International luxury lifestyle designer Allegra Hicks’ favorite book is Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (Dover Publications, 2002), a series of 10 letters written by the famed 20th-century Austrian poet to a student wh ...

For 10 years, Rich Guzman has trained actor Jennifer Beals, whose workout is featured in the November/December 2008 issue of VIVmag. Beals is one of the stars of the hit television show The L Word on Showtime, playing power-hungry babe Bett ...

Baked potato chips are the secret to this chicken’s crispy coating. Instead of going into a vat of fat, this bird cooks in the oven.