Style Porn: Feathery Accessories
While birds of a feather may flock together, one Boulder-based jewelry designer is making feathered accessories that’ll make you stand out from the crowd. Liliana Aguilar, who started an Etsy shop called Plooms, has always had a passion for creating handmade objects. And when she came across a pair of feather earrings at a local...
Fork It: The Four Seasons’ EDGE Restaurant Spicens up for Summer
If you’ve been reading my fitness bogs, then you know I can’t be hitting up press dinners with any sort of frequency. I mean, it’s one thing to show up at a restaurant and select an entree, even a dessert, all to yourself, and clean your plate. It’s quite another to be treated to nearly...
Hot To Squat: Are Your Knees Begging For It?
Feeble excuses. As a veteran fitness pro (15 years and counting), I have heard them all. From “It’s just not comfortable” to “I haven’t yet had my ibuprofen” (affectionately referred to by my clients as “Vitamin I”), I could draw you a map to procrastination and self-sabotage. However, when it comes to painful knees and...
Soundcloud Gems: Anomie Belle
Otherworldly music that transports me from my own skin to somewhere other than here always garners a guaranteed future listen; when combined with decomposing trip-hop beats and pneumatic synths, my ears get weak in the knees (if they had knees that could get weak, that is.) A serendipitous detour after hearing a Thievery Corporation track with...
Downward Dog Style: Livin’ in a Cardboard Box
I jumped ship on my yoga studio recently; the change happened so fast: one week I was doing what I normally do, taking classes that fit my schedule in a space that is so familiar it’s like a home away from home, and the next, not so much. It feels sort of like a break-up,...
Dear Mama: From Hip Hop With Love
From the two that have seemed to become the mothers of hip hop, Afeni Shakur and Voletta Wallace, to Debbie Mathers, topics of moms and motherhood have been a mainstay in hip hop. So, for your listening pleasure, here are some of the more interesting (in my opinion) mom oriented tracks for Mother’s Day. Canibus...
Fashion Fridays – Sisterhood of the Traveling Jewels
This week the fashion community was captivated by the annual Met Gala, which introduces a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and attracts celebrities and fashion elite. Though I’ve spent hours looking at photos, analyzing and gawking, I’m not going to talk about it today. If you haven’t yet seen...
Gift Guru: Last Minute Mother’s Day Presents
Last year you promised yourself you wouldn’t do it again, you wouldn’t wait until Saturday night to buy a sub-par gift for mom and instead you would find the perfect thing a month in advance. Well, you broke your promise to yourself and here you are two days before Mother’s Day with nothing to put...
Downward Dog Style: Don’t Miss This…a BBQ, a Wild Boar and Yoga
“Don’t miss this.” These words, this phrase: whispered, yelled out, barked, snarled, growled, simply stated, clearly and authoritatively, in a yoga class. What do they mean? I’ll elaborate to provide some context…don’t miss even one single second, focus on this very minute of your life, this exact moment. With whatever the tone of voice these...
Read Alert: Download at the Digital Library
Now that I’m on-board with this whole e-reader thing, I’m discovering all sorts of neat stuff. Here’s one particularly fascinating tidbit: Did you know that you can check-out digital library books on your smartphone or e-reader? And that’s for free, just like a hard copy library book. And the best part of checking out an e-book? At...
Funky Features: *LOL* Caricature Co.
In this day and age, as technology becomes increasingly better (and, I might add, more and more expensive), what can’t keep up gets left behind. The sometimes forgotten art of caricaturing isn’t going anywhere anytime soon though—please, go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief that you can continue to have your teeth drawn two...
Hump Days: Selling Sex
You’d have to be living on a desert island not to have heard or seen something about the Secret Service prostitution debacle in Colombia over the past few weeks. Since the topic’s already been discussed ad nauseum, I have no intention of rehashing the incident, but a post I discovered yesterday of the Today Show...
