
The old rec room needn’t be a wrecked room
“No one space can be all things to all people, but with home design, as with all other things, coming to the process with care yields the most rewarding results,” writes WAG Wares columnist Jane Morgan.
“No one space can be all things to all people, but with home design, as with all other things, coming to the process with care yields the most rewarding results,” writes WAG Wares columnist Jane Morgan.
The new Louis Armstrong Stadium gets ready for its closeup when the US Open begins Aug. 27.
At the Delamar, the staff treats all the guests as if it’s their wedding day.
“In the Still of the Nite” is celebrated as one of the seminal achievements in the evolution of popular music.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Pound Ridge Golf Club combines the tony setting of a private course with the accessibility of the public course it is.
Austria to meet Mexico in Germany. And no, this isn’t some undercard event for World Cup football. It is the birth of an exceptional tasting experience of a super premium boutique tequila.
Nestled in Hastings-on-Hudson amid a number of towering, new luxury apartment buildings sits the historic Palisade Boat Club.
An end-of-the-week-only approach to exercise and sports may be healthy after all, provided the “weekend warrior” prepares properly, doesn’t overdo it and uses the right equipment.
WAG’s editor in chief learns a few new tricks of the skincare and makeup trades during an afternoon of beauty at The Saks Shops at Greenwich.
Through firsthand accounts, rarely seen photographs and documents from the archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, authors Margaret Reed of Wilton and Joan Lownds present a fascinating look at life with the Kennedys and their canine companions in the new book “The Dogs of Camelot, Stories of the Kennedy Canines.”
The Adequan/FEI North American Youth Championships presented by Gotham North (NAYC) – formerly the FEI North American Children’s, Junior and Young Rider Championships – will be held in part for the first time at Old Salem Farm.
“It’s not just a physical thing. It’s also mental,” says Brett Bonnist, a yoga and meditation instructor with Kaia Yoga in Fairfield County who’ll be leading a meditation workshop Aug. 4 and 5 at the Heart Health Weekend at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel in Harrison.
For pro golfer Mike Miller, who qualified for the recent U.S. Open Championship, there’s a golden hour on the course.
There is a small but ever-growing segment of the population adding naturopathic doctors and regimens to their health care teams. Recently, Gina Gouveia spoke with Carine Bonnist, N.D., a member of the four-person medical team at Shalva Clinic, a Westport-based naturopathic medicine practice, to get up to speed on this trend and learn more about what led her to choose this field, one that is scientifically based and administered by doctors who receive medical degrees.
WAG’s listing of local happenings and events in the month of August.
At Putnam County Golf Course, you can head to the links or stay for dinner and a show, thanks to Homestyle Caterers.
“You don’t necessarily have to live to exercise. But you probably need to exercise to live,” writes Giovanni Roselli.
Cardiologist Sanjay Gupta is not your average physician but more of a philosopher-physician.
For tomorrow’s sports broadcasters who want to be the next Jim McKay – or the next Sean McManus, for that matter – the executive recommends persistence and perseverance. “Knock on every door that you can,” he says. “When the first opportunity comes along, take it. It’s a very difficult industry to get into.”
Jason Kohn’s documentary, “Love Means Zero,” centers on the impervious tennis coach Nick Bollettieri and his complex relationship with his most famous pupil, Andre Agassi.
“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.
Famed 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.
Curtis 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.
Oprah lovers can experience the transformational power of travel on Oprah-themed cruises on Holland America Line.
This house on Pecksland Road gives fresh, stately meaning to the phrase “coming out of the woodwork.”
“It’s Playa del Carmen meets New York City in the 914.”
Valhalla native Mike Offner realizes his dream as he rescues and renovates The Pine Ridge Dude Ranch.
The elegant designs of Tommi Parzinger are a familiar sight in Jennifer Pitman’s travels to the homes of Westchester and Fairfield county clients.
Taking one for the team, Barbara Barton Sloane visits three top hotel spas in Manhattan.
We love Ted Baker’s clothes and accessories. So we were more than ready to fall into its new line of bedding.
Summering 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 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.
Vintage 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.
The New York Yankees got down and dirty in White Plains recently to help the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation combat childhood cancers.
Somehow 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.
The Yonkers Tennis Center brings out ‘the eye of the tiger’ in WAG’s Jena Butterfield.
Few 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.
Many of the great sports anniversaries being celebrated this summer are the anniversaries of great rivalries