Advantage Allaster
Tennis delivered Stacey Allaster into a brilliant life. As the USTA’s chief executive, professional tennis, she’s determined to give back in part by mentoring girls and women.
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Rosy outlook
Looking for unusual, fresh blooms and arrangements? Look no further than The Flower Bar in Larchmont.
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Editor’s Letter
“I didn’t go to the moon. I went much further — for time is the longest distance between places.” — Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass…
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Camping it up at The Met
“Camp: Notes on Fashion,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Costume Institute exhibit, has some hot artistic hunks and elegant threads, a provocative idea and plenty of pink. But by pitching too big a tent, the show’s theme eludes it.
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The summer of ’69
With its seasons of bright lights and shadows, the year 1969 offers a not-so-distant mirror in which we find not only nostalgia but hope for our own polarizing, challenging time.
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Still Tom Terrific
Reggie Jackson once said that Tom Seaver pitched with heart. But then we always knew that.
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More than ‘one night in Bangkok’
Thailand is trending. And why not? This is a country in which the impossible can become probable, where a street vendor can have Michelin accreditation, goats do recycling and chickens, like other workers, are on duty, retired or on holiday.
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Natural inspiration
In “Tracing Thin Places,” her new book of poetry, Alice Feeley revisits Block Island as muse and measures the distance between “what’s there and yet to come.”
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Leaps to fame
Though vastly different men, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti were larger than life figures who defined their art forms. Now these irresistible legends are the subjects of new films.
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Fashionably casual
Step into the new Weekend Max Mara boutique in The Westchester in White Plains, hang a left and you’re immediately summering on Nantucket.
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Another take on Italy
For those searching for an off-the-beaten path experience comes Thames & Hudson’s “New Map” series by “Hip Hotels” series author Herbert Ypma.
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Turkish delight: a journey of love & design
East meets West as Ossining-based fashion designer Neil Bieff designs dresses for son Gwyn’s marriage to Turkey’s Ikbal Bozkaya.
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A dog’s best friend
In the long journey that was the life of Doris Day — who died May 13 at age 97 at her home in Carmel…
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The ‘Fascinating Landscapes’ of May WAG
This month we expand our annual flora and gardens issue to consider the landscapes of “Fascinating Botanicals.” Few have been more intriguing than the…
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A paean to the peony
The varied peony has become a protean metaphor, including for healing after violence.
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A botanical paradise unearthed
David Hosack, MD, America’s first botanist and friend to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, has been a footnote in the nation’s history (though he does get a shout-out in “Hamilton.”) Victoria Johnson is looking to change that with her National Book Award finalist “American Eden.”
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Artist of eden
The New York Botanical Garden celebrates the protean creativity of landscaper/artist Roberto Burle Marx.
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Puttin’ down new roots
Bill Ruhrkraut – a man who likes a good garden – takes over as GM at Bloomingdale’s White Plains.
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Bloody relations
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” – which runs through May 19 – has nothing on the Plantagenets, the Rolls-Royce of English royal families.
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Art, naturally
When it comes to nature, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan is all in.
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