Archive for Category: "Beauty & Health"

Beauty Night Out 2013 at LongView Gallery

Beauty Night Out 2013 at LongView Gallery

By Punch Passport Correspondent Loreana S. Gonzalez Lazzarini Style & Image Network (SIN) hosted its annual luxurious beauty and shopping event  held last week at Long View Gallery from 5pm-10pm. As always, beauty night out seeks to provide its guests with the best in beauty and relaxation, and is designed to ensure a fun filled and [...]

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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month So … LOVE YOUR BUTT!

What do Milton Berle, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eartha Kitt, Audrey Hepburn, Vince Lombardi, Jack Lemmon, Sharon Osbourne, Ronald Reagan, Charles Schulz, Joel Siegel, Tony Snow, and Darryl Strawberry all have in common? Alive or not, they all have or had colon cancer. Those who passed away did so from the disease. A disease that is [...]

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UN Foundation & Charity Miles Team Up for #VDay10k

UN Foundation & Charity Miles Team Up for #VDay10k

On Monday, February 11th, the United Nations Foundation and social good fitness app Charity Miles are partnering the entire month in order to encourage people to help raise 10k just by downloading the app and participating in its virtual #VDay10k by talking a walk, run or bike ride. Not too much to ask, right? After [...]

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Chris4Life Changes4Life Series : Crowding Out: Focusing on What Nourishes You and Allowing the Rest Fall Away

Chris4Life Changes4Life Series : Crowding Out: Focusing on What Nourishes You and Allowing the Rest Fall Away

By Guest Blogger Kristy S. Rodriguez, M.Ed., CHHC, RYT, Holistic Health Coach The New Year often brings with it the desire to make positive changes in one’s life. It represents new beginnings and is a time to free oneself of past mistakes. It is a time of resolution and incentive, when we can reflect and create [...]

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Style & Image Network, Politics of Pretty Host Preview of Spring’s Beauty Night Out Event

Style & Image Network, Politics of Pretty Host Preview of Spring’s Beauty Night Out Event

By Punch Correspondent Attie Poirier Last month, Kara Manos of Politics of Pretty teamed up with Style & Image Network, to throw DC media a sneak peak to some of the goodies in store at the annual Beauty Night Out this spring. Tentatively set for April 24, BNO offers DC women an opportunity to primp and [...]

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Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer | Annual Ruesch Center Symposium | Nov 30 – Dec 1

Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer | Annual Ruesch Center Symposium | Nov 30 – Dec 1

Mark your calendars for the annual Ruesch Center Symposium (November 30th & December 1st) where experts in the medical field explore the most pressing questions about global clinical research and the future of personalized medicine. Let’s face it, health care is a HOT TOPIC.  The focus of this year’s two day symposium is Empowering Patients [...]

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall…Who Has the Best Movember Mustache of Them All?

Mirror Mirror on the Wall…Who Has the Best Movember Mustache of Them All?

It’s already November 19th and surely you’ve heard of the international men’s health mustache movement, Movember.  And surely, you’ve been struck by the sight of an odd, out of place (and decade), perhaps unkempt and unflattering caterpillar creeping across the upper lip of an otherwise “normal” looking man.  Yes, thank him for putting himself out [...]

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RareVoice Awards Gala to Honor Congressional Staff & Patient Advocates in Oscar Style Award Ceremony

RareVoice Awards Gala to Honor Congressional Staff & Patient Advocates in Oscar Style Award Ceremony

Restaurateur Fabio Beggiato, who has been fighting the rare disease Mastocytosis for 2 years now (he was diagnosed finally last year via a study done by NIH), is also the owner and chef of The Darlington House.  If you are a Washingtonian, chances are you have eaten at one of his restaurants (former owner of [...]

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drybar Has Finally Blown into the DMV

drybar Has Finally Blown into the DMV

Women of Washington, well, the DMV rather, rejoice because what seemed to once be a fantasy, has in fact, turned into a reality.  You see, drybar, the blowout-only service company which has slowly spread its wings into most major markets, has finally arrived. The day has come.  Heralded by clients as a God-send, drybar charges [...]

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La Vie En Rose Celebrates Life with Cokie Roberts and Carly Fiorina at La Maison Francaise

La Vie En Rose Celebrates Life with Cokie Roberts and Carly Fiorina at La Maison Francaise

Wednesday, ladies who lunch (and who were not at the Nationals baseball game) took advantage of the unseasonably warm and sunny fall weather which presented itself seemingly as a courtesy to the cause.  At La Maison Francaise, women (and a few men) who support The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates Women’s Health Board and [...]

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TODAY: Thursday, September 20th – Meet Kilian Hennessy at Saks Chevy Chase

TODAY: Thursday, September 20th – Meet Kilian Hennessy at Saks Chevy Chase
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Chris4Life.org Gets A Makeover

Chris4Life.org Gets A Makeover

There is no rest for the weary, ever, especially if you are doing the best you can do to change the current and future state of our health.  We can’t alter the past, we can only learn from it.  That’s what Chris4Life Colon Cancer continues to do everyday with innovative forward-thinking ideas which turn into [...]

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