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European Casual at Rush Hour
Read my full review of Rush Hour in our restaurant section.
Fashion Week Fall 2009
A sincere thank you to our friend, The Shoe Goddess, who got us on the list of Carine Roitfeld"s after party tonight. I interviewed Carine a few years ago after she put us in Paris Vogue and she is definitely the most gracious and fabulous woman alive not to mention the most stylish. I caught up with her again tonight and she was as nice as ever. Je t"aime Carine!
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MUSIC | High Places at Horseshoe Tavern
Will Brooklyn"s waterfall of hipness ever run dry? Bed-Stuy-based indie duo High Places and their guests Soft Circle shed experimentalist cooings and blips at the Horseshoe. Animal Collective meets The Blow? You decide.
Horseshoe Tavern. 370 Queen Street W, (416) 598-4753.
9pm / $10 advance, $12 door / website
AFRO SAMURAI KICKS ASS!
Hideout tree
I’m not sure which will come first: me winning the lottery or me having grandchildren. Should the latter ever happen, though, I’m going to build a fort in the branches of the tree you see above.
As long as I’ve been rambling about Roundrock, I had never seen this tree until my recent solo trip there a couple of weeks ago. When #1 Son Seth was a little guy, Libby pointed out a weeping willow tree to him, and he said it would make a great “hideout tree.” I’ve been on the look out for a good tree house tree ever since, but most of my forest is under 30 years old, and none of those trees are big enuf yet. There are many old timers, but their branches are usually far too high off the ground. Or, like many of the big black oaks on the north-facing slope, they’re of an age when it’s time for the winter weather to start bringing them down. (And it has.)
This tree, though, is ideal. It branches nicely about ten feet off the ground (though it is a little hard to tell in this photo), and with a little creative architecture, I think I can put together a respectable tree fort. Even the lean of the trunk will allow for easy climbing into the tree.
During one of those idyllic boyhood summers I spent in rural Kentucky, my grandfather built a tree fort, and if I remember correctly, my older brother and I actually spent a whole night in it. It sure would be nice to give some children a few idyllic summers spent in rural Missouri some day.
The is a white oak (I think), and it is on the north-facing slope not too far up the hill from the dam. You can see a bit of blue lake there at about 9:00. It would be just far enuf away from the house to give a sense of adventure.
Missouri calendar:
The Missouri Natural Events Calendar is blank for today.
You're So Vane!
Whether or not those responsible for them will put their hands in the air and own up is anyone"s guess. What is obvious, however, is that there is certainly truth in the old saying - vanity, vanity, all is vanity!
(via Robert-John)
Gaps In the Schedule
The European Tour released its 2009 schedule today under the heading "First courses revealed".
This strikes me as a little odd since the schedule also indicates that no less than 7 of the events are classified as TBC or To Be Confirmed.
The press release further states that the names and locations of these mystery events will be disclosed in the run-up to the Qualifying School at the end of March.
Something's not right here and I have a sinking feeling I know what it is: sponsors are pulling out because of the economic debacle and the Tour is scrambling to find replacement money.
TBC might end up being To Be Cut.
And speaking of economic debacles, sports writer, Steve Elling lambastes Chrysler Corporation for wasting taxpayers' money - bailout money, if you prefer - on the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
Except it wasn't called that this year - simply the Bob Hope Classic.
According to Elling, Chrysler didn't want to be tarred and feathered in public for taking bailout money from Congress and then spending 5 million of it on a golf tournament.
So, in Chrysler's thinking, pay the money anyway but don't reap any marketing benefits.
Now that's smart.
And finally, this is the last year for the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. The bank is pulling its 4 million plus sponsorship.
The bank claims that the tournament goes up against the British Open the same week and the public didn't flock out in droves last year to watch anyway (imagine, then, how the RCGA feels with the Canadian Open the week AFTER the British major?).
I fully believe the reasons are found in the grim economic realities of the day.
More and more corporations are going to question the veracity of spending millions on a single marketing event like a tour stop when their businesses are going down the toilet.
Long Live The Designers Republic
I’m sad.
“After 23 years of brain-aided communication, the much-admired, much copied studio, The Designers Republic closed for business on Tuesday. But, as its founder Ian Anderson tells CR, it will rise again.”
I Hate The Media
Day in and day out, we"re bombarded by blatant bias. Insulted by idiot anchors. Harangued by Hollywood halfwits. Aurally assaulted by so-called singers.
Television. Radio. Newspapers. Magazines. Films. Music. They all deserve to die slow, painful deaths. Oh, what"s that? They are dying slow, painful deaths? Well, in that case, it appears that life really is fair.
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