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Get to know the Patti Cake$ star

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Comedic dynamo (and Amy Schumer squad member ) Bridget Everett has made her name as the go-to gal for raunchy laughs. Anyone who’s seen footage of her live performances — or her recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon   — knows that she is, quite simply, a force. An Amazonian beauty with a powerhouse set of pipes and a penchant for chardonnay, the woman known as the Cabaret Hurricane runs around the room motorboating and mounting audience members , whether they like it or not. (They usually like it.) The word confident might spring to mind, though it feels like a little sissy of an adjective given the off-the- wall artistic cataclysm that is a Bridget Everett show .  But when it came to playing the hard-living, not-always- nice Barb Dombrowski in the drama Patti Cake$ — about a young woman trying to escape her dead-end New Jersey town by becoming a rap star — Everett felt wobbly. We caught up with her on a rare day off. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I spoke to [ Patti ...

Great Places to Eat in Savannah, Georgia

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and our vacation rental Shares 7.9K Savannah, Georgia is definitely the place for incredible Southern food . This is a list of great places to eat in Savannah. Fried green tomatoes , fried chicken, cinnamon rolls, ice cream and more! fried green tomatoes to ice cream and desserts you don’t want to miss! at TidyMom.net" width="650" height="1167" /> A few weeks ago, my daughters and I spent 5 days in Savannah, Georgia, for our annual girls trip .  We had so much fun checking out this beautiful city! (If you follow me on Snapchat and Instagram you might have gotten a peek and what all we did!) Savannah and the area around it has SO much to offer. We went nonstop all day each day and never ran out of fun things to do, see, and eat! Savannah was just so beautiful, now I want to move there.  Today I’m going to share our favorite places to eat, we probably ate our weight in Southern food with all the Great Places to Eat in Savannah. I also can’t wait to show you ...

Linda & Giuseppe

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Anybody else want to whip bride Linda ’s pink peony flower crown off her head and try it on? It’s a masterpiece isn’t it, and beautifully finishes off her bohemian bridal look. Her Rime Arodaky gown is perfect for the surrounding Tuscan countryside too with it’s cut out lace detail and heavenly long sleeves . A true beauty amongst nature. And keeping with the relaxed, stylish, country vibes of this destination wedding was the fairy light reception and table scape decorated with a garland of O’Hara roses that is just out of this world. Plus a party to rival all parties with an Italian swing-folk band. All the emotion, magic and that delicious pink peony flower crown was captured by Due su Due Photography . Enjoy lovely ones. Wedding Linda The Bride: When we decided to get married, Giuseppe and I had already been together for 6 years. Together, we had travelled to many countries, furnished three apartments, and moved from Italy to the Netherlands for work. We already felt committe...

The Biggest Restaurant Cookbooks of Fall 2017

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The best restaurant cookbooks are like time capsules, preserving a moment, a feeling. That’s what this year’s stack of restaurant- focused books achieves — with variable levels of success. Don’t miss chef Wylie Dufresne ’s look back at wd~50 or the new two-volume set from NYC’s highly lauded experiential dining room Eleven Madison Park . Casual restaurants, from the Publican in Chicago to Juhu Beach Club in Oakland, also got the book treatment this year. Each collection stands alone as a testament to the hard work of a team pushing for one pristine goal. Cheers to the Publican: Recipes and Ramblings from an American Beer Hall Paul Kahan, Cosmo Goss, Rachel Holtzman Lorena Jones Books, September 19 Starting with the first time I ate at there, shortly after its opening in 2008, the Publican has been my favorite restaurant. It was an instantaneous love — the room, the food, a swirling feeling of commensality and broad-shouldered abundance. So for me, the promise of this book, Cheers t...