The freeing of Jill Carroll (a joyful moment, need I add) is a reminder that there is no democracy in Iraq. Democracy depends on free speech and a vigorous press—what kind of democracy is it where reporters are afraid to…
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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Purple Rider
When will Hollywood do the Zane Grey story? A friend lent me a copy of the new bio of the western writer by Thomas Pauly, Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women, http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f05/pauly.htmland it’s shocking. Grey was a tremendous…
Paging Albo and Heffernan…
LAURIE: I recently spent the morning at the International Restaurant & Foodservice Show at the Javits Center. It gave me a legitimate excuse to not commute to my office in deepest New Jersey, and secretly I thought I might find…
A la Wheaties: You and Your Hubby on the Front of the Cereal Boxes at Your Wedding
ERICA: I just got back from the New York Magazine Wedding Show at the Altman Building, and aside from the four Godiva wedding favor samples I devoured, and some beautiful thank you notes I got from a cool new stationery…
Unhealthy Relationship With Ring
ERICA: I must confess that I truly, madly, deeply still get a major kick out of staring, gawking and gazing at my engagement ring. No offense to all of the other blushing brides out there, but it’s nicer than any…
Out of soap
I’m at that point where I’ve run through all the real bars of soap in the house and I’m down to scrounging hotel bars, usually round mintlike non-bar bars of soap. I dream about the day when I will go…
Blogging is slavery
This is only my seventh entry or so and I’m already complaining! Blogging is slavery. Your mind is attached to the computer, you have to always be thinking of clever responses to stray things you see on TV or the…
Hotheads v Liberals
Antonin Scalia is determined to make his private reputation as a hothead his public image. The private reputation as a bully has long been whispered. (It’s all through Joan Biskupic’s bio of Sandra Day O’Connor (S.D.O: How the First Woman…
If I could have dated an album, I would have been going steady with Coldplay’s Parachutes
ERICA: Greg and I went to see Coldplay this weekend and I cried. It was an eighth grade, passing notes in class, TLF kind of moment, but I cried nonetheless. Five years ago I moved here to NYC from LA…
Getting politics back in sports
Off the George Mason symbolism—I am going nuts waiting for more political action in sport. Like how about a demonstration? I sat through the Olympics waiting for the American snowboarder or skater who would rip off his jacket on the…
The politics of George Mason U.
If you need any more reason to celebrate what some are calling the biggest upset ever in the college basketball tournament, 11th seed George Mason U. knocking off one-seed UConn to go to the Final Four, consider what it’s doing…
Wedding of Tastemaker, Erica Goldstein, to Appear in Inside Weddings Magazine
ERICA: My PR Firm just called to tell me that Inside Weddings magazine would like to feature our wedding in one of their upcoming issues. They are big fans of Paper Bride and liked the whole bridal entrepreneur angle for…
New Orleans: A Thousand Points of Blight
I’m just back from New Orleans, and stunned and shocked. Nothing on television or in the papers conveys the scale of Katrina, six months on. You turn onto a boulevard and suddenly there’s a mountain of dead trees, gargantuan and…
On the road
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