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Category Archives: UCSB
Wonderful Mother’s Day Weekend in LA: Westlake School for Girls Reunion Lunch, Dinner at Osteria Latini and League of Their Own, and American Buffalo at the Geffen Playhouse
Summer has come to West LA. Happily, summer here bears very little relation to summer in most of the country, which tends to be obscenely humid or so hot–115 in Arizona or Palm Springs–you don’t care whether the heat … Continue reading
Lazy Allergic Saturday in Santa Barbara: Predictably Disappointing Visit to La Super Rica, Fabulous Mani/Pedi at C and J, Great Happy Hour at Uptown Lounge and Notes on the New Santa Barbara Sentinel
The only interesting or good part of today was a spectacular gel manicure and pedi at C and J. It was one of the first places about which I Yelped in September, when I joined a site I have … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged Kyoto, La Super Rica, LA Weekly, SB Independent, SB Sentinel, Shintori, Uptown Lounge
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Happy Friday from Uptown Lounge in SB: Great Dance Day Monday and Comedy at Hollywood Improv Tuesday (Jay Mohr and Jason Lawhead)
In anticipation of a day of organization—my least favorite sort of day—I decided I needed fortification in the form of Brioche French toast and many cups of Peerless Coffee. The San Francisco coffee is the closest thing to blow … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Politics, School, St. Augustine, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged archer school for girls, brentwood, Brentwood Country Mart, David Mamet, Davis and Polk, diana meehan, Farm Shop, gary goldberg, hama, hama jazz dance, Hancock Park, Jerry Evans, Karabel, Marlborough, Rebecca Pigeon, risa, Sherman Oaks, sitcoms, st. augustine, Sullivan and Cromwell, tracey durbin, traffic, TV, westlake school for girls
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Happy Friday and First Day of February! George Eliot Letters, Shine Blowdry Bar Pedicure and Fun Weekend in LA with Play at the Geffen and Time with Florida Friends
It’s what everyone says but there’s a reason for this: I can’t believe today is the first day of February! Where did January go? For me it went to dance, the symphony, LA, Dad’s bronchitis, the SBAC pool and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Babe Walker, class, death gardens, depression, grad school, happiness, memoir, nyc, Shine Blowdry Bar
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Reflections on Relationships and the Relinquishment of One’s Own High and Pop Cultural Investments, or The Challenges of Living a Life of Ideas Outside the Academy
Usually Ollie prefers the ottoman on which I’ve photographed him numerous times but the sun is so brilliant and warm streaming through the window, he decided to lounge about on the hardwood floor. He often sunbathes on the upper … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Food & Wine, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged CT, depression, dresses, graduate school, Grey Laswell, grey's anatomy, happiness, literature, money, Morning Glory, music from Grey's Anatomy, new jersey, new york city, parents, relationships, Suits, Tadashi Shoji, tutoring, wealth
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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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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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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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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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