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Give a Heart (Yours?) for Valentine’s Day

Saturday, February 5th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

Heart Art Creations No calories! No need to water. Original. Personal. Meant to last. Wendy Isaacson concocts her approximately 5” fully shaped hearts from Durham’s

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A Valentine’s Day for the Senses

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

It’s Valentine’s Day again, ladies. You could send HIM flowers or original sweets or you could embody or gift the sensual. On the fourteenth, you

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A Romantic Valentine’s Day

Sunday, January 30th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

Let’s look at possible scenarios, ladies: It’s a new relationship, well, fairly new. The word “love” has been said aloud without coercion or regret. You

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Woman Around Town: Lyss Stern—Mom On a Mission

Monday, August 30th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

By Alix Cohen It’s 5:30 a.m. Oliver and Jackson wake their mom, Lyss, who pads into the kitchen, or Café Stern, to make pancakes. Breakfast

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Women Around Town: Victoria Pettibone and Sasha Eden—WET’s Founders Express Their Views on Women in Theater

Sunday, April 18th, 2010
by Carol Toscano on Woman Around Town

In 2006, with the first Women’s Expressive Theater (WET) “Love Benefit,” both Victoria Pettibone and Sasha Eden (left to right, above) were, themselves, in love.

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Technophobe 2.0—Resisting the Pings and the Pokes

Sunday, March 14th, 2010
by Lena Kim on Living Around

I received the text from my sister at around 8:30 on Valentine’s Day: “Michelle’s in labor.” I called her back immediately and asked, “How’s she

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Love in the Parlors: A Real Victorian Valentine’s Day

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
by Woman Around Town on Living Around

Going out to dinner this Sunday for Valentine’s Day? Already dreading the crowds and the limited fixe prix menu that all restaurants offer that night?

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Male Fear and Dread on Valentine’s Day

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
by Paul Leone on Living Around

When I was in fifth grade I had a huge crush on Emily Richmond. We were ten years old at the time but I was

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