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Happy Monday! Wonderful LA Weekend of Dance, Food, and Old Pictures I Never Knew Existed
Jerry Evans teaches a 1:30 lyrical jazz dance class at Hama Dance Center in Studio City which is too advanced for me but which I love to watch if I’m in town. I had an outstanding and heartwarming class Saturday … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, School, St. Augustine, Theater, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
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Writing Day at SB Apartment on Martin Luther King Holiday: SB Symphony Recap, Fun with Caulking Gun (Sort Of), Patriots Defeat and a Cheeseburger Sans Ketchup
I’m in my cold Santa Barbara apartment for the first time in almost a week. I remembered to turn the new heater off when I left for LA, which doesn’t sound impressive but after 3 years with no heat, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Relationships, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged christopher commission, family, home improvement, LAPD, Macbeth, Martin Luther King Day, Mendelssohn, Mozart, new york city, Nir Kabaretti, Patriots, pets, Red Sox, relationships, SB symphony, sex, Takemitsu, the Granada Theater SB, yale, Yankees
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First Blog of 2013: Victorian Chick’s Reflections on Happiness, Social Media and Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Happy is good. I’ve always been a fan of happiness.” –Marsha Mason to James Caan in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. It’s been two weeks since my pre-NYE blog as I have intermittently been working on my monster blog for … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, Relationships, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged chapter two, choices, Cliff Baldridge, daphne merkin, elizabeth wurtzel, facebook, feminism, friendship, gwyneth paltrow, happiness, harper's bazaar, hope Steadman, James Caan, Jewish, jezebel, Joe Bologna, katie baker, lynn beisner, marriage, Marsha Mason, mel harris, memoirs, money, New Years Eve, new york city, new york magazine, polly draper, private school, psychoanalysis, Role Reboot, secular jews, st. augustine, therapy, thirtysomething, yale
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New Years Eve Pops Concert Booked, Silver Linings Playbook at 7PM, Oct 4 Park Avenue Armory Pictures
Intending to pick up Christopher Beha’s wonderful What Happened to Sophie Wilder after a few months’ intermission, I realized it was in LA and elected to laze around rather than begin Katherine Alcott’s The Danger of Proverbial Alphabets, highly recommended … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Film, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Hamilton, art, Broadway, Deja Vu, Granada Theater, music, new york city, Park Avenue Armory
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Merry Christmas from Santa Barbara! Dad’s Birthday at Wilshire and Good Tidings about Brother-in-Law (Progressive/Metal Guitarist Gregg Olson)
Merry Christmas to Victorian Chick readers! I hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends and a minimum of what can be the unpleasant mishigas of holiday gatherings (yes, I’m a Christmas tree Jew). J is sleeping … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Literature, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged A Novel of Thank You, Balthazar, Bistro Chat Noir, Christmas, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Williamson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moorpark Ballet, Nutcracker, pam rossi dance school, Prada, upper east side, Wilshire Restaurant
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Victorian Chick Is Now on Video! Whirlwhind First Week in NYC (and New Haven Overnight) [Four Videos]
With each passing day, writing a blog to do justice to the wonderment of New York at Christmas while galavanting, dancing, visiting, dining and just being in the city I am blessed to call home three months a year … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Theater, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Bar Italia on Madison, Barcelona, Christmastime, Dear Elizabeth, elizabeth bishop, Hartford, luigi jazz dance, manhattan, new haven, New Haven Hotel, new york city, poetry, Robert Lowell, tapas bars, The Living Room, The Russian Lady, The Taft Apartments, Yale Repertory Theater, Yelp NYC reviews
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Fun at the Garden Street Academy Holiday Boutique, Donald Marguiles’ Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Tonight, and Reading Ambitions for 2013
Another rainy day in Santa Barbara but I don’t mind a bit. After a banner Saturday (minus swim) which began with the first professional cleaning of my apartment since February and a warm, wonderful afternoon at Garden Street Academy’s Holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged afghan whigs, Augustine, autobiography, Christmas, Coney Island Christmas, David Holmes, Donald Marguiles, Donna Leon, edith wharton, Faiths of the Founding Fathers, Garden State Academy, Geffen Playhouse, greg dulli, Hanukah, Jewish Journal, john lithgow, Lisa Duncan Carrillo, memoir, morgan library, porter abbott, reading, rescue me, selfhood, subjectivity, Teresa of Avila, Teri Garr, the weekly standard, theory, theory of autobiography, Virginia Wolf
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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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Lunch at Opal Pre-Mani/Pedi and Gratitude for my Choice of Disastrous but Free and Prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship at UCSB
I’m an idiot. I never ate breakfast and decided to get a grilled cheese sandwich at Xanadu Bakery in Montecito, just next to Vons. Voluntarily entering a supermarket if you aren’t cooking Thursday (even on a Monday before the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged family, gratitude, holidays, iphone, opal restaurant and bar, school, thanksgiving
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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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