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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 [...] I can’t tell you how many times I’ve passed the non-flashy low-slung Home Design Center at 428 W. Putnam without any desire to go inside. I have my own interior designer (thanks Annette) and all the patio furniture and fireplace-ware I’d ever need. So, really – there was no need. Then one day, my never-to-be-ignored [...] Glenville Pizza was the pizzeria of my youth. Each slightly charred thin crusted-pie was the pizza against which I measured all subsequent discs of dough, cheese and tomato sauce. Most failed miserably. So, I’m happy to report that Glenville Pizza, still on that part of Glenville Rd. where it’s nearly impossible to park, continues to [...] 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 [...] Missy Chase Lapine Getting kids to eat their vegetables is like finding a cure for the common cold; age old, frustrating and mystifyingly impossible. So, it’s always welcome when a food-prep maven comes up with a way to do it; using stealth to promote health. Missy Chase Lapine, former editor of Eating Well Magazine, will [...] 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 [...] No one brings sturm and drang to Legos like “brick artist,” Nathan Sawaya. To wit – a man literally spilling his guts. Another pleading to the heavens holding a dead figure in his arms. These are not your toddler’s plastic interlocking pieces. Nathan Sawaya: An Intimate Perspective, continues in the Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Library [...] I’ve roamed the globe as a travel writer, but nothing excites me more than exploring the nooks and crannies of my own back yard. There are eye-catching, inexpensive, gracious and worthwhile establishments in Greenwich without the advertising budget of, say, Saks Fifth Ave. whose weekend mega sale was broadcast in a slew of full-page ads [...] Hoo boy. Saks Fifth Ave. On The Cheap? Saks, the very symbol of wealth and prestige, has never relied on “deals” and “specials” to draw customers. So why write about this bastion of exclusivity on my greenwichonthecheap.com? Because, whether it’s due to the state of the economy, or the [...] You know secondhand is going chic when people like Carmen Wong Ulrich, host of CNBC’s “On The Money” writes about it (Sept. 6th, Parade). ”With Hollywood stars walking the red carpet in vintage gowns, used good are going glam.” She recommends that shoppers “follow the money,” and so, dear readers, this is where Greenwich, CT [...] |
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