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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But when life gives you dog fighting, make wine.
Remember all those dogs that were rescued from Michael Vick’s “Bad Newz Kennels” a while back? Well one of the founders of the sanctuary that took them in, Cyrus Mejia, has been painting portraits of the dogs since they arrived. He’s making them look like regular dogs, and not like mean old dog fighting poochies.
Take those portraits, and show them to Matt Hahn, who combines wine and philanthropy, and PRESTO – you’ve got a new brand of wine …read more

When we think “mountains” and “rescue,” the first thing that comes to mind, thanks to years of intense—and um, still ongoing—Looney Tunes study, are St. Bernards wearing a barrel of booze around their necks. (FWIW, we didn’t see a single dog toting around libations during our trip to Switzerland, Germany, and Austria last year. What’s up with that?)
But it seems that in the Alps, sports bras can be pretty effective when you’ve been stranded for three days, too. 
We had (brief) visions of a topless chick flailing around a bra (sorry, but the headline really threw us off). Alas, 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma …read more