Blog Posts by Kwala Mandel

  • Bud Light Hotel Concert Buzzy Moments

    By Kwala Mandel | omg! from Yahoo! – Sun, Feb 5, 2012 3:10 AM EST

    Pitbull performs at the Bud Light Hotel concert.Pitbull performs at the Bud Light Hotel concert.
    The Bud Light Hotel concert entertained Super Bowl fans with performances by 50 Cent, Lil Jon and Pitbull. Lil Jon opened the show and included a brief cameo with Nelly (who came on stage and hugged Lil Jon during his performance), and 50 Cent also brought friends up with him. Boxer Floyd Mayweather ran out with a bedazzled backpack that he unzipped to reveal bundles of $100 bills. It never hurts to remind your audience of the benefits of talent. But the most crowd-rousing moment may have been Pitbull’s mysterious goodbye after his set.

    [ Photos: More images from the Bud Light Hotel concert ]

    While he was on stage, Pitbull switched from English to Spanish during his farewell. The audience was riled up in response to his message, where he said in no uncertain terms that he doesn’t care if people like him or not. He kept his trademark shades on throughout.  

    In addition to his own songs, Pitbull made the most of favorites from other artists. He sampled the immediately identifiable

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  • Super Bowl Star Before Fame

    By Kwala Mandel | omg! from Yahoo! – Sat, Feb 4, 2012 3:40 PM EST

    Tom Brady: Then and now (Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Jim Rogash/Getty Images)Tom Brady: Then and now (Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Jim Rogash/Getty Images)Before he was the star athlete we now know, Tom Brady was mugging for the school cameras. Brady was snapped in this photo (which looks to be from his high school years) wearing a suit and tie and hair that is noticeably shorter than his wife, Gisele Bundchen, would like. He once told reporters they’d have to check with his wife if they wanted to make him cut his hair.

    To see more NFL stars before they were famous, click here for a Snakkle.com gallery. 

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  • Common Guacamole Myths, Mistakes

    By Kwala Mandel | omg! from Yahoo! – Thu, Feb 2, 2012 6:21 PM EST

    Photo by: © Stockbyte/ThinkstockA projected 71.5 million pounds of avocados will be consumed during the Super Bowl, and it's hard to avoid all the guacamole and chips (in fact, some Super Bowl parties are first and foremost Guac Bowls, where the competition gets vicious for the title of best spread). But before attempting to throw any old ingredients together with an avocado, take some advice from the experts.

    The most important ingredient is ripe avocados. The least is the avocado pit, which people often leave in guacamole bowls thanks to a belief that it will prevent the oxidation that turns guac brown. It's a common mistake, but leaving the pit won't offer any kind of protection. "It will keep the area directly under the pit from browning, but no more," says Jan DeLizer of the California Avocado Commission. 

    The real solution, says Golden Door spa executive chef Curtis Cooke, is to place a piece of plastic cling wrap directly on the surface of the guacamole to protect it from oxygen exposure. "I also use lime

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