"the-tree" Articles & Blogs:
Tree climbing - not just for kids
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Tall oaks from little acorns grow. -Anonymous
You don’t have to look far to find a tree worth climbing. And tree climbing isn’t just for kids. It’s an adventure, but it’s also a great workout. Climbing exercises the upper torso by using many ...[Read on] |
A Woman on the Croisette: Julie Bertuccelli’s Film The Tree to close Cannes
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The Cannes Film Festival has woken up from it’s ridiculousness — they still do not get a pass on the fact that there are no female filmmakers in the competition — and have announced the Australian film The Tree written and directed by Julie Bertucce...[Read on] |
Soundtrack to a Chick’s Life: Great Songs For Every iPod
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Personally, I think One Tree Hill’s Peyton Sawyer said it best on Peyton’s Podcast: “Sometimes, things find you when you need them to find you, I believe that. For me, it’s usually song lyrics.”
Almost every chick has had a moment in her life w...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend
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There are a several movies opening this weekend in limited release and both American Violet and Lemon Tree open wider.
American Violet opens in Boston; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Houston; Austin and Seattle. Here’s my interview with Regina Kelly wh...[Read on] |
Every Day is Earth Day
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Since its grassroots inception in 1970, Earth Day has grown
appropriately to international proportions during which an estimated 500
million people worldwide will celebrate their home and resource — planet Earth.
It’s nice of us to set aside a commem...[Read on] |
Dangerous Gigs: The price we pay for the causes closest to our hearts
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Twenty-three-year-old Rachel Corrie fought to the death for the people who mattered most to her. As an American Human Rights Worker living in Palestine, she had seen the atrocities of war firsthand and wanted the world to know about the kind of work that ...[Read on] |
7 Greener Gadgets and Services For Saving the Environment
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This week is officially the Greenest week of the year for us. On Wednesday we headed over to the Greener Products Expo to scope out the latest tech to help you keep stay environmentally aware. And today, there is the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend
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Julia- Opens in NY & LA
Tilda Swinton is one of those actresses of tremendous talent. I always find her fascinating to watch and am amazed at how completely different she is in all her roles. But sometimes her talent outweighs the film she is in, and...[Read on] |
Ode to Mom - Kindergarten Cuban Style
| Guest Post by Esther Fernandez-Walker
Three months after arriving from Cuba my mother and I navigated the streets of our Miami neighborhood with ease. But on this particular day my usual enthusiasm and curiosity were missing. Our nonstop chatter was repl...[Read on] |
WNBA’s Sky to host celebrity team in battle of the sexes
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The Chicago Sky will host the first-ever Basketball Battle of the Sexes game when it takes on an all-male team from the Entertainment League in a June exhibition contest.
The game, at 7 p.m. June 2 p.m. at the UIC Pavilion, will be played with WNBA offic...[Read on] |
The cheerleading debate continues
| I am a little bit tired of talking about cheerleading but I have acquired a critical mass of stories (i.e. three) about cheerleading so it seemed to indicate that a blog post was in order.USA Today ran a point/counterpoint editorial on the merits ...[Read on] |
Guess Gets Seductive, Even More So Than Usual
| Clockwise from top left: Shantel VanSanten, Maurice Marciano with Alyssa Miller and party host Vanessa Hudgens, Mark Sailing, Louise Roe, and Solange Knowles. From PatrickMcMullan.com.
The new Guess fragrance, Seductive.
On a serendipitous Hollywood eveni...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend- May 22
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Opening This Week
It’s a good thing the weather will be nice in the east cause there are slim pickings at the movies this weekend. I have no interest in the new Terminator and if I see Night at the Museum 2, and that’s a big if, it will be to see Am...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak hearts The Black Keys
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You would probably never guess it by looking at them, but blues rock band The Black Keys are subtly ushering in a new age of musical genius.The seemingly nondescript pair, never wearing much more than their own jeans and Converse in videos, effortlessly b...[Read on] |
Tips from 21st Century Insurance: Have a Safe Holiday Season!
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The holiday season is full of family, fun, and goodwill, but it has a darker side. The number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities skyrockets faster than eight tiny reindeer.
Spirited Statistics:
On average from 2001 to 2005 (the last year that co...[Read on] |
The Jazz Baroness airs on HBO2 tommorow night
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I recently saw this very interesting documentary by Hannah Rothschild, The Jazz Baroness, about her great aunt Nica who spent over 28 years as Thelonious Monk’s best friend. I was kind of surprised by the story because, of course, I had heard of Monk,...[Read on] |
Band on the Rise: ChickSpeak Hearts Dreaden
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The city of Atlanta, G.A. is an example of the classic melting pot of different cultures, musical sounds, and visual arts that make southern metropolitans of today the best places to find new artists of all varieties. The music scene in Atlanta is more di...[Read on] |
How to analyze a film based on more than the actors
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“That movie was terrible. Don’t go see it.”
When people say a movie is “bad,” what do they mean? Was it boring? Was the plot too slow or nonexistent? Or, is the excuse simply, “I just didn’t like it?”
I’m sure if we’re passionate at ...[Read on] |
USATF Cross Country: Bringing up the Rear
| Well, I have done it again. Last year on this very day, I swore that I would not get talked into running another cross country race, but here I am, sweaty and exhausted, sitting down at my computer to recap the 2009 Southern California USATF Cross Country...[Read on] |
Barbie Turns 50 -- Does that Make her Car a Classic?
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Growing up with three sisters, the Barbie doll fascination just really escaped me. I wanted a Ken doll, he just seemed a bit more realistic as a role model for me. My sisters worried about nail polish and when they could wear nylons, I wanted a tree ho...[Read on] |
10 Christmas gifts that cost practically nothing
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While you are making your Christmas list this holiday season, you may think to yourself “How am I going to afford to get anybody anything?” I know this thought has scrolled repetitively through my mind several times these last couple of weeks.
Being ...[Read on] |
Art & Thought: Celebration: The Birthday of Chinese Art
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When I was young, every birthday was celebrated like a grand occasion. My parents would rent out the private dining room in my favorite Chinese restaurant, and they would invite all my relatives - even distant cousins I had never met before - to gather ...[Read on] |
Mackinac Island: Story of a town with a different set of wheels
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Imagine replacing your four automobile tires in for four carriage wheels, four horse hooves or a set of bicycle tires.
Or what if you just used your own two feet? Sound crazy? Not for Mackinac Island residents, who live on a surprisingly mountain-like is...[Read on] |
Art & Thought: Pablo Bronstein at the MET
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In the Metropolitan Museum, I stand in front of a large ink drawing. The skies are flushed in shades of pale gray and brown. The land is barren. A Hellenic column juts pitifully out from the earth like the last pillar of humanity after the apocalypse has ...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Allison Rapson: Woman Inspiring Other Women to Rise
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Regardless if it’s in our careers, our relationships, our self-image or just by wearing sky-high heels -women are rising to new heights in all areas of our lives.We go for the extra hour of overtimes, run for an additional five minutes when we feel like...[Read on] |
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