Filed under: commentary, elle magazine, fashion, harper's bazaar magazine | Tags: commentary; fashion; elle magazine; fashion journalism; harper's bazaar magazine; new york magazine; tavi
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about Tavi, the 13 year old who stormed the blog world with her weird outlook on fashion. I’m not a fan of “let’s throw every pattern together” and call it fashion and just because a young girl picks up a couple of fashion magazines and looks at pictures of runway shows online doesn’t mean she’s a fashion journalist. 
i know the same good be said about me, but i’m not applying to elle or bazaar. (more…)
Filed under: commentary, glamour magazine, review | Tags: women of the year; glamour magazine; review; diane sawyer; rhianna
So, I forgot to finish my critique of Glamour and since it’s been a month later and someone is bound to point it out.
Rhianna. I am conflicted with Rhianna and the media outburst with her “finally speaking out”. I watched the 20/20 interview with her and while I felt Diane Sawyer did a fabulous job handling the interview, I also felt like it was one big PR stunt. (more…)
Filed under: commentary, food, review | Tags: food; cupcakes; review; sugar bliss cupcakes;
If God would create the perfect cupcake, He would sell it at Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique.
Nestled across Macy’s on Wabash is the little alcove that Sugar Bliss Cakes calls home and once inside the blue and brown parlor setting, Sugar Bliss feels like grandma’s kitchen. (more…)
Filed under: commentary, review | Tags: bad literature; review; commentary; twilight
There’s something very wrong with the book world. It’s not Kindle or the favor of Barnes and Noble over tiny used bookshops.
It’s that readers think Twilight is not just literature, but good literature.
The fact is that Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, paints a very sad picture for the 21st century young female: as long as you’re dull and awkward, then any stalker-ish, obsessive sparkly vampire will want to be your boyfriend. You’ll give up school, chase him around the world, and beg repeatedly to become a vampire yourself.
Plot problems aside–and there are many–the issue at the core of Twilight is its influence over young girls and the media they take in. Written in the vain attempt to be girl power literature, the main character lacks strength and self-determination that harkens back to a Victorian “angel in the house” syndrome or the Disney-esque damsel in distress model. Bella Swan, isolated as the new girl in town and socially ostracized from any of her non-vampire peers, lacks depth and a brain. Initially ignored by too-cool-to-be-spoken-to Edward Cullen, Bella is not fazed by her discovery of Edward’s vampire lifestyle and she certainly doesn’t run in the opposite direction when he glitters like a Lisa Frank sticker when exposed to sunlight. So, Twilight’s young readers associate themselves with a girl not smart enough to recognize danger or when she needs to stand up herself. (more…)
Filed under: commentary, film | Tags: commentary; disney; film; the princess and the frog
So I went and saw the Princess and the Frog this weekend. I was playing on holding off to see it, wait to read a review or too or hear commentary from a friend, but I got a free ticket. I’m so glad that I went.
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