A New Look for the New Year, Plus Lasting Impressions of Art Miami
December 8th, 2009 § 1 Comment
Visual Vortex - Turell Pink; HC Berg; Galerie Forsblom; Helsinki, Finland
Sometimes I think I’m the mayor of crazy town over here. I’m sure you’d agree that these days, things fly at you fast. Most of us juggle multiple jobs, not to mention on- and offline methods of socializing. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement, the whirlwind of it all. Damn you, Twitter!
Between tweets and twits and bleeps, I had the good fortune of looking at my blog last night and realizing that in many ways it no longer represents what it has become since I launched it. So I’ve made some changes. Superficially, you’ll probably first notice the new WordPress theme. Content-wise, I’ve eliminated irrelevant sidebar widgets and pages, and revised what escaped the axe. I’ve added new RSS feeds that I visit often for foodie-friendly news and musings. And thanks to fellow food blogger Mango & Lime for attempting to walk me through installing a footer plug-in for my copyright notice… Didn’t quite get that to happen, but I have a side bar alternative to show for the effort!
That brings me to the second half of this post… Now, I know in Miami we’re all Art Basel’d out, but I really enjoyed some of the work on display at this year’s Art Miami show in Midtown and wanted to share a few favorite pieces that have stuck in my mind. One would think it’s a satellite sprung from the main attraction, but no! 2009 marked its 20th anniversary. 2-0. No wonder it was such a strong showing, albeit to this untrained eye. I have artist information for all the pieces if you are interested.
Enjoy the slide show (a format I used often in my early posts,) and best wishes for a happy, healthy, and slower New Year!
New Look
May 19th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
With our local heirlooms now out of season, it was time for a new, fresh look for the site header. Here’s the full version – which I couldn’t figure out how to quite squeeze in the alloted space without cutting off the borders. Oh well!
spring cleaning
March 26th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Dear readers,
I got the itch.
First it was checking out the today-launched Twitter widget for WordPress blogs. Still needing some convincing, I read this New York Times article by tech columnist David Pogue which put me over the fence. I highly recommend reading it if a) you are unsure about what Twitter is or b) you are hesitant to take the plunge. (Twitter also does a swell job of explaining how it comes in handy for managing information and communication tool overload e.g. facebook, email, instant messaging, text messages, myspace, etc.)
Then it was the light bulb that went off about my sidebar, which I could never seem to get looking quite the way I wanted… and realizing that I could let you all see what my favorite sites were featuring in real time via RSS, rather than mysterious links with hidden content not doing anyone any good.
So, Martha Stewart, the domestic diva herself, would be double proud of me, because I am now Tweeting at Ktchntrvwr (she already had a whole show about Twitter weeks ago), and I’ve given my widget sidebar a clean sweep with a fresh list of content feeds. You can even salivate at Canelle et Vanille’s beautiful food photos fed from Flickr. It’s more a reorganization than a major update, but I think you’ll find that it is now much more useful for quickly skimming the latest food news/blog posts from agenda-setting sources (clicking through for a deeper dive when you want…) or for finding a new recipe for dinner one night. I also have included two not food-specific favorites, Daily Candy Miami (for buy, see, do and eat locally) and The Haystack Needle (for design and home stuffs inspiration.) More fun RSS will be loaded on an ongoing basis.
I’ve left the South Florida Dining links intact since those are searchable resources for where to eat and won’t necessarily have regular content updates.
Happy feed exploring and FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER to see what I’m doing (and eating!) It would be an impossible task to post stories on every place I visit where I have a great bite to eat or run across something or someone special, so this should do the trick for sharing those valuable tips in 140 words or less at a moment’s notice.
Tweet you later,
Jackie
