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What Not To Wear (US Version)
''What Not to Wear'' is an American makeover reality television series based on the British show of the same name. The show premiered on January 18, 2003, and ended on October 18, 2013, airing on TLC in the United States. ''What Not to Wear'' was hosted by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, though London's Season 1 co-host was Wayne Scot Lukas. Also part of the show was head makeover artist Carmindy and hairstylist Nick Arrojo from season 1 through season 6. Celebrity hairstylist Ted Gibson replaced Arrojo beginning in season 7, through season 10. On March 6, 2013, TLC announced that the tenth season of ''What Not to Wear'' would be its last. Format Participants were nominated by friends, co-workers, or relatives. Some episodes involved self-nominations, such as the class reunion specials or mall nominations. In the latter, ''What Not to Wear'' set up a 360-degree mirror in various malls across the United States, which allowed women to explain why they needed fashion help. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World (TV series), The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series ''Survivor (franchise), Survivor'', ''Idol (franchise), Idol'', and ''Big Brother (franchise), Big Brother'', all of which became global Franchising, franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature the gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York & Company
New York & Company, Inc. (NY&C) is an e-commerce workwear retailer for women. New York & Company apparel and accessories are sold exclusively through their digital store. From 1918 to 1992, the company was known as Lerner Shops. Its name was then changed to Lerner New York and then to New York & Company. The company began retailing exclusively through its digital store in 2020. Company history Lerner Shops The company started as Lorraine Shops in 1917. Lerner Shops was founded in 1918 by brothers Samuel A. Lerner, Joseph J. Lerner, and Michael Lerner, and Harold M. Lane in New York City. Joseph was the father of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The first Lerner Shops store was in New York City; 18 more shops opened later that year. The company was then organized under Lerner Stores Corporation. By 1920, 23 Lerner Shops were in operation. Within ten years, that figure grew to 160 units in 37 states. In 1948, the company was said to have just under 200 stores nationwide. In 1963, McCro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Elizabeth
Shannon Elizabeth Fadal (born September 7, 1973) is an American actress and poker player. Her film roles solidified her status as a sex symbol of the 1990s and 2000s. In film, Elizabeth is best known for her role as Nadia in the ''American Pie'' film series (1999–2001; 2012), which saw her have a supporting role in the first film, a lead ensemble role in the second film, and a cameo role in the fourth film. Her other notable credits include lead roles in ''Scary Movie'' (2000), '' Tomcats'' (2001), '' Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' (2001), '' Thirteen Ghosts'' (2001), '' Cursed'' (2005), and '' Night of the Demons'' (2009), and supporting roles in ''Love Actually'' (2003), '' The Grand'' (2007), ''Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'' (2019), and Plan B (2024). In television, Elizabeth had a recurring role as Brooke Rockwell on the Fox sitcom ''That '70s Show'' (2003–2005) and a main role as Tiffany Sherwood on the UPN sitcom '' Cuts'' (2005–2006). Elizabeth splits her time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayim Bialik
Mayim Chaya Bialik ( ; born December 12, 1975) is an American actress, author, and former game show host. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of the NBC sitcom ''Blossom (American TV series), Blossom''. From 2010 to 2019, she played neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'', for which she was nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015 and 2017. Bialik shared hosting duties of ''Jeopardy!'' with Ken Jennings on a rotating basis between August 2021 and December 2023. Early life and education Mayim Chaya Bialik was born on December 12, 1975, in San Diego, California, to Beverly (née Winkleman) and Barry Bialik. Her family were Jewish immigrants who lived in the Bronx, New York City. Three of her four grandparents migrated from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. After being r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seattle Times
''The Seattle Times'' is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891, ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region. The Seattle Times Company, which owns and publishes the paper, is mostly owned by the Blethen family, which holds 50.5% of the company; the other 49.5% is owned by the McClatchy Company. The Blethen family has owned and operated the newspaper since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' had a longstanding rivalry with the '' Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' until the latter ceased print publication in 2009. ''The Seattle Times'' has received 11 Pulitzer Prizes and is widely renowned for its investigative journalism. History ''The Seattle Times'' originated as the ''Seattle Press-Times'', a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the ''Seattle Daily Times'', it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Kirk
Tara Kirk Sell (born July 12, 1982) is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who is an Olympic silver medalist. She is a former world record holder in the 100-meter breaststroke (short course). She has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, three gold, seven silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, the World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Summer Universiade. Kirk was the contributor for Episode 18, Season 6 of '' What Not to Wear''. Swimming career Kirk is the former American Record holder in the 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter breaststrokes. Kirk is the first woman to swim the 100-yard breaststroke in under 58 seconds (57.77). Kirk previously held the 100 short-course meter breaststroke world record at 1:04.79 but this was beaten by Leisel Jones on August 28, 2006. Kirk received the 1997–98 Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie LaPatin
Melanie LaPatin is a United States Professional Ballroom Dance Champion and choreographer, best known for her choreography work on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" and ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." Originally from Brooklyn, New York, LaPatin formed a professional partnership with Tony Meredith in 1981, marrying him in 1989. Together they traveled the world, competing, coaching, performing, lecturing, choreographing, and represented the United States in twelve Professional World Latin-American Dance Championships, winning over 100 championship titles. LaPatin eventually moved to back to New York to coach and open a Latin and Ballroom dance studio, Dance Times Square. Competition and titles With Meredith, LaPatin represented the United States for over a decade in the World Latin American Dance Championships and has taken home over 100 championship titles. Their titles include: The United States Professional Latin Champions, Dirty Dancing Champions, 1999 DanceSport World Cup Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballroom Dance
Ballroom dance is a set of European partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television. ''Ballroom dance'' may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any recreational dance with a partner. However, with the emergence of dance competition (now known as Dancesport), two principal schools have emerged and the term is used more narrowly to refer to the dances recognized by those schools. The International School, originally developed in EnglandFranks A.H. 1963. ''Social dance: a short history''. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. and now regulated by the World Dance Council (WDC) and the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), is most prevalent in Europe. It encompasses two categories, Standard and Latin, each of which consist of five dances—International Waltz, International Tango, International Viennese Waltz, Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Darwish
Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971), known mononymously as Tiffany, is an American pop singer. Her 1987 cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song " I Think We're Alone Now" spent two weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and was released as the second single from her debut studio album '' Tiffany''. Her singles " Could've Been" and " I Saw Him Standing There", a cover version of the Beatles' " I Saw Her Standing There" were soon released. The former claimed the No. 1 position on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Thanks to an original mall tour, "The Beautiful You: Celebrating The Good Life Shopping Mall Tour '87", Tiffany found commercial success; and both her singles and the album peaked at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and ''Billboard'' 200 charts, respectively. Tiffany's second studio album, '' Hold an Old Friend's Hand,'' featured a Top 10 single which charted on the ''Billboard'' 200 in 1988. It achieved platinum status, although it did not r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Slankard
Megan Slankard (born June 6, 1983) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Early life Megan Slankard was born on June 6, 1983 in Tracy, California. Slankard began learning the guitar when she was 10 years old. At age 17, Slankard produced and recorded her first album, '' Lady is a Pirate'', with her brother at home on her computer. Career After turning 18, Slankard toured with David Knopfler as the opening act for his European tour and co-wrote the title song of his album '' Ship of Dreams''. In July 2004, Slankard appeared on an episode of TLC's '' What Not to Wear''. The episode first aired July 16, 2004. Slankard's album '' Freaky Little Story'' appeared on the ''Acoustic Guitar'' 2004 Top 5 list and became a top ten seller on the Amazon CD sales chart. In 2005, she released the EP album ''A Little Extra Sun'' produced by Adam Rossi. According to her web site, she was a semi-finalist in Discmaker's 2007 Independent Music World Series and International Songwriting C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Phoenix
''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the now defunct ''Boston Phoenix'', ''Providence Phoenix'', ''Portland Phoenix'', and ''Worcester Phoenix''. These publications emphasized local arts and entertainment coverage as well as lifestyle and political coverage. The ''Portland Phoenix'', which folded in 2019, was revived a few months later by another company, New Portland Publishing. The newspaper closed in 2023. The papers, like most alternative weeklies, are somewhat similar in format and editorial content to ''The Village Voice''. History Origin ''The Phoenix'' was founded in 1965 by Joe Hanlon, a former editor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student newspaper, '' The Tech''. Since many Boston-area college newspapers were printed at the same printing firm, Hanlon's idea was to do a four-page sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macy's
Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34th Street that opened in 1902. It expanded beyond the New York metropolitan area by acquisitions and conversions of regional department stores, facilitated by the purchase of Macy's by Federated Department Stores in 1994. It achieved a national footprint with the acquisition of The May Department Stores Company by Federated in 2005, which resulted in the conversion of its department stores to Macy's in 2006 and the renaming of Federated to Macy's, Inc. in 2007. Macy's is also a sister brand to the Bloomingdale's luxury department store chain and Bluemercury beauty store chain. Macy's is the largest department store company by retail sales in the United States, with 94,000 employees and an annual revenue of $25.3 billion . It operates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
