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Color Blinding Beauty: How Our Obsession With Skin Color Is Erasing Our Ethnicities
Top left to bottom: advertisements for Fair & Lovely, Clean and Dry Intimate Wash and Vaseline’s Fair & Handsome Raising the bar on beauty standards for women (and men) isn’t necessarily new, but a recent commer...
DC’s Cherry Blast to Blast Off This Weekend at The Lightbox
Cherry Blast 2009. Photos courtesyof the Pink Line Project. This Saturday night, the Lightbox will host DC’s fourth annual Cherry Blast, an art and cultural extravaganza intended to highlight the city’s emerging underground...
Fulfilling Generation Y: Does Wanting Less Mean Having More?
It’s no longer breaking news that the country’s economy is suffering, and a slew of reports released in the past several months are showing that 20somethings might just be responsible. The generation that claims an average ...
Sweetlife Festival 2012: Bigger, Better and Yummier
Courtesy Photo Possibly the greatest thing about spring (and summer) are the epic music festivals. Even DC has it’s very own. On April 28, The Sweetlife Festival will take over Columbia, Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavil...
5×5: DC’s First Citywide Public Art Festival Launches
“Home Mender” art installation curated by Justine Topfer. Photo: Todd Seelie Last Saturday night, the Capitol Skyline Hotel hosted the launch party for DC’s newest art endeavor, 5×5. Over the course of Apri...
How Reality Television Has Shaped a Generation
o channel surfing on any given night of the week and it’s guaranteed that at least one reality television series will be playing. Today, reality television fans have unlimited viewing options with shows like “Real Housewi...
Has Diversity in the Fashion Industry Improved in the Last Decade?
Designers that use diverse models on the runway include Nomia (left: photo courtesy of Nomia), Kevork Kiledjian (center: photo courtesy of Kevork Kiledjian), Tracy Reese (right: photo courtesy of Tracy Reese) hen it comes to di...
The Real Deal On Eating Disorders and the Growing “Thinspo” Trend
A compilation of images posted by “thinspo” blogs for inspiration Girls want to be skinny. Boys want to be muscular. It’s a long-running American tradition that, even as young children, we all obsess about our bod...
The Best Places to Buy Vintage Clothing in D.C.
There’s more to the fashion scene here in the District than meets the eye. In fact, this city is surprisingly filled with some fabulous finds, including a good selection of those sometimes-elusive vintage stores. Finding the ...
