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WSJ on Boston
I love the Wall Street Journal‘s style of city reviews: asking significant locals about their favorite places.
They just did Boston.
(although it’s not a great sign when the significant locals cross-recommend each other’s businesses. Small town.)
ps: There’s an ORIGINAL Dunkin’ Donuts location? WHAT? I would post a photo, but turns out it looks exactly like every other Dunkin’ location. Extra credit for branding consistency.
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Cooking Club
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Sassy Models with Big Hair
Love these photos from the American Beauty Show by Ryan Marshall over at Pacing the Panic Room.
I mostly read the PPR blog to lurk photos of his family, particularly his wife Cole, who is unstoppably adorable. But Ryan is the photographer behind it all, so credit goes to him for my addictive lurking.
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Target Reissues 35 Dresses
After five years of successful collaboration Target’s poorly named GO International is reissuing 35 dresses from their designer collections. Score.
Paging through the reissues, I’m reminded of how weird most of these collections were—the haute couture visions rendered in polyester with cotton stitching. Someone in Target’s legal department was paying attention to their contracts: most of these names are more famous now than they were when their collections first came out.
They were always a lot of (poor girl’s) fashion fun, way more accessible than H&M’s designer collections, and I hope Target keeps it up.
Anyone going to circle back for another addition to the closet?
Thanks Birgit, for the tip!
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Meditation on Makeup
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“It’s in the heightened gentleness of the silences when she’s concentrating on putting on liquid eyeliner. It’s the low, constant buzz of her pugs snoring in the lap as she applies makeup while sitting on the floor…Now I regularly watch 10 or more of her videos back to back a day. They’ve become my version of mediation.”–Andrea Seigel, writing well for this past Sunday’s NYT Magazine on her mediation-addiction to Lauren Luke’s makeup videos (Luke’s youtube channel).
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A Nursery
the dreary day in Boston is getting to me. It’s like a fogcloud descent over here. I wish we had lighthouses in downtown, beaconing us to tanning salons.
These pictures of Kate’s thrifted, homemade nursery with just the right spots of color and lots of warm texture are inspiring.
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Ask the Four Year Old
Q: What’s your opinion of the current economic climate?
A: Ummm… Dragons.
I can’t stop reading this thread over at Reddit, where people are coming up with questions for a four year old boy, and his dad types out his answers. His young approach to the world is clarified because you read it without the usual context of seeing the kid face to face, or physically looking down on him while you talk to him.
Particularly funny to me, in the midst of all those cute answers, is his response to what he would do if he was king for a day. People forget how wooed little boys are by guns and violent video games.
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Belgian in Boston: Saus
Over the weekend Joe and I were lucky enough to try out Saus, the new Belgian street food place down the street from Faneuil Hall. It was started by a couple of young people, who might be the same people working behind the counter when you are there, which is always cool. And they’re a non-bar open late every night, which is almost impossible to find right now.
First we tried the waffles which were made of hefty yeasty dough, edged with sticky caramelized sugar. Delicious. I got lemon curd sauce and Joe got berry berry mixed with salted caramel. I liked mine the best.
Obviously they immediately get points for serving it in a beautiful scalloped and lemon-curd colored dish. If you get it to go, which I will as soon as the weather shapes up, you just take a piece of tissue with it, street style.
We came back that night for fresh, house-cut, crispy frites. We tried the garlic mayo, truffle ketchup and chive sour cream dipping sauces. The truffle ketchup was the table favorite. I love that this is a place you can meet friends, spend a few dollars, shares some fries, and head out. A more savory version of the coffee shop meet-up.
AND: their walls are covered with Tintin comics.
Incidentally, they started tweeting their progress almost a year before they opened. If I hadn’t followed their progression on Twitter for so long, I don’t think I would have visited in the first week of their opening, or started telling my friends about them before they even opened. So, if you’re considering whether Twitter is worth your small business’s time: it is.
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Liv v. Kayne
I like this. Whenever I see those “Who Wore It Best?” comparisons in magazines, I always imagine the poor loser sitting in a nail salon, flipping through magazines, and stumbling on 76% of the nation thought her outfit sucked. No fun for anyone. This is in better humor, if you ask as MTV Style did, who wore it best: Kayne or Liv? Liv or Kayne? Hello! Both of them exist in status level unquestionably awesome. (also they didn’t bother to stamp the results in nasty percentages on the photo. Classy.)
p.s.: Has anyone seen Liv in awhile? I want to netflix That Thing You Do! so I can see her in those awesome ’60s dresses again.
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This Old Seagull
It’s nice have some idea how old an animal might be when you encounter them. At the very least so you can know what conversations topics are appropriate around them.
Seagulls for example: I have seen some awfully mangy seagulls on Nantucket in the summer, but I don’t think I gave them enough credit for potentially being twenty-five years old.
This is a great useful chart, featured today by Information is Beautiful.
