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Eating Highlights From My Holy Grail of New York Trips
(above: me w/ Lexy, my Holy Grail of beloved pals. I don't think I've ever gazed so adoringly at another person) BY LAURA JANE FridayI woke up early in a hotel room on Wall Street, well off Wall...
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Things of the Year: LJ's Wine of the Year, 5 Important Songs, "Planets of the...
LJ'S THING OF THE YEAR: My Wine of the Year At my restaurant I sell a wine called Passopisciaro. It is made out of grapes grown on the slope of an active volcano, in Sicily, in the year 2012. It is a...
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Infinitely Stunned with a Pail of Rainbow Sherbet: A 2017 Thing About Kurt...
BY LIZIf Kurt Cobain were alive he’d be turning 50 on Monday. Here are some Kurt things I’ve been thinking about lately:i. Last month I listened to a bad recording of the Nirvana show I went to when I...
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Some Wine I Drank In England
WORDS BY LJ/ DRAWING BY JEN1. 2 $14 glasses of NV Bisol Desiderio e Figli 'Belstar' Prosecco DOCI am at an airport bar, and sadly, it’s not a very good one. But I am, however, here. So that's...
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Reds of Summer
WORDS BY LJ/ ILLO BY JEN1. Dolcetto (mid-June through mid-July)The word Dolcetto sounds like it should be the name of a song, a kind of song, or a story about a song. Or a part of an opera or a style...
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Desperately Seeking Susan Taught Me How to Walk Down the Street
WORDS BY ELIZABETH BARKERART BY JEN MAYWhen I was a teenager I read a semi-trashy unauthorized biography of Patti Smith, and there was a story about Patti being a kid and finding a book of Arthur...
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Some Rieslings I Have Known
WORDS BY LAURA JANE FAULDSILLUSTRATION BY JEN MAY I wanted to get a gold nameplate necklace spelling out the name of a wine grape, but I couldn’t decide which one. My two favourites, Cabernet Franc and...
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Champagne & Egg Yolk
WORDS BY LAURA JANE FAULDSILLUSTRATION BY JEN MAYA cook at my restaurant was experimenting with sous-vide-ing egg yolks; I was polishing wine glasses and watching him. A shell was cracked open, and a...
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The White Wine List Of My Dreams
BY LAURA JANE FAULDS/ ILLUSTRATION BY JEN MAYThere are worse things to write than a wine list, but I’d rather write about a wine list, since a wine list doesn’t have enough words. Once I had a wine...
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I Still Love The Beatles
WORDS BY LAURA JANE FAULDS & ELIZABETH BARKER,ART BY JEN MAY(Last week Strawberry Fields Whatever turned six-years-old. LJ and Liz started SFW as a spinoff of Let It Be Beautiful, a book where we...
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The Beach Boys, "Don't Worry Baby" (LJ)I was walking to work the weird way, on a Wednesday, past the houses with the purple flowers and the park with the little rock climbing wall. The wall is pale and...
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The 75 Most Beautiful Mick Jagger Pictures To Make You Feel Like 'Let It...
BY ELIZABETH BARKERToday is Mick Jagger's 75th birthday. Four years ago Jen May made that art up top for a little storybook I wrote called I Wanna Be Your Man. It was partly about Mick being royalty,...
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10 Essential Food and Drinks by LJ & Liz & Jen
(There's a Beastie Boys thing from '09 where instead of doing a normal interview, they all talked about what they eat for each meal of the day. This is our version of that, only with dream foods.)1....
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Things of the Year: The First 15 Seconds of "Little Miss Sunshine (Little...
LJ'S THING OF THE YEAR: The First 15 Seconds of "Little Miss Sunshine (Little Miss Rain)" by Lee Hazlewood To be honest, I had a really bad 2018. December 31st of last year was the most disgusting...
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I love my new apartment & Evan Dando & 17th-century Dutch paintings of...
(Actual footage of the kitchen of my new apartment right at this moment, as painted by Adriaen van Utrecht)BY LIZi. For a long time I had this dream that the next place I lived would have a lemon tree...
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Happiness Is A Neutral State
"SOME NOTES ON LOVING REGGAE MUSIC"BY LAURA JANE FAULDSFEATURING AN ILLUSTRATION BY JEN MAYEight years ago I loved the Clash and my nails were painted sparkly turquoise. I flew to New York City to sit...
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The Strawberry Fields Whatever Diet: Everything We Ate for an Entire Week, by...
Monday, September 9thLJ:Â I woke up at 8 in the morning and it was chilly in my bedroom and, even indoors, you could feel the autumn in the air. I thought it was romantic.I made myself a Bodum-ful of...
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Thing of the Week: Narwhal the Puppy, Las Vegas, The Hollow Winter Hair of Deer
LJ'S THING OF THE WEEK:Â Narwhal the Puppy! And puppies in generalThe other day I was talking to my friend on the phone, and he likened his general state of life-optimism to that of "a puppy seeing...
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Whip-Smart by Liz Phair is My Favorite Merry-Go-Round
BY ELIZABETH BARKERA little while ago I found this absolute goldmine of a Geocities site, and read through 37 magazine/newspaper articles written about Liz Phair in the mid-'90s. I learned that...
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Thing of the Year 2019
LJ'S THING OF THE YEAR: Ego Death & Kyrie The other day I was on the phone with Matt, talking about nothing relevant or interesting, and I said, “A year ago I was having an anorexia relapse, today...
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Weird Women Setting Off Fireworks in Winter: A Story of Listening to 'Pod' by...
(photo by Kevin Westenberg)BY ELIZABETH BARKEROne of my favorite stories I've read this year is about how when Tanya Donelly decided to quit the Breeders, Kim Deal locked the two of them in the...
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Everything I Know About Los Angeles
 BY ELIZABETH BARKERFor my 18th anniversary of living in Los Angeles I made a big list of all the L.A. things that mean a lot to me: some are memories and some are observations and some is just trash...
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To Wander Aimlessly Is Very Unswinging
Last month Liz and Laura Jane talked on the phone about Get Back for two hours and nine minutes. Here is a transcript of most of our conversation.LIZ: Before Omicron, I thought one of our Get Back...
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All Our Favorite Beatles Songs Right Now
  BY ELIZABETH BARKER & LAURA JANE FAULDSi. CRY BABY CRY (LJ)Cry Baby Cry is a solid second-tier late Beatles song unfairly relegated to the third- or fourth-string due to, in my opinion, poor...
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Things of the Year: Lindsey Buckingham, Black Licorice Ice Cream
LAURA'S THING OF THE YEAR: LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM2023 was a really boring year for me. I took a six-month long data analytics course between April and October, so I spent most of my year doing weird...
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