Win tickets to see Adam Cohen perform in Toronto

My name is Leesa and I am a frustrated musician. Truthfully I am not a musician at all, which is why I'm so frustrated. But that sad fact has also made me an intense music fan. As you music fans know, the best way to experience a musical artist is through their live show. It's intimate. They are in their element. It's a fleeting moment, made just for you. 

Adam Cohen and his band make the most of a live show. For all of Adam's past success in music, he hit his stride with his latest album Like a Man. As the son of Leonard Cohen, his music doesn't shy away from the sound - or the subject matter - of his roots. However, Like a Man is all Adam. It's a dreamy, romantic, tantalizing essay on the women he has known and loved. If seeing the likes of a Lana Del Ray or Bon Iver perform is up your alley, you're going to love Adam Cohen. Ladies, prepare to swoon. Men, prepare to be a bit jealous.

Adam Cohen shot by Shayne Laverdiere

Adam Cohen shot by Shayne Laverdiere

ENTER TO WIN: I'm giving away two tickets to Adam's upcoming Toronto show at St. Paul's Trinity Church on Thursday, October 25th. All you have to do to enter* is send an email to info@f-list.ca with ADAM COHEN in the subject line before midnight October 21st.

The winner will be contacted on Monday, October 22nd. 

* Must be 19 or older to enter. Open to Ontario residents only.

Win jewels from Anne-Marie Chagnon

If you're like me, there are a few things in your fashion repertoire that are almost guaranteed to invite compliments from others. Mine includes jewelry by Montreal designer Anne-Marie Chagnon. Compliments every single time.

Lucky for you Anne-Marie is at the Toronto One of a Kind show through December 4. And while you're shopping for friends and family, be sure to drop off this ballot to booth T-38 for a chance to win these matching earrings and bracelet (value $300). This contest runs the duration of the OOAK show, so you have until next weekend to drop off your ballot (one ballot per person). The winner will be announced here!

Bring completed ballot to booth T-38 for a chance to win!

 

Giveaway: Slim Down for Summer with Dr. Pierre Dukan

Damn the French. First it was some gorgeous Frenchwoman gloating how she can down cheese, baguettes and bubbly and still be a skinny bitch; now it's a French doctor ready to solve anyone's weight problem in four easy steps.

We would really hate them if it weren't true, right? 

Well, don't get angry yet. Turns out Dr. Pierre Dukan is on to something. He has spent the last 10 years perfecting this weight loss approach overseas with real people after years of working as a neurologist and family doctor.

The four-phase plan relies on protein-rich foods in the first week to stimulate weight loss, and introduces vegetables and other food items in the following weeks. (If I may interject, Doctor, this non-expert, non-French, skinny bitch advises readers to also include more basic exercise like walking and taking the stairs.) 

Kate Middleton lost two dress sizes on The Dukan Diet prior to becoming the Duchess of Cambridge. Really, what else is there to know?! Get to your slim self just in time for summer.

I've got five Dukan Diet books to give away this weekend. But first I want to know, in a world without calories, what are you eating? (Once again, there's no wrong answer.) Send an email to info@f-list.ca or tweet @theFlist with your answer by midnight on Friday, June 17th.

Thanks in advance for making me hungry with your answers. Enjoy!

Reader Survey: What's Normal?

Last week I asked readers "What is normal?" and you answered in droves. I expected as much, since it was a chance to win an autographed copy of Kelly Cutrone's latest book Normal Gets You Nowhere. It was such fun reading the responses, I had to share. Here are a few choice favorites:

What is normal?

Thinking, "I don't give a damn!" and leaving the house with a ton of self-confidence.
~ Domenica

Normal is forgettable. Normal is following the status quo. Normal is being complacent in life, never questioning anything. Normal is what's expected of you. I refuse to be "normal".
~ Stephanie

'Normal' is what makes your mother happy.
~ Anna

Normal is a word that's made up to classify the boring, mundane things in life and the box that you trap yourself in when you only go as far as what people expect of you.
~ Christine

Normal is a whole lot of crazy and a little bit of dull added together and divided in half!
~ Hanah
 
Normal is what everyone else is doing to fit in!
~ Jessica

Normal is benign, boring and unremarkable.
~ Barbara



Normal is trying to think of  a clever answer to a question, and can't think of a darn thing!!
~ Dyane

Normal is being insecure about our differences, but once embraced, they become are biggest assets.
~ Michelle

Nothing.
~ Maggie 

Normal is vanilla. It is beige on beige, but not in a magnificent suede or textured
leather. It is never flirting with a coworker, or making a sarcastic joke. It is plain, passable, and unprepossessing.
~ Ariella
 
Good sex!
~ Abbe
 
Normal is being just like everybody else only different.
~ Janet

There's no such thing is normal! Normal is conforming to who you think you should be instead of who you are.
~ Fiona

Accepting mediocrity in fear of being different from the majority.
~ Rachal

Believing there is no such thing.
~ Jacklyn

Normal is nothing. It is a figment of our imaginations... an idea we've created.  Our own judgement of what we think others expect of us.
~ Wendy

Whatever the hell I want it to be!
~ Jaime-Anne

Giveaway: Kelly Cutrone's Normal Gets You Nowhere

The bitch is back. She didn't mince words telling us that If You Have to Cry Go Outside and now, Kelly Cutrone, has a new book called Normal Gets You Nowhere. Welcome to the "Kella-Sutra" where a fashion publicist-turned-media-savvy-celebrity shares her thoughts and experiences and invites you to rethink what you want from life.  

Can you handle it?! Good. I'm giving away autographed copies to four (4) lucky winners who dare answer the question, "What's normal?" (Hint: there is no wrong answer.)  

Send an email to info@f-list.ca or Tweet @theflist with your answers. Winners will be randomly drawn from all entries after midnight on Wednesday, June 1.   

Can't wait? Buy the book online now at Indigo and save 34% off the cover price. Click here to join the "normal" conversation on Facebook.

Win Tickets to a Night of Classic Cocktails!

Make it neat. On the rocks. Stirred, not shaken. With a twist. Extra olives. No salt.

There are so many ways to wear a cocktail. How do you wear yours?  Tell me by midnight on January 30th and you'll be entered to win a pair of tickets to the Classic Cocktails event at the Carlu on Thursday, February 3rd. (I have five pairs to give away!)

To enter, just tell me your favourite cocktail. Simply post a comment on this blog or tweet your favourite cocktail using #LCBOCocktails. Winners will be randomly drawn from all Twitter and blog entries and announced on Monday, and by Thursday night will be hob-nobbing with party guests including Mad Men's costume designer, Janie Singer. You could be kicking back cocktails and kicking up your heels in an unforgettable evening.

So, what'll it be?

P.S. If you're entering using a blog post, don't forget to leave a clue as to how to reach you! 

The Countdown is On...

...to a night of retro-inspired cocktails, food, fashion and music. Stay tuned to the F-list because in one week I'm going to pick five lucky winners to attend a 1960's-inspired soiree at Toronto's famed Carlu, Thursday, February 3rd. Details will be announced shortly.

Did I mention the fashion?!  Guests of this Classic Cocktails evening, presented by the LCBO, will get to mix and mingle with Hollywood costume designer Janie Bryant, the brilliant mind behind the clothes on AMC's Mad Men.  

Get ready to channel your best Don, Peggy or Joan.  It's gonna be the cat's meow.