Laura

Laura
Cultural Startup Artist, Pet Guardian, Urban Commando, Legal Wizard, Designer, Equestrian, Philosophy Junkie, Italo-centric, Foodie, Lover of Words

Name: Laura L.M. Hill

Born: New York Hospital

Homes Since Birth: 60th between Park & Lex, 65th & Park, 71st & Park, 72nd & Third, 9th & 5th, 81st & York, Newtown Avenue, Astoria, 100th & 1st Ave

Passionate About: art, animals, philosophy, style, cooking, color

Favorite Color: green

3 most loved things about NYC:  1. anonymity 2. pace 3. abundance

3 most hated things about NYC:  1. cost of life 2. distance from my horse 3. its not in Italy

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Recent Stories by this NY Native

Saturday: Sex - Fifty Shades of Strangeness
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 08:52
Ann Desclos, Barnes & Noble, bdsm, Book Signing, D.H. Lawrence, E.L. James, E.L. James Book Signing, Erotic Literature, erotica, Fanny Hill, Feminism, Fifty Shades of Grey, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Grove Press, Handcuffs, Histoire d'O, History of O, John Cleland, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Naked Lunch, Newsweek, Pauline Reage, Philosophie Dans Le Boudoir, Philosophy in the Bedroom, Porn, Sade, Sapho, Sex, Sexuality, Soft Core Porn, surrender, UK, William S. Burroughs
Sunday: Style - Adam Yauch, 1964 - 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 09:01
A Clockwork Orange, Adam Yauch, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Brooklyn, CBGBs, Cro-Mags, Dechen Wangdu, Hardcore, Harley Flanagan, Hip Hop, Indie Music, Irving PLaza, License to Ill, MCA, Murphy's Law, New York Hardcore, NY Hardcore, NYC, Punk, Rap, reggae, ska, Street Music, The Ritz, Urban Sound, Warzone
Saturday: Sex - Auditeurism, or, the Auditory Voyeur
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 10:01
Bose, CIA, Culinary Institute of America, Eavesdropping, erotica, exhibitionists, Gorilla Cafe, Intimate Details, Listening In, Metro North, Personal Space, Porn, selective hearing, Sex, Sex Lives, Voyeurism, Voyeurs
Saturday: Sex - Spanking, Feminism's Dirty Little Secret?
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 09:44
Fantasy, Feminism, Fifty Shades of Grey, Freud, Girls, Gloria Steinem, HBO, Katie Roiphe, Neo-Con, Newsweek, poly-morphously perverse, Polyperverse, Powerful Women, sadomasochism, sexual behavior, Sexual Fantasy, Sheila Nevins, Spanking, The Fantasy Life of Working Women, Working Women
Thursday: Thankfulness - The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 10:39
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Camilla Webster, Carol Pepper, Doris Buffett, family planning, Finance, Financial Planning, Lauren Bush Lauren, Pepper International, Sheconemy, small business, The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom, The Wall Street Journal, Wealth Management, Women, Women and Power, Women and Wealth, women entrepreneurs, Women Investing, WSJ

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NY Native Quickies

Jazz Foundation of America's Great Night in Harlem 2012

Jazz Foundation of America's Great Night in Harlem 2012
Fri, May 18th:

Can I just say: WOW! 

It was my first time to the legendary Apollo Theater, it was the night the world said goodbye to the extraordinary Donna Summer and I had the privilege of a Press Pass to this incredible event benefiting the...

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Truck Nuts in the Tri-State!

Truck Nuts in the Tri-State!
Tue, May 8th:

I always thought that part of the "social contract" for folks in the tri-state area was that we paid more for everything from taxes to groceries but in exchange we got to avoid some of the socio-cultural...

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Bet You Wish You had a Terrace!

Bet You Wish You had a Terrace!
Mon, May 7th:

Ok- that is a mean title to this little musing about how lucky I am to have a fabulous outdoor space in NYC. It wasn't always so. I once lived in Gotham senza terazzo... but no longer. After a brief schooling stint upstate we realized that...

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AMAZING Baked Donuts ... for real

AMAZING Baked Donuts ... for real
Fri, Apr 20th:

I love food and I try to keep it healthy as much as possible. Well, ok I don't keep it healthy all the time. As I sit here writing this piece, I have a Reese's Piece's and Hersey bar sitting on my book shelf... And I had a brownie after I...

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Tax Refund or Tax Audit - Wait it Out at the Loews Regency!

Tax Refund or Tax Audit - Wait it Out at the Loews Regency!
Mon, Apr 16th:

What do we have, if we do not have humor?

Levity is certainly my "go-to" in times of panic and disaster. At this time of year while most of us are sitting on pins and needles awaiting our fate from the tax gods, the oh-so-witty...

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Street Art LIVE in NYC

Street Art LIVE in NYC
Fri, Apr 13th:

Two cool things on the way to my house. I just have to share.

First, as usual, I always love passing (and making eye contact with) the performance artist - ...

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Gracious Home Never Says NO!

Gracious Home Never Says NO!
Fri, Mar 30th:

During the course of my life I have been shopping, browsing and being pushed in a stroller though Gracious Home. Anything and everything you could ever want for your home is in the endless aisles of...

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