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Month: February 2018

Wednesday Shakespeare: A.K.A. Robin Goodfellow

Wednesday Shakespeare: A.K.A. Robin Goodfellow

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Quite a few years ago one of my nieces lived in New York City up on 108th Street. There was a park close by that hosted Shakespeare productions during the summer. I was visiting with my kids and my sister-in-law one night when we decided to wander over for a walk after dinner. We found ourselves in the middle of a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and felt as though we had been transported into some kind of a magical world. If you don’t remember the how the plot of the play goes, …

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Monday Booktails: Get Buck in Here

Monday Booktails: Get Buck in Here

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In last week’s Monday Booktails post we talked about the Experimental Cocktail Club written by Olivier Bon, Pierre-Charles Cros, Romée de Goriainoff, and Xavier Padovani, four longtime friends who are also the owners of a number of bars of the same name. Today’s cocktail is from the Experimental Cocktail Club in the Chinatown district of London, the fourth bar that this group opened and their first venture outside of Paris. As I said last week, this is an absolutely gorgeous book about cocktails that is …

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Friday Musings: Have Coffee With Me

Friday Musings: Have Coffee With Me

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There is a painting by Edward Hopper called Automat, publicly shown for the first time on Valentine’s Day in 1927, in which he depicts a young woman sitting alone in a café drinking a cup of coffee. It’s hard to know what her situation is. She appears sad and somewhat disappointed, as if something about her evening, or her life in general, did not go the way she hoped it would. There appear to be no other patrons in the café, or if they are there, we can’t see them, so our focus remains on this young …

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Wednesday Shakespeare: Enter Three Witches

Wednesday Shakespeare: Enter Three Witches

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Ahh, who knows where I’m going with this?? Yes, yes you are correct! Today’s post is about the Witches of Macbeth, the three original mean girls and powerful inspiration to the likes of Regina George, Blair Waldorf, Cirsei Lannister, and all those major bi-atches we love to hate. Let’s face it, despite some obvious differences in hair and facial waxing priorities, they all take perverse delight in goading people into doing things that ultimately have some pretty disastrous results. And they do it in …

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Monday Booktails: Big Cosmo is Dead

Monday Booktails: Big Cosmo is Dead

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For the next book in our Monday Booktails series, I’ve chosen The Experimental Cocktail Club written by Romée de Goriainoff, Olivier Bon, Pierre-Charles Cros, and Xavier Padovani. Yes yes, I know. That’s quite the mouthful of names. The first three gentlemen have been friends since childhood, and grew up within walking distance of one another. They opened a cocktail bar of the same name in 2007  that is credited with launching the cocktail revolution in Paris. Modeled after New York speakeasies like …

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