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A Little Champagne To Go With Those Shoes?
Christian Louboutin breathes new life into a legend born at the Bolshoi Ballet in the 1880s, when ballerinas served Champagne to adoring gentlemen spectators from their slippers. Intended for our lips, not for our feet, each coffret contains a bottle of Champagne Piper Heidsieck Cuvée Brut, dressed in devilish red by Christian Louboutin and the Champagne flute in the shape of his classic black stiletto. Le Rituel will be available at select Neiman Marcus as well as www.le-rituel.com. |
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An Eve with Party Hats and Noisemakers
Ring in 2010 in modern sophistication with Park Hyatt Washington’s luxurious New Year’s Eve package, priced at $8,000. Retreat to the hotel’s Presidential Suite for an intimate celebration, with up to ten guests. Enjoy a five-course dinner, prepared by Blue Duck Tavern executive chef Brian McBride as well as access to the hotel’s New Year’s celebration in the Lounge, featuring DJ Neekola spinning the hottest beats, available at www.parkhyattwashington.com. |
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The Sun Always Rises in the East...
One of DC’s hottest selling condominium developments, The Flats and The Warehouses at Union Row, has only a few remaining condominium residences. Located on the corner of 14th and V Streets, Union Row is home to Eatonville, Yes! Organic Market, and more. Remaining residences are dramatic and many have sweeping views and large outdoor terraces. With prices recently reduced, visit www.pnhoffman.com for more information. |
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And Then There Was Light
Lutron Electronics, the world’s most respected manufacturer of lighting control products has just released an exciting new product called RadioRa 2. It’s designed to work in any residence with just about any type of lighting. Combine their smart dimmers and switches with multifunction keypads, an occupancy/vacancy sensor, and their complete line of motorized window treatments and you have the ultimate in convenience, security, and energy savings. Visit radiora2.lutron.com for more details. |
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Get Style at a Steal
Have a happening holiday with style at Aloft Hotels - stay, play, get 50% off the next day. Check out our D.C. area destinations, including Dulles Airport and Washington National Harbor, or one of our 40 hotels around the globe. Aloft Hotels brings a whole new vibe to the scene with urban-inspired design, totally tech-savvy rooms and a great social scene with w xyz bar. For more information, vist www.alofthotels.com. |
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Tomorrow's Classics Today
Midtown Jewelers is a full service family owned store providing on-site jewelry and watch repair, including a custom design specialist. In anticipation of a great holiday season, we are fully stocked with the newest fashions, featuring new lines such as the Piera Diamond Collection by Sofer Jewelry. For more information, vist www.midtownjewelersinc.com. |
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An Extension of Artistic Expression
Indulge in an exclusive, yet intriguing experience. CoCoBaBeAttire.com provides you with distinctively tasteful products online. The eloquent descriptions give you visualization, the presentations make you fantasize, and they offer none other than corporate level accommodations. This holiday season treat yourself, or someone you love, to Wardrobe Styling and Gift Giving services. Available nationwide at www.cocobabeattire.com. |
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DC’s Only New Elevator Townhomes
The most luxurious new brownstones are located in Potomac’s most enviable neighborhood! Stroll to Harris Teeter for gourmet-to-go, enjoy a relaxing massage at Kimpton Hotel & Spa, or delight in an afternoon cocktail at Bottle Shop Wine Boutique. Whatever your pleasure, it’s all within walking distance from The Brownstones at Park Potomac. For more information, visit www.eya.com. |
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A Chateau That Will Take Your Breath Away
This beautifully unique chateau is located on Yorktown Road on a 11,700 SF lot. With a dramatic entrance consisting of a 32-foot multi-arched gallery hallway, it is bound to be a home buyer’s dream. The property has 8 bedrooms and 7.5 baths, including a Palladian-windowed 37-ft master retreat and a first floor bedroom. For more information on this property, please visit www.diannebailey.lnfre.com |
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Old Fashioned Mushroom Soup
For this winter season, Sou’Wester’s Chef de Cuisine Rachael Harriman at the Mandarin Oriental suggests a recipe perfect for a holiday party.
 Ingredients:
2 lbs Cut Mushrooms
2T Lemon Juice
2T Butter
4T Minced Shallots
2T Chopped Thyme
1 Bay Leaf
1 tsp Ground Black Pepper
4 cups Heavy Cream
1.5 cups Chicken Stock
1.5 cups Mushroom Stock
For the roux
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup melted butter
Method
Sweat shallots in butter. Add chopped mushrooms, thyme, lemon juice and bay leaf. Cook until liquid from mushrooms has evaporated.
In another pot, mix chicken stock, mushroom stock and cream. Simmer for 20 minutes.
Cook the melted butter and flour together for five minutes just to cook out the flour taste. Take the cream and mushroom stock mixture and pour into the roux a little at a time and keep stirring to prevent lumps. After all the liquid is thickened with the roux, mix in the sweated mushroom mixture. Cook all together for 5-7 minutes.
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 Joshua Bell Performs This Week
Fresh from his White House performance last month, Joshua Bell—arguably the world’s greatest living violinist—performs at the Kennedy Center this week. He’ll be appearing in The French composer Edouardo Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, led by American conductor Hugh Wolff. The piece, for solo violin and orchestra, is a fresh, light piece based on Spanish folk songs. It’s a piece created for a violin virtuoso, with quick shifts between the highest and lowest registers, and the violin soaring above the symphony.
Bell’s new recording, his best-selling ever, demonstrates his enormous mainstream appeal. “At Home With Friends” features instrumental and vocal duets with musicians Chris Botti, Sting, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Regina Spektor, Anoushka Shankar, Marvin Hamlisch and Tiempo Libre, among others.
Tickets are $20 to $85 for the Kennedy Center show, which runs Nov. 19 through Nov. 22. Visit www.kennedy-center.org. —Christie Findlay
Make Dumplings With The Masters: Chinese Cooking Class at TenPenh Honors the Terra Cotta Warriors
TenPenh hosts the "Terra Cotta Warriors Cooking Class" on November 21st from 11-1pm with Guest Chef, Susanna Foo, a two-time James Beard Award winner and Mongolian-born daughter of a Chiang Kai-Shek army general. Susanna's winning culinary style of traditional Chinese cooking melded with classical French techniques will be explored through several dishes such as Chicken Kabocha Squash Soup and Wuxi Style Braised Beef Short Ribs. $100 per person.
Contact Jillian Zins at jillian@passionfoodhospitality to register. For more details, visit us at www.tenpenh.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter @tenpenh! |
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An Evening at Bellissima
6:00pm
Join Dr. Drew Varano and Dr. Ravi Dahiya at Bellissima for an event that will answer all of your questions about the newest procedures in plastic surgery with special deals on Botox and Restylane that evening. Dr. Drew Varano has been performing multiple laser and skin care enhancing procedures since 2002. He is a Gold member of Botox Cosmetics. For more information, call 301-215-7525
29th Annual Holiday Concert & Benefit
7:00pm - 11:30pm
Join us for a magnificent evening hosted by His Excellency Pierre Vimont, the Ambassador of France, for a performance by the Choral Arts Society of Washington, a silent auction & reception, followed by dinner and dancing. To order tickets, visit www.ChoralArts.org. |
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