Sports & Leisure

Casual Chic | Casual Cool

Isn't Fashion Fun by Kevin Quinn

Fashion should be fun and above all easy. In fact, we all know and admire that friend or co-worker who oozes effortless style. This easy, breezy style is the essence of STYLEDLIFE fashion theme “Casual Chic | Casual Cool”.

The theme is based on a concept of casual elegance in both men’s and women’s style […]

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Everything’s Just Beach-y

Onward Style by Sara Rogers

Hot picks from MOA® Trend Specialist Sara Rogers
I hope your beach bod is in top shape because it’s finally time for some fun in the sun! From sassy stripes to painter’s palates, patterns are THE ‘it’ trend for swimwear this season, so don’t get spotted in the sand wearing your boring ol’ basics. No worries […]

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Personality & Style

Creating personal outfits by combining elements that reflect your own personality is always in style. You are unique – let everyone know it. You’ve been hitting the gym and wanting to show it off? Try something sleeveless combined with crisp shorts to display a little skin. Adding flare – an animal print scarf – to […]

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Think Before You Eat

by Darin Schwinkendorf

Have you ever heard the phrase “mindful eating”?
I find it amazing how many people completely disregard everything their minds and bodies are informing them regarding nutrition.

I can recount numerous instances where friends and relatives are telling themselves to quit eating at the exact same time they are stuffing their faces with more French fries. I […]

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Still, Too Many Ophelias

by Vince Sgambati

Mary Pipher’s seminal book Reviving Ophelia, about her clinical work with adolescent girls, was written in 1994—two years before my daughter was born, and one year before Jack and I seriously pursued parenthood. I don’t remember what initially drew me to the book—maybe being a teacher, or maybe intuition (that someday I would parent a […]

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Noah Duncanson: Jack of All Trades, Master of Fitness

by Kolina Cicero

He’s a model, a personal trainer, a business owner, and a local bar-hopper intent on adding to the energy of the Cities. Noah Duncanson grew up in Wisconsin, but came to Minneapolis for his schooling. Majoring in sports medicine and kinesiology, he always has been very health-conscious.
Photo by Mike Hnida
Duncanson is co-owner of Solfit, his […]

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Three Legislative Successes

by Laura Smidzik

Project 515 is promoting and supporting legislation to ensure equality for Minnesota same-sex couples and their families during times of illness and death. Three bills were introduced in the current session, with great success. All of them were heard in various committees, and passed to go to the full house and senate for votes.

Final Wishes […]

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Strange, Old World: Cyberspace Offers Modern Tweak on GLBT Visibility

by Terrance Griep

When it started is impossible to stay, but when it did, it probably began something like this: The bones lay in a speckled, off-white mound, tattered tendons dangling like ragged, timeless pendulums. The bones were stained alternately the colors of blood and night, depending on the fire’s split-second caprices. The blaze writhed like a beast […]

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Out in the Stars

by Charlene Lichtenstein

Horoscope for July 3-16 Venus and Mars conjunct, and move into Gemini. We are able to send our love missives directly to the delicious source. But moving too swiftly may give our affairs of the heart a dose of heartburn. Tread carefully…but deliberately.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 20)
Magic is in the air and with your words […]

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Branson, Missouri Show Time, Ozarks Style

Get Outta Town by Carla Waldemar
Branson, Missouri Show Time, Ozarks Style

It’s…show time!
Actually, it’s show time three times a day, seven days a week here, because it’s…Branson! And that’s what put this pocket of the Ozarks on the map. And (here we go again) it’s…affordable! Tickets run around $30. You can’t even leave the airport for that price in Vegas. Speaking of airports, for the first […]

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Sushi Tango

Off the Eaten Path by Heidi Fellner

I must admit that since Calhoun Square’s downturn, I hadn’t had much occasion to venture inside—with vacant shops and empty escalators chugging along like something out of the Martian Chronicles, it lost much of its inherent consumer appeal. So, when I heard that longtime resident Sushi Tango was relocating, I assumed that it, too, was […]

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