Tag Archives: Editor’s Picks

This Isn’t a Hotel, Luv: Handling Friends Who Overstay Their Welcome

By | Posted on June 26th, 2012

When a friend’s cute baby vandalizes your cute outfit with its bodily fluids, you calculate, guiltily, the point at which you can hand it back without offending anyone. Similarly, when you move to another country and your friends ...

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How to Handle your American Landlord

By | Posted on June 19th, 2012

In the interest of full disclosure I should probably tell you that my current landlord is one of the good ones. A+++. I’d recommend him to a friend.

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Adventures in Laundry: How to Do Your Washing in Urban America

By | Posted on June 14th, 2012

Whenever I arrive home, there’s this stink. But only now, seven months after moving to Brooklyn, have I worked out what it is. Or rather, what it isn’t: laundry.

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Where Are You Watching Euro Cup 2012? L.A.-Based Brit Weighs In

By | Posted on June 11th, 2012

With the Jubilee just over and the Olympics on the horizon, you’d think that L.A.

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The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: The View From America

By | Posted on June 7th, 2012

What did this Brooklyn-based expat do for the Diamond Jubilee? Went to Ikea and bought a shelf, since you ask.

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Photos: How Brits in Los Angeles, New York Celebrated the Jubilee

By | Posted on June 5th, 2012
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How to Celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee in New York

By | Posted on May 31st, 2012

NYC-based Brits may not get a four-day weekend but you can still sate your inner royalist by heading to a host of Queen-themed parties and events taking place up and down this splendid city, starting Saturday, June 2.

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How to Celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee in Los Angeles

By | Posted on May 29th, 2012

In the city of movie stars and swimming pools, it’s probably true to say that Queen Elizabeth II‘s 60th Jubilee celebration isn’t big news. Everyone likes to hear about Will and Kate of course, but on the whole it’s the ...

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How to Build a Credit Rating in the U.S. – One Option

By | Posted on May 24th, 2012

Gone are the days when you could ask the landlord to put it on the slate or tell the restaurant manager that you’ll pay the next time you’re in. That kind of trust takes years to build up anywhere, and right now you’re just ...

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WATCH: April Bloomfield Shows Us How to Prepare Lamb Chops with Chimichurri

By | Posted on May 22nd, 2012

In the third part of Anglophenia’s series profiling British chefs in New York – see our previous installments with Nobu’s Matt Hoyle and Chip Shop’s Chris Sell – culinary rock star April Bloomfield shows us ...

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