An itch for Hitch
For Louise Krasniewicz, it’s a small world, after all. The Stamford native is not only an artist, but an anthropologist. And, she says, “If…
A 2020 YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester Visionary Award winner and a 2018 Folio Women in Media Award Winner, Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Burying the Dead,” “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great” and "Seamless Sky" (JMS Books), as well as “The Penalty for Holding,” a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist (JMS Books), and “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group). They’re part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes. Her short story “The Glass Door,” about love in the time of the coronavirus, was recently published by JMS. Read WAG’s serialization of “Seamless Sky” here. For more, visit thegamesmenplay.com.
For Louise Krasniewicz, it’s a small world, after all. The Stamford native is not only an artist, but an anthropologist. And, she says, “If…
Giacomo Puccini’s sumptuous opera “Turandot” — which The Metropolitan Opera is presenting in Franco Zeffirelli’s shimmering production through Jan. 30 — fascinates for many…
Like Frédéric Chopin, Michal Gizinski is a Pole with soul, one who ultimately journeyed to Paris to pursue his art. Only unlike Chopin, Gizinski’s…
It’s fair to assume that Daniel Ksepka wins the “So, what do you do for a living?” game at cocktail parties. He’s a paleontologist,…
In the 1940 movie “His Girl Friday” — Howard Hawks’ uproarious, gender-bending remake of the play “The Front Page” — reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind…
All images courtesy Historic Hudson Valley. In the New York metropolitan area, to work is to be and who you are is what you…
Photographs William Pitt Sotheby’s Realty. POKAHOE AT A GLANCE Sleepy Hollow 5,600-square-foot residence 2.95 acres …
When Loro Piana’s Fall Caravan rolled into Neiman Marcus Westchester, it brought with it the luxe Italian company’s classic, versatile approach to cashmere clothing….
The words “legendary” and “icon” could be applied to Diana Vreeland, but then they would be redundant. As a columnist and editor at Harper’s…
There are few eras in which work — the work of politics and commerce — was more intimately connected with the arts than in…
Teamwork, innovation, skill and individualized care have helped make The Greenwich Medical Skincare and Laser Spa a leader in its field. Recently, Marria Pooya,…
What is compassion and how does it differ from kindness and love? Answering these questions is a Herculean (Her-cue-LEE an) challenge, I tell the…
Lap of Love is a nationwide network of veterinarians who help people care for their beloved pets at the end of life. Recently, WAG…
Richard Hunter was a U.S. Marine intent on making the corps his career when he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited, degenerative eye…
Bob Kreek has had a long, successful career in television. He was senior vice president of film acquisition for HBO in the late 1970s…
At first glance, they look like Abstract Expressionist paintings — all bright colors and bold shapes. But they’re actually more paddock than Pollock. They’re…
All images courtesy Andrea Rosenberg/HIPCHIK. It was a little more than a year ago that WAG’s Mary Shustack brought you a story on…
When you think of Park Avenue plastic surgeons, you think of glamorous doctors and their equally glamorous patients — movie stars and models visiting…
Assouline’s “Visionary Women” ($50, 165 pages) offers readers 20 inspirational tales ripped, as they say, from the headlines — and history. They are as…
In 1988, Frank Cabot — creator of Stonecrop garden in Cold Spring — took a trip to California with his wife, Anne. Already he…