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Get Ready for The Great Chicago Fire Festival!
TweetMayor Rahm Emanuel‘s announcement of a partnership with Redmoon to create The Great Chicago Fire Festival has brought on new excitement in our city of Chicago. It is a refreshing new concept that ties in the beauty of what this beautiful city has to offer and the history that rebuilt Chicago. This will not only beautifully [...]
Chicago Opera Theatre raising their voices to inspire the next generation of opera stars in Chicago
Tweet With Chicago’s growing crime rate there’s definitely a need to find more ways to divert our children’s attention to other things more positive. Not just for the moment, but a life experience that can impact each child and their families. The Chicago Opera Theatre raised their magical voices and hands to inspire the next [...]
Ways to Wear Popping Colors for Spring
TweetPops of color everywhere is in for Spring! The brighter and bolder the color, the more eye-candy it becomes. I’m talking Royal blues, Emerald greens, Hot pinks, Bright oranges, and more are the colors you should be wearing for Spring! Easier said than done for many of us, of course. I’m one to shy away [...]
Erin Go Bragh! Where to go for the greening of Chicago River
TweetChicago loves the St. Patrick’s Day spectacles most especially when the Chicago River goes from murky green (you know what I’m talking about!) to the breathtaking and perfect emerald color identical to the greens in Ireland. Every year, leprechauns (Mike Butler & crew) start the festivities by skillfully mixing a vegetable orange dye that magically [...]
Spring Forward with Fashion. An Inspiration For All Busy Chicagonistas!
Tweet Are you looking forward to dump the down jackets and thermal under things? With Chicago in the deep freeze lately it’s almost hard to believe that Spring is indeed around the corner. Did I just make you smile? More importantly, are you ready for the change? Are you ready to fashionably rock Spring? We’re [...]
Beautifying with the Pilsen Murals
TweetPilsen. One of Chicago’s oldest neighborhoods lies in Community area 31 on the Lower Westside. While it is now widely hailed as the Heart of the Mexican community, in the 19th century Pilsen was inhabited by Czech immigrants who named it for Plzen, a city in the now Czech Republic. Shortly thereafter Slavic and other [...]
Learned to Kick Off that Totem Pole at the #CCBalancedLiving Event
Tweet Disclaimer: I was compensated for my participation in Coca-Cola’s Balanced Living Workshop, but my thoughts and views are my own. Pre-family I was a svelte size 8 actively working in the fashion industry. I worked hard, loved life and embraced everything with vigor. Dancing, swimming, workouts, eating well, were just simply life. I also [...]
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The Mercury Method: A New Fitness Concept & Club Opens in Chicago [pics]
TweetYou would never know that the new The Mercury Method is a fitness club from its unassuming facade. There’s a very lounge-y and sexy vibe to this new space and I would not have known that it is a fitness club if not for the launch party invitation. California native fitness video star and exercise [...]
Two Weeks of Fab Fashion Fest by The Mag Mile [pics]
TweetA 14 day stretch of non-stop of fashionable festivities has launched! The Magnificent Mile Shopping Festival presented by MasterCard kicked off this past weekend with celebrity Kelly Osbourne of E’s Fashion Police. The festival is loaded with fashion and culinary events at various locations in the area.There’s an event made for everyone. Running down the aisle [...]
Indochino – Helping Men Look Better, One Suit at a Time
TweetWalking in to Union Station, I couldn’t keep my eyes away from the banners hanging out from the Great Hall’s ceiling. I couldn’t decide if I thought that the of Indochino’s Traveling Tailor felt hip and modern or laid-back and retro…or maybe it was a combination of all of the listed adjectives. Indochino is your own virtual tailor, [...]
