Maybe you feel like no one has your back, like you’ve been let down by people so many times that you’ve stopped believing in yourself. Maybe you feel like your destiny was written the day you were born and you ought to just rein in your hopes and scale back your dreams.
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JOSE ANDRES: NO MAS RIDGID RIDGEWELLS
Star chef and restaurateur Jose Andres was in town this week with his next big thing - the giant paella pan. I believe the Jolly Green Giant size cooker made two public appearances in town this month — at the White House Farmers Market which is open for [...]
Heads of state and their spouses are often not the people to consult for travel tips. Itineraries are meticulously crafted, and even entire environments are altered to give the right impression. I enjoy travel, but I usually (and maybe due to my own financial limitations) experience place on the same terms as a [...]
Michelle Obama celebrates her 46th birthday today. Last night Nora’s, an organic restaurant in DC’s Dupont Circle, was the scene for the First Lady’s surprise birthday party. Nora has good food, but I find the mac and cheese a bit pricey especially considering I make my own…from scratch! And my sister’s 3-cheese [...]
I usually reserve Saturdays to post the President’s Weekly message, but this Saturday, eclectique|916 turns the post over to Michelle Obama. You can view and read the President’s Weekly here. [Topic is helping small business through bank lending and health care reform.]
In a video PSA posted on the White House website, the First [...]
Anna Wintour’s 60 Minutes interview - I guess the most revealing moment of this one-on-one with the 59-year-old editor of American Vogue is that she removed her signature shades to talk with Morley Safer. I see Wintour’s “decisiveness” as her strength in the fashion industry; others may hate her for it. But there [...]
I teared up myself when I saw this story on “Today.”
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U.S. Unemployment hits 8.5%
This number doesn’t include the under-employed, i.e. part-time workers, or the folks who’ve just given up.
The National Endowment for the Arts releases their report on Artist Unemployment Rates (March 4)
Artists [...]
I like totally spaced out on Fashion Week (Fall 2009 collections) which wrapped up in NYC yesterday.
On the topic of “fashion,” I tend to defer to Robin Givhan on this blog. Like me, Robin knows fashion is more than just expensive clothes. And we don’t obsess over Anna Wintour’s sunglasses.
In [...]
Believe it or not, I heard mild rumblings from some people who were disappointed that Barack Obama dashed their dream (or confirmed their realization that the clock had run out) of becoming “the first” Black POTUS.
For me I was absolutely certain about the first; not me, but in my lifetime. In [...]
