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Prince’s Personal Designers Are Releasing A Made-To-Order Line

To coincide with the deluxe reissue of Prince’s iconic double album,1999, the Purple One’s estate commissioned a special, limited-edition fashion collaboration with Toronto-based brand Call & Response. The line is a hand-crafted collection of custom jackets, vests, and hand-dyed tunics inspired by the clothing they used to make for Prince himself. Lori Marcuz and Cathy […]

LG to Debut New Home Gardening Appliance to help you Garden Indoors

LG Electronics (LG) will unveil an indoor gardening appliance at CES® 2020, its first foray into the suddenly booming indoor gardening movement. The revolutionary built-in column-type LG indoor gardening appliance employs advanced light, temperature and water control, convenient all-in-one seed packages (which LG will happily sell to you) and a growth-monitoring app to help users […]

The Worst Health and Wellness Trends of 2019

Everyone is buying into the wellness culture. The industry is worth $4.2 trillion, according to the Global Wellness Summit’s 2019 report. But some of those trends that were at best bogus, at worst downright dangerous.   CBD / Cannabidiol. The short definition is that it’s a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana and hemp. Someone, somewhere, […]

LG to enter Indoor Gardening Movement at CES 2020

LG display booth at CES 2015

LG Electronics (LG) will unveil an indoor gardening appliance at CES® 2020, its first foray into the suddenly booming indoor gardening movement. The revolutionary built-in column-type LG indoor gardening appliance employs advanced light, temperature and water control, convenient all-in-one seed packages (which LG will happily sell to you) and a growth-monitoring app to help users […]

The Trouble with Stopping Robocalls

Robocalls have become unavoidable, flooding phone networks with spam so thoroughly that most people have stopped picking up calls from unknown numbers. It’s a massive and embarrassing technological failure, but the causes behind the problem are more complex than you might think.   The biggest problems are baked into the network itself. As the internet […]

Infectious Diseases Run Rampant in US in 2019

Child with measles rash being examined by doctor

Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased.  And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. There were also backslides in some diseases, like polio, that the world […]

The Best Starbucks Secret Menu Drinks, According To Fans & Baristas

Website showing Starbucks Secret Menu item

There are over 35,000 posts on Instagram that include the hashtag #StarbucksSecretMenu. Each mention of this menu conjures up images of lockboxes located in the very back corner of Starbucks storerooms. Those baristas who have been entrusted with the classified code have access to the recipe cards for exclusive drinks that only a select few […]

The Dickey is Street Style’s New Favorite Winter Layer

On the streets of New York Fashion Week, show-goers are known to take risks, clashing patterns and mismatching shoes (and to be clear, we live for it). While not all street style outfits end up being practical for regular wear, in select cases, the atypical layering methods seen during fashion’s peak seasons are just creative […]

Burn This, not That, in your Fireplace this Winter

A wood-burning fireplace can be a good source of supplemental heat, but it will emit more pollutants into the air if the fire isn’t built properly. Here are some tips for minimizing wood smoke pollution from your fireplace or wood stove, and making a happy and healthy fire in your home this Winter, courtesy expert […]