Best of Five: Toronto Thai Food!
My name is Laura Jane, and I am both lazy and useless in the kitchen. As nogoodforme.com continues its ascent into Total Universe Takeover by venturing into the endlessly entertaining realm of food...
View ArticleImaginary Shopping Spree: Thurley, many silly t-shirts, Martin Lamothe
+ Thurley dress, elizabeth-charles.com A few weeks ago I stumbled into the Elizabeth Charles boutique in NYC’s meatpacking district and fell kind of hard for the dresses of Australian line Thurley, who...
View ArticleThe nogoodforme.com Why Don't You?
Along with Chuck Klosterman, Emmanuelle Alt, and possibly Michael Showalter, Diana Vreeland belongs to the elite group of human beings that we would allow to join the nogoodforme.com team if they...
View Articlenogoodforme superlatives: Favorite Secrets to Lovely Skin
American Beauty Beauty Boost Overnight Radiance cream, kohls.com Outside of perfume and eyebrows, skincare is pretty much the only genuine beauty interest I have — otherwise I am the laziest human on...
View ArticleWe're Obsessed: Cheetah Cubs, George Harrison's Fender Strat, why Depeche...
Tie: Cheetah Cubs/Rocky the Fender Stratocaster (how could I pick just one?) The other afternoon I was at the doctor’s office waiting to get my ears flushed out with a watergun (which I think is a very...
View ArticleAsk Us Anything: LJ's Headscarf Tying Technique
From Sarah: HI! I love the scarfs that Laura Jane uses as headband type-things. I was just wondering how she ties them?
View ArticleHeavy Rotation: Fiery Furnaces, Animal Collective, Maximillian Colby
There’s all kinds of out-of-the-ordinary happening in this week’s installment of Heavy Rotation: covers of “Norwegian Wood,” rare post-hardcore 7″ singles in their entirety…what other strange aural...
View ArticleBits and Pieces: Audible Architecture concerts in Chicago, Vice Photo Show in...
+ Who doesn’t love art? Who doesn’t love cocktails as they look at art? Who doesn’t like FREE cocktails as you look at art? New Yorkers with a yen for art, drinks, people-watching and tapas should...
View ArticleSnapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat Listening: The Casual Dots; Moss Icon Watching: A Scanner Darkly; pretty much all the Lord of the Rings movies. That’s a lot of Hobbit-time right there. Reading: The Blind Assassin by Margaret...
View ArticleAsk Us Anything: Red Lipstick De-Virgination
I want to move into the world of red lipstick, or lip stain, but where to start? What’s a lovely brand and shade that isn’t too garish and is a good starter for a lipstick virgin? – Laura Kat: Oh,...
View ArticleSofia Coppola in the 90s Inspires Me to Exist More Fully in My Historical Moment
Sometimes Sofia Coppola feels like my cool older-girl neighbor, or my pop culture big sister. She’s just a bit older and richer and just innately cooler than me — being super-connected helps, I suppose...
View ArticleSometimes You Just Crave a Really Sophisticated Backpack, You Know?
I’m not talking about some Jansport thing, of course, or even the ones you see in Forever 21 or wherever that are all floral-y and grunge-y and 90sish. (The 90s, of course, were the last big style...
View ArticleProto-Empowerpop That Won’t Make You Vomit (As Much)
You know what I mean by “empowerpop,” right? Pop songs with lyrics that could come right out of the self-help bestseller list, with a kind of buoyancy and expansiveness in the music. Usual suspects...
View ArticleLaura Marling Asks the Most Important Question in Deciding Whether or Not to...
Here’s what I know about love lately: 1. You’re on a journey, and your (perhaps would-be) beloved on a journey, and wouldn’t it be nice if your paths could meander through the Great Forest of Spirit...
View ArticleWhen Life Gets Rough, Sometimes It Helps to Exfoliate
Sometimes through a lot of life tumult, I think: I should get a Clarisonic. Not a drink, not a life coach or a guru, but a vibrating brush for your face that purports to deep-clean your pores to...
View ArticleWays to Pretend We’re Energetic, Flirtatious, Super-Hot Aries Like Liz Phair
It is fun to write about astrology because it is really writing about people and generalizing about them in a way that is fun and sexy and compassionate towards the inevitable flaws and contradictions...
View ArticleSurfer Fashion for Girls Allergic to Neon and 80s Prints
I don’t surf, much to my chagrin. It seems like something I should or would do if I resided permanently on the coast. Sadly, I don’t — I live in an area with plentiful countryside, so I make do with...
View ArticleFrank Zappa’s Pigtails Will Pave the Way for Better Masculinity
Recently I had the privilege of overhearing two co-eds discuss the “man-bun” at Panera. (Side note: they sounded exactly like Shoshanna on “Girls,” so please have that sound effect in your brain as you...
View ArticleJoni Mitchell is My Platonic Spring Style Inspiration
One of my grown-up mature lessons in style is learning to admire and learn from fashion icons with a similar body shape to mine. Sadly, it’s still a mark of how narrowly our culture and media...
View ArticleLena Dunham Was Right When She Said Blue Crush Was a Really Important Movie...
I’m sort of lukewarm on “Girls” in general, but occasionally Lena Dunham will write a throwaway line so intriguing that I can’t quite get it out of my head. And the whole “Blue Crush was such important...
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