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Writer Julie Powell's debut book Julie & Julia endeared her to aspiring cooks everywhere. The project started as a blog - chronicling the year she spent cooking all 524 recipes from Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking - and grew into a hit movie starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. By the summer of 2008, Powell was firmly ensconced in a new career as a successful writer and celebrity foodie. But Powell's offscreen life didn't follow the script. With her marriage falling apart, she took a sabbatical from her New York City home to learn...
...skin and didn't grab hair," Malka says. "It worked magic for my skin and was the catalyst for starting the shaving business." They sold their BMW for $12,000 - "We were broke," Malka says - and opened up a small Manhattan store in 1996. The company sells its own Art of Shaving-brand products in its stores and other high-end retailers like Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Saks. (See the best pictures...
...Art of Shaving has corralled enough loyal customers to carve out a niche in the grooming sector. Heck, the company even sold some of those $3,400 sets this holiday season. "We're confident that the momentum we've experienced the last couple of months will continue into 2010," says Malka. "And now with our partners at P&G, we can take the business to another level." But in a still shaky economy, can the blade business avoid deep cuts along...
Over the past two decades Mexico City has emerged as a player in the international contemporary-art scene, with a clutch of world-class artists, cutting-edge galleries and deep-pocketed collectors - of which juice tycoon Eugenio Lopez is the most important. Located at his family's sprawling Jumex juice factory just outside the capital, Lopez's Colección Jumex is a priceless assemblage of works by blue-chip local and international artists ranging from Gabriel Orozco to Andy Warhol. It is unequaled in Latin America...
...first ever Stateside exhibition of pieces from the collection, entitled Where Do We Go from Here? , runs through March 14 at Miami's Bass Museum and will be a highlight of the city's winter cultural season. Organized in four key areas - urban anthropology, artist profiles, art with texts and art within art - the show features everything from conventional paintings and drawings to illuminated neon texts and installation pieces, and is an unusual offering for the Bass, which typically shows major European paintings, sculpture and tapestries in its sleek, Arata Isozaki-designed pavilion. (See the Top 10 Art Exhibitions...