September 28, 2005

Audi A6 Avant Puts Other Wagons En Garde

In the LA Times today, Dan Neil gives the newly redesigned Audi A6 Avant some of the highest praise a wagon--or any car, for that matter--can get:...quietly gorgeous... ... While other companies agonize over their "crossover" designs ó too...
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SoHo Grand Hotel, 310 West Broadway & Grand St - CLOSE ENOUGH

But there's a console table in the men's room entry that could do the trick. Second floor, behind and to the left of the front desk....
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Two Days Left On That Amazon/Seventh Generation Deal

That "buy $99 worth of Seventh Generation products, get $40 to spend on Amazon" offer is good through the end of September. Just a heads up. previously: the same thing, only in more words...
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Yoshitomo Nara T-shirt/Romper Conversion

A kid at the park the other day had a t-shirt-like romper with a mean-looking girl by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara on the front. I asked her mom about it, but all she knew was that it was a gift...
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Christopher Street Pier, Christopher St & West Side Highway - YES

The large public bathroom is near the entrance to the pier, but you also have about 20 acres of open lawn and/or astroturf, so why not just change the kid on your picnic blanket?...
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Well It's About Time: Whole Foods Lifestyle Store

As if Whole Foods wasn't lifestyle enough already, the company is now set to open an official lifestyle store (i.e., everything but food) next to an existing Whole Foods market in West Hollywood (at Santa Monica and Fairfax, if you're...
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Sweet Vintage Cosco High Chair on Ebay

DT reader Sarah points to this classic fifties steel high chair from Cosco, which just went up for sale on ebay. You'd want to check the leg straps to make sure 1) they're there and 2) they work, but...
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