Archive for January, 2011
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SPORTS: WEEK-END SPORTS WRAP-UP
WEEK-END SPORTS WRAP-UP Between this week-end’s National Figure Skating Championships and the Australian Open tennis tournament finals, which ware being shown live in the middle of the night, I’m exhausted. But, of course, I have many
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BEAUTY: BYU-TI SALON
BYU-TI SALON I am so glad that I waited two weeks after my excellent experience at Byu-ti Salon in Santa Monica to tell you about it because the cut just keeps getting even better with time. And the best part is that my bangs are still per
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MISCELLANEOUS: ANTI-HACKING HELP
ANTI-HACKING HELP A couple of years ago, I awoke to find that my email had sent out bogus notes, supposedly from me, recommending some electronics shopping site. I was horrified! And so were the two thousand or so recipients of said email! I e
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MOVIE REVIEWS: OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2011
OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2011 Well, the Oscar nominations for 2011 came out yesterday, and they were a little different from the SAG and Golden Globe nods. I’ve seen just about all the films by now, minus three that have nominated actors, but I’l
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LIVE PRODUCTION: BALLROOM WITH A TWIST
BALLROOM WITH A TWIST Back in my hip-hop dance club promoting days, I’d get home late at night and couldn’t sleep because my head would be spinning from all the excitement of the evening. It was actually a really fun feeling. I had not exp
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TRIBUTE: JACK LALANNE
TRIBUTE: JACK LALANNE Even though he was the ripe old age of 96, I was surprised and saddened to read that fitness pioneer and star Jack LaLanne had passed away yesterday. I actually knew him for a brief while! And a stronger man I cannot even
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GIFTING SUITES: GOLDEN GLOBES SUITES 2011
GOLDEN GLOBES SUITES 2011 I returned to LA from a month in New York just in time for the first gifting suites of the new year. Whew! (No matter that some of them were being held on my January 14th birthday--what better way to celebrate???)
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UPCOMING EVENT: LUMINARIO BALLET 2011
LUMINARIO BALLET 2011 Around this time last year, I was due to see this ballet company that I heard is wonderful. And then I hurt my back and had to stay in the house for a long time. I planned to catch another performance of the Luminario Bal
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THEATRE: TRACES
TRACES I just had the best birthday last Friday, January 14th, by accident! For the first time in forever, I had not planned a party or at least had a bunch of girlfriends plan something for me. (Mr. X always does so much for me at Xmas that I
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KAREN’S MUSINGS: GOLDEN GLOBES MUSINGS
GOLDEN GLOBES MUSINGS Outside of Ricky Gervais’ hysterically funny opening monologue, which I know was wince-inducing but totally spot-on, there was not much else to say about this telecast. I even delayed writing this for a day, in case fur
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