Three that give
WAG wanted to bring to your attention three stories of organizations – two of which we’ve regularly featured; one new to us – that are giving back to the world in novel ways.
Neiman Marcus: gifts that give back
Neiman Marcus is the gift that keeps giving. Not only is the luxe retailer out with its Christmas Book, complete with new fantasy items, but its The Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation has pledged to support The Boys & Girls Club of America youth arts programs, which serve 4.3 million children through 4,300 clubs nationwide.
No butts about it
EMSCULPT uses high intensity, focused electromagnetic technology to increase muscle mass, thereby sculpting the tummy and lifting the butt.
Reveling in sibling rivalry
Siblings are our most enduring relationships – longer than that of parent and child or spouses – and more complex than friends, because they assume a friendship, bound by blood.
Out of their sisters’ shadow
The sisterly relationships of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill and Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret had more in common than you might think, as two new, to-be-devoured-like-a-box-of-chocolates books illuminate.
Sister acts
While the world of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion has in some ways contracted, the sisters’ sense of community and mission of service, always the core of the order, has continued and strengthened.
The sun god’s journey to the moon
An awe-inspiring new book by teNeues Publishing on the Apollo space program – timed to anticipate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing next summer – also offers a reminder of the classical, familial origins of the program’s name.
Older sibs are smarter – still
Older children tend to have higher IQs than their younger brothers and sisters — anywhere from one to three points. It’s a small difference but a significant one, scientists say, one that can mean the difference between a good and a great school, a good and a great career.
Two for the (artistic) road
Over the summer, we caught up with artists Chris DeRubeis and David Najar – or rather, their work – during a presentation at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester by Park West Gallery, which presents art exhibits and sales in hotels and on cruise ships around the world.
Everyone loves Kobi
It’s time to dress up again, says Kobi Halperin, who was at Bloomingdale’s White Plains to show you how to do it.
A charmer on the Hudson
When we first met Andy Todd – president of the Greystone on Hudson luxury residential development in Tarrytown – in the late fall of 2016, he toured us around the more than 100-acre site, which opens onto pastoral Taxter Ridge Preserve. Among the houses he had in the works at that time was a charming Dutch Colonial Revival manse – with the characteristic gambrel roof and curved eaves; a turret; and a wrap-around porch – all of which made it at once cozy and commanding.
The remains of James Ivory’s days
At 89 and fresh off an Oscar win, director James Ivory of Merchant Ivory fame remains true to his credo – “follow your instincts and make films about things that interest you.”
The twisting tale of ‘Turandot’
“Turandot” (1926) – Giacomo Puccini’s last opera – offers what Copland House director Michael Boriskin calls “the fascinating question of legacy.”
A ‘symphony’ in photographs
In “American Moments” at Purchase College’s Neuberger Museum of Art, photographer John Shearer looks back at the turbulent 1960s.
Book ’em
A Scarsdale couple buck the tide against – or is it ride the wave of? – independent bookstores.
Darling Donovan
Shy but sweet, loyal and handsome. That’s 8-year-old Pomeranian Donovan.
Writing her next chapter
Novelist Elin Hilderbrand was living an idyllic life on Nantucket when she was blindsided four years ago by breast cancer. She tells her story of survival and hope next month at the “More Than Pink” Luncheon in Darien.
Art’s ‘edge effect’
Michael Gitlitz’s career in the New York art world brought him full circle to his home and the neighboring Katonah Museum of Art.
Enter the (blue) dragon
Two years ago, Didier Guillon, president and artistic director of Valmont Group, launched the Dragon Trilogy in tribute to wife Sophie, Valmont Group’s fiery CEO, who was born in the year of the dragon.
A river runs through her
Maya Lin – the environmental artist who is perhaps best-known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – takes on the multifaceted Hudson in a new show at the Hudson River Museum.