International Massage Week begins July 19, and we, of course, plan to mark the occasion with some celebratory rubdowns. What better way to start a week designed to raise awareness of the benefits of massage than by having your worries kneaded away?
Events
VIVmag wins two int'l magazine awards
VIVmag, the all digital luxury magazine for women earns two international awards. The tradition of creating excellence in digital magazine publishing continues as VIVmag has won the Digital Magazine Awards 2010 - Silver Award for Lifestyle Magazine of the Year while also sharing in Photographer of the Year for their - March/ April VIV cover shot by Alexx Henry.
July 2009 Archive
We spend a lot of time in front of the computer and most of it isn’t idle. So we hadn’t given much thought to our computer’s downtime until we read about the Docking@Home project, in which volunteers allow their inactive Internet-connected computers to be used for scientific calculations for medical research.
Every now and again, we’ll receive frantic emails from friends, urging us to vote for their pets in online photo contests. Now, People magazine has created a space just for these animal enthusiasts: Its new site, PeoplePets.com, offers social networking for pets! Between that and our favorite Twittering cat Sockington, we figure flying pigs can’t be too far off.
Las Vegas is known as a city of vices — whether it involves bachelor-party hijnks (The Hangover, Very Bad Things) or an Indecent Proposal from Robert Redford. So we like the contrarian idea of the Go Guiltless in Sin City sweepstakes from Guiltless Gourmet running through Sept. 30. The grand prize: a four-day, three-night stay at a five-diamond Las Vegas resort, as well as a $1,500 spa gift certificate and $1,500 in cash.
Despite a particularly rainy spring, we announce, in the words of the Beatles, “Here Comes the Sun.” But these days, we know those words also mean it’s time to take precautions when it comes to ultraviolet rays. Following are three tips for a safer summer.
We love vacationing with family — it’s great to be together in a relaxing environment, where nobody’s worried about work or school. When we’re in paradise, we only concern ourselves with having fun, which is why we’re excited about the contest from travel advice website Indagare.com.
Many enviable red-carpet fashions are the creations of designer David Meister — from Tina Fey’s strapless eggplant gown at the 2008 Emmy Awards to dresses that landed Diane Lane and Viola Davis on many best-dressed lists after the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Meister’s sought-after elegant, body-conscious silhouettes previously were available only at high-end retailers such as Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus, but now we have the convenience of the newly launched online store at DavidMeister.com.
A May trip to the Hamptons found us scouring area shops for a pair of jeans, which we wore right out of J. Crew. (We knew the sea air would be chilly. But we didn’t know our pants were at home until we stopped for lunch at Cyril’s Fish House in Amagansett.) Now that the Atlantic Ocean temperature is just right for swimming, we’re glad to know that La Perla has opened a pop-up shop in East Hampton at 66 Newtown Lane, right off Main Street.
Even without a shell pressed up to our ear, we can hear the sea calling us to spend a leisurely day at the beach. But when escape’s not possible, we like the following ideas to bring the marine milieu to us.
We have had tweezers, hot wax and lasers applied to every inch of our body — and in this age of the Brazilian, we mean every inch. Still, we found ourselves feeling oddly bashful when we were invited into one of the poolside bungalows at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to experience a “PitiCure.” The event feted the launch of Dove Visibly Smooth, a new antiperspirant.
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