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Encore: New York Smarts

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Suzanne Golden, Bead ArtistSo you like the attention?Sure, why not? Especially as an older woman in New York City, I tend to feel invisible. The city’s all about youth, and suddenly you realize, I’m older than my doctors, I’m older than my dentis…

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

New York Smarts

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I sometimes get into conversations with taxi drivers, and since most of them are new to the city, I often ask them what they miss about the place they came from. Almost always, they name very ordinary pleasures: a slower pace of life, a café where th…

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 


What spurs you to try new products?

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

When it comes to facial treatment products, I find that I like to at least sample products that friends have led me to. If a friend recommends a product as accomplishing what it is hyped to do, I rely more on their judgment than an ad campaign.
How about you? Have you tried (or […]

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May 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Fashion, Joy and happiness, Style, beauty, cosmetics | Comments Off 

It is good to get out of town (and back)

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

One thing that is good about getting out of town is that it broadens our perspectives. It is all too easy to think our little (or big) milieu is the final word or full extent of mores or fashion or culture or…
Recently while out of town, I was struck by how many men […]

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May 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Fashion, Style, Travel | Comments Off 

Mogulettes

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Beautiful Tough”Remember when women in the workplace were all about power suits and being one of the guys? About having a million-dollar job and a manner to match? Well, that’s no longer the deal. There’s a new breed of boardroom babe: a beauti…

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April 19, 2008 | Filed Under , Style, Women | Comments Off 

Don’t Bomb Other People Out

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

How healthy are you?I’m just trudging along, you know. I wash every day, I’ve got my own teeth, and I don’t dye my hair. All I do is avoid eating or using any products that involve animals, because I believe if you kill them, they will kill you. I must…

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April 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Music, Quotes, Style | Comments Off 

Fashion Business or Show Business?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The concept of fashion designers did not exist in the Soviet Union. Huge factories produced tons of clothes and shoes that could not be called fashionable by any stretch of the imagination. People were so keen to get their hands on jeans that they wer…

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April 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Style | Comments Off 

My Big Fat Botox Wedding

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“As wedding season approaches, another crop of brides is currently immersed in a torturous process of self-improvement. It is hardly breaking news that women face daily pressure to look good, but most of the time this pressure is a background hum: mild…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Life, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Violent By Design

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Whether it is fear or rage that lurks in the heart of design’s new infatuation with killer style is hard to call. What is clear is that design and decor are – despite popular assumption – far from removed from the struggles of contemporary politi…

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April 5, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Society, Style | Comments Off 

Rise Above It

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“MIMI WEDDELL, model, actress and blithe spirit, is finally about to have her grand moment, as the subject of the documentary “Hats Off,” which opens Friday. As she is 93 and has been modeling on and off for decades, this is not an overnight succes…

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Film, Style | Comments Off 


What’s In Your Manbag?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Ekow EshunCreative director of the ICACan you judge a man by his manbag?Increasingly so - urban man can be divided between those with a bag, and those without. I would ask questions about a man without a bag - I don’t know how he could manage.Dermot O’…

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March 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Men, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Hipster Hoopla

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A Modest Proposal To Save New York Cool “Has the hipster killed cool in New York? Did it die the day Wes Anderson proved too precious for his own good, or was it when Chloë Sevigny fellated Vincent Gallo onscreen? Did it vanish along with Kokie’s, I…

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March 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Isms, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 


Ze Colorful French

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The EntourageMme Sarkozy will not be the only member of the President’s entourage adding glamour to the visit. The party staying overnight at Windsor Castle will include France’s Secretary of State for Justice, Rachida Dati. The second of 12 children o…

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March 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Society, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Fashion’s Call to Nullify

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Slaves of Fashion”Moving on from size zero, the big look right now is the “sacrificial virgin”: the trembling ingénue straight out of school, all gangly and underdeveloped. “”With their blonde hair, pale skin and eastern European features, some ar…

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March 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Health, Isms, Society, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Even more than in the eye or the nose, cleanliness exists in the mind of the beholder. Every culture defines it for itself, choosing what it sees as the perfect point between squalid and over-fastidious.”"To modern Westerners, our definition of cleanl…

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March 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Perfume, Society, Style | Comments Off 


Bal Masqué

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Blogging at its freest is like going to a masked ball. You can say all the spiteful, infantile things you wouldn’t dream of saying if you were in print or face to face with another human being. You can flirt with anyone, or try to. You can tell the Pr…

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March 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Style | Comments Off 

Unplugged: Secular Sabbath

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“On my first weekend last fall, I eagerly shut it all down on Friday night, then went to bed to read. (I chose Saturday because my rules include no television, and I had to watch the Giants on Sunday). I woke up nervous, eager for my laptop. That forbi…

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March 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Send Yourself Roses

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I mean this as a compliment: I can see why drag queens love Kathleen Turner. Unlike the interchangeable blandettes who decorate today’s movies, Turner has texture. She has grit and class, she’s sexy and regal, she’s no-nonsense and divalicious. She’s …

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March 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Film, Style | Comments Off 

The Tragic Decline of Real Things

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Retro Explosion”Then there’s the tragic decline of Real Things. In an age of “invisible” downloads from the iTunes library, is it surprising we long for the days when buying a record was an event? When you bought an LP with gate-fold cover…

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March 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Art, Commentary, Society, Style | Comments Off 

Makeup: the Humanizing Effort

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“That women still want to wear makeup reflects a failure of the feminist movement in particular and the immaturity of our culture in general. Makeup is a mask that allows women to tap into corporate power. I don’t mean corporate as in business, but rat…

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February 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Psychology, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Horsy Tip

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“As a widowed waitress struggling to make ends meet, A. D. Carrol has received some good tips over the years. Once in an airport V.I.P. club in San Francisco, stranded businessmen tipped her $600. In a Texas steak house, a happy patron left $500 on the…

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February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, Style | Comments Off 

Get Out There

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Gold Advice from the Oscars”Writer Diablo Cody said she was “thrilled” to take home the best original screenplay Oscar for her debut script. She offered advice to other aspiring writers keen to get their work snapped up. “It is so important to get yo…

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February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Literature, Quotes, Style | Comments Off 

The Art of Fabulosity & the Feast of Frivolity

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

NYMag: Spring Fashion 2008: The Technicolor SeasonThe Anti-Anna: Profile French Vogue editor Carine RoitfeldLindsay as Marilyn: a failed attempt by Lohan to recreate The Last Session of Monroe by Bert Stern; the 36 year old Marilyn looks remarkably you…

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February 19, 2008 | Filed Under Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Feux d’Artifices

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Women’s application of makeup is an update of the Narcissus myth. One cannot apply it — or at least not well — without looking in a mirror. The self-reflexive gaze required has elements of the lover’s gaze: Eyes and lips are focal points and d…

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February 19, 2008 | Filed Under Commentary, Style, Women | Comments Off 


Pink Vigilantes

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Gulabi Gang”In one of India’s poorest regions, hundreds of pink-clad female vigilantes are challenging male violence and corruption.”"Gulabi means pink, and refers to the electric shade of the uniform worn by the 500-plus members, who hail from Ban…

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February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Isms, Society, Style, Women | Comments Off 

The Beauty of Impermanence

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Wabi-sabi: Nothing Is Perfect”Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that …

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February 11, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Art, Philosophy, Style | Comments Off 

Never Too Late to Learn French

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“American women seem to have internalized the message that wrinkles aren’t sexy. A 2006 study called “Sex After 40?” led by Laura Carpenter at Vanderbilt University concludes that middle-aged women who live alone have trouble seeing themselves — and o…

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February 10, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Planet Pop

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Reach Out and Beep “To the chagrin of telecom companies, the practice of beeping–communicating by calling and hanging up before connection–is spreading around the world at a breakneck pace. It goes by many names: You can “flash” a friend, or hit him …

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February 5, 2008 | Filed Under Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Go Slow, Beat Fast

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A clock drops beads to measure time in five-minute increments.”Slow is also an idea, it seems, whose time has come. “When I was researching the book,” he continued, “if you Googled slow movement, there wasn’t anything. As a growing cultural qua…

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February 4, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Life, Philosophy, Style | Comments Off 

Hyper-Culture: Kind of Like a Balloon

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The artist perhaps most representative of this youthful pop aesthetic is a 78-year-old icon of Japanese contemporary art. Known for her trademark use of colorful dots — along with the fact that she has lived, by choice, in a private psychiatric hospi…

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February 3, 2008 | Filed Under Art, Style | Comments Off 

From Belle to Bug

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“These ideas were drawn simultaneously from [Isabella] Rossellini’s own brain and the world of nature, for a series of gross, funny and beautiful-looking little films. Shown here first, they’ll make their international debut at the Berlin Film Festival…

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January 31, 2008 | Filed Under Film, Isms, Style | Comments Off 

Welcome Passion

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Reading Clarice Lispector”There was a time, in my early twenties, when I teetered on the edge: I was living in Harlem like a squatter; I was drifting between magazine jobs (publications all seemed to fold soon after I joined); I was looking for signs??…

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January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Literature, Style | Comments Off 


Don’t be a Couch Potato

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, a study suggests. An active lifestyle has been linked to lower rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. However, the latest research suggests that inactivit…

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January 28, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Style | Comments Off 

How Not to Age Gracefully

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The success of “How Not to Look Old” comes on the heels of disparaging comments about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made by the radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh, who last month said: “Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their e…

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January 24, 2008 | Filed Under Isms, Society, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Men’s EGG

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Wolf Hair & Bon Jovi23 November 2007, Forum Valentine (17) and Naniyo (19)”Our style is gyaru-o. It’s a male version of Japanese gal style. So-called wolf hair, rock-inspired clothes and wearing lots of jewellery are parts of gyaru-o style. We like…

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January 21, 2008 | Filed Under Men, Oddities, Style | Comments Off 

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