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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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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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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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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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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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