New Alternatives to Traditional Face Lift

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Mar 162012
 
New Alternatives to Traditional Face Lift

New Alternatives to Traditional Face Lift and Liposuction Procedures Produce Impressive Results without Needles, Anesthesia or Downtime SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. (March 7,2012) – According to a recent study cited by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, over 50 percent of Americans would like to have their appearance enhanced through cosmetic medicine. It is a $10 billion a year business. In record numbers — 14 million cosmetic procedures were done in 2011 alone — Americans are being cut, stretched, tucked, smoothed, tapered, injected and filled to look and feel their best. [Read More]

 Posted by on March 16, 2012

The Celebrity Fashion Experience – Dallas

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Mar 152012
 
The Celebrity Fashion Experience - Dallas

The Celebrity Fashion Experience Presents the Ultimate Fashion Experience benefiting Autism Speaks   Dallas, TX – Front House Management will present The Celebrity Fashion Experience, taking place at Lofty Space located at 816 Montgomery St. on Thursday, April 26, 2012, and featuring Laura Kathleen- Project Runway season 9, Linda Rowe Thomas of the Romẚs Label, Horacio Nieto, emerging Texas designers, Angelica Sandoval of Geisha Inc., Nayra Guerrero, and the soft launch of Key resort & swimwear 2013 collection.   The Celebrity Fashion Experience will feature F/W 2012 collections from designers [Read More]

 Posted by on March 15, 2012

Featured Designer Lloyd Klein of Fashion Week El Paseo™ 2012 To Debut New Collections

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Mar 142012
 
Featured Designer Lloyd Klein of Fashion Week El Paseo™ 2012 To Debut New Collections

Featured Designer Lloyd Klein of Fashion Week El Paseo™ 2012 To Debut New Collections at Runway Show on March 20 PALM SPRINGS, CA (March 10, 2012) — Fashion Week El Paseo™ (March 16 – 24) will present a rousing runway show by featured designer Lloyd Klein who will debut two new collections at the seventh-annual event in Palm Desert on Tuesday, March 20 at 8 p.m. Fashion Week El Paseo™ the West Coast’s most anticipated fashion event unfolds March 16-24, 2012, in the Fashion Week Tent on El Paseo, the [Read More]

 Posted by on March 14, 2012

Fashion Week El Paseo™ Presents Featured Designer Anthony Franco

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Mar 142012
 
Fashion Week El Paseo™ Presents Featured Designer Anthony Franco

Fashion Week El Paseo™ Presents Featured Designer Anthony Franco For a Runway Show on Friday, March 23 Showcasing His New Collections PALM SPRINGS, CA (March 12, 2012) — Fashion Week El Paseo™ (March 16 – 24) will present an alluring runway show by featured designer Anthony Franco who will debut his Fall 2012 and Spring 2012 collections at the seventh-annual event in Palm Desert on Friday, March 23 at 8 p.m. Fashion Week El Paseo™ the West Coast’s most anticipated fashion event unfolds March 16-24, 2012, in the Fashion Week [Read More]

 Posted by on March 14, 2012

McMurtrey Gallery: Keith Carter, Imagining and Dornith Doherty, Cache

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Mar 142012
 
McMurtrey Gallery: Keith Carter, Imagining and Dornith Doherty, Cache

McMurtrey Gallery: Keith Carter, Imagining and Dornith Doherty, Cache, March 24 – April 21, 2012 Imagining Paradise reflects a new world in Keith Carter's visionary universe. With decreased eyesight following a medical condition Mr. Carter explains: "…my current visual world is now flat and two dimensional, similar to looking at a medieval painting, and scattered with black holes, mottled shapes, sparkles, and occasional light shows…" Keith Carter's new photographs of paradise are inspired by a deterioration of the real that Keith has turned into an ideal:  "Using traditional silver-rich film [Read More]

 Posted by on March 14, 2012

Dallas: Organic in the City Fashion Show

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Mar 092012
 
Dallas: Organic in the City Fashion Show

Organic in the City Fashion Show Public Event · By Texas Discovery Gardens. Friday, March 23, 2012. 6:00pm until 9:30pm. (Dallas, TX) – Experience cutting edge sustainable and organic couture fashion with Texas Discovery Gardens’ Organic in the City Fashion Show, and then take your green fashion home with from Eco Boutique!   Enjoy complimentary wine & champagne courtesy Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, live music by Pun the DJ, hors d'oeuvres, designer meet & greet, and valet parking. Tickets are $30 advance / $35 at door; $25 for students with [Read More]

 Posted by on March 9, 2012

March 2012 Cover

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Feb 232012
 
March 2012 Cover

Click cover for the March 2012 issue        

 Posted by on February 23, 2012

From the Editor – March 2012

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Feb 232012
 
From the Editor - March 2012

Greetings and welcome to the March 2012 issue of Southwest Flair Magazine online. Spring is just around the corner and there are lots of exciting southwest events coming up to celebrate! Two major fashions weeks are happening this month: Aspen Fashion Week and Fashion Week El Paseo in Palm Springs (be sure to check out celebrity designer Mark Zunino who has dressed everyone from Liz Taylor to Angelina Jolie). Trunk shows and MIM Rocks Fashion in Phoenix are all coming up as well and you won’t want to miss these [Read More]

 Posted by on February 23, 2012

Monica Matocha – Houston Singer/Songwriter, Designer

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Feb 232012
 
Monica Matocha - Houston Singer/Songwriter, Designer

HOUSTON, WE HAVE NO PROBLEM! MONICA MATOCHA TRANSCENDS HER TEEN POP PAST AND EMERGES AS A POWERHOUSE SINGER/SONGWRITER ON HER DEBUT SINGLE, 'IMPOSTOR' While many underground artists are masquerading as the next icon of pop music, one has broken through the pack with a single that is sailing through the U.S. Pop and Independent Artist Charts. Keep an eye on Monica Matocha (pronounced Ma-toke-uh), because unlike the title of her soaring song, she is no "Impostor.”       Monica Matocha, twenty, is a young heart that is muscling her way to the [Read More]

 Posted by on February 23, 2012

Mindful Breathing, Meditation and Stretching!

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Feb 232012
 
Mindful Breathing, Meditation and Stretching!

Mindful Breathing, Meditation and Stretching! By Kirstie Bender Segarra The practice of asana, more commonly known as “yoga” in the West, has increased in popularity to such a degree, that even in a small town like Taos, we have several yoga classes offered at yoga studios, spas, galleries, private homes and at UNM-Taos. My earliest memories of yoga are my mother stretching on our living room floor when I was a little girl in the 70’s. As a tomboy and pure sports enthusiast I wouldn’t go there—it is not cool [Read More]

 Posted by on February 23, 2012

Aspen Fashion Week 2012

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Feb 232012
 
Aspen Fashion Week 2012

Aspen Fashion Week 2012 Aspen, CO (February 2012) – Aspen, home to winter luxury, announces the 4th Annual Aspen Fashion Week (AFW) will take place from March 11th to 14th, in various locations around the town. Aspen Fashion Week is a destination fashion event designed to showcase and market winter resort, ski, sportswear  and technical outerwear in the home and playground of the most stylish mountain town. With daily après ski fashion shows, in-store events, evening presentations and late night fashionable soirées, Aspen Fashion Week will continue to be the [Read More]

 Posted by on February 23, 2012

National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show Heats up Albuquerque

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Feb 232012
 
National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show Heats up Albuquerque

National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show Heats up Albuquerque Thousand of “fire eaters” set to enjoy world’s largest spicy foods show Albuquerque, NM – The 24th annual National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show is prepping for a sizzling weekend of gourmet foods, sauces, spices, sweet-heat treats and rubs at Sandia Resort and Casino March 2-4, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Show highlights will include cooking demonstrations, exciting new exhibitors, the release of “Dave DeWitt’s Chile Trivia” book and a special exhibit devoted to New Mexican grown super-hot chile peppers. Award-Winning [Read More]

 Posted by on February 23, 2012

MIM Rocks Fashion

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Feb 222012
 
MIM Rocks Fashion

(PHOENIX, AZ) MIM Rocks Fashion PHOENIX FASHION WEEK KICKS OFF 2012 WITH “MIM ROCKS FASHION” MARCH 1 Spring into Style with Global Fashion & Music Runway Show presented by TEAM Investments Inc. PHOENIX, ARIZ. (February 24, 2012)  Phoenix Fashion Week kicks off its 2012 series of events next week by teaming up with the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) for the second-annual “MIM Rocks Fashion” spring showcase fusing the heart-pounding sights of a high-energy runway production and the transformative sounds of globally-focused music. Presented by Valley real estate firm TEAM Investments [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

Olin Dodson’s New Book: Melissa’s Gift

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Feb 222012
 
Olin Dodson's New Book: Melissa's Gift

Olin Dodson's New Book: Melissa's Gift In August 1990, a solitary, unmarried man received a phone call from a stranger who informed him that he was the father of an eleven-year-old child. She lived in a small town in Costa Rica, where he had visited years earlier, with her mother—and she was suffering from the incurable disease known as cystic fibrosis.   Melissa’s Gift recounts Santa Fe psychotherapist and public speaker Olin Dodson’s complicated and ultimately extraordinary relationship with his daughter. Written with elegance, beauty and power, Melissa’s Gift is [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

De-Stress With Pranayama

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Feb 222012
 
De-Stress With Pranayama

De-Stress With Pranayama By Dr. Rita Khanna           In Yoga, breathing is considered a very important process as it is the most vital means of absorbing Prana into the body. The Shastras explain how Prana gives consciousness and life to every creature which breathes. According to Taittiriya, Brahmana and Maitri Upanishads and Shiva Swarodaya, the breath is referred to as the vehicle of Brahman or cosmic consciousness. Even the Bible implies that man was given consciousness and life through the breath: “The Lord God formed man [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

Scottsdale Shows Its Green Side

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Feb 222012
 
Scottsdale Shows Its Green Side

Scottsdale Shows Its Green Side   As a premier travel destination located in one of the world's most delicate natural environments, the Sonoran Desert, Scottsdale has a deeply rooted commitment to sustainability and green practices. Going green is no longer just the "in" thing to do – it's an economically and socially responsible way to help communities and travelers do their part while visiting, too! In addition to preserving one-third of the city's land to create Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve in 1995, Scottsdale also is the nation's first city to [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

Yoga Vacations in New Mexico

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Feb 222012
 
Yoga Vacations in New Mexico

Yoga Vacations in New Mexico Practicing yoga is a fulfilling, life-changing experience and where better to fully experience the beauty and vigor of yoga than in enchanting New Mexico? The scent of fresh pine and sage permeating the senses, gazing up to deep blue skies while practicing your poses. Plateaus, mountaintops or fresh running rivers and streams, New Mexico can offer an exhilarating backdrop for your yoga practice or vacation. There are numerous ways to include yoga on your next visit to New Mexico: You can drop-in on most classes [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

Restaurant Weeks Return to New Mexico

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Feb 222012
 
Restaurant Weeks Return to New Mexico

Restaurant Weeks Return to New Mexico March 4 through April 1, 2012 2012 Event Now Welcomes Daytime Diners with Special Prix-Fixe Lunches   The most delicious weeks of the year are back, with even more ways to experience the incomparable cuisine of Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Albuquerque and Taos. New Mexico’s third annual Restaurant Weeks, March 4 through April 1, 2012, introduce the “Let’s Do Lunch” program, giving daytime diners the opportunity to feast on two- or three-course prix-fixe lunches as well as dinners. Santa Fe Restaurant Week kicks off [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

Inspiration: In the obvious and in disguise

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Feb 222012
 
Inspiration: In the obvious and in disguise

Inspiration: In the obvious and in disguise an editorial by Sherry Bryant Inspiration sometimes comes in the obvious and sometimes in a disguise. Sometimes it comes in someone we admire so much that we cannot see beyond that to the true message and it is banging on us on the head as we think, oh I admire her so, I wish I could be like that. Well duh, we can be, and that is what admiration is trying to tell us and it is right in front of us but [Read More]

 Posted by on February 22, 2012

Fashion Week El Paseo™ To Present a Week of Glamour and Runway Thrills

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Feb 222012
 
Fashion Week El Paseo™ To Present a Week of Glamour and Runway Thrills

Fashion Week El Paseo™ To Present a Week of Glamour and Runway Thrills The 7th Annual Event (March 16-24, 2012) Will Feature Numerous Exciting Highlights PALM SPRINGS, CA (February 22, 2012) — Palm Springs Life has announced an exciting schedule of Fashion Week El Paseo™ events and highlights for the seventh annual glam fest on March 16-24, 2012. Fashion Week El Paseo™ presents the best of West Coast design and is the premier consumer-driven fashion experience showcasing the newest collections by top designers, as well as fresh cutting-edge style by [Read More]

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