Author: Ann Bauer

  • Illegal Parking & Public Ministry

    Maybe this has happened to you. But it was my first time. It was a Monday afternoon, and I’d made a date to meet C., a former colleague, for a drink. I was a little late getting to the restaurant, my head fuzzy from a summer cold. So I pulled into the first parking place…

  • FORECAST:

    The outlook is rosé My father is a Harvard-educated economist and a Jew of the highest moral order, who believes it is what a man leaves behind him on this earth — from offspring to good works — that determines his worth. He’s also wont to say things such as: “I believe that, in his…

  • Wisdom from the Wedge

    On that theory that a rising tide floats all boats (to which I subscribe), I’d like to point you to a new food blog, Eat Local Challenge, which is sponsored by the Wedge Natural Foods Co-op. The point of this new site is to encourage people to get at least 80% of their food from…

  • Hairspray: A Strange Little Ray of Hope

    by Ann Bauer There are hundreds of movies that have informed, moved, touched, piqued, or entertained me, but only a handful that have filled me with unmitigated joy: Bringing Up Baby, an off-the-wall 1938 Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant comedy; Bagdad Cafe, a film from 1988 that got mixed reviews but has one of the most haunting…

  • Pastry princess joins La Belle Vie

    Michelle Gayer-Nicholson made a big splash when she came to town from Chicago — and a stint at world-famous Charlie Trotter’s, where she also co-authored “Charlie Trotter’s Desserts” — to become head chef at Franklin Street Bakery in 2004. It was an odd move which she explained by saying both that she wanted to raise…

  • Phantom sighting

    Like Harry Potter — OK, not quite like Harry Potter — but in the same vein: the release of Bogle Vineyards Phantom is an event which hordes of fans await. We’ve even been known to line up outside stores, credit cards at the ready, and rush in to buy cases of the thick, red, potent…