‘Elaine Sir’s blog’ Archives
LA Natives You Ought To Know: A Profile of Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon, with Q&A
LA NATIVES YOU OUGHT TO KNOW - PART III MAURISSA TANCHAROEN WHEDON Maurissa (“Mo”, “Meesa” to her friends) Tancharoen Whedon is a Thai Thumbelina -- miniature, beautiful, adventurous, wise. Heightening the bar for all Renaissance women, Maurissa has achieved more in her thirty-ish years than people do in a lifetime, providing plentiful color to feed a perseverance-showcasing memoir. She holds a tremendous beauty (the kind enabling LA’s ubiquitous handbag/barrette [...]
LA NATIVES YOU OUGHT TO KNOW – PART II – AMANDA RENO
If Amanda Reno attended 'Sweet Valley High' instead of Beverly Vista / Beverly, Jessica Wakefield would have been gawking with green-eyed envy. Reno's the sun-kissed Italian-American Angeleno with permanent residency at Café Med -- a California lady greeting friends and passerbys, always exuding warmth and affection. If you haven’t run into her at the Sunset Plaza locale, lounging in denim and Kain tees, then you know her as the girl sauntering the red carpet -- with Carmen [...]
LA NATIVES YOU OUGHT TO KNOW – PART I – LAURI FIRSTENBERG
LA NATIVES YOU OUGHTA KNOW – PART I LAURI FIRSTENBERG Lauri Firstenberg was born at Cedars and raised in Los Angeles, educated and socialized at Harvard Westlake, U.C. Berkeley – and ultimately Harvard University where she earned her PHD in Art History. She’s one of the most clever, quick-witted, beautiful Angelenos -- exhaling quips and quotes and culturally relevant references like CO2. When I first met her, Lauri was adorned in Costume National -- and articulated [...]
