http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/ All Lifestyle en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:17:43 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042274-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042275-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Paris Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042276-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- The Lebanese designer Elie Saab turned to the dark side for his autumn/winter show and going bad has never looked so good for the designer. His femme fatales in form-fitting daywear looked deadly desirable in all-black ensembles. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042277-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml CÉDRIC CHARLIER is a designer who has a thing for monochromatic outfits. Cacharel is a 50-year-old French house known for its colorful prints. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042278-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- Hermès is a leather house -- and just in case you should forget it, everything from a top hat through a three-piece suit to extraordinary crocodile boots was made out of skin. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042279-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- The images of streaming water projected on the vast walls of the Valentino show area followed the blowing trees of the haute couture season. But this time, the work of the visual artist Kenneth Anger was a reflection of the forward flow of the designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042282-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Long after the dead have been counted and the world's attention has moved on, the terrible testimony of an earthquake can still be seen in the piles of twisted metal and chunks of concrete -- often all that is left of a region's buildings. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042283-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml TAIPEI -- Taiwan's luxury property market -- long passed over by international investors -- finally may be poised to attract overseas money, analysts here say. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042284-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml ANYONE who has attended or visited the MacDowell Colony, the nation's oldest artists' colony, has daydreamed about owning property in Peterborough. Quaint New Englanders with clapboard exteriors and regal Federal-style homes line quiet country roads. Whitewashed steeples, covered bridges and the preserved 18th-century buildings of its downtown rise against the mountainous backdrop that characterizes the Monadnock region. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042285-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml IN the living room of the apartment in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, that Robert Highsmith, 27, shares with his girlfriend, Stefanie Brechbuehler, 32, and their standard schnauzer, Kingsley, is a weathered Eames lounge chair that once belonged to Mr. Highsmith's grandfather and still smells faintly of cigarette smoke. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042286-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml FINDING a way to store knives that is both functional and attractive has long been a challenge for home cooks of every commitment level. Even Chris Santos, the executive chef of the Stanton Social, a restaurant and lounge in Manhattan, and a judge on "Chopped," a reality show on the Food Network, keeps the knives he uses at home in what he describes as "a beat-up bag with burns and other war wounds." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042287-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml At the Collective, a restaurant opening Mar. 17 in the meatpacking district, ordinary trash has been elevated to recycled art. Visitors will find chairs and sofas cut from bathtubs, above; light fixtures made out of packaging material; and an armchair that mixes a rusty steel frame with wooden mannequin limbs, below. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042288-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Kartell has reduced the price of its popular FL/Y pendant lamp, below, designed by Ferruccio Laviani, from $293 to $149. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1038217-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Prince Charming steps out with another man's wife. ... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042052-68.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml WASHINGTON - The foreclosure crisis isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042009-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml LAST month, Johnny Weir, the United States figure skater, switched one of his costumes for the Vancouver Olympics after he said he received threats from anti-fur activists for accessorizing his already colorful wardrobe with just a touch of white fox. At almost the same moment, fashion designers in New York were showing fall collections with so much fur that they seemed to collectively stick a thumb in the eye of political correctness. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042010-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml FOR most people, the 2009 movie "Away We Go," directed by Sam Mendes, has all but faded from memory, a wry little comedy that didn't gain much traction at the box office and was all but ignored during the past awards season. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042011-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PERMANENTLY dyeing hair goes hand in hand with damaging it. The process dries out hair and leaves it jagged. Ammonia -- used to open the hair fiber so that dye molecules can nestle in -- is as delicate as a can opener. It also smells horrid and sets delicate scalps afire. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042012-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- Arcs of water rose from a fountain and fell in curtains of spray at the Louis Vuitton show Wednesday, the closing day of the four-week, four-city international women's shows for autumn 2010. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042013-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml RYAN, Ryan, Ryan. It's Journalism 101: who, what, when, where and why, as in, "Who are you wearing?" Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042016-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml CRUISER made four house calls on a recent rain-soaked Tuesday. There were two happy endings and two unhappy ones, a fairly typical outcome for a typical day in the life of a bedbug-sniffing puggle. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042017-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml MITCH KAPOR, the software mogul and philanthropist, has given millions of dollars to environmental groups. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042018-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml THERE are certain timeless truths about people who don't own a television, chief among them that they love to tell you they don't own a television. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042019-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, a sturdy survivor in the embattled world of shelter magazines, enacted its own stimulus program last week, with the kind of feel-good giveaway associated with the glory days of television. Over three days, a team from the magazine's marketing department deposited 40 blue chairs around New York City, in a promotional tie-in with its March issue, which is devoted to the color blue. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1038215-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml DENVER - While ski and snowboard makers showed off their latest models at SnowSports Industries America's annual Snow Show this year, inventors with big ideas were trying to get retailers to bite. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041657-94.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Do you have an older computer? How secure is it? Depending on its age, the computer may no longer receive updates and security "patches" and the manufacturer may not offer support for it. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041710-51.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml While Pittsburghers Andy Warhol and Burton Morris have gained international recognition as innovative artists, one painter -- and Pittsburgh native -- helped to inspire local artists 100 years Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041717-115.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, which just had its mission to explore Saturn extended to 2017, is one of the many robotic space probes NASA has used to explore the solar system since 1958. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041801-96.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Video game review Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041562-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml WHEN the world was young, there was a phenomenon loosely referred to as the Magical World of Television. Pains were taken to dazzle the eye. Chandeliers appeared extra-prismatic, with mescaline auras. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041563-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml AROUND the time I graduated from college, my parents sold the house I grew up in. It came as a shock to me to learn that my bedroom, which I had always assumed would be preserved for future generations to visit -- sort of like a Presidential library with a Bobby Sherman poster on one wall -- was being dismantled. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041564-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml LIKE millions of Americans, Marisa Tomei used to play with a Hula-Hoop as a child. And like most of those same Americans, she hadn't hooped since. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041565-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041566-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of "le smoking" -- the tuxedo suit. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041569-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-AND-A-HALF-BATH HISTORIC HOUSE IN SURREY Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041570-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml HEBER CITY, UTAH Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041571-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml JOHANNESBURG -- Adam Levy was a teenager growing up in Melrose, a whites-only suburb in northern Johannesburg, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison 20 years ago. Today Mr. Levy -- much like the city itself -- has traded the racial restrictions of the apartheid era for a far more colorful (and cultural) urban existence. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1036264-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Two points of consolation for any Olympics fans who find themselves in the wrong Vancouver - Vancouver, Wash., instead of Vancouver, British Columbia: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041421-51.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml The award ceremony to honor the local winners of the 2009 Jefferson Awards for Public Service has been rescheduled for April 21 at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History, Oakland. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041328-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml There was a time, not all that long ago, when luxury fashion was found only in a magazine's glossy pages or a trip to Avenue Montaigne, Bond Street and the like. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041329-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- Sometimes a fashion moment is defined as much by what is not on the runway as by the catwalk favorites. And with only one more day of autumn/winter 2010 in Paris before the season's close, dressy evening clothes are fading from the limelight. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041330-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041331-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml PARIS -- Over the years, the designer Andrew Gn has built up his own fashion universe of opulence and elegance that he inhabits so easily. This season, his inspiration came directly from his own home and a Louis XV commode in his study, as well as the book "Persian Letters" by Montesquieu. With those keystones, there is always a risk of going overboard on the gilding -- but that did not happen to Mr. Gn. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041332-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1036262-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml NAPOLEONVILLE, La. - In 1983, Keith Marshall sat in the office of his New Orleans art-supply company pondering an electric bill for his family's country house. The latest statement was $450 higher than ever before. ... Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041193-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Buy a sofa, save a life. That's the premise behind the "Feel Good Twice" program going on all this month at Weisshouse furniture store at 324 S. Highland Ave. in Shadyside. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041194-314.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Saturday-Sunday: Lintons at the Waterfront will hold a prom trunk show to preview the newest prom fashions from Beyonce's House of Dereon, Jovani, Aidan Mattox, Sean, Nicole Miller and Xeniya by Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041197-30.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml LAS VEGAS -- Glitz, glamour and no gilt! That statement could be as easily applied to Sin City (with a slight spelling change) as Jane Seymour's new collection of furniture, Hollywood Swank. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500