Sunday recos + reads

We love you, Catherine O'Hara.

I am almost never a wait-in-line person, but last night I tried out the most exciting new bar on the east side, Vandell, which required roughly forty minutes of waiting in the California cold (a balmy 65 degrees) and lingering behind the bar until two seats opened up, leaving me briefly crabby and hungry. But then—then, you guys—my friend and I snagged …