Friends and food

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My boyfriend was OK, but when he introduced me to his best friend, I realized just how much my guy fell short. Don't worry, I didn't date his friend.

The couple enlisted their circle of artist pals to help them make everything — from tepees “so our friends could smoke pot or make out without our parents seeing” to dream-catchers they strung from trees.

One of the most wonderful things to happen since moving to Davis was being invited to join a bookclub by my (then new) friend Melissa. People often ask me about it—how did it begin? how did you all meet?—and the truth is that I think about it often. Melissa and I were both fairly new to […]

My friends and I are happy hour aficionados, but sometimes it’s nice to skip the bar and have wine time in the comfort of your own home. Do ya feel me? And while I love hosting get togethers at my house, something I don’t enjoy is running around the kitchen preparing food while my guests are in the

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In the wake of intensely stressful periods of their lives, best friends Whitney Tingle and Danielle DuBoise each stumbled upon something of a miracle drug. It healed Whitney’s chronic acne and it helped Danielle reach her ideal weight and overcome her toxic relationship with her body. So what was this remarkable substance? It was medicine, but not […]

How do you leverage your home’s design to entertain at home for events like these? Can you serve appetizers in your kitchen but leverage a bar or drink a

Most of us have taken at least a single picture of food during our lifetimes with our smartphones. Well, if there are some who haven't, we're pretty sure that they at least have seen some because what rock must they live under if they haven't?

When a friend tipped us off on Sarah Contrucci Smith’s online textile shop, Ara Collective, we couldn’t get over the gorgeous indigo and white pillows, rugs, and bags. And the blue icing on the cake? Sarah’s company is socially responsible, and by that we mean they pay their artisans above fair trade wages to produce beautiful textiles from […]