OCCUPATION: Professional actress currently seen on ABC’s Cougartown MY STYLE: Eclectic I LOVE L.A. BECAUSE: Los Angeles is so easy with kids. There are amazing parks and indoor play spaces. There are farmers’ markets every day of the week somewhere in the city. There are tons of kid-friendly restaurants. Lamill Turquoise snakeskin banquets, toile wallpaper, …
The Dial-A-Mom for moms, these miracle-workers help with all your parenting needs I don’t drive. I can—technically. But as a die-hard New Yorker, I just don’t do it. Ever. Last summer, while in the country, my husband hired the local football coach to boost my confidence. He showed me how to get to the hospital in …
Sweet dreams, songs for slumber For centuries, mothers, fathers, nurses, aunts, and older siblings have all sung children to sleep. What makes a song fit for the task? Lullabies soothe and reassure, yes, but they also send children into the land of dreams—where anything can happen. Sometimes they can be scary (and perhaps more truthful …
Batmobiles, 007 watches and Columbo: there’s no one like the Boss to get your kids dancing to the music The Boss as a rock and roll superhero/detective/secret agent who rescues his love from “impendin’ heartbreak.” Are you kidding me? He actually says Batmobile in this song. Enough said. —Anna Pellicioli About The Mix Tape Think you have to …
Damien Hirst, the greatest among the Young British Artists (YBA), has centered his 20-year career on one goal: to have people rethink the life-death continuum (with more emphasis on the latter). Not exactly kid friendly material, but put a child in front of his magnum opus, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of …
KID FRIENDLY: Address: Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, Rome, IT Website: sweb01.dbv.uniroma1.it Phone: 39 06 4991 2436 The gravel paths here—well-tread by strollers and their devoted pushers—wind through literally thousands of species of plants. “See palm trees, the Fontana del Tritone, and the Japanese garden,” Cecile Leroy Beaulieu says. She also recommends trekking to the pagoda at …
High praise to the food and theatrics at this Tribeca restaurant When we take all three kids out to eat at a nice place, I cringe when they act up. And when at a kiddie’s dump, gulping sulfate-infused cheapo wine provides some sort of relief from the yapping from nugget-packed tables. My favorite restaurants are …
Two craft studios battle it out on the Upper East Side of New York The classic paradigm seen in Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail—the one where the small, neighborhood mom n’ pop shop has to compete against the conglomerate-spawned mega-machine version—is something we’re all familiar with. And while we all love those sweet independent stores, the …
Kids club founder Maggie Bolger opens up about creativity and comfort The white façade of this Kensington play club appears pristine, but take one step inside and you’re knee-deep in paintbrushes, cake pans, plush couches, toys, and pirate-themed paraphernalia. Upbeat music is likely to be playing, and you might catch a whiff of freshly baked …
Gyllenhaal-Sarsgaard clan to welcome one more Brooklyn mom Maggie Gyllenhaal has confirmed that she’s pregnant with her second child…and it’s a girl! With Gyllenhaal and her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, for parents, plus the adorable Ramona as a big sister, that’s one lucky baby. Gyllenhaal, who confessed to hiding the pregnancy for some time, is due …
