How would i do my makeup? hair?
What oufit should i wear?
Could i wear a tube top as a dress?

theres a tutorial on youtube 4 the barbie make up look

Copy this girl's look and makeup. she tells you exactly how to do the makeup and it's perfect!

youtube.com/watch?v=JxueWQijSOU

How to dress up as a barbie for halloween?

Image Credit: Mike Yarish/AMCYou know the old saying: those who forget history… something something something. Damn! I forget! Mad Men asked its viewers to remember a lot of history in last week’s episode, “Christmas comes but Once a Year.” we had conservative white guys grousing about civil rights and socialism at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Christmas bash of 1964 — a flick at the recently elected Lyndon B. Johnson, who a few months earlier had signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was a few weeks away from outlining his Great Society vision in his 1965 State of the Union speech. (Said great Society will ultimately include the Cigarette Labeling Act of 1965, discussed here last week.)

We had Don Draper and Roger Sterling likening the Christmas party to Hitler’s birthday — a reference, most likely, to Hitler’s infamous 50th birthday in 1939, noteworthy for its parade of military might that was designed to spook the world. The reference becomes fitting — and even more ominous — in light of how Lee Garner, scion of Lucky Strike, SCDP’s biggest client, used the agency’s holiday shindig to remind everyone who was the Fuhrer. even though Lee humiliated Roger in particular (making him dress as Santa; pawing Roger’s wife), I think his real target was Don. I thought it was telling of Lee’s mindset and motives when he and Don exchanged snarky barbs about the acclaimed Glo-Coat tile wax commercial. Lee wondered why Don had never made anything that cool for Lucky Strike. Don replied that Lucky Strike had never asked him to. Lee’s response? “I didn’t think I had to.” Read the warning label, Don: your clients pay attention to your press clippings. and unless you want to open up Advertising Age and read how Lucky Strike is putting its $25 million account into review, you might want to think about being brilliant about selling cigarettes. because Lucky Strike is soon going to need it.

Of course, the most important history that Mad Men asked its fans to recall last week was its own. “Christmas comes but Once a Year” brought back Glen Bishop, the gloomy Eddie Munster from down the street with the inappropriate hair-snipping crush on Betty. now he’s set his sights on Sally, and he tried to impress her in a way only Lee Garner might find sexy — by crashing and trashing the Draper house (sorry: “Francis residence”) except for Sally’s bedroom, where he left behind a bracelet called a scoubidou. (Yep, you pronounced it right: Scooby-Doo. Zoinks!) I suspect Glen’s real target was Betty; I think he’s still sweet on her and is jealous she took up with Henry Francis. You mean you dumped up your husband and you didn’t even give me a call! Seriously, what does Henry have that I don’t have?

And then we had the scene where drunken Don had sex with his smitten secretary Allison. a soused Sterling Cooper exec has a sad, ill-considered hook-up with one of Don’s secretaries — where have we seen that before? Why, that would be in the very first episode of Mad Men, “Smoke gets in your Eyes,” when drunken Pete knocked on smitten Peggy’s door after a night of revelry — and then knocked her up. cut to: Don and Allison going “Uh-oh.”

“Christmas comes but Once a Year” contained another, even more meaningful call-back to “Smoke gets In your Eyes.” Mad Men’s pilot gave us a scene in which Don Draper took aim at the concept of market research. Sterling Cooper had been tasked with fixing a problem facing Lucky Strike that presaged the company’s looming challenge. The cigarette make — along with the entire tobacco industry — could no longer make good-for-you health claims thanks to medical studies conducted by the Federal Trade Commission. as the agency brainstormed alternative ideas, the head of research, a strong-willed woman with a thick German accent named Greta Guttman, argued that smokers liked smoking because they had a death wish. Don dismissed the idea as psychobabble and dumped Greta’s report in the trash. “Dr. Guttman, psychology is terrific at a cocktail party, but it happens people were buying cigarettes before Freud was born,” he said. “I’m sorry, but I find your whole approach perverse.” but others were less appalled. Desperate to muscle his way into the creative side of the business, Pete tried to pitch Lucky Strikes on a campaign based on Greta’s work. Silly Pete. his ideas flamed out big time, nearly costing Sterling Cooper the account. Just as Lucky Strike was about to walk out the door, Don peered into the ether and pulled an inspired idea out of the air. Behold, Don Draper, creative genius. his powers as an advertising superman seemed to have no bounds.

Three seasons later, we get “Christmas comes but Once a Year,” another episode giving Don the opportunity to sneer at the tricky science of knowing the consumer — and knowing thyself. The staff of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce took a meeting with Motivational Research Group, which was offering the promise of improving the agency’s work by offering insights into consumer psychology. (Apparently, Greta didn’t make the transition to Don’s upstart start-up.) Lead researcher Dr. Faye Miller asked SCDP folks to fill out a psyche-probing survey with questions about their childhood. Draper balked. He excused himself and walked out. later, Don explained to Miller that he didn’t understand the relevancy of excavating his (extremely painful) childhood (that he desperately wants to suppress both to himself and everyone else) to his work. Miller found that had to believe. she had seen Draper’s celebrated Glo-Coat spot, with its haunting image of a young boy trapped under a kitchen table. “I saw that ad,” she said. “It’s all about somebody’s childhood.” Don: No comment.

If Greta set up an opportunity for Don to prove his intuitive brilliance back in season 1, then what is Faye telling us about Don here in season 4? The answer is in the advertising. Don’s moody spot for Glo-Coat shows us that he’s been influenced by the creative revolution that was taking place on Madison Avenue during this period. at the forefront of this transformation was an agency called Doyle Dane Bernbach, whose ironic ads for Volkswagen (“Lemon,” “Think Small”) have been referenced and discussed in previous Mad Men episodes. DDB partner Bill Bernbach was an inspiring figure to his contemporaries and future generations of “mad men” (and women) because he dared to aspire to art. Some of his famous maxims: “Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art and good writing can be good selling.” “Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.” “all of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. we can vulgarize that society. we can brutalize it. or we can help lift it onto a higher level.” (For even more insights into the Mad Men/DDB/1960s creative advertising revolution convergence, bookmark Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned blog.)

Other historians will tell you that the creative revolution in advertising during the 1960s helped bring the postmodern mindset into mainstream culture. Postmodernism in art is marked by the use of irony, self-awareness, mixed media, and pop culture imagery, among many other qualities. (One very distinctive branch of postmodern art has been conspicuously featured in Mad Men this season, hanging from the walls of Roger Sterling’s office: Op art, abstract black and white compositions that create the illusion of movement and warping or contain hidden messages. Wikipedia tells me that the term “Op art” was coined in the October 23, 1964 issue of Time, so just a couple months prior to the start of the current season, and a major exhibition of Op art at the Museum of Modern Art looms ahead in the season 4 year of 1965.) Postmodern art complemented the emergence of postmodern philosophy, which explores—and subverts—the idea of intrinsic meaning, or what thinkers in this school would call “presence.” Postmodernists like talking about “authenticity.” They reject “meta-narrative,” the idea that we can organize history into a story that encompasses and explains all human experience. Postmodernism says there are no universals. everything is subjective and relative. which itself is something of a universal statement, right? but there you go: irony! (Kids, if you think this is thick and pretentious, just be glad I’m not deconstructing last week’s Christmas-themed episode to show how “Presence” = “Presents” = Santa Claus = Don Draper. that theory is a real snoozer!)

Don Draper is nothing if not a postmodern construction. his identity is pure artifice. Could we weave an elaborate analogy likening him to a work of Op art? we could! (But not today.) Don denies his origins and the identity that evolved from his origins — he denies his “presence,” to use the term a little loosely — and he believes that values are relative or manufactured. In Mad Men’s pilot, Rachel Menken tells Don she’s never been in love. Don replies: “The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. what you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.” but Don’s most Postmodern trait is that he rejects his own meta-narrative. He likes to believe his past is irrelevant, and he claims to have no care about the future. as he told Rachel in the pilot: “You’re born alone, you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. but I never forget. I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one.”

Do you agree with Don? Do you find his philosophy reasonable or repelling? These are interesting questions to discuss, but the one that galvanizes me is this: Do you believe him? I don’t. I think Don’s full of s—. I don’t think he really buys his own pomo horsepucky, and the proof is in the Glo-Coat. as Don has become more “artistic,” his work — his art — has become increasingly personal. that shameful, painful Dick Whitman history he keeps locked up inside his glistening, waxy Don Draper shell is starting to seep into his creativity. his acclaimed commercial, so much like a movie (or so Don says, and proudly), is notable for having narrative, for having story — something Don would seem to disavow, but actually really yearns for. Does Don himself recognize this conflict? Is he in control of this transformation? The answer, I think, is no, and that was the significance of the Motivational Research Group/Dr. Faye Miller storyline: to alert us — and Don — that he has set loose something powerful, and that there could be consequences should he fail to get on top of it. Take it from Hannah Montana: The schizoid life can be fun, but it only leads to trouble.

What kind of consequences could come from Don’s failure to “know thyself” and, like, deal? The season premiere offered some foreshadowing, I think, in the subplot that had Don’s failing to land the Jantzen bikini account. his edgy pitch featured a woman with a blacked-out bust and a tagline that read: “So well built, we can’t show you the second floor.” The ad is a fuzzy metaphor for Don himself — for his creative arrogance, for his fear of exposure, for his self-negation. but as a piece of marketing? I don’t know. It was certainly clever. too clever, I think. (Bernbach, I think, would have asked for a simpler tagline.) like his TV commercial, which Don proudly likened to a movie, the Jantzen ad knowingly subverts advertising conventions, including the biggest: It hides the product. That’s a pretty risky move, and you need a daring client to back the play. Don didn’t. The Jantzen men were conservative, yes, and possibly a prudish as Don deemed them to be. but their confused reaction was more that of someone who feels really, really misunderstood — like a teenager stung by a parents’ lack of empathy.

Do you even get me? as Don’s ads become more self-involved, he runs the risk of losing his marketing mojo — his uncanny ability to connect with clients and their consumers. and obviously, that could spell ruin for the agency, especially as they scramble to add more accounts and decrease their dependence on Lucky Strike.

The Catch-22 of Don’s plight is that he can’t really afford to do anything that would effectively deconstruct the “Don Draper” he has become; too many people count on him for their very survival. still, it appears that Don’s disassembly is inevitable, whether he wants it or not, and the only choice he has in the matter is in managing the collapse — assuming he wants to manage the collapse at all. I often wonder if Don actually wants to self-destruct, and more, inflict some collateral damage upon his mad culture as he blows up. The season 3 promo pic of Don sitting in a flooded office, the water rising, sums him up for me. Don is drowning in his circumstances — and he’s letting it happen. and if it warps the trendy Swedish furniture and ruins Roger’s fancy art in the process, well, even better. (Seriously: Do you really think Don actually likes his job, his culture, his life?) if he ever did submit to psychological evaluation, I think both Dr. Greta and Dr. Miller would agree: “Don Draper” has a death wish.

I do hope Don can be saved. and in fact, my hope for Don would be that he recover and reconcile with his inner Dick Whitman, but without demolishing all of Don Draper. because Don Draper has brought him some good things, including, I think, the epiphany of his true calling. The man’s an artist. He got a great eye, he’s got a wealth of story ideas, and he has an uncanny knack for knowing how to move an audience. Here’s hoping he can reconcile his warring identities, become a cohesive, well-realized, creative whole, and claim his true destiny: a Hollywood studio chief.

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I dress casual. Hooded tops and jogging bottoms, T shirts and jeans , etc

I prefer others in casual dress myself.

i usually prefer casual dress, but there are times when i have seen a man dressed up Very nicely and i though "wow he sure is a sexy guy"

i personally dress in swim shorts and a t shirt as i live on the beach and its usually hot and humid here.

I'm fine with either, I dress the same as you, I'm very casual but I wouldn't mind if my partner dressed casual or dressed formal.

I definitely prefer casual, maybe a cool looking hoodie with jeans and some funky sneakers.

I like casual, but formal is fun too.

Sweats, shorts and jockstraps.

Do you prefer guys who dress casual or formal?

I'm going to be a marshall at my high school graduation. I have a white dress and white dress sandals. What kind of jewelry should/could I wear? can I wear pearls? could I wear silver earrings and a pearl necklace?

i would where pearls for earings and a necklace that would look so cute!

Well, if it's mandatory to wear all white…Then I would wear a pearl necklace. but otherwise I would wear colored jewelry to keep the dress from looking boring and plain. Plus, statement necklaces and pops of colors are in this spring.

Go for pearls or silver jewelries.
And I think they're right, have some accessories that are bold enough to pop up your plain white dress.

i think silver custom-made jewelries will best suit your white dress. here's a link.. hubpages.com/hub/Custom-Made-Jewe…

If you're into more basic looks, I would wear a simple silver chain with rhinestones/diamonds on it.

If you like whimsical, fun pieces, I would check out this link. She has cute pieces that you may like:
ellamcbellaboutique.etsy.com

What kind of jewelry would complement my dress?

Hello Folks:

I am an adult male living over in the Eastern United States and I have a thing for female motor mechanics and other women working in nontraditional fields. I do not even know why it's like that. While most men like women who can cook, clean (and maybe do some gardening and knitting), I tend to like women who can fix, repair, build and maintain things. (Hey, I'm single and live by myself, so I already do my own cooking and cleaning.) This fetish for Women with Power Tools that I have is a turn on for me, much like the way some guys get turned on when they see Girls with Guns. I am aware that the average tradeswoman/handywoman is quite "rough around the edges" and thus very far from a beauty queen and/or even a Hooter's Girl, but hey, I am prepared to deal with that fact. besides, I have seen a few "fix it" chicks that look real good that I would not mind being with.

I know that I got a list of movies and television shows featuring female electrians, female mechanics, female plumbers, etc. (both professional and amateur) from Internet Movie Data Base ( imdb.com ). some examples are the 2007 and 2009 TRANSFORMERS movies, "Beauty and the Geek", "Catwalk", "EastEnders", "Firefly", "Home Improvement", "Home Makeover", "Lucille's Car Clinic", "Neighbours", some of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS movies, BETTER OFF DEAD (1985), DARK ANGEL (otherwise known as I COME IN PEACE) (1990), DEVIL GIRL (2007), highmaintenancethemovie.com , LADRON QUE ROBA A LADRON (2007), LOVE IN HIGH GEAR (1932), NORTH COUNTRY (2005), REDLINE (2007), SERENITY (2005), SPEED RACER (2008), TANK GIRL (1995), GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS (either from 1974 or 2000), TOMBOY (1985), KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY (1945) and quite possibly FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) – (I heard that the chicks in that movie do some automobile repairs. is this true?)

I know that a lady named Sarah Lyons came out with some FEMALE MECHANICS calendars at sarahlyon.com/calendar . Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when I first got into this fetish, I saw a poster of a chick dressed in a white skirt, holding a wrench and working underneath her yellow Porsche or Volkswagen Beetle. Does anyone have this picture? Also, I saw an old issue of HOT ROD Magazine where a groom was standing up in the middle of the garage while the bride was under the hood tinkering with the engine. Has anyone seen this? some of the stock photography links have pictures of female mechanics as well.

Do any other guys get turned on by handywomen? Does anyone else know of any good movies featuring female mechanics? Please let me know. thank you.

Web_Jock

Anyone Know/Seen Any Female Mechanics?

Im doing this play for school and i dont have any idea what to wear. my character is pretty average. only she is really slutty but people dont know it. any help?

buy an oversized sweatshirt and cut the sleeves off of it(so it looks like a t-shirt)
then cut a big neckline (so it doesn't cover ur shoulders)
then wear a bight neon tank top underneath

also wear a jean skirt (acid wash perferred)
with bright neon leggins (or any leggins)
wear converses if u have any
and wear leggwarmers

tease ur hair so that it is very volumized
wear any neon accessories (bracelets, necklaces, earings)

Just go with tacky animal prints, over sized, neon colors, arm warmers, leg warmers, large hoop earrings, side ponytail, converse or keds…

Something like this:
jewelry.lovetoknow.com/images/Jew…
rad80sfashion.com/images/memb…

Hope I helped.

start with leggings or fishnets. flourescent or animal print leggings with slits in them say, retro with a tad of slutty.or fishnet nylons, only they arent as retro. but they do sell fluorescent fishnets which would be a combination of both.

then, add in some fun colored leg warmers. Add a large sweater and cut off one of the sleeves, or dont. either work. Pull it down on one shoulder. then, add some cute arm warmers, some funky old jewelerry, or just some layered beads from the dollar store. bright bright over dramatic makeup completes the look. and a side ponytail. and a sweatband for your forehead. and some low tops, or hightops.

that was basically my halloween costume.

get a big neon t shirt and cut the shoulder off
wear it with crazy leggins from american apparel
also get some leg warmers
frizz your hair or put it in a side pony
wear heels or converseish type shoes

How should I dress for this 80s play?

When Georgia Dixon’s mom suggested they go to Macy’s for school clothes, the 16-year-old didn’t see the point.

“Usually when I think of Macy’s, I think of where my mother goes to shop,” said Georgia, whose family lives part-time in Coconut Grove. “I would never go to shop here.”

But Georgia and her mom, Anna Dixon, were amazed Wednesday when they stumbled on the new Material Girl collection — designed by Madonna and her daughter Lourdes — at Macy’s in Dadeland Mall.

For Macy’s it’s a way to attract new customers like Georgia Dixon and take customers from specialty stores.

It’s also part of a broader move by Macy’s, JCPenney and other department store chains to jump-

start sluggish apparel sales by countering the stereotype of the conservative department store. while the new brands are not available at all stores, South Florida is a key market for these launches because of local consumers’ passion for all things chic.

“The consumer is telling us that she is interested in staying on top of the latest fashion trends,” said Martine Reardon, executive vice president of marketing for Macy’s. “She wants more newness on a more frequent basis than she has seen in the past. ”

these “fast-fashion” brands hope to attract new customers with a rapidly rotating inventory that changes in a matter of weeks, unlike months for typical department store apparel. It’s a strategy that has been the mainstay of specialty stores like H&M, Forever 21 and Zara.

JCPenney is borrowing a page from that model more closely by teaming up with the Spanish specialty retailer Mango, already a worldwide fast-fashion player, to launch an exclusive contemporary line MNG by Mango.

“Department stores need to bring in names that draw younger consumers,” said Cynthia Cohen of Strategic Mindshare, a national retail consultant based in Miami. “Fast fashion is a reason to buy versus shopping in your closet.”

Georgia and Anna Dixon found plenty of reasons to buy Wednesday afternoon at Macy’s in Dadeland, loading up on a dozen or more outfits. it was a question of deciding what NOT to buy.

The Material Girl line incorporates the sense of eclectic style that has always been the pop singer’s trademark.

It’s perfect for Georgia because she can mix and match her own style with key pieces like a black tulle miniskirt, a rose printed tank dress and red plaid tuxedo jacket. She found it every bit as hip as her favorite shopping haunts: Forever 21 and Topshop in England, where she goes to school.

Mom couldn’t get over the prices, between $12 and $40 for most pieces. She also liked the fact that the outfits were designed to fit teenage girls and not look like they were dressing up in something way too old for them.

“These are fabulous,” Anna Dixon said. “They are the right size for the girls that want to wear these clothes. you can make outfits and you can afford it.”

In addition to this month’s launch of Material Girl, Macy’s has focused on designing its own fast-fashion brands with celebrity endorsements from Kimora Lee Simmons and Jessica Simpson. The core customer is between 16 and 22, although the lines have been attracting interest from women up to 40 and beyond.

“Usually I come here and everything is the same old style over and over, the only difference is the color depending on the season,” said Karina Castrillo, 19, a Miami resident who was checking out the Material Girl collection. “This is really cute. It’s very rock ‘n’ roll.”

Department stores lure new buyers with lots of trendy fashions

I've checked ebay but the prices are pretty high, is thee any store that might sell them? like JCPenny or Macys?

thank you very much

probably forever 21, Marshall's, and citiwear.
Good reasonable prices too.

try popfashionstore.com

Where can I buy slim fit short sleeved dress shirts?

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Season openers

Friday

20Movies in the Canyon — Free outdoor movies will be shown on an inflatable screen at McKelligon Canyon Amphitheater on Fridays, today through Sept. 25, weather permitting. Today’s films: “Airplane!” at 7:15 p.m.; “Apollo 13″ at 9. the series is sponsored by the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Centers. 534-0665 for information and weather updates; moviesinthecanyon.com.

Shakespeare in the Park — the annual festival, staged this year by Eden Enterprises’ Shakespeare-on-the-Rocks, will start today through Aug. 29 with performances at 7 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays inside the Chamizal National Memorial Theater, 800 S. San Marcial. $10; $8 for students with ID, military and seniors. later performances will be in September at the Ysleta Independent School District amphitheater. This weekend: “Othello,” today; “Twelfth Night,” Saturday; and “Romeo and Juliet,” Sunday. Full schedule, other information: troupe, 474-4275, shakespeareontherocks.com; Chamizal, 532-7273, nps.gov/cham.

Alfresco! Fridays — Jazz saxophonist Mike Hamilton will play at 5:30 p.m. today in Arts Festival Plaza, between the El Paso Museum of Art and Plaza Theatre. Free. alfrescofridays.com.

Jason Boland and the Stragglers — the Texas country band will play at 8 p.m. today at Whiskey Dicks, 1580 George Dieter, Suite 204. $10. 921-9900.

KISS-FM that ’80s Party — Prime will play ’80s hits at the party from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. today at the Airport Holiday Inn, 6655 Gateway West. the event also includes a costume/impersonator contest and a Michael Jackson “Thriller” room. $15. 778-6411; ksii.com.

“The Clown who Ran Away” — the family-friendly Conrad Seiler play, directed by Moises Hinojos, will be staged at 8 p.m. today and Saturday at the El Paso Playhouse, 2501 Montana. $7; $5 for students younger than 18. 532-1317; elpasoplayhouse.com.

“Nunsense” — the Dan Goggin musical will be staged at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Downtown Mall in Las Cruces. $10; $9 for seniors, students and military; $8 each for groups of 10 or more; $7 for children 5 and younger. 575-523-1200; lcctnm.org.

Leah and the Moonlighters — the Austin jazz-pop group will play at 8 p.m. today at El Adobe Studios, 5301 El Paso Drive. $15 in advance at the Greenery Market, the Coffee Emporium and Pike Street Market; $20 at the door. the band includes El Paso native Aaron Goldfarb on guitar. 549-3484.

Edwin San Juan — the stand-up comic will perform at 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. today and Saturday ($12) and 7:30 p.m. Sunday ($8), at El Paso Comic Strip, 1201 Airway. Juan Garcia also will perform. 779-5233; laff2nite.com.

Saturday

21“Iolanthe” — the Gilbert & Sullivan Company of El Paso will stage the operetta at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall in Las Cruces. $10; $9 for students and seniors. Reservations: 575-523-1223.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Pow Wow & Rock Fest — the pow wow, with singing and dance contests, native foods, and native arts and crafts, opens at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Speaking Rock Entertainment Center parking lot, 122 S. old Pueblo Road. $10; free for ages 5 and younger.Free concerts by Red Bone and Keith Secola will be inside Speaking Rock on Saturday night; Sunday’s lineup also includes Candlebox. 860-7777.

Grupo Vida aka the Electric Cowboys — the Grammy-nominated band will play for a fundraiser from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Ysleta Mission, 131 Zaragoza. InKietos Musikal will open. $5 in advance; $7 at the gate; proceeds will help area youth attend World Youth Day in 2011. 859-9848.

Child Crisis Center benefit — Acoustic performances by Sweetest Downfall, Low Luster League, Emily Davis, Damian Wyldes and more will highlight the “Big Dudes for Little Dudes” fundraiser from 1:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Blue Dining and Spirits in Bassett Place. Donations will benefit the Child Crisis Center of El Paso.

Let’s Cook El Paso — Local and regional chefs will give a number of one-day cooking classes, plus demonstrations, wine tastings and more, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Western Wholesale Supply, 1345 Geronimo. Ticket packages start at $19; some classes are sold out. 342-5465; letscookelpaso.com.

El Minya Court fashion show — Fashions from Macy’s and Dress Barn and designs by Sara Macias will be featured at the show, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at El Maida Shrine Auditorium, 6331 Alabama. A silent auction and door prizes are also part of the event. $30; proceeds benefit El Minya Court no. 46. 204-9965.

“Neighborhood Watch: A Projection Walk” — the public art event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday in Sunset Heights. Starting from Mundy Park at Upson and Yandell, participants will follow a path of artwork projected onto buildings. Free; presented by El Paso’s Neighborhood Watch Collective.

End of World War II re-enactment — the living history event will be 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the El Paso Museum of History, 510 N. Santa Fe. Re-enactors from the Friends of Fort Selden, 79th U.S. Infantry Division and Pittsenbargar’s Own SS Living History/Re-enactment Groups will stage two small patrol skirmishes, at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in Cleveland Square, and will demonstrate arms and equipment and answer questions. Free. 351-3588.

Concordia Cemetery Ghost Tour — the guided tour, an investigation of the paranormal, will start at midnight Saturday at Concordia Cemetery, 3700 E. Yandell. $10 plus tax; ages 13-17 must be accompanied by an adult; no younger children. Reservations: 877-GHOST-10; elpasoghosttours.com; .

“Magic Impossible” — Las Cruces-area magician Chris Mitchell will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Downtown Mall in Las Cruces. $15; $10 for children 12 and younger. 575-523-6403; RioGrandeTheatre.com.

Farmer’s Market at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing — the ninth annual market opens from 7:30 a.m. to noon Saturdays at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing, 1 Ardovino Drive in Sunland Park. 575-589-0653, ext. 3.

Crafters Corner Farmers Market — the arts and crafts market, with live music, will be 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at El Paso Crafters Corner, 5660 El Paso Drive. Free. 541-8995.

Shakespeare in the Park — see today.

“The Clown who Ran Away” — see today.

Edwin San Juan — see today.

“Nunsense” — see today.

Sunday

22“Encores & Overtures” — the annual El Paso Opera fundraiser will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday at the Camino Real Hotel, 101 S. El Paso. This year’s program has a masquerade theme and will feature singers from the New York City Opera, where El Paso Opera director David Grabarkewitz is a resident director. It also will include a silent auction. $125. 581-5534, epopera.org.

Music in the Park — L.A. funk and R&B act the James Douglas show will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada in Las Cruces. Free; part of Las Cruces’ free outdoor summer concert series. las-cruces.org.

Melodies at the Park — Mariachi Cuauhtemoc and Brittney Gamboa will play from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Eastwood (Album) Park, 3110 Parkwood. Free. This is the final concert in the city-sponsored Melodies at the Park series. 252-9031; 240-3310.

Día de los Muertos Summer Gala — the benefit for Community of Hope will be 5-8 p.m. Sunday at the Double Eagle Restaurant on the plaza in Mesilla, N.M. $15 per person or $25 per couple. Dress is black-and-white casual. Presented by the Calavera Coalition. Reservations: 575-647-2639; .

Jay Sean appearance — the British singer-songwriter, rapper and producer will appear during a “My Fabulous 15″ quinceañera expo, 1-5 p.m. Sunday at the Verizon Wireless store at 9010 Viscount. Admission is a purchase from the store or a donated accessory to benefit Hopeline. myfabulous15.com.

Outlet Shoppes Farmers Market — the new market, with fresh food, herbs, pottery and more, is from 8 a.m. to noon Sundays at the shopping center at I-10 and Trans Mountain. TheOutletShoppesatElPaso.com.

Midtown Farmers Market — the market runs from 8 a.m. to noon Sundays at Dominic’s Italian Restaurant, 6901 Montana. 778-0011.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Pow Wow & Rock Fest — see today.

Shakespeare in the Park — see today.

“Nunsense” — see today.

Edwin San Juan — see today.

“Iolanthe” — see Saturday.

Tuesday

24Parents — the indie rock trio from Los Angeles will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall in Las Cruces. $10. Reservations: 575-523-1223; no-strings.org.

Wednesday

25Jason Collings — the stand-up comic will headline Wednesday through Aug. 29 at El Paso Comic Strip, 1201 Airway. Dino Archie also will perform. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays ($6 admission), 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays ($14), and 7:30 p.m. Sundays ($8). 779-5233; laff2nite.com.

Thursday

26Rodney Carrington — the stand-up comic and country singer will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 27 at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, N.M., near Ruidoso. $25 for standing room only; $40-$74 for floor seats; $100 for Golden Circle seats. 800-545-9011; innofthemountaingods.com.

“Flight 714 Fashion Show” — the show will start at 7:14 p.m. Thursday at the Garden, 511 Western Court in El Paso’s Union Plaza entertainment district. $50. Presented by Trend Society; proceeds benefit the Joseph B. Karam Foundation, which helps El Paso children. 842-8830.

Lunchtime stories — Community and arts leaders speak at noon Thursdays in San Jacinto Plaza Downtown. the talks are sponsored by the city and the Small Business Administration. Free.

Jason Collings — see Wednesday.

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