Blog Posts by Jennifer Romolini, Shine editor in chief

In Shine's exclusive interview, rock icon and lead guitarist for The Electric Mayhem Band Janice talks about love, life and, like, everything else, fer sure.

Shine: Why are women obsessed with rock musicians and other unavailable men?
J: Unavailable men, whether they're rockers or not, are like always totally hot….At least until they become available, and you realize all that intense attitude and quirky behavior is, like, totally annoying. The difference with rockers is, they're louder and tend to, like, use up all your hair care products.

Shine: Who is your female rock idol and why?
J: Oh wow! I got so many rock goddesses in my pantheon. (Which is like a hall of fame, not a sportscar. Groovy, huh?) Definitely Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde, Aviril Lavigne, Janice Joplin, Hayley Williams, Pat Benatar, Stevie Nicks…….etcetera, like, etcetera… Why are they my idols? Whoa, like, if you, like, have to, like, ask…then there's no way I can, like, explain. Listen and you'll totally grok what

Sweet Potato Pineapple Casserole
SWEDISH CHEF: Ya ya de yümmee-yümmee shweetie tater un de piney-aplle mishy-møøshy der køøkee üpp kvickee-qvick…..

Ingredients:
3 sweet potatoes
CHEF: De shweetie tater

1/2 cup crushed pineapple with juice
CHEF: De piney-aplle un dee squeezee-squoosh

1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
CHEF: De rollee-stoneee jagger søngee

3 tablespoons butter
CHEF: De chuürnee-chuürnee

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
CHEF: Ooh das der heisers, yøøbetcha!

2. Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.

CHEF: Slickee fisker dee dishees

3. In a large soup pot, boil sweet potatoes whole until soft.

 Remove skins, and dice into

Hi ho, Kermit the Frog here…and I'm here to say "it's easy being green". Oh, I know, you've heard me sing just the opposite. And it's true that it might be nicer being red, or yellow, or gold or something much more colorful like that. But right now I'm talking about how easy it is to Go Green--doing little things to conserve energy, protect the environment and basically make this planet an even better place for people, frogs and other species.

Here are a few simple tips to help you Go Green.

1. Turn Off The Lights When You Leave the Room.

That's just good sense. You don't need lights to see if you're not in the room, right? And if you're in the room - especially with a pig who wants to hug and kiss you - make sure you leave the room before she turns off the lights.

2. Time Your Showers So You Don't Waste Water. Personally, I prefer to soak in the swamp. (Nothing like pond scum to keep amphibious skin supple and smooth.) But if you're not a frog and you take showers, keep your

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1. If it's expensive (and he's paying)…it fits!

2. Your wardrobe should always make a statement. Mine says: "Hey, look at moi! I'm wearing haute couture…and you're not!"

3. Never wear anything that makes it impossible to enter a room without turning sideways.

4. Remember that style comes in all sizes. So, the bigger you are, the more style you have, n'est ce pas!?

5. Avoid body piercing: Moi much prefers to skewer others.

6. Watch what vous eat: My advice: Never eat anything you can't lift.

7. Don't be a fashion victim: If you enter a room and it's assumed that you lost the bet…go home and change.

8. Be happy with who you are. And if this doesn't work for you, then be happy with who I am!

9. The best things in life are free. But only if you're being comped.

10. If you're dating a frog, make sure your wardrobe is waterproof. If you're dating moi's frog, you're toast, sister!

This baby is way cuter than a real vampire baby would probably be.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's cinematic "Twilight" odyssey continues today with the release of the duo's latest vampire-love collaboration, "Breaking Dawn." In this installment, the crazy kids follow a well-tread, familiar path to hetero-normality: First came love, then came marriage and then--SPOILER ALERT--comes a terrifying monster baby in a baby carriage (or, in this case, a big pregs stomach, blood-sucking from the inside).

Sounds happily ever after-ish, right?

But here's the thing: Twi-hards are obsessed with the new Bell-ward creature spawn, or at least the idea of it. In fact, according to numerous blogs and our own Yahoo! search results, queries about "vampire babies" have been spiking all this week and online debates have grown heated, pitting fan again fan in commenting forums. The issue at the center of these debates is: Can vampires make vampire babies?

Twilight Saga Answers says: "Whether vampires can have babies depends on what sort of vampire lore you're

If you're a regular reader of Shine, you've probably noticed some big (and small) changes around these parts in the past couple of days. After nearly four years online, and after publishing hundreds of thousands of blogs, videos, photos, comments, recipes (many of which came from all of you--thank you!), our dear site needed a bit of sprucing up, not to mention a technical upgrade to help us serve you all a lot better-and faster. On the redesigned Shine, you'll find new sections like:

Style: We've expanded our fashion and beauty section into one big area of the site, to bring you even more coverage on affordable style, makeup and skincare secrets, the latest anti-aging news and basically everything that makes us all obsessed with (and sometimes frustrated by) looking great.
At Home: Our new section dedicated to all things cleaning, organizing and decorating
Green: A new place to find simple ways to live more respectfully and responsibly and treat to the planet with care.
Pets:

ThinkstockA few years ago, during the first days of our honeymoon, my husband and I got stranded in the Naples train station for 13 hours. This was after being stranded on a tiny island where no one spoke English for four hours, missing two boats and three trains and probably a rickshaw ride and a few cabs in between. It was only 22 hours later, when we finally arrived in Florence at the world's creepiest hotel (not the "hidden gem" I was led to believe-thanks, internet!) and were lying on the polyester-floral-vaguely-burnt-smelling comforter that we realized how our day had gone horribly wrong: It was the end of daylight-saving time in Europe, the clocks had been turned back an hour, and our sad travel-guide Italian had only prepared us to say 'thank you' and politely ask for wine, NOT: 'Is your whole country undergoing a major time change?'

Daylight-saving time ends this Sunday, November 6, which means it's time to turn back the clocks one hour, starting at 2 a.m. If you're anything like us,

Photo courtesy of MTVIt's not often that we here at Shine are rendered giddily speechless by a pop icon performing on a certain Music Television network, but-oh my goodness!-Beyoncé's new video for her new song "Countdown" is no regular MTV experience. Clad in an array of chic, retro-sleek, poppy outfits that flash vividly among wildly colorful screens, Ms B's performance here is exuberant, beautiful, stylish, and filled with a kind of wonderfulness we haven't seen in a video since maybe, well, forever.

On top of all this, the lady shows off her burgeoning belly throughout, making pregnancy look sexy and strong, and decidedly not like some weird, dated "delicate condition." It's inspiring and, quite simply, badass.

Photo courtesy of MTV
Here's a preview of "Countdown." Happy Friday!

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