Hold the gluten
The most surprising thing about Novak Djokovic’s new wellness book, “Serve to Win” (Zinc Ink/Ballantine Books, $25, 161 pages) is just how straightforward it…
A new spot to spin
For WAG’s May “Heating Up” issue, we took a spin at SoulCycle in Greenwich. At the time, we reported that plans were in the…
Back in the swim
When WAG last left Ryan Lochte, whose strenuous dryland workout we followed – OK, attempted to follow – leading up to the 2012 Olympics,…
Rebel with a cause (fine jewelry)
Photographs courtesy of Paige Novick Paige Novick has the perfect pedigree for a career in fashion. Teen years as a sales associate at the…
Punk’d
Have you been Punk’d yet? And by Punk’d, we do mean with a capital “P.” If you haven’t seen “Punk: Chaos to Couture” at…
Breathing space
Is that a smackdown of White Plains in Vanity Fair’s September Style issue or what? In her profile of André Leon Talley, “one of…
Blithe spirit
In a sport that has been marked by the individuality and independent-mindedness of its players – Ilie Nastase, anyone? – few are more idiosyncratic…
Serving aces
Quick quiz: What’s the highest-attended annual sporting event in the world? What’s that you say, the Super Bowl? Or maybe the World Series? It’s…
Curses foiled again!
“Fencing is like classical music,” says Slava Grigoriev, head coach at the Fencing Academy of Westchester. Other types of music may be more popular,…
One with the horse
At the sparkling 2013 Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows, jumper Beezie Madden was honored for her triumph a month earlier at the Rolex…
Fit to ride
Photographs by Bob Rozycki A horse and a rider are like a dance duo, Frank Madden says. “It boils down to the match of…
Zumba or doughnut?
In an article on the history of physical fitness that appears on the University of New Mexico’s website, Lance C. Dalleck and Len Kravitz…
EDITOR’S LETTER – AUGUST 2013
When I was a child, my idea of fitness was lifting a pair of binoculars to ogle the attractive players at Yankee Stadium. I…
The Bard on (tennis) balls
With “The Hollow Crown” – a film series based on Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and Henriad plays (“Henry IV,” parts 1 and 2, “Henry V”)…
Boy George
Please, no jokes about “What’s in a name?” We all know the answer is always “plenty.” A name is an identity, so much so…
Punk’d
It was that great philosophe Hannibal Smith of the hit 1980s TV series “The A-Team” who always said, “I love it when a plan…
Gluten be gone
One day as I was idling at the supermarket checkout counter, I noticed that something had happened to my Rice Chex and Corn Chex….
The devil wears a pleasing face
The controversy over the new Rolling Stone cover featuring Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – some discount drugstore chains are refusing to carry the issue…
Supporting players
Inside every man who’s a great chef beats a heart that yearns for him to be a male model. Just kidding, of course. But…
Time on your hands
A watch is the one piece of jewelry that allows a man to make a statement. Think about it: Not every man wears a…