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Get lost, why don't you
And a few other timely recommendations
May 30
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Alessandra Codinha
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Memoirs and Monsters
So, look, apparently there was just a recent eclipse that provoked what my preferred online astrologer (CHANI, natch) described as “all sorts of…
May 11
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Alessandra Codinha
3
April 2023
Catch!
I should probably begin with the context that I’ve been feeling particularly self-centered lately, in the way that’s really very easy to be when you are…
Apr 28
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Alessandra Codinha
7
Spring Fever
Hello from what in L.A. at least has really begun to properly feel like spring, a season which usually slips by unnoticed between a regular parade of…
Apr 20
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Alessandra Codinha
11
Bouffants and Big Speeches
I was going to start off this whole thing by saying that I rarely recommend coffee table books (because they are so often just vanity projects that make…
Apr 13
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Alessandra Codinha
8
March 2023
Out of Fashion (and into the Fire)
I had a plan! It was a good plan. I was going to write something chewy and acerbic and occasionally deep about dressing oneself in the age of social…
Mar 30
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Alessandra Codinha
11
A Roll of the Dice!
It’s come to my attention that I missed a week. Did you miss me? I missed you. I mean, that’s not really exactly how I’d put it. I was in Las Vegas and…
Mar 14
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Alessandra Codinha
5
Waving at You from the Other Side of a Lull
Did you ever read The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer? (The latter did the fabulous etched-in-my-mind-for-eternity illustrations…
Mar 3
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Alessandra Codinha
5
February 2023
Mixed Media (and Some Mycology)
I saw the painter Alex Katz last week, in multiple dimensions. I mean that I saw the man and I saw his new paintings at his opening at the Schindler…
Feb 23
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Alessandra Codinha
7
Not actually Valentine's day related (unless you want it to be?)
Hello from yes, another plane, but this time another country, as well—Mexico, which I will tell you about next week, including some CDMX…
Feb 14
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Alessandra Codinha
9
Up in the Air
Hello from an airplane! A United Airlines airplane, to be precise, winging its way to New York. (I never used to be brand loyal regarding air travel and…
Feb 1
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Alessandra Codinha
7
January 2023
What are you going to do with your new lunar year?
I first learned about the legendary (French) sailor Isabelle Autissier from her friend, the great Giovanni Soldini, another legendary (Italian) sailor…
Jan 23
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Alessandra Codinha
7
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