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A 1934 Fox Meadow house has five distinct fireplaces. In the den, right, original wood paneling surrounds a corner fireplace with a rounded chimney piece trimmed with scalloped copper.
The living room fireplace, right, in the same Fox Meadow house is made of marble and features an antique Italian firescreen.
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OF BEES AND BUNNIES Kate Solomon and building Babo Botanicals
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icals, the personal care products company she started more than eight years ago. She and her small Babo team currently sell about 40 products, and they develop roughly nine new products
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every year. The pastel rainbow of colored labels are still illustrated with the friendly, flower-bearing white bunny smiling at a buzzing bee. The bunny’s name is Babo, after her son’s beloved stuffed animal. Most of the desks in the sunny, open Scarsdale office of Babo have white rabbit-shaped lamps that were Solomon’s holiday gift to her team last year. This year, she gave them faux-fur blankets. “They’re from West Elm, a very conscientious company. They source everything very responsibly,” Solomon noted. The mother of Solomon’s Babo intern, Milan, recently gifted her brightly patterned knit wool socks she made in Serbia. Solomon popped them on her feet since they matched the cranberry-red top and striped pants she was wearing. “I really only wear my cousin’s clothes,” Solomon said, referring to Stephanie von Watzdorf, a former designer with Tory Burch who started her own line named Figue. The clothing effectively projects the smart, modern eclecticism of a feminine global nomad. Much like Solomon. “Most of my ideas, creations and entrepreneurship have come through traveling,” Solomon said. “Living among
MOST COMFORTABLE ATMOSPHERE surrounded by music, funny husband. It sounds so cliché, but it’s so true!
different cultures, eating different foods, and just involving yourself in their traditions, you understand how rich and meaningful so much of it is.”
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SOLOMON WAS BORN and raised
in New York City, and attended The Taft School in Connecticut where she played lacrosse, field and ice hockey. Before starting college, Solomon spent a year traveling in Nepal, then at Harvard studied behavioral psychology and English. “I loved studying literature through the lens of psychology. Especially women, feminists — Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf — all the depressed women who wanted to explore life,” Solomon said. “I loved stories about women who wanted to pursue their dreams but were confined by traditional aspects of the time.” After graduating, Solomon volunteered for the Peace Corps, teaching beekeeping to mostly women farmers in Caaguazú, Paraguay for two and a half years, even winning a $5,000 grant from the World Bank. Beekeeping was a skill she learned from her father who kept eight hives at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. Solomon describes her time in Paraguay as “unbelievably spectacu-
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lar. I lived with an incredible family. And the food was incredible — I gained about 20 pounds,” Solomon said. She stays in regular contact with her Paraguay family through Instagram. And some of the village families still have the bees. “When I came back home, I knew I wanted to do product development because I was always making things,” Solomon said, "but I also wanted to do some-
thing of empowerment for women.” SHE STARTED AS AN INTERN at
Avon Products, and within two years, moved up to developing global products in fragrance and personal care. Then she was accepted to Northwestern’s Kellogg Business School in Chicago, where she studied marketing and management. She landed at L’Oréal in 2002, was handed a business they just »
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» SOLOMON acquired, then launched several hair care brands under the Redken brand. “At the time, I was really into natural products and kept asking if I could work on a natural brand,” Solomon said. “I loved studying the medicinal values of plants and vegetables, and being in Paraguay, they had all these medicinal remedies that were plant-based.” In 2007, after her first child was born and right before her second, Solomon shifted to consulting for L’Oréal’s dermatology division. She noticed a huge opportunity for children’s and family personal care to address the growing concerns about allergies, using natural products. So she started crafting her own personal care line. “I approached this business because
I knew products could be made with whole plants, extracts and oils,” Solomon said. “All these ingredients have been around forever — almond oil, argon oil, sunflower oil, olive oil — the list goes on and on. Throughout centuries, people have been using them for skin care. That was my approach.” At that time, “clean” products in the U.S. were rare, with only small pioneering brands like Burt’s Bees and California Baby. While Europe has bans on over 1,500 personal care ingredients, the U.S. bans only 11, so companies have not been quick to rid their products of now well-known toxic chemicals. “I was researching all the toxins that had scientific proof that they were hormone disruptors and carcinogens, and put together a list of all the ingredients I could not have in Babo products,” Sol-
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omon said. Those included sulfates, parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde, 1,4-dioxane, PEGs, EDTA and mineral oil. “They were the ‘dirty dozen’ at the time,” Solomon said. She also wanted her products to be free of all soy, dairy, gluten and nut oils to which children were becoming more allergic. SOLOMON FOUND A GROUP
of botanists in upstate New York, who had developed other natural brands, and had great experience with natural products. Together, they developed Babo’s first eight products. “They were former hippies and knew that rosemary and tea tree
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‘Finding the goodness’ with Atticus Finch and Aaron Sorkin AARON SORKIN’S ADAPTATION of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” opened on Broadway in December, winning great reviews. Wrote The New York Times’ Ben Brantley, “Far from devaluing the property as a moneymaking machine, it has created an honorable stream of income that should pour into the estate’s coffers for years to come.” Shortly before she died, Harper Lee had authorized Sorkin to write the play, a fearsome undertaking since a nationwide poll by PBS last year officially appointed “Mockingbird” the best-loved novel in America. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the story of Atticus Finch, the attorney who defends a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. Finch is »
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» SORKIN principled and compassionate, a righteous believer in ultimate unbiased truth. But he lives in Alabama in the 1930s, and all of Finch’s beliefs go on trial along with his client, to be judged by the white jury of his Southern town. As a play, Sorkin has recreated a parable for modern America, a reflection of racial injustice and all its evil acts that time-travels 90 years and remains just as stark and dreadful. Sorkin was raised in Scarsdale, a flashy member of the Scarsdale High School Drama Club and a regular with the (now defunct) Scarsdale Summer Music Theater. “My parents took me to see plays all the time,” he said in a 2011 talk with the SHS Drama Club. He described seeing Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” at the age of 9. “I didn’t understand the story, but the dialogue was like music to me,” he said. Sorkin began writing on a whim after college. At Syracuse University, he claims even to have failed his freshman year play analysis class, needing to repeat it the next year. According to legend, it was a Friday night in his studio apartment with nothing to do and nowhere to be, when he sat down at his friend’s typewriter. He wrote dialogue all night long, and the next day invited two actor friends to perform it. His first play was “A Few Good Men,” a Broadway hit in 1989 that he adapted into the 1992 film. Some of the Sorkin-written lines have become well-worn, iconic phrases. “It was the first movie I ever wrote, and it feels like my high school yearbook picture. It’s just not very good,” Sorkin said in a 2017 interview with “Hollywood Masters.” “I wasn’t as confident in my own voice. That was the case with the first few things. What would constantly be on my mind was: what does whoever is waiting for it want — the director, what does the studio want, what are they looking for — because I have to write that. And I’d spend months doing that. And a deadline was either looming or it had passed. “So it wasn’t confidence that allowed me to find my voice. It was a lack of any options. All I had was my own voice. I was unable to imitate the way other people wrote.”
Scarsdale Living recently asked Sorkin about his thoughts on his work, about Scarsdale and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” DID YOU MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE STORY OF “MOCKINGBIRD” IN YOUR ADAPTATION? TURN ANYTHING UP? DOWNPLAY ANY ASPECT? “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a
new play and a new look at famous material — a book that most of us study in school. I haven’t updated it in any way — it still takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in 1934 — and there are no 28
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events that happen in the play that don’t happen in the book — but Atticus, who, in the book, has all the answers, now has to wrestle with the questions — primarily, “Is tolerating intolerance a virtue?” Atticus tells his kids that you can’t really know someone until you’ve gotten in their skin and crawled around for a while, but he never asks his kids to crawl around in the skin of any of the African-American characters. The novel has two significant African-American characters, Calpurnia, the maid, and Tom Robinson, the defendant. And in this story about race, neither of those characters have much to say on the subject. In the play, those two characters have agency. DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING FROM WRITING YOUR ADAPTATION? There are requirements of a play that are much
different from a novel. Moreover, I couldn’t pretend I was
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Rothschild, Robert Hazeltine, Linda Oksner … it was the energy of their classes and the friction of different ideas that inspired and continues to inspire a lot of the writing I do. WHAT IS A GOOD MEMORY YOU HAVE ABOUT BEING FROM SCARSDALE? I loved growing up in Scarsdale, and ever since I played General Bullmoose in the Scarsdale Junior High eighth grade production of “Li’l Abner,” I’ve loved doing plays. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE OR MOST IMPORTANT SPOT IN SCARSDALE? I don’t know if it’s still there, but I have a lot of fond memories of the Scarsdale Diner. On Friday and Saturday nights we’d all end up there at around 11. Great french fries. WOULD YOU EVER WRITE ABOUT SCARSDALE? I’ve never written autobiographically but Scarsdale would be a great place to set a story, especially in the fall and winter. WHAT KIND OF STORY WOULD YOU SET IN SCARSDALE?
I can imagine a coming of age story set at SHS. Or even a series about the students, the faculty and the parents.
Top left, no stranger to the stage, Sorkin played Freddy Eynsford-Hill in a Scarsdale Summer Music Theater production of "My Fair Lady" in 1978. Left, Jeff Daniels and Gbenga Akinnagbe on Broadway in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
IS THERE ANY ELEMENT YOU FIND YOU REPEATEDLY INCLUDE IN YOUR WORK? ANY MESSAGE, VALUE OR QUESTION? I tend to write idealistically and romantically. I
like heroes who don’t wear capes. WHAT QUALITIES MAKE DIALOGUE REALISTIC/BELIEVABLE? Dialogue doesn’t have to be realistic or believable, it’s dialogue. Shakespeare often wrote rhyming iambic pentameter. What it has to be is interesting. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BIGGEST DRAG ABOUT WRITING? The worst thing about writing is that most of the
writing the play in 1960 instead of today. WHEN YOU WERE DEEP IN YOUR WRITING, DID YOU DISCOVER ANYTHING ABOUT THE NOVEL/STORY THAT SURPRISED YOU? I’m happy the book is still being taught, but I think there’s more food for discussion than there was when I read the book in eighth grade and those discussions should sound a little different today.
time you’re not doing it. Most of the time you don’t have any ideas and you’re stuck. That’s a scary place. WHO ARE YOUR HEROES IN REAL LIFE OR HISTORY?
There’s my father and then a number of others. WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE NOVELS? I love “Catcher in the Rye.” I’m a big fan of “The Caine Mutiny.” I reread “The Bonfire of the Vanities” every few years.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LINE FROM “MOCKINGBIRD”?
I don’t want to give anything away to anyone who’s new to Mockingbird so I’ll just say it’s “Hey, Boo.” IN WHAT WAYS DO YOU THINK SCARSDALE INFLUENCED YOU? My interest in theater grew while I was in the Drama
Club in high school. I also had great teachers. Werner Feig, Eric
Sorkin admits to taking six to eight showers a day when he’s working, his way of physically resetting when he’s blocked. “On a really bad day, I’ll be incredibly clean,” he told “Hollywood Masters.” Sorkin’s screenplays are longer than average because his mov» ies have more dialogue and less action. “The Social Network”
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» SORKIN counted 178 pages, versus an average screenplay page count of 120. “I’m writing characters that are smarter than I am, more charming than I am,” Sorkin said in the 2017 interview. “I’m writing a world in which the attributes that the characters, for instance on ‘The West Wing,’ had are sexy, a braininess, a wonkiness. I mean, Rob Lowe was the nerd on that show.” After Donald Trump was elected president, Sorkin wrote a letter to his ex-wife and daughter, Roxy, published in Vanity Fair. It sang like the best President Josiah Bartlet lines of “The West Wing.” “Sorkin Girls,” it began. “Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from ... And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night — it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap
Sorkin's 1979 Scarsdale High School yearbook photo.
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myTUNES/SYDNEY PRINCE “THESE SONGS, all recorded by the original Broadway casts, reflect both current and classic musical theatre and the range of emotional truths that can be presented on the stage. From hilariously honest songs like Avenue Q’s ‘Schadenfreude’ by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, to the emotionally intense ‘Words Fail’ from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s 'Dear Evan Hansen,' my playlist aims to show the huge artistic range of modern musical theatre.”
Sydney Prince is a junior at the University of Michigan double majoring in theatre and film with a concentration in directing. She is committed to creating thoughtful theatrical art.
Sydney Prince of Broadway THE ORIGIN OF LOVE
SCHADENFREUDE
I AM THE ONE
FUN HOME (2015)
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2014)
NEXT TO NORMAL (2009)
HEART AND MUSIC
A NEW BRAIN (2016)
I’M HERE
AVENUE Q (2003)
RING OF KEYS
EVERYBODY SAY YEAH KINKY BOOTS (2013)
ENJOY THE TRIP
THE COLOR PURPLE (2015)
BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL (2012)
THE B*TCH OF LIVING
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SPRING AWAKENING (2006)
IN THE HEIGHTS (2008)
BUILD A WALL
FREEZE YOUR BRAIN
HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL (2014)
WORDS FAIL
DEAR EVAN HANSEN (2017)
MICHAEL IN THE BATHROOM
BE MORE CHILL (2015)
DEAR THEODOSIA HAMILTON (2015)
WELCOME TO THE ROCK COME FROM AWAY (2017)
SHREK (2010)
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ARE YOU THERE
BARE: THE POP OPERA (2013)
ALL I’VE EVER KNOWN
HADESTOWN: THE MYTH. THE MUSICAL (2017)
HALED’S SONG ABOUT LOVE
THE BAND’S VISIT (2017)
BEAUTIFUL CITY GODSPELL (2011)
CORNER OF THE SKY PIPPIN (2013)
myTUNES/JIMMYFINK “I CHOSE A PLAYLIST of my favorite songs from the past year. Some of these
artists have come by for Peak Performances so the memory of being up close and personal with many of them enhanced my love for their music. Some songs are just instantly likable and perfect pop creations, like East Love’s, one of those undiscovered bands who craft great pop tunes with high standards in the recording studio. Because my adult son Robbie and two of his former Scarsdale High classmates are in the band, I have to be careful not to lavish too much praise on them, but, honestly, in the past few years they’ve created some of my favorite tunes. Enjoy my list, and feedback is welcome through the contact section of my website, JimmyFink.com.”
Jimmy Fink has spent almost five decades on the radio. A longtime Scarsdale resident, he hosts the weekly 3 to 7 p.m. show on 107.1 The Peak, a station that features new music and adult alternative.
Fink Faves: 2018 LASH OUT
ROLLING STONE EAST LOVE
JOHN MAYER
NEW LIGHT
SOMETHING HUMAN
FEED THE FIRE
WALK OUTSIDE
LOADING ZONES
ALL MY FRIENDS
GOLD RUSH
NINA CRIED POWER
GOOD KISSER
TEENAGE SUPERSTAR
ALICE MERTON DAWES
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
SEVERED
THE DECEMBERISTS
NEVERMIND
DENNIS LLOYD
GLORY
DERMOT KENNEDY
EAST LOVE
HOZIER, FEATURING MAVIS STAPLES
LOTTERY
JADE BIRD
UH HUH
JADE BIRD
KURT VILE
LAKE STREET DIVE
LA VIE EN ROSE LADY GAGA
SHALLOW
LADY GAGA, BRADLEY COOPER
MUSE
REVIVALISTS
SCARS ON 45
APOLLO
ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES
SATURDAY SUN
HOMESICK
VANCE JOY
MARCUS KING BAND
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Wintry Mix MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES CHARLIE PARKER
IN MY LIFE BILL FRISELL
RAMSHACKLE BECK
LOVER MAN
SARAH VAUGHAN
HOWLIN’ FOR JUDY JEREMY STEIG
CANTELOUPE ISLAND HERBIE HANCOCK
BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
ELLA FITZGERALD, LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE
JANA’S DELIGHT DON PULLEN
PENSATIVA
ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL ROSEMARY CLOONEY
I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL CHET BAKER
IT DON’T MEAN A THING
(IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWING)
MAMBO INN
THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET
UMMH
WILLIE NELSON
GRANT GREEN
BOBBY HUTCHERSON, HAROLD LAND
LOVE THEME FROM ‘SPARTICUS’ YUSEF LATEEF
I COULD WRITE A BOOK MILES DAVIS QUINTET
STARDUST
MOMENT’S NOTICE JOHN COLTRANE
POINCIANA
AHMAD JAMAL
“The songs on the Wintry Mix playlist were chosen from episodes of ‘The 30 Minute Jazz Hour,' a radio program I hosted on WVOX in New Rochelle from 2017 to 2018. The playlist goes well with a snow day or an evening mixer, and is best paired with a Reverse Manhattan (two parts sweet vermouth, one part bourbon, three dashes bitters).”
Doug Krohn is a physician in Westchester County and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College. He has lived in Scarsdale with his wife and children since 2002.
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Caleb Krohn is a junior at Bucknell University and a 2016 graduate of Scarsdale High School. He is the founder of Bison Records, a Bucknell-based music label, and the host of “The Heard Radio Hour” on WVBU in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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“The south, specifically Atlanta, has had a huge impact on music over the past couple of years, especially as hip hop has become the most consumed genre. My Southern Comfort playlist features 15 songs from southern hip hop artists. The exception is ‘King TROUP’ by Young Thug. I wanted to include this song because Keith Troup was influential in the early careers of many Southern artists. I think Young Thug is largely to credit for the sound artists are creating today. My list represents the new face of popular music.”
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myTUNES/JOHN KING “I WENT FOR A 'CLASSICAL WINTER' theme, honoring three centuries of classical music, all inspired by the short days and long nights of winter. Some are well-known masterworks and some are shorter fancies. All, I think, can be enjoyed by the fire, with or without a good book, but with a good winter beverage.”
Dr. John T. King recently celebrated his 25th year as founder, artistic director and conductor of the New Choral Society of Westchester, a critically acclaimed professionallevel chorus and professional orchestra, whose home is in Scarsdale.
JTKs Classical Wintry Mix J.S. BACH: GOLDBERG
CHOPIN: ÉTUDES, OP.25, NO.11
GLENN GOULD
VARIATIONS, BWV 988
J.S. BACH: VIOLIN PARTITA
MAURIZIO POLLINI
MORTON LAURIDSEN, CHAMBER CHOIR OF EUROPE
DEBUSSY: CHILDREN’S
MOZART: HORN CONCERTO
FRANCOIS-JOËL THIOLLIER
WILLIAM PURVIS, ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
NO. 2 IN D MINOR, 'CHACONNE'
CORNER: THE SNOW IS DANCING
BARBER: ADAGIO FOR
RAVEL: LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN, M.68 SIR GEORG
ITZHAK PERLMAN
STRINGS, OP.11
ANDRÉ PREVIN, LONDON SYMPHONY
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY
NO.3 IN E FLAT, OP.55 'EROICA' HERBERT VON KARAJAN, BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
BEETHOVEN: MASS IN
D MAJOR OP. 123 'MISSA SOLEMNIS'
SIR GEORG SOLTI, CHICAGO SYMPHONY
O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM
IN A MINOR 'WINTER WIND'
SOLTI, CHICAGO SYMPHONY
DVORÁK: STRING QUINTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP.97, B.180
NO. 2 IN E FLAT, K.417
MOZART: THREE GERMAN DANCES, K.605
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
PUCCINI: LA BOHÈME/
ELGAR: ENIGMA VARIATIONS:
LUCIANO PAVOROTTI, MIRELLA FRENI
SIR COLIN DAVIS, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PUCCINI: LA BOHÈME/
GUSTAV HOLST: IN THE
ELIZABETH HARWOOD
VARIATION IX. NIMROD-ADAGIO
'O SOAVE FANCIULLA'
'QUANDO M’EN VO'
BLEAK MIDWINTER
SHEKU KANNEH-MASON
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SCHUBERT: WINTERREISE, D911 JONAS KAUFMANN
SCHOENBERG: VERKLÄRTE NACHT, OP. 4
HERBERT VON KARAJAN, BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
JOSEF STRAUSS:
WINTERLUST POLKA, OP. 121 LORIN MAAZEL, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO.1 'WINTER DAYDREAMS'
LEONARD BERNSTEIN, NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS 'WINTER'
JOSHUA BELL, ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS
Something For Everyone TINY DANCER
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
SICKO MODE TRAVIS SCOTT
ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME (LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES) COLDPLAY
MADNESS MUSE
ONLY LOVE
SHAGGY, PITBULL, GENE NOBLE
THIS IS ME (THE REIMAGINED REMIX)
KEALA SETTLE, KESHA & MISSY ELLIOTT
GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY (AFROJACK REMIX) U2
BETTER NOW POST MALONE
GUIDING LIGHT
MUMFORD & SONS
NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART (FEAT. MILEY CYRUS) MARK RONSON
myTUNES/ GABRIELLE WISE & ANDREA TUCKER “WINTER IS THE HARDEST TIME to get yourself moving. The days are short, and can be dark and dreary. We wanted to put together a workout playlist with something for everyone. If you hear a song that distracts you from what you’re doing, what you’re doing will be more fun: you’ll be exercising without realizing you’re exercising. And you’ll work harder if you’re having fun. You’ll let go of your stress and have a moment when you forget everything. We added a little pop, rock, hip hop and country because music that makes people happy is different for everyone.
Gabrielle Wise and Andrea Tucker both live in Scarsdale with their families and are longtime SoulCycle instructors.
IF I LOSE MYSELF ALESSO VS ONEREPUBLIC ONEREPUBLIC, ALESSO
DON’T STOP ME NOW QUEEN
UPROAR (CLEAN VERSION) LIL WAYNE, SWIZZ BEATZ
HIGH HOPES
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
MIRACLE
CHVRCHES
MACHINE
IMAGINE DRAGONS
BODY TALKS (FEAT. KESHA) THE STRUTS
SIDE EFFECTS
THE CHAINSMOKERS, EMILY WARREN
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER THE BANGLES
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myTUNES/LESLEY & TED ROSENTHAL “WHAT DO WE LISTEN TO when winter seems to be dragging on? Our favorite Westchester wintry mix combines classical, jazz, Broadway, film and gospel music. Chopin’s Winter Wind étude sweeps through the house with pianistic fury, and Ted’s trio offers a calypso take on Tchaikovsky’s 'Dance of the Reed Flutes.' Looking ahead, Tony Bennett with Bill Evans remind us of spring yet to come, but we included lighter tunes for unexpected snow days. We close our playlist with a new gospel take on a Khalil Gibran poem, “On Children,” by Sweet Honey in the Rock. With a playlist like this, can spring be far?”
Scarsdale residents Lesley and Ted Rosenthal lead a life in music. She is the chief operating officer of The Juilliard School; he is a renowned jazz pianist and composer. Ted’s jazz opera, “Dear Erich,” received its world premiere by New York City Opera in January 2019 and is now touring.
Westchester Wintry Mix CHOPIN: ÉTUDES, OP. 25: NO. 11 IN A MINOR
YOU’D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO
VIVALDI: WINTER FROM THE FOUR SEASONS 2. LARGO
I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM
JOHAN ÅHLÉN
SILVERWOOD QUARTET
HELEN MERRILL, QUINCY JONES ORCHESTRA
BILLIE HOLIDAY
GREENSLEEVES
WILD IS THE WIND
DANCE OF THE REED FLUTES
ELIS REGINA, ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM
TED ROSENTHAL TRIO
TED ROSENTHAL TRIO
HELEN MERRILL
ĀGUAS DE MARÇO
YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING
TONY BENNETT, BILL EVANS
SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST
YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT
KARRIN ALLYSON, KENNY BARRON, JOHN PATITUCCI
TWISTED
ELLA FITZGERALD
LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING
EVERYBODY EATS WHEN THEY COME TO MY HOUSE
FOLKS WHO LIVE ON THE HILL
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK
PEGGY LEE
ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY
CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA
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ON CHILDREN
Desert Island Zappa UNCLE MEAT: MAIN TITLE THEME FRANK ZAPPA
THE LITTLE HOUSE I USED TO LIVE IN
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
KING KONG
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
THE DOG BREATH VARIATIONS FRANK ZAPPA
CRUISING FOR BURGERS
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
OH NO
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
TWENTY SMALL CIGARS FRANK ZAPPA
HOLIDAY IN BERLIN
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
THEME FROM LUMPY GRAVY FRANK ZAPPA
WAKA/JAWAKA FRANK ZAPPA
THE GRAND WAZOO FRANK ZAPPA
TOADS OF THE SHORT FOREST
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
THE IDIOT BASTARD SON FRANK ZAPPA
PEACHES EN REGALIA FRANK ZAPPA
myTUNES/ED PALERMO “MY MAIN MUSICAL INFLUENCE is Frank Zappa. When I first saw his band, The Mothers of Invention, for the first time live in 1969, I knew I wanted to be a musician and stand in front of my own band conducting the music I write. The songs on my playlist are the vital Zappa sounds.”
Ed Palermo teaches saxophone, guitar and jazz ensemble at Scarsdale’s Hoff-Barthelson Music School and is the coordinator of its jazz program. He is the leader and arranger of a jazz big band that focuses on the compositions of his hero, Frank Zappa.
DUKE OF PRUNES
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
BROWN SHOES DON’T MAKE IT
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
INCA ROADS
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
ANDY
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
SOFA, NO. 1
FRANK ZAPPA, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
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Gather round Being with other people and gathering around a table is part of hygge. The food is not so much the point as the welcome and the kinship, expanding a comfort zone to include others, and giving them something yummy to eat. Scarsdale is a place where people come from all over the world to live and raise families. We are culturally rich, and one of the benefits is the bounty of delicious things to taste. Scarsdale Living was invited by four gracious families to record how they create food that represent comfort to them, food originated in different parts of the world and now shared in Scarsdale.
“PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO EAT ARE ALWAYS
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UCHI DAVIDZON'S ROGELITO
UCHI DAVIDZON of Edgewood
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Her house has two dining rooms and a small kitchen stocked with hard-core cooking tools and machines. “I like to get exposed to food that maybe I never tried, like to try new spices, new flavors, new things.” She and her husband, Uriel Scher, a rheumatologist, moved from their home in Argentina 15 years ago when he was offered a job in New York City. In New York, Davidzon recreated herself, studying French pastry at International Culinary Center and winning Les Dames d’Escoffier NYC. Last year, Davidzon started her own line of sweet sauces named Umikah, currently sold on Amazon and in several Manhattan and Brooklyn shops. Davidzon learned to make rogelito, the sweet Argentinian dessert, about 20 years ago. “It’s very, very Argentinian,” Davidzon said. “If you go to any restaurant, any café, you’re going to see it.” Davidzon travels often with her husband and two children, and will always try to take in a local cooking class during her stay, most recently in Paraguay. “Even though I went to culinary school, I continue learning every day.”
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Flavors from home in Scarsdale “I finished medical school in 1996 in Pakistan,” Asma Naeem said. “I looked at my mom and saw her just in the kitchen, so I never thought I would be her. I kind of rebelled and would not look at what she was doing. I’m the youngest of seven, so I could get away with it.” Naeem and her husband, both physicians, moved to New York 22 years ago. “I didn’t think I would cook until we came here and it hit me: who’s going to feed us?" Naeem said. "I needed right away seven dishes that I could learn.” That was when she started cooking chicken pulao, the standard of Pakistan. Her husband loves food, but it was Naeem’s daughter, Saadia, now a student at Wesleyan, who pushed her to explore and love cooking. “I was cooking, but not really into it,” Naeem said. “But then she was so excited about it, so that’s how I started really to enjoy it more. Then I realized why my mother would cook.”
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A bowl of delicious comfort H E A LT H Y P L E A S U R E S “When I comfort food, I any time I eat something in a bowl, I I and a bowl,” Wetzstein said. “And I has not enough balance in it, I tend to not feel comfortable after I eating it, and after you eat it."
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MELISSA WETZSTEIN IS A WIZARD OF WELL-BEING. With a master's
degree in clinical nutrition, Wetzstein helps people understand how nutition controls health and well-being, "and how you can change the trajectory of your path," she said. "Food has been my passion for a very long time,” Melissa Wetzstein said. When she was young, Wetzstein’s parents took the family every Sunday to eat at different ethnic restaurants in New York City. “We didn’t go away on tons of vacations, but always around the holidays, we would go to a really good restaurant, like the Four Seasons, for a special meal. That was love in our house.” Wetzstein runs A Pure Life/Nutrition, her private practice offering personalized programs. When she recently renovated her kitchen, she created an expansive, well-lit space that could accommodate hosting nutrition-focused cooking classes, which she started last spring. Talking about comfort food with her husband and three young boys, Wetzstein dreamed up a warm bowl of coconut rice bowl with roasted vegetables and greens. “Delicious and healthful can be the same.”
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Feasting with family THE WANG FAMILY HAS LIVED in Scarsdale for 12 years, moving from Washington, D.C, and before that, from Beijing in the late 1980s. “During the holiday season, we invite friends to get together,” Vivienne Wang said. “In the wintertime, dumplings — jiaozi — is the most popular and important food for the Chinese family,” Vivienne's husband Sean said. “But to be honest, we don’t eat them often unless we have holidays, friends or some kind of new year celebrations.” “Or if friends are going to travel, so we normally make jiaozi to say goodbye because their shape looks like old Chinese currency,” Vivienne said. “It means good fortune.” “And when people come over, you cook noodles as a welcome,” Sean continued. “Noodles are like a string,” Vivienne said. “You want to hold people tight: ‘don’t move, stay here, we want to stay together as long as we can. ’” “And on somebody’s birthday, you make a really long noodle,” said the Wang’s daughter Rena, a freshman at Scarsdale High School. “Called a Longevity Noodle,” their daughter Anna said. "It signifies long life." Anna is a senior at Scarsdale. The finished dumplings are served right away, steaming and bright. As with so much in life, it’s what’s inside that means most: something nourishing and delicious.
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“Wherever I went, I was constantly presenting the brand,” she said. The year after Babo launched, Solomon divorced her first husband, and had her third child with her second. She also needed to send her eldest to kindergarten and find office space for the expanding Babo. “The most economical and prudent lifestyle choice was to come to Scarsdale,” Solomon said. “In the back of my mind I always knew I would live here. My best friend from sleep-away camp was from Scarsdale and I would visit her all the time.” Solomon and her husband, David Wasserman, live in Fox Meadow with Solomon’s 11-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter from her first marriage, and their 7-year-old son. “And I have two great stepkids,” Solomon said. Wasserman’s son just began medical student at Brown University and his daughter is an artist in Santa Cruz, California. Solomon’s husband runs his own real estate development company and stays close to home. Her ex-husband still lives in Manhattan, “but he’s here all the time, he stays with us: we’re a very modern family,” Solomon said. “People have a hard time imagining it, but my husband is fine with it. I travel quite a lot,
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and leave him and my ex-husband together to take care of the three kids.” “Scarsdale Village feels so much like our brand, so personable,” Solomon said. “It is such a warm and sophisticated, friendly town with incredible food and small businesses. Charming, that’s what it is: It’s a charming town.” Babo has grown to be a leader in the nontoxic, clean wave of personal care products, in retailers from Target, Whole
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that going for me. During the winter, it’s easy to relax and stay at home for ridiculously long stretches of time, ordering everything online and delivered. Some days we receive so many items we forgot we purchased, opening the mail is a bit like Christmas morning. MY SISTER-IN-LAW recently sent us an
The lion in winter sleeps, eats and orders in AROUND THE SAME TIME every year,
right after daylight saving time, “it” happens. My summer eating and exercising regimes become history, my preferred vegetable switches from a side salad to a side french fries, and I quickly pack on the pounds. I break out my “fat clothes” to wear to work, and can’t get into my flannel pajamas quickly enough when I get home. During these dark winter months, relaxation becomes paramount and the only thing that matters to me is feeling warm and comfortable. Our home is filled with dogs and kids, and layered with faux-fur throws and soft chenille blankets. If you don’t know, chenille is the poodle-mix of the textile world. It's used for pieces of clothing so comfortable, you don’t care how silly you look to your neighbors when you walk the dog in your ultra-cozy bathrobe and lounge pants. When I recently talked with my son about future careers, he shared that he likes wearing a robe so much he may someday want to be a judge. I was relieved by his ambition since my the worst-case scenario had his robe-loving ass living in my basement and playing Fortnite forever.
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I am also a big fan of Patagonia’s Synchilla sweaters, around since the early 90s, which utilize a soft, synthetic material that keeps you warm and toasty. The sweaters they make now are fine, but have more of an “athletic” cut so don’t fit me the way the fuller-sized, vintage ones do. Truly, the old ones are more muumuu than anything else. So to keep my extra-large body covered in Synchilla softness, I have resorted to buying used sweaters from Ebay. PURCHASING ANYTHING on Ebay can be a risky endeavor, but the purchasing of pre-owned clothing is a very subjective thing. Especially when delving into the seedy underworld of 22-year-old menswear. Tears and rips are common, but so are tobacco stains, blood, pet dander and a potpourri of odors that would spook a well-trained bloodhound. All of this is usually revealed upon opening the packaged purchase; and sometimes, frighteningly, even before. It's not unusual for packages to be so slipshod, the UPS drivers toss them onto my stoop without even slowing down. However, the local porch pirates aren’t tempted by the grungy booty, so I’ve got
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InstaPot as a gift. She lives in the West Village, where changing her bathmat constitutes recarpeting her apartment, so I understand the allure of an all-purpose cooking device that’s the size of an official Scarsdale-issued countertop food scrap bin. I used the pot a few times, following the directions exactly. But no matter what I made, I always ended up with some type of funky soup. Which is fine when I’m cooking chicken and vegetables, but my Nana never made brisket soup. The nicest thing about the Instapot is the time it liberates you to do other things. There is nothing more relaxing (in theory) than lighting some expensive, sweet-smelling candles and listening to a meditation audio while splaying out on an oversized faux-fur blanket. My favorite restorative mix features a British gent who gets me to breathe deeply and completely unwind in mindfulness. But the recording starts with a soft drum beat and gentle triangle pings that drive my dog crazy. Try as I might to relax, my dog gets busy running around proving his squeaker toys still work — all of them. Despite my best efforts to relax and keep cozy, I am consistently thwarted. Whether it be the Instapot signaling completion of the evening’s soup funk, the UPS man throwing another mystery package at my front door, or my dog wanting to play. But winter makes one promise: tomorrow is another dark day.
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Adults with strong social support networks can reduce their risk of health problems like anxiety, high blood pressure and stress. That’s why Dr. Nunziato-Ghobashy, family medicine physician, advises that along with a healthy diet, exercise and preventive screenings, her patients should spend as much quality time as possible with friends and family.
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