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What about them books?

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Have you noticed the book stores have been closing recently around America? In New York City alone just recently closed two oldest book stores that used to be so beloved in their neighborhoods and among the new yorkers. Why is that, you think? Do you think digital media would eventually replace print? Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlisaKrutovsky on Instagram: http://instagram.com/lisusha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisakrutovsky on Tumblr: http://heelsandbikes.tumblr.com/ Love bicycling as much as I do? Follow my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ilovebik... and Tumblr: http://bikeholic.tumblr.com/ to stay put with the biking culture of NYC! Wanna know what I do when I don't vlog? Check it out: http://alisakrutovsky.com/

My Big Pearl Dream

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Recently I gave my girlfriend this necklace  as a present. I became obsessed with this big pearl necklaces when I saw it in the CHANEL Spring 2014 collection. Now I'm thinking of getting one myself, which I might out of luck to do as it is no longer available online !

Charles James: "Beyond Fashion"

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Last Friday, May 8 / 2014,  The Metropolitan Museum of Art  in New York City opened a new fashion exhibition -  Charles James : Beyond Fashion .   This inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute examines the career of the legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978). The exhibition explores James's design process, focusing on his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today.

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair 2014

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Don't miss this fabulous art fair in New York City - Pulse Contemporary Art Fair . Just one more day left!

Maslenitsa: The Pancake Week the Russian way

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  Get ready for the Pancake Week, or what the Russians call - Maslenitsa. You'll be surprised how many countries have spring greeting holidays and traditions. Those Swedish semla and Lithuanian  spurgos look pretty good to me, but nothing beats the good old Russian crepes with sour cream and red caviar. Click here to read more.

To see or not to see Tbilisi, I Love You? I say - definitely YES!

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New film sequence Tbilisi, I Love You to beloved Cities of Love films: Paris, Je t'aime and New York, I Love You premiers in Georgia February 20, 2014. Click on the link to read my review and to see why I, along with the respected film publications like Variety, think that this film is as good - if not better - as the first film and, definitely, much better than the other sequences:  Tbilisi, I Love You: Georgia does its own take on Cities of Love film sequence

NAIMA: A Buenos Aires brand you should know

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The new addition to my bag collection - a leather tote bag from an Argentinian brand, NAIMA . Let's just say, it is as gorgeous as it looks and it is as roomy as it looks!