…www.masalaartdc.com An Indian restaurant with a three-course pre-theater special—it’s a spinoff of the Tenleytown place of the same name. Station 4 1101 4th Street SW Washington, DC 20024 202-488-0987 www.station4dc.com New American bistro. Z-Burger 1101 4th Street SW Washington, DC…
Tags: DC theater, theater
…me to the library’s website where, the book gods willing, I’ll find something to download or at least place on hold. (I’m frequently met with disappointment, but this exercise saves me from Amazon, whose instant download of everything is far…
Tags: janet kelly, Nancy McKeon
…Road Scholar trip, Pamela and I first heard about The Great Courses (www.thegreatcourses.com), a series of college-level audio and video courses produced by The Teaching Company of Chantilly, Virginia. The company was started more than 25 years ago by Thomas…
Tags: Charlie Bowen, Now Watch This, Pamela Bowen
…but they’re still cute. Here a helpful one holds the tape on your desk. It’s $12.99 at www.officeplayground.com. For high-tech tea, try this stainless-steel Robot Tea Infuser. It’s $14.99 at www.animicausa.com, and its arms adjust to any size mug. An…
Tags: decorating ideas, holidays, shopping
…striped sweaters showing up in my browser. Hello, Preppy No coincidence, according to recent articles in The Guardian and Financial Times. The preppy look has been making a comeback for a decade, spurred by millennials who are moving away from…
Tags: fall, janet kelly, shopping, what we want to buy, what we want to have, what we want to wear now
…House, 2.25 inches high. It’s $14 at Terrain, www.shopterrain.com. / Photo courtesy Terrain. An assemblage of Easter candies available at Terrain, www.shopterrain.com. Terrain’s shop is in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. / Photo courtesy Terrain. Periwinkle Gifts features some very sophisticated eggs:…
Tags: entertaining, holidays, shopping
…pain in what is labeled as a pain-free solution to meal prep. Sample meal: Cold Sesame Noodles, serves 2, 720 calories per serving, prep time 20-30 minutes (it took me around 20) Blue Apron Price breakdown: $59.94/week for 2-person plan,…
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…very 1970. She makes them every season; I bought the Starsky model. Say it like a Parisienne “Even my sweatpants come from Stouls!” La Botte Gardiane 25, rue du Bourg-Tibourg, IVe Tel. +33 (0)1 77 16 58 45 — www.labottegardiane.com…
Tags: celebrities, celebrity fashion, travel
And this just in! Heart-shape 7-ounce Neufchatel cheese at Trader Joe’s for $5.99. “Wonderfully creamy and salty!” says the Trader Joe’s signage. “Great with . . . Riesling or Chardonnay!” Incredibly well priced, say we. MY DAD SPENT HIS LIFE…
…all the questions we wanted and only do things if they sounded like fun. And, we did not have to be perfectly horizontal to have a good front float (one’s float is dependent on one’s body composition). As you may…
Tags: health, healthy living
…like reading what she has to say about it. For more of her philosophical and practical advice, subscribe for free to How Not to F*ck Up Your Face at valeriemonroe.substack.com. A FEW MONTHS ago, late to the party, I discovered…
Tags: Valerie Monroe
…Ireland sayst he leaves his 3-footer in place “for months.” Hard to argue! The trees are $32.99 to $249.99 at www.restorationhardware.com. Tiling the interior surround of a window with mirror–or these mirror-finish porcelain tiles from Ann Sacks (www.annsacks.com)–allows more light…
Tags: decorating ideas, shopping
…that flavorful, purchase the Wild Strawberry Essence from Grasse, France from www.simplygourmand.com. Serves 6 Our favorite way with strawberry pie, American style. Prep time: 40 minutes Ingredients Pre-baked pie shell of your choice, 9½ to 10 inches in diameter, leaving…
Tags: Kitchen Detail, Nancy Pollard
“Treasures on Trial” at Winterthur back in 2017 opened with this dramatic painting (show also at right) by “Mark Rothko” (not really). The painting was part of the 2011 scandal in which the renowned Knoedler Gallery in New York was…
Tags: decorative arts, museums, Nancy McKeon, Virtual Museum
…had several reprints after that (my copy was a reprint in 1974). Make sure the copy includes this cake and the Buttermilk Lemon Cake (another delicious Maida Heatter classic) so that you know that it is the proper version. Bonnie…
Tags: Kitchen Detail, Nancy Pollard
…feeling happier about your appearance—especially as you age—you might like reading what she has to say about it. For more of her philosophical and practical advice, subscribe for free to How Not to F*ck Up Your Face at valeriemonroe.substack.com. Can’t…
Tags: Valerie Monroe
…time, according to Harvard Health Publishing. (Because the common swab test works by detecting genetic material from the coronavirus, positive tests are almost 100% accurate.) Testing four days following exposure will still fail to detect active virus 40% of the…
Tags: coronavirus, Covid-19, health, healthy living, Mary Carpenter
…your credit-card and passport codes. Paranoid much? These days, you bet. I guess we can’t buy this jacket yet; the company is funding it with an Indiegogo.com campaign. But the ScotteVest.com site has half a dozen alternatives (we don’t need…
Tags: shopping
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