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Set in Stone

Pampering, a timeline: 

2000 BC: Egyptians slop on vitamin-rich mud.
1200 AD: Medievals soak in mineral springs.
2000 AD: We mani-pedi-microderm to oblivion.

Starting this weekend, the road to nirvana will include an obligatory stop at Stone Lotus, the new River North ...

If I Only Had a Break

If only you could click your ruby slippers three times and go somewhere totally dreamy.

Not too far from home (no twister necessary), just someplace an arm’s length away from your fridge, phone, and e-mail.

Turn those slippers west and ...

Doctor Feelgood

Wake up. Mainline coffee. Dash to el. Trip over tote. Chip nail. Curse mornings. Get to work. Hunch over computer all day. Leave work. Rain ruins blowout.

And just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse, you remember ...

Come as You Are

Being you is a full-time job and then some.

And the occupational hazards of go, go, go (chipped nails, stress, knots as big as melons) are starting to show. Your market value is dropping faster than Janet Jackson’s weight.

If ...

Bride-ing Light

Odds are someone you know is boldly stepping into the tulle-loving, tissue-paper-hoarding, poem-friendly zone otherwise known as wedding season.

So, to help you (and those you love) brave the saccharine-filled waters of almost-wedded bliss, here are our spring picks.

The ...

Boys Will Be Boys

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Boot-cut jeans begot stovepipe pants. Multiple tequila shots result in wicked hangovers. And the dawn of the metrosexual can only herald the triumphant return of the alpha male. (Any day ...

Sole Searching

Whoever said that the eyes are the windows to the soul never took a good look at the feet.

Feet can tell you a lot about a person. After all, women have been judging men for years based on how ...

He Works Hard for His Money

There’s a saying that goes anything boys can do, girls can do better.

Well, then, girls, consider the 316 Barber Spa a call to arms. The upscale men’s salon, which opened yesterday in the Financial District, may be grooming nirvana ...