Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock turns THIRTY. Yes. 3-0 — how old does that make you feel? Thankfully, the folks at Fraggle want you to “Dance your cares away” all year long with fun events celebrating all things Fraggle: http://fragglerock30.com/ One of the fun filled celebrations happens to be in our backyard. The Spare Room in […]
For a month in Bloom, it would be lovely to get some of those beautiful floral notes into a tasty tipple. There are many ways to get florals into your cocktails: rosewater, orange flower water, lavender, or hibiscus, but by far the easiest is with St. Germain liqueur. Without a deft hand, one too many drops of orange flower water or rosewater can quickly result in a soapy tasting drink.
A new high holiday is re-born: This year’s Grilled Cheese Invitational falls on April 20, 2013. 4/20 people. Yes. That 420. The stars are aligning once in a millenia for the organized consumption of ooooey gooey grilled cheese and the only organized holiday of the stoner nation. Get down with Snoop Lion and roll a […]
Around St Patrick’s Day, it’s alway so difficult to find a green drink that doesn’t involve putting artificial food coloring into your beer and pretending that that’s perfectly normal. There are plenty of naturally occurring green things in the world, so why is this so difficult? Luck of the Irish for you, I’ve got this […]
Mixology fans, have I got a treat for you. In an old auto-body shop in the divisively self proclaimed NoHo Arts District, lives a bar helmed by Jonny Whitton (Seven Grand & Villains Tavern) and road readied by the Liquid Assests dynamic duo of Marcos Tello and Aidan Demarest. Gourmet Latin cuisine is on the menu, […]
Who doesn’t love a good fight? Especially when that fight involves brandishing steel and swarthy swashbuckling. Seriously, do we need one more reason to love Los Angeles? Check it: the duo responsible for the memorable fights in Hook, Master and Commander, Zorro, Tengu, and Army of Darkness is ready to put a sword in your […]
This post first appeared on Move LifeStyle by Jenn Wong Maybe I’m contrarian, but I think the month of love is desperately in need of a makeover. While I appreciate the intended sentiment of Valentine’s Day, I’m slightly peeved by the holiday’s tendency to divide us women into categories of coupled or not. […]
Valentine’s Day: the celebration of overprix-fixe plates, pressure laden plans of romantic bliss, and otherwise available single ladies crying themselves to sleep over re-runs of Sex in the City. So depressing that it kinda makes you want to re-live your last awkward moment of single-hood, the one where you went stag and got drunk in […]
I have an affinity for mulled wine, not only because my father is a certifiable wino, by the fact that he turned my mother’s office into a walk-in wine cellar, not that he is homeless and drinks out of a brown paper bag… (not that there’s anything wrong with that…), but mostly because when I […]
This post first appeared on Move LifeStyle I am a capital C, capital F, Control Freak. I love labels, label makers, colored pencils and all the tools of organization that the Container Store has to offer. When I was in high school, my friends called me ‘MOM’ because of the enormous day planner that was […]