It’s common knowledge that to get the best furniture deals, wait until the January sales. So, it’s no surprise that Lillian August, purveyor of fine home furnishings, is knocking down prices up to 60% with their storewide-everything-on-sale sale, taking place on New Years Day – January 1st – from Noon – 6PM. However, most [...]
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I wrote this post in late September 2009: Trendy boutiques and New-York glam type salons – not to mention the restaurant of the MOMENT, Lolita Cocina (more on that in future posts) – are popping up all over formerly ramshackle, Byram. Combined with the splash that the Tarry Lodge (right down the street – but over [...] Paul Laveris, owner of Glenville Wine and Spirits, has great taste when it comes to specialty wines. Over the years, he’s forged relationships with the best small and medium-sized vineyards and wine purveyors – and loves to pass his knowledge on to his customers. ”I’m not out to compete with the BevMaxes,” Paul admits. ”Their [...] As I reported last week: New kid on the block, Zahra Saeed is the second store for this talented young Pakistani designer (her first is in Rittenhouse Square, Philly). The space is ultra cool – black with blasts of hot pink – and salesman/manager Pasquale Spezzano is totally onboard with the OnTheCheap concept. Though [...] An article in the Stamford Advocate last week alerted readers to the fact that the Old Greenwich Merchants Association has a new website; and then promptly left out the URL – the web address. So here it is. One of my favorite cookware stores, Cook and Craft, is running a “free knife sharpening” promotion through the [...] When my kids were little, we’d watch a certain set of Peter Rabbit videos together. The movies would always begin with an un-animated Beatrix Potter, carrying pallet and paints as she ran into her cozy cottage as it began to drizzle. There was a tea-pot on to boil and a fire in the fireplace [...] Horst’s fashion and portrait photography career spanned 60 years, and many of his black and white photographs are instantly recognizable. Design Within Reach hosts a showing of some of Horst’s greatest work from October 16 – November 6, with opening reception on Sunday October 18th from Noon – 5pm. While I wouldn’t [...] I seemed to have come down hard on Greenwich Ave. in yesterday’s post. But this morning, The Avenue redeemed itself through unpretentious shopowners/keepers who seem to implicitly understand that 06830′s love a bargain, too. 1. This is no more apparent than at the wonderfully unnamed, unlinked, unphone-able, Old World Children’s Outlet, which simply says, “Children’s [...] I came of age (read; my High School years) in the early 1970′s, when Greenwich Avenue was more of a teen hangout than it is now. It was also a very different place. Most stores – Woolworth’s, Army-Navy, Rogers, and Meads – were geared toward a certain frugal Yankee sensibility. It wasn’t the chain-glam-boutique-Rodeo Dr-East [...] Regular folk don’t walk into an aquarium store requesting a custom gazillion-gallon tank designed as, say, the Sahara Desert underwater or the Hanging Gardens of Babylonia with clown and angel fish. We want Neon Tetras or pregnant guppies in 5 or 10 gallon tanks; a set-up frankly, that we can afford. Last week, my son and [...] |
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