Sat Jan 3, 09:31:08 amThe legendary bodybuilding and fitness pioneer Joe Weider was born in Montreal, Canada to become the co-founder—along with his brother Ben Weider—of the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB), create the Mr. Olympia competition a...
Sat Jan 3, 09:21:42 amThe Grammy Awards, te music industry's most prestigious prize, are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for superlative achievement in recorded music. The awards themselves—a dazzling, globally-televised spect...
Sat Jan 3, 09:20:29 amHeadquartered in Baltimore, MD, Under Armour is a thriving clothing brand that got its start designing athletic wear for active participants in sports. Initially designed to be worn underneath sports uniforms (baseball, hockey, football), the company...
Sat Jan 3, 09:14:31 amThe Sundance Film Festival, the nation's largest independent film festival, is held annually in January in the state of Utah. Co-founded and championed by American acting/directing icon Robert Redford in 1978, Sundance has been the place where a lot ...
Sat Jan 3, 09:00:35 amEvery four years in the U.S., a new Presidnet is sworn into office on Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. on January 20th at noon. Traditionally, the Chief Justice of the United States administers the oath. Since the 1981 inauguration of Ronald Reag...
Sun Dec 28, 11:11:30 pmThe Golden Globe Awards—long regarded as not only a precursor to the Academy Awards, but also as the "fun" Hollywood ceremony—are given annually and its carried live to more than 150 countries worldwide, to recognize outstanding...
Sun Dec 28, 11:02:57 pmThom Browne is an innovative and much-celebrated American men's fashion designer. Browne was named the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Menswear Designer of the Year in 2006 and was named GQ Designer of the Year in 2008.His suits are as...
Sun Dec 28, 10:55:05 pmThe single biggest television event in the United States, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League played in late January or early February every year.Football teams that have won multiple Super Bowl games include the G...
Sun Dec 28, 10:48:17 pmNew Zealand born, Australia raised country music superstar, Keith Urban is a multiple Grammy Award-winning artist that has taken his genre of popular music by storm. The 41-year-old Urban became even more famous overnight by marrying fellow Aussie (a...
Sun Dec 28, 10:41:11 pmSpring Break, though a solidly American tradition, is also practiced in countries as far away as Japan, China and Korea. The week-long recess from university or college studies usually occurs during the month of March and features a large exodus of c...
Mon Dec 22, 01:23:56 amNarciso Rodríguez is an American designer born to Cuban immigrants who has taken the fashion world by storm. Growing up in Newark, NJ, Rodríguez got his first big break working for Calvin Klein where he made the universally-praised wedd...
Mon Dec 22, 01:13:55 amESPN Zone is the boutique mini-chain of sports bars and restaurants owned by sports corporate giant, ESPN. The restaurants are notorious for their sheer size—enormous—and myriad activities inside that include game rooms and arcades, TV st...
Mon Dec 22, 01:07:38 amThe first hotel owned by what is today known as the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group was The Mandarin, which opened in Hogn Kong in 1963. The hotel company has expanded its luxury brand to some 22 hotels around the planet including locations in Bangkok,...
Mon Dec 22, 01:00:11 amLotus Cars is a British manufacturer of racing and sports automobiles based in Norfolk, England. The cars known for its sleek design, barebones approach to the interior and its super lightweight body, are mostly built with the sports car fan in mind....
Mon Dec 22, 12:50:35 amNew Year's Eve is an unofficial worldwide holiday marking the final day of the calendar year and it serves as a precursor to the official holiday the following morning known planet-wide as New Year's Day.Many of the world's most picturesque and impor...
Sun Dec 7, 10:29:11 pmSunset Tower Hotel—and its chic restaurant inside its lobby, the Tower Bar—have become instant Hollywood institutions with its A-List roster of regular guests. Jennifer López, Jennifer Aniston, Sean Penn, Barbara Walters, Joaquim P...
Sun Dec 7, 10:16:33 pmFrom Wall Street deal-makers, entrepreneurs and fashion editors to actors, artists and models, David Barton Gym's universe is populated with the world's most important and fascinating people. David Barton, himself a fitness icon, has a small, high-en...
Sun Dec 7, 10:04:51 pmVirgin America Inc. is aa American low-cost airline that began operating in the summer of 2007. The airline's publicizes its aim is to provide "low-fare, high-quality service for long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities...
Sun Dec 7, 09:57:55 pmThe Australian Open is one of the four Grand Slam (most important) tennis tournaments held each year. The Open is held each January in the hot sun of summer in Melbourne, Australia's most important financial center. The tournament was held for the fi...
Sun Dec 7, 09:46:46 pmArt Basel Miami Beach is widely considered to be the most important art show in the nation, nothing short of a cultural and social highlight for the hemisphere. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide f...
