Life

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Trusty Valentine’s Day speaks to all aspects of love

Symbolized by everything from paper hearts and cardboard cupids to decadent chocolates and diamond rings, love, in all its forms, will get its official due once again on Tuesday.

HBO show sparks edgy new hairstyle

If the twentysomething guy from the mailroom, your local waiter and hipster music moguls all seem to be sporting the same haircut — trimmed buzz-cut short on the sides, left long on the top and swept back from the forehead — it’s not your imagination.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Local little girls dream of Disney

Three-year-old Macie Yaworski of Wyoming sleeps on a princess bed, sings to a Little Mermaid radio, applies princess lip balm and perfume and eats off princess plates. She performs princess twirls on the princess puzzle mat in her bedroom (which often doubles as a dance floor), hides out in a princess tent and plays princess Chutes and Ladders.

Living in a fairy-tale-crazed world

It’s mid-morning on a weekday early in January, and 11 aspiring princesses are about to have their dreams come true. Sitting on the floor of My Girly Party in Farmington Hills, Mich., they’re wearing pastel gowns adorned with sparkles, ruffles and tulle over their jeans and sweaters.