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June

Sparkling personality.

Birthday lunch at The Grove with Gloria, Gloria and Donna.  Check. Forever 21 afterwards. Check. A beautiful necklace from Gloria Gordon’s own treasure trove.  Unbelievable. Please Share

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17
June

Chateau Marmont.

One day over lunch, Adam admitted he had a secret stash.  Not of illicit drugs.  Of stationery with his name on it — “In Residence: Adam Silverman” from the famed Chateau Marmont. He loved it so much, he said, that he had about 4 pages of it and didn’t wan to use any of it…

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17
June

Diesel: a book lover’s mecca.

http://www.amazon.com/Tears-Tequila-Novel-Linda-Schreyer/dp/193521229Xhttp://www.dieselbookstore.com/brentwood-staff-recs-events-bestsellers-and-more * I went to a new bookstore tonight — DIESEL.  In the Brentwood Country Mart, it’s one of the few remaining independent bookstores around. My writing teacher Linda Schreyer just published her first novel — “TEARS AND TEQUILA”. I wanted to support her, buy a copy, and have her sign it. I ended up…

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11
June

A poster from afar.

I try to support artists where ever I go … and especially those who have links to Rhode Island School of Design. A few years ago I was introduced to the Cade Tompkins Gallery in Providence, R.I. Cade still sends me posters & updates of shows… I want to let them know I appreciate the…

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2
June

Small world, big screen.

I went to a speaker series that UC Santa Cruz gave Saturday night.  I was there to represent my partial alma mater, UCSC. Professor Mark Carr — in the Marine Sciences division — presented first.  He talked about what his students are learning and how important “hands on” field trips are to the curriculum. Then…

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31
May

UCLA does “Guys & Dolls”, all dolled up.

Vin and I had lunch with UCLA’s Dean of Theatre, Film and Television Teri Schwartz a few weeks ago, and she invited us to see “Guys and Dolls” on campus.    There’s an entire division of students who specialize in musical theatre.   After a bit of jockeying around to figure out dates, we got…

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30
May

Sally’s Secret Garden.

My father had a huge 90th birthday last year — but this one went under my radar… until his friends Sally and Don suggested a garden party for him. Vin and I flew up, rather last-minute, and we whiled away an uncharacteristically warm (!) Berkeley afternoon in Sally & Don’s lovely rose garden. I had…

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