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BY Christopher Correa,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
It isn’t when you think. John Adams once wrote to his wife Abigail, “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.”
BY Virginette Acacio,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
What is a recessionista?
Upon Urban Dictionary scrutiny:
1) A person who is able to stick to a tight budget while still managing to dress stylishly.
BY Christopher Correa,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
Not to belabor a point, but we thought this would send you into the weekend on a wistful, but oddly hopeful note. It’s the view from Los Olivos, Calif. That light is emanating from Michael Jackson’s Wonderland Ranch this morning. [Gawker]
BY Virginette Acacio,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
It wouldn’t be 4th of July without an old-fashioned BBQ blazing in the background. For those of us who’ll be away this weekend, here’s a way to take that charcoal-burnt goodness out on the road. Introducing, the Grilliput Portable Grill. Durable and compact, the Grilliput comes in a thin stainless steel baton that houses all the wires and parts to assemble the unit. The baton is less than a foot long and can easily pack into a knapsack. The unit may be small, but there’s plenty of space for both the hot dogs and kabobs to simmer in. The additional compact firebowl heats things up and keeps your charcoal in a neat and tidy place, making for easy clean-up.
BY Christopher Correa,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
According to Yahoo! Shine, your coffee drink says a lot about who your are personally. We couldn’t agree more. True that the inky warmer is mainly drunk to percolate the pulse and enliven the spirits (who are we kidding – we drink it to make it all the way through that 7 a.m. meeting with one bloodshot eye, not to enjoy the rich texture and subtleties). But apparently, recent studies (by whom we do not know) have hailed coffee as a good source of anti-oxidants. It boosts mood, memory, and focus; for most regular coffee drinkers there is no boost in blood pressure. Which is a relief, because we can only do so much yoga before even that starts to make our type-A constitution anxious (downward dog?! Give us a break).
BY Christopher Correa,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
Not to rain on anyone’s parade this Fourth of July, which will likely include lots of barbeque and beer consumption, but, well, here goes. It’s not great news. But it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, either. So – we’re getting fatter. Obesity rates climbed in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are more obese today than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said yesterday. Obesity rates did not decrease in a single state last year, and the groups warned that the U.S. obesity epidemic must be addressed as lawmakers reform the nation’s health system.
BY Christopher Correa,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
We liked Leanne “Leanimal” Marshall on Project Runway for her gently dorky personality, but we loved her for her petal-pushing designs. Her page on Etsy is a treasure trove of great pieces like this adorable linen dress ($398). It’s made of a lovely, bright medium blue linen with a fitted, strapless corset bodice with boning and an architecturally layered bubble skirt. The dress zips all the way up the front with a separating black and copper metal zipper. The volume of the skirt is full of flounce but not overly cutesy. And the color transitions beautifully from day to night. You’ll be the toast of the tea party.
BY Christopher Correa,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
Some movies are under-appreciated in their time. Among the most subversive and widely misunderstood studio films ever produced, Paul Verhoeven’s war satire "Starship Troopers was falsely interpreted as an endorsement of a fascist utopia that sends able-bodied but ditsy young recruits on a dire, meaningless offensive against giant space bugs. The chief criticism of the film was that Verhoeven seemed to endorse a single-party state. The producers smartly cast a gallery of vaguely beautiful boys and girls (including Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards) as heroes vaulting, with a spring in their step, to their imminent demise. (These bugs they’re fighting, they’re big.) It’s pat but apt: war is depicted as faceless, frightening and utterly mad.
BY Virginette Acacio,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
3 For The Road is our weekly pursuit of the unusual, the historical — but never the trivial. Finally- a 3 for the road that actually falls on a 3-day weekend! Here are some random facts and milestones that occurred on this weekend’s dates throughout history. We here at HalogenLife wish you a Happy Fourth. We hope it’s an explosive one. Here’s 3 For The Road.
BY Kelly Taylor,
Thursday Jul. 02, 2009
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Bernie Madoff to the 150 years in prison for charges stemming from his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Though Madoff’s disregard for the law was so vile his own flesh and blood ratted him out the authorities, is a sentence greater than those of many convicted murders appropriate?
BY Christopher Correa,
Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009
Here comes the Coneinn! What is the Coneinn, you ask? Well, we’d be happy to fill you in. It has announced itself to be “a new way of eating.” Here’s how: it takes a frozen pizza; it rolls that pizza into a cone shape and places it in a “freedom warm-up” sleeve; it turns the frozen pizza into a cigar-shaped muddle of molten lava cheese and soggy crust; it dares you to take a bite. We’re thinking that the Coneinn will be a smash. How can it not be? It promises to be both disgusting and cost-effective, which is a winning combination in our book. Other such classic foodstuffs include the McRib, pizza-flavored Combos and Jones Soda’s Thanksgiving dinner in a bottle. If you’re able to keep the thing down, you’re probably qualified to endure weapons-grade biohazards. We think the heat sleeve is made from haz-mat suit material.
BY Christopher Correa,
Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009
What’s a mandal?
Let’s consult the Urban Dictionary:
1. Mandals: (noun) Man sandal; a men’s summer shoe, that consists of black or brown leather that covers more than 50% of the foot, buckles and a thick sole.
Use it in a sentence: On the way down to the shore, one of the buckles broke off of Serge’s mandals and he had to use a rubber band to secure them.
BY Christopher Correa,
Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009
There’s nothing as refreshing as southern potato salad at a Fourth of July picnic. But the store-bought spuds aren’t always the best for us. Here’s a recipe for a gluten-free variation that will keep your company singing its praises and feeling better about what they’ve eaten. We can’t do anything about the copious amounts of grilled red meat and key-lime pie that will be ingested, though.
BY Elena Radicati,
Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009
Like most TV shows about teenagers, NYC Prep has apparently decided that parents and school really just get in the way of the entertainment factor, so this week’s episode didn’t show or mention a single parent, textbook, or anything else that normally defines teenage years. But who needs those when these kids have all the drama, neuroses, and relationship troubles of any good adult New Yorker?
Case in point: the show opened with a surreal view of prepsters PC and Jessie acting like a middle-aged couple over a meal: he complains about the immaturity of other characters a year younger than them, she shows her frighteningly controlling side, he calls her a bitch and gets slapped—you know, usual couple stuff. As much as this exchange kind of made us want to gag, PC is (sadly) right about one thing: compared to him and his weird pseudo-marriage at the age of 18, the other characters can seem really young. The show wavers between two extremes of overly mature and decidedly immature—which is probably a pretty good representation of these privileged young New Yorkers, actually.
BY Robert Haynes-Peterson,
Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009
It’s a good week for stargazing as two entertaining and informative celestial sensations start up this week. In New York, the American Museum of Natural History launched “Journey to the Stars,” a new “virtual reality experience” at the Hayden Planetarium with a press walk-through yesterday (after some private previews, it opens to the public July 4). Meanwhile, Hayden Planetarium director Neal DeGrasse Tyson is pushing the latest season of “Nova Science Now,” an accessible, rock-and-roll science show on PBS, which begins airing July 7.
“Journey to the Stars” is a movie that surrounds you, as its projected on the planetarium’s ceiling. But this is no Pink Floyd laser show throwback. The visuals and graphics are stellar, Whoopie Goldberg’s narrative rasp is only slightly distracting, and the opportunity to gaze far into the past and far into the future of the Universe is unparalleled.
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