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Nicole Crews is the new Executive Editor for Casual Living.  She will oversee and direct the editorial content of the publication and web site.  Nicole also will bring her extensive knowledge of the home furnishings business to this weekly blog, Outside Insider. Feel free to comment on the blog or contact Nicole directly at ncrews@casualliving.com.

Email: ncrews@casualliving.com

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World Views

I don't know if you've noticed, but we've embarked on quite the adventure here at Casual Living. Beginning in April we published installment one of our three-part International Feature series. (Think of it as the counterpart to our recent three-part Made in America series.) Editor Cinde Ingram - my co-pilot and fellow traveler - flew to China to attend Outdoor Lifestyle Hangzhou and to get a read... More

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High Points

It's been said that "You know you're an outdoor product manufacturer if you show at the casual market in Chicago in September" - but that's not the entire story these days.While Chicago's International Casual Furniture & Accessories Market is still destination central for the outdoor industry, manufacturers and suppliers are realizing that in order to reach out to full-line furniture sto... More

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Flipping Out - Where Style Meets Sizzle

Writer and gourmand extraordinaire Jim Harrison once described himself in his Esquire food column as "a multiple entrée kind of a guy." His book editor at Knopf, Gary Fisketjon, confirmed the description over lunch one day at one of midtown Manhattan's myriad meaty restaurants. "When I take Jim to lunch, it's an all-day affair," said Fisketjon, who seemed to speak for all of us... More

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Award Season - Casual Living Rolls Out Red Carpet

I'm a sucker for award season. It doesn't matter if it's Critics' Choice or Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, Independent Spirit or the grand finale Academy Awards, each New Year the film industry has me enthralled with the first glimpse of red carpet it unfurls. Casual Living highlights two integral facets of the industry with the Supplier of the Year Award and Retailer of the Year Award... More

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In Living Color

Many editors, like me, originated as creatures of the black and white page - writers and word nerds who liked to let the reader's imagination do the illustrating. That was all well and good for the pre-Information Age. But in today's digital world of multimedia information sources where online, print and video merge, attention span is truncated and competition clamors for face time - we've had to... More
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