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Category Archives: Music
Penultimate Day in CA Pre-NYC: Brief Note on American Buffalo, the C Word, Rescue Me and Preview of Cabaret Cares for AIDS and Ben Vereen Tribute
I’m writing this on the porch of J’s condo. My Saab fob is in my friend’s SUV in LA (or by now in his house) as I left it there on Tuesday after an outstanding lunch at Maison Giraud with … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Relationships, Television, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged afghan whigs, alexandra patsavas, american buffalo, Ben Vereen, denis leary, diane farr, feminism, Geffen Playhouse, glengarry glen ross, grey's anatomy, john scurti, Laurie Beechman Theater, life in the theater, Maison Giraud, Mamet conversion, musicals, Naomi Wolf, new york city, Patrick Stewart, profanity, race, rescue me, ron eldard, Stepping Out, the chop shop, TR Knight, yelp
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Happy Tuesday from Manhattan! Best (41st) Birthday, Steps on Broadway/Luigi, Fig and Olive Brunch and Thursday Broadway World Cabaret Awards at Metropolitan Room
I finished the blog about TSA with a revision of my response to the hostile commenter on my Patch review of “The Gift” and will post that tomorrow, but as usual, my blogging impulses wane in NYC because I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Food & Wine, Music, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Academy Awards, Ben Vereen, birthday, Cruise Line, dennis franz, dennis miller, Elaine Stritch, Fig and Olive, Green Gourmet, jazz, Liz McKendry, luigi jazz dance centre, Metropolitan Room, musical theater, Rick Knight, Rob Lowe, santa barbara, SBIFF, Steps on Broadway, upper east side, V2
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Sunday Memoir Blog en Route to LA: Spectacular Night at the Marquee and the Granada for the State Street Ballet’s Firebird Suite and Studio City Patch Blog about Hama Dance Center
Ed. note: Several friends who have little connection to dance (at least not jazz) asked me both to define lyrical jazz dance and to explain a bit of my dance history and lineage. This blog attempts to do just that. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Lifestyle, Music, School, St. Augustine, Theater, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
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Great Santa Barbara Happy Hours: Why I Don’t Cook/Inaugural Victorian Chick Blog for the Palisades Patch/SB Symphony with State Street Ballet at the Granada and Geffen Wine Down Sunday for “The Gift” on Last CA Weekend pre-NYC
I realize it is perverse, if not downright cruel–when CT is buried under 26 inches of snow and the rest of New England is reeling from Blizzard Nemo–to post this picture of me on a warm, sunny February Monday in … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Music, Relationships, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Ben Vereen, bicoastal, Brahms, cadiz, culture on a budget, Debussy, enterprise fish company, Firebird, geffen theater, Granada in SB, happy hour, Kathy Baker, kids, los angeles, Palisades Patch, saving money, SB symphony, state street ballet, Stravinsky, the Broad Stage, The Cottage, The Gift, yelp
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Happy Friday from Literati Cafe on a Hot January Day in West Los Angeles! Three Dance Classes at Hama with Risa in a Week and my First Santa Barbara Symphony Mini-Subscription
I’m extremely content. Literati used to be a bar and grill my parents and I liked in spite of the deplorable service. It used to take as long to get my charmingly-titled Good Night Moon specialty cocktail (vodka, fresh … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged dad stories, dance, Debussy, Granada Theater, hama jazz dance, Mahler, Mozart, new york city, risa, sb, SB symphony, state street ballet
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Rainy Day in SB: Cut, Color, Tiny Dysport (6 Units) Undereye, Tummy Ache, Wine, Chorus Line (1985), the 1980s Sitcom Benson and White Nights Soundtrack
I’m with Ollie purring like a neck rest and Emma happy on her doggie bed downstairs after my 6 units/60 bucks Dysport touch-up for the undereye just where I apply the liner from Sephora I’ve grown to love (halfway … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Music, St. Augustine, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged beauty treatments, Benson, Century City, CHiPs, Chorus Line, dysport, michael douglas, Montecito Aesthetic Institute, Plitt Theater, robert guillaume, santa barbara, Tiburon Tavern, Trimm Hair Salon, Victorian Chick, White Nights
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Happy Pre-Thanksgiving Week Blog: Victorian Chick Enters the 21st Century with an iPhone 5!
I’m at Enterprise Fish Company on a sleepy, cloudy Sunday in SB, eagerly anticipating my chicken club (minus bacon) with avocado and aioli after having eaten nothing all day except superlative vanilla birthday cake at T’s 9th birthday party at … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Music, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged 1992 election, 1993 blizzards, afghan whigs, apple store, bedtime stories, cafe majestic, enterprise fish company, fillmore theater, greg dull, hotel majestic, iphone, los angeles, madonna, new haven, roxy, rue epic, san francisco, santa barbara rock gym, toad's, upper east side, yale
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Shortest Victorian Chick Blog Ever! Off to San Francisco with J for Afghan Whigs/Pictures from Montecito Bank and Trust B2B Matt Hicks’ “Thinking Beyond The Likes”
Well J said we wouldn’t get out of here till 11 and he was right. He is going to pick up dry cleaning and get gas. Emma is at the neighbor’s house. We live in 4 attached condos on 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetics, afghan whigs, dissertation, ethics, fillmore, george eliot, greg dulli, hotel majestic, matt hicks, montecito bank and trust, philosophy, rescue me, san francisco, social media, social networking
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“Livin’ it Up When You’re Goin’ Down”: Aerosmith at the Hollywood Bowl after Dinner at The Public in Roosevelt Hotel (with Prefatory Note on Dad’s ‘Greatest Generation’ View of Attachment Parenting)
A beautiful day in the Palisades. I’m the backyard about to swim for the second time in fifteen years in my parents’ very large, unheated 1962 pool. They rarely make residential pools this long and deep these days and … Continue reading
Happy Sunday From NYC: DC Photo Blog (Angela Gheorghiu at Kennedy Center, Ali Wentworth Signing Four Seasons, Michel Richard, Library of Congress, Atlas District/H Street)
I have been remiss with blogging as I sometimes am on the East Coast, where the majority of my friends live and I have a constant stream of social engagements. Also, as I observed on Facebook, I tend to write … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, School, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged angela gheorghiu, Atlas District, cherry blossoms, childhood friends, graduate school, H Street, kalorama, library of congress, michel richard, restaurants in DC, st augustine, ucsb, washington national opera
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