Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

War photographer Pellegrin takes a shot at fashion

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

PARIS (Reuters Life!) – Award winning photographer Paolo Pellegrin has documented many of the world’s danger zones from Lebanon to Kosovo and Rwanda to Haiti.

Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Cooperstown, New York

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

COOPERSTOWN, New York (Reuters Life!) – Until someone writes an opera about Babe Ruth, opera and baseball might seem like an odd couple, but one small town in upstate New York offers both — and more.

Engagement Watch Value: Watch Snob

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010


Is there a rule for how much your future wife should spend on your engagement watch? The Watch Snob is here to clarify.

Go vintage UK’s Prince Charles tells Vogue readers

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Prince Charles, Britain’s heir-to-throne, has a woolly idea or two about how vintage clothes, recycling and the fashion industry can help protect the planet.

German firm can’t fire man for 1.8 cent theft

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) – A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm’s appeal against his reinstatement.

NY court dismisses case against Italian U.N. "biter"

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed the case against a former U.N. employee accused of biting a U.N. security guard after complaining of nepotism at the world body.

Dolce & Gabbana to part ways with Selfridges

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

MILAN (Reuters Life!) – Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana will stop the distribution of its two main lines at London shopping temple Selfridges after reports of a dispute over space in the department store chain, the designers said on Thursday.

Bob Dylan’s paintings on show in Danish gallery

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

COPENHAGEN (Reuters Life!) – Forty new paintings by American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan go on show this weekend in Denmark, but museum-goers will hardly find “Blowin’ in the Wind” or references to other famous lyrics in the pictures.

Canadian parents more lenient than Italians and French

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Canadian parents are more lenient with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy, according to a new study.

French pensioner drives 58 years without license

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

NANTES, France (Reuters Life!) – French police who stopped a 79-year old man Wednesday discovered that he had been driving without a license for nearly 60 years.