Flashback: The Ultimate Valley Girl Contest


Updated 04/12/09 10:15 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Eighties Valley Girl Contest

The year: 1982. The place: Encino, CA, otherwise known as "The Valley." The fashion du jour: Valley Girls and their valley speak. The show Real People held a contest to find the ultimate Valley Girl who could wield the valley lexicon like a pro. Oh, muh GAWD! Barf out. Gag me with a spoon. Totally tubular! The thing I wonder is, did anyone know that Moon Unit Zappa was doing a parody of Vals? Read more

Height/Weight Matrix: Real People, Real Weights


Updated 07/24/07 2:40 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 17 comments

Height/Weight Matrix:  Real People, Real Weights

We all spend a lot of our time looking at the bodies of celebs when they are made up, dressed up or airbrushed. Which is all fine and good, but I think it is important to see what "real" people look like. You know the ones of us who don't have personal trainers making sure we workout and personal chefs creating perfect 200 calorie snacks for us to eat Over at Cockeyed.com they are creating a Read more

Boating Safety: Things to Know Before You Go Afloat


Updated 05/26/12 7:30 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Boating Safety Tips

It seems like boating season unofficially begins on Memorial Day weekend with everyone headed to their lake houses, weekend river residences, or the beach. In different parts of the nation, boating accidents, injuries, and unfortunately fatalities are on the rise. Now that I've captured your attention, let's review a few tips on boating safety. Boater's fatigue is real, and it can wear you Read more

See Rihanna's Latest Hairstyle: Dreadlocks


Updated 05/25/12 10:10 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Beauty News For May 25, 2012

Rihanna wore dreadlocks on the American Idol finale — People StyleWatch Learn the truth about cellulite, including how to treat and prevent it — Real Simple Are you shaving your legs the wrong way? — Stylelist Paris Hilton set to premiere her 15th perfume — HuffPost Style See the celebrity hair and makeup looks from the amfAR Gala — Styleite There'a a new boy in town on ANTM: Read more

Robert Pattinson Talks Racy Cosmopolis Scenes


Updated 05/25/12 8:40 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Today's Celebrity News May 25, 2012 Early Edition

Robert Pattinson on refusing to do certain scenes in Cosmopolis — People Bethenny Frankel responds to divorce rumors — Us Weekly Listen to AI winner Phillip Phillips's first single — HuffPost Entertainment So many reasons to love Tom Hardy — Lainey Gossip Oops! There's a serious typo in the Great Gatsby trailer — Zap2It See Kim Zolciak's topless wedding gift for her fiancé — Read more

8 Myths About Sex Differences


Updated 05/25/12 9:05 AM · Posted by · 2 comments

Myths About Gender Differences

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Agustín Fuentes points out that when it comes to men and women, what "everyone knows" isn’t what science shows. Everyone knows that men and women are really different. We think differently and act differently because we are wired differently. I mean look at our brains and genitals: they are just Read more

Nighttime Fasting: A New Way to Lose Weight?


Updated 05/24/12 8:44 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Is It Better to Not Eat at Night?

We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar. This week Shape turns to Cynthia Sass, a registered dietitian with master's degrees in both nutrition science and public health. If you couldn’t let anything cross your lips from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., but you were allowed to eat anything you wanted for eight hours a day and still lose weight, would you try it? Read more

Gael Garcia Bernal Brings No to Cannes and Talks "Quality Time" With the Kids


Updated 05/21/12 10:13 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Gael Garcia Bernal Interview For No Movie

Gael Garcia Bernal is one of the celebrities at Cannes this year, and he's been busy talking up and celebrating his new film No. The picture is set in 1988, the year the Chilean people ousted dictator General Pinochet through a democratic vote. Gael plays René Saavedra, an ad man who accepts the potentially dangerous job of spearheading the TV campaign for the people against Pinochet, those who Read more

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage


Updated 05/18/12 12:53 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Mark Tyrrell offers eight relationship tools to make your marriage work. "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble." — Raymond Hull So how do you make your marriage work? Or do you just blindly hope it'll take care of itself? Think of a hot, successful Read more

The Dictator: Ruled by Tasteless but Funny Jokes


Updated 05/18/12 9:35 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

The Dictator Movie Review

Full disclosure: I laughed out loud many times during The Dictator, knowing full well that I should have been offended instead. But what you see is what you get when it comes to Sacha Baron Cohen, and after movies like Bruno and Borat, you already know whether you'll be able to find humor in film about a horrifyingly ignorant world leader who's as naive, racist, and prejudiced as they come. I Read more