Aangas's Blog – July 2015 Archive (4)

Hope Hall, president of Bosses in Beauty LLC, and Jazmine Allen, vice president of Bossess in Beauty, decided it was time for something unique and fresh for the beauty and fashion industry. To fill the void, they decided to host the inaugural Beauty and Fashion Industry Ball.

The event will take place Aug. 9 from 6 p.m. to midnight at The Crane Bay Event Center, 551 W. Merrill St.

Hall and Allen hopes all will come to the ball to enjoy a very special evening and help support…

Attendees and participants in the annual Miami Swim Week found themselves in a tough spot when title sponsor Mercedes-Benz pulled out of the event earlier this year, along with chief organizer IMG. And with multiple production companies putting on shows — and no overarching governing body — the event was unsurprisingly disjointed for 2015.

Even the dates were unclear: While Funkshion, a production company that put on a series of shows, kicked things off on Wednesday, the first…

It took my breath away.

The beautiful bride and her handsome groom saying their vows before a minister they knew well, standing on a platform decorated with fresh flowers under a billowing white huppah, or canopy, fashioned in part from a hand-embroidered family heirloom amid the soaring California Redwoods surrounded by family and friends, some perched on blankets in a semi-circle surrounding them.

Most had traveled hundreds if not thousands of miles to join the weekend-long…

To all the other unconventional jobs and titles connected to British royalty (Warden of the Swans, Queen’s Piper, Black Rod, Silver Stick), now you can add another: Royal Harpist.

Yep, it’s a real position in the household of Prince Charles the Prince of Wales, who revived the job 15 years ago and on Wednesday announced his latest Official Harpist, Anne Denholm.

The young (23) and acclaimed Welsh harpist and Cambridge grad, is the fifth person to get the royal nod. (She…