Pop Go the Potato Chips
Sometimes–usually late at night—there’s nothing better than downing a whole bag of potato chips. Or tortilla chips (TAR loves Garden of Eatin’s Red Hot Blues) –or anything crunchy with some zing to it. But your waistline soon pays the price for that indulgence, unless you switch your crunching habit over to amazingly addictive pop chips, and we mean that in a good way. Think of it as the “healthful” alternative...
Beauty Sleep, Sleek and Smooth
We’ve been traveling everywhere with a new silk pillowcase, billed to keep your hair in place while you sleep and to prevent those icky creases that come with high thread count territory when you wake up on cotton sheets. Guess what? Branché Beauty’s silk charmeuse pillowcase really works and, we’re told, is a bedtime favorite of leading ladies including Jade Pinkett Smith and Reese Witherspoon. Available in silver, ivory, blush,...
The Scents of Summer
Suntan lotion and….Coney Island? That’s the latest terrain master parfumier Laurice Rahmé of Bond No. 9 is interpreting in fragrance, the 29th in her venerated line. Its vivid sea/sky blue bottle hits shelves on June 1, following the scented summertime path blazed by Fire Island and the Hamptons eau de parfum. She says Coney Island melds cool notes of margarita mix, hypnotically seductive chocolate and caramel and cedarwood (3.4...
Paris, Pimping Some Plates
Have you heard and seen enough already? Thought so. But will you tune into Larry King tonight anyway? The sooner this story recedes cannot be soon enough, because, well, it’s just not that interesting anymore. Poor Paris, her media gamesmanship nixing a reported $1 million payday from NBC to tell her tale of woe. And pity the poor LA start-up company who had a special gift ready to send to Ms. Hilton: a limited-edition license plate...
Better Than Red Bull + Vodka
Like a starlet making the rounds, the new spirit VeeV is hitting LA hotspots including Parc, Les Deux, Winston’s, Geisha House and even the Beverly Hills Hotel. Ask for it with soda and a twist of lime, or just rocks, and you just may feel better than you did before. The primary ingredient is Acai, a nutrient-packed berry from the Brazilian rainforest billed as the world’s healthiest food. Grown atop Amazonian palm trees, locals...