Roll over, Beethoven
Ludwig van B. is having a moment, again, still.
Georgette Gouveia
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.
The other Tiffany
As we mentioned in our September WAG feature on Tiffany & Co., glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany was the son of Tiffany founder Charles Louis…
Uniqlo-thing
In the eye candy-land that is Fifth Avenue in the 50s, the line of tourists and young things snakes around Abercrombie & Fitch like…
Now playing for New York…
With apologies to fans of the New York Knicks and Rangers and those of the ’ets (Mets, Jets and Brooklyn Nets), no team has defined and in turn been defined by New York the way the Yankees have.
Soaring to new heights
Perhaps nothing crystallizes New York’s capacity for reinvention and transcendence the way One World Trade Center does. Already an icon, it makes its official debut late next year.
Noo Yawk
New York, N.Y. – Gotham, the Big Apple, the City That Never Sleeps.
And it never has, not even on its darkest day.
Other cities may be more exotic (Istanbul, New Orleans), more beautiful and romantic (Paris, San Francisco), more historically significant (Jerusalem, Rome, London). But few cities have New York’s gift for embracing the gritty and the glamorous, its terrifying, wondrous capacity for reinvention.
Lucky Thirteen
To understand Neal Shapiro, president and CEO of WNET, you need to know that he really enjoys doing the promos for “Reel 13” – the Saturday night film series – in which bits of dialogue from the upcoming film are woven into his pitch. And his favorite film of all time? “Casablanca.” “It’s a great story about love versus noble sacrifice.” It’s that spirit of sacrifice and public service that fuels Shapiro’s passion for WNET – the parent company of Thirteen, PBS’ flagship station, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
EDITORS LETTER: October 2012
As I wrote last year at this time, autumn is New York’s best season and October its best month. So it gives us great joy to present an issue devoted to what is perhaps the ultimate cosmopolis and the people who make the daily commute from the ’burbs to the boroughs and back again.
Latin loving
Was it the influence of muy macho, muy caliente Argentine polo player – and Ralph Lauren Polo spokesmodel – Nacho Figueras? Or is that just our fevered imaginings? Perhaps the latter, but there’s no doubt that there was a definite Latino flavor to the Spring 2013 Collection that Westchester’s own Ralph Lauren unveiled during New York Fashion Week.
On the tube
If you haven’t seen “Homeland,” the addictive-as-potato-chips spy series that returns to Showtime Sept. 30, you really must and you can begin with the first season, now on DVD. Damian Lewis – so brilliant as the hero of HBO’s “Band of Brothers” and the sympathetic antiheroes in PBS’ “The Forsyte Saga” and NBC’s late
Atlas shrugged
So the October issue of Vogue is about to hit the newsstands (Sept. 25) and already there’s been a hue and cry about Annie Leibovitz’s pix of a shirtless Tim Tebow rolling a huge tire through a rocky landscape. It’s an image that conjures Greek myths (Atlas, Sisyphus), Surrealism and homoerotic muscle mags.
In the kitchen
The place to be on a Saturday night? Well, that must be Savona, the new contemporary Italian restaurant in Scarsdale. We sampled an excellent antipasto of grilled eggplant and portobello mushrooms, chickpea salad, roasted peppers and cauliflower; oh-so-tender veal Milanese; torchio with prosciutto, Jersey corn and robiolina; and the creamiest tiramisu we’ve ever had. The service is attentive without being obsequious; the decor, attractively sedate, allowing you to concentrate on good food, good company.
In store
August WAG cover guys Jesus and Antonio Estrada launched Marteal & Estrada, their new White Plains store, in the midst of one of those rainstorms that only the onset of early fall can produce.
Super Mario
Chef Mario Batali headlines The New York Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden Festival (Sept. 23), which offers a full day of fun. Explore Chef Mario’s…
More nights (and days) at the opera
The Emmy and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series returns to U.S. cinemas for a seventh season featuring 12 productions from The…
EDITORS LETTER: September 2012
As you are no doubt aware, there was a recent upheaval in the “Twilight” universe when the tabloids revealed that Kristen Stewart had been…
Social order
When The New York Times wanted to explore the upper class’ lack of class here in what was once known as Cheever Country (and is, The Times observed, beginning to feel more like Kennedy Country), the newspaper turned to a man who had grown up at the center of it all – writer Benjamin H. Cheever, one of John Cheever’s three children. It’s hard to think of a more fitting observer. Both father and son have explored the disparity between class (as in socioeconomic) and class (as in character with style) in such works as John Cheever’s stories “The Swimmer” and “O Youth and Beauty” and Ben’s novel “The Good Nanny.”
The class system
When I was laid off from my last job, the bosses told me, “You’re a class act.” Now as we prepare this issue of Class Acts, I look back on that time and wonder: What does it mean to have class?
Our fair lady
When it came to class, Audrey Hepburn was in a class by herself.
The clipped, cultured voice, the dark, brimming features that had us at “Roman Holiday,” the sylph silhouette that could be elegant in casual Capri pants or Givenchy coutur
The collector
John Pierpont Morgan was many things. Financier. Banker. Owner of the White Star Line and its ill-fated ship, the RMS Titanic. (Reportedly, he was scheduled to take part in its maiden voyage but changed his plans at the last minute.) Globe-trotter. Philanthropist. But among his many roles, few were more important than that of collector.“He collected everything,” says William M. Griswold, the director of The Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan, “from pocket watches to Old Master paintings to Chinese porcelain.” The breadth and depth of that passion is reflected in the holdings and exhibits at The Morgan.