| Get ready for prom, but don't get stressed | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:58:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Teen 'zines, dress sellers, even high school newspapers are hawking the dreaded Prom Checklist, detailed enough to make even the most obsessive teenager feel inadequate. The funniest? Try "Four months before prom." In teen years, that's like three marriages and two divorces. About a month before his April prom, Dan Fong will pop the question. The Kailua High senior said that for some, the timing is tied to a window of opportunity: "You have to buy the bids early." If your date is either completely assured or as interchangeable as the vintage Mystery Date game fella, you might plan further ahead. On these laid-back shores, with prom season starting in March, it's weeks rather than months. Yes, you can cut a better deal on limos and so on if you shop ahead.... | |
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| | | For an even-numbered year, 2006 sure was ODD | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 12:59:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Twins Brent and Michelle Schinkel, 18, each won US$200 in July in an online contest for duct-taped prom-goers. The twins, graduating from London District Christian secondary school, spent 50 hours on each outfit and used 20 rolls of tape. Award winning as they were, the outfits were hot and uncomfortable: Michelle donned a different dress 20 minutes into the prom. Brent wore his tux-and-tails for the reception, dinner and dance. Mom's on strike Mother-of-four Roxanne Toussaint reached the end of her rope in September and decided it was time for a little payback from the kids for their relentless mess and misery. She went on strike. Toussaint slept in a tent on the front lawn and refused to return to her cleaning and cooking unless the kids agreed to chip in. "There are days I want to rip my hair out and run down the street naked," she said.... | |
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| | | Fashion show to benefit kids' cancer group | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:58:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | ALOHA - Stephanie Dillon calls her wedding and formal attire specialty shop a change of pace from her prior decade-long career as a nanny. At Dillon's Wedding and Formal - which Stephanie and her husband Lance opened two years ago - the formal wear fashionista and entrepreneur caters to selective tastes of future brides and prom dates who want to look their best on the big day. Next week, a group of four Century High School seniors will wear a sample of Stephanie's taste for modern designs at a fashion show and benefit for a Portland non-profit called Children's Cancer Association. "It is our senior project and we really want to help out a good program that does great things for others," said senior Brendan Baxter. Baxter and his three project partners take an advanced Politics and Communication class, which teaches juniors and seniors a blend of government, politics and community involvement.... | |
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| | | From Guam to Japan | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:57:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | After months of planning, organizing and fundraising, my teacher Fumiko Harada Sensei, co-organizer Hannah Ainbinder and I finalized the student exchange to Kyoto, Japan for St. John's School. The trip consisted of activities such as sightseeing, visiting high schools, but most of all, meeting up with friends whom many of us became close to in just a year. .... | |
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| | | The Game: One Man Riot Part 2 | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:15:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | What's new with The Game? Well, in his quest to dominate, the Compton rapper has started to produce Hip-Hop tracks under the tutelage of Scott Storch and J.R. Rotem. He's squashed an old, rusty beef with Ja Rule and created new alliances with the likes of Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas. Doctor's Advocate, the new album, is the latest creation from Game, who is always a spirited personality. What isn't novel is the persistent, seemingly necessary beefs that continue to infatuate the public and the parties involved. The Game reveals, with candor, why he can walk the trodden terrain and the dissimilar path at the same time. Read about it all below in Part Two of The Game: One Man Riot. AllHipHop.com: Are you done dissing G-Unit? You have dropped so many freestyles going at them like "SoundScan" and over Jay-Z's "Show 'Em Whatcha Got" beat.... | |
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| | | Columnist proposes new change for nation | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:12:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | With the elections over and the votes in, all this change that the Democrats are promising to bring seems to be centered on things long over-due (in my very qualified and expert opinion). Things like raising the minimum wage for the first time in ten years, or eliminating an $18 billion tax break for oil companies and using that money to develop alternative fuel. These are important, yes, but I would like to propose a change for the nation, also. A change that will eliminate the prejudice and suffering millions are forced to live through daily. The condition I'm referring to? Being tall. You may laugh, you may scoff, but it's a serious problem. Our society is just not fit for such large humans! We are willing to compromise for the obesity epidemic with things like providing plus size clothing stores and giving airplane passengers the opportunity to purchase two seats.... | |
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| | | AMY ALKON: THE ADVICE GODDESS: Hope alone can't rebuild marriage | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:02:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q: I'm 23 and married just over a year. Six months ago, before my husband and I moved so I could start law school, I slept with an older attorney, a co-worker. I was racked with guilt and confessed to my husband. Now, he's constantly depressed, angry and insecure, and I've happily buried myself in my studies, trying to forget that another outburst awaits at home. I regret what I did, but I don't need to be constantly reminded. I can't help feeling I married too young. I still love my husband although I don't feel "in love" with him, but I stubbornly refuse to admit failure and hold out hope things will work out. I'm overextended with studying and keep waking up with a sinking feeling that something needs to be done. But what? -- Silently Stewing A: You take the relaxed approach to marital reconciliation -- simply holding out hope things will work out.... | |
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| | | Pull Together Last-Minute Costumes | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:07:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | There are 20 minutes before the party and you don't have a costume. Most college students can relate to this scenario. "It's not last minute yet, so I don't know what I'll be yet," said Krista Skinner, 21, a senior from Orem, majoring in home and family living. "I'd open my closet and see what is in there. I'd usually be a nerd - it's pretty easy. Or a baby is pretty easy, too. Just grab a toy and put your hair in pigtails. You can always pull out an old prom dress and be like a princess, fairy or Cinderella if you have a blue prom dress." Princesses aren't the only costume you can pull off with a dress. Throw on a mask and you're at a masquerade ball. Doll yourself up and you can be a star at the Oscars. If you're into the gore, a little fake blood or white powder on your face and you could be a dead prom queen.... | |
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| | | Where average Joes become Jack Sparrows | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:05:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's 11 a.m. on a weekday, and Costume Capers owner Keith Wetzel has yet to spend more than five minutes in one spot. He tracks down retro Willy Wonka glasses, grabs orange hair dye and brings out a laptop to help a customer find a witch costume modest enough for her 12-year-old daughter. "That's the style right now," he explains when she notes that most wispy outfits end at mid-thigh. Manager Brandon Farmer, meanwhile, is fortified behind the front counter with a bottle of Airborne cold remedy and a king-sized container of orange juice. He's gearing up for another long day during Costume Capers' busiest season: Halloween. "It's a love-hate relationship," Wetzel says about the San Luis Obispo costume shop he's owned for 21 years. "At Halloween, you hate it.... | |
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| | | OXYGEN KEEPS 'JANICE DICKINSON MODELING AGENCY' OPEN FOR SECOND ... | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 1:09:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- Oxygen has quietly renewed its successful reality series "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" for a second season. "Janice" ranks as the network's highest rated original series to date among households (0.44), women 18-49 (0.41) and women 18-34 (0.50), making the renewal not much of a surprise. Production is already underway on the new season, which will launch on Tuesday, January 9 at 10:00/9:00c. Joining "Janice" that same night at 9:00/8:00c will be "Tease," a new reality competition series in which "world-renowned professionals go head-to-head against a talented newcomer in a timed challenge." Among the possible challenges: "prom hair," "hair Rx" and "celebrity knock-off hair." Brian Gadinsky and Michael Yuden are behind the project, which comes from The G Group and MY Entertainment.... | |
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