When bad is good
Not to be vulgar, but Mia Schipani is a badass. And it takes one to know one.
Party ready
The three Cartwright sisters may have separate passions and personalities, but luckily for the family business, their differences converge under one glorious tent (rental company, that is).
A destination wedding close to home
The new LaKota Oaks in Norwalk offers a destination wedding site close to home.
A multifaceted journey
Sean Cohen, president and CEO of Rand Diamonds, has helped the men and especially the women of Botswana gain more control over their diamond industry.
A mother’s legacy of love
Ann Mara Cacase continues the formidable philanthropy of her mother, Ann T. Mara – matriarch of the New York Football Giants and the First Lady of Football.
Flights of fancy
In “LandEscape: New Visions of the Landscape from the Early 20th and 21st Centuries,” at the Katonah Museum of Art through June 16, viewers can immerse themselves in works from two seminal moments in art history when painters reimagined an ancient art form that has helped define our identity as a nation.
Home design – inside and out
With Brittany and Matthew Bromley, Bedford’s seamless couple, it’s hard to tell where her interior designs leave off and his landscape designs begin.
Horse opera
Training opera singer Jonas Kaufmann to make an entrance on horseback is all in a day’s work at Bronx Equestrian Center.
Urban oasis
It’s a jungle out there – an urban one and the real deal at The Bronx Zoo.
On pins and needles
“I’ll do it on any quadruped that won’t kill me first,” Dr. Emily Harrison says. “I never say (animal) acupuncture is not worth trying.”
Making waves
From the creatively designed architecture that surrounds it to the gold medal swimmers and water polo players that train in its waters, the pool at Chelsea Piers Connecticut has been churning out champions since they took their first plunge there in 2012.
Historic significance
The historic past shapes our emotion and economic present and future.
Food for mind and body
Local author Nancy DeRosa has cooked up something that promises to be tantalizingly sweet just in time for Valentine’s Day.
The funny DeCicco
Comedian Regina DeCicco – yes, she of the grocery dynasty, the raspy voice and the way with an audience – always enters, and leaves you, laughing.
Fighting homelessness one brownie at a time
The late Yonkers Zen master Bernie Glassman transformed the way we see homelessness, joblessness – and fudge brownies.
Building up and out
Randy Salvatore is one of the rising stars among area developers.
A family’s life on film
“No Alternative,” a new film by Yonkers native son William Dickerson, recalls a talented sister’s troubled soul and a city in a challenging time.
The ties that bind
A hungry child, a preoccupied executive and a not-so-chance encounter that delivered each into a more fulfilling life.
From Gilda, with love
The late comedian Gilda Radner, an original cast member of “Saturday Night Live,” lives on in the cancer support group Gilda’s Club and a new documentary, “Love, Gilda.”
Haven on Earth
If you are a victim of domestic violence, there’s a place for you at My Sister’s Place.