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Olivia Bruce is a reporter for Prairie Island News. Her work can be found in the arts, construction, automotive, travel, real estate, and fashion sections. Olivia has been with the paper since it began in 2015 and is proud to be one of its original reporters. She loves to travel and has visited many different countries.

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Willy Chavarria New York Fashion Week Fall 2024 Photos

For the past few seasons, the designer Willy Chavarria’s shows have been lavish and opulent displays of his brand codes: over-the-top originality with deep emotion, dynamic casting of real people who serve as his muses, and plays on proportion galore. And then there are his venues—churches, old-school barber shops, classic New York City monuments. So […]

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Virginia's multibillion-dollar plan to lure the Wizards and Capitals away from DC clears first hurdle in legislature

Legislation underpinning a plan to relocate the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals across the Potomac River to northern Virginia easily cleared an early hurdle in the state legislature Friday. Lawmakers on the Virginia House Appropriations Committee voted 17-3 to advance the measure, a top priority of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to the floor of the

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After a two-decade hiatus, Joni Mitchell emerged as the queen of songstresses in the best year yet for women artists

Joni Mitchell has learned to walk three times. The first as a toddler; the next as a wheelchair-ridden 9-year-old recovering from post-polio syndrome; and once more after she survived a nearly fatal brain aneurysm in her early seventies in 2015. The polio, as it turns out, weakened her left hand and forced her to develop

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I tried the $2,500 full-body MRI that Kim Kardashian and Cindy Crawford are obsessed with. It may have benefits—but also some major downsides

One day this Fall, I fasted for four hours and headed west on the subway to Prenuvo’s New York City location nestled next to a Five Guys and AMC theater steps away from Penn Station. If you weren’t looking for the sign, you could easily miss it amid the chaos of 34th Street.  My typical

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Business communication is always evolving. With these courses and certification programs, you can upskill for 2024

If you ask almost any professional about the most important hard skills, communication is almost always top of the list.  The ability to discuss strategy, goals, and solutions with others is paramount to any business; communication can truly be the make or break for companies small and large. Millions of dollars can be lost each

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New York Fashion Week Fall 2024: The Best Looks From the Runway

Designers, celebrities, editors, and other fashion followers made sure that New York Fashion Week began with a blaze of glory. Although technically the shows are scheduled to begin on February 9—kicking off a month of fashion shows in London, Milan, and Paris— New York has been taking in huge style moments for weeks. Marc Jacobs

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Hailey Bieber & Kendall Jenner Skip NYFW To Debut School Girl Looks

Stars and industry folk have officially descended upon New York to commence the city’s fall 2024 runway season—interestingly two of the biggest names in style, Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner, opted to skip the opening days of proceedings to go back to school in Miami, Florida. Now, you might be thinking, what are these supermodels

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Gen Z’s thirst for the New York City lifestyle drives vacancy rates to the historic low of 1.4%—unseen since the ‘Mad Men’ era of 1968

More than four years after the onset of the pandemic, the verdict is in: Gen Z loves New York City life. And that’s tough news for renters. The pandemic steered generations old and young away from central business districts. With the promise of remote work and fewer options to access dining, entertainment, and other commercial

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