Fizzy and fine
This month, Swiss-based Valmont launches several new products in its ever-expanding universe of fragrant, luxurious treatments designed to brighten and lighten you.
Secrets to sauce-y success
Yonkers food expert Marie Rama has found healthy eating and living with her Hudson Green vegan sauces.
Editor’s Letter
With a new year and our 10th anniversary upon us and the virus still raging, we at WAG thought, “Why not go all in and revamp the magazine?” It made perfect sense, for if there ever was a year for a refresh, it’s 2021.
Playing the game of life
Hint: The valley is but preparation for the summit.
Yes she did
Laid off from IBM at age 57, Marjorie Madfis couldn’t find the job she wanted. So she created it instead as founding executive director of Yes She Can, a nonprofit that seeks to empower young autistic women while rehabilitating secondhand American Girl dolls for purchase.
Playing the hand she was dealt
Poker-loving artist Fay Ku bridges East and West in works that also reclaim art history and the female body from the male gaze.
Outstanding, on and off the field
Megan Rapinoe is not afraid to take a knee or stand up for what she believes.
Restoration plays
Kathleen Gilje recreates masterpieces by recasting their female subjects in a heroic, activist light; drawing attention to their circumstances; and reclaiming the female body for themselves, herself and her female viewers.
We’ll drink to that
Here are three classic cocktails with which you can toast becoming “legal.”
Hit me: Blackjack, or Twenty-One
Whether you call it Blackjack (in the United States), Pontoon (in Great Britain) or Vingt-et-Un (on the Continent), Twenty-One is the most widely played casino banking game in the world.
Real estate that ‘razzle dazzles ’em’
A production worthy of Broadway.
Making room for this inn
Opening at the beginning of the lockdown, The Abbey Inn & Spa in Peekskill has made lemonade out of lemons.
Relish, relax, refresh
It’s not often that we write about other publications, but we wanted to give a shout-out to Breathe – a magazine designed to help you exhale and thus recharge in the new year.
Massaging the tide
Vicki Morav and Pietro Simone have each opened spas in Manhattan.
Go Go-ing big for pets
Pets a Go Go offers pooches and their parents a full range of services, from doggy day care and boarding to grooming and training – although that doesn’t really begin to describe the devotion of owner Nicole Goudey-Rigger – a woman who grew up in Bergen County, saving field mice in the basement and nurturing ducks and a gerbil her mother named Frou Frou – and her “Paw Squad.”
Editor’s Letter
The complementary coolness of William and Kate; Dr. Anthony Fauci’s truth-telling; John Oliver’s “feud” with Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton: They’re all part of WAG’s December “Visions of Light,” all about brightening the season indoors, outdoors and within the heart.
Shadow play
The darkness shapes the light in and around us.
Farewell to Lord & Taylor
Stores and the things they carry aren’t merely symbols of our materialistic consumer culture. They’re about identities, relationships and memories.
Designing women
AC Designs Ltd. in Bedford Hills is a go-to place for window treatments and upholstery.
Making the right connections
At connectalent, Runa Knapp and Jasmine Silver seek to match skilled professionals with firms that value what the company calls “a work/life balance.”