• Very social week, including a wedding! Congrats again, Richard and Jourdan!
• Lots of fabulous dinners, esp., loved Wayan’s Liwetan celebration (#2, 7).
• Also check out this week’s fashion discoveries (#3, 4) and make sure you scroll down to the Wrap for info on Patrick Church’s “Super Gay” SS2022 photo shoot.
• And for my real estate investor friends, check out #10. The buzz on Workforce Housing is building. It’s similar to affordable housing (but also different and I think it’s more than just semantics). I know everyone is obsessed with luxury condos but that’s like saying we’re only going to develop LVMH-style luxury retail, when we know Target and Walmart are crushing it!

Good Morning and Hello Friday!

So many great finds for the blog this week. Especially love what Helene Heath is doing for Jenni Kayne (#4). Also recently discovered Emma Turner’s food blog, Blistered Peppers. Again, excellent. (#3).

On the food front, a new crop of speakeasies coming on the scene. The Sparrow Room, a dim sum/mahjong parlor mash up in Arlington, sounds especially fun. Boozy ice creams are also worth checking out. (#6 and 7)

And if you’re in need of some chuckles, check out Erik Griffin’s WORST movie reviews. This week’s is OLD by M. Night Shyamalan. Cracked me up. (#10)

Sadly, in the midst of all this creativity, especially on social, I feel like such a loser. People are doing such great things on various platforms and all I’m doing is watching tutorial after tutorial, getting a huge headache in the process. For more on this, check out my video (#1 below).

Good Morning and Hello 2022!

Big emphasis this week on entertainment and the arts. Highlights include the start of Oklahoma‘s National Tour (the stunning Daniel Fish adaptation). Also very excited about Brad’s upcoming museum shows in Arizona, one at SMoCA, the other at the Tucson Museum of Art. I’ll be checking out both in April, along with the Maricopa County Fair (#2 and 6 below).

And then there’s real estate. Am I the only one who foresees the potential for a “shake up the industry” partnership between Adam Neumann (founder of We Work) and Moishe Mana as they both gobble up heaps of real estate in Miami? See #10 below.

Good Morning and hello friday

Exhausted, but in the very best way. This week’s Holiday Party at Ludlow House was the first time in 2 years that I got a sizable group of friends together for a celebration. I was nervous going in – would people show up? Also, I hadn’t hosted this-size party at Ludlow House before. Would they come through on all the details, decor, etc? I needn’t have worried. Panos Kourakos, the GM, and the whole Ludlow Team nailed it. Not only was it a beautiful event, the vibe was absolutely spot on. I was also pleasantly surprised to discover how many new friendships had been forged over the course of the pandemic, e.g., I met neighbors Sierra and Stephen early in the pandemic while we were both hanging out/drinking wine, on our buildings’ abutting fire escapes. Our friendship flourished via Instagram over the next 2 years while they temporarily decamped to Colorado. They’re now back (living in Brooklyn), and I finally got to meet them in person at the party. Another new friendship sprouted on the MET rooftop where I met Maryline. We’ve similarly become Instragram friends and met socially for the first time at Tuesday’s holiday party. That kind of easy, serendipitous way of meeting like-minded people is one of the things I find most exciting about living in NYC.

I’m also trying something new on the video today. Am attempting to provide more in-depth info so that you don’t necessarily need to read as much. I need to perfect it but I am inspired by my favorite podcasters who are all so good at casually entertaining and informing. That is one of my goals for 2022 – to up my game when it comes to communicating thru video. I want the videos to be conversational, fun, and insightful.