Archive for May, 2009
NamasteMoFo!
Twice this week I have read about non-new agey yoga. This month's Yoga Journal is all about doing it to music, and today's NYTimes profiles LA yoga guru Vinnie Marino, who was lead to teaching yoga by Grace Slick and kicks off his class with Led Zeppelin (maybe they are so old, they now qualify as new age?). Vinnie trains the requisite [...]
A check up and an Orange Julius
How's this disparity? On May 11, the New York Times penned a lengthy piece on how, even with the recession, “Concierge Docs” (where well funded types pay a lot of money each year to have more personal relationship with their physician) were still doing bang-up business. On May 12, the New York Times penned another lengthy piece about hospitals [...]
Say No To Carrots
I have been hearing forever about the Yes to Carrots brand. The product line is supposed to be so fabulous that it has the "cult beauty editor" following. So when I saw it sitting at my local Walgreen's, I snatched up their C Thru the Night Moisturizing Cream. The ingredient list was so promising--carrot seed oil, cucumber water, Dead Sea [...]
Tips and ideas for braving Spa Week
It was Spa Week a few weeks ago. While in theory it's a good idea, friends who have gone to some pretty well regarded spas walk away from the experience totally thinking that spa is crap. And I know why. Generally bookings are back-to-back without time to even PEE, and the clients are not terribly interested in listening to advice to improve [...]
