Style & Entertaining
Slice: Trends for 2012
While most people have been hanging up new calendars and sweeping up the end of the pine needles, I’ve been hounding our favorite chefs and mixologists to find out just what they have on tap [...]
Socially Savvy: Lisa McDonald and George Soule – Holiday Entertaining on a Grand Scale
It’s a bold proclamation to claim the first Saturday in December for your annual holiday party, but George Soule and Lisa McDonald have done just that for the past 22 years. This is more than [...]
Evocative PARTY
Hair & Makeup by Sam Ploetz and Sara VanderPloeg with East 42nd Street Salon, e42salon.com. Photography by Mike Hnida. Models: Aleah, Andrea, Angel, Joe, Bryce, and Richard with ModelMayhem.com. Women’s clothing and accessories provided by [...]
Holiday How-To: Catering
Catering Know-How When it comes to holiday parties, you don’t have to do it all yourself With all the excesses of the holiday season, the only thing we are guaranteed is a shortage of time [...]
Glimpses: Going to the Dogs at Canterbury Park, Fashion Students Showcase at Girlfriends Expo & Getaway
Going to the Dogs at Canterbury Park More than 1,200 dogs will be shown at the Minneapolis Kennel Club Dog Show at Shakopee’s Canterbury Park, November 19-20. Participating dogs come from every American Kennel Club’s [...]
Dateland: Behave Yourself!
It’s late at night and I just finished cleaning up after yet another dinner party where my guests behaved badly. I spent weeks preparing for this party and my sorry-ass friends rewarded my efforts by [...]
Sugar & Spice: Fashion Wonderful
The scene: crowded, noisy. Two hundred people. Beautiful people with precious wardrobes, flawless smiles, and fragrant ambition. They sit, legs crossed, laughing, predicting, waiting. Suddenly the room is dark. Silence falls over the audience. Thunderous [...]
Lavender’s Back to School Fashion & Survival Guide
Heimie’s Haberdashery: Nichole: Shirt by Seward and Stern $225.00, Seward and Stern Tie $120.00, Peter Millar Reversable Vest Medium $245.00, Bill’s Khakis Vintage Twill Trousers $135.00, Marcoliani Socks $38.00, Allen Edmonds shoes $245.00, “Heimie’s Own” [...]
Click, Flash
Grace stands in an ethereal Palace of Chic, clad in a stunning emerald dress. Her hands on her hips, she beckons you to come to her side. She is the Woman You Want to Know. [...]
Socially Savvy: What to Wear — and When
GQ Magazine described St. Paul as one of the 40 worst dressed cities in America this summer. This accusation is a hit below the belt, but let us view it as a wake-up call not [...]
