This holiday season we spoiled ourselves silly in New Orleans. And while these hips don’t lie (yikes!) it was well worth it.

Sucre, the beautiful dessert shop on NOLA’s Magazine Street has a truffle bar (ThisGirl freaked for the dark chocolate covered milk chocolate bonbon with sea salt!) and pastries galore … along with Marie Antoinette’s favorite treats—colorful, melt-in-your-mouth macaroons. We also picked up a cannister of sumptuous tea sachets. The flavor: Paris. Ooh la la!

Can’t get to New Orleans (or Pareee?) anytime soon? Celebrate Mardi Gras season (it starts right after the 12th Day of Christmas: Jan. 7 and runs through until the commencement of Lent) by ordering online at http://www.shopsucre.com/

We are dying to see this.

Thanks, suicideblonde.

suicideblonde:

Blanche DuBois may well be the great part for an actress in the American theater, and I have seen her portrayed by an assortment of formidable stars including Jessica Lange, Glenn Close, Patricia ClarksonNatasha Richardson. Yet there’s a see-sawing between strength and fragility in Blanche, and too often those who play her fall irrevocably onto one side or another. and

Watching such portrayals, I always hear the voice of Vivien Leigh, the magnificent star of Elia Kazan’s 1951 movie, whispering Blanche’s lines along with the actress onstage. But with this “Streetcar,” the ghosts of Leigh — and, for that matter, of Marlon Brando, the original Stanley — remain in the wings. All the baggage that any “Streetcar” usually travels with has been jettisoned. Ms. Ullmann and Ms. Blanchett have performed the play as if it had never been staged before, with the result that, as a friend of mine put it, “you feel like you’re hearing words you thought you knew pronounced correctly for the first time.”

The New York Times’ review of Cate Blanchett in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is a thing of beauty in itself.  And yes, they did just say there that she was essentially a better Blanche than Vivien Leigh.  That’s high praise indeed. Read the whole review here.

ThisGirl loved being a redhead. Maybe it’s time to go back …

Thanks, callmecordelia!

callmecordelia:

Goodness, I wish I was a redhead. :(

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alexbalk:

I’m not the only one who thought this, right?

Nope.

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THISGIRL is going to Tulum this week. We hope this is on our deck!

Thanks to everyone who brought us this photo on this greyish Monday morning!

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THISGIRL hearts these fab holiday cards from The Punk Masters!

Check out these fresh-off-the-printer mini-masterpieces from Patty Palazzo, the designer behind Juicy Couture Men’s collection of supersoft and supercool logo tees (fyi, the Scottie on the Juicy Couture logo is her dog, Stanley). 

“The designs start where I left off with Juicy Men [RIP],” says Patty, “combining imagery and aesthetics from the great classic masters and royalty of centuries past, but punked up and rocked out and living in my world now!”

Viva les art, music and fashion!

There are four different cards in total, priced at $2 each, with discounts if you buy all four ($5 a pack) or two of each ($9).

Oh, which to wear today? We love the teal amulet. 

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