Month: December 2017

How to Give a Luminous Gift This Holiday Season

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

The Dandelion Chandelier Luminary Café is the place to find a series of personal interviews with fascinating people who are stellar achievers in their chosen field of endeavor. Our Luminaries are sharing their origin stories, life philosophies, secret songs, guilty pleasures and hidden talents. It’s guaranteed to be illuminating.  Our 2017 Luminaries are incredible people, and as part of our holiday gifting series, we wanted to give them a big shout-out. If you’re looking for brilliant presents, look no further than this list of experiences, art, food, drink and amazing reads created by this stellar group. In addition, our Luminaries are sharing charitable organizations or causes about which they care deeply that would benefit greatly from your generosity and help radiate more light in the world. For a luminous holiday, you’ve come to right place.

a sparkling and easy recipe for holiday cookies

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

Dandelion Chandelier’s Luxury Dish is an occasional series featuring original recipes and insights from our Luminaries, Fireflies, friends, families, and team of far-flung correspondents. We promise that only delicious food and drink and rollicking stories are allowed at our table. And you know the drill: what happens in the kitchen stays in the kitchen. In this edition, we share an easy recipe for holiday cookies.

Celebrate with Luxury Holiday Gifts Made in New York

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

Live in New York State? Or perhaps you used to? It’s easier than ever to give a holiday gift that is made by New York artisans using local resources and partners who are also neighbors. Our Luminary and former First Lady of New York State Silda Wall Spitzer is sharing her list of over 15 luxury holiday gifts made in New York. It’s the perfect way to give a gift that celebrates the bounty of New York State, and to support a local maker who is bringing talent and hard work to everything they create. If you’re looking for artisanal luxury this holiday season, look no further.

TWIST: This Week in Sports Talk December 10, 2017

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

You don’t love professional sports, but your livelihood and/or personal happiness depends upon your being able to converse intelligently about it. It’s a common dilemma with a simple solution: you need to learn a new language. You need to learn how to talk sports. And we’re here to help! The TWIST is our weekly Dandelion Chandelier guide to what’s happened on the field, on the court and on the ice. Every weekend you’ll find the three (and only three) things you need to know this coming week to speak cogently about professional sports with the boss, the gang at the office, your barber, your barista, your secret crush, or your in-laws. Do the TWIST every week and we promise you’ll know how to talk about sports like a champion. This week’s edition of TWIST: This Week in Sports Talk is dedicated to the G.O.A.T. (that would be Greatest of All Time), tennis player Serena Williams, who announced that she’ll be playing in the upcoming Australian Open; it will be her first tournament as a mom, …