chatelaine-daily, flannery-dean

You’re lying in bed — too hot to sleep, too hot for blankets, so hot even the top sheet on your bed feels like a flannel blanket against your boiling skin. Ah, the sorrows of a summer heat wave and its far-too familiar nocturnal ritual of discomfort and bouts of irrational rage.

Little Miss Perfect has many problems. Not only does she never think she’s smart enough, pretty enough, or anything-enough, she may also have a tendency to procrastinate—or so suggests a recent article in the New York Times.

Confession: there’s an app for that; anxiety disorders on the rise in young Canadians; the New York Times profiles Vancouver’s Insite; Victoria Beckham pregnant pursuit of American Vogue; and a little old lady’s handbag swinging skills save the day (and make ours).

You’re at the park with the kids and your Blackberry or iPhone is doing something like an Irish jig in your coat pocket, vibrating every ten seconds with another email or missed call from work. It may be the weekend, but the work emails never stop coming and the question—to reply or not to reply?—looms large.

There was glitz, glamour, a wealth of cleavage, and a litany of awkward jokes read not-so-subtly from a teleprompter. It’s easy – and hilarious – to poke fun at Hollywood’s frequently botoxed royalty, but there’s no denying the rich crop of excellent films they made last year, and rightfully celebrated at last night’s Academy Awards. Here are our top six most memorable moments from the evening’s festivities, plus a couple of blunders.