As sports and pop culture commentators laid bare Tiger Woods’s cheating heart, and the parade of cocktail waitresses, porn actresses and prostitutes booked their tell-all interviews with the gutter press in order to collect their 30 pieces of silver, Tiger copped the usual plea for a celebrity caught with his pants down. He asked... »
I was a child the first time I flew in a commercial airliner. My mother and I traveled from central Ontario to Toronto, a short flight by the standards of the day, in mid-August. We flew in an Air Canada Vickers Viscount and I thought the she was beautiful; all decked out in her... »
Nicole Kidman probably hasn’t had to apply her own makeup for at least twenty years. The Academy Award winning actress has her pick of makeup artists so there’s no excuse for this paparazzi dream slap that she wore to the premier of the movie “Nine” in New York on the night of the 15th. Nicky... »
Kyla Ebbert is the sort of woman who would never rate media attention unless she was involved in a serious crime or tragedy but she made national news in the US by committing a questionable fashion crime. In the summer of 2007 Miss Ebbert, a 23-year-old college student and Hooters waitress, boarded a Southwest... »
Another lewd cliché-driven song-and-dance act broadcast during a pop music awards program has outraged middle America, the US-based Parents Television Council, and a handful of conservative radio talk show hosts. We at AHM are outraged that a little implied sex on TV has gotten people so fired up, and that the audience’s reactions can... »
We don’t know how or where it happened; Karen might have brought it home following a shopping trip, I might have picked it up while working a gig, but we caught it—the H1N1 virus or swine flu. Karen was positively diagnosed a few weeks ago and during her visit our doc said, “If Alexandra... »
Forget today’s anemic, vanilla sex teenage vampires, and campy zombies, this time of year my memory conjures up Snoopy and his ongoing battle with the Red Baron, popularized in the Peanuts comic strip and in the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Snoopy’s nemesis was inspired by the Red Baron of history,... »
At this time of year everybody gushes over nature’s colour palette; brilliant yellows and golds, every conceivable shade of brown, but above all—reds; bright reds, deep reds, regular old Canadian maple leaf reds. I love fall colours but I’m most excited about the return of red lipstick. I never stopped wearing red but in my... »
My first cell phone would’ve been a perfect fit for a thug who wanted to pitch something through the nearest store window prior to making a no-cash, no-credit “purchase” of a TV or stereo. The phone was big and grey and doubled the weight of my purse every time I carried it. I hated... »
Western European women’s clothing changed dramatically in the first half of the 12th century, during the First Crusade, when noble ladies accompanied their crusading lords to cities such as Constantinople, Palermo, and Venice—all centres of silk manufacture. These fashion-conscious visitors discovered and adopted a local, eastern-inspired garment, the bliaut, and before long the gown... »
Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of working with many local photographers, some good, some adequate, none bad. Because of my experiences our intern Paddy has been bugging me to take up snapping myself. “It’s not like you’ve never worked behind a camera,” he said. “Why not give it a go?” To emphasize his... »
The Legend Most of us have heard the legend of Lady Godiva’s ride, naked, through the streets of Coventry. According to the earliest surviving source for the legend, the Chronica of Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), Godiva pleaded with her husband Leofric, the “grim” Earl of Mercer and Lord of Coventry, to relieve the heavy... »
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