, and they are still as sought-after today as they were long ago by the [...]

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Share..Thanks to Oprah Winfrey for bringing to my attention what has become the latest fan of a fashion trend which has been sweeping Canada for months now…those red-and-white woolen mittens that have a fuzzy Maple Leaf on their palms. Oprah opted to hand out 300 pairs to her talk show’s studio audience Friday while interviewing [...]

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Share..Famous Film Director, Kevin Smith was delayed getting from Oakland to Burbank on Saturday night because he was “too wide for the sky.” According to Smith’s Twitter page, Southwest Airlines removed him from a flight after calling the artist a safety risk. “Dear @SouthwestAir – I know I’m fat, but was Captain Leysath really justified [...]

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Share..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 [...]

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Share..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 [...]

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Share..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 [...]

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Share..Here’s a good one for you religious shoppers and you who are religious about technology: The Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed a heap of laptops and smart phones on the altar of London’s 17th-century St. Lawrence Jewry church on Monday. “It’s the technology that is our daily working tool, and it’s a technology we should [...]

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Share..Here’s a list of the best Israeli wines which were released in 2009, or are about to be released. Chateau Golan, Cabernet Sauvignon, Royal Reserve 2005 Dark garnet in color, concentrated and elegant. A blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc. The taste opens with spicy, mocha-tinged blackcurrants, those yielding to blackberries, herbs [...]

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Share..Biggest Celebrity Knuckle Heads of 2009 Kanye West The “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” rapper made history with the “Imma let you finish” Taylor Swift episode at the Video Music Awards. Perez Hilton The celebrity bloggers question about gay marriage during the Miss Universe Pageant, turned a run-of-the mill silicon swinger, into a [...]

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