According to an American Cancer Society report, breast-cancer deaths in the United States have decreased about 2 percent every year since 1990. We believe that heightened awareness of the importance of early detection is partially to credit. During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many beauty companies highlight products that donate to breast-cancer research and education groups. Click “full article” to see some of our favorites!
October is National Cranberry Month, and recently we got a sneak peek at the consumer category cookoff for Ocean Spray’s Third Annual Ultimate Cranberry Recipe Contest at the DeGustibus Cooking School at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City. Celebrity chef judge Tyler Florence later announced the winners at Rockefeller Center’s Loft and Garden, overlooking a 1,500-square-foot manmade “urban bog,” constructed to hold one ton of cranberries — as well as a few real-life cranberry growers — in conjunction with the event and Ocean Spray’s 80th-anniversary “Bogs Across America” campaign.
We recently attended the ninth annual Les Girls cabaret in Hollywood, the annual celeb-studded fundraiser for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. We were pleased to see so many stars out in force. Many in the show have a loved one who had breast cancer, including Modern Family’s Ty Burrell and Mad Men’s Bryan Batt (left), whose mothers survived it.
When we heard about the possible new AIDS vaccine from Thailand, the doctor on the morning program we were watching singled out sex workers and drug users as those at risk for HIV. We knew that a few weeks earlier, we wouldn’t have worried that the statement unfairly marginalized those who were HIV-positive, or that it made AIDS seem like a distant problem. But we had just finished reading I Have Something to Tell You (Atria Books, 2009), the new memoir by Regan Hofmann, who writes about her life after she was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1996. Beautiful, successful and intelligent, Hofmann is proof that HIV can happen to anyone.
One of the things we love best about our job is getting free advice from top experts — from Olympic athletes riffing on their favorite workouts to renowned psychologists who offer smart tips for mending relationships. So we were excited when we got to speak with Rachel Zoe, stylist to the likes of Cameron Diaz, Eva Mendes and Demi Moore. Zoe, whose Bravo series The Rachel Zoe Project airs its season finale tonight, gave us some fab advice for dressing to perfection.
We love the gym, we love the yoga studio; we are not among those who detest places where strangers and sweat mingle. And yet, sometimes a child has the sniffles or we’re waiting for an important delivery and we just can’t get to these places. That’s where On Demand ExerciseTV comes in. We didn’t even know we had it until a gym-hating friend pointed it out. It’s offered for no additional charge on AT&T, Bresnan Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS.
It was the buttery-smooth avocado honey given to us by a friend that sealed our love affair with the all-natural sweetener. Now, whenever we travel, we pick up jars made from the nectar of different blossoms, like delicate yellow acacia honey from this summer’s vacation in Italy, fruity blueberry honey from a weekend in Maine, and herbal-tinged sage honey from a recent visit to California. We savor antioxidant-rich honey on toast and in tea with lemon, and we blend it with Dijon mustard for a fat-free dressing to drizzle over mesclun. So we were concerned when we heard that honeybees around the world are in danger.
After watching Rebecca Romijn in roles like the blue-painted Mystique in X-Men and the transgender magazine heiress Alexis Meade on Ugly Betty, we’re pleased to see she’s portraying a real woman — albeit one with clairvoyant powers — in Eastwick, the new TV series based on John Updike’s 1984 novel The Witches of Eastwick (Ballantine). “This character is the closest to myself in real life that I’ve ever played,” says the 36-year-old supermodel-turned-actress, whose character Roxie Torcoletti is a bohemian Earth-mother type who wears flowing dresses and tresses.
If we choose to believe the gossip, even Carrie Bradshaw will feel the pinch of the recession in the upcoming Sex and the City sequel. Luckily for the fictional fashionista — and for real-life bargain-hunters — plenty of high-end designers have created lines with lower price tags, following the likes of Vera Wang, whose Simply Vera line has been at Kohl’s since 2007, and Norma Kamali, who launched NK for Walmart last year.
When we first sampled the three new Life Threads fragrances from La Prairie, we were sure that Silver was our favorite. The next day, we reconsidered; perhaps we preferred Gold or Platinum? Upon learning more about the scents, which debut this month, we realized that we’re not indecisive — just complex. Each scent represents a different aspect of a woman, whose experiences are like threads woven together to form a tapestry. The bottles display a literal interpretation: Each one is bound with threads corresponding to the contents.
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