Looking to challenge yourself with a new water sport this summer? Sure – surfing, water-skiing, and kayaking can be fun, but if you’ve been there and done that, there are several unusual water sports gaining more and more popularity each year. Some of them are on the new side so you may not even have heard of them. But there’s no better way to get an adrenaline rush than challenging yourself with something new.
With fashion shows in most major markets at a lull during the summer months, you may find yourself going through withdrawal if you are big into fashion. If you’re looking for inspiration and want to stay up-to-date with all things having to do with the industry, there are a few exhibits you can check out, online or in-person, to keep the fashionista in you thriving during the hot summer days.
Thinking of using your long Memorial Day weekend for a quick getaway? Last minute plans can actually work to your advantage as hotels and airlines are willing to offer bookings at a lower cost in order to sell as many spots as possible.
Getting engaged is exciting and should be one of the most joyous times in a person’s life. Once the real planning starts, it’s easy to get stressed out when vendor proposals start rolling in and you realize you have way too many people on the guest list to keep the wedding affordable. One method many couples use to ease the financial burden is choosing to have a destination wedding, as fewer guests tend to be able to fly in, stay at a hotel, and also contribute a gift.
Warmer spring temperatures mean shedding your coats and gloves, and more barbecues, picnics, parties and gatherings. While different occasions call for different food choices, there are a handful of “go-to” recipes that can work regardless of what you are celebrating, or who’s coming over.
Wearing nice clothes is one way to feel good about ourselves. But with several fashion companies taking environmental considerations seriously, we can now look good, feel good, and help the environment all at once.
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 Funniest people is made up of actors, stand-up comedians, radio personalities, and even sports analysts. In compiling the list, they emphasize those who are making us laugh consistently and right now.
Within the last five years, a record number of people have walked away from their homes either short selling or foreclosing on homes that they were underwater on – meaning they owed more on them than the home was worth. That has led many to re-think the quintessential belief that homeownership is something as American as baseball and apple pie. It’s estimated that more than 4 million families have moved out of homes they owned and into rental properties since the wave of foreclosures started a few years back. The result has led to increasingly high rents nationwide – as much a 4 percent rise is predicted for this year.
These days, if you want to find information about someone you don’t know, it’s pretty easy to do. Just spend a few minutes in your favorite web browser and you can likely find out where a person lives, where they work, how old they are, how many friends they have on Facebook, and myriad of other interesting tidbits.
Burning Man started on a small beach in San Francisco in 1986 and has burgeoned into a bustling city of 50,000+ participants. Burning Man is a community of people who get together for one week to be part of an experimental community – a community which challenges its members to express themselves in a way that is reflective of their true nature, and to rely on themselves in a way that is not normal in one’s day-to-day life. The dates for 2013′s Burning Man will be August 27th to September 3rd. The location is Black Rock Desert, which is 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada.