Category: Holiday

• Get Well, Kele

  We take a short brea from our all-Christmas program to report on another concert: Bloc Party at the Marquee. It was pretty awesome. I was unimpressed with the openers, the Dum Dum Girls. Musically, they were decent, but they were just too caught up in being Girl Rockers. The truly great female musicians are great […]

  Allison

  December 11, 2012

  Food, Holiday, Music

  Bloc Party band, concert, peppermint bark

• Oh Tringles

  December came out of nowhere for me this year, and when it finally got here I was all in a grump because I couldn’t get the holiday spirit going. Then I went with Monita and one of her friends to a Sufjan Stevens Christmas singalong. Imagine the most over-the-top kitschy decorations, then add a piano […]

  Allison

  December 4, 2012

  Holiday

  Christmas, Sufjan Stevens

• Happy Thanksgiving

  Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers. This is my first major holiday in my new place, and I think I’ve spent about 15 minutes there–the rest of the day has been spent out and about. For all of the changes, I’m thankful for just about all the same things I was last year: my family, my Querido, […]

  Allison

  November 22, 2012

  Holiday

  Thanksgiving