COOK
Fresh Pasta From Scratch
If I can do it, so can you. Here’s a video from VeryGoodLooking.com where
I show you how – from my lessons at cooking school in Italy. It’s easy and
a crowd pleaser. Buon apetito!
LEARN
Fave Magazine Tips
I read ‘em and rip, so here are the best tips I’ve gotten from the newsstands of late:
New Uses for Old Things: Hairspray as Static Stopper
(Thank you, Real Simple!)
Best At-Home Hair Tricks
(Thank you, InStyle!)
58 Ways to Burn 100 Calories
(Thank you, Self!)
VISIT
Pacific Standard Time
If you should be so lucky as to reside in or plan a visit to the Southern California area between
now and April 2011, you can’t miss The Pacific Standard Time collaboration between artists
and sixty cultural institutions, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art
scene and how it became a major new force in the art world. Exhibitions, performances,
events, lectures parties—you name it, this is BIG. It’s the actually THE largest cultural
collaboration ever undertaken in the region.
RE-WATCH
“Working Girl” (1988)
My good friend and filmmaker Jennifer Westfeldt wrote an excellent essay in The New
York Times about the merits of revisiting the holiday release from 1988, and she’s right:
it’s an unexpected tear-jerker, side-bender, and inspiration about beginnings and endings.
BUTTON UP
Busy Beaver Button Co.
Buttons (you know – the kind you wear that make a statement, not the kind
that keep your clothes on) remind me of the ‘80s. Specifically collecting and
wearing with pride the ones bought at GoGos Concerts, Fiorucci and Flip in
NYC, and at bat mitzvahs. Check out these funny modern ones from the
Busy Beaver Button Museum and then order your own for your next party.
EAT/GIFT
Three Cakes That Make Great Gifts
1. Caroline’s
It’s all about the seven-layer caramel cake. Do it.
2.Nonnie Waller’s
Delish pound cake delivered in a beautiful hat box with flowers on top.
3. Zingerman’s
The Sour Cream Coffee Cake is their most popular.
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