Plant With Purpose Celebrates Their 30th Anniversary
The critical link between deforestation and poverty in the Dominican Republic was an eye opening, terrible cycle first observed by Tom Woodard in 1984. He quickly realized that donations and offerings of food could never break this negative cycle or address the causes of rural poverty in certain countries…
Jean-Paul Gaultier Does Away With Ready to Wear Collection
On September 27, during this past Paris Fashion Week, Jean-Paul Gaultier showcased his last prêt-à-porter collection for Spring/Summer 2015 at Le Grand Rex. Being a legendary fashion designer, he plans to stay in the fashion industry but focus on haute couture and his perfume business. Hundreds of people in Paris …
Sandy Linter Makes Art of Cosmetics
Sandy Linter grew up in Staten Island sitting atop piles and piles of fashion magazines. She couldn’t have then known that she would one day be collaborating on some of the most iconic fashion shoots in history, but it is indisputable that her extensive career as a make-up artist has solidified her royal status within the industry.
Tippi Hedren – From Hitchcock’s Grasp to the Lion’s Den
Tippi Hedren is of Midwestern roots, and at the age of 20, she bought a train ticket to New York and began a professional modeling career. Tippi was a rising star in print and television advertisements, and one day, a Hollywood agent requested that she fly to L.A. and film …
Hedy Lamarr: Actress, Inventor and Runaway Bride
Hedy Lamarr, originally from Austria, became an international actress and invented frequency-hopping, which became the forerunner to modern Bluetooth technology.
Oktoberfest Continues in Chicago – A Brief History & Where to Celebrate This Year!
This year’s Oktoberfest may have ended in Germany, but the celebration continues in the Windy City. Read on for a brief history of the world’s largest festival, and learn where you can celebrate in Chicago.
Catching Up With Larry King, Love Machine
Renowned interviewer Larry King, best known for his one hour cable-tv show Larry King Live, may not at first seem the typical “ladies man,” but his story suggests otherwise.
Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood’s Most Alluring Starlet
Elizabeth Taylor was the beautiful packaging of an unusual mixture of characteristics. She was simultaneously loving and combative, delicate and harsh, nurturing and merciless. Today she is remembered for all this, along the endless glamour that accentuated her every move.
Jeff Bridges Continues His Campaign for Food Justice in States
Actor Jeff Bridges has been an anti-hunger activist since 1983, when he founded the End Hunger Network, which engages in awareness campaigns and operates with the goal of ending child-hunger in America. Within the past few years he has also become involved in No Kid Hungry, acting as advocate and national spokesperson.
Shadow Town II: The Johns
Shadow Town II: The Johns explores the role that cultural views of masculinity play in the perpetuation of sex crimes. A Chicagoland epidemic, the sex trafficking of young girls and women is a devastating crime that has consequences extending beyond the immediate violence and exploitation involved in the transactions themselves. …
