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Mystery Photo

If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 689-2896 and leave a voicemail with your answer. Please leave your name and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card.

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Night Life

Night Life Some events require tickets or are subject to other limitations. If in doubt, we recommend you contact the venue. Night Life listings must be e-mailed to [email protected] and received no later than Thursday. Tonight Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus CROOKED STILL with special guest DAROL ANGER, Port […]

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Lips on, hips off

WHAT: Huge Lips Skinny Hips HOW MUCH: $20 WHERE IS IT: purplelabnyc.com TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT? You’re going to love this one: Purple Lab NYC has come out with a lip gloss and an appetite suppressor in one, called Huge Lips Skinny Hips. What does the trick? Meadow foam and lemon peel oil pump up […]

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How to survive your marriage: Sex and romance

Married? Here’s some advice about sex and romance from the book “How to Survive Your Marriage” (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $13.95), straight from people who’ve done it: “Don’t play the video game every day. It might get boring. Keep it new and try playing the game in different rooms, at different angles, with different […]

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Jimmy Choo shoes for $55? H&M has them

In a continuing trend of high-end name brands providing their own “endorsed” knock-offs, the latest I-wouldn’t-have-believed-it-till-I-saw-it contender is Jimmy Choo. The shoe God has floated to earth with prices now within reach of someone on a Payless Shoes budget. Forever 21 should be afraid, very afraid. If name brands all start offering up cheap varieties […]

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Talk of the Town

Politics are funny With Al Franken finally in office and everyone speculating on what Sarah Palin will do next, I think we’re missing the obvious. Franken, a former Saturday Night Live player, is moving on to big-time politics. It only makes sense that Sarah will complete this grand symmetry by joining the cast of SNL. […]

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Face time — Jim Mingo: Don’t let the cayenne truffles and coconutty ‘spread’ fool you. It’s all about the chocolate. Handmade chocolate.

Jim Mingo is many things. Carpenter. Snowboard instructor. Musician. The jobs are fun, sure things and they help pay the bills. But it’s another, sweeter job that’s earned him some attention lately. Chocolatier.   Owner of jmingo chocolates in Gray, Mingo creates made-to-order, hand-dipped chocolates, including about 70 kinds of truffles, stuffed chocolate-dipped strawberries, needhams […]

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Blog offers charming awkward family photos

(MCT) The best thing about getting holiday cards from friends, family members, co-workers, etc., isn’t the sweet thoughts of holiday cheer. No, it’s that special moment when you happen upon one of the personalized, “this is my family, look how pretty we are in our matching, cheesy sweaters standing around so impromptu in this forest […]

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This mango-chili-lime shake cools you down

The difference between shakes and smoothies is all in the fruit, says cookbook author Adam Ried. Start dumping bananas and other produce into the blender and you’ve got a smoothie. Stay true to ice cream, sorbets and syrups, and you’ve got a shake. And Ried’s got more than 100 shakes. His new book, “Thoroughly Modern […]