Melting iceberg straight ahead
Does global warming have a PR problem? Humorist Art Buchwald, who taught us all a lot about living until we die (which in his…
EDITOR’S LETTER – MAY 2013
I’m hot – and not necessarily in a good way. Let’s just say that I’ve reached that moment in the prime of womanhood when…
Water music
Karine Laval is, in a sense, haunted by water. The French-born, Brooklyn-based photographer swims, sails and surfs in it. But most important, she photographs…
Uniqlo on a roll
Whenever I’m in mid-town Manhattan, I like to stop by Uniqlo on Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. So I was tickled that the retailer,…
New Rochelle Opera lends us a tenor
Tenor Matthew Polenzani – who headlined The Metropolitan Opera’s gala opening this season, starring with soprano Anna Netrebko in a new production of Donizetti’s…
Connecting the dots
The last time I talked with Baz Luhrmann, he was presenting his take on “La Bohème” on Broadway, and the two of us had…
Ponying up for polo
The Greenwich Polo Club held a press event April 18 to whet the appetite for a May 15 charity match that will feature Prince…
Running to something – help, comfort, courage
In the end, it was still about running, wasn’t it? Running for something – a goal, a cause, a sense of accomplishment. Running from…
In the zeitgeist
The start of Il Palio di Siena, or Il Palio, on Aug. 16, 2006 Here’s a little three degrees of separation for you: Real…
After the storm
The Eileen Fisher LAB store in Irvington’s historic Bridge Street complex – which suffered heavy damage during Hurricane Sandy – has reopened after four…
A different kind of Oscar party
In celebration of 120 years as one of Westchester’s top community hospitals, White Plains Hospital has teamed with Oscar de la Renta for a…
LBD
Many years ago when I had to promo my arts writing, I donned my not-so-little black dress and some pearls, asked the ever-gracious Metropolitan…
Love story
It’s no longer enough to sell fashion, accessories or perfume. Now you have to sell a narrative. Or maybe you always did and the…
Paint it black
“The Borgias” returns to Showtime for its third season April 14 at 10 p.m., and I for one can’t wait, having just caught up…
The (C.) Wonder years
Chris Burch attracts shoppers, Fidelity investments By Georgette Gouveia Maverick entrepreneur Christopher Burch likes to bring out the animal in us, with python-embossed totes…
Making reservations for Easter
We’ll be dining on turkey with all the trimmings chez Georgette this Sunday, but not everyone can or wants to cook dinner at Easter…
Making tracks on prints
Brian Rennie – the former head designer of Escada who is now the creative director of Basler – loves color, texture, life. Not for…
Crouching boy, hidden tiger
The Hitchcockian photographer and Purchase College graduate Gregory Crewdson once observed that every artist has one story to tell and spends his life telling…
The wild one?
Few cultural icons have embodied animal magnetism the way Marlon Brando did. When he blazed across the theatrical sky as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee…
Dog-day reading
In Act 5, scene 1 of “Hamlet,” Hamlet returns to Denmark after narrowly escaping death on the high seas only to discover that his…