What the Connoisseur staff is buying, wearing, eating, watching, reading, coveting, craving, fetishizing, and otherwise obsessing over this month…

1. SERENDIPITOUS STAR-STALKING

In town shooting The Fighter, CHRISTIAN BALE's bunking at the InterContinental this month. Hey, what a coincidence! We've been spending a lot of time there, too! Mostly, you know, tiptoeing around the lobby, skulking about on the hotel's newly opened back patio with its lovely—and completely nonthreatening—daffodils and camouflage, er, greenery and—wait, what? Whoa. Calm down, Batman! No, seriously!
Take it easy. We were just on our way out.

InterContinental Boston, 510 Atlantic Ave., Boston, 617-747-1000, intercontinentalboston.com