Archive for the ‘Julia Reed’ Category
Mother’s Day Shopping List
Julia Reed May 1st, 2012As a child, I always had the best intentions on Mother’s Day, but I was just a tad misguided. Particularly the year that I chose the Betty Crocker cookbook for kids as my guide and the Mother’s Day menu featured a block of Spam with pineapple glaze. Having never seen Spam until it turned up [...]
Read MoreJulia’s LA Diary
Julia Reed April 24th, 2012Julia Reed eats, drinks, and shops her way through Los Angeles.
Read MoreBlack and White and Red All Over
Julia Reed February 28th, 2012We pretty much knew that “The Artist” would be the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday night and that Billy Crystal would knock his own duties out of the park. Which means that the only real wild cards were the looks and actions of those in attendance. Herewith, a short—and highly personal—list of winners [...]
Read MoreHappy Mardi Gras!
Julia Reed February 18th, 2012Since I’m not the only member of the Fetch team who’ll be celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans today, I’ll keep this week’s column brief! We hope the rest of you will celebrate too, either in spirit or with spirits like my buddy Mitch Rosenthal’s delicious Uptown Hurricane (see last week’s Fetch) or my favorite [...]
Read MoreThe Magic of Make Believe
Julia Reed February 14th, 2012For years in New Orleans, I was lucky enough to be invited to a small masked ball celebrating Twelfth Night and held in the lovely rooms atop the French Quarter’s Napoleon House bar. One year, I took inspiration from a vintage Bill Blass coat that was ivory with graphic hand-painted brown and black branches running [...]
Read MoreLove Songs II
Julia Reed February 7th, 2012This Valentine’s Day playlist is, as usual, all over the map, but I thought it fitting to pay tribute to two unforgettable singers lost to us in the past year. Etta James is mostly known for the classic “At Last” (which had a big comeback in the early 90s as the soundtrack to a Jaguar [...]
Read MoreCountry House, Country Mouse
Julia Reed January 31st, 2012Two years ago, all I wanted was Meryl Streep’s kitchen in “It’s Complicated,” the one she hired Steve Martin to “fix.” Now, during the painful six days between installments of Downton Abbey’s Season Two, I find myself leafing through my dogeared copy of “Colefax & Fowler, The Best in Interior Decoration” as well as a [...]
Read MoreMen, Gin, and Martinis
Julia Reed January 24th, 2012Plenty of women have been crazy about gin. Dorothy Parker and the Queen Mother, for example, come immediately to mind. Dorothy, because of her famous quote about four martinis putting her “under the host.” The Queen Mum because of her possibly apocryphal instruction to her coterie of male attendants: “Would one you old queens bring [...]
Read MorePeter the Great
Julia Reed January 17th, 2012There is a piece in this week’s Fetch that features pendants and cufflinks made of letters. In the story, we advocate using them to “brand” yourself, and when we were laying it out, I was reminded of my great friend Peter Rogers. Or, more to the point, I was reminded of his slogan for Bottega [...]
Read MoreMy Baby Wrote Me a Letter
Julia Reed January 10th, 2012I have always been a paper junkie. I’ve hoarded enough writing paper and note cards, museum postcards and even old fashioned tissue thin “airmail” sheets and envelopes to write at least five letters every day between now and 2013. I bought the stuff because I love the way it feels and looks or what it [...]
Read MoreElusive Fine: Hot Socks
