Turkish Delights

YES YES YES:

http://www.dilekhanif.com/

To me a cave hotel has a lot in common with a cabin. Creatively living in connection with nature.

http://www.yunak.com/

http://www.turkishcoffeeworld.com/

Yigal Azrouel

I wish these could be hanging in my closet when I'm trying to get dressed in the morning!

http://www.yigal-azrouel.com/

Moroccan Magic

http://wikitravel.org/en/Marrakech

Hotel La Mamounia, Marrakech

http://www.mamounia.com/

Majorelle Garden:

http://www.jardinmajorelle.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden

And if, like me, you aren't going to Morocco anytime soon enough...

http://www.etsy.com/shop/click2egyptcom

http://www.republicoftea.com/

LACMA FILM

WEEKEND SERIES

On the Edge: Classics from La Semaine de la critique 

March 18 - March 25

Conceived by the French Union of Film Critics in 1962, La Semaine de la critique (Critics' Week) runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival every May, and presents an eclectic showcase of first and second feature works. Highlights of the festival's most recent slate include Rubber, the directorial debut of electronic musician Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr. Oizo) about a car tire with destructive, ESP-like powers, the harrowing Afghan War documentary Armadillo and the Oscar-winning animated short Logorama, in which apocalypse rains down on a landscape entirely populated by brand-name mascots and corporate insignia. 

In honor of its 50th anniversary, LACMA highlights six films which made their debut at the Semaine. Hailing from four continents—Europe, North America, South America and Asia—they represent distinct characteristics of Semaine's selection over the years. Early works from filmmakers who have risen to international prominence: Jacques Audiard's streetwise thriller Regarde les hommes tomber starring Jean-Louis Tringtignant and Barbet Schroeder's hypnotic More, a portrait of hippie nihilism set amid the sun and sea of Ibiza and scored by Pink Floyd, and Gaspar Noé's hard-bitten I Stand Alone. And radical formal experiments: Straub/Huillet's sublimely austere anti-biopic Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach which is largely comprised of live, full-length performances of Bach's music, Hiroshi Teshigahara's psychedelic noirPitfall which crosses the existentialist-tinged surrealism of Alain Resnais with a potently modernist Toru Takemitsu score, and Paul Morrissey's Beckett-like underground classic Trash starring Joe Dellassandro as a strung-out junkie.

This series is presented with invaluable assistance from the French Film and TV Office, Los Angeles, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Our thanks to Anaïs Couette and Hélène Auclaire from the Semaine de la Critique; Jonathan Howell, New Yorker Films; Mike Thomas, Jour de Fete Films; Sarah Finklea and Brian Belevorac, Janus Films; Thomas Petit, Les Films du Losange; and Didier Haudepin, Bloody Mary Productions.

March 18	7:30 PM Regarde les hommes tomber
March 18	9:10 PM Pitfall
March 19	5:00 PM I Stand Alone
March 19	7:30 PM Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
March 25	7:30 PM More
March 25	9:40 PM Trash

http://www.lacma.org/programs/FilmSeriesSchedule.aspx

priti neat

I'm a fan of Priti NYC. The actual spa is super cute and makes you feel like you aren't in a big city. Now I buy their nail polish remover online. It's amazing. I had stopped painting my nails because I hated the chemicals and felt like I could never get the smell of my conventional nail polish remover off. I'm happy the fun is back. I also recommend the nail polish in Venus. It's a subtle sparkle; appropriate for working adults.

http://www.pritinyc.com/

miniature vacation

A 16 second vacation; looking across the Pacific at Lanai from South Maui...

(Enjoy it while you can. South Maui has been rapidly spoiled by too many hotels. I, personally, do not support the Grand Wailea resort for this reason. They are too big and they have transformed a beach that used to be a beautiful secret into something that resembles Waikiki. I hope they will cancel their plans for expansion.)

Aurélie Bidermann

Feeling a little obsessed with this jewelry:

http://www.aureliebidermann.com/