Muscle up for for mind as well as body
by“Healthy body, healthy mind” is a maxim just about everyone has heard. But perhaps it should be “Healthy muscles, healthy body, healthy brain,” writes neurosurgeon Ezriel Kornel.
August 2018
Sporting Inspirations
Obsessed with olive oil
byCurtis Cord, the founder and publisher of Olive Oil Times, an online publication, has a three-fold mission – to provide news about all things olive oil, to educate its readers about its life-enhancing benefits and to rate the best specimens during its annual worldwide competition, now in its sixth year.
Hats off to Bill
byFamed fashion photographer Bill Cunningham was as noted for his candid shots as for the trusty bike that he rode to capture his subjects. His groundbreaking street photography (and his lifetime of work) is now being honored through an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library. Of course, his bike is on display.
Oprah’s cruising – and you’re invited
byOprah lovers can experience the transformational power of travel on Oprah-themed cruises on Holland America Line.
Wondrous woodwork amid stately splendor
byThis house on Pecksland Road gives fresh, stately meaning to the phrase “coming out of the woodwork.”
A taste of Mexico in WAG country
by“It’s Playa del Carmen meets New York City in the 914.”
Tall in the saddle
byValhalla native Mike Offner realizes his dream as he rescues and renovates The Pine Ridge Dude Ranch.
Peerless Parzinger
byThe elegant designs of Tommi Parzinger are a familiar sight in Jennifer Pitman’s travels to the homes of Westchester and Fairfield county clients.
Ah, the spa
byTaking one for the team, Barbara Barton Sloane visits three top hotel spas in Manhattan.
Sleeping with Ted Baker
byWe love Ted Baker’s clothes and accessories. So we were more than ready to fall into its new line of bedding.
‘High society’ indeed
bySummering in Newport was hardly child’s play in the socially conscious Gilded Age. Not so today when the resort is an intoxicating mix of activities and chilling.
A sporting paradise – and more
byA 13-acre equestrian paradise on the Ridgefield/South Salem border not only caters to those with a love of horses but also those with a love of gracious living, all centered around a meticulously updated 1937 farmhouse.
These magic moments…
byVintage treasures from the likes of Harry Houdini are celebrated in “Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection” at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library in Manhattan.
‘Big kids’ get messy in the name of charity
byThe New York Yankees got down and dirty in White Plains recently to help the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation combat childhood cancers.
Glorious Gloria
bySomehow we can’t help but think of Laura Branigan’s powerful cover of the song “Gloria” when we see this smiling 6-year-old pooch, who shares that name.
Family court
byThe Yonkers Tennis Center brings out ‘the eye of the tiger’ in WAG’s Jena Butterfield.
‘Open’ season
byFew have been better positioned to observe the milestones of tennis in the Open Era than longtime Katonah-based journalist Steve Flink, author of the indispensable “The Greatest Tennis Matches of All Time” (New Chapter Press) and a 2017 inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Only as good as your rival
byMany of the great sports anniversaries being celebrated this summer are the anniversaries of great rivalries