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AOL Unveils The AOL On Network: Powerful New Video Platform Places High Value ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Apr 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AOL today launched AOL On, a platform of AOL's complete video offerings and a curated video hub for consumers that offers premium video across 14 content channels including food, business, entertainment, style, ...
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StyleMint Announces Live Online Shopping Event With Ustream This Friday, April 20
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen's social commerce brand, StyleMint, announced today its inaugural live online shopping event in partnership with Ustream, R to Z Studios, Revlon, and STORY.
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AEG and DFS Group Create a Strategic Alliance to Promote Los Angeles, LA LIVE ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DFS' North America headquarters, based in Los Angeles, oversees the company's operations in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. DFS has been the duty free concession operator at LAX since 1981. Currently DFS operates 11 duty and tax free stores in ...
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Mindbloom's Mobile Bloom App Adds More Digital Inspiration to Drive Personal ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The new version of Bloom now offers more ways for people to use rich media to schedule purposeful interruptions throughout their day to keep their life on track, including stylistic photo editing, iTunes music catalog streaming, andnew pre-loaded ...
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AOL On showcases new programs and ad opportunities
Digital Media Wire
AOL has gone live with AOL On, a platform of 14 channels offering premium programmed video content, as it described at an advertiser-friendly event called AOL's 2012 Digital Content NewFront. The company said more than 450 brand advertisers, marketers, ...
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Digital Media Wire
StyleMint Announces Live Online Shopping Event With Ustream This Friday, April 20
PR Newswire (press release)
NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen's social commerce brand, StyleMint, announced today its inaugural liveonline shopping event in partnership with Ustream, R to Z Studios, Revlon, and STORY.
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Anne Geddes' Bestselling Baby Record Book My First Five Years Now Available in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... photographer and New York Times bestselling author Anne Geddes' groundbreaking digital keepsake edition of the classic baby record book My First Five Years reaches number one in the 'Top Paid Lifestyle' category within the Mac App store.
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LG Mobile, Sprint Bring Fairy Tales to Life at LG Viper 4G LTE Launch Event
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- LG Mobile and Sprint teamed up last night with actress Ali Landry ("Bella," "ABC's Superstars") to celebrate the debut of the new LG Viper 4G LTE Android smartphone at Home Studios, located in the ...
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Katie Couric to launch new Web show for Yahoo, ABC
WIS
Rachel Duncan is expected to plead guilty toMore >> RICHLAND COUNTY, SC (WIS) - Richland County Sheriff's deputies are looking for several people who robbed a grocery store at gunpoint Wednesday morning. Deputies were called to the Bi-Lo at the ...
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Emmy® Award-Winning TV Host Martha Stewart Will Teach America to Cook on New...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Martha Stewart, Emmy® Award-winning TV host, author and founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE:MSO) , will give American home cooks a culinary master class on a new weekly PBS television ...
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Google Glasses and the Myth of Augmented Reality
The Atlantic
Whatever one's thoughts of either the tech or the way it's used to valorize a certain kind of New York City life, what the videomakes clear is that technology conditions us. It doesn't so much coerce us to make certain choices, but it does cajole; ...
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The Atlantic
National Stationery Show May 20-23, 2012 at New York City
ParamusPost.com
“Whether an independent stationer, lifestyle gift shop, bookstore, pharmacy, home décor retailer or a big box merchant, the National Stationery Show presents refreshing, profitable, complementary products in a focused, easy-to-shop format.
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Mobile Apps Showdown and Wall of Apps Showcase Top Apps at CE Week NYC
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Showdown showcases best new apps, pits finalists in a live competition to determine the best during CE Week in New York New York (PRWEB) April 04, 2012 Living in Digital Times, the leading producer of lifestyle technology summits and events, ...
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Top 10 multichannel campaigns of Q1
Luxury Daily
Burberry – British lifestyle brand Burberry unveiled its spring/summer campaign images and video that it dispersed through digital and print media buys as well as social media. Burberry's campaign upheld the same youthful appeal as its fall/winter ...
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Luxury Daily
Doings health calendar for April 26
The Doings Clarendon Hills
Many new ACT II friendships have developed from these regimens and the camaraderie of the aerobic and Tai Chi exercise or the walking programs. Fitness Fun: Strength-Cardio (Aerobics)-Stretch Combo. For ACT II members, meets at 8 am or 1:30 pm Tuesdays ...
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Should politicians know the price of a pint of milk?
BBC News
Another American to suffer a similar reality check was Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who was rumbled while on the campaign trail in Alabama. He managed to underestimate the cost by about 50%. But why should the price of milk be a ...
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BBC News
Emmy® Award-Winning TV Host Martha Stewart Will Teach America to Cook on New...
PR Newswire (press release)
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Martha Stewart, Emmy® Award-winning TV host, author and founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), will give American home cooks a culinary master class on a new weekly PBS television show debuting ...
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Local Stylist Joins Stacy London's New Venture, Style For Hire
WIBW
(see video for interview) In conjunction, Style for Hire will unveil the newly designed styleforhire.com -- with refreshed company branding, site design & functionality, to go live on April 16, 2012. Style for Hire's website boasts newfeatures ...
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Flow Society Lacrosse Brand Signs Connor Martin as Official Brand Ambassador
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Apr 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Big Idea Brands, LLC, owner of Flow Society, a brand of authentic lacrosse lifestylegear for young men, women and boys, announced today that it has signed Professional Lacrosse player Connor Martin ...
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Niche Media Founder and Former CEO Jason Binn Builds Dream Team for DU JOUR ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Apr 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Jason Binn, founder and former CEO of Niche Media, the leading publisher of luxury magazines nationwide including Gotham, Ocean Drive, Hamptons, Los Angeles Confidential, Aspen Peak, Michigan Avenue, ...
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CafeMom Studios Launches Nine New Programs for Popular YouTube Channel
MarketWatch (press release)
"Coffee Shop Confessions" brings the most shocking confessions from the CafeMom community to life through video with sometimes hilarious, sometimes eyebrow-raising re-enactments followed by commentary from Andrew Shue, of "Melrose Place" and co-founder ...
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HSN and House Beautiful Magazine Partner to Launch the 'House Beautiful ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK and ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leading multichannel retailer HSN and House Beautiful magazine, one of America's leading shelter publications, today announced the debut of the "House Beautiful Marketplace.
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Microsoft Features Family-Friendly Online Organizer AboutOne as BizSpark ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
As life events happen, AboutOne automatically organizes, stores, and shares the information needed to take care of home and family - at home or on-the-go. The solution helps customers eliminate clutter with an easy-to-use and safe alternative for ...
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Top 10 luxury brand mobile efforts of Q1
Luxury Daily
Bergdorf Goodman – New York-based department store Bergdorf Goodman upped its mobile offerings last quarter through new digital content styled Bergdorf Goodman Vision in Zite's mobile app. The Zite app has a Bergdorf Goodman Vision section as a part of ...
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Luxury Daily
HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 To Debut In Miami's Paramount Bay
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cosmopolitan, cool and colorful, Miami is the home of the 2012 HGTV Urban Oasis, a custom-designed 1700 square-foot paradise located on the 20th floor of the Paramount Bay, the city's newest resident ...
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Grammy Award Winning Producer, Music Manager and Style Icon, Randy Jackson ...
Sacramento Bee
By Clyde Duneier Inc. NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy Award winning producer, music manager and American Idol judge, Randy Jackson, will launch a watch collection, Timepieces by Randy Jackson, on July 20th exclusively with the ...
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Mag Bag: 'New York,' 'New Yorker' Lead ASME Finalists
MediaPost Communications
As in previous years, The New Yorker and New York made a particularly strong showing, with six nominations each. Other magazines receiving multiple nominations include GQ, with five; Wired, with four; and The Atlantic, Esquire, Harper's Magazine,...
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MediaPost Communications
TLC Announces New Series Including 'Breaking Amish,' 'Mama's Boys of the Bronx ...
TVbytheNumbers
(New York, NY) With 29 series delivering over one million viewers, TLC continues to rank among the top 10 ad-supported cable networks among women in primetime – and the network shows no signs of slowing down. This Upfront season, TLC builds on its ...
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Robert Kennedy was a trailblazer in the fitness industry
Toronto Star
He went on to write 53 books, several New York Times bestsellers. “One of the things I really admired him for was that he kept this industry located in Canada,” says Margaret MacNeill, an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical ...
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Toronto Star
Hugo Boss Joins with Andy Warhol Museum for Exhibition
EDGEOnTheNet
Of an Instance will debut on May 3 in series of special window installations on display at the following HUGO BOSS store locations throughout New YorkCity: Meatpacking store at 401 West 14 Street, Soho store at 555 Broadway, and the Columbus Circle ...
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From its start selling T-shirts and caps in 2004, Rapha set out to be ...
OregonLive.com
NEW YORK -- Simon Mottram is OK with bicyclists thinking of Rapha Racing Ltd., the company he started in 2004 on a hunch, as a clothing brand. Mottram's confident customers will eventually come around to his way of thinking: Rapha is alifestyle brand ...
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OregonLive.com
Falcone Waits for Icahn Doubling Down on Network
BusinessWeek
By Katherine Burton, Max Abelson and Saijel Kishan on April 16, 2012 Phil Falcone waited at the bar of the Post House in New York with two colleagues and a $199 bottle of Tignanello. His guest, Carl Icahn, was late. Falcone, the hedge-fund manager who ...
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Ambassadors' Wives Urge Syrian First Lady to End the Violence
WTMA
MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the United Nations made a harshly worded videoappeal to Asma Al-Assad, the first lady of Syria, to use her influence to stop the bloodshed in her country.
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Apple iPad Foxconn Production Video: Mike Daisey's Fabrications Resurface [VIDEO]
International Business Times
But he also highlights that there is a campus-like lifestyle, where workers are offered access to grocery stores, cafes and sports facilities. In the video, the process of assembling an iPad looks tedious, but none of the footage comes close to ...
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International Business Times
The Glee Project: Meet the Contestants of Season Two (Video)
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Ali has been a New York City actress and singer for more than three quarters of her life. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentration in drama. Ali is paralyzed from the chest down, ...
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POPSUGAR Celebrates First-Ever Digital Content Newfront
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
On April 23rd 2012, Center 458, in the heart of NYC's West Chelsea Gallery District, was transformed into a breath-taking, pink, POPSUGAR-themed social gathering in honor of the first-ever POPSUGAR Digital New Front. With over 28 million global unique ...
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UN wives appeal to Syrian first lady
News24
New York - The wives of UN ambassadors from Britain and Germany targeted Syria's first lady on Tuesday with an online appeal to "stop your husband" in his yearlong bid to quash a popular uprising that has left thousands dead. Thevideo contrasts the ...
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HSN and House Beautiful Magazine Partner to Launch the 'House Beautiful ...
PR Newswire (press release)
NEW YORK and ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading multichannel retailer HSN and House Beautiful magazine, one of America's leading shelter publications, today announced the debut of the "House Beautiful Marketplace.
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Grammy Award Winning Producer, Music Manager and Style Icon, Randy Jackson ...
PR Newswire (press release)
NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy Award winning producer, music manager and American Idol judge, Randy Jackson, will launch a watch collection, Timepieces by Randy Jackson, on July 20th exclusively with the multi-channel retailer, HSN.
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Don't let your kids play these three awesome Rockstar games for iOS
CNET
This week, Rockstar added another of its classic games to the App Store with the same dark, compelling story lines and action-oriented gameplay that made the developer famous. So leave your morality at the door and make sure the kids are in bed, ...
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NEW YORK Fashion News, Apr 28, 2012

Aging stylishly, online and in the streets
CNN
On the streets of New York, in fashion blogs from around the country and even in ad campaigns, women like Salamon are finding a new audience for their sartorial choices, and their belief that youth is not necessarily beauty: This is about personal ...
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RHS grad tests his fashion sense in online competition
Rosemount Town Pages
Rosemount High School graduate Joshua Beasley discovered a love offashion while to to find work as a model in New York. He currently is competing in the YouTube competition Beauty Vlogger Boot Camp. Joshua Beasley loves shows like America's Next Top ...
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FashionTV's Top Trending Videos of The Week: Backstage at Marc Jacobs and J ...
FashionTV.com
And of course, you can't miss the exclusive backstage clips from top New York Fashion Week shows like Marc by Marc Jacobs and J. Mendel, where we watch the most popular models in the world right now get prepped in hair and makeup, and speak to some of ...
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Changing lives in the community
The Citizen Daily
She is a modelling material, trendy but not standoffish. Rosemary Kokuhilwa is a Tanzanian fashion stylist based in New York. The 33-year old ex-modelis also a certified make-up artist. Rosemary is the founder and chairperson of Global Fashion New ...
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FGI-LA Talks Fashion and Red-Carpet Style
Apparel News
Duke relayed a story about a New York stylist who puts blue tape over the labels of dresses he brings to clients so they make their selection based on the dress, not the designer. “It's the magic of the goose bumps when she looks in the mirror,” he ...
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Apparel News
Toronto Fashion Incubator turns 25
Toronto Star
The industry model has been replicated all over the world, spawning similar agencies in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Milan, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Dublin. But back here, where it all began, the Incubator is vulnerable.
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Is Project Runway Bad for the Fashion Industry? Calvin Klein, Fern Mallis and ...
Fashionista
Last night we attended the Pratt Institute student graduate fashionshow (more on that later), where Fern Mallis was presented with a Lifetime Achievement award by long-time friend Calvin Klein. Mallis pretty much created New York fashion week as we ...
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Fashionista
Fashion's her passion
China Daily
Colors are bold: navy blue, purple, pink and bright yellow - signaling a dynamic new season. "For me, the new collection has a very strong military theme. Brooklyn's (New York) style has richly inspired me. My husband and I lived there for a while and ...
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China Daily
Betsey Johnson LLC files for bankruptcy protection
Calgary Herald
The fashion house listed total assets of $21.3 million and total liabilities of $15.4 million at the end of 2011, according to the company's balance sheet that was filed with a US bankruptcy court in New York. Betsey Johnson LLC, which runs over 65 ...
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Blackdivine: 7 profitable startups created in 2 years
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
(PRWEB) April 27, 2012 Blackdivine is a US company that was created in 2008 and is based in New York and Los Angeles. Its founders created innovative startups developed in the United States and Europe. Blackdivine became a winning choice given that the ...
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History Colorado Center Opens in Denver
New York Times
So the decision was made to rethink and reshape history for a new generation in a new building. Reconsiderations and reinventions have been undertaken by other historical societies in recent years (including in New York), though this one is unusually ...
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We Play Matchmaker for This Year's Met Ball
Papermag
... models fashion designers should escort to the fashion prom. After all, there's no better way to show off a fabulous new design than on an equally fabulous date. Word is out that the gents of Proenza Schouler are taking Aussie model/actress Isabel ...
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Queen of the stone age: Solange Azagury-Partridge has never been too precious ...
The Independent
But her arrival is now complete: in 2008, Azagury-Partridge partnered with the Labelux group, which also counts Bally, Belstaff and Jimmy Choo among its portfolio of high-end fashion brands, and took her label overseas. She now has shops in New York ...
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Dominique Sachse's engagement portrait, lunching at Tootsies & George...
CultureMap Houston
Joyce Echols, Debbie Festari, Melissa Mithoff and Elizabeth Petersen had been front and center at Lhuillier's show in New York during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and the foursome had such a good time at the various shows, that when the chance came to ...
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CultureMap Houston
Abercrombie & Fitch: for beautiful people only
The Guardian
Benoit Denizet-Lewis, a writer for the New York Times magazine, recalls the two days he spent at The Home Office – the name given to the A&F headquarters in Ohio, where youthful staff zip along on scooters and hang around a bonfire as if at summer camp ...
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The Guardian
Kuba cloth makes pioneer artworks look overdressed
East African
Austere, with a restricted earthy palette of dark reds, ochres, browns and blacks, enlivened with the occasional flash of a cobalt blue, many are models of restraint — a lesson in the value of artistic economy — while others dazzle with the bravura ...
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East African
Furniture retailer learned business in Italy
Tulsa World
By KYLE ARNOLD World Staff Writer Giovanni Rundo says he received the advice of his lifetime when he was a 20-something apparel and footwear importer in Perugia, Italy, a mountain city halfway between the fashion centers of Naples and Florence.
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Tulsa World
Miss Guyana hits Caribbean Magazine cover
I News Guyana
“I am most curious to know what has been written about me in the Spring 2012 Edition of this magazine after an extensive interview with Shabeau's editor–in-chief, Joan Ward, when she visited New York for a major fashion show that I, too, was part of,” ...
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Who Thinks This is Sexy?
BernardGoldberg.com (blog)
Alright, maybe I'm not the right person to be talking aboutfashion. After all, if you look in my closet, you'll see 97% black clothing, an itsy bit of blue for jeans, and a smidgen of lime green. At this time of my life, I've adopted the Yul Brynner ...
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BernardGoldberg.com (blog)
E-retailer AhaLife raises $10 million in a funding round led by Rakuten
InternetRetailer.com
AhaLife, based in New York City, provided no details about the scope of Rakuten's stake in the venture, and did not immediately return a request for comment. Rakuten owns US e-retailer Buy.com Inc. and lately has been increasing its investment in ...
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The endless search for a hit TV show
Ottawa Citizen
(CBS) With this title, you wouldn't expect the goings-on in this ensemble drama set in a high-tone Upper East Side New York apartment block to be, um, sedate, would you? Terry O'Quinn plays the mysterious building manager, Vanessa Williams is his sexy ...
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“Religious belief is intuitive – and analytical thinking can undermine ...
CNN (blog)
Since we have the model to describe the expansion of the universe, as it turns out, the dominent terms in the metric change with time. For example, when the universe was incredibly dense, the expansion of the universe was radiation (see:light) ...
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Religion news
Charlotte Observer
Fashion show: Children, youth and adults will model casual and elegant attire. Refreshments served. Free admission; donations welcomed. 3 pm April 28. 3722 David Cox Road. 704-494-8629. Blood drive: All donations are used locally. Walk-ins welcome.
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FMD Opens New York Office on Fifth Avenue | Fashion One Group
The world's largest fashion database expands to Fifth Avenue, providing the first US office. New York, NY – April 26, 2012. The Fashion Model Directory (FMD) ...
www.fashiononegroup.com/.../fmd-opens-new-york-office-on...
Rolling Stones : Fashion News & Gossip on Models, Designers ...
The latest news, gossip & opinion on models, designers, brands, shows, trends and hot trends from New York, London, Milan, Paris, the World.
www.theimproper.com/fashion/?tag=/rolling-stones
Dakota Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith ... - New York Daily News
It's no 'Body Double' -- that's Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's daughter in those Uniqlo and Oliver Peoples ads.
www.nydailynews.com/.../dakota-johnson-daughter-melanie-g...
Dior Hosts Cocktail Reception for New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied, seemed happy enough to pinch hit. Millepied ... Designerzcentral is about Fashion Weeks, Runway Shows, Models Directory, Designers Directory! Fashion Weeks ... DesignerFashion News ...
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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Apr 28, 2012


Los Angeles Times
The band's gently lascivious choreography underscored the track's sex-appeal boasts: lead singer Kim Taeyeon made come-hither hand gestures while her bandmates pulled PG-13 versions of Lady Gaga's alien body bends. The songwas in English, ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Apr 28, 2012

Canada rightly said `no' to the IMF: Kent
Toronto Sun
All members (bar the US) backed the IMF's Christine Lagarde's effort to raise more than $400-billion (US) to build a financial buffer against the threat posed by the seemingly endless Eurozone debt crisis. Flaherty's reason for denying the IMF's plea ...
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