Great Fun
Take time to laugh with some amature singing sensations, business advice, a window into your next adults only vacation, trailer madness, and p-i-z-z-a!
1. Giallothon
2. PIZZA
5. Hedo Rick
6. Jan Terri
Laughs »Best of 2010 Laughs Round Up
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TV Shows »Best of 2010 TV Round Up
Great Shows
If it’s true that TV rots the brain, then you better make it worthwhile shows like the ones in my shortlist that feature high fashion, monsters, odd humor, and drugs:
1. Signe Chanel
2. Breaking Bad
3. True Blood
4. Jam
5. Snuff Box
6. Walking Dead
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Posted on January 5, 2011
Web Sites »Best of 2010 Website Round Up
Great Sites
There’s never a lack of interesting things to find online and here’s my shortlist of some of the best I’ve come across this year. Please excuse the self promotion.
5. The Look
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Posted on January 4, 2011
Places to Visit »Best of 2010 Places to Visit
Great Vacations
As you can tell, our Barcelona trip was amazing.. but me took in some fantastic sites closer to home too:
1. Park Guell
3. Figueres
4. Museum of Jurassic Technology
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Posted on January 4, 2011
Spend a Couple Minutes »Best of 2010 Ways to Spend a Few Minutes
Great Things
It will only take a minute to read my short list of the best ways I spent a few minutes this last year:
1. Hipstamatic
3. Rags to Richesse: Rugs from Morocco
4. The Highline
6. Eye Candy
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Posted on January 4, 2011
Spend a Couple Hours »Best of 2010 Ways to Spend an Hour
Great Activities
Fashion, woodcuts, one man bands, razor clams and bedazzled nails – these are the best ways I wasted away the hours this year:
2. Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
3. Brooklyn Museum: American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
4. Eataly
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Posted on January 3, 2011
Drinks »Best of 2010 Drinks Round Up
Great Bevvies
Talk about going out with a bang. One of my last alcoholic drinks before ten months of pregnant sobriety was the best (I looked forward to having it again all ten months but have yet to). The rest of the year found me taking in my fair share of decaf lattes and iced coffees – fortunately I live in one of the best neighborhoods for coffee. Rounding out the short list is low brow strip mall sweetness and high brow Upper East Side daintiness.
1. Nama Sake
2. Blue Bottle
3. Coke Slurpee
4. Five Leaves
5. Cafe Grumpy
6. High Tea at Kings Carriage House
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Posted on January 3, 2011
Desserts »Best of 2010 Desserts Round Up
Great Sweets
For anyone with a sweet tooth, I present the best icy, sugary, fruity, chocolaty, and bacony desserts I indulged in this year:
1. NYC Icy
2. Crack Pie
3. Cat Head Cupcakes from Ruthy’s Bakery
5. Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Mix
6. Pig Candy
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Posted on January 3, 2011
Restaurants »Best of 2010 Restaurant Round Up
Great Food
Wow, as much as I might miss being able to go out to restaurants lately – we really ate well this year! From Spain to Connecticut to Flushing, from my spiciest meal to date to fried fish bones to arms length lobster rolls.. there was so much tastiness in 2010 that I just had to include some honorable mentions on top of the short list.
1. Barcelona
3. Traif
5. Soba-ya
6. Fatty Cue
Honorable Mentions: Paulie Gee’s and Imperial Palace
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Posted on January 2, 2011
Style Icons: Female »Best of 2010 Female Style Icons
Great Ladies
My short list of style icons are a fiery bunch sure to inspire your closet and your attitude:
3. Peggy Moffit
4. Jadin Wong
5. Nina Simone
6. Meiko Kaji
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Posted on January 2, 2011
Style Icons: Male »Best of 2010 Male Style Icons
Great Men
It was a tough year for loss. My favorites in the fields of art, fashion, and literature passed away this year. They rank among the best male style icons of my 2010:
3. JD Salinger
6. Hipgnosis
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Posted on January 1, 2011
Hunks »Best of 2010 Hunk Round Up
Great Hunks
From drinking thespians to silent funny men – bring on the parade of babes.
1. Oliver Reed
2. Franco Nero
3. David Warner
6. Brian Jones
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Posted on January 1, 2011
Albums »Best of 2010 Album Round Up
Great Albums
Choosing just a few best albums of the ones I enjoyed this year was tough and I am sure I’d pick another bunch depending on my mood – but after much deliberation here are some great listens, some of which you have probably heard a million times, others that might be a new surprise.
2. Opium
3. Cannibal Holocaust Soundtrack
4. Stretchin’ Out In Bootsy’s Rubber Band
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Posted on January 1, 2011
Songs »Best of 2010 Song Round Up
Great Songs
Here’s a playlist of some of the best songs that I’ve been into this year. There’s a healthy dose of early nineties r&b as well as some lovely romantic classics.
1. Pony
2. Blue Bayou
3. Silly Ho
5. Dirty Girl
6. Too Close
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Posted on January 1, 2011
Books »Best of 2010 Book Round Up
Great Books
I didn’t read quite as many books this year as usual, but have still come up with a pretty great short list for your literary enjoyment. So here’s the best of the picks for the next time you want to curl up with a good read.
2. Clockers
3. No One Belongs Here More Than You
4. Lunar Park
5. Christian Lacroix on Fashion
6. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
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Posted on January 1, 2011
Movies »Best of 2010 Movie Round Up
Great Movies
Time to reflect and give a run down of the very best of the recommendations I’ve given over the year. So here’s my list of the top movies to see, a mix of old and new, funny and strange – the very best for the next time you want to stay in with popcorn and a whole bunch of movies (perfect actually for this after New Years weekend):
1. Hausu
2. Amadeus
5. Videodrome
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Posted on January 1, 2011
Recipes »Brussel Sprout Chips
From the week of May 4th:
Turning a brussel sprout into a “chip”,?a snack that even my veggie fearing husband devoured in seconds, is brilliant. I first got wind of this recipe on the great food blog Serious Eats who in turn found it on Real Food for Real People (which looks like it could be a great spot for more yummy recipes, honey buttered popcorn, anyone?). I loved these so much I made them twice in one week.
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