Flickr Shot by dotsara Starting today, Starbucks is offering two hours of free wireless Internet, courtesy of AT&T, to its customers. (Bye bye, T-Mobile.) And I don’t know how much any of you care about this but I LOVES it considering I’m addicted to the nonfat vanilla latte and am currently “borrowing” my neighbors’ WiFi….
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Dear Caroline on Crack: Cool Bars in Two Days?
Dear Caroline on Crack, My day job [in Seattle] is bringing me down to L.A. this Wednesday and I was hoping you — as the person from LAist (not to mention your own blog) who writes most fluently about nightlife — might be able to recommend some places or neighborhoods where I and my co-worker…
Places I'll Never Show My Face in Again: Amandine Patisserie
In my on-going search for new favorite breakfast places on the Westside, I decided to give Amandine Patisserie, located in Santa Monica/Brentwood, a go. It’s just a couple of blocks west of my current fave, Literati Cafe, and it’s gotten a ton of decent reviews on Yelp, The Delicious Life, and Chowhound. I read their…
Dear Caroline on Crack: Afternoon Tea Under $20?
Shot of Afternoon Tea at the Biltmore (not under $20) I love it when my friends ask me for advice. This one came via IM. New Mama: Advice, Ms. Crack? (Yes, my friends still refer to me as “Ms. Crack.”) Me: k New Mama: My sister is throwing me a baby shower. I wanted something…
FREE Shipping Off 90+ Point Wine
Thanks to Crazy Andy for pointing this out via tweet but, look! Free shipping off some of the best wines in the world — each rated 90 points or more by Wine Advocate, International Wine Cellar and Wine Spectator. And I’m not just talking expensivo $100 wines. There are actually some bottles for less than…
Nike Women's Half Marathon: Join Team Crackhead!
Now that the marathon is over and done with, I’m ready to sign up for a half marathon! And the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in San Francisco in October has caught my eye. Unfortunately the event is so popular that they do a random lottery picking who gets to participate. Anyway, I’m rounding up a…
I'mb Sigg: Posts on Hold
I feel really guilty that I didn’t blog today or this past weekend for that matter considering that I took a Hipcooks cocktail class at the new Westside location, I tried the Sunday prix-fixe dinner at the “redesigned” Violet and sampled many new cocktails. But since I’ve come down with an annoying cold/flu or whatever…
Reminder: Win a Date for V-Day — Caroline on Crack Style
Flickr Shot by dotsara All right, single ladies, you’ve got one week left (well, 4 1/2 days to be exact) to send me your submissions for the “Win a Date for Valentine’s Day — Caroline on Crack Style” contest. Crazy Andy would be the bachelor to show you a good time and I don’t mean…
For the Girls: Win a Date for Valentine's Day — Caroline on Crack Style
Flickr Shot by streetpix For Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d do something fun and different for my single girl readers out there. No singles mixer, no anti-Valentine party. Something even better: I’m going to send you out on a fab date with a wonderful guy. And I’m not talking the generic dinner and a movie,…
Pond Skipping on the Cheap: NYC for $128 O/W
Another deal from the Travelzoo Newsdesk: For Virgin America’s first sale of the year, you get cheapie one-way fares that are pretty darn good. Fares on sale (each way): – Las Vegas-San Francisco … $44 – Los Angeles-San Francisco … $44 – Los Angeles-Washington D.C. … $118 – Los Angeles-New York … $128 What makes…
