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Actress Kirsten Dunst is one of the few performers who was able to transition successfully from child star to adult star. She recently won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her role in Lars Von Trier‘s movie Melancholia. And in this month’s issue of Flare magazine, Dunst talks about her own melancholia. More
While there are plenty of TV shows that give us tips for greening our homes or help people cook nutritious meals for their families, there’s also a lot of programming that shows unhealthy lifestyles. Whether it’s the cast of Jersey Shore tanning themselves into oblivion or Sandra Lee adding salt-laden seasoning packets to all of her meals, here are ten shows whose examples you should definitely not follow. More
Spanish chef Jordi Roca is a big believer in the relationship between taste and scent. For years, he has been creating desserts inspired by famous perfumes, including Calvin Klein’s Eternity and Lancome’s Miracle. People have come from all over the world to try the desserts at El Cellar de Can Roca, Roca’s restaurant in the Spanish town of Girona. It has been named one of the top 50 restaurants in the world and boasts of “Emotional Cuisine” and “Landscapes of Memory” on its website. More
This Wednesday night is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It’s traditional to eat apples dipped in honey as a way to symbolize the sweetness of the year to come. Jewish or not, you can partake in some of these sweet apple and honey-themed recipes, many of which incorporate some of autumn’s best seasonal foods.
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In a pretaped interview that will air next week on Ellen, comedian Wanda Sykes says that she had early-stage breast cancer and chose to have a double mastectomy. Before her diagnosis, she had actually considered a breast reduction, saying, “I had real big boobs and I just got tired of knocking over stuff.” But even though her cancer was caught early, Sykes has a family history of breast cancer and decided not to take any chances. More
Books like French Women Don’t Get Fat have inspired lots of women to adopt a red-wine-drenched lifestyle. But I’ve moved way beyond wanting to live like the French – I want to emulate the Australians. A recent trip to Oz gave me a feel for the Aussie way of life, and it inspired me to get healthier. Their combination of physical activity, healthy food, and laid-back attitude makes Australia a pretty appealing place. More
Do you use the social media app Foursquare? The app enables users to “check in” to places they go to and get points based on the number of times they’ve been out to how many of their friends are at the same place. However, plenty of brands are now using Foursquare to give out coupons, discount codes, or other free stuff to their customers. Tumblr user Bees Knees checked into her local Walgreen’s and got a message informing her that Walgreen’s would be donating a flu shot voucher to “someone in need” because of her checkin. More
Every time my parents come to visit me in New York, they want to go to a restaurant owned by a famous TV chef like Mario Batali or Bobby Flay. While I am certainly not going to turn down a free meal, I know that there are plenty of other great restaurants whose chefs are still great despite not having their own cooking shows. More
While many women suffer from body image issues, there’s no one perfect way to cure them. But UCLA graduate student Kjerstin Gruys is trying out one particularly interesting method – she’s avoiding mirrors for an entire year, including her own wedding day. More
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Now that I’m a freelancer, some weeks are leaner than others. Thanks to some unexpected expenses this week, I’m keeping myself on a tight budget for the next week or so. But it’s always hard to make decisions about which expenses to cut back on, and, unfortunately, my health became a low priority. More
Although most beginner yoga classes are open to any person, regardless of their athletic ability or background, it seems like every class I take is all-female. And when I recently went into a class where there were fifteen women and one man, several women in the class were visibly uncomfortable by the guy’s presence, even moving their mats away from him so they wouldn’t get assigned to partner exercises with him. The guy did and said nothing to give a bad impression of himself, but it’s not the first time I’ve seen women get uncomfortable having a lone guy in the class. I polled a few yogis – male and female – to get their stories about guys in yoga studios. More
Remember the scene in Mean Girls where head Mean Girl Regina snaps at Gretchen, “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen”? Coining a new slang word isn’t always as easy as merely thinking it up. Today’s “huh?” neologism is from People.com: “he-vage.” That means “man cleavage.” Showing that’s it not enough to objectify the breasts of female celebrities, People now hones in on the chests of male celebrities and either mocks them for having too much skin or fat there or objectifies them for having nice muscles. More
This Saturday will be my – big breath, take a gulp – twenty-ninth birthday. Considering how many of my friends are happy and healthy in their thirties and how the women in my family continue kicking ass well into their seventies, aging should not be something I’m afraid of. But because I live in a world that gets tired of women easily, I admit that this birthday – and the one that will come after it – are causing me to freak out a bit. Thirty is the kind of milestone age we set guidelines for: “I want to have kids by 30,” “I want to publish a book by the time I’m 30,” and so on. But as I start zeroing in on the last year of my 20s, there are a few changes in my life that happened without any choice. More
Ever wondered how to clean puke off of your couch? Or the best method for getting deodorant off of a satin gown? Jolie Kerr fields these questions and more in her weekly “Ask A Clean Person” column on The Hairpin. Jolie spoke to BlissTree about organic products, their benefits, and when to use them. More
