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CONTENTS

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FEBRUARY 2018

FEATURES

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Perfectly Scripted

BY JAMIE MARSHALL The chances are pretty great that you’ve been entertained by Kayla Alpert’s talented pen. The screenwriter sits down to talk life in Hollywood— from the glam to the blood, sweat and tears.

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Giant Slayer

BY TIMOTHY DUMAS Jim Ferraro doesn’t scare easily. The formidable lawyer has built an immensely successful career by taking on—and winning—cases most lawyers would run from.

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The Power Within

BY JAMIE MARSHALL Advice from the experts on harnessing the power that we all have to live our best lives.

DEPARTMENTS 14 | EDITOR’S LETTER 16 | NOTABLE NOTES 19 | STATUS REPORT BUZZ: Chardonnay Moms, Jane Condon and Bobbi Eggers; Pitch Your Peers SHOP: Doing Valentine’s right: from sweet and sexy to glam and gorgeous; Roberto Chiappelloni talks watches GO: Plenty of Caribbean islands are open for business. Here’s where to plan your next trip HOME: Cindy Rinfret moves into a new ultra-chic space DO: Furry friends bring joy to local residents EAT: Flinders Lane

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No, it's not a scene from Frozen.

On the Cover: Greenwich Academy alum Kayla Alpert sits down with us in her L.A. home to talk life in Hollywood.

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EDITOR’S Letter

CRISTIN MARANDINO

The Meaning of Power has taken on a somewhat dubious connotation—notably, men in power abusing it. When the #MeToo movement was in its infancy and before the #TimesUp movement had even begun, we sat down with Hollywood screenwriter Kayla Alpert for this, our annual Power Issue. The irony is not lost on us.

Winning Hollywood is a tremendous challenge regardless of gender. Is it harder for women? I think we all know the answer to that. So we ask Kayla about navigating the typically male-dominated writers’ room and the biases that exist against females in her industry. In “Perfectly Scripted,” page 66, she speaks candidly on the subject—proving that the story of this accomplished screenwriter, with major big- and small-screen credits under her belt, is as much about being empowered as it is about being powerful. But it’s not all heavy pontification. Writer Jamie Marshall talks with Kayla about regular life, for Hollywood types at least—like meeting her husband at Al Pacino’s house (without Al Pacino) and

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writing for her childhood crush Rob Lowe.

We know you’ll love meeting this smart, talented and, yes, powerful woman.

Our interview with Jim Ferraro (“Giant Slayer,” page 76) looks at another aspect of power—helping those without it get it. Jim, who has reached titan status as a warrior for the underdog, is the first lawyer to hold a chemical giant accountable for a devastating birth defect. He documents the extraordinary case against DuPont in his book Blindsided. Tim Dumas takes us into the world of this fascinating character who somehow seems to have mastered the art of remaining grounded in his pursuit of justice while living an over-the-top highprofile life.

Both of these personalities are great examples that before power—with all of its fame, money and notoriety—must come passion. And I believe, especially in today’s climate, compassion as well.

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magazine. Please give our thanks to all your staff who worked on it.

Thank you for mentioning Ava in your Editor’s Letter [“Through the Ages” by Cristin Marandino].

It was very touching and made all of us readers realize how fast time goes by in our lives when measured against the beautiful children in our community.

COVER STORY GLORY I can’t tell you how much it means to Rob and me that you have supported him and his music for so many years [December: “70 Years of Covering Our Town: Only in Greenwich” by Donna Moffly].

GREENWICH magazine has always helped spread the word and has continually done so with respect and kindness. As you can imagine, Rob’s shows are not an easy feat and we need to sell a lot of tickets to pay for all the musicians on stage, as well as the stage crew, sound engineers, lighting guys, cartage, equipment, insurance, and the list goes on! Your staff has been fantastic. As two dyedin-the-wool Old Greenwichers, we are very grateful.

TAMMY AND ROB MATHES, OLD GREENWICH

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TIP OF THE HAT Warmest congratulations to dear Donna and Jack “Of Seventy Years and Thriving” [December: From the Founders,

by Donna Moffly].

My favorite line is from Bernie Yudain to Jack. We miss Bernie’s humour and institutional memory.

The Mofflys are a dynamic duo—always on a pedestal to Malcolm and me.

NATALIE PRAY, GREENWICH

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ALL FIRED UP Thank you to Team Moffly for putting on another wonderful Light A Fire event at the Westport

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Country Playhouse. We are proud to support this event that shines a light on so much good that is happening in our own backyard.

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It was a pleasure to meet so many of the Moffly team at the Light A Fire award ceremony.

What an amazing night! If there is ever anything I can do to help the charitable causes Moffly champions, please do not hesitate to let me know.

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Many thanks to Cristin, Donna, Jonathan and everyone at Moffly. Bruce and I were deeply humbled to be recipients of a Light A Fire award.

We were very grateful to have the opportunity to shine the spotlight on the organizations that we care deeply about [among them New Covenant Center and Food Rescue U.S.], and you provided the perfect venue to do that.

We look forward to attending the 2018 event so we can cheer on the next cohort of awardees.

LINDA KOE, STAMFORD

Editor’s Note: The Koes were honored with our Most Involved Couple award. All recipients were featured in “Heart & Soul” by Jill Johnson in our Novmber 2017 issue.

Editor’s Note: Rocco was honored with our Best Friend to the Arts award.

WEDDING BELLS Thank you for such a beautiful spread in GREENWICH magazine [October: Vows—“Elizabeth Neis Maloney & Bradford Randolph Corbin” by Alison Gray].

We have heard from so many wedding guests, old friends and even acquaintances who were excited to see it. What a wonderful surprise to have two pages!

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TEENS IN THE SPOTLIGHT We were thrilled that you featured two of our students— Ava Vanech and Courtney Smith—in GREENWICH magazine’s cover article for September [“Ten Teens to Watch: Expect the Unexpected”

by Jamie Marshall].

We appreciate all the time and effort that went into this informative article with its outstanding photography, layout and interviews. It is spectacular, and it required the collaboration of many professionals at the

The article on the Greenwich Emergency Medical Service [People & Places—“Care on the Go,” by Alison Gray] in the September edition of GREENWICH magazine was absolutely fantastic. The skill shown in placing GEMS in the best light is truly superior.

It is an understatement to comment that we at GEMS who have had the privilege of reading and reviewing the work are extremely grateful. As you know, it is important to get out the message of GEMS’ contributions to the Greenwich community.

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Funny Busıness One of Jane and Bobbi’s favorite cartoons

We all need to laugh at ourselves from time to time. Two local moms help us do just that

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eventeen years ago a mutual friend brought Bobbi Eggers to see comedienne Jane Condon do her stand-up routine at a Greenwich fundraiser. After the laughter had died down, introductions were made and it quickly became apparent the two busy moms had lots in common.

“Within about one minute, we were talking about collaborating,” says Bobbi, an illustrator who at the time was a Madison Avenue creative director.

Soon, the duo began to pair Bobbi’s witty art with Jane’s spot-on comedic zingers to create cartoons for a longrunning series in the Greenwich Post and other publications. They zeroed in on the often ironic trappings of suburban mom culture including husbands (and ex-ones), a fondness for wine and the reasons moms secretly love invites to back-to-school parent teas. “Because you get to check out other people’s houses,” says Jane.

Recently, the two published Chardonnay Moms, a “greatest hits”

collection of their most popular and favorite cartoons.

Over Diet Cokes in Jane’s backcountry kitchen (because it was before noon), the funny ladies shared some behind-thedrawings dish. “Naturally, there was a fair amount of wine involved,” quips Jane, who actually prefers red. “But we went with Chardonnay because it just sounds better.”

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1. ON CHOOSING FAVORITES Some of their picks, like the one featuring a “Back to School” sale at the Porsche dealership, were no-brainers. “It’s not true that every kid in Greenwich gets

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sophisticated look. The technology also allows her to slip pieces of photos into her cartoons to make them more lifelike. As for pairing images with captions, she and Jane often brainstorm while socializing.

“Our best work tends to happen just sitting here, like we are now at the kitchen table, talking about life,” says Jane, the mother of two adult sons. “We’re like an old married couple, except we’re married to other people.”

red hair”) was also the muse for a few of Bobbi’s drawings.

“But we don’t tell people, ‘Oh, that’s so-and-so’ because we don’t want anyone to feel bad or sit around wondering if we’re picking on them,” says Jane.

4. ON BEING NICE While their cartoons do take some amusing jabs at affluent suburban culture, the cartoonists say they are careful not to mock anyone’s choices or

lifestyle. For example, a cartoon of a snowwoman sporting surgically enhanced breasts is laugh-out-loud funny, but they would never devote a series to mocking plastic surgery. “What’s important is that people can relate to what we’re saying,” says Bobbi. “The idea is that we’re in this together—and we all get it.

We’re not lampooning anyone as much as we’re commenting on a shared experience we can all laugh about sometimes.”

—Beth Cooney Fitzpatrick Sage advice from the ladies

3. ON THEIR INSPIRATION We won’t name names, but the collaborators told us some Chardonnay Moms characters are based on friends and family.

A longer-haired, red-headed Jane (“from when I had long

a Porsche, but it can seem that way,” says Jane. Another classic pokes fun at the practice of affixing stick-figure families to the back of luxury SUVs. “We wondered what happens if the parents get divorced,” explains Bobbi. So, she sketched a cartoon that simply crossed out the dad stick figure. Then, there’s the one of three soccer moms, with one whispering to another, “Your kid just scored a goal, pretend you saw it.”

2. ON THEIR CREATIVE PROCESS Bobbi, a mom of five adult children, used to draw by hand but has transitioned to iPad drawing, saying technology gives her illustrations a more

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Chardonnay Moms is a perfect Valentine’s gift for that mom with a sense of humor. It can be purchased locally at Diane’s Books, via Amazon or through ChardonnayMoms.com for $15.99.

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Greenwich women find strength in numbers—in more ways than one Pitch Your Peers cofounders: Dara Johnson, Rachael LeMasters, Nina Lindia and Brooke Bohnsack

Members must live in Greenwich, be invited to join and all nonprofits that are pitched must either be based in Greenwich or work in town. “It’s like Shark Tank for charities,” Nina says laughing, “except the women are so much nicer to each other than the TV sharks.”

This past fall, the fifty-nine PYP members gathered at First County Bank’s corporate offices in Stamford for pitch night. They came to listen to their peers tell the story of four Greenwich nonprofits (see sidebar, few years ago, Nina Lindia realized that her charitable opposite), and why each is worthy of this year’s group donation. giving was frequent but diffused: $50 here, $100 there, a “We run it like a boardroom,” Nina says. “We don’t apologize for ticket for a luncheon, a sponsorship for a walk. Nothing asking for money. We pitch.” seemed significant. “The asks were for really worthy The presentations were polished, professional, educational causes that my friends supported, but I thought there had to be a and persuasive, and most important, passionate, exactly what better way to give,” she says. the group of four envisioned when they Together with three friends, Brooke began PYP three years ago. There were “IT’S LIKE SHARK Bohnsack, Dara Johnson and Rachael TANK FOR CHARITIES, gasps as scary statistics were rattled LeMasters, she started Pitch Your EXCEPT THE WOMEN off, tears at some of the stories, and Peers (PYP). The group does exactly encouragement, cheers and applause both ARE SO MUCH what the name implies. Annually, before, during and after each pitch. It was NICER TO EACH members contribute $1,000 and then a perfect example of philanthropy done OTHER THAN THE TV correctly. pitch the causes that matter most to them to other members, hoping to SHARKS.” After pitch night, each nonprofit win the pooled money. The only rules: offered an open house, giving members —COFOUNDER NINA LINDIA

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Online voting followed, and a month later the winners were announced. Kids in Crisis received the top award, $40,000 (which was matched by KIC board member Christine Hikawa and her husband, David Windreich), with Mothers for Others receiving a second-place $17,000 award.

Jodi Applegate, one of the four pitch champions for Kids in Crisis, said the timing could not be better for the nonprofit since it has lost its state funding. “This money will help them provide services that are essential and very expensive,” Jodi says.

PYP member Karina Solomon, who also pitched for Kids in Crisis, adds: “The members of PYP commit time, money and resources to help those in need. Especially at a point in time when funding for so many charities is in jeopardy, such as is the case with Kids in Crisis, PYP is more critical than ever for those struggling in our area.”

Both Jodi and Nina are quick to point out that, although there were two winners, there were no losers since pitches raise the organizations’ profile before a group of women with the means to make a difference. Kids in Crisis is such an example. Last year the group came in second, winning $5,500. What a difference a year makes. —Valerie Foster

WORTHY CAUSES: 2017 PITCHES 1. KIDS IN CRISIS (THIS YEAR’S WINNER OF $40,000) For forty years, Kids in Crisis has protected infants, children and tweens from abuse, neglect and family crisis. They provide free, round-the-clock crisis intervention counseling, temporary emergency shelter, a wide array of prevention programs in local communities and area schools, and advocacy throughout Connecticut. PYP champions: Karina Solomon, Lisa Getson, Suzanne Stillwell, and Jodi Applegate

2. MOTHERS FOR OTHERS (THIS YEAR’S WINNER OF $17,000) Mothers for Others supports the well-being of underserved

families by providing diapers and gently used baby equipment for children from birth to three years old.

Started by local mothers, the organization has served more than 1,000 families in the Greenwich area since 2011.

Mothers for Others is volunteer run and receives client referrals from Family Centers, Greenwich Department of Human Services, Kids in Crisis and the YWCA. PYP champions: Rachael LeMasters and Brooke Bohnsack

3. EMILY CATHERINE FEDORKO FOUNDATION The Emily Catherine Fedorko Foundation was founded after sixteen-year-old Emily, then a student at Greenwich High School, died in a boating accident. ECFF provides funding to spread education, advocacy and awareness of boating and water-sport safety for adults and children.

Through the work of the ECFF, boating laws and boat-operator licensing in our area have been dramatically improved.

PYP champion: JJ Worden

4. FOOD RESCUE U.S.

Food Rescue U.S., with the help of volunteer drivers, picks up fresh, usable food from restaurants and grocers that would have otherwise been thrown away and delivers the food to families and organizations in need.

In Greenwich, food is picked up from Whole Foods, Kings, Upper Crust, Napoli and Sound Beach Pizza and is delivered to Kids in Crisis, Neighbor to Neighbor, Inspirica and Pacific House. PYP champions: Whitney Keys and Lara Stewart —Valerie Foster

THE FUTURE AND BEYOND The four cofounders never wanted PYP to become a franchise, but they always knew it could easily be duplicated.

There is now a chapter in Seattle.

(A friend of a friend of Nina Lindia saw a posting about PYP on Facebook and wanted to know more about it; Nina traveled to Seattle and a chapter was born.) There is also interest from women in other towns throughout Fairfield County, and Nina sees no reason why this idea cannot become a national initiative.

In addition to pitch night, there are social times throughout the year, so members can meet, mingle and get to know each other.

Last year PYP formed School PYP, a mentor program for high school girls in Greenwich. Teams from Greenwich High School, Sacred Heart and the Stanwich School delivered presentations to PYP members; $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 prizes were awarded.

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Happy Hearts bangle with red stone inlay and a .05ct floating diamond in 18k rose gold; $2,840.

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his view on how the Apple Watch will actually strengthen the fine timepiece industry.

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Kim-Marie making sure the water is just right in St. Lucia • Prince Charles on his recent visit to Antigua

Look Before Book Hurricanes Irma, José and Maria certainly battered the Caribbean. But there are plenty of islands that are open for business and are depending on your tourism dollars

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ver the last few months, I’ve visited several Caribbean Islands, and the question I get asked more often than “Who is watching your children?” is “Are the islands really okay after the hurricanes?”

The answer is that the vast majority of the islands are open for business. The Caribbean covers an area of over 1 million square miles.

That’s almost one third of the entire United States. There are islands that are still recovering, and some may take a long time, but the media

has left many travelers with the impression that the entire Caribbean has been devastated. Not only is this misleading, it’s damaging. The region supports more than 2.4 million tourism-related jobs and when travelers stay away unnecessarily, those economies suffer.

On a recent visit to Antigua to review the recently upgraded Curtain Bluff Resort, there was another well-known guest on the island, Prince Charles. The Daily Mail reported that the Prince was “cheering up those in the hurricane

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ravaged nation.” The story left the impression that Antigua was seriously damaged. Laying under a palm tree with nary a coconut out of place, I realized how misleading this was.

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donated $100,000 to aid in the rebuilding of the tiny island.

For a little insight, we spoke to travel writer and Caribbean expert Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon.

She tells us, “It will likely be months before the hardest hit islands like Barbuda, Puerto Rico and some of the Virgin Islands will be ready for visitors. But from the Bahamas to Tobago, the Cayman Islands to St. Lucia, there’s still a lot of Caribbean to go around. The best way to help the Caribbean is to visit the Caribbean.”

While there are about half the usual number of available guest rooms on the British Virgin Islands, the BVIs (along with St. Barths, St. Thomas and St. Maarten) will still host the Caribbean Regattas. Some smaller properties like Treasure Island and Sebastian’s were set to open this winter, but there has been no reopening date set for the Bitter End Yacht Club.

Yacht charter companies are also back in business. The Moorings, Marine Max Vacations and Festiva Sailing all reopened in December.

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left: The studio’s main space opens to a gracious entry and connects to Cindy’s office, a meeting room and rear office space. below: Cindy in her light-filled office overlooking East Putnam and beyond.

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indy Rinfret, principal designer of the award-winning, full-service interior design firm RINFRET, LTD. and author of two Rizzoli books on “Greenwich Style,” has relocated her firm to a new design studio at 39 Lewis Street in Greenwich. The new open and light-filled space provides Rinfret and her design team with a larger, more functional workspace that benefits the creative process and client meetings.

Still in the heart of downtown Greenwich, the space is close to the Avenue. among other perks, it’s next to one of Rinfret’s favorite restaurants, Le Penguin, and parking tends to be easier as well.

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Rinfret and her team moved this past summer, and her vision of an inspiring design studio in a “Modern European” aesthetic is now a reality. Inspired by her international travels, Rinfret had a hand in every last detail, from architectural elements to the window treatment fabrics and wallcoverings. “Everyone who walks into this space says ‘Wow,’ because they expect an office, but instead it’s inviting and beautiful, like a sophisticated yet welcoming home,” says Cindy.

Gaining access to the new studio feels like an exclusive treat. The main entrance is through a stately black door on Lewis Street with a subtle sign.

Up one flight is a door that opens up

to a grand space with large windows that bring natural light onto the handpainted chinoiserie wallcovering by Gracie. Honed matte marble floors by Greenwich Tile and elegant window treatments complete this “wow” of a first impression.

All 3,800 square feet of the new space is dedicated to the firm’s interior design business, and each team member has their own office and window within the open floor plan. A design library houses thousands of the best design resources, while multiple meeting areas and a chic kitchen and coffee spot offer the highest level of comfort and service for clients.

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ary Montella sat quietly in her wheelchair at Nathaniel Witherell, looking out a hallway window. Then a staff member wheeled her into the chapel to meet Rhys, a fluffy Old English sheepdog, and Finny, a sweet Tibetan terrier, and her demeanor changed. As Mary started petting the two therapy dogs—one for each hand—she sat up straighter, her face beamed

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with a big smile and her eyes got brighter. And then she looked deep into their eyes, engaging with each in a most special way.

“I just love them,” she says smiling. “They make me happy.”

Her reaction comes as no surprise to the staff. Justine Vaccaro, director of social work, says that what pets do for their residents, especially those with dementia and Alzheimer’s, is unparalleled.

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“Pets are consistent. No judgment. Just affection and comfort. They soothe and they interact, something our residents need. We often can’t get our residents to change their facial expressions, but the pets can. And when residents are agitated, the pets can bring ease and keep them from losing their patience.” In addition to improving mood, therapy pets can help to decrease anxiety, lower blood pressure and lessen boredom and loneliness.

Mary Tate, volunteer coordinator, says there is no special training for therapy pets, although all must be well-behaved, have a calm disposition and be comfortable around strangers and with being petted. She also notes that the owners should be outgoing and able to approach the residents.

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Sheepdog Rhys is the third therapy dog of his owner, Sandy Woodard of Stamford, who began volunteering in 1999. Woodard talks about a recent visit with an almost 100-year-old woman that exemplifies why he finds working with the elderly so rewarding. “As soon as she saw Rhys, she lost sixty-five years and returned to a place long forgotten. Her face lit up, she smiled, and she was happy,” Woodard says. And that’s why he and Rhys keep returning.

POOCHES ON PARADE Quarterly, therapy dogs arrive en masse. The most recent extravaganza was the Halloween parade, where each dog came dressed in costume.

ROBOTIC CATS Their hair feels real, they meow, lick their paws, and after a few minutes of petting, begin to purr. “Our dementia and Alzheimer’s residents really don’t know the difference between the robots and the real thing,” said Justine Vaccaro, director of social work. “They bring the same comfort and ease.” Plus, they can visit resident rooms 24/7.

A PUG NAMED MERRY Linda Marini, an administrative assistant, brings her pug to work, and many of the residents stop by daily to pet, play or just hang out.

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Lisa Wysocki of Greenwich brings in her cat, Bootsie, who travels from resident lap to resident lap.

Lisa enlisted the help of her friend, Greenwich’s Susan O’Leary, owner of Tibetan terrier Finny. The dog is the perfect wheelchair height for residents to pet him as they wait for Bootsie to land on their lap.

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Something New Stay and enjoy: Design details throughout the Flinders Lane space give it an edgy yet welcoming atmosphere.

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And now I know. There are nods to culinary traditions from Australia’s British settlers, as well as those from the Greek and Italian communities that followed. There is also a strong influence from India and Southeast Asia. It all comes together in fresh, eclectic and interesting ways. (Be warned: The menu does take some time to review, but since it’s online, we suggest a

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peek before your venture there.) And yes, kangaroo is served, but more on that later.

Co-owner Chris McPherson explains that when he and Chris Rendell decided to open an Australian restaurant in New York City a few years ago, they named it after one of their favorite narrow lanes in their hometown of Melbourne. And when it came time to open a second location, 184 Summer Street in Stamford seemed the perfect fit since it sits on a “lane” that leads into a parking garage, a path they share with the movie theater. »

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The décor is sophisticated and charming, yet slightly edgy, with floor-to-ceiling windows, lots of wood and subway tiles; pops of color mixed in with metal and black chandeliers; an open kitchen (complete with an eating counter), and an inviting bar. On first impression there’s an air of fun, and you are made to feel welcome by the knowledgeable and friendly staff, including McPherson, who is there most of the time to answer any questions and make sure things are running smoothly.

Now, back to that kangaroo. There was one offering—a starter salad starring this marsupial, which was simply grilled, thinly sliced and served with a mint, cilantro, chililime dressing. The result was an explosion of flavors that included a warm kick. (The current winter menu now serves kangaroo as a main course, with root vegetables, smoked yogurt and tangy sumac. Another intriguing blend of flavors to look forward to.)

If you’re a fan of scallops, try the Flinders Lane version, melt-in-your-mouth sweet, and immense. The scallops are served with braised hijiki (seaweed), pea shoots and a chili-cashew relish, making it a spectacular dish. Other starters we tried included the sausage rolls—pork encased in a light puff pastry served with peppery sambal mayonnaise. Our group shared one plate of these, and we all vowed we’d each get our own next time. Rounding out the first course were steamed buns, filled with a rich, juicy pork belly and presented with bright, pickled slaw and hoisin mayo. What a savory revelation, with its complementing textures and flavors, this rich yet delicate dish turned out to be.

We passed on the oysters but early diners take note: Get there before 7 p.m. for $1 oysters. (The varieties change; my editor was there recently and enjoyed a half dozen from Wellfleet.)

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The same endorsement goes to the roasted snapper—a big, lovely piece of perfectly cooked, flaky fish set atop a nest of baby bok choy and scallions swimming in the most fragrant soy-ginger broth, complete with large slices of fresh ginger. (The current menu now offers this preparation with branzino.) Of course, we also had to try Australian rack of lamb served with a tomato kasundi (chutney) and dusted with the Egyptian spice blend dukkah. Lovely. Flavorful. Tender. Perfection.

Our final shared main, coconut curry laksa, bowled us over with its huge shrimp

and chunks of crab. Blended with tofu, bean sprouts and rice noodles, it was served in a magnificent sweet-and-spicy coconut curry broth, an ambrosia guaranteed to warm up even the coldest night.

Speaking of sweet, be sure to order the sticky date pudding with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce for dessert. It is decadent but surprisingly subtle and intricate. For chocolate purists, save room for the brownie with an ever-so-moist-it-practically-oozes interior. So hard to resist.

We’ll be back, and next time we will order “Feed Me,” a five-course dinner at $55 a person. Brunch is also calling us, because that will be our chance to sample the Australian staple Vegemite, which they serve on sourdough (or gluten-free) bread with plum jam.

Sure, we hear Vegemite is an acquired taste, but when you’re sampling a culture’s food, you owe it to yourself to give the unusual a G try. We’re so glad we did.

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Dorothy Hamill Ice Rink Now in its forty-fifth year, this indoor facility offers residentsonly programs and lessons, as well as open-skating times for residents and nonresidents alike.

Hours: Check the website for skate times.

Fees: Resident, $8; children (5–16), $6; seniors (65 and over) and toddlers (4 and under), no fee. nonresidents, $10; children and seniors, $8 Skate rental: $4 Contact: greenwichct.org; Sherman Avenue, Greenwich

PlayLand Ice Public skating sessions are held seven days a week. Both the Main Rink or the Studio Rink are equipped with stateof-the-art music systems and disco lighting. Friday night teen skating, featuring DJ spun

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Hours: Check the website for skate times and special events.

Fees: adults, $9.75; children (10 and under), $7.75; seniors (65 and over) and tots (3 and under), $5.75 Skate rental: $4.25 Contact: playlandice.com; 100 Playland Parkway, Rye

Twin Rinks Public skating is offered daily during the school year. And every Friday night, the rink cranks up the sound system for Friday Night Glow Skate.

Hours: Check the website for skate times and special events.

Fees: Friday Night Glow Skate, $10; public skate, $9 (sign up for a free preferred-customer card and save 10 percent) Skate rental: $4.50 Contact: stamfordtwinrinks.com; 1063 Hope Street, Stamford

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Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park The centerpiece of the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park is the 17,000-square-foot rink, which offers free admission, free shows, special events and activities. The Express Skate option ($30 at the Pavilion) includes skate rental and allows you to skip to the front of the entrance line. Inside the Skating Pavilion lockers are free and locks can be purchased for $10 (or bring your own). The locker size is one square foot, which fits one pair of shoes and a small personal item.

Hours: Open daily through March 4, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (weather permitting) Fees: Skate rental, $20;

sock purchase, $6; helmet rental, $6; small bag check, $12; large bag check, $15 Contact: bryantpark.org; Bryant Park, New York City

The Rink at Rockefeller Center One of the most recognizable ice rinks in the world, the Rink at Rock Center is open for general admission skating on a first-come, first-serve basis through April. No advance reservations are available for General Admission, but a Premium Pass can be reserved and allows you to enter the ice through the VIP Igloo, includes skate rental, ninety minutes of skate time, hot chocolate and cookies.

Hours: Dates and times vary, check the website Fees: adults, $25; children (11 and under) and seniors (65 and over), $15; VIP access, $60 Skate rental: $12 Contact: therinkatrockcenter.com; Rockefeller Center, New York City

Wollman Rink at Central Park The Wollman Rink is located on the southeast side of Central Park, close to the Central Park Zoo. It offers ice hockey, skating school, party facilities, skate rentals and lockers.

Hours: Open Monday and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Fees: Monday through Thursday: adults, $12; children (11 and under), $6; seniors (65 and over), $5 Friday through Sunday: adults, $19;

children, $6; seniors, $9 Skate rental: $9; lock rental $5 Fees are cash only.

Contact: wollmanskatingrink.com; Central Park, New York City

The Rink at Brookfield Place Glide across the ice with sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and the Hudson River at this rink outside Brookfield Place (the original World Financial Center). In addition to a gorgeous backdrop, visitors can step inside the beautiful complex to warm up and enjoy hot cocoa, snacks and bathrooms.

Hours: Skating is available Monday through Friday in one-and-a-half hour sessions from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Saturday and Sundays from 10:15 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Fees: $15 Skate rental: $5 Contact: brookfieldplaceny.com; Brookfield Place, New York City

The Standard Ice Rink Combine a winter walk along the picturesque High Line or trip to the Whitney Museum with a stop at this quaint ice rink at The Standard Hotel. Nestled next to the rink is the Skate Haus with food and beverages.

Hours: Monday through Thursday, 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.; Friday 12 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. to 12 a.m.

Fees: Hotel guests skate free after 8 p.m.; adults, $13; children (12 and under), $6 Skate rental: $4 Contact: standardhotels.com; 848 Washington Street, New York City

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Greenwich Roller Skating Nights heat up all winter long as the Greenwich Civic Center hosts indoor roller skating on February 2, 9, 13, 16, 23 and March 16 and 23 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. A $10 fee includes skate rental. This is good oldfashioned family fun featuring games such as Roller Skate Limbo and the Elimination Game.

Check out the website for information on theme nights like Pajama Skate and Disco nights. greenwichrollerskating .webs.com Eastern Greenwich Civic Center G

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he Belle Haven Club was the place to be when American Idol winner Jordin Sparks took the stage at a benefit concert for Operation Smile. The intimate evening also included cocktails, a lavish dessert buffet, silent and live auctions and dancing to DJ Nick Dean. Lisa Lori, Trisha Dalton, Stacy Zarakiotis and CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota cochaired the event.

Proceeds will support the life-changing surgeries that are performed around the world by Operation Smile volunteers. operationsmile.org.»

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a comedic flair and a gift for dialogue when she interviewed for a job as a production assistant at CBS News. “About six minutes in, the interviewer said, ‘You seem really interested in storytelling but not as a journalist. I think you should go into entertainment,’” Kayla recalls. So, she packed her bags and headed west. That was in 1993. Today, with eight TV shows, three feature films, and numerous pilots, uncredited rewrites, and movie scripts under her belt, the forty-eight-year-old Harvard graduate has attained a level of success most screenwriters only dream about. “I’m lucky in that I’m really adaptable as a writer,” she says. “I’ve jumped around from different genres and that’s helped me stay working.”

Having just finished a two-year stint as a writer and supervising producer on the medical drama Code Black, Kayla is polishing up a pilot for ABC, which she is doing with producers Jason Reed and Sabrina Wind.

Called False Profits, the comedy centers around a group of women in Arizona struggling to make a go of it in a direct-sales cosmetics business. “It’s more soapy than Code Black,” Kayla says from her home office in L.A. “It’s Desperate Housewives meets Glengarry Glen Ross. It’s light and fun, but grounded with a little edge to it.”

Comedy. Drama. Kayla is at home in both worlds— which is a rarity. “When I was starting out, I didn’t ever really pick a lane. The only genres I haven’t written are animation and science fiction.”

Although she has lived in L.A. since the mid-90s, Kayla was born and raised in Westchester County, first in Chappaqua and then Bedford. She spent two years at Greenwich Academy before heading off to Harvard, her father’s alma mater. An extrovert, Kayla embraced the Academy and the opportunities it offered. “It was such a positive community,” she recalls. “It had all

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“KAYLA IS SO RECEPTIVE TO WATCHING THESE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE MOMENT. AND SHE’S WILLING TO GET RID OF STUFF THAT GETS IN THE WAY. WHEN YOU ARE WORKING WITH A WRITER LIKE THAT, MAGIC HAPPENS.” —CODE BLACK’S EMILY TYRA

the advantages of a coed school (students take classes at Brunswick) but also the advantages of an all-girls school. Women were empowered there. We weren’t the cheerleaders, we were the athletes. We were always first in academics; we didn’t have to take a back seat.”

Those lessons have served her well over the years, especially in an industry known for giving short shrift to females. “It was tricky for women back then,” she says about her early years in Hollywood. “At the time, there weren’t a lot of women I could look up to.” She credits several producers with helping her shape her voice, including John Landgraf, Nina Wass and Gene Stein.

Even today, women are still in the minority in maledominated writers’ rooms “There is a prejudice against women being funny, that somehow they can be a buzz kill,” she says. “Women have had to go out of their way to prove themselves.”

That need to constantly exceed expectations takes a toll. “An Emmy-Award-winning writer I know got fired off a show because the men didn’t like the way she giggled when she pitched,” Kayla says. “I’ve heard it all:

left: Wyatt Nash and Rose McIver with Kayla on the Petals on the Wind set below: Kayla and Rob Lowe on the Code Black set

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Men say, you talk too much or not enough. You smile too much or not enough. Men can get away with mistakes, missteps and bad behavior, but women are held to a much higher standard.”

Given the current climate in Hollywood, where many of the industry’s leading icons have been felled by allegations of sexual misconduct, the times may finally be changing. “I think there will be a big push for female voices,” Kayla says. “The male apple cart is falling to pieces.”

That’s good news for the young women who are just starting their careers. Code Black’s Emily Tyra (who plays Dr. Noa Kean) bonded with Kayla right after moving from New York to Hollywood to join the series in Season 2. “I’m always aware of the female writers in the room, because they tend to be in the minority,” she says.

Emily particularly liked the episodes Kayla wrote. “She has the unique ability to hit you emotionally right where it hurts. That’s difficult for most people.” Emily also appreciates Kayla’s approach during shooting. “Most of the work happens on the set. Kayla is so receptive to watching these things that are happening in the moment. And she is willing to get rid of stuff that gets in the way or isn’t useful. When you are working with a writer like that, magic happens.”

HARVARD TO HOLLYWOOD Confident and ambitious, Kayla started honing her craft in college, where she wrote two travel guides for the “Let’s Go” series and spent a year as a stringer for the AP. “Second semester my senior year, I had a couple of electives left. I had done a lot of photography and a fair amount of writing in college, so I took a creative writing class and a photography class,” she said in a 2011 WorkStew podcast with Kate Gace Walton—another Greenwich Academy alum. “My photography teacher hated me and my writing teacher loved me. He was very supportive and encouraging. He said, ‘You’re a very funny writer. You should think about going to Hollywood.’”

Kayla ended up moving home after graduation and subsequently interviewed for the job at CBS. When all signs pointed west, the twenty-three-year-old took note and hit the road for Hollywood. “At that time, in the early ’90s, there was this mass exodus to L.A. TV and movies were exploding,” she says.

Through a friend of a friend she landed a job as a receptionist at New Line Cinema. She lasted three days. “I kept hanging up on celebrities,” she recalls.

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for American Gladiator), where she spent the next year and a half plugging away at scripts in her spare time.

Eventually her perseverance paid off and she landed a job writing for a kids’ show called All That. That in turn led to a stint on a tween favorite Sweet Valley High. Kayla hit paydirt in 1996, when she sold a spec script to New Line.

“It was a gothic horror comedy set in an all-girls’ boarding school,” she says. “It was sort of a retelling of Jekyll and Hyde meets Mean Girls before there was a Mean Girls.” The movie was never made, but it launched Kayla’s career to the next level. She sold several feature scripts and did feature rewrites for Warner Brothers, Miramax and Fox among others. During that time, Fox hired her to develop pilots for Fox TV, which led to a writing job on David Kelley’s seminal dramedy, Ally McBeal in 2000.

“The show had just won the Emmys [ten in total, including comedy series, writing and lead actress],” she recalls. “I was the only other writer he hired. It was not really your typical collaborative effort since he worked on his own. He’s such a brilliant writer, he knew how to shape stories. Because I was not running the writers’ room, I could take a step back and watch the sausage being made—and occasionally throw in a little meat— and what an incredible sausage it was.”

Confessions of a Shopaholic, a big-screen adaptation of the popular Sophie Kinsella novel starring Isla Fisher, came next, followed by a “goofy” parenting show called Up all Night starring Christina Applegate and Will Arnett.

In 2014, the folks at Lifetime hired Kayla to write a screenplay of V. C. Andrews’ cult classic, Flowers in the Attic. The made-for-TV movie starring Ellen Burstyn was a runaway success, with more than 6 million viewers.

“None of us could have predicted that,” says Kayla.

“That movie literally played all over the world. It has the distinction of being the number-one hit television movie of the past ten years.” She penned the sequel, Petals on the Wind, which was also a ratings success.

Two years ago, Kayla joined the writing staff of Code Black, a medical procedural that takes place in the emergency room of an L.A.-based public hospital. The show, which is based on the 2013 documentary by physician Ryan McGarry, is addictive. It is told from the perspective of the doctors working under extremely stressful conditions and its ensemble cast includes A-list celebrities Marcia Gay Harden, Luis Guzman and Rob Lowe.

“From the beginning, there was a conscious effort not to be a typical medical procedural,” says Kayla. “Michael Seitzman, the showrunner and creator, is a talented writer and visionary. He always pushed the writers to

explore the deeper emotions and life-or-death decisions of the doctors and patients as well as bigger social issues that extend beyond the ER.” The writers drew inspiration from current events, weaving them into each week’s story line: In one, a crazed drug addict gets his hands on a pistol and starts firing randomly, taking the life of a first-year resident.

In another, a grandmother catches the measles from her unvaccinated grandson and suffers irreversible heart damage. In another, a beloved neurosurgeon must navigate the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s. “There was a lot of verisimilitude with the medicine,” says Kayla. “It was always real and gory. We relied on our doctor consultants and medical techs to help us get it right.”

When asked to name one of her favorite episodes, Kayla responds without a moment’s hesitation. “Episode 206, Hero Complex. I worked on all the episodes, but I’m really proud of that one. It’s about women taking control of their lives—and in this case, their death.”

The episode is a powerful piece that deals with campus rape culture and assisted suicide: In one story line,

Kayla at home in Hancock Park with her trusty sidekicks.

a young woman awakens in the ER to learn she has been the victim of a brutal rape, while across the room another young woman with an incurable brain tumor fights for the right to end her life. “Even her mother and her doctors are against her,” says Kayla. “That was the hardest part to watch. We were crying on set. I was crying, Rob was crying.”

Emily Tyra also says Episode 206 made a big impact.

“It was an intense episode, and for her to navigate those things so eloquently was amazing,” she says. “It was tricky and hard in a very male-oriented cast and crew to deal with topics that make people feel uncomfortable, and she stepped up as a leader.”

THE OMG MOMENTS Kayla got married thirteen years ago to an Irish actor named Peter O’Meara. He had just moved to L.A. after finishing Band of Brothers in London and is currently starring in a series that premiered in December on the History Channel calle Knightfall. “We met through a friend at a dinner party at Al Pacino and Beverly

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D’Angelo’s house.” She paused, waiting a beat before continuing. “They weren’t there.”

Funny story: their friend, Alfred, was house-sitting at the time. But Kayla had met Al Pacino a few months earlier at a dinner party on Christmas Eve at a house on Alfredo Street. “There was a whole Al thing going on,” she recalls. “It’s a miracle we didn’t name our first child Al.” Instead, she and Peter named their twin boys Myles and Clive.

Today, the couple lives in Hancock Park, where they juggle the demands of a creative life while raising two active ten-year-olds. “The tough part about being in production are the hours, which are long and hard. But the great news about writing a feature is that I have time alone and a lot of flexibility.”

When she’s working on a TV show, Kayla’s day is defined by the hours she spends in the writers’ room, talking about stories, outlining episodes and fleshing out characters. When she’s got her producing hat on, she is involved with every detail from pre-production wardrobe meetings and casting sessions to overseeing the action on set. “A TV show is a very complicated piece of machinery,” she says. “Being on set is hard because it’s long hours and very grueling. But it’s fun, too.”

On the flip side, writing movies is a solitary endeavor.

“You have moments when you wonder if you might have made a different choice during your career. And then those moments when you’re like OMG, I’m sitting in the director’s chair with Marcia Gay Harden, a two-time Oscar winner, talking about my writing. Or there’s Rob Lowe and my inner twelve-year-old is flipping out.”

Speaking of Lowe, the actor joined the cast of Code Black in Season 2. He plays a dashing, emotionally wounded Army doc who has been sent to Angels Memorial Hospital for reasons that remain a bit mysterious. “The thing about Rob is, he’s really funny,” says Kayla. “Within two minutes of meeting each other, we were cracking each other up. He enjoyed that I was a fangirl and he really respected me as a writer.”

Rubbing shoulders with Hollywood A-listers can be as fun and glamorous as it sounds. “There are definitely fancy lunches and dinners,” she says. “And I do still love those moments when I’m at a movie premiere or I’m on the red carpet. I have friends who are well-known.

What they are not seeing is me in my cargo pants and sweatshirt with my hair in a mommy clip, like today.

For every fancy dinner, there is a month and a half of blood, sweat and tears.”

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“For every fancy dinner, there is a month and a half of blood, sweat and tears,” says Kayla of the flip side to Hollywood’s pomp and circumstance.

Suits. Ironically, the Riverside native didn’t meet Kayla in Greenwich or even in the Hollywood spotlight.

“We didn’t meet on a set in Burbank, but in the maternity ward at Cedars in 2007,” Sarah says. “Our firstborns share the same birthday and we became fast friends. I marvel at the way she does it all—family, work, political activism and our four-hour coffee dates—with such grace and humor. Kayla’s my first stop for advice on everything from schools, to scripts, to interior design. She’s smart, savvy and generous with her time. Honestly, I’m not really sure what I ever did without her.”

Even with all of her success, Kayla faces the uncertainty all writers face—even those with a successful track record. “Every time you finish a project, you start back at square one,” Kayla says. “It’s like pushing a boulder up a hill. When my fingers leave the keyboard, my

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work stops. When you are not doing the work, the work is not getting done. It’s like living under a constant term-paper deadline. You have to be super disciplined.”

Fortunately, she’s been at it long enough that she’s learned to take the ups and downs in stride. “It’s like a muscle you build over the years,” she says. “When it’s going well, it’s a great process. But you hear a lot of ‘nos’ before you hear ‘yes.’” It can reach levels of absurdity that are almost unbelievable. Kayla recalls the time she was working for Miramax on a movie (Project A), and doing a rewrite on another movie (Project B). At the same time, she was getting fired off Project A while the people whose movie she was rewriting (Project B) were meeting to rewrite the movie she’d been fired from (Project A). “We were all on set together in Toronto having a laugh about it,” she says.

The bottom line: “I’ve probably written forty or fifty scripts—fifteen to twenty features, thirty TV pilots. It’s not necessarily the credits but the continuity of employment that counts. It’s much more about playing a long game.”

That’s something she tries to get through to people who come to her with ideas for scripts. “Literally everyone believes they have a great idea for a movie. I get the call at least seventeen times a week—my friend’s niece’s son or my insurance agent or my plumber—and they say, ‘I have a great idea for a screenplay’; I say ‘Terrific. Turn your idea into a 115-page script, then rewrite it twenty times. Then come up with twenty more ideas, and write and rewrite those screenplays. Then you’ll understand what it takes to be a professional screenwriter.’”

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Donna Castillo emerges into the day, pushing her two-year-old daughter in a stroller down Southwest 96th Street. A stiff wind buffets them as they go. They turn left at the car wash, onto Southwest 137th Avenue, and Donna notices something across the road, something a little odd. In the distance there are tall palms swaying in the wind and a few harmless clouds skating over them. Is that rain she feels—those droplets? Where’s it coming from? Across the road, a field of strawberries and tomatoes belonging to Pine Island Farms stretches away to the east—but the thing Donna notices is a tractor in the foreground, stuck among the muddy crops, bucking to and fro as it tries to lurch free. The tractor draws behind it a boom sprayer—thirty-six feet wide with little nozzles attached—that throws a dense cloud of mist into the air.

Donna is a former schoolteacher married to Juan Castillo, an accountant in Miami.

She’s seven weeks pregnant with their second child. To keep fit during her pregnancy she goes for twice-daily walks around the neighborhood, and that’s why she’s here on Southwest 137th, watching the mired tractor in its cloud of mist. The wind swirls, changes direction. The mist flies across the road and engulfs the two of them, Donna and her daughter. The liquid is odorless and colorless, and might easily be taken for water; in fact, it’s Benlate, a widely used fungicide manufactured by the American conglomerate DuPont.

On June 15, 1990, Donna gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named John. When the nurse went to put antibacterial drops in the newborn’s eyes, there was a hesitation. Something was wrong. John appeared to have no eyes at all—just two lumps of unformed tissue.

In mild cases of this condition, called microphthalmia, one eye is a little smaller than the other with no loss of vision; but in severe cases, both eyeballs are so underdeveloped as to be completely useless: John Castillo would be forever blind.

The question was, what caused it? Genetic tests turned up nothing. But in 1993 a reporter for the British Observer, John Ashton, called Donna out of the blue.

He had investigated a cluster of Scottish children born with microphthalmia and anophthalmia (without eyes altogether) and came to suspect Benlate. Did Donna live near a farm? Had she been sprayed by an unknown substance? Then she might well have a cause for John’s blindness—and a case.

This is not the kind of legal case, however, that excites most lawyers. The great cautionary tale up to that point was that of Boston lawyer Jan Schlichtmann, who in the 1980s dared to go up against corporate giants

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“IT WAS LUNACY FOR ME TO TAKE THIS ON. THIS SITUATION SEEMED TO SHOUT, ‘RUN FOR THE HILLS!’ BUT STILL I FOUND MYSELF RUNNING TOWARD THE CASTILLOS INSTEAD OF AWAY FROM THEM.” —JIM FERRARO

W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods, accusing them of poisoning the groundwater in Woburn, Massachusetts, and causing a rash of fatal childhood leukemia cases. At the end of a nine-year war, chronicled in the book and movie A Civil Action, Schlichtmann won a partial victory for his clients—but lost his car, his house, and very nearly his sanity.

So when Miami lawyer and Greenwich native James L. Ferraro agreed to see Donna Castillo, he did so with reluctance. These sorts of cases were terribly hard to win; one had to prove exposure to the substance in question and then—the nearly impossible part—draw a precise, science-backed link between the exposure and the harm. It has taken lawyers four decades to prove tobacco harmful in a court of law. Benlate? It had come before the courts for damaging crops, but never for damaging humans.

In the previous couple of years, Ferraro had made his name litigating asbestos cases, first for pipefitters around Miami and then for union workers farther afield—Chicago, Boston, New York. He helped pioneer bundling asbestos cases together in a “rocket docket” that allowed judges to sweep out their backlogs and

allowed clients suffering from mesothelioma and lung cancer to reach quick settlements. For Ferraro himself, the sheer number of his asbestos cases—it went from 100 to 4,000 in eighteen months—added up to enormous paydays. His first year doing asbestos cases, 1991, he made in the hundreds of thousands of dollars— and he never made less than $1 million thereafter.

KARMIC SUCCESS “I considered myself very lucky by the time Mrs. Castillo came in,” says Ferraro. “If you had said to me when I was in law school, ‘Someday, dude, when you’re like really old, you’re gonna make a half million bucks a year,’ I would’ve thought, ‘That’s f—ing great.’ But here I was, thirty-two years old, the money flowing in.”

Ferraro is sitting high above Manhattan in his Midtown penthouse. At sixty years old, he is obscenely fit—densely muscled, small-waisted—as though determined to live forever. There are incentives: He has a beautiful young wife, Megan, his third, and a oneyear-old child, Mateo, his fifth: the other children are James, thirty-one, a lawyer in Ferraro’s firm; Andrew, twenty-seven; Alexis, twenty-four; and Dmitri, five.

“It’s quite a collection,” he says with a contented smile.

Jim and his wife, Megan, with son Mateo

Outside the wraparound windows you can see the Hudson River’s golden skin shine in the late afternoon sunlight, and beyond it—one imagines—the plains of Nebraska or Oklahoma rolling away to the western horizon. Central Park lies dizzyingly at one’s feet, down, down in a city whose streets have already gone dark as the sun flames over New Jersey. Ferraro spends only a few days a month here. His main residence is a penthouse on Fisher Island in Miami, purchased for $21.5 million in 2016. Then there’s the casually elegant Shingle-Style compound on Martha’s Vineyard, overlooking Nantucket Sound, which Ferraro built for $27 million in 2009.

“I knew he’d be successful—that was a given,” says Marc Eichberg, a financial planner whose friendship with Ferraro dates to their sophomore year at University of Miami. “He’s smart, he’s driven, he’s passionate. But who could have fathomed this?”

The first of Ferraro’s three rules for living is “There’s nothing wrong with having fun,” and certainly his toys are major league ones: He has owned jets, restaurants, and even an arena football team, the Cleveland Gladiators. The second rule is “Try not to hurt others,” though, try as he may, Ferraro is no stranger to

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Ferraro works hard and plays hard—keeping family at the center of his world.

by the time the case came to trial, Ferraro demonstrated to the jury that his exposure to asbestos had increased his chance of contracting lung cancer by a factor of five.

The jury awarded Zabka’s widow $850,000.

In due course a union leader who happened to be Zabka’s best friend asked to meet with Ferraro, ostensibly to express his gratitude. The man did so, and then opened the gate for Ferraro to represent union workers around the country. Karma? If you do the right thing, Ferraro believes, everything else falls into place.

But the Castillo matter was an extraordinary test of this philosophy. “Nobody is going to take her case, because you’re going against DuPont,” Ferraro says.

Worse, he would soon find out, nobody had ever won a verdict against a chemical maker for causing a birth defect: Cancer and other ills, yes, but never a birth defect. Worse still, Ferraro’s firm would have to foot the entire bill, since most mortals can’t pay to challenge a Goliath like DuPont, which would surely draw out the process for years. And if he lost, as was likely, all that time and money would be down the drain.

Several larger firms had already turned the Castillos

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controversy. He left his second wife at the altar—the papers called him “the runaway groom”—after being surprised by a change in the vows that he said slighted the children of his first marriage. (The two did end up married for a while.)

The third rule is “Help as many people as you can”— this being “the real scorecard of my time here on earth.” Ferraro gives millions to worthy causes. And, disturbed by a rightward shift in American politics that he thinks shortchanges regular people, this former Reagan-Bush voter switched sides. In his view, a great nation should provide a decent minimum wage and ready access to health care and higher education (“After that, you’re on your own”). But that’s not what he sees happening now. “Why do the great dynasties not exist anymore? Because the ones in power kept taking more and more and more.”

Ferraro has built his career on siding with the little guy against the behemoth. His first asbestos trial looked like a lost cause, since his client, a pipefitter named Joe Zabka who was dying of lung cancer, was a smoker. “I just liked him,” Ferraro explains. Though Zabka had died

away. “I’m a very idealistic person, I really want to make a difference,” Ferraro says. “But sometimes the best thing you can do for people is to tell them to get over it and get on with their lives. Because the other side of the coin is, you take them into the case, you’ll be in it for years, going through all this emotional trauma, and lose at the end. And what’s the point of that?”

In Ferraro’s recent book about the case, Blindsided: The True Story of One Man’s Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes, written with Laura Morton, he details his internal debate as a weary, sometimes teary, Donna Castillo sat across from him: “It was lunacy for me to take this on. This situation seemed to shout, ‘Run for the hills!’ but still I found myself running toward the Castillos instead of away from them.”

But was there really a case?

NO GOLDEN CHILD Jim Ferraro grew up on Valleywood Road in Cos Cob, the eldest of Luella and the late Louis Ferraro’s three children.

The young Ferraro was a rebellious student who once merited a D in conduct; he was far more interested in golf, baseball and football. Ferraro’s friend Steve Gordon—they met on St. Catherine’s Midget League baseball team—says, “We had similar personalities: very competitive, very athletic, very annoying to our families.” Ferraro later played inside linebacker on the undefeated 1974 Greenwich High School football team; Gordon was the starting quarterback. “Jim is extremely bright,” Gordon says, “but I will say, none of us saw that in the early days. Back then, we just saw a guy who would not be denied. Worked harder than anybody.

He was a tough, tough kid, not to be messed with.”

No doubt playing football under head coach Mike Ornato helped instill a robust work ethic. But the greater influence on Ferraro was his father. Lou would have Jim do chores and more chores, over and over, until they could scarcely be done better—and, to Jim’s dismay, never offer praise. (It was Luella who calmed him and “helped me keep my sanity.”) Only later did Ferraro learn that Lou’s pride in him overflowed when he talked to others. Though Gordon and Ferraro lost touch for a while when they were young professionals, Gordon happened to have a locker near Lou’s at the Greenwich YMCA. Lou would regale Gordon with news of Jim’s successes. Gordon thought, “Yeah, yeah,” until he saw Jim on TV one day after winning a big case.

Once he got to the University of Miami, Ferraro overindulged in his First Rule for Living. All fun, no

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work. His roommate, Scott McConnell, a friend from Greenwich who later served as a Greenwich police detective and now works as an investigator for Ferraro’s firm, says, “You read the book, right? So you’ve ‘seen’ me and him in the dorm room, setting up the bar? He was a little bit on the wild side.” After sophomore year, Ferraro paused to assess his future. It was time to get serious, to let his native intelligence shine.

All these years later, according to McConnell, success has not spoiled Ferraro; the two still joke and shove each other around like schoolkids, especially when on vacation up in the Vineyard. “He’s got a heart of gold, that guy, he really does,” McConnell says. “But when he puts on his trial hat, things change. He wants justice— he wants justice.”

DAVID VS. GOLIATH Ferraro conceived the DuPont case as “confronting a bully.” But his firm was small and only newly flush, and therefore vulnerable to the wily tactics of the veteran DuPont legal team. Immediately DuPont drew up a witness list of more than 300 people in several countries. It would have taken Ferraro over a year, working every weekday, to depose them all. Even when the judge prodded DuPont to trim the list, the company made scheduling depositions difficult.

Meanwhile, DuPont’s co-defendant, Pine Island Farms, tried to show that Donna hadn’t been exposed to Benlate in the first place. Pine Island had bought the fungicide in May 1989 and used it that month, farm manager Lynn Chaffin suggested. If that statement was completely true, the case was over: Whatever liquid wetted Donna and her daughter would have been something else.

But Ferraro then produced John Ashton, the reporter, who detailed an eight-minute phone conversation in which Chaffin admitted to him that Benlate was used on the field around November 1, 1989, soon after new tomato plants were put in the ground. Chaffin denied any memory of the call. It took Ferraro “a year of subpoenas” to secure, but in the end he presented Chaffin with the stark evidence of the Observer’s phone records. (Even so, Chaffin insisted in court proceedings that the farm had not used Benlate that early November.)

“He has a touch of aggression and a first-rate mind,” says Stuart Z. Grossman, a top Florida trial lawyer who knows Ferraro well. “It’s very difficult to trip him up.

He looks you straight in the eye, he has a strong physical presence, and he ropes you in and corners you—that’s what he does with witnesses.”

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Ferraro went up against DuPont’s science—a much taller order. Before the trial, he discovered a University of California study showing that benomyl, the active ingredient in Benlate, had caused eye defects in 43 percent of lab rats tested. When pregnant rats were fed a protein deficient diet, eye defects jumped to 61 percent.

The study convinced Ferraro of the case’s merit. He learned too that benomyl specifically attacks the eyes— it’s drawn there by a substance in the cells—and can destroy them in the delicate early phases of pregnancy.

Surely, DuPont must have done its own studies en route to gaining EPA certification. Ferraro and an associate traveled to DuPont’s document depository in Delaware—a huge, dim warehouse packed with paper but lacking any semblance of order, “which I suspected was very much by design.” A poker-faced librarian watched over their search, misdirecting them all the while, Ferraro believes. They quickly learned to use her as a reverse barometer. If she waved them one way,

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One of Ferraro’s main reasons for penning Blindsided was to expose the way chemicals are brought to market.

they went the other; if she directed them upward, they looked downward. From those endless drifts of paper, the two lawyers extracted a couple of gems: “dermal transmission” studies showing that benomyl permeates the skin and gets into the bloodstream; and “in vitro” tests showing that human cells die with very small doses of the chemical.

But the eureka find, deviously filed under “Special Luncheon Memo(s),” was two rat studies conducted

by Robert Staples, DuPont’s head of toxicology. The first, from 1980, delivered bad news about benomyl: Eye defects occurred at low levels of exposure. The second study, from 1982, offered a much rosier picture.

A baffled Ferraro pored through thousands of pages of documentation, trying to figure out what had changed.

After deposing Staples, Ferraro had his answer: The methodology had changed. Having been reprimanded for producing the 1980 report without the input of higher-ups—who disparaged Staples as “a lone wolf”

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Now Ferraro was convinced he had enough scientific evidence to sway a jury. But astonishingly, during pretrial hearings, DuPont moved to have its own studies—studies it had done to get Benlate certified as safe—stricken as “junk science.” That brazenly hypocritical tactic irks Ferraro to this day. “That’s the reason for the book,” he says, voice rising. “It’s crazy how they do that. They want to get the product on the market, so they’ll put anything in front of the EPA, but when you use the same submissions against them— all of a sudden it’s junk science.” (He’s intent on bringing about a federal law to redress the situation, but knows he’ll have to wait until the regulationhostile Trump Administration leaves power.)

On June 7, 1996, three years after Donna Castillo first walked into Ferraro’s office, the jury rendered its verdict: DuPont and Pine Island were negligent to the tune of $4 million. (DuPont bore 99.5 percent of that penalty.) For the first time ever, Big Chem had been held responsible for causing a birth defect in a child.

The award would allow John Castillo to attend the Perkins School for the Blind near Boston, the oldest and most esteemed such school in the country.

But the verdict did not hold. A Florida appeals court overturned it in 1999, claiming the trial judge should have excluded Ferraro’s science experts—the bedrock of his case. The appeals judges singled out the rat and in vitro testimony: For the scientists to extrapolate the dire results of those tests to humans was a bridge too far, they held. And didn’t the EPA certify Benlate as safe for pregnant women? (Well, yes, but it did so based on that dubious 1982 study.)

Ferraro and his cocounsel, Liz Russo, had known they were in trouble when one of the judges asked, “Don’t you think $4 million is a lot of money to give to a kid with no eyes who is essentially going to live a normal life?”

All was in ruins. But as Ferraro’s friend Marc Eichberg says, “He will not give up, he will not give up, he will not give up.” The problem was, he had only one option: go to the Florida Supreme Court, and the odds of it agreeing to even hear the case were as bad as 100 to one, Ferraro estimated. As for reversing the appeals court? A pipe dream. But the court did hear the case—and in July of 2003, by a four-to-two vote, it reinstated the Castillos’ $4 million verdict. The ten-year battle was over.

Ferraro achieved a second victory in representing the

Ferraro with Bill Clinton at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser hosted at his home on Martha’s Vineyard

“HE’S GOT A HEART OF GOLD, THAT GUY, HE REALLY DOES. BUT WHEN HE PUTS ON HIS TRIAL HAT, THINGS CHANGE. HE WANTS JUSTICE— HE WANTS JUSTICE.” —SCOTT McCONNELL

families of the Scottish children found years prior by the Observer reporter who set the case in motion. After yet more bruising battle in the courts (in Delaware, DuPont’s home court, as it were, where the streets of Wilmington were festooned with DuPont banners), he worked out a settlement worth millions, if “hardly the hundreds of millions I had hoped for.” Meanwhile, DuPont, tired of defending Benlate against the claims of blind children, removed the billion-dollar product from the market without ever admitting its harmful effects.

Today Ferraro hopes to shepherd Blindsided to major motion picturedom, in the tradition of A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich. “I think our story is better than either one of those,” he says with good-natured swagger.

Done correctly, he believes, the movie would shed light on the shady (though not necessarily illegal) ways and practices of corporate power—an old theme that cases like Castillo vs. DuPont makes new again and again.

And what of John Castillo? A YouTube video from several years ago shows him in Boston’s Old South Church, age twelve, singing the hymn “One Small Child” with the Perkins School for the Blind bell choir.

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iving a powerful life isn’t necessarily about >> 1 KEEP A DAILY money and fame. Nor is it something that’s only FOOD, FITNESS AND SLEEP DIARY. attainable when all the stars align perfectly. It’s “This will give you a sense of about making the most of every opportunity that comes what you are currently doing in these areas and what you can change or improve. For instance, along. Sometimes that can feel overwhelming. On any if you see that you are eating French fries six days a week, given day, most of us are pulled in a thousand different that might get your attention!” directions. To help us get a handle on how to stay focused 2 on the end goal, we asked a group of local experts to share >> PUT RECOVERY tips on everything from sleeping more effectively to eating TIME INTO THE MIX. “I see this all the time with more healthfully. Follow these sanity-saving hacks to help athletes who develop muscle strains from overdoing it.

Especially as we age, giving you live your best, most fulfilling life now.

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No matter what your age, there are plenty of reasons to keep moving. “Physical fitness is the key to preventing injuries later in life,” says Katherine Vadasdi, a sports medicine specialist at Orthopaedic & Neurosurgery Specialists (ONS) in Greenwich, Stamford and Harrison. “Being active now allows you to do some of the things you may take for granted as you get older, such as getting up out of a chair.

We asked Dr. Vadasdi for some key tips to maximize your daily workout. Here’s what she had to say.

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>> 3 STRIVE FOR THE BIG THREE. Cardio, strength training and balance training. “I’m a big believer in incorporating these elements into any workout program,” she says. “Balance training, which helps strengthen the muscles around the hips and the core, prevents injuries and falls. This is not something you want to start at eighty but in your thirties.”

>> 4 THINK ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU WANT TO BE. “If you are very athletic, think about increasing your strength training and stretching routine.

If you’re not active, think about ways to incorporate something into your life. For many people that means taking a walk with friends or working around the yard. If you walk your dog twice a day, that’s an activity. A goaloriented person might plan to train for a 5K race or a hike they’ve always wanted to do.”

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ourselves time to recover between training sessions is important.”

DON’T FEAR FOOD The adage “you are what you eat” has taken on new meaning in this country, where unhealthy eating habits have contributed to an obesity epidemic. There’s no silver bullet, but even a few small changes can go a long way. “Being healthy requires a more holistic approach,” says Cai Pandolfino, cofounder along with her husband, Jeffrey, of Green and Tonic. “To maintain sanity and stay healthy, it starts with an approach that embraces a love and respect for good, honest food. Life is too short to nourish ourselves in any other way.”

Here are Cai’s top tips to maximize healthy eating.

>> 1 WIN THE MORNING, WIN THE DAY. A healthy morning routine is the best foil for hectic days. “Enjoy a cup of coffee—but only after a big glass of water with lemon if you can, and follow it up with something green like a smoothie with a generous handful of greens or a low-sugar green juice,” says Cai.

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ADD DON’T SUBTRACT. Forget about deprivation, try adding delicious and healthy options to your diet. Eat a salad every day, add a portion of vegetables to every meal, enjoy a piece of high-fiber fruit or a cup of herbal tea. “Adding good stuff to your diet will eventually crowd out the desire for bad stuff. You’ll feel more energetic.”

>> 3 WHEN IN DOUBT, DRINK. Hydration is key for energy, mental clarity, flushing toxins, supporting digestion and healthy weight and skin.

“Simple tricks like drinking a glass of water before a meal, or incorporating tea, low-sodium brothy soups and water-rich fruits and veggies, such as watermelon and cucumber, are great hydration hacks.”

>> 4 REMEMBER THAT HEALTHY FATS ARE YOUR FRIEND. Think avocado, chia seeds, nuts, salmon and eggs.

“Because they are digested more slowly, this causes a nice steady release of glucose into the bloodstream and helps you feel full longer with consistent energy.”

>> 5 TAKE CARE OF YOUR GUT. “So much of our immunity is wrapped in our gut.

Make sure you incorporate fermented foods like kombucha, kimchee, sauerkraut, and yogurts in your diet.”

career goals WORK IT The term self-care is most often associated with setting aside personal “me” time.

Who knew it applies to the workplace, too? “To do the best in your profession, you need to be at your best,” says Karen Elizaga, whose Forward Options executive coaching practice is based in New York. “When your mind is clear, your heart is open and you’re physically fit, anything is possible.”

Here, the part-time Westport resident shares some pointers for becoming more effective in the office.

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in the deal—let key people know. Otherwise, you can be overlooked.”

>> 3 STAND TALL. “The way you carry yourself is key,” she says. “Whether you walk onto a stage or into a room for a meeting, you want to appear confident, eager and reliable.”

>> 4 WORK TOWARD GETTING TO ‘YES.’ “Often, we are stuck in the old way of doing something. When someone on your team suggests something new, instead of saying, ‘We’ve never done it that way,’ consider the alternative.

You can learn something new and get to an outcome that is both new and innovative.” »

THINK ABOUT THE YEAR AHEAD. “Ask yourself these questions: Where do you want to end the year? What do you want to achieve? What goals do you want to set? Then create concrete concepts to be guided toward those goals.”

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BE YOUR OWN BEST ADVOCATE. “So many of us just put our heads down and do the work and forget to be our own cheerleader. If you are making great strides at your company— if you got that grant or brought

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Mindfulness is one of those buzz words that gets tossed around a lot but no one is ever sure precisely what it entails. “It’s exceedingly simple in concept but difficult to practice, especially in today’s environment with all the technology at hand,” says Christina Schwefel, a psychologist, professor and owner of Go Figure Barre Studios. The ability, if not compulsion, to multitask across multiple platforms comes at a high cost. “We are less centered and present than ever,” she says. For Christina, the goal is embodied mindfulness, and she underscores the idea that “you can do it all, but not all at once.”

To help you get there, she has these suggestions.

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BEGIN A DAILY MEDITATION PRACTICE.

BREATHE.

“Start with an achievable, attainable goal,” she says.

“Just five minutes a day for a week. Focus on breath, open eyes or closed. Eventually work your way up to ten minutes a session.”

>> 2 PUT THE PHONE DOWN FOR AN HOUR A DAY. “I am the poster child for cellphone temptation,” says Christina. “People are going in a million different directions and these devices are the vehicle for pulling people in those directions. Just say, ‘This is my text-free, phone-free, and device-free hour.’ Same time, every day, no exceptions.”

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Marie Kondo’s best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, sparked a major movement around the cathartic benefits of decluttering. The organizational specialists of the Riverside-based Faire Évoluer, take a more practical approach.

“It’s true that everything has to bring you joy,” says Lily Perry, the company’s cofounder. “But if your only black sweater isn’t bringing you joy, keep it until you get another one.”

Here she and her business partner, Sarah Baldwin, help you create a clutter-free closet.

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“I can’t underscore this enough.

Full-capacity diaphragmatic breathing. Most of us are not breathing correctly.”

“It’s nearly impossible to stay organized when you have too many clothes,” says Lily.

“Get rid of clothes that don’t fit or are outdated trends.”

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LOOK INSIDE. Develop an exercise practice that encourages being centered and present and includes a focus on posture and alignment.

“Do something once or twice a week that is not competitive but rather makes you focus inward and gain a deeper understanding of your own patterns and process.”

Bins, shelf dividers and drawer organizers are your friends.

“We use shelf dividers to partition stacks of sweaters or to separate handbags and keep them upright,” says Sarah.

“We use drawer organizers to separate socks, scarves, underwear. And shoe boxes or clear bins to store shoes. These little helpers keep things neat and make it easy for you to put things back in the right place.”

KEEP EVERYDAY ITEMS VISIBLE. “What you wear most frequently should be easy to see and easy to reach,” says Sarah. “Store seasonal clothes and party gowns elsewhere.”

>> 3 DITCH THE MISMATCHED HANGERS. Having the same hangers creates a more uniform look.

Lily and Sarah favor velvet slim-line hangers, but “any will do, as long as they are all the same,” says Lily.

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In a town where there are countless volunteer opportunities, few organizations do it better than the Junior League of Greenwich.

“Our membership is a force of nature,” says president Debra McLaughlin. “We get a lot done.” Indeed. The group’s signature fundraising events—the Enchanted Forest and Touch-a-Truck— routinely raise thousands of dollars each year to support various community projects.

Debra offers these words of wisdom on how to get—and stay—involved.

Too often parents of young children try to control their kids, which works up to a point.

“Then preadolescence and adolescence sets in and all bets are off,” says Darby Fox, a child and adolescent family therapist working in Fairfield and Westchester counties and New York City. “Research tells us that the gold standard of parenting is high-structure, high-nurture.”

To help parents maximize their parenting skills, Darby offers the following advice.

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CONSIDER WHY YOU WANT TO VOLUNTEER. “You want to work with people who have like-minded goals,” says Debra. “People who share your passion.”

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KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE. “Remember to respect the diverse lifestyles of those around you. Not everyone can devote time in the mornings; others need to be home when their children get out of school.

Recognize that everyone has a unique contribution to offer.”

>> 3 KEEP AN OPEN MIND. “There is nothing that is instantaneously gratifying except ice cream,” says Debra. “Even our Done in a Day projects involve substantial teamwork and planning. You will be

completely fulfilled at the end of a project if you commit to the preparation and execution of the volunteer opportunity.”

>> 4 KNOW YOUR LIMITS. Pressed for time? Keep it simple. Help with a food drive.

“That’s a wonderful way to contribute to the community,” she says.

FORGET THE KID’S TIME OUT. Take a parent’s time out.

“Too often in the heat of the moment, a parent does what the child does and it becomes a battle of control,” says Darby.

“Take a moment to regain your composure. Take a breath.

Figure out what you want, and communicate that clearly.”

>> 2 STICK TO YOUR GUNS. “If children miss the bus because they can’t get out of bed and are unorganized, don’t just yell at them and drive them anyway.

Let them know they will have to wait until you are available and let them sign in late to school. Don’t make excuses for them. They will quickly learn time management, responsibility and respect.”

>> 3 FOLLOW-THROUGH IS KEY. Grounded means grounded, even if that means your child is

going to miss a party or a special event. “When you follow through on your actions, children learn respect and the importance of communication.”

>> 4 TALK ABOUT TECH. “The tech piece is here to stay,” says Darby. “Monitor your kids’ devices. Talk to them about how they can be used to hurt people.

If a kid needs a smartphone before the age of twelve, they are not under correct supervision.” »

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People who are chronically sleep-deprived are at greater risk for all kinds of health problems. “Sleep is just as important as diet and exercise,” says Dr. Saul Rothenberg, a sleep specialist at Greenwich Hospital’s Sleep Center. The good news? “There is a lot of machinery in your brain to help you sleep, and your job as a sleeper is to get out of the way and let all those systems do their job.”

Dr. Rothenberg offers some sleep hygiene dos and don’ts.

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EXERCISE IS IMPORTANT BUT NOT RIGHT BEFORE BEDTIME.

>> 2 DON’T LOOK AT THE CLOCK DURING THE NIGHT. “Set your alarm and forget about it. It’s normal to wake up multiple times during the night, but you won’t remember because you’re in a sleep state.

Looking at the clock will bring you out of that sleep state.”

>> 3 AVOID STRESSFUL ACTIVITIES LATE IN THE DAY. “Once you know your optimal bedtime, don’t do anything too engaging or stressful two to three hours beforehand.” Even reading can be problematic.

“When you use it as a form of a distraction and letting the world go, that can be very helpful. But if you find yourself reading for two or three hours, that’s not productive.”

>> 4 MAINTAIN BALANCE. “Don’t be too hungry or too full, which causes disruptions in sleep.”

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“If you exercise within two hours of going to bed, that can lead to wakefulness.”

>> 6 BED IS FOR SLEEPING AND ROMANCE. “If you start spending more time in bed not sleeping, then you are weakening the connection between bed and sleep.”

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“You can’t force yourself to go to sleep. But if you wake up at the same time every morning, your body will tell you when to go to sleep.”

BE PART OF A “WE” There are plenty of studies that show the benefits of a stable relationship. “When we’re emotionally bonded with another person, we are fully engaged, ” says Trevor Crow Mullineaux, a Fairfield-based licensed marriage and family therapist. To help facilitate healthier relationships, it’s important for couples to feel connected to one another.

Here are a few tips for relationship success.

>> 1 FOLLOW THE 33 PERCENT RULE. “We are constantly making bids for each other’s attention.

We can’t always show up 100 percent of the time,” says Mullineaux. “Strive for being emotionally available 33 percent of the time. That goes for your kids, too.”

>> 2 START SMALL. “Put your phone down and ask your spouse or partner, ‘Are you okay?’ Followed by the magic words, ‘Tell me more.’”

>> 3 LISTEN AND TRY NOT TO FIX THINGS IMMEDIATELY. “That just marginalizes how someone is feeling.”

>> 4 IF YOU MUST TRY TO FIX, ASK PERMISSION. “Otherwise they will feel as if they failed at trying to solve their own problem. Emotions are genderless. Men and women have the same need for emotional security and bonding,” she says.

>> 5 FOCUS ON YOUR OWN EMOTIONAL PROCESSING. “You need to know your trigger points. In stressful situations, great couples can calm down, step aside, take a breath and be balanced and open.” And speaking of being open, “The great love affairs that endure have one thing in common,” says Mullineaux.

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Art & Antiques ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun., noon5 p.m.; Fri., until 8 p.m.

AMY SIMON FINE ART, 1869 Post Rd. East, Westport, 259-1500. Tues.Sat., 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or by appointment.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376.

Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., 1-5 p.m. Current exhibits: American Abstraction: The Print Revival of the 1960s and 70s, Treasures of the Earth: Mineral Masterpieces from the Robert R. Wiener Collection, In the Limelight: Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits from the Herakleidon Museum. Free for members, $8 general admission.

CANFIN GALLERY, 39 Main St.,Tarrytown, NY, 914-332-4554. Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appt.

Paintings and sculptures by established and emerging contemporary artists from all over the world.

Flinn Gallery

Jazz Party by Billy the Artist

Beyond Street Art at the Flinn Gallery is the first exhibition of its kind for Greenwich. The show brings together the explosive energy of five prominent urban artists whose styles, backgrounds and color-filled creations are demonstrated through diverse expressions of imagination. The works by Lady Pink, Swoon, Billy the Artist, Paul Deo and Blake Jamieson will be on display through Wednesday, March 7. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. The gallery is located on the second floor of Greenwich Library and open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday until 8 and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. ( for more events visit greenwichmag.com )

CAVALIER GALLERIES, 405 Greenwich Ave., 8693664. Mon.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.6 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m., or by appt. A showcase of a select group of established and emerging artists who represent the finest in modern painting, sculpture and photography.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING, 299 West Ave., Norwalk, 899-7999.

Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appt.

DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m.

Permanent exhibits include Energy Exhibit, Sound and Light Galleries, Preschool Power, Sports Science and Solar Legos.

FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach Rd., Fairfield, 259-1598. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m.

FLINN GALLERY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7947.

Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Thurs. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. See highlight on this page GERTRUDE G. WHITE GALLERY, YWCA, 259 E. Putnam Ave., 869-6501.

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Works by Lucie Anderes, Landscapes of the World, opening night reception Fri. 9, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

GREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL, 299 Greenwich Ave., 862-6750. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. The Bendheim Gallery hosts major exhibitions every six weeks; visit greenwicharts.org to learn about upcoming exhibits.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland Rd., 869-6899. Wed.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. Thurs. 1-April 15, An American Odyssey: The Jewish Experience in Greenwich.

J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN GALLERY, 1657 Post Rd., Fairfield, 259-8753.

Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555.

Tues.-Fri. and Sun., 1-5 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

On Saturday, February 24 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 25 at 4 p.m, the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra welcomes back one of its most popular performers, Jon Nakamatsu, known for his powerful and elegant artistry. He will perform Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2. The concert will take place at the Performing Arts Center at Greenwich High School. A free pre-concert lecture will be held one hour before each performance.

Tickets are $40. Students $10.

For more information visit greenwichsym.org.

KENISE BARNES FINE ART, 1947 Palmer Ave., Larchmont, NY, 914834-8077. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or by appt. Visit kbfa.com for show information.

LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM, 295 West Ave., Norwalk, 838-9799. Wed.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. Visit lockwoodmathewsmansion .com for program information.

LOFT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION, 575 Pacific St., Stamford, 247-2027 or loftartists.com.

Jon Nakamatsu

MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily, 10 a.m.5 p.m.

Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.; Sun., 1-4 p.m.

MICHAEL FLORIO GALLERY, 135 Mason Street, 8585743. Specializing in established and emerging contemporary artists, marine art and curiosities.

Open most days by chance or by appointment, Michaelflorio.com.

SAMUEL OWEN GALLERY, 382 Greenwich Ave., 422-6500 or 3251924. Mon.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.

-6 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.3 p.m. The gallery is committed to exhibiting the work of emerging to mid-career artists, as well as a variety of strong secondary market works.

NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY, 914-2516100. Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.5 p.m.

SILVERMINE ARTS CENTER, 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, 9669700. Wed.-Sat., noon5 p.m.; Sun., 1-5 p.m.

PELHAM ART CENTER, 155 Fifth Ave., Pelham, NY, 914-738-2525 ext. 113.

Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. noon-4 p.m.

ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER, 145 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, 866-2744.

SM HOME GALLERY, 70 Arch Street, Greenwich, 629-8121, Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.5 p.m. or by appointment.

Featuring award-winning regional and national contemporary artists. Visit sandramorganinteriors .com for exhibit information.

STAMFORD ART ASSOCIATION, 39 Franklin St., Stamford, 325-1139.

Thurs.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-3 p.m.

Thurs. 1, Faces and Figures; Sun. 25-March 15, 45th Student Show. Reception: Sun. 25, 4-6 p.m.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

THOMAS J. WALSH GALLERY, Fairfield University, 1073 N. Benson Rd., Fairfield, 254-4000, ext.

2969. Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun., noon-4 p.m.

UCONN STAMFORD ART GALLERY, One University Pl., Stamford, 251-8400.

Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport,

226-7070. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m.

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-2800. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., noon5 p.m. Permanent collection on view.

YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE GALLERY, Paul Rudolph Hall, York and Chapel Streets, New Haven, 432-2292. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-0611.

Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs., until 8 p.m.; Sun., 16 p.m. Permanent collection includes African art, American decorative art, American paintings and sculpture, ancient art, Asian art, coins and medals, and modern and contemporary art.

Concerts, Film & Theater ARENA AT HARBOR YARD, 600 Main St., Bridgeport, 345-2300.

Visit websterbankarena.com for more shows and times.

AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER, 272 Bedford St., Stamford, 661-0321.

Mar. 4, Oscar Night live at the Avon, have your photo taken on the red carpet, watch the telecast of the celebrity arrivals of the 89th Annual Academy Awards with host Jimmy Kimmel, enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a buffet dinner and desserts. Come dressed in Hollywood red carpet or Bollywood attire. Tickets are $100 for Avon members,

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CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC & THE ARTS, 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, 914-232-5035.

THE CHAMBER PLAYERS OF THE GREENWICH SYMPHONY, Sundays at Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Rd., 4 p.m.; Mondays at Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr., 7:30 p.m., 622-6611. Adult tickets $25; student tickets $5. Visit greenwichsymphony .org for special performances.

Coming in March.

CURTAIN CALL, The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349 Newfield Ave., Stamford, 329-8207.

Thurs. 1-24, Newsies.

DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill

St., Bridgeport, 5761636. Fri. 2-18, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.

EDGERTON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Ave., Fairfield, 371-7908.

FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY, on StageOne, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, 259-1036. Visit fairfieldtheatre.org for dates, shows and times.

GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE, 6 Main St., East Haddam, 860-873-8668.

No new shows in February.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. Friends Friday Film: Fri. 2, Funny Face; Fri. 9, Belle; Fri. 16, Loving; Fri. 23, Fences, 8 p.m.; films are free.

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JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville, NY, 914-7737663. Visit website for titles and times burnsfilmcenter .org.

LONG WHARF THEATRE, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven, 787-4282. Tues. 7 p.m.; Wed. 2 and 7 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 3 and 8 p.m.; Sun. 2 and 7 p.m. For show information on the 2018 season or to purchase tickets visit longwharf.com.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-9269.

For shows and times visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org.

RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN, 37 Halpin Ln., Ridgefield, 431-9850. Fences in February.

STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace

Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 325-4466. Visit stamfordcenterforthearts .org for more shows, dates and times.

AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 8695272. Sun. 4, First Sunday Bird Walk at Greenwich Point, 9-11 a.m.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. Wed. 7-10, Evita.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540, ext.

108. Visit auxdelicesfoods .com for menu listings and class dates.

Lectures, Tours & Workshops ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun. noon-5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Fri. 2, First Fridays: A Contemporary Cocktail Party with live music, 79 p.m.; visit aldrichart.org for more information.

BOWMAN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC NIGHT, NE of Milbank/East Elm St. rotary on the grounds of Julian Curtiss School, 869-6786, ext. 338. Wed. 7 and 21, Observatory open to the public free of charge, 79 p.m., weather permitting.

Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Greenwich.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376.

Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. The museum offers docent-led tours,

Boris Mikhailov (Ukrainian, b. 1938) Untitled from the series Sots Art, 1975–1990 Gelatin silver print handcolored with aniline dyes on paper Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 2000.1131/01773 Photo by Peter Jacobs © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Intersections of Art and Science in the Soviet Era January 27–May 20, 2018

BRUCE MUSEUM www.brucemuseum.org

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Bruce Museum The Bruce Museum’s newest exhibition is American Abstraction: The Print Revival of the 1960s and ’70s, which runs through Thursday, March 1. The show features twenty-three works by thirteen artists. All of the prints in American Abstraction are from the Museum’s permanent collection, and many are being exhibited at the Bruce for the first time.

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family gallery tours and toddler tours; visit brucemuseum.org for details.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-9372047. Clay Art Center’s mission is to offer a stimulating space for studio practice, exhibition and educational opportunities to better serve the community.

CONNECTICUT CERAMICS STUDY CIRCLE, Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr., 966-9291.

Mon. 12, Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence with guest speaker Marietta Cambareri, Curator, Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1:15-3 p.m. For reservations and information: rsvp@ ceramicscircle.org.

FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach

Rd., Fairfield, 259-1598. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon4 p.m. Visit fairfieldhistory.org for tour information.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7900.

The library offers a variety of programs: Blood Pressure Screenings, Drop-In Computer Lab, Chess Club, Volunteer Tax Assistance, Foreign Affairs Book Discussion Group; for dates and times visit greenwichlibrary.org.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, 26 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua, NY, 914-232-9555. Guided tours are Tuesday through Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-4519. Tues.-Sun. noon5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Sat. 17, Family Art Experiences, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272.

Sun. 4, first Sunday walk at Tod’s Point, 9 a.m.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540 ext. 108.

Visit auxdelicesfoods.com for menu listings and class dates.

BEARDSLEY ZOO, 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport, 3946565, open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. One of Connecticut’s top family attractions. See more than 300 animals representing North and South American species and learn about their endangered and threatened species, which include the Amur (Siberian) tiger, Andean condor, Ocelot, Red wolf, Maned wolf, Giant Anteater and Golden lion tamarin. Then grab a bite at the Peacock Café and take a ride on the carousel.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH, 4 Horseneck Lane, 869-3224. Visit bgcg .org for events and programs.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m.

Sun. 4, First Sunday Science at the Seaside Center, 1:304 p.m.

DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m.

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hands-on science classes are conducted for schools, groups and the general public. discoverymuseum .org.

DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636.

Thurs. 1-11, Pinocchio. dtcab .com.

EARTHPLACE, 10 Woodside Lane, Westport, 227-7253, The mission of Earthplace is to build a passion within the community for nature and the environment through education, experience and action, earthplace.org.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland St., 869-6899. Call to learn more about family programs.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave.,

622-7900. The library offers many programs for children: Wee Ones, Tales for Tots, Baby Lapsit, Mother Goose Story Time, call or visit greenwichlibrary.org for dates and times.

IMAX THEATER AT MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. For films and times: maritimeaquarium.org.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555.

Tues.-Fri. and Sun. 1-5 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Picture This! Saturday Story Time, select Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.

MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

The aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate and protect the Long Island

Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine science, and environmental education, visit maritimeaquarium.org for classes and times.

NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER, 144 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, 966-9577. Visit newcanaannature.org to learn about Friday Family Fun Night.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 4385795. Sat. 24 and 25, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 2 p.m.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521 or stamfordmuseum .org. Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN,

303 West Ave., Mathews Park, Norwalk, 899-0606.

Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Ongoing exhibits: Energy Lab, Tot Town, Build It!, ColorCoaster, Light Gallery.

Ongoing events: Storytelling Yoga; Zumba Kids; Zelda the Zany Owl; Boogie, Bop, Skip and Hop; Fab Fridays!; Mother Goose; Mini Makers; Mutt-i-grees; Toddler Tales; Resource Center Reads! Story Time; visit steppingstonesmuseum.org for daily classes and times.

WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 222-7070. Visit westportartscenter.org to sign up for workshops.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177.

Sun. 11, Junie B. Jones, 1 and 4 p.m. G

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS ARTS & ANTIQUES

EVENTS

Drew Klotz Kinetic Sculpture . . . . 33

2018 Peterson Business Award Dinner to Benefit Greenwich Library . . . 96 A-list Awards 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . 74 The Avon Goes To Hollywood/ Avon Ga La La 2018 . . . . . . . . 94 Best of the Gold Coast . . . . . . . . 46 Best of the Gold Coast Online Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Bruce Museum: Fifth Annual Art of Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Bruce Museum: Hot Art in A Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Fairfield County's Community Foundation/Giving Day . . . . . . 73 Junior League of Greenwich Children's Theater Presents Casey Carle's Bubble Mania . . . 96 Moffly Media's 2018 Event Lineup . . 83 Near & Far Aid: A Grand Affair Gala 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Women in Business 2018 . . . . . . . 98

AUTOMOTIVE Stamford Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

BUILDING & HOME IMPROVEMENT Austin Patterson Disston Architects . . . . . . . . . 61 California Closets . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Douglas VanderHorn Architects . . . 15 Grand Entrance Gates . . . . . . . . . 60 Sound Beach Partners . . . . . . . . 21

BUSINESS & FINANCE Citbank/Perry Gaa & Joseph Potvin . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Cummings & Lockwood LLC . . . . . 10 First Republic Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 11

EDUCATION & CHILDREN Brown Pre-College Programs . . . .

Brunswick School . . . . . . . . . . .

King School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Salisbury Summer School . . . . . .

Tabor Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Villa Maria School . . . . . . . . . . .

Wolfeboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

62 63 63 63 62 63 62

ENTERTAINMENT AM 1490 WGHC: Anything Goes with Kim Berns . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Ridgefield Playhouse . . . . . . 100

FOOD, CATERING & LODGING Greenwich Staffing . . . . . . . . . . 60 JK Chef Collection . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Prime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

HEALTH & BEAUTY Caron Renaissance Ocean Drive . . 25 Greenwich Dental Group/David A. Zadik, DDS and Steven Altman DMD, FAGD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 J House Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 3 The Nathaniel Witherell . . . . . . . . 27 NicholsMD of Greenwich . . . . . . . . 3

Park Avenue Vein Laser Center . . . 10 Rye Vein Laser Center . . . . . . . . . 10 Yale NewHaven Health/ Greenwich Hospital . . . . . . . . . . 7 Yale NewHaven Health/ Northeast Medical Group . . . . . 37

JEWELRY Betteridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 4 Peter Suchy Jewelers . . . . . . . . . 75 Steven Fox Jewelry . . . . . . . . . . . 55

NONPROFIT Junior League of Greenwich . . . . . 39

REAL ESTATE Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/ New England Properties . . . . . . 18 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury . . . 35 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Tamar Lurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 David Ogilvy & Associates . . . Cover 2 Douglas Elliman Real Estate . . . . . 17 Sotheby's International Realty . . . 8, 9 William Raveis . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5, 13

REAL ESTATE/DESTINATION John's Island Real Estate Company . . 54

TRANSPORTATION Rudy's Executive Transportation . . . 51

MISCELLANEOUS Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Westy Self Storage . . . . . . . . . . . 51

PLAN AHEAD The Real Estate Issue

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ast month a new term was introduced to the meteorological lexicon, Bomb Cyclone. Most of us still have no idea what it means beyond freezing temps, crazy winds, lots of snow and a day off from work.

But something that sounds so terrifying certainly yielded some gorgeous landscapes. Belle Haven resident James Eisenberg captured this stunning shot of the Sound frozen over in Quarry Farm. If we have to endure the worst of winter, at least we get views like this one. G

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