Archive for the NEW YORK Category
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NEW YORK/BEAUTY: ANGELO DAVID SALON
ANGELO DAVID SALON After a week and a half in New York, which included throwing my little mother her birthday party and attending that early morning women's breakfast I told you about yesterday, not to mention having the soles fall off not
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NEW YORK: CELEBRATING WOMEN BREAKFAST
CELEBRATING WOMEN BREAKFAST—NYC When I was in New York last month, I was invited to an early morning event that “celebrated women,” hosted by The New York Women's Foundation. It sounded classy, so, of course I was in. Then I notic
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NEW YORK/DINING: LAIR RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE
LAIR RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE My recent trip to New York was a twelve-day whirlwind, highlighted, as I told you yesterday, by the birthday party that I threw for my little mother. There was so much I had to do, making it hard to just get out
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NEW YORK: NEW YORK TRIP WRAP-UP
NEW YORK TRIP WRAP-UP With snow once again blanketing the east coast, (but with me warm and dry back in Los Angeles,) I figure this is a good time to tell you about all the elements I encountered in the last month in New York. (BTW--I’m not
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NEW YORK/HEALTH/BEAUTY: OFFICE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, NEW YORK
OFFICE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, NEW YORK Okay, so you all know about the herniated disc in my lower back already. After three months of not walking at the beginning of the year, I worked it out myself, without drugs, surgery, or therapy. I’m
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DINING/NEW YORK: CHIKALICIOUS
CHIKALICIOUS…NOT This is the kind-of review that makes me miss doing my show, Karen’s Restaurant Revue. It would be so much better to talk it out, rather than try to write it in a cohesive fashion. I know just where my audience would be ga
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TRIBUTE: MEMORIES OF ELAINE’S
MEMORIES OF ELAINE’S I was sad to hear of the passing last week of Elaine Kaufman, famous owner of her even-more-famous eponymous New York restaurant, Elaine’s. I dined there only three times in all these years, but each one was mem
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NEW YORK/DINING: HALF KING BAR & RESTAURANT
HALF KING BAR & RESTAURANT On my recent New York trip, I discovered a restaurant that I would eat at daily if I lived in Manhattan. Or if it opened a branch here, but then it would probably lose its Chelsea pub ambience. Everything at H
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NEW YORK/DINING/PARTIES: VIA DEI MILLE ANNIVERSARY PARTY
VIA DEI MILLE ANNIVERSARY PARTY Two years ago, at a party thrown by Russell Simmons at the club Greenhouse in Soho, I met Barry, one of the owners. Within minutes, my friend found-out that he had just opened a neighborhood restaurant, Via dei
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LIVE PRODUCTION: CONEY ISLAND ILLUSCINATION
RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS: CONEY ISLAND ILLUSCINATION Even though I’ll always be heart-broken over my precious Clarence, I realize that it’s time to start getting back to life. To that end, I just spent a week in New York with my little moth
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