Monthly Archives: December 2009
Break Open the Bottle – Not Your Leg.
It’s lodging season, and as of this weekend, the hills are alive and open for business.
Courtesy of the UK Telegraph
For those unaware of the term, lodging is quite simply the aprés ski – all day long. If you like to do one run (if that), then spend the rest of the day sipping on Baileys while scanning the crowd for a cute looking coach, then you are a lodger. If you’d rather shop for the perfect pair of goggles and matching mittens, only to wear them outside posing by the ski racks, then you are a lodger. If you enjoy riding the chairlift around several times while sipping on a bottle of champagne with your friends, then yes, again you are a lodger. So here’s the scoop on the various lodging facilities near Toronto (both public and private) for all of your fabulous weekends away.
Category: Hot to Trot
Tagged: Blue Mountain, Craigleith, Georgian Peaks, Horseshoe Valley, Moonstone, Osler, Skiing Toronto
Cold Cowgirls Stuck in Canadian Winters.
Yey or Neigh. Cruella DeVille was an evil, fur-crazed maniac – with a great sense of style.
Courtesy of Walt Disney
Recently, our Head Cowgirl found herself in Kensington Market amongst several gorgeous vintage fur coats. Standing there, for the first time, her voice of reason was not price related (the coat she wanted was 3/4 length, chestnut brown, and only $150). As a part-vegetarian, part-PETA member, and part-fur activist… she found she still couldn’t part ways with this vintage goody. Does being vintage make it okay? If it’s from an animal we eat and not some poor, hunted down fox does that make it okay?
Category: Fashion
Santa Baby…
Just slip a stable under the tree, for me. Been an awful good girl Santa baby…
Courtesy of mushypony.com
There are some key products out there that are worth making a note of. They make great gifts all year round, and every Cowgirl would approve wholeheartedly. So if you’ve got a case of writer’s block with your Christmas list this year, feel free to cheat off ours. It’s okay this time.
Category: Fashion
Tagged: Banana Republic, BCBG clutch, Dior Show Mascara, Jac & Gill, Jo Malone, Magic Pony, True Blood
Cine Peru at The Ossington: A Tuesday Night Hit.
Our cowgirl, Justine Iaboni, interviews the manager of Cine Peru: Nathaniel Laywine.
Courtesy of Cine Peru
Sipping $4.50 pints of Creemore and munching on delicious cupcakes in the dimly lit back room of a cozy hot spot could very well brighten up an otherwise dreary, cold and artless, toonie Tuesday. This is the setting for Cine Peru, a unique series of film screenings spearheaded by local good-doer and avid film-lover, Nathaniel Laywine. Featuring two of the most innovative and internationally recognized Peruvian filmmakers of the past decade, (Josué Méndez and Claudia Llosa) alongside scintillating images of Peruvian cinema, what better way to help fund Nathaniel’s voyage to Lima, Peru this February where he’ll be volunteering with La Semilla. Why should we send him to Peru? Well I caught up with him the day after the first of two screenings to find out.
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Category: Art
Tagged: Adam Nayman, Cinema, Claudia Llosa, Josué Méndez, La Semilla, Madeinusa, Nathaniel Laywine, Peru, The Ossington
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