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Happy Super Bowl Sunday from Santa Barbara! Victorian Chick on Fitness (and Instagram)
Ed. Note: The Patriots have won the Super Bowl. I heard on the radio that people eat more on Super Bowl Sunday than Thanksgiving, so if you’re feeling immobilized by whatever decadent food you’ve consumed, here’s a way to atone. … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Cross-Training, Diet, Ellliptical, equinox, fitness, gwyneth paltrow, Patriots, santa barbara, SBAC, Strength Training, SuperBowl, swimming, upper east side
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Winterpearls Jewelry Trunk Show Score and a Dodgers Game with Brother (Second Ballgame of my Life)
I’m going to the second professional baseball game of my life today. Baseball isn’t my thing, but I did have fun in 2012 when saw the Dodgers play the Mets at the gorgeous and newly renovated Dodger stadium. Well, play … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Dodger Stadium, dodgers, New York, Pulino's, Siblings, upper east side, yale
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Happy Non-St Patrick’s Day St. Patrick’s Day Blog: Happy Hour at Wine Bistro, Notes on New York vs SB Dry Cleaning and Nails (Redux), and the Joys of Complaining
I thought I’d just check in since I never wrote a Friday or weekend blog. I’ve been rereading parts of Sigrid Fry-Revere’s Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran and writing pitch letters. Saturday I had a glorious, long … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged dry cleaning, graduate school, J Brand, jeans trauma, Jeeves, Jeffrey's, lola, Madame Paulette, old New York, Piatti, sigrid fry-revere, The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran, upper east side
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“Victorian Chick on the Patch” (New Blog in Various LA Patch Branches) and Musings on Why My Closest Friends Came from Facebook or NYC Trips not my K-12 LA Private Schools (Ventura Lunch with Westlake Girl, 1973)
It’s no secret that New York City moves me in ways no other place does, but I can honestly say that I’ve found a lovely rhythm in Southern California and made a nice life for myself when I’m away from … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, School, St. Augustine, Theater, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1990s, Baby Boomers, Cafe Fiore, friendship, Greatest Generation, harvard westlake, manhattan, parents, real estate, sb, Seagrass, upper east side, Ventura thrift stores, westlake school for girls, WLA
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Quick Blog While Packing After 2.5 Weeks in NYC: LA Bound (Maybe….)
Well, the last time I went a whole NYC trip without blogging, my MacBook Pro hard drive crashed. I have no such excuse this trip other than a breakneck schedule, which even without dance, kept me up late almost every … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged ben cameron, broadway sessions, chuck nice, daphnie sicre, halloween 2013, hiram kasten, jerry seinfeld, juice generation, laugh for sight, Laurie Beechman Theater, lingerie on lex, new york city, penny farthing, play/date, robert klein, standup comedy, sue costello, upper east side, upper west side, West Bank Cafe, yelp
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Part I of NYC/Cape Cod Trip Blog and Week in LA (Dance, Blue Jasmine, Flat Tires, Bank Incompetence, PMS Lethargy and Reconnect with Childhood Classmate)
My ambitious writing hopes for the past few days were foiled by a tire blowout on the 101 freeway in Westlake Village, midway between LA and SB. I was lucky to get over to the outside shoulder from the left … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged Barrington, Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett, country clubs, James Bond, Landmark Cinema, luigi jazz dance centre, nyc, RI, Sammy Davis Jr, Something's Gotta Give, upper east side, Wianno Club, woody allen
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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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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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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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