Well, I'm going back to work, albeit not (unless I'm feeling particularly antic in the morning) in my Maidenform; the Powers That...

...And The Mister, the dog, and I are weathering the storm rather nicely. For once the Experts Meteorological if anything underestimated ...

So one thing I've been thinking about as I come back to this curious form of public writing is the question of truthtelling. With ret...

Well, to steal a phrase from Miss Deven Green , hello there.

This is how it's done.

M is for...  first appeared on May 10, 2009 and has become my Mother's Day tradition. Once, again, Happy Mother's Day, Mother Musc...

Our very dear TJB has reminded me that today is Dusty's birthday. Here puts a wistful, almost anesthetized, and very, very effective ...

Carissimi, the Café is going on a little break.

...And the award for Most Enchanting New Products goes to...

I came upon this arresting image at some point this week, and I can't get it out of my mind. Somehow, it explains Joan Crawford to m...

The fabulous Miss Dina Martina gives us her... unique... perspective on this most invented of all long weekends..

From all of us here at the Café (that is to say, the Yorkie, the Mister, and me), it's once again my pleasure to wish each and every...

Well, it's deepest gray and pouring rain here in Our Nation's Capital, and I have to admit that my seasonal funk continues. If an...

As part of my ongoing cheer-up efforts - and in recognition of her 118th birthday - herewith a half-hour with Miss Mabel Mercer.

It's hard to not to feel at least a little more cheerful in the presence of the divine Josephine, I find. Isn't she just too too...

So, O Best Beloveds, I won't lie to you: la vie is rather bleak chez nous at the moment. I'm in a slough.

So 2018 has gotten off to rather a pesky start, chez nous ...

Insofar as a force of nature can have a birthday, Dame Shirley Bassey is doing so even as we speak - 81 going on eternal.

Just look at the red cheeks on that bellboy...

Another one, already. Where, as the song says, has the time all gone to?