This past Friday night, local fashion designer Victoria Lopez Castro unveiled her Spring/Summer 2011 collection at a benefit for the American Red Cross- Broward County Chapter. The New York-style runway show went down at the Hyatt Pier 66 Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, with hundreds of guests in attendance, including Yours Truly (wink). Victoria has an atelier in Coral Gables, [...]
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The Food Network brings it’s biggest stars to Miami every year, as part of the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival. Unfortunately, the prices for the most popular events are way expensive and can sell out within a week. This year’s Amstel Light Burger Bash, hosted by Rachael Ray, would set you back $200 per [...]
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Even though it feels like just yesterday, it was actually last September when UGG Australia opened it’s only store in Miami. I didn’t think the store would do well here, but they fooled me–pushing their line of warm weather shoes, like flipflops, in addition to their signature sheepskin boot. Fast forward to the present–UGG has ordered a [...]
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Home grown fashion designer, Julian Chang, will unveil his newest collection during next week’s Miami International Fashion Week. It was just last year that Julian stole opened the same show with his Ready-to-Wear collection. This year, he will debut his 2011 Contemporary Ready-to-Wear collection. Of course, I had to snag an interview with him and boy, was he hard [...]
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Next week, I’m attending the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards, broadcasting live from Los Angeles next Friday. I will be making this trip as a guest of General Motors, who is one of the sponsors of the Awards. I am SOOO excited about this trip. In case you didn’t know, the NAACP Image Awards is [...]
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Last weekend, Fort Lauderdale native and Philadelphia Eagles’ Pro Bowler, Asante Samuel launched his new non-profit. The event went down at Club Play on South Beach. The charity is called Bring it Home Single Moms Foundation and its vision is to provide hard working, low income single mothers with a home. This would restore her [...]
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As most of you know, I live in South Florida and my daughter goes to school at Clemson University, in South Carolina. It’s just shy of 800 miles away. I do love it there, but if I had one complaint, it would be the distance. It’s either a whole day’s drive from dawn to dusk or a [...]
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