claudia's surf city

Somebody had a special Thanksgiving outfit.

Much personal grooming also took place over the holiday weekend. An unusual Thanksgiving tradition, but so New York.

After school, the friends' paths diverged. One had a baby, one opened a restaurant, one moved to Costa Rica.

Thanksgivings past and present. From a bath in the kitchen sink to a stroll to the dinosaur museum.

Eva makes the place cards, Erin makes the mousse, Mason does the Zabar's run, Hannah monitors her website and Eva plays baby.

Maybe the appropriate question this year is guess who's NOT coming to dinner! At present we're sitting down 19—and Baby makes 20.

The nevvy and his friend admire the silly pet trix performed by pet dominatrix Donna Ferrato in her tribeca loft. We were gathered for the ...

So you're sitting peacefully in your loft in a building hard by the tracks—a seed warehouse or some such built before the Civil War. KA...

This xerox of a photograph hangs on the window of the empty storefront where H&H bagels used to cook. The view is of Broadway looking up...

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We know where I fall on this piechart. Maybe I should get into crafts? What would you suggest? Blogging was originally meant as a somewhat i...

Snazzy, real estate agent par excellance, can sell you anything—the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, or, here, the High Line. In...

It was a bad day when I discovered the Sabatier with the tip broken off. Not to mention the ragged edge of my favorite Chinese knife. Naught...

In family promotional news, wearyourmusic got featured in a Consumer Reports magazine (above). And the company's founder (and child) po...

You have to ask yourself how sports became so important to Americans that university endowments are based on football teams.

This 1940 film was made by Encyclopedia Britannica as part of its series "Your Life Work." Love the part at the end about "t...

. . .back in Block Island, the outdoor furniture and the lawn mower have moved indoors for the winter and John Henry is coming to shut off t...

Back in media central, without Internet as a means of communication. Forced to fall back on printed materials, phone and in-person interacti...

Let's say you were young and restless, and maybe you grew up a city mouse and maybe a country mouse, and you had two beautiful places. ...