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　　On last year’s X Factor, Cheryl Cole experimented with a variety of looks in a style battle with fellow judge Dannii Minogue. 　　But as she arrived via helicopter to the latest round of auditions in London today, Cole found fashion inspiration from an unlikely source – Tom Cruise in Top Gun. 　　Perhaps in a bid [...]

　　 　　Hearing “Jingle Bells” piped through a retail store’s speakers at Halloween just doesn’t sound right. But to some, it’s even more frustrating to search for a plastic beach pail at a Wal-Mart in July — prime beach season – only to find that only a few are left, and all of the summer item [...]

　　It was literally a photo finish – but for once, it was Princess Beatrice who pipped sister Eugenie to the post in the style stakes. 　　The thoroughbred pair were putting on the glitz at today’s final day of racing at Royal Ascot. 　　The royal girls had gone head-to-head earlier during the week at Thursday’s Ladies’ [...]

　　 　　 　　Pirelli has been extending its brand into fashion since 2002, extending its P-Zero designation into its own label. The aim is to have PZero (without the hyphen) denote high-tech fashion, with modern materials, expanding into a full fashion line. 　　For spring–summer 2011, the company has released, inter alia, a sailing shoe, the Pirelli [...]

　　 　　Book cover of golf book Chasing Greatness about the U.S. Open at Oakmont in 1973. 　　CAPTIONBook jacket courtesy of New American LibrarySteve Schlossman, a professor of American social and cultural history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, teaches a course on the history of golf. Living in western Pennsylvania, he naturally was attracted to [...]