Why not create a decadent sparkling wine bar this New Year's Eve? It takes more effort than simply opening a bottle of Champagne, but not much. Here's what you do in a few easy steps ...
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Why not create a decadent sparkling wine bar this New Year's Eve? It takes more effort than simply opening a bottle of Champagne, but not much. Here's what you do in a few easy steps ...
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If you're still looking for something to serve with your cocktails on New Year's Eve, look no further than "arancine"--a big recipe revelation on a small plate.
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Top-shelf tonic water certainly has its place--but would it be worth an outlandish price? Introducing Q Tonic water, which runs $7 (or $10, or more) for a bottle. Looks like a job for "We Try It So you Don't Have To."
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Director Darren Aronofsky’s new film, 'Black Swan,' channels the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski at their most psychologically dark and sadistic. Where 'The Wrestler' toyed with a sense of redemption, only to have that redemption revoked, Black Swan is much more focused on a hopeless slide into insanity.
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Emi Lenox's EMITOWN (www.emitown.com) is a sketch diary in which she drew pages daily, taken from her life for the whole world to see. A printed version of EmiTown--a huge 400 pager from Image Comics--hits stores in November. Emi was gracious enough to talk with us about it.
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Even for Disney, coloring by numbers doesn’t always add up to a good product. But what about in the case of "Tangled" (which was renamed from the original "Rapunzel" into something less outwardly princess-y)?
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One of Starbucks' more recent new offerings is free Wi-Fi, thanks to a partnership with AT&T, which began last summer. Now the company has rolled out the second part of its in-store Web strategy: the Starbucks Digital Network. Market share is not enough; will you give Starbucks your MIND SHARE?
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Cartoonist Julia Wertz’s 'Fart Party vol. 1', which had been out of print for more than a year, is once again available. It’s a good excuse to catch up with one of our favorite creators, about things from comics to stand-up to dilapidation.
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November is National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. The event started in 1999 with a group of about 20 attempting to write a novel in just one month. By 2009, NaNoWriMo had almost 170,000 participants, about 32,000 of which accomplished the task of completing a 50,000-word novel by month's end.
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Brian Monnier is the proprietor of San Francisco-based California Yoga Company. He took some time to chat with Osmosis Online about his path to becoming a yoga practitioner, teacher, and eventually hanging up his own shingle. He shares that the business of yoga in San Francisco is especially competitive, and discusses the challenges, and...
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Jon Westhoff, writer of "Apocalypse ... Meh," visited the New York Comic Con, where he discovered Rich Koslowski's "The King," and had all sorts of other fun.
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Ken reviews an oldie--an exploitation film about exploitation. 'Scum of the Earth' concerns sleazy men who trick young girls into posing naked for photos and then blackmails them to go further.
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