Cast your vote in JIC’s ultimate proposal contest
New York--After receiving more than 1,200 tales of how grooms-to-be popped the question, the Jewelry Information Center (JIC) has narrowed its favorites down to the top 10--and now it's time for voters nationwide to choose the story they like best.

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Barry Caine: Hollywood icons' clothes, jewelry on display at the Metreon
Coming Attractions: Oakland resident Barry Barsamian has provided the San Francisco theater with a host of spiffy items for "Hollywood Legends: The Barry Barsamian Collection." Also: screenings of "Coffy" and "Remembering Playland At the Beach."

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Killer fashions
It was Oscar Wilde who said that fashion was so ugly that it had to be remade every six months. Fashionistas would disagree, of course, particularly as we embrace this, Toronto's Fall 2010 Fashion Week.[...]

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Arlington business woman finds unusual clothes for boutique
In what now seems to have been another life as a consistent, award-winning sales executive for a dot-com company, Arlington’s Teenya Blanchard found herself weeping in the shower one night. A turning point had arrived. A soaking wet epiphany, if you will.

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