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Category Archives: Travel
Happy Saturday from Plane to LGA: Lovely Travel Day and Gratitude for My Life and Freedom
[Ed. note: I'm posting this from the apartment where the rain is pelting the lush, green leaves which have popped up in the last two months. It was simply breathtaking when I arrived but now pretty wet out there so … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Taylor, chicago, christina noel, consignment, elizabeth wurtzel, family, Fig and Olive, happiness, Ice, kids, marriage, money, new york city, new york magazine, O'Hare, ORD, purses, SB Handbag and Luggage, upper east side
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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 Cinco de Mayo from SB!: Highlights of Midwestern Tour with New Yelp Lists and Patch Blog re Yelp’s Virtues and Vices
I can’t believe it’s been nearly a month since my blog about joining Twitter (with digs about the sanctimonious Evan Handler) but the Chicago/Champaign/Grand Rapids trip was jam-packed and I elected to document my trip via Yelp rather than Victorian … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged big grove tavern, champaign, chicago, Deidre Bair, diamond nexus, LA Times, Lake Shore Drive, marina city, Midwestern weather, New Yorker, Pacific Palisades Patch, Portillo's, purple pig, Sandy Banks, saul steinberg, Victoria Ordin, woodfield mall, yelp
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Back from NYC and Back to Blogging: Highlights from Trip with Pictures en Route to LA for Parent Visit and Jay Mohr at Hollywood Improv
Ed. note: I wrote this a week ago but just posted the pictures. Jay Mohr was tremendous and Jerry Seinfeld made a surprise drop-in appearance. Going to comedy, like going to baseball games, is better during the week. I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Film, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged al di la vino, alvin ailey dance, birthday celebrations, brophy brother's, cabaret music, camille paglia, Carly Ozard, cold pool, Crawford Doyle, dance, David Shields, Equinox UES, Fishtail by David Burke, fred's at barneys, genius on hold, george eliot dissertation, glittering images, grand havana room, Italian food, Laurie Beechman Theater, Lower East Side, luigi dance centre, montecito, new york city, pets, Pulino's, sarabeth's, SBAC, sharon zaslaw, Sharqui bellydance jazz, Sunshine cinema, upper east side, walter shaw, West Bank Cafe, winter, wolfgang's, writer's block
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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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Quick Happy Friday Blog: Scores from Cottage, Valentine’s Dinner Pictures and Link to Patch Blogs for the Week (5!)
I just finished my fifth patch blog in a week–a review of Cafe Vida embedded in observations of the Palisades, Brentwood and Santa Monica (north of Montana area particularly) over and above Beverly Hills. This is a condensed version of … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Albert Nipon, Brentwood Patch, consignment shopping, Deja Vu Toms River, diamond nexus, jewelry, luigi jazz dance centre, manhattan, michael kors, neiman marcus, Palisades Patch, relais de paris, Studio City Patch, The Cottage Boutique, Valentine's Day, Vera Cuoio
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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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Lazy Saturday pre-Geffen Playhouse Coney Island Christmas/New Headshots and Pro Photos from NYC
J fixed my Drop Box issue. He marvels at the extent to which I can “punk” up my computer and create problems where none previously existed. As a dear friend always says, “It’s a gift.” Before J could fix it, … Continue reading
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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