The romantic handcrafted collection includes a limited selection of white sapphire-studded silver heart earrings, sets of tiny silver ribbon earrings with matching rings tied into heart-shaped bows
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By SHERRY SPITSNAUGLE Motorcycles gunned their engines on a busy street of Todos Santos, in Mexico’s coastal state of Baja California Sur, as I bit into a juicy pork taco smothered in tomatillo, followed by a healthy swig of icy Pacifico beer. A friend and I sat at a cardboard table on the small patio of Tacos Isaac, just yards
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Gorilla Art Work Kipling, the Belgian luggage and handbag brand with that cute little gorilla as its mascot, has just released its latest collection, Key Valley, with a variety of unisex pieces whose launching will be spaced out over the next few months. And in keeping with the spirit of spring renewal (especially after two years of
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Indulging Your Inner Self By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When someone once accused U.S. actress Vanessa Hudgens of overindulging in luxury products and seemingly endless spa days, her response was short and to the point: “You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else,” she said. “I am just engaging in a little self-love.” And while most of us cannot
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS October is International Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and with one in eight Mexican women getting the disease at some point in their life, it is particularly relevant in this country. As of yet, there is no cure for breast cancer, but there is treatment, and with the right treatment, many patients can now live a long and
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By RICH GRANT You can say one thing about the Rail Runner Express: No other train sounds like it. This unusual 96-mile-long railroad runs only between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trains are sleek-looking silver diesel engines with comfortable double-decker cars. There is a bright red roadrunner (New Mexico’s state bird) painted on the side and the cars
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It all began with a tiny bag of diamonds that Polish diamond cutter Eliasz Alex Berger used to help smuggle his family out of Nazi-occupied Europe. Those diamonds not only helped save the lives of Berger’s two sons, Silvain and Maurice, but were also the inspiration and start of the Berger jewelry and watch industry, which is
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No matter what certain Mexican politicians may say, fashion is not “fifi,” and style and good taste are still key social commodities that not only help open the door to business and professional opportunities, but also reflect our personal worldviews and individuality, and make us feel comfortable in our own attire. It is true that casual-Friday-cum-causal-every-workday has,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Enrique Volopapilio is an incurable romantic. (Then again, aren’t we all, even if we don’t admit it publicly?) Volopapilio’s passion for romance may have started back when he was studying business administration in college and let himself be distracted from the tedious writings of Jay Heizer’s “Principals of Operations Management” to snatch of bit of amorous ardor
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