March 2, 2010
Isn’t this photo fantastic? It was taken for BUST by Verity Smith and styled by Jazzi McGilbert. Although they sing like angels, these ukelele-toting cuties put the f*ck back in folk. Check out my interview with the sweetly sardonic Garfunkel & Oates in the Oct/Nov issue of BUST, and then go see them live. They’re [...]
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August 11, 2009
philoprogenitive \fill-uh-proh-JEN-uh-tiv\ adjective *1 : tending to produce offspring : prolific 2 : of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring Example Sentence As we move through our thirties, it has become abundantly clear that my female friends, colleagues and family members are more philoprogenitive than I am. antonyms: phoboprogenitive, progeniphobic, freaked-out, indecisive, ambivalent [...]
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My top pick for summer reading
July 25, 2010Some friends have been asking me for suggestions of good beach reads, and I’ve been telling them how much I looooved Allegra Goodman’s new book, The Cookbook Collector (I reviewed it in the July issue of ELLE). It perfectly sums up the overly optimistic boom-and-bust years of the late 90′s, early 00′s, when everyone was [...]