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| Canadian embassy 'tailgate': great food, great view for inauguration Jan 22nd 2013, 00:23 Oh, Canada! May seem odd to celebrate a U.S. inauguration on foreign soil — but if you can get in, there are few better vantage points than 5th and Pennsylvania NW. Since 1993, the Canadian embassy has hosted inaugural viewing parties, an event so popular that, with 1,500 guests, it's now held outside and called a "tailgate." And it's sooo Canadian!: Tim Horton coffee, Crown Royal cocktails, gooey piles of poutine, friendly Mounties posing for photos, maple-leaf mittens to take home. Ambassador Gary Doer and Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird bantered about the balmy (to them, anyway) weather. "He's giving me a hard time about the Senators beating the Jets!" Baird said, and the crowd laughed knowingly. Ice hockey, we surmise. Anyway, merci beaucoup. Read full article >>   |  | 'Minimalist' running style may be undermined by new findings from Kenya Jan 21st 2013, 23:46 Americans spent $59 million on "minimalist" running shoes last year, on the premise that the most healthful way to run is the way people have done it for thousands of years: barefoot. Running barefoot, according to the hugely popular 2009 book "Born to Run" and a landmark 2010 study of Kenya's famous Kalenjin distance runners, forces most people onto their forefeet, which nature designed to absorb the considerable impact that running places on feet and lower legs. Traditional running shoes of the past 40 years, in contrast, encourage runners to land on that cushy, raised heel, possibly contributing to lower leg problems. Read full article >>   | | Ashley Judd makes the scene at inauguration parties Jan 21st 2013, 23:12 Ashley Judd mingled with A-list Washington society Sunday, basking in the buzz of a who-knows-possibly-maybe-longshot-keep-them-guessing Democratic run for Senate in Kentucky. First up, a dinner at the home of Atlantic owner David Bradley; next, the late-night party hosted by Buffy Cafritz, Roger and Vicki Sant, and Vernon and Ann Jordan, where the actress, 43, hobnobbed with the likes of Alan Greenspan, V alerie Jarrett, Vicki Kennedy, and Rahm Emanuel. In a short, skin-tight black bandage dress, an orchid tucked behind an ear, she won over at least one new supporter: "I'd vote for her," sayd Bynum Hunter, 29, a Harvard MBA student, "and I don't care what party!" Read full article >> | | Carolyn Hax: Mother's constant bragging has friend biting her tongue Jan 21st 2013, 22:56 Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I have a friend whose one-upper tendencies have gotten UNBEARABLE since we both had children. Whenever a group of us are talking about our kids (mostly challenges we've had and solutions that have worked), this friend can only brag about how 3-year-old "Sophie" is so brilliant, so advanced, so unlike the other children at her preschool, always shocking her parents with her first- and second-grade skills. Read full article >>   | |
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