Lux Lotus

Fall Into Fashion

FALL INTO FASHION
With Fashion + Style Bloggers + Friends @ jen bekman
Hosted by Beth Stellato (JustMyCupOfTea.typepad.com) & Lauren Cerand (LuxLotus.com)
Saturday, September 16, 4-6pm, FREE
6 Spring Street, between Elizabeth and Bowery

Featuring:
- an informal gallery talk with director Jen Bekman on "Solid Ground: Photographs by Holly Lynton"
- giftbags for the first 50 attendees who RSVP to correspondence@laurencerand.com

Sponsors/giveaways include: Lichido Liqueur, Moleskine Notebooks, SUPERMODEL by David Breskin (Soft Skull Press), THE EXQUISITE by Laird Hunt (Coffee House Press), and more!

Previously: Notes on a Style Party.

The Pick-Up Playlist

I spent the better part of August on Cayuga Lake, driving around a borrowed truck and generally chillaxing. Mostly, I cruised various Gimme Coffee locations (Trumansburg is my favorite because of the screen door) and up the lake to Aurora, when I wasn't riding my bike to yoga. More later, perhaps, but in the meantime, here's my soundtrack for too-good-to-be-true antiquing, swooning over the perfect cottage, hitting Target daily, nicking cigarettes from the grown-ups, breezy nights on the back porch, closing time at The Chanticleer, getting heckled by carnies at the fair, hobbling around on a sprained ankle, and driving ten miles with The Peach for a Moonpie at 7:30am:

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Drive By Truckers - My Sweet Annette
Melanie - Brand New Key
B.W. Stevenson - My Maria
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (also covered expertly by Man Man)
Wolfmother - Woman
Patti Smith - Because The Night
The Brand New Heavies - Sex God
Bob Marley - Try Me
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl 
Jefferson Starship - Miracles  

Your regularly scheduled Lux Lotus programming (including a month of pent-up Windowlicking aspirations) will resume in a few days, after this weekend so that I can wrap up summer projects and finalize details on the fall agenda. My list of projects and planned events is intensely hot and I'll share all the details here soon, naturellement. I'm thrilled to note that some brilliant creative types have agreed to Lux Lotus interviews - Los Angeles-based French phenom + art star, Fette, Sartre & De Beauvoir biographer Hazel Rowley, and "Bohemian Modern" originator/architect Barbara Bestor -- keep an eye out for those soon...

Girl of My Dreams

Back in the city for a few days before I split again, but then after that I'll be back again for a good long while. Isn't that what August is for? Last night's "Upstairs at the Square" was dazzling -- definitely visit www.bn.com/writers for the audio recording as Duncan Sheik's world premiere of a duet from his Broadway-bound Spring Awakening will amaze you. This afternoon I spent some QT with downtown style icon Ms. Jen Bekman, gallerist extraordinaire and bestower of golden pedicures (Nars' "Ziggy" is too perfect). Other genuine pleasures this week: seeing The Smuin Ballet, flipping through Lula magazine, and making an appointment to get my hair cut by Gerald DeCock at the Hotel Chelsea.