Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. There’s too much food and football, and a dearth of costumes, confetti and candy dioramas. I was happy to shake things up by going to a restaurant instead of having dinner at home. So happy, in fact, that I celebrated by wearing something other than my jeans-and-t-shirt uniform. What [...]
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Run, run as fast as you can … to the nearest newsstand to get the Dec. 5, 2011, issue of Life & Style. Why? Because you have to keep up with Kim Kardashian‘s divorce, of course. Then there’s the Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore divorce. But, more importantly, you can see my swear rings on page 53! [...]
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
I thought I was finished posting about Tuesday’s Committee to Protect Journalists dinner. After all, I already did three posts: What Wendy Wore Giving Thanks for Press Freedom Pretty People at the CPJ Dinner But I have to do one more because a photo of me chatting with the lovely Thelma Kandel wound up on [...]
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Friday, November 25, 2011
So much happened at Tuesday’s International Press Freedom Awards Dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists, that it has taken me three posts to cover it. My first post was about the vintage gown I wore. The second post was about CPJ’s mission and the dinner’s awardees. Now it’s back to the lighthearted stuff: party [...]
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Yesterday’s post was about what I wore to the annual International Press Freedom Awards Dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists. As I said, the dinner honors journalists from around the world who risk their lives to report from war zones and in defiance of brutal regimes. It also raises money for CPJ’s activities: denouncing [...]
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Last night, MrB and I attended an event that’s very important to us: the annual International Press Freedom Awards Dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists. The dinner honors journalists from around the world who risk their lives to report from war zones and in defiance of brutal regimes. On its website, CPJ explains what [...]
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Here’s my latest Minx manicure by celebrity manicurist Tracylee Percival (yes — as I keep saying — I call her “celebrity manicurist” to her face). What’s Minx? Click here and here for more information. We didn’t come up with a special name for this look. It’s just from Minx’s “Teaser” collection. And here’s a picture [...]
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Ever since I dressed to the teeth for two Lady Gaga concerts last year, I feel kind of naked going to musical events in my everyday jeans and black t-shirt. At a recent Kanye West/Jay-Z concert, Kanye totally outdressed me by wearing a leather skirt over pants, so I was happy to see that Kid [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2011
October — aka National Breast Cancer Awareness month, aka The Month That Ruins the Color Pink for Me by Associating It With Disease and Death – is over, but that doesn’t mean we should stop obsessing about the health of our boobs. As we all know, breast self-examinations are a great idea … or not [...]
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