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SELLING SEXY (SHH!)

Filipino-bred lingerie designer Josie Natori has become a full-blown lifestyle goddess, with her first ready-to-wear collection, home designs and an intimate collaboration with Target. She talks about why you must refresh those undies, why sexy...
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TRAVELS WITH 'CHARLIE'

Academy Award-winning actor and social activist Jeff Bridges takes a tour of Greyston Foundation services in Yonkers with founder and Zen Master Bernie Glassman. Find out why social enterprises (and a little bit of love) can change the world.
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A STITCH IN TIME

Patience, creativity, artistic appreciation, nimble fingers and the strength to lift 100 to 150 pounds of 100 percent pure, vegetable-dyed wool are just a few of the qualities Samet Durmus of The Golden Horn in Port Chester had to develop in order to...
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PIANO MAN

Music is eternal. Pianos, not so much. That’s where John P. Ford comes in. He is owner and president of Ford Piano Inc. in Peekskill, a fourth-generation business that specializes in rebuilding the popular instruments.
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Features

NET GAINS

Joshua Dines, an orthopedic surgeon who is a physician for the United States Davis Cup team, talks pro-sports injuries – and what the dedicated amateur needs to know.

Dec 27, 2011 by Mary Shustack in INSIDE

David and Capucine Gooding combine an aesthetic sense with a sense of humor in Juliska, their Stamford-based home design company that began with mouth-blown glass. Today, the 10-year-old Juliska, which has grown 25 percent, embraces ceramics, linens

Dec 27, 2011 by Patricia Espinosa in INSIDE

THINK SUMMER IN JANUARY

Richard and Rebecca Comizio transformed a 1960s ranch home on the end of a winding street in Harrison into a showpiece of modern luxuries and amenities where they have raised their family for the past dozen or so years.

Dec 28, 2011 by Mary Shustack in INSIDE

SKY-HIGH ADVENTURE

Nestled high in the Himalayas, Lhasa, the onetime home of the Dalai Lama, has always been the city of elusive dreams, as James Hilton’s haunting novel “Lost Horizon” and the subsequent film versions attest. With the Chinese takeover have come both gr

Dec 28, 2011 by Cappy Devlin in INSIDE

TWIST OF FATE

Chiara Vigo and her farming family survived the 1981 eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna, which also spared their vineyards. Later, she went off to become an art historian. But like the lava flow that turned a few feet short of their property, fate took

Dec 28, 2011 by MD Geoff Kalish in INSIDE

HEY, LIGHTEN UP!

Psychiatry and psychology are complex, ever-changing fields that came of age in the 19th century, a time that also saw the rise in psychoanalysis. Today new approaches to analysis, neuroscience and insurance coverage are helping patients lighten up.

Dec 27, 2011 by Georgette Gouveia in INSIDE

WAG WIT: January 2012

WAGwit wonders: What aspect of your life will you renew this year?

Dec 28, 2011 by Alissa Frey in INSIDE

GOODBYE GLUTEN

Thanks to Novak Djokovic, the gluten-free diet is all the rage. But what is it exactly? Does it work for everyone? And what does it say about our ambivalent relationship with carbohydrates?

Dec 28, 2011 by MD Erika Schwartz in INSIDE