All7s Blog | Card Game Strategies & Canasta Tips for Adults

Frida Kahlo and Canasta may not have a neat, documented story together. I could not find a reliable source saying she played Canasta at Casa Azul. But Frida's home in Coyoacán has exactly the kind of lesson a good card table teaches. A house becomes different when people kn...

There is something unexpectedly moving about the image of Queen Elizabeth II sitting with a pack of cards. Not at a state dinner. Not waving from a balcony. Not in one of the heavily choreographed moments that filled so much of her public life. Instead, in a quieter ...

There was a time when Sunday dinner was one of the most dependable parts of the week. It was not fancy in every home, and it did not need to be. What mattered was that people knew where they were going. Around one table, at roughly the same time, family and friends gathered...

Sophia Loren could have eaten anywhere on earth. And for a while, she did. Cannes, Rome, Beverly Hills. But what Canasta players and card-night regulars already know, Sophia Loren figured out decades ago: the best table is the one in your own home, surrounded by people you ...

If you grew up watching I Love Lucy, you probably remember the card table. It showed up in over 30 episodes across all six seasons. Lucy and Ethel playing canasta across the hall with the Mertzes. The four of them setting up for bridge that somehow never happened bec...

Betty White lived to 99. Most people remember her as Rose from The Golden Girls or the surprise comeback star of SNL at 88. But the part of her life that mattered most happened off camera, around a card table. Read more

Eva Gabor was famous for a lot of things. Green Acres. That accent. The diamonds. The husbands. But here is something most people never talk about. Eva played Canasta. A lot. The Hollywood Canasta Craze Read more

Julia Child didn't become famous because she loved food. She became famous because she invited people into her kitchen. What her dinner parties teach us about building a weekly gathering after fifty.