Deep, Dark, and Mysterious Winter Fragrances
Amidst he waning days of winter, what is so comforting as the sight of a crocus peering through the snow? A drop of violet and green on a chiaroscuro landscape. You can almost smell spring’s freshness – and the ensuing bounty of blossoms…
Get Thee to Philly This Spring, For Les Nubians
In case you have yet to hear, Philadelphia is turning it out this spring with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), a three-week arts smorgasbord centered around the theme “Paris: 1910 – 1920,” which was one of the…
Light Up Your Face
Isn’t it interesting how many people post photographs from their youth as their profile pics on Facebook? What’s up with that? Here’s our theory: that’s the face they see in the mirror. Not literally, mind you, but in their mind’s eye, that’s how they…
At the Frontlines of New York Fashion Week: Tadashi Shoji and the Fashion Nomads’ Newest Oasis
Fashion shows are like a line of blow. All that heady anticipation and the buzzy rush of adrenaline, and the music, loud and clamorous, hammering into the head as the lights go down – and then the orgasmic parade of color and texture and a surge of…
Goddess of Light Appears at Don O’Neill’s Fall 2011 Collection for Theia
As a child growing up along the Irish seacoast, Don O’Neill, Creative Director for Theia, was fascinated by the starry night sky. O’Neill’s love of the sea and the firmament is resolutely evident in his shimmering Fall 2011 collection of…
Green Bean “Fries” with Chipotle Mayo – and an Argentine
Not another plate of nachos, not another keg of beer. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, when the world looks in confusion at the American diet. What are they watching? What are they eating? Step it up, people: pair these delicious Green Bean “Fries”…
February Grooming: Loving that Man – and That Face
It’s true: on certain sunny mornings, you can almost see it on the horizon. We’re talking about spring. But don’t get too excited: Old Man Winter is still hanging on for another six weeks of dry air and fierce winds, plunging temperatures –…
Sexy and Sensuous Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Remember how when you were a kid and you made Valentine’s cards for everyone in your class – and an extra special one for the pretty boy with the blond forelock who’d flunked the year before and now he was in your class? You were going to be his…