Ann Davis-Rowe
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A few months ago, my coolest and most randomly talented friend, Heather (seriously, she does everything and is good at all of it), asked me to be a guest on a new podcast she is cohosting about conversations over music. I said no. I am not that interesting. And it felt hypocritical since I can…
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Earlier this week, I finally joined Bluesky and left Instagram because of Zuck/Meta’s terrible decision making on fact checks and hate speech. So, what better excuse to actually update this blog more often? 🍴: We were to supposed to have not one but TWO weekend dinners out, but Winter Storm Cora had other plans. Luckily,…
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I miss those halcyon days of 2016… when the evil that is the NC GOP passed HB2 and the country revolted against this “bathroom bill”. Musicians cancelled concerts, sports leagues moved tournament games, and it’s estimated this bs move cost the state nearly four billion dollars. And now? Now the NC GOP is stripping rightfully…
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Somehow I ended up with a glut of NetGalley ARCs, and since your response percentage affects the likelihood of getting new ARCs (not that I need them, obviously), I spent last weekend working on catching up. Luckily, I got four super great ones. They’re not available until next spring, but you can still place pre-orders…
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Well, it has been over two months since one of the best shows of my life opened. It feels like yesterday but also like a million years ago already. And it’s gratitude day and I have some books I need to write about so I guess it’s finally time to wordvomit these feels. As mentioned,…
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Me: I really want to only do, like, three shows a year. And none back to back. The universe, for the second time this year: WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY? THREE SHOWS BACK TO BACK? OK! Back in July, Piedmont Opera sent out their regular newsletter mentioning a one-off concert of Broadway music written by women.…
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Flat 493 doesn’t own a guillotine but loves cooking to a theme, so happy Bastille Day, y’all. — French Bistro Salad via the Spruce Eats. Not gonna lie, our (fairly new!) non-stick pan did not heat evenly. It was still fun to attempt fried goat cheese, one of my favorite restaurant treats. The base of…
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On our honeymoon, I took a variety of used paperbacks that I left in the libraries of our hotels and other spaces. Ten years later, I have fully joined the ebook space, thanks to the friends who forced a used Kindle on me a few birthdays back — and finally getting approved for NetGalleys, so…
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12-16 May 2024 Much like how we can’t stay anywhere other than Hotel Oceania in Rome and we can’t not go to Siena, for Florence, it’s all about Fiesole and the Pensione Bencista. Nestled in the hills above the big city, BencistĂ dates to the 14th century and, just before we were there, was even…
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9-12 May 2024 Five hours on a bus later and we’re back in one of our favorite places in the world, Siena. On our honeymoon, Hampton found a wine tour out of Florence that stopped there for dinner and used that as half our transportation to Rome. We loved this quiet, medieval city so much,…
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