Upper East Side Stocking Stuffers
By Megan Finnegan Bungeroth & Aspen Matis
From cowboy boots to tea grown in a volcano, you won’t have to travel far to find that special holiday gift for a loved one. Read more
Gift Guide 2010
$10 and Under
Christmas with the Puppini Sisters
$10.99 at Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St. (betw. Broadway & Park Ave.), 212-253-0810
We can’t decide if the Puppini Sisters are sultry goddesses of music sent to save us from a season of hellishly dreary hymns. This trio has reworked dusty old carols into playful, jazzy exercises of honest-to-goodness holiday cheer. Lone original composition “Step Into Christmas” could force a smile on any Scrooge’s face, even if he was being suffocated by a crush of last-minute shoppers. This is one pop-jazz holiday record actually worth a listen. Read more
’Tis the Season to Be Frugal
“All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” If only that were atop the wish list of those with whom you usually exchange holiday gifts. Read more
GIFT GUIDE!: 12 DAYS OF SHOPPING
What will your true love say you gave him or her this holiday?
Calling birds, French hens, turtle doves? Stop it. And has anyone ever really needed a partridge in a pear tree?
With 12 days of Christmas and eight nights of Hanukkah but not a lot of days left to shop, here are some ideas you may not have thought of, from some Upper East Side stores you may not usually patronize.
1. I’m a hat girl myself, and if you’re buying for one who, like me, wants to look chic as she braves the cold, check out Inca’s dazzling metallic newsboy cap. With all the shimmer of golden eggs from six geese, the muted gold (or pewter) caps are 100 percent cotton on the outside, but lined with toasty warm felt. Read more
