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February 8, 2011

Happy New Year!

(This post is horribly, inexcusably belated. Forgive me, will you?) I was thrilled to accept the invitation to my friend Jacqui’s New Year’s Day brunch, filled as it was with promises of delicious food, bottomless mimosas, and bloody marys.  Add to that the fact that New Year’s Day has always given me a tinge of [...]

I would be thrilled to find any one of these gifts underneath the tree this year (psst…Santa). And no matter what the personality of the women on your list, you’re sure to find something they’ll love in this gift guide.   And since it wouldn’t be a holiday gift guide without you getting in on [...]

For the person on your list who has everything, or for the do-gooder in your life, why not foster an orphaned elephant, buy a net to protect children from malaria, or give a micro loan to help end poverty all the way across the globe? It’s amazing how far $10 or $20 goes to help [...]

These lovely gifts for the home are sure to please the aspiring Nate Berkus on your holiday shopping list. Best of all? One Everything Sounds Better in French reader will win gift number 5: three matted prints from Paul R. Giunta Photography. Just leave a comment below to enter. A winner will be chosen at [...]

November 29, 2010

It’s Gift Week!

It’s gift week, and you’re going to get some goodies, as well as tips on what to give this holiday season. Watch the video for the deets, and check back every day this week for your chance to win!  

A one night only, pop-up pie shop. Can you think of anything more amazing? OK, a two night pie shop would be even better, I guess. But Machine Project’s “Untitled(pie)” pop-up pie shop benefitting the LA Food Bank still took the cake. Er, pie. Echo Park’s Machine Project transformed into a pie shop on Thursday [...]