Filled with heart-shaped decorations and treats at home, work and school, love is in the air as Valentine?s Day approaches. This time of year, people often focus on loved ones rather than focusing on heart-disease prevention, which could prolong their love affairs. February is American Heart Health month. Coloradans are considered among the healthiest people in the US, but cardiovascular disease still claims about 26 percent of deaths annually, according to the American Heart Association Colorado chapter. Plus, heart disease [...]

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They might look cool in their vintage clothes, with their tattoos and carefully selected ironic haircuts, as they sing about important social issues, twisted love affairs, depression or the plight of the working class man. But Eugene’s indie musicians have some secrets, too. They harbor love and affection for Top-10 fluff, sentimental treacle and mainstream new country. And Saturday at Sam Bond’s Garage, they came clean with those surprising affinities as 27 singers participated in the second annual Guilty Pleasures [...]

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The circuit board of skyscrapers in Tokyos tech district glints in the winter sunshine, with the Sony Technology Centre seemingly reaching up to the sky. It stands proudly alongside the other titans of Japan Inc such as Panasonic in the Shinagawa district – but in reality these are crumbling empires, their very foundations chipped away by the aggression of Samsung and the design brilliance of Apple. Last week, Sonys Welsh-born boss, Sir Howard Stringer, the first foreigner to hold the [...]

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The weekend my boyfriend began seeing another woman, I walked into a megachurch for the first time. My girlfriends and I didn’t go to praise Jesus. We went for fun. (I didn’t know about the boyfriend yet.) My two friends, both 20-something journalists like me, were visiting me in Houston, and we considered Lakewood Church the largest house of worship in the country and home to controversial superstar pastor Joel Osteen a tourist attraction. We parked in a crowded underground [...]

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Maison Martin Margiela   Madeleine Vionnet   Alaia   Balenciaga   Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness   Yohji Yamamoto   Christian Lacroix on Fashion When I say, I love fashion, I am not professing a deep devotion to clothes. My particular connection to couture is not founded in the drive to keep up with trends, or following the current musings of celebrities and their stylists. Nor is it based in the acquisition of status defining objects. All those things [...]

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The edge of the knife doesnt have to be drug or alcohol use, dramatic love affairs, criminal activity, or anything so extreme and crazy/insane as that. In fact the mundane can be so much more harrowing and insidious. Its what you allow to go on in your mind thats going to kill you, or not. A few weeks ago I wanted to finish a post for this blog. I basically had it all written but wanted to read it over [...]

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With Valentines Day just a couple of weeks away, I began thinking about that four-letter word – love. Im not sure why. Maybe its because lately I have been seeing advertisements about various gifts that would make a loved one feel really loved. The ads prompted me to start thinking about a gift that would convey to my sweetheart, who is several hundred miles away right now, how much I love him and that Im thinking about him on Valentines [...]

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Tony Winner Deanna Dunagan, Formerly of Osage County, Will Go Swedish in A Little Night Music By Kenneth Jones 03 Feb 2012 Deanna Dunagan Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, will be Madame Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music in the Chicago area this spring and summer. Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, IL, will stage the Tony Award-winning musical [...]

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It is straight from the horses mouth. So, you have to believe it. Siddharth has had many love affairs over the years. This is the reason why he was inspired to act in, and produce, a film curiously entitled Love Failure. Speaking at the trailer launch function of his home productions Tamil version Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Eppadi, he said that he had many love affairs and as a result, many bad experiences too. This has prompted me to produce a movie [...]

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Wow. Just when you think you know which couples have the biggest fan baseshellip; Lots of shockers in the first round of our annual TV Couples Tournament! A Glee favorite knocked out, unconventional pairings triumphing over long-established love affairs, and a very normal married couple taking down a supernatural romance. These are all reasons we so thoroughly enjoy our TV Couples tournament, because no win is guaranteedhellip; MORE: Spoiler Chat: Scoop on The Vampire Diaries, Glee, How I Met Your [...]

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