Since we’re still haunted by the harrowing, heart-wrenching depiction of the slaughter of dolphins in the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, we’re sad to learn that the killing continues in Taiji, Japan, and elsewhere in the world. Ric O’Barry, the one-time Flipper dolphin trainer-turned-activist whose endeavor to save dolphins was the catalyst for The Cove, returns to Taiji with his filmmaker son Lincoln in the premiere episode of Blood Dolphins, a new Animal Planet miniseries launching Aug. 27.

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While we find America’s Next Top Model a guilty pleasure, we relate much more to the just-as-gorgeous over-35 contestants on TV Land’s She’s Got the Look, which premieres its third season tonight. Selected from thousands who applied, 10 women ranging in age from 35–54, including a bus driver, a prosecutor and a grandmother of six, compete for a prize package that includes a contract with Wilhelmina Models. (Photo credit: Kristian Dowling/PictureGroup)

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The “Big C.” Just the phrase fills us with dread. And the idea of a comedy about it perplexed us. As anyone who’s been touched by it knows, a cancer diagnosis is nothing to laugh about. But there’s humor in the darkest situations and Showtime finds just the right balance of it in The Big C, the new Monday-night series starring Laura Linney as a woman whose late-stage melanoma diagnosis gives her permission to live her life — whatever remains of it — on her own terms.

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A sneak preview of Eat Pray Love at an event celebrating the vendors partnered with the film had us salivating over the abundant food, exotic locations and sensuous romance in the screen adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir about her travels of self-discovery to Italy, India and Bali, Indonesia. The lush beauty of each locale leaps right off the screen — and makes us want to book a trip to all three!

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The second-anniversary party for the green lifestyle website EcoStiletto.com was held at the Rolling Greens Hollywood nursery, and the women in attendance were as pretty as flowers themselves, attired in brightly colored skin-skimming summer dresses. (We missed the wardrobe memo and showed up in black ourselves.) We were all toting an extra handbag to donate to the new Los Angeles branch of Dress for Success, the terrific nonprofit organization that provides interview-appropriate clothing and accessories for low-income women seeking to enter the workforce. In exchange we got a recycled bag to fill with the latest green swag.

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After a survey of our overflowing closet, we’ve instated the “nightclub rule” — for one new item to enter, another has to leave. So as our wardrobe’s official bouncer, we’re excited to learn that shoppers who donate a pair of gently worn jeans to a bebe retail location receive $25 off the price of a new pair from bebe’s denim collection through July 31. The used jeans are donated to someone in need through Clothes4Souls, a new division of Soles4Souls, the international shoe charity we told you about when the nonprofit donated new and used shoes to Haiti following the devastating January earthquake.

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It’s easy to forget in the bustle of New York City that the place we call home is actually an island. So the documentary Beautiful Islands, which gives a glimpse of daily life on three islands in danger of being lost to rising sea levels due to global warming, was especially moving for us. Japanese filmmaker Kana Tomoko takes a look at three very different, beautiful places: Venice, Italy; Shishmaref, Alaska, and Tuvalu in the South Pacific. Tomoko decided not to include narration or music in the film, allowing these endangered locations to speak for themselves.

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Having given us great female-centric series like The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick, Saving Grace with Holly Hunter and HawthoRNe with Jada Pinkett Smith, TNT is doubling our pleasure with Rizzoli & Isles, about Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) and medical examiner Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander) who team up to solve crimes. The series reminds us of Cagney & Lacey and Harmon’s last series Women’s Murder Club on the procedural end, but it also refreshingly celebrates the friendship between two women who aren’t catty, bitchy or fighting over a guy.

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Now that Earth Day has come and gone, it may be easy to forget those promises we made to always consider the environment. What better way to remember the importance of being green than enjoying the outdoors with a picnic? But dining outside often creates a significant amount of garbage, especially if we use plastic forks, paper plates and disposable cups. So we plan to picnic this year using biodegradable tableware, such as the WASARA collection available from Branch Home, and packing our food in an eco-friendly picnic basket. To ensure the greening of our picnics, we’re going to incorporate eco-friendly recipes, such as the ones found in Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods (Wiley, 2010).

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When we heard about brain cancer survivor Anne Feeley’s 4,170-mile cycling trip across the U.S., we were inspired. After being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 2006, doctors told Feeley that her chances of survival were slim. The median survival rate of a glioblastoma multiforme tumor, a diagnosis she shares with the late Ted Kennedy, is 15 months. “Brain cancer was a wake-up call for our whole family,” Feeley says. “The shock wasn’t that I was going to die, but that I had forgotten that I was going to die. We all are. Life isn’t a dress rehearsal.”

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