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Start by creating a guest list that includes the bride’s closest friends, family members, and anyone she wishes to celebrate with. Keep the gathering intimate to encourage meaningful conversations and connections. Once the guest list is finalized, send out invitations well in advance. Traditional paper invitations or digital ones, like online invites or social media event pages, work equally well. As one of the best restaurants for lunch Astoria has to offer, Chez Olivia is easy to get to, and a perfect place for anyone living in NYC or Long Island! Remember, every bride has a few ex-friends that are no longer invited to the wedding or any of its events – make sure not to invite these people!

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Lots of lists! DAGGER’s favorites of 2019 (and more lists to come)

TIM’S LISTS

MY 20 FAVORITE  RECORDS OF 2019  (in no particular order)

Jeanines- S/t (Slumberland)

Purple Mountains- S/T (Drag City)

Monnone Alone- Summer of the Mosquito (Lost & Lonesome)

Mick Trouble – Here’s the Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response)

Pernice Brothers-   Spread the Feeling (Ashmont)

The Resonars- No Exit (Trouble in Mind)

Rocket 808- S/T (12XU)

Thigh Master- Now For Example (Goner)

Seablite- Grass Stains and Novacaine (Emotional Response)

Ex Hex- It’s Real (Merge)

Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Record Co)

Nots- 3 (Goner)

Rocketship- Thanks To You (Darla)

Dream Syndicate- These Times (Anti)  

The Paranoid Style – A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life (Bar None)

Business of Dreams- Ripe for Anarchy (Slumberland)

The Safes- Winning Combination (Bickerton Records)

The Gotobeds- Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)

The Black Watch- Magic Johnson (ATOM Records)

Comet Gain- Fireraisers Forever!  (Tapete)

  WAIT! HERE’S 20 MORE!

Vivian Girls- Memory (Polyvinyl)

Bob Mould- Sunshine Rock (Merge)

Modern Nature- How To Live (Bella Union)

Robert Forster- Inferno (Tapete’)

David Kilgour- Bobbie’s a Girl  (Merge)

Piroshka- Brickbat (Bella Union)

The Armoires- Zibaldone (Big Stir Records)

Dark Blue- Victory is Rated (12XU)

The Persian Leaps- Electrical Living (Land Ski Records)

Sasha Bell- Love Is Alright (Both Sides Now)

Frankie Cosmos- Close It Quietly (Sub Pop)

USA/Mexico- Matamoros (12XU)

Moving Targets- Wires (Boss Tuneage)

Red Sleeping Beauty- Stockholm (Matinee)

Redd Kross- Beyond the Door (Merge)

The Treasures of Mexico- Everything Sparks Joy (Shelflife)

In Deed- Everest  (Big Stir Records)

The Catenary Wires- Til the Morning (Tapete)

Foxhall Stacks-  The Coming Collapse (Snappy Little Numbers)

The Vandoliers- Forever (Bloodshot)

  WAIT!! EVEN 20 MORE…

Tiny Ruins- Olympic Girls (Bada Bing!)

Bruce Springsteen- Western Stars  (Columbia/ Sony)

Sebadoh- Act Surprised (Dangerbird) 

Le Superhomard- Meadow Lane park (Elefant)

James Clarke Five- Parlour Sounds (The Beautiful Music) 

The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness – Dead Calm (Pretty Olivia)

Tennis Club- Pink (Elefant)

Parsnip- When the Tree Bears Fruit (Trouble in Mind)

The Muffs- No Holiday (Omnivore)

The Kyle Sowashes-  I Don’t Know What To Tell You (Anyway Records)

The Vapour Trails- See You In the Next World (Futureman Records)

Jason Hawk Harris- Love and the Dark  (Bloodshot)

Trip Wire- Once & Always (Big Stir Records)

Lloyd Cole- Guesswork (EAR Music)

Mike Krol- Power Chords (Merge)

Bubblegum Lemonade- Desperately Seeking Sunshine (Matinee)

The Silent Boys- By the Light of the Moon (Bossy Lil Thing Records)

The Pearlfishers- Love and Other Hopeless Things (Marina)

Spray Paint- Into the Country (12XU)

The Ocean Blue-  Kings and Queens/ Knave and Thieves (Korda)

  I also really enjoyed records by……Unhappy Fly, I Was a King, The Hussy, 75 Dollar Bill, Snail Mail, Apex Manor, Mike Gale, Rob Laufer, Richard X, Heyman, Skull Practitioners, Todd Herfindal, Young Guv, New Pornographers, Scott Gagner, The Memory Fades, Mudhoney, The Well Wishers, Golden Pelicans, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Lucille Furs, The Umbrella Puzzles, Westkust , Mondello , Johnny Couch, Weyes Blood, Spearmint, Corridor, Joy Cleaner, Elva, Possible Humans, Blue Jeans,  the BVs, etc .etc.

 COLLECTIONS/ REISSUES

The Springfields- Singles, 1986-1991 (Slumberland)

The Victims- S/T (In the Red)

Dream Syndicate-  The Days of Wine and Roses (Fire)

Stephen Duffy- I Love My Friends (Needle Mythology)

Human Switchboard- Who’s Landing in my Hangar (Fat Possum)

The Dum Dum Boys- Let There Be Noise (In the red)

Soul Asylum- Made to be Broken & While You Were Out  (Omnivore)

Holiday Flyer- The Rainbow Confection & Try Not To Worry (Darla)

Metz- Automat (Sub Pop)

The Toms- The 1970 Sessions (Futureman Records)

SOME LISTS BY DINA HORNREICH

In a not-so comprehensive (mostly desultory) manner I have thrown this list of current zeitgeisty kinds of things that I encountered in one way or another that had various compelling bits, chunks, and other substantial nuggets (if not their complete entirety) of a musical persuasion that provided something engaging, amusing, enlightening, challenging, discordant, or otherwise worthwhile for my freaky mind, body, and soul to chew on in this last year of 2019. There are always tons and tons of things that I missed and/or never got to (but always meant to) so not exhaustive whatsoever. More a reflection of where I’ve been these days and how I’ve gotten here... (and will try to remain, if circumstances allow.)

 Some Recorded Albums:

●     Sneaks: Highway Hypnosis (Merge)

●     The World: Reddish (Microminiature)

●     Sacred Paws: Run Around the Sun (Merge)

●     Trash Kit: Horizon (Upset the Rhythm)

●     A-WA: Bayti Fi Rasi (BMG)

●     Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won’t Hold (Mom + Pop)

●     Ex Hex: It’s Real (Merge)

●     Angel Olsen: All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)

●     Vagabon: s/t (Nonesuch)

●     GRLwood: I Sold My Soul to the Devil When I Was 12 (sonaBLAST!)

●     Girl Friday: Fashion Conman EP (Hardly Art)

●     Tacocat: This Mess is a Place (Sub Pop)

●     Karen O/Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG)

●     Cherry Glazerr: Stuffed and Ready (Secretly Canadian)

●     Habibi: Come My Habibi single (Muddguts)

●     Haim: Hallelujah EP (Columbia)

●     Grimes: “We Appreciate Power”/”Pretty Dark” demo/”4AEM”/”Violence”/”So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth” various pre-album release singles (4AD)

●     Madame Gandhi: Visions EP - Extended Versions (self-released?)

●     Chai: PUNK (Burger)

●     Kero Kero Bonito: Civilisation I single (Polyvinyl)

●     Solange: When I Get Home (Columbia)

●     UT: Conviction reissue (Mute)

 Some Live Performances (mostly in Denver, CO):

●     Hadgaba/Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe (Denver Klezfest 2019 at Mercury Cafe)

●     Jonathan Richman (Swallow Hill)

●     Kristen Hersh (Hi Dive)

●     Ex Hex/Moaning (Bluebird)

●     Sleater-Kinney/Joseph Keckler (Ogden)

●     Angel Olsen/Vagabon (Gothic)

●     Holygram (Oriental)

●     Cellista (Mercury Cafe)

●     The Beths/Girl Friday (Globe)

●     GRLwood (Globe)

●     Tacocat/Paranoyds (Larimer)

●     Short Shorts/Potty Mouth (Lost Lake)

●     Nots (Lost Lake)

●     Spiritualized (Gothic)

●     Breezy Porticos (Chez Hinely)

●     Church Fire/Glitter Vomit (Rhinoceropolis)

●     FemmeFest 2019: Rare Byrds (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver)

●     Love Languages/Teenage Fanclub (Bluebird)

●     Girls Rock Denver Showcase 2019 (Summit Music Hall)

●     Vivien Goldman (in-store at Rough Trade Records NYC)

●     Imperial Teen (in-store at Twist’n Shout Records)

 Some Books:

●     Women Who Rock by Evelyn McDonnell

●     Dayglo: Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell and Zoe Howe

●     Revenge of the She-Punks by Vivien Goldman

●     Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson

●     Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health by Reid Chancellor

●     Liz Phair: Horror Stories (memoir)

●     Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays From Washington DC (and Beyond) 1997-2017 by Antonia Tricarico

●     Girl in a Girl Band by Malia James

 Some Film/TV (if not content relevant entirely, for its soundtrack minimally):

●     Judy (BBC Films)

●     Transparent (Amazon Series, Season 5/Musical Finale)

●     Dolemite is My Name (Netflix Original Film)

●     2 Dope Queens (HBO Season 2, Episode 3)

●     Trinkets (Netflix Series, Season 1)

●     Blinded by the Light (New Line Cinema)

●     Shrill (Hulu Series, Season 1)

●     The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Series, Season 3)

●     Big Mouth (Netflix Series, Season 3)

●     A Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu Series, Season 3)

●     GLOW (Netflix Series, Season 3)

●     Orange is the New Black (Netflix Series, Season 7)

 Some Radio/Podcast Outlets:

●     She’s A Punk (podcast)

●     Indie 102.3 FM (local station formerly Open Air CPR)

●     KGNU 1390 AM (local station)

●     Radio 1190AM KVCU (local station)

 And to go full circle around in the weird miasmic disorientations of blogs/zines, and every tool in between...I could mention the writers at Bust, Bitch, Pitchfork, even… DAGGER. But credit for discoverability also includes the vending platforms of Spotify/Bandcamp/Apple Music/Soundcloud themselves (and their haunted algorithms) as well as musicians’ various social media counterparts (which may or may not include their publicists) on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. (and where does YouTube fit in exactly?) which means the industry will eventually eat itself. Happy New Year, ladies and germs. Who knows what the next decade will bring? Whatever it may be, let it be progress rather than random changes for no apparently good reasons.

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Many don’t know the name of the woman who designed Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress. Many are not aware that she was an African American woman. Anne Cole Lowe was born 1898 in Clayton, AL. She was the great granddaughter of a slave and plantation owner. Ann married in 1912 at 14 years old and when she was 16, her mother passed. Her mother was a designer as well and after she passed Anne completed her projects. Anne enrolled in a fashion school in NYC in 1917 where she was shunned by her white classmates. After graduation opened a salon in Tampa, FL and returned to NY in 1928. After returning to NY she worked on commission for stores such as Chez Sonia. In 1946, Anne designed the dress Olivia de Havilland wore to accept the Academy Award for Best Actress. Even though Anne designed the dress the name on it was Sonia Rosenberg. Her customers also included the DuPonts, Roosevelts, Posts, Biddles, Rockefellers, Auchinclosses, and other families listed in the Social Register. She was known as “society’s best kept secret” because she was a black woman. A ruptured water line flooded her store 10 days before Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding destroying the dress and others made for the occasion. Anne Lowe managed to remake all the dresses before the wedding. Anne Lowe never repeated a design, all of them were original. She worked her later years at Saks Fifth Avenue and was featured in a 1960 advertisement. Anne continued to design through 1960 for Madeline Couture. In 1962, Anne lost an eye to glaucoma and her store to back taxes. Anne woke up the day after her surgery to discover an anonymous benefactor paid all her debts. She briefly operated Anne Lowe originals in Madison Ave in New York. Anne developed cataracts in her other eye, luckily surgery saved the eye. She retired in the ’70s and passed in 1981. The dress Anne Lowe designed for Jacqueline Kennedy is the most photographed wedding dress in history. The dress is housed in the Kennedy Library in Boston and was shown to the world September 12, 1953. #blackfacts #blackpeople

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At Chez Olivia, we pride ourselves on fresh, high-quality food, that tastes amazing! And good food isn’t possible without high-quality ingredients. Working alongside some of the premiere local farmers, butchers, fisheries, and more, allows us to get only the freshest possible local ingredients, faster and more efficiently than anywhere else - for an experience that is truly, farm-to-table!

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At Chez Olivia we strive to provide patrons with an experience they would only find at a local bistro on the streets of Paris! For a unique experience, and an authentic taste, all its own, visit Chez Olivia today. We accept walk-ins as well as reservations, so feel free to contact us or reserve your table online now!  

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Whether its for Sunday brunch, a working lunch with colleagues, or an intimate dinner with your partner, Chez Olivia offers something for everyone. From traditional French favorites like Escargot, Coq au Vin, and Cordon Bleu, to bistro sandwiches, burgers, crepes, and more - our menu is prepared fresh by some of the most experienced French chefs in Queens. We also offer a number of vegan and vegetarian options for patrons as well.

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Boasting an expansive menu of authentic French bistro cuisine, with an American flare, Chez Olivia has already become a favorite amongst locals and even attracted individuals from across the city, looking for an authentic French taste, in a fun, vibrant, yet comfortable atmosphere!

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Boasting an expansive menu of authentic French bistro cuisine, with an American flare, Chez Olivia has already become a favorite amongst locals and even attracted individuals from across the city, looking for an authentic French taste, in a fun, vibrant, yet comfortable atmosphere!

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Whether its for Sunday brunch, a working lunch with colleagues, or an intimate dinner with your partner, Chez Olivia offers something for everyone. From traditional French favorites like Escargot, Coq au Vin, and Cordon Bleu, to bistro sandwiches, burgers, crepes, and more - our menu is prepared fresh by some of the most experienced French chefs in Queens. We also offer a number of vegan and vegetarian options for patrons as well.

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Chez Olivia is the newest establishment under our ownership, to learn more about any of this or any of our other amazing restaurants in NYC be sure to contact us. And to make a reservation, or find a table at Chez Olivia, you can call us at [phone] or visit the Reservation section of our website!

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With Bistro-style cuisine, Chez Olivia and its team are dedicated to bringing a new side of France to NYC. From traditional favorites like crepes, French onion soups, and cafe sandwiches of all kinds, to delicacies like escargot, octopus, and much more! - Chez Olivia offers a menu packed with options that match every New Yorker’s palette, while maintaining its authentic French roots.

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Chez Olivia is one of the newest and most unique eateries in all of Astoria and Long Island. In the heart of one of the most diverse boroughs of New York City, Astoria is known for its blend of many cultures coming together in harmony - and Chez Olivia fits in perfectly! For a unique experience, and an authentic taste, all its own, visit Chez Olivia today. We accept walk-ins as well as reservations, so feel free to contact us at [phone] or reserve your table online now!

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With Bistro-style cuisine, and its team are dedicated to bringing a new side of France to NYC. From traditional favorites like crepes, French onion soups, and cafe sandwiches of all kinds, to delicacies like escargot, octopus, and much more! - Chez Olivia offers a menu packed with options that match every New Yorker’s palette, while maintaining its authentic French root.

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AN AUTHENTIC FRENCH BISTRO With Bistro-style cuisine, Chez Olivia and its team are dedicated to bringing a new side of France to NYC. From traditional favorites like crepes, French onion soups, and cafe sandwiches of all kinds, to delicacies like escargot, octopus, and much more! - Chez Olivia offers a menu packed with options that match every New Yorker’s palette, while maintaining its authentic French roots.

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A bridal brunch is a delightful pre-wedding celebration that allows the bride-to-be to relax, unwind, and bond with her closest friends and family before the big day. It’s a perfect blend of elegance and informality, and when planned thoughtfully, it can be an unforgettable event. One of the biggest details of what goes into the bridal brunch however, is where you decide to have it! Considered one of the best restaurants for brunch Astoria has in practice, Chez Olivia has played host to a number of bridal parties and wedding related events! As one of the best restaurants for French food in NYC, it’s not only got a great menu of brunch or lunch favorites, it’s got the looks, the comfort and the perfect ambience for any bridal brunch in Queens! If you’re thinking about hosting a bridal brunch, here are five key things you should know to make it a success.

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