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5 Steps To Becoming A Fashion Designer
The Glitter Guide - 15 Jul 2015 14:40
If you’re hoping to pursue a career in fashion design, listen up! Noted NYC-based designer Cristina Ottaviano is here today to spill her five key suggestions for making a name for yourself in this crazy industry. […]
Chef Adrianne Calvo's Nutella croissant bread pudding takes the cake
Miami Herald - 15 Jul 2015 00:11
Make the favorite dessert from Chef Adrianne's Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar at home with this recipe. …
How to Buy Peaches, Plums, and Other Stone Fruit at the Market
Bon Appetit - 15 Jul 2015 23:51
We've got a few simple tricks for choosing the best stone fruit at the farmers' market. Here's how to buy peaches, plums, and more. The post How to Buy Peaches, Plums, and Other Stone Fruit at the Market appeared first o...
Muslim Cartoonist Adam Elrashidi Explains Ramadan, From A To Z
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:47
All Adam Elrashidi needed to get his creativity flowing for a month of introspection was a few Post-it Notes, archival ink pens and a holy month. Elrashidi, a producer for Al Jazeera English known as @Adamaniac on Twitte...
Breakfast at Tiffany's Brownstone Sells for $7.4 Million -- Design News
Apartment Therapy - 15 Jul 2015 22:45
Pin it The Upper East Side townhome that served as the facade for Holly Golightly's apartment in the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany's has sold for $7.4 million.
'The Peony Pavilion': Underpowered beauty
Washington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:44
Beauty is a strength and a weakness in "The Peony Pavilion," an ode to the delirium of love, danced by the National Ballet of China at Wolf Trap on Tuesday night. The two-hour production is based on an epic 16th-century ...
8 Steps for Awesome Full Moon Photos
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:37
Photo Credit: Heather Hummel Photography This month is a once-in-a-blue-moon month. Needless to say, Facebook news feeds, Instagram posts, and Twitter feeds are aglow with blurry white blobs! Tossed into the bunch are go...
Disclaimerland & Validation Via Virtue
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:27
If the display or broadcasting of creative works were reliant on a virtue rubric, then our museum walls would be nearly empty, our radio waves and streaming would run rather silent, our bookshelves would be quite bare......
Leah Remini talks about why she left Scientology
Washington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:19
Leah Remini says she left Scientology for the sake of her daughter Sofia."From what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything," the "King of Queens" actress said in a new promotional video for her upcom...
Reliable Source: Lorde and Jason DeRulo were Taylor Swift's D.C. guests. She could have done better!
Washington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:06
Taylor Swift's squad is better than yours, okay. Nowhere (outside of Swift's Instagram account) has that fact been more proven then on Swift's 1989 World Tour. The expert bestie has been joined onstage by a steady stream...
Reliable Source: John Kerry toasts Iranian deal with the same wine the Founding Fathers drank
Washington Post - 15 Jul 2015 22:00
It's to be expected that on their way home from Austria on Tuesday after inking the Iranian nuclear deal, Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz would toast the accomplishment with something a bi...
The Budget For Karin & Jeff's Bathroom Renovation -- Renovation Diary
Apartment Therapy - 15 Jul 2015 22:00
Pin it Pin it Name: Karin and Jeff Type of Project: Main Bathroom Remodel Type of Home: Single-family home built in 1967 Square Footage: 1,800 Years Lived In: 2.5 The Renovation Diaries are a collaboration with our commu...
Bring Ai Weiwei's Tree to London
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 21:52
Ai Weiwei knows all about creative freedom, because he's been denied it for so long. As a child he and his family were sent to a Communist labour camp for re-education. His father, poet Ai Qing had offended the authoriti...
Trans Gods of Time Gone By
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 21:23
Vajrapani-Hercules as revered by ancient Buddists. Photo (c) Fondation Gandur pour l'art, Geneva Dionysus, that incomparable symbol of drink and revelry was the only deity that my normally sober and demure father ever en...
Susan Breen: The Elemental Substance of Nature
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 21:21
Susan Breen, Still Life IV, 24" x 24", oil on canvas, 2015, courtesy of Woodward Gallery, NYC In recent times, few painters have made substantive strides in the field of floral and still life painting. One such artist is...
Irrational Man?
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 21:20
What a brilliant idea to use a primer on existentialism, that first appeared in l958, William Barrett's Irrational Man, as the title for a movie! There are the famous Alvy Singer quips from Annie Hall, "I had heard Comme...
My Night Out: Taking On Broadway Street In Nashville!
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 21:15
Howdy! I have a confession to make; I cheated on Broadway with Nashville this weekend. This little New Yorker visited THE city of country music, of my girl Taylor Swift, of cowboy hats, of southern accents and fried chic...
How the U.S. Military Is Infiltrating Your Kitchen
Bon Appetit - 15 Jul 2015 21:14
We spoke to Combat-Ready Kitchen author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo how the U.S. military shapes the way we eat (whether we know it or not). The post How the U.S. Military Is Infiltrating Your Kitchen appeared first on Bon...
Author Isaac Kirkman: Making Art From Obstacles
The Huffington Post - 15 Jul 2015 21:11
They retired the mic to Isaac Kirkman, on the sultry spring night I first saw him here in Tucson. Just took it right off the stand and handed it over--a sign of respect in some poetry circles. Akin to giving the game bal...
One Kings Lane Opens Brick & Mortar Studio in NYC -- Design News
Apartment Therapy - 15 Jul 2015 20:45
Pin it Looking for style advice? The Studio, One Kings Lane's new brick-and-mortar locale, is offering free consultations with in-house stylists at their Tribeca headquarters.
Jesse Eisenberg doesn't like doing press. That's fine. But Comic-Con is a different sort of beast.
Washington Post - 15 Jul 2015 20:30
Jesse Eisenberg has been called socially awkward, but his description of his experience at San Diego Comic-Con has people throwing another word around: jerk."It is like being screamed at by thousands of people," Eisenber...
Jesse Eisenberg doesn't like doing press. That's fine. But Comic-Con is a different sort of beast.
Washington Post - 15 Jul 2015 20:30
Jesse Eisenberg has been called socially awkward, but his description of his experience at San Diego Comic-Con has people throwing another word around: jerk. “It is like being screamed at by thousands of people,” Eis...