Category Archives: BEST Things Ever

by | July 6, 2010 · 8:13 pm

Chicago is One Town That Won’t Let You Down

Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline.

So it’s been a little over a week since I got back from Chicago, but I still think the pics, and the experience, are blogworthy, and therefore need to be posted.

Since my best friend Sam is now Dr. Sam, and began her residency at Rush Hospital June 28, it was only right that I go visit her before our friendship takes a four-year hiatus (Sam I miss you!). Her apartment, which lies right on the Chicago River, is sick, with floor-to-ceiling windows, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. Quite a move up from her’s and her husband Patrick’s one bedroom on Long Island. Congrats guys!

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by | June 30, 2010 · 9:45 pm

One For All the Moonlight Ladies

What’s cooler than seeing an American icon up close? Two icons up close. And if any of you out there have seen Carole King and James Taylor’s Troubadour Reunion Tour, you know what I’m talking about.

On June 20, my mom, treating herself to a birthday present, treated me to the best concert ever. I laughed, I cried. I looked back on childhood memories of my mom listening to Carole King while she cleaned the house on a cool summer day. Music blaring. Windows up. The vacuum going, and the entire neighborhood listening to my mom and Carole. That’s icon status.

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by | June 29, 2010 · 8:52 pm

The Grey-test News Ever

Little Edie Beale, the younger half of the dynamic stars of the documentary “Grey Gardens” and the HBO movie by the same name, will soon be an author. If only the New York icon was still around to garner all this acclaim.

According to Stylelist.com, Edie’s diary will soon be published as a hardcover book, marking her 11th year, and the year right before the Great Depression, 1929. Though only a child at the time the diary was written, the book promises to show a glimpse of the eccentricity that Little Edie and her mother, Edith Bouvier Beale, would later showcase on film.

I Only Mark the Hours that Shine will be available Aug. 1. So get your headscarves ready.

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