You'll find this latest outpost of the Seoul-based franchise brand at 5514 Walnut Street in Shadyside, where Williams-Sonoma once stood. No coffeemakers, but cofffee and "French-inspired" pastries from this number one bakery in South Korea.
Last Sunday, two days after the official start of spring, some of us had started seedlings indoors and others were dreaming of gardens to come. It's too late for winter sowing, but plenty of seeds can still be cultivated indoors. Beth is our local expert. If she's unavailable, several online sources also provide information about what can be started indoors in April. Soil to Soul, based in Canada, had lots of advice.
If indoor plants are your preference, an impressive collection can be found at Urban Jungle on Braddock Avenue in Regent Square.
Do we all have Libby? All of this week's reading recommendations can be found on this site, in audio or digital versions:
Patrick O'Brian's 23 sea novels, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy.
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, historical fiction set in 1930s Kentucky by Kim Michele Richardson.
An Ezra Klein podcast on the rec list, also available on youtube: Naomi Klein on Trumpism and our Age of "Unlikely Bedfellows".
Are the best things in life free?
A one-month Peloton membership is.
So is our RG, in good and hard times.
And because those among us recalled the the pleasure and relief of meeting up during the Covid era, from the archive:
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