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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 Fiesta Weekend from Santa Barbara! (Plus Preview of “To Rome, With Love” Rave and Reflections on Victorian Chick’s “Rarefied” Life)
I am back from New York (and the Cape/Barrington, Rhode Island), happily ensconced with J and the animals on a stunning, sunny Saturday after a morning of clouds and drizzle. I didn’t plan to return on Thursday, August … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 360 State Street, amy waldman, big law, deconstruction, fiesta, graduate school, harvard westlake, husbands and wives, kathy reich, literary theory, manhattan, midnight in paris, new haven, o'melveny and myers, post-structuralism, taft apartments, to rome, upper east side, upper west side, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, with love, woody allen, yale, Yale Club of LA
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Victorian Chick’s Anthropology of West Los Angeles Real Estate (Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, Westwood, Malibu and Santa Monica–North of Montana)
I knew this iTunes thing was too good to be true. I have had the Macbook Pro about three months (used, a great deal on eBay) and it tells me there is a security breach and I cannot purchase … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bel air, beverly hills, brentwood, college, elyse walker, entertainment industry, harvard westlake, high school, hollywood, holmby hills, lawyers, malibu, marina del rey, pacific palisades, reagan estate, real estate, shawn colvin, The Cottage, ucla, venice, wendy plumb, west hollywood, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, westwood, yale
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Miscellaneous Wrap-Up of Week: Montecito Aesthetics Institute, Artistic Nails, Pacific Pride Foundation Rooftop Mixer on Day of Obama Gay Marriage Announcement, John Cusack and Pico Iyer This Week, Westlake School for Girls Reunion Lunch Today….
What an exciting week this will be in our little sleepy beach town my last week before New York! Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), no one organizes anything here and the Lobero Theater’s people didn’t talk to the UCSB Arts … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Politics, School, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged artistic nails, botox, dr. joseph chang, evolutions medical spa, eyes, harvard westlake lunch, montecito aesthetics institute, mother's day, Obama and same sex marriage, pacific pride foundation, perlane, westlake school for girls
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Musings on Christmas Trees Amidst Pre-Christmas Preparations for Trip to NYC and Dogsitting a Sweet but High Maintenance French Briard
Happily, I persuaded my Jewish boyfriend to agree to a tree in his beautiful condo with ocean views. He did have a tree for five years or so when married to a Catholic, and while he’s not in the least … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, School, St. Augustine, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bob schiller, Bugsy, childhood, Christmas, christmas trees, Dylan McDermott, Emmys, Hanukah, I Love Lucy, Nicole Miller, Observant, Out of Africa, pacific palisades, Ronald Reagan, second-hand clothing, Secular, Shiva Rose, The Cottage, vintage clothing, westlake school for girls
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A Networking Pedicure in the Palisades Before Westlake Alumni Lunch
I’m in SB, enjoying the cool breeze and the bright post-rain sea from my proverbial “spot” upstairs. It rained quite a lot the last two nights and the air is fresh and crisp and a bit cool for mid-May. I’ve … Continue reading
“Why Can’t the Americans Teach Their Children How To Write?”: Tribute to Ms. Turner-Jones, 10th Grade English Teacher, Inspired by My Fair Lady
I have wanted to blog about my memorable evening this week with my father, watching our favorite musical of all time, My Fair Lady–but I have wanted to reread George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and also write down some of the … Continue reading
More Magazine: The Beauty/Fashion/Lifestyle Magazine for Women with Brains (also Grey’s Anatomy, Heat, Hot Nietzsche Scholar, 6th Grade Graduation)
I had never heard of this magazine before my beautiful and courageous new FB friend Alessandra Kelmans de Bozzo entered the “most beautiful woman” contest, which she entered not for self-aggrandizing reasons, but rather to pay for the medical bills incurred … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Philosophy, School, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged denis leary, dermal fillers, food, grey's anatomy, kate walsh, kevin mckidd, kierkegaard, nietzche, patrick dempsey, rescue me, restaurants, st. augustine, westlake school for girls, yale
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