The Cost of Beauty

 Miami, Florida. Just the city’s name brings images of bikinis, sunshine, beaches and wild parties to mind. Nowadays, it also makes people think of plastic surgery. The number of people getting work done by surgeons has increased over the years despite its high cost. One Miami woman decided to sacrifice quality for cost when she [...]

Words o’ Wisdom: Imani Coppola Edition

“Live in the moment, and you’ll never go out of style.” – Imani Coppola

Ryanair’s Mile High Club

For most people who have traveled within and around Europe, Ryanair is synonymous with cheap flights. Now, it may add pay-per-view porn to its in-flight repertoire, furthering its notoriety for developing “different” kinds of commercial ventures. Melissa Locker summed up the idea by Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary best in her TIME article: “Yes, the company [...]

Video of the Week: Victoria’s Secret Black Friday Hell

Carousel Mall made headlines on Black Friday after a girlfight ensued during the midnight opening of Victoria’s Secret. Neither I nor my co-workers know exactly what caused the fight, but it has definitely made for a quality YouTube video. So thank you, to whoever it was that happened to be the innocent bystander to the [...]

Marc Jacobs’ Missing Collection

Earlier this month, a portion of Marc Jacobs Spring 2012 collection was reported stolen in London. Apparently, they were “burgled in the Mount Street area,” a very posh area in London. The police reported that there was approximately $63,528 worth of merchandise in the shipment. Considering this is the time when the collection would start being passed around [...]

Song of the Week: “Sea Legs” – The Shins

There isn’t a better combination than The Shins’ third studio album “Wincing the Night Away” + studying for finals + a Syracuse rainy day. If you aren’t familiar with this band’s work yet (a lot of you probably know them from the popular indie film “Garden State”) you should definitely give them a listen. But [...]

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others

To the delight of elementary school children and college frat boys everywhere, pizza can officially be considered a valid part of an everyday diet. Congress declared pizza – or, more specifically, the tomato paste on pizza – a vegetable this past Monday, after it finalized a version of a spending bill that would reverse the [...]

Is Gisele the New Face of Givenchy?

In the age of models, no model has persisted in her career quite like Gisele. Other models have stayed in the game for very long periods of time, but none as consistently as Gisele Bundchen. After maintaining her place as the world’s highest earning model for several seasons, Gisele left her lush Victoria’s Secret contract. [...]

This Just In: Women More Emotional Than Men

If you have a heart, chances are it has been broken before. Maybe a relative died or an ex broke your heart (word of advice: don’t blog about it. Yikes!), but something happened that put your ticker through some emotional distress. For most of us, a broken heart is just a figure of speech. Sure, [...]

Blogs We Like: Slashfilm

Slashfilm, otherwise known as /Film, is the kind of blog film geeks like me die for.  Back in 2005 the blog was launched by film critic Peter Sciretta, and in the six years since its inception /Film has become one of the blogosphere’s largest film communities. Run by Sciretta and a team of four or [...]