Georgette Gouveia

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.

INSIDE, INSIDE, September 2012

The house that Morgan built

My sister Gina and I are having Sunday brunch at Le Château in South Salem, seated at a table whose window frames the verdure of Lewisboro as it rolls into the summer mist and the Hudson Valley’s ever-elusive horizon. Over cappuccino and tea, she remarks that the two couples sitting behind me look so much alike that they could be each other – 50 years apart. As they pass, I realize how fitting my sister’s remark is. At Le Château, the past, present and future dine happily together.

INSIDE, INSIDE, September 2012

A saint for our times

Perhaps more than any other saint, Francis lies at the intersection of myth and reality, our ideals and our shortcomings. In “Francis of Assisi: A New Biography” (Cornell University Press, $29.95, 299 pages), medievalist Thompson, nurtured in Hastings-on-Hudson, separates the historical wheat from the tabloid-y chaff.

Breakthroughs at Tiffany’s
INSIDE, INSIDE, September 2012

Breakthroughs at Tiffany’s

Call it “teatime at Tiffany” – an afternoon at the company’s iconic flagship store in Manhattan. And what an afternoon – gleaming silver and gold, diamonds that dazzle, creamy tableware sparklers fit for a late-summer idyll, a preview of autumn’s luxe leather goods and above all, a rare glimpse into both The Tiffany Salon, where the wishes of the rich and the famous are born; and The Tiffany Workshop, where they’re fulfilled.

WEB EXCLUSIVES

Sweet

If you haven’t been to the Jacob Burns Film Center & Media Arts Lab in Pleasantville in a bit, you’ll want to try to…

WEB EXCLUSIVES

Goddess

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death and there are, not surprisingly, any number of new books and articles that would pluck at the heart of her mystery, so to speak – including Andrew Hansford and Karen Homer’s eye candy, “Dressing Marilyn” (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books), about William Travilla’s costume designs for the actress; and Lois Banner’s feminist reevaluation, “Marilyn Monroe: The Passion and the Paradox” (Bloomsbury). There’s also the soap operatic (read: addictive as a box of Godiva) NBC drama “Smash,” about the making of a Marilyn musical, and the recent “My Week With Marilyn,” in which Michelle Williams poignantly embodied rather than impersonated her.

WEB EXCLUSIVES

Greek to him

Chef Rui Correia is making quite a habit of this: The owner of Douro Restaurant Bar in Greenwich is set to appear on the “Today” show once again Aug. 24. The dishy Chef Rui, who’s just back from Greece, will prepare a dish with a Greek flair. Douro and Chef Rui – who’ve both been featured in WAG’s sister publication the Fairfield County Business Journal – are, however, actually Portuguese. (The Douro is a river in Portugal.) Looks like he’s got both ends of the Mediterranean covered.

August 2012, INSIDE, INSIDE

The music man

Most serious musicians concentrate on one or two instruments or disciplines within the musical realm. Not Ted Sperling. The Tony Award winner – perhaps best known for his work on the revelatory Broadway revival of “South Pacific” and “The Light in the Piazza” – has won acclaim as a conductor, music director, arranger, singer, pianist and violinist.

August 2012, INSIDE

Virgin territory

Since coming to New York, acknowledged virgin Tim Tebow has been propositioned by Virgin Airlines, the cheaters’ website Ashley Madison, hurdler Lolo Jones and even Pats’ tight end Rob Gronkowski. Not to mention the countless online posts on the subject that range from admiring to scurrilous. Male virginity sure touches a nerve.

August 2012, INSIDE, INSIDE

On the money

The name Adam means “first man” and it fits Adam Johnson, a guy-guy, to a T. A self-described Connecticut country boy – by way of Greenwich and Washington in Litchfield County – he likes to hunt and cook pheasant and accounts himself a good shot. He also likes to paint but then, so did Picasso. More to the point, he’s a star in a place that is still in many ways a man’s world – the financial industry – although instead of trading on Wall Street as he did for 20 years he’s now reporting on it.

HEALTH & FITNESS

Sexual healing

Check out any of the lads’ mags and you’ll see that in addition to ads for watches and cars, they’re filled with articles on how to pleasure a woman. Similarly, women’s magazines regularly take up the issue of how to please a man. Which leads us to wonder: Since when do men’s and women’s bodies require user manuals? One answer may lie in their sexual fragility. For those experiencing sexual dysfunction, there’s no need for embarrassment or despair. Help is available to men and women at The Andropause Center and The Medical Center for Female Sexuality respectively, under the medical direction of Dr. Michael A. Werner in Purchase.

ARTS & CULTURE, WEB EXCLUSIVES

The Met, Unexpectedly

Summer is always a great time to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art and catch up on the shows you didn’t have time for in the spring. This season, the museum is featuring a number of exhibits that underscore one of The Met’s more unusual strengths, its ability to surprise

JULY-2012

The Court of Mercury

[stextbox id=”gold” caption=”The Court of Mercury” mode=”js”] From The Games Men Play series For John J. Roque Come on, let’s play I serve Rib…

JULY-2012

Water Music

[stextbox id=”gold” caption=”From The Games Men Play series” mode=”js”] For John J. Roque Your body cuts through the water like a knife Slashing my…

EVENTS, WEB EXCLUSIVES

50 tastes of Chablis

“Would you care for a little wine with that whipping, my dear?”
OK, so I’m sure Christian Grey doesn’t say that. But apparently, there’s a good deal of wine in the “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy – and I’m sure, a certain amount of whine as well. And that has spurred Elizabeth Miller, manager of Vintology Wines & Spirits in Scarsdale, to present “The Wines of Christian Grey” from 7 to 9:30 p.m. July 11.