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You spend the first moments of your day packed into a moving tin can (a/k/a the T), the next eight hours in a cube, and your post-work relaxation includes sipping martinis and eating parmesan truffle fries with your similarly desk-dwelling friends. There... Read More »

Filed under: good stuff, venue:City Girl Workout

We usually have zero interest in kids with trust funds (well, not the snotty ones, at least). But the Boston-based nonprofit Children’s Trust Fund is a cause we can’t help but get behind. Its second-annual Leap into Spring Fashion Show at Vinalia (34... Read More »

Filed under: good stuff, venue:Vinalia

Here’s a fact to choke on: bottled water is an enormous part of the global problem of plastic waste that plagues our landfills and our oceans. In 2005, in this country alone, approximately 52 billion plastic bottles were not recycled, according to the... Read More »

Filed under: good stuff, venue:Greenward

It’s not easy being a traveling athlete. You’re never in one place for more than a few days at a time, and chances are wherever you’re living isn’t really “home.” That’s the case for 31-year-old Bruin Mark Savard. Originally from Ottawa, his mom and his... Read More »

Filed under: Reside, SAN Home

Bryan Rafanelli’s made a name for himself in Boston (and beyond) as a party planner par excellence. While his job entails throwing beautiful bashes for larger-than-life celebs and local socialistas, his personal life focuses ore on the little people.... Read More »

Filed under: one thing

Elena Lelchuck and Jessica de Guardiola arrived in town from Palm Beach with one goal in mind: put Boston on the style map. Northeastern grad de Guardiola recognized the city’s untapped potential firsthand. “Before we moved here, we realized that Boston... Read More »

Filed under: Reside

With the snow comes the inability (or is it a lack of ambition?) to get outside for a good workout. Those folks who peel themselves out of bed for boot camp on the Common not withstanding, most of us would rather sweat in a toastier environment than the... Read More »

Filed under: good stuff, venue:Sports Club/LA

It takes a third of a pound of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to produce the cotton for one T-shirt, according to treehugger.com . My friends and fellow greenies, it is time to make your wardrobe eco-friendly. It’s not news that designers and manufacturers... Read More »

Filed under: venue:velvet fly, venue:habit, Good

Sandy Poirier is a bona-fide, crazy, badass; he’s covered in tattoos, rides Harleys, DJs at nightclubs, makes frequent appearances on TV, parties like a rock star, has a truck-driver mouth, and owns a huge, loft hair studio in South Boston. Giving people... Read More »

Filed under: one thing

This winter, catch something from your friends that won’t make your nose run. Two recent studies by Harvard Medical School professor, Dr. Nicholas Christakis, and political scientist James Fowler found that happiness is contagious: your happiness is... Read More »

Filed under: good stuff

The way we see it, there are two types of Valentines: the sweet and the spicy. Sweet is an eloquent, handwritten love note and a bunch of fresh flowers. Spicy is massage oil and a fresh coat of body paint. Find a well-balanced blend of both sides of Cupid... Read More »

Filed under: venue:Hard Rock Cafe, Good