More than any other factor, your image in business can directly affect your rate of success or failure in the business world, often before any qualitative evaluation of your skills and talents can even take place.

Sway catches up with the financial services professional turned author to discuss her new book, ‘Joyful, Soulful Sex’ and the one that made her a name more than a decade ago.

Travel columnist Anne-Marie Woods visits the Big Easy for the National Alliance of Black School Educators Conference

#ThatsWhatSheSaid: Sway Magazine’s Online Recap of Current Events. This week: Hip-Hop royalty is born and a woman fakes death certificate to extend vacation.

Sway’s weekly horoscope will give you the straight goods for your sign — don’t miss it!

#ThatsWhatSheSaid: Sway Magazine’s Online Recap of Current Events. This week: 2012 is here! ‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions and recapping 2011’s biggest celeb break-ups.

Don’t let these small delights fool you. They may be tiny but these appetizers make up for their size by being big on taste.

With 2012 just around the corner, most people are starting to think about their New Year’s resolutions. If you’re like me, your mind is on your business and your money. So if going to the gym is not your idea of a lasting personal goal, then maybe one of these business resolutions will be more up your alley.

Freed slaves, the Davenport brothers, built the Hillsdale Hotel (also known as Alma House, O’Neil Tavern, O’Neil House and Simcoe House) in the Springwater Township of Simcoe County, Ont., in 1882. The building currently stands to be demolished after its owners requested a demolition permit in 2009 but agreed to delay demolition.

Besides their ridiculously stylish names, Kiwi, Nimo and Metzti ooze enviable sartorial skill without a whiff of pretension. They’re just cool-looking chicks who wear what they like, wear it really well and don’t mind sharing. In the seasonal spirit of giving, they’ve graciously spilled on their favourite shops, sources of inspiration and the $7 purchase that could change your life—or at least your wardrobe.