insert_link Health & Wellness Tips for safe grocery shopping during coronavirus pandemic Roughly half of Americans are under stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases climb, with officials urging the public to only go out for groceries and other essentials. So how can you keep your grocery trips safe and efficient? Carolyn Cannuscio, director of research at the Center for Public Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, offers these six tips for food shopping during the coronavirus pandemic. Plan ahead Don't wait […] todayApril 9, 2020
insert_link Food & Drink Forget Wine. This Napa Vintner Plans to Produce 4.5 Million Oz. of Hand Sanitizer Dave Phinney, the man behind the now legendary Prisoner wine brand, is regarded as one of Napa’s most prolific winemakers. He is also considered one of the most creative—putting animated skeletons in your tasting room will have that effect—and, now, the innovative vintner is unshackling his ingenuity even further by turning his whiskey distillery into a makeshift hand sanitizer plant. Savage & Cooke distillery spans 800 acres on Mare Island, […] todayApril 9, 2020
insert_link Home Improvement Need “Safe” Easter Ideas? How about a “Virtual” Egg Hunt? The Iowa Egg Council has created a new way to hunt for Easter Eggs this year, virtually. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Easter Egg Hunts in Iowa and across the United States have been canceled. To keep the tradition alive the Council has created a virtual Easter Egg Hunt. Families can download and print off an Easter egg coloring sheet on their website, https://www.iowaegg.org/. They ask that once […] todayApril 9, 2020
insert_link Fashion Dior Virtual Beauty Shop goes 3-D so you can shop their Paris store from your Living Room Paris, as the saying goes, is always a good idea. Although perhaps not when the European city is in the midst of a lockdown owing to a global pandemic. But the beauty – and retail therapy – of the French capital is now being offered to the world virtually, thanks to one of its most fabulous exports, Dior. Dior Beauty has made its online store a virtual 3D experience of […] todayApril 9, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness How to stay healthy while taking care of a loved one with COVID-19 Most Americans who test positive for the new coronavirus will ride out the disease at home. About 80% of COVID-19 patients experience a mild illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), so they’ll rely on family members — not doctors — to get better. But with a loved one shedding the contagious virus at home, is it inevitable that other members of the household will get […] todayApril 7, 2020
insert_link Fashion Social Distancing Hat Gains Popularity, Raises Funds Amid Coronavirus Crisis Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a number of fashion brands are pitching in to help with COVID-19 relief efforts, including a few new entrants that are leveraging the global crisis to do some good. Enter "Social Distancing Hat," a fund-raising initiative launched two weeks ago that’s giving a nod to the now well-known phrase experts have been using to help stop the spread of the virus. The hat, which comes in […] todayApril 7, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Alibaba Founder Joe Tsai Donates desperately needed coronavirus supplies to NYC Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The supplies were split into two shipments. The first arrived on Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, while the second arrived on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. "We kept hearing cries […] todayApril 7, 2020
insert_link Home Improvement “Rearranging” is an easy Home Improvement Project you can do while Sheltering in Place As the U.S. confronts the spread of the novel coronavirus, more and more places are implementing stay-at-home orders. And while we grapple with how to pay rent, what the the future of transit will look like, and how the virus is impacting the housing market, we’re also left with a more basic question: What should we do while we’re stuck at home? There’s only so much TV to binge-watch […] todayApril 6, 2020
insert_link Fashion Coronavirus Doesn’t Deter Online Jewelry Auction Bids Sotheby’s logged one of its most successful jewelry auctions ever this week amid global coronavirus lockdowns. The auction house marked its best sell-through for an online jewelry sale, selling 97 percent of lots from its Jewels Online auction that wrapped last week. The sale realized a total $739,375, far surpassing its highest total estimate of $671,600. Sotheby’s says that half of the auction’s lots exceeded their highest estimate and that […] todayApril 2, 2020