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Walk, Don't Run!

For it is Free Cone Day at B&J's today.

I believe there are ice cream shops located in the Prudential Center as well as one further down on Newbury Street.

Yeah, yeah, it's raining and maybe not a super inspiring ice cream day, but are you really going to turn down free ice cream?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Sneak Peak: My Nightstand

So I'm a pretty finicky sleeper.

It takes me forever to fall asleep, and once I do, I wake up about a million times. So, I'm extremely picky about the things I use to help me sleep, from my delish Marvis Ginger Mint toothpaste to my face cream, lip balm, etc. 

I can't sleep without CO Bigelow brand Rose Salve (yeah, yeah, it's a rip off, I know), Clark's Botanical's Smoothing Marine Cream and a sleepmask, preferably one pilfered from jetBlue. I also depend on reading material (Tom Wolfe right now now, an essay book on China in preparation for my departure and the Portable Dorothy Parker always). 

I also have a pretty healthy relationship with ambien (not pictured)

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Fashionista has this super cute mini-commercial for the first cookbook from BabyCakes, an all-vegan bakery in New York, New York (the city so nice they named it twice...). Now, I've never really been too into the vegetarian/vegan thing, but a healthier cupcake can't be a bad thing, can it?

My cup(cake) hath runneth over

Readers, I have some news:  I found a new cupcake joint, and it is actually better than Sweet. 

Enter:  the South End Buttery. 

Located on Shawmut Ave in the South End (duh), the Buttery is the grown-up answer to Sweet. The bake shop actually functions as a full-service cafe, with a really rad vintage-looking espresso machine, real food to eat, and wine. The cream, brown and yellow interior feels both fun and sophisticated.

And then, of course, there are the cupcakes. You can check out their full menu here, but I enjoyed a Madison (read: vanilla). The cake was spongy, but not overly sweet (as real cake should be), while the small heap of delectable, buttery frosting lived up to the bakery's name. And, really, it's not like a tour through the South End to get to the place is unpleasant.

Speaking of cupcakes ...

Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend

Stolen from the awesome Liz Kelly's Facebook (I'm a bit of a YouTube klepto lately, huh?)

Week in Review

I am beyond exhausted from four days worth of poor sleep. But hey, who needs sleep when you've had an awesome week? Let's review:

Monday - Dinner at the Squealing Pig, drinks at the Savant Project

Tuesday - cupcake at Sweet + beers at The Pig .

Wednesday - covered various tea-bagging activities on the Common.

Thursday - News banquet.

Friday - Last day at The Dig (for now), the South End Buttery (more on that to come), drunken Tomb, Cambridge 1, Jillian's, and a broken up house party in Allston

Saturday - Lunching, magazine-buying binge, Grey Gardens + party with Liz and Eric

Sunday - Valentino (!!!! More to come on that!), Brookline Booksmith, Paris Creperie.

And now, some rest.

Yes You Did

This was stolen from David Filipov's Facebook. HOWEVER, this is also the song that plays in Wes Anderson's "Hotel Chevalier," which, I have to admit, I liked better than the "Darjeeling Limited." I mean, come on. It featured a fancy hotel and Bloody Mary's. We're hitting some of my favorite things, here.

Come on Feel the Wine

Finals stress bogging you down?

Wine Riot has you covered. Fork over $45 for one of two four-hour long wine tasting sessions, featuring more than 250 kinds of delicious vino.

The wine-tasting spectacular will also have a sweet photo booth (check out the people at left), crash courses in wine, and DJs Die Young and RedFoxxworth.

As if that wasn't enough, the riot is sponsored by the Second Glass and my own (if I may call it that) Weekly Dig. So you're bound to run into some painfully cool (and hopefully drunk) hipsters.

Things I will Miss by Going Home for the Summer

1. Jenny Lewis

2. A KILLER Newport Folk Festival.

That's right. The same festival where Dylan first went electric will enjoy its 50th anniversary this year. Heading the line-up is:

Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, who both played at the inaugural folk festival way back in 1959. Seeger famously stalked around looking for an ax to cut the electrical chords when Dylan started playing "Maggie's Farm" in 1965.

Other acts include:

The Decemberists
Arlo Guthrie
Fleet Foxes
Neko Case
Campbell Brothers
The Avett Brothers
Josh Ritter
Gillian Welch
Iron & Wine
Tao Rodriguez Seeger
Tim Eriksen & Shape Note Singers
Langhorne Slim
Ben Kweller
For the whole line-up and more details, check out Rolling Stone.

Help (I need somebody, not just anybody)!

I am desperately seeking someone with HBO and a free Saturday night around 8 pm. Why? So we can get terribly dressed up, sip martinis and watch the dramatized "Grey Gardens," duh.

It's a mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world

This is unbelievably terrible.

I Wish They All Could Be California Girls

Icon: Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim remains one of my all-time icons - in life and fashion.

She was born into an incredibly wealthy, privileged family (duh), but cultivated an incredible eye and taste for art and ran in some seriously cool bohemian circles while living as an ex-pat in Europe.

Guggenheim moved to Europe, where she voraciously collected art in order to open a museum. She obtained works by Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko (to name a very, very few).

She eventually moved to Venice, where she bought the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal. She lived there for many years, and later opened her home up as a museum. 

Peggy was also something of a fashionista. You don't exactly get photographed by Man Ray (wearing Paul Poiret) for nothing. In her later years, she managed to remain stylish as ever, frequently rocking some of the funkiest sunglasses I've ever seen.

Cheers to you, Ms. Guggenheim.

The Emperor Has Sweet Clothes

So given that it's finals week over here at good ol' NU, I'm not exactly expecting a roster full of fun and fabulous things to do this weekend.

But there is ONE thing I'll definitely be doing - cruising over to my favorite Brookline neighborhood to screen "The Last Emperor," the new documentary about legendary fashion designer Valentino.

It's showing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (also known as the best place on earth) starting Friday.