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From Ocean Beach, San Diego, it's reggae-punk band Slightly Stoopid, playing a couple of shows at the Hawaiian Hut, Ala Moana Hotel, tonight and tomorrow. Go Jimmy Go and Stone will be opening on respective nights. Doors open at 9 p.m. for these 18-and-over shows. Pre-sale tickets go for $20 ($25 at the door) and are on sale at all local TicketMaster outlets, online at ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at 877-750-4400.
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Big-ticket beauty
Beauty is a $160 billion-a-year global industry, and for some it's worth the price.According to a recent issue of the Economist magazine, people who are good-looking have great advantages over those who are not.
The beauties of the world are more confident and are more likely to get married. They also make more money, the magazine reports, citing a study of 11,000 British 33-year-olds that found that the pay penalty for unattractiveness was around 15 percent for men and 11 percent for women. Overweight women earned 5 percent less than average.
Good looks particularly matter in face-to-face work, such as sales jobs.
Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate that the global beauty industry -- consisting of skin care worth $24 billion; makeup, $18 billion; hair care, $38 billion; and perfume, $15 billion -- is growing at up to 7 percent a year.
This growth, the Economist reports, is fueled by aging baby boomers, increased discretionary income in Western nations, and the growing middle classes in developing countries, such as Brazil, which has more Avon ladies (900,000) than it has troops in its army and navy.
SPF is a compromise
People love sun, people worship sun and sometimes people need sun. But that doesn't mean the sun is ever good for skin, says Dr. David Orentreich, a consulting dermatologist for Clinique.There is no harmless amount of sun exposure for the skin, according to Orentreich, and even small amounts of exposure to ultraviolet rays can contribute to photo-aging and possibly skin cancer.
Orentreich, though, acknowledges that medical studies have linked sun and light to psychological well-being.
The keys to balancing physical and mental health when it comes to sun exposure are moderation and sunscreen, used properly, of course.
Orentreich debunks some sunscreen myths:
>> Once burned, you cannot just reapply sunscreen and go back in the sun. Skin should not be re-exposed to the sun -- even with sunscreen -- until redness has disappeared.>> A sunscreen with a sun protection factor of 30 isn't double the protection of an SPF 15. The level of SPF multiplied by the amount of time it takes to burn without sunscreen equals the minutes of protection that you will get by using that level of sunscreen.
For example, if it usually takes 10 minutes to burn in the sun without using sunscreen, you will get 150 minutes of protection by using SPF 15.
>> People with darker skin do have more natural protection against UVB rays, but they still need UVA protection. Orentreich recommends an SPF range of 15 to 30 for both light and dark skin.
Be a sport
Many of this season's trendiest togs have an athletic bent, so how does one choose what is appropriate wear for the course, court or street?According to the June issue of InStyle, serious sportswomen should opt for high-tech styles with touches of bright, almost neon colors. The magazine's editors suggest a short white cotton skirt paired with a bright yellow anorak and stylish sneakers in purples with yellow accents for a tennis player, and a cotton polo shirt, cotton vest and cotton-polyester shorts in traditional colors such as white, navy and khaki for a golfer.
Preppy looks, such as a madras print, are more appropriate for street clothes. An extra tip: Wear preppy styles in a tongue-and-cheek way for maximum coolness.
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