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BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, Neil Strauss is not your standard-issue pickup artist. An L.A.-based journalist--and the co-author of several raunchy celebrity tomes, including Motley Crue's The Dirt and Jenna Jameson's [...]

JUST A POPE DREAM It was a long shot, but for one blessed moment in April, it seemed within the realm of possibility that the successor to Pope John Paul [...]

WHAT BETTER WAY to celebrate the founding of the nation than to gather family and friends in the backyard and ignite a product called Powder Keg? Everyone loves fireworks--if not [...]

IF STEPHEN Harper is the stiff-lipped conscience of the new Conservatives, Belinda Stronach is their resident rock star. When the 38-year-old rookie MP arrives at the Palais des Congres in [...]

A FEW WEEKS AGO, I found myself at Blockbuster, renting Troy--the widely panned 2004 adaptation of Homer, starring Brad Pitt's golden locks. True to expectation, nearly three hours of Pitt [...]

How exactly does one greet a holiday-party host and hostess? Let us count the ways. FOR THOSE OF US not raised by punctilious British nannies, proper etiquette can be a [...]

In the past two years, a new genre of magazines has sprung up to celebrate a burgeoning demographic: "urban dogs" (the kind who wear nail polish and cashmere peacoats) and [...]

"APATHY IS SO LAST SPRING," reads the website of U.S. designers Politipunk, purveyors of hip, novelty T-shirts. And they're quite right. In the world of high fashion, this fall was [...]

For those with extraordinary faith in technology, there's a new birth control device on the market. LadyComp (US$485), a German product distributed by Toronto-based RaXMedical, is a microcomputer that uses [...]

What's the latest "it" item in home interiors? The designer Hanukkah menorah, of course. This year, in honour of the centennial of the Jewish Museum in New York, Canadian designer [...]

Given the iPod's sleek, minimalist design, it was only a matter of time before the style set started dressing it up. Now, a whole range of options helps you transform [...]

IN THE VIDEO for Lindsay Lohan's latest single, Rumors, the teen dynamo appears, cleavage exposed, writhing in a gilded birdcage and bemoaning the wealth of attention she's been getting of [...]

LIKE ALL COMMERCIAL BRANDS, dog breeds fall in and out of fashion. Take, for instance, the Dalmation. When Disney released its live-action version of the classic animated film 101 Dalmations [...]

Several years ago, Mattel, Inc. teamed up with MasterCard to create a product called Cool Shoppin' Barbie. The doll came equipped with a mini MasterCard, a cardboard boutique and a [...]

THE BRITISH WINE writer Hugh Johnson wrote that wine has "the power to banish care." But did you know it also has the power to bring grown men to fisticuffs [...]

Why plug in any old air freshener when you can go on a multiple-scent journey? Recently, Procter & Gamble introduced Scentstories by Febreze ($44.99), a specially designed disc player which [...]

MARGARET ATWOOD is having a musical moment. First, the CanLit doyenne made a foray into pop music, contributing lyrics to As Smart As We Are, a literary-themed album by New [...]

WHEN MARGARET ATWOOD was approached several years ago by a Danish composer hoping to adapt The Handmaid's Tale into an opera, she thought he was mad. But the young composer, [...]

A Winnipegger's death goes unnoticed for two years. Thank his computer. ONE NOVEMBER DAY in 2002, Jim Sulkers, a 53-year-old retired municipal worker from Winnipeg, climbed into bed, pulled the [...]

Your flight's been delayed--again. You've just reread the newspaper, your head is pounding and you've still got three hours to kill. Airports can be miserable places, which is why the [...]

THERE'S BEEN PROMISING NEWS in the science of female sexuality of late. Very favourable indeed, particularly if you're a rat. A few weeks ago, James Pfaus, a Concordia University researcher [...]

In the mid-1970s, John Mackey was just the kind of guy you'd expect to open an organic food store. Drifting between Austin and San Antonio, Tex., Mackey dropped out of [...]

Christopher Byrne is a New York-based independent toy analyst known by his trademarked alias, 'The Toy Guy.' He began his career in the late 1970s, writing assembly instructions at CBS [...]

HERE'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAY: consumer advocates demanding increased corporate branding. In December 1999, Intria, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, installed its first [...]

Every year around this time, I visit my brother in Los Angeles--where he's lived for almost two decades--and every year, I step off the plane, peel off three layers of [...]

If you could ask Canadian women anything, what would it be? We're a curious bunch at Chatelaine, so we commissioned an exclusive national survey last fall investigating how women feel [...]

Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha says working with photographer Steven Meisel was what put her on the map. Rocha says discipline is necessary to cope with her intense schedule. She says there will come a time in a model's career that they need to think about changing industries given a model's very short career.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of a trip to the drugstore with my mother on a December evening in the early '80s. I was about six years [...]

Every now and then you come across a fresh spin on a tired problem that makes it feel new again. Several months ago, I read about a pop-up shop in [...]

When Christopher Hitchens wrote his infamous 2007 Vanity Fair column 'Why Women Aren't Funny' (yes, him again-stay with me here), he wasn't actually talking about the likes of Tina Fey, [...]

RAHUL AND PRIYANKA GANDHI After the May elections in India, Indian National Congress leader Sonia Gandhi joined other observers in crediting her son, Rahul, 38, and daughter Priyanka, 37, with [...]

When Brooklyn journalist Arianne Cohen was a five-foot-three eight-year-old, her classmates nicknamed her Amazon Ari. Her pediatrician told her she was going to be 'taller than the president,' who at [...]

For the first two years of his life, Lars Sonne appeared to develop normally, a happy boy, much like his older brothers. But at the age of two, roughly 10 [...]

Last month, Leanne Shapton--a 35-year-old Canadian artist and illustrator, and the art director of the New York Times' op-ed page--published her charming and inventive new book, a fictional love story [...]

SLUMDOG ACTORS Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, and the rest of the young cast of Slumdog Millionaire--the winner of this +year's Oscar for Best Picture--became Hollywood darlings overnight. Pinto, who appeared [...]

M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada's pre-eminent novelists, experienced his first moment of kinship with the late, great Mordecai Richler at a writer's festival in Sydney, Australia, more than two decades [...]

Grammy night was, for millions of TV viewers, their first exposure to the explosive, frenetic, Day-Glo energy that is M.I.A. Some may have heard her mega-hit Paper Planes--nominated that night [...]

It was only 18 months ago that the Wall Street Journal ran an article outlining the lavish demands of a new generation of workers, known collectively as Gen Y or [...]

There's a story Tom King likes to tell. It's about the Liberals and the Conservatives, and how they're a lot like the pair of hotshot Romeos who used to court [...]

In 1996, Taylor, then a 37-year-old neuroanatomist at Harvard, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel burst in the left hemisphere of her brain, the result of a rare [...]

In late 2006, Johnny Diablo, a committed vegan of 23 years, opened a restaurant/bar in Portland, Ore., to prove that meatless fare could be delicious and satisfying--something guys could eat [...]

Friends are more important than money--or so decrees one of the dozen or so Chicken Soup for the Yogi's Soul-style tenets of Lululemon Athletica's corporate manifesto. It's not a bad [...]

In 2004, Steven Cojocaru, the flamboyant, Montreal-born fashion and celebrity correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, was diagnosed with a potentially lethal form of kidney disease. Since then, he […]

Nikki Sixx, the hard-partying, lady-slaying bassist for the '80s hair-metal phenomenon Motley Crue, has taken on a new role--activist and bestselling author. His book, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in […]

When Francine Pascal, the elusive creator of the Sweet Valley High books, set out to write the first few titles in the series in the early '80s, the teen-girl fiction […]

Last year, there was no dodging Marie Antoinette. No sooner had Sophia Coppola's opulent biopic hit the screens than retailers began stocking their shelves with wallpaper, area rugs, wrap dresses, [...]