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Celebrity and gastronomie were abundant last night at the ultimate foodie event A Taste of Beverly Hills, in support of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. Sponsored by Food&Wine and other esteemed luxury brands, it was divine decadence at its finest with tastings of a myriad of the city’s finest foods [...]

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I recently spent my first weekend away from the Critter and my Perfect Husband EVER. This epic voyage occurred so that I might attend Bloggy Boot Camp – a great day long workshop that enlightened me about this thing called social media. I learned a lot, had a great time visiting with old and new [...]

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Some things are quintessential Beverly Hills, and those are the things I really enjoy. Watching television and movies as a child gave me a certain perception of what it would be like here – glamorous, fun, festive, tropical, with star watching. All these were rolled into [...]

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Whew! So much fun to have, so few hours in the day…themes for the week are: family, nostalgic fun, food, and flat Karissa.
* My sweet in laws are visiting from Washington state -the Critter has been having so much fun seeing the sights with them
* We celebrated my Perfect Husband’s birthday with cake [...]

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The Critter and I spent a fun Friday evening with one of my bff’s, aka Aunt Asha. Asha has a lovely home in the hills overlooking the city with a gigantic avocado tree. She gave me an entire grocery bag full of the fruit and they are like butter.

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For those of you who don’t have Trader Joe’s in your city, it’s an independent grocery chain that manufactures most of its products, and there are LOTS of things to get addicted to. I must admit that until I became a wife and mother – Trader Joe’s was a place to buy protein bars, [...]

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…was mostly NOT in the hood.
You know I hate the freeway. My Perfect Husband always jokes that I practically will drive through people’s backyards to shortcut. I realize that millions of people hop on the freeway many times a day and think nothing of it, but for me it’s a Voyage, requiring much anticipation and [...]

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…it occurred to the perfect Husband and I that we haven’t yet had a party in our home that was a grown up cocktail party since the Critter was born. As if by spontaneous combustion, Calibamanancy* of CityMommy, having [...]

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Bah, Critter had the croup for the third time last week, so my posts were few. We did manage to attend two noteworthy events on Sunday.
My very fabulous designer friend Carlos Alberto of The Skyline Studios was chosen to create a model unit at EVO South. The much-anticipated LEED certified highrise community opened [...]

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You don’t come to me for the hottest and newest – I know, I’m more about nostalgia and culture personality than TMZ. But this post has a bit of both. I stroll the Critter all over the Beverly Hills triangle about three times a week to do errands. One of the very first posts of [...]