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Who said the Aaliyah swoop was out of style? In this week’s Hair Photo of the Week, mastarpiece rocks it with her bob cut and the flip curl at the end. Think you belong here next week? Join and submit your photos to be featured as ‘Hair Photo of the Week’ next week. More Bang For […]
Mary Mitchell, in her Chicago Sun-Times column, discusses raising and disciplining children in an increasingly complicated world. Are we turning our children into wimps? I have to ask myself that every time I feel like I have to spare my grandchildren some unpleasantness I endured as a child. And two stories recently in the news make […]
President Obama intends to swoop to the rescue of the ailing US Postal Service—or at least try, reports the New York Times. The White House yesterday announced that it would push for legislation giving the USPS a three-month reprieve on the $5.5 billion it’s supposed to pay on Sept. 30 for future retiree health benefits, saving it […]
A colossal crocodile suspected of being a man-eater has been caught in the Philippines – and the one-ton beast has quickly become an Internet sensation. Remarkable photos taken of the giant saltwater crocodile after it was caught alive by villagers in the southern Philippines Saturday have gone viral online. The images show a jubilant horde from […]
New York City–based makeup artist, Troy Surratt, teaches us how to choose the right mascara! FIND YOUR FORMULA If you want evenly spaced lashes on the top and bottom, use a light formula, such as Maybelline New York Great Lash. If you have stick-straight lashes, use a curling mascara, which has resins and waxes to […]
Think Hurricane Irene wasoverhyped? Well, it looks like it’ll wind up being one of the 10 costliest disasters in US history, analysts tell the New York Times—and a lot of the damage won’t be covered by insurance. Industry estimates peg the storm’s costs at between $7 billion and $10 billion, with most of that due to […]
Add Maya Angelou to the chorusof voices who are none too pleased with how the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial turned out. There’s already been some hullabaloo over the fact that one of the quotes on the wall by the Tidal Basin wasn’t actually uttered by King, but the one Angelou has a gripe with is a […]
Our thirst for the Apple iPad is well documented here at TheUrbandaily, but that should never be an excuse to abandon common sense. According to PCMag.com (via TheSmokingGun) a South Carolina woman was tricked into buying a piece of wood decorated to look like an iPad. You can’t make this stuff up. Ashley McDowell, 22, […]
Michael Jackson would have celebrated his 53rd birthday today, Aug. 29. In honor of what would have been Michael’s 53rd birthday, ongoing activities continued through today as part of The Legend’s Weekend at 2300 Jackson Street, Michael’s boyhood home. Entertainment, food, arts and crafts, a circus and more have been part of the festivities from […]
Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton was robbed of some jewelry in April, and on the night of Aug. 19, he apparently thought he saw the person behind the crime walking down a street in southwest Atlanta. And as he drove by in a black Chevrolet Tahoe, he fired shots, say police—except the person he allegedly […]
Today is the 10th anniversary of Aaliyah’s death and we are not celebrating our lost but her life. She was one of kind and no one can ever take Baby Girl’s place. They say Aaliyah was angle and I have to say she moved as such. She made every girl in America want to learn […]
Aaliyah’s music was surely what she was known for, but her trendsetting style was hard to ignore. No singer was able to strike a balance between two opposites quite like she could. She was all-woman while dressed fully in men’s attire. She was cute with a clean-cut image, but sexy and always sophisticated. Her fashion […]
