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ON THE COVER: Katrina Adams, at Life Time Fitness in Harrison
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favorite issue of WAG — our August sports issue, with the April horse issue running a close second. As a longtime cultural writer, I’ve always valued sports as much as the arts, because both tell us a great deal about the individuals and civilizations that embrace them. Where they part company, however, is in their approach to reality. The arts are like a fixed parallel universe. “Hamlet” may be set in medieval Elsinore or modern New York, but Hamlet always dies in the end. Whereas who can say who’ll win the US Open, which begins Aug. 31? Among those who’ll be watching with particularly keen interest is Katrina Adams, the groundbreaking new head of the Harrison-based United States Tennis Association. She’s not only the first African-American to head the organization, she’s the first former professional player to do so. Colleen caught up with our cover subject recently at neighboring Life Time Athletic and discovered a woman of grace and power — one who’s determined to keep sportsmanship in her sport. As usual, we’ve left few sporting stones unturned. You’ve got your golf (Evan’s profile of golf course rater Pinky Markey); your football (Evan again on Giants punter Steve Weatherford’s soft spot for homeless kitties); your spinning (Mary’s look at Peloton); your table tennis (Audrey’s retake on PingPong diplomacy); your equestrian sports (our salutes to the age-defying American Gold Cup as well as our country’s newest star, American Pharoah); wrestling/fitness (Mary’s profile of multifaceted actor Giovanni Roselli); and your extreme activities (our interview with dauntless high-wire specialist Nik Wallenda). And there’s plenty of sports in our home and fashion pages, courtesy of Reece and Danielle R. But as this is our “Passion Plays” issue (noun, verb), we thought we’d do some wordplay on the word “play.” “Play”-
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fullness certainly defines the Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” project, in which each of seven members took on a particular vice for an exhibit or installation. Let yourself succumb — without any feeling of guilt. “Play” can also mean “a play,” as in “An Iliad,” the tour-de-force one-man show that’s a first for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. But “play” is also a great verb, one we don’t use enough. While Jeremy visits Monaco, once more playground to the stars, and Mary discovers her inner Picasso at the hot, new Muse Paintbar in White Plains, I reconnect with my inner yogi in stories on Life Time Athletic and Thann Sanctuary Spa in our “Where Are They Now?” section. It was fascinating to take the Life Time class, in which I flowed from one pose to another in a heated room, and then later, the Thann class, which featured the measured, sustained poses of classic hatha yoga. Talk about a yin-yang experience, one that certainly enabled me to exhale. And that’s what August should do, allow us to take a breath or a break. Whether you’re putting up your feet in Mount Kisco or Monte Carlo, just remember to take August WAG with you. Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Water Music” and the forthcoming “The Penalty for Holding,” part of her series, “The Games Men Play,” which is the name of the sports/culture blog she writes at thegamesmenplay.com.
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From “Envy” — Adrien Broom’s “Poisoned With Envy” (2015), photograph. Courtesy Hudson River Museum.
SIN – THE ULTIMATE PASTIME. Certainly, the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance must think so. Throughout the summer, the alliance, which consists of eight venues in the two counties, is presenting an unprecedented group of shows on “The Seven Deadly Sins,” one vice per institution. (The one nonparticipant is The Barnum Museum, whose historic home has been closed since an F1 tornado struck Bridgeport on June 24, 2010.) Credit Bartholomew F. Bland, deputy director of the Hudson River Museum, for the idea. “I’ve always been intrigued by it,” says Bland, who’s a big fan of Paul Cadmus’ lubricious Renaissance-inspired series of egg-tempera panels on the subject, now part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. “It struck me how they were made in the 1940s (’45-’49) but seemed very modern.” (Other wellknown interpretations include Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s group of engravings, 1556-58; George Balanchine’s 1933 ballet, a collaboration with Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Lotte Lenya; and Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s tapestry series, circa 153234, which The Met recently exhibited.)
The Alliance was one with Brueghel, Balanchine and company. “We talked about doing the seven virtues, but no one wanted to do them,” Bland says with a laugh, adding that the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, whose “Lust” exhibit just closed, does have a companion show on “Love,” the first of the seven virtues. Once the idea was agreed on, it quickly became clear, Bland says, that each of the member museums had a favorite vice (or two) and that each would take an approach that played to its strengths. The result is a mix of group and solo shows, single and varied themes and media, historical and contemporary works. The Alliance offers free admission and a 10 percent gift shop discount to members of all participating museums and, for nonmember visitors, a free same-day pass to all museums when paying admission at any one of the participating museums. Or you can just go to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, put your feet up and watch videos of all the exhibits. Don’t be “Sloth”ful, though. Read on.
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From “Sloth” — Mats Bigert, in collaboration with Sina Najafi, “Crossroads,” (2015), sculpture. Image courtesy The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield.
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ENVY WHERE: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers WHEN: Through Sept. 26 THE CONCEPT: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the envious one of all? Multimedia artist Adrien Broom rounds up the usual suspects (figures from “Cinderella,” “Snow White” and “Beauty and the Beast”) and some unusual ones as the greeneyed monster rears its head in the installation “Envy: One Sin, Seven Stories.” FOR MORE: 914-963-4550, hrm.org
GLUTTONY WHERE: Katonah Museum of Art WHEN: Through Sept. 6 THE CONCEPT: The Katonah Museum has chosen to interpret gluttony with a one-woman show that is sure to curtail it. Emilie Clark views consumption, decay and regeneration through installations of her family’s food waste – eggshells, desiccated tangerines, and fish heads in jars. “The Delicacy of Decomposition” offers a contemporary twist on the memento mori paintings of the Renaissance and the Baroque, reminders that we are all dust and unto dust we shall return. FOR MORE: 914-232-9555, katonahmuseum.org
GREED WHERE: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College. WHEN: Through Oct. 11 THE CONCEPT: The Neuberger’s approach to its chosen vice was to explore a material that has always inspired
the greedy. Some 20 contemporary artists from at home and abroad consider “Gold” as a metaphor for beauty, transcendence and, particularly, our commercial culture. (See Dario Escobar’s “Untitled,” a gilded McDonald’s cup.) FOR MORE: 914-251-6100, neuberger.org
LUST WHERE: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill WHEN: Alas, “Lust,” perhaps everyone’s favorite deadly sin, has just closed. You can, however, if you are 18 and over, see the catalog of its tough-tender, challenging works, which consider the eroticism of gay, straight and cross-gender identities, at www.hvcca.org/current-exhibitions/. Meanwhile, “Love: The first of the 7 Virtues,” embracing many media and types of amour, remains on view through Dec. 6. TEEN LOVE: Visit hvcca.org/pdf/LOVE%20Teens.pdf to read what older teens think of the “Love” show. CONTACT: 914-788-0100, hvcca.org
PRIDE WHERE: Bruce Museum, Greenwich WHEN: Through Oct. 18 THE CONCEPT: They say, “Pride goeth before the fall.” But what a spectacular fall it is, as seen through prints, drawings, paintings, rare books and a video installation that charts the course of art history from the Renaissance to our own time. Among the works is Albrecht Dürer’s engraving “The Great Fortune — Nemesis” (circa 1501), a study of the great bounty — and
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SLOTH WHERE: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield WHEN: Through Sept. 19 THE CONCEPT: In a word — recliner. Artist Mats Bigert and Cabinet magazine editor-in-chief Sina Najafi have taken a few of the most delectable symbols of do-nothingness, thrown in a couple of gin and tonics and added the requisite TVs to allow visitors to put up their feet and savor video presentations of the six other sins so they don’t have to travel to the other museums. (How clever and sneaky is that?) We say, “Pass the chips.” SINFUL BONUS POINTS: “Sinful Weekend” on Sept. 19 CONTACT: 203-438-4519, aldrichart.org
WRATH WHERE: Wave Hill, The Bronx WHEN: Through Sept. 7 THE CONCEPT: Wave Hill is a public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River. So it’s no surprise that the center chose to interpret its vice as the “force of nature.” A dozen contemporary artists plumb natural disasters real and imagined and their effects without and within. It’s the flip side of the natural world just as we like it — framed and contained. SINFUL BONUS POINTS: Sinful Weekend, Aug. 8 (artists’ talk at 2 p.m.) and 9 (“Wrath and Resilience: Film Shorts,” 2 to 4 p.m.) FOR MORE: 718-549-3200, wavehill.org
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BRAWN, BRAIN – AND HEART Giovanni Roselli muscles his way to a multi-hyphenate career BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ROZYCKI
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Giovanni Roselli works in the elite Tier 4 private facility within the Equinox fitness club in Greenwich.
T’S NO SURPRISE THAT AN INTERVIEW WITH GIOVANNI ROSELLI ENDS WITH HIM HANDING YOU MORE THAN ONE BUSINESS CARD.
product called Maxi Climber. But if his face is already familiar, it could be from Roselli’s other careers. For those who follow, he’s a longtime professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment and then independent circuits, whose credits include the 2006 defeat of Vampiro in Palermo, Italy, to capture the Nu-Wrestling Evolution heavyweight title. And he’s also an actor who’s worked with Academy Award-nominated Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in “Baby Mama,” starred as Tony in 2014’s “Jersey Shore Massacre,” appeared on the “Batman”-inspired show “Gotham” and, most recently, had a memorable turn in the premiere of Showtime’s wry new Steve Coogan comedy, “HAPPYish.”
After all, the Westchester-raised Fairfield County resident spends most days juggling a handful of careers with impressive precision. Getting together to chat is an exercise in coordination, though the end result is never in question. As Roselli assures, “I will make it happen!” And he certainly does, meeting with WAG on a summer morning at Equinox in Greenwich, where he’s carved out a slot from 9:45 a.m. until he has to catch the 11:12 train to Manhattan — for business, of course. It’s all about the commitment, discipline and dedication Roselli brings to every aspect of his life. He is a personal trainer, having started with Equinox in Scarsdale nearly a decade ago. He now serves as not only a coach in the elite Tier 4 training program in Greenwich but also as an educator for the company on the national level. Roselli is also a fitness expert and model, involved in projects with Nike, writing a column for an online resource for professional trainers and serving as the model for the packaging of a
THE ROAD TO SUCCESS Not bad for the guy who calls himself “a skinny kid who wasn’t known for being athletic.” Roselli would graduate from Harrison High School and Sacred Heart University, where studies included sports management and business. “Many people peak in college, and I was just get-
ting started in college,” he says. Post-college, the longtime wrestling fan found himself living in Kentucky as part of the WWE minor-league system. “I got called up to the RAW roster,” he says of the marquee division. And, basically, he never looked back. “My first match on live TV was at Madison Square Garden,” he says, smiling at the memory of meeting longtime idol Hulk Hogan backstage. “You talk about full circle… That’s when I knew you could achieve anything in life.” It has been a career that brought Roselli around the world. WAG asks what name or character he wrestled under? “You’re going to find this hard to believe that I was called Romeo,” he says, breaking into a dazzler of a smile. Wrestling and fitness would go hand in hand. “I got into fitness because I wanted to get in shape for wrestling,” he says. Eventually, he says, “It led me down this road,” to a related career in fitness training and education. “Equinox opened my eyes to the fact I didn’t
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know a lot about exercise,” he says. Roselli, who proudly offers up that his success has come without any drugs or “shortcuts,” did have a few bumps in the road. “I feel if what I was doing was better, I wouldn’t have been injured four times.” Major orthopedic surgeries have included shoulder, knee and bicep. At one point, Roselli needed a second shoulder surgery. He traveled to noted specialist Dr. James Andrews in Alabama, with the surgery, subsequent physical therapy and living expenses wiping out the then-21-year-old’s life savings. But, he says, it was an investment in his future. With Equinox, Roselli says he has learned a lot for himself — but also much he can pass along. “Now I can start, after nine years, I can give back a little,” he says of his expanding into fitness education. Throughout, he draws on Equinox principles of MNR, movement, nutrition and regeneration, the latter term referring to practices such as relaxation, rest and massage. “If you’ve got all three of these working for you, you’ve got a pretty nice life.”
LIGHTS, CAMERA… Roselli’s life in the world of sports and fitness led him, most naturally, to yet another career, acting. “It transitioned from wrestling,” he says with a laugh. “I was a professional wrestler. It was like theater.” Now a member of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), Roselli’s a New York-based actor with an agent. “A lot of wrestlers go into acting because (they think) ‘What do I do now?’” he says. For him, it was a more conscious choice. He wanted to approach it by “learning and studying your craft.” It’s never easy, he says. “On most auditions you’re not going to get them, and you have to understand this. …You learn to have some really thick skin in acting. To me, there’s life lessons all around us.” And some of those include the fact of typecasting. “Let’s face it,” he says. “I kind of look a certain way.” So, he says, he’s often sent out on calls for “an athletic, fit type.”
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Giovanni Roselli proposes to his now-wife, Stacey, on the red carpet at the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Photograph courtesy of Giovanni Roselli.
These roles, as New York firefighters or Jersey Shore characters, he says get him more experience and propel him farther, since he knows he can do more. “I like to think I’m funny,” he says with a laugh. But he’s also ready for more traditional roles and has performed Shakespeare Off-Broadway.
MANY ROADS AHEAD Wrestling these days is relegated to occasional weekends. “As a full-time job, that is in the past,” Roselli says. He has, he notes, had people urge him to focus on just one career, but he sees no need. As he reminds his clients, you can always make time “for what you want to make time for.” “I feel I’m not doing any industry a disservice. …I don’t feel my acting is taking away from fitness.” All, he adds, fit seamlessly into his home life. Roselli is married some four years, to a reading specialist named Stacey, a woman he met at… the gym.
“I proposed to her on the red carpet of the SAG Awards,” he says, smiling at the memory. Roselli, who clearly makes time to work out and eat clean, credits his wife for unwavering support that includes the meals he often carries with him for a day filled with appointments. “I try to, obviously, practice what I preach,” he says. But he’s not immune to those food temptations. “Do I have a piece of cake now and then? Yeah, every now and then, but it’s not overboard,” he says. And you believe him when he says he has “really strong self- control” that allows him to “flip a switch.” It’s a skill that gives Roselli that focus that has led him this far — but he’s far from done. “The journey never ends, no matter what. I could always be better,” he says. “I know from my life experiences, you can do anything if you put your heart in it.” For more, visit giovanniroselli.com.
HORSE POWER BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
Brianne Goutal with the 2013 American Gold Cup. Photograph by Carrie Wirth.
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“WHAT’S SO UNIQUE ABOUT OUR SPORT IS THAT YOU HAVE AN ANIMAL DOING MOST OF THE WORK,” SAYS SHOW JUMPER BRIANNE GOUTAL. And that helps create a relatively level playing field on which horse and rider can transcend age and gender. At 26, Goutal has already carved out a significant career for herself, capturing in 2013 the $200,000 American Gold Cup Grand Prix, a
World Cup qualifying event in which she plans to compete again next month at Old Salem Farm in North Salem. But she is by no means near her peak as she would be in another sport. “In this sport, experience makes you better,” says Brian Walker, a 31-year-old Canadian-American, who also expects to be in the Gold Cup again. “Look at Ian Millar, who at age 68 won the biggest Grand Prix of his life last year.” Walker’s referring to the $1.5-million CP International at Spruce Meadows in Calgary that Millar won aboard Dixson, a descendant of his longtime mount, Big Ben. “It’s a 24/7 kind of a thing,” Norman Dello Joio says of show jumping. “When you’re not doing it, you’re thinking about it or planning it.” Few know more about the mindset of the equestrian than “Stormin’ Norman” — son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of the same name. He was the 1983 FEI World Cup winner aboard I Love You and a bronze medalist (aboard Irish) at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the year he was Equestrian of the Year. In 2004, he and Glasgow
won the American Invitational — more than two decades after his triumph there aboard Allegro. “It’s like the stock market,” says Dello Joio. “You have to be in it for the long haul. If you keep your eye on the big picture — and not live or die day to day but stick to a plan — you will win out in the end.” That’s the kind of “horse sense” Dello Joio imparts to his two-legged students. He’s the chef d’equipe, or manager, of the Mexican Show Jumping Team and works with son Nick, 26, who’s beginning to make a name for himself in the sport. But Dello Joio also has four-legged “pupils” as well at Wembley Farms in Wellington, Fla., and at the places he rents in Bedford Hills and in Ridgefield, where he and the family summer. “I try to start with young horses that may have talent,” he says, given the cost of the mature horses, mainly European Warmbloods, used in the ring. (Top show jumpers can command anywhere from the high six figures to as much as $15 million.) Riders may have a string of six to 10 horses,
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a mix of those they own outright and others that are sponsored or syndicated. As with the riders, age and experience are advantages. Show horses are on average 10- to 12-year-olds. (For perspective, American Pharoah is a 3-year-old.) Goutal’s stable of steeds are in the 14- to 16-year-old category. “They’re used to competition,” she says, “and less responsive to nerves.” She manages them like an NBA team: “Most of the top riders have a number one horse they save to peak in competition and backup horses.” A long-suffering Knicks’ fan, Goutal likens this to conserving forward Carmelo Anthony for the big plays. Show horses are also a mix of geldings, mares and stallions, with the rule of thumb being that geldings are the easiest to work with; mares, the most difficult; and stallions, the most stubborn. But Walker speaks for some other riders when he says, “A good horse is a good horse. ...I generally look for a horse that seems like
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he’s on your side, a horse with a little life, one that’s brave but careful at the highest levels.” “I think it’s great you have a horse that does most of the work,” Goutal says, “so that you’re able to remove a degree of strength (from the rider). But I think women are still at a disadvantage in terms of strength and endurance compatibility. Among the top 30 riders, men outnumber women.” In the end, though, a good rider is a good rider, regardless of gender. Far more important, Dello Joio says, is the balance between talent and temperament, effort and ease, horse and rider: “Those are the things that matter.” The American Gold Cup CSI 4*-W, now part of the Longines FEI World Cup Jumping North American League, takes place Sept. 9-13. For more, visit theamericangoldcup.com or oldsalemfarm.net.
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Nick Dello Joio and Contiki on the American Gold Cup course last year. Photograph by Emily Riden.
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THE CHARM OF AMERICAN PHAROAH BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
With Victor Espinoza aboard, American Pharoah rides into history at the Belmont. Photograph by Mike Lizzi.
HE’S MADE THE CURRENT VOGUE AND THE COVER OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. HE’S MET JULIA ROBERTS. And, California boy that he is (by way of Santa Anita Park), he’s posed in his Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim — yes, that is their name — jersey. Is there anyone hotter than the misspelled, bob-tailed, Triple Crown-winning American Pharoah? AP has captured the heart of a nation not only with his effortless
slo-mo stride and versatility — coming from behind in a crowded field to win the Kentucky Derby, reveling in the slop at the Preakness and going wire to wire to take the Belmont and the Crown — but with his gentle charm. He’s good-naturedly donned red roses for Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who has an eye for male beauty. He’s patiently done interviews (well, patiently stood by as his trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Victor Espinoza did an interview with “Today”). He’s daintily nibbled baby carrots. his fave, from the hands of strangers, more a pet than a racehorse, says Justin Zayat — racing and stallion manager of Zayat Stables, which bred and owns the bay colt. More important, he’s borne the dreams and memories of fans old enough to recall the ghosts of Triple Crowns past and those for whom this is all new on his gracefully muscled back. Blood will out, and that is especially true of racehorses. Though they’re all said to be born on Jan. 1 of any given year, American Pharoah was actually foaled at 11 p.m. Feb. 2 (Groundhog Day),
2012 at Stockplace Farm in Lexington, Ky. Daddy is Pioneer of the Nile, a real stud, who passed along his easygoing temperament to junior. Mom is Littleprincessemma, with sprinter speed. Like other Triple Crown champs, the Pharoah (the moniker was misspelled somewhere in a naming contest) is descended from some members of that select club of 12, going back to War Admiral (1937), the high-stepping son of the Thoroughbred that experts generally agree is the greatest America has ever produced, Man o’ War. Along the way, AP lost some of his tail (perhaps to mischievous stablemate Mr. Z) but gained an efficient, gliding motion. This great-great-greatgrandson of Secretariat disappointed in his first race, in part because he hates crowd noise — he now wears spongy earplugs — but finished as the top 2-year-old. He has breezed through his 3-yearold campaign, the most lightly raced horse in the Crown’s history with only eight starts. (And yet, he has faced more challengers on his way to the Crown, 31, than any horse except his ancestor War
Admiral, who bested 32.) But racehorses are no mere athletes. They’re symbols of a country’s soul. (Remember the letters children wrote when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke a leg at the 2006 Preakness and ultimately had to be put down?) Many of the 90,000 who attended the Belmont this year and the 22 million who watched on TV — including this writer — wept for their youth. “The last time there was a Triple Crown champion (Affirmed, 1978), I was a student at Syracuse, Jimmy Carter was president and the cell phone hadn’t been invented,” says Brandon Steiner, founder and CEO of New Rochelle-based Steiner Sports Marketing, who was slated recently to host a “Triple Crown Celebration With Victor Espinoza” in Manhattan. “To give some historical perspective, Kobe Bryant, Usher, Manny Pacquiao and Ashton Kutcher were all born that year. It was a long time ago.” American Pharoah represents the way we were. And, perhaps, the way we would like to be.
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THE BOUNCING BALL TO DIPLOMACY BY AUDREY RONNING TOPPING
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WHO WOULD EVER BELIEVE THAT A 19TH CENTURY, English upper-class, after-dinner parlor game called Wiff-Waff would evolve into the unique Ping-Pong diplomacy that lifted the Bamboo Curtain long separating the United States and Communist China?
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The U.S. had withheld diplomatic recognition of China ever since October 1949, when Mao Zedong’s Communists forces defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and established The People’s Republic of China. American citizens were forbidden, by both China and the U.S., to enter Communist China. Then 23 years later, on April 6, 1971, the American Ping-Pong team, in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received a surprise invitation from the Chinese team to an all-expense paid visit to China. The Americans were astounded. Although their governments refused to communicate, the American and Chinese people were eager to break the stalemate and become friends. Time magazine called it “The ping heard round the world.” On April 10, 1971, with the agreement of the U.S.
State Department, nine players, four officials and two spouses walked across the narrow wooden bridge in Lowu that extended from the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong’s New Territories to mainland China. They were saluted on the Western side by armed British soldiers and on the Eastern side by Chinese militias holding bayonets. Thus the era of Ping-Pong diplomacy was ushered in. Five American journalists were also invited, ending the information blockade. A fascinated American public followed the games as well as the visit on television and in newspapers. The American fans admired their table tennis athletes as they talked with Chinese students and factory workers, attended the Canton Ballet, beheld the fabled Summer Palace, walked on the legend-
ary Great Wall of China and photographed the monumental statues guarding the Sacred Way to the ancient Ming Tombs. No one seemed disappointed that the Americans lost the exhibition matches. The charismatic Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai, who with Mao Zedong had survived The Long March, exploited the public relations opportunity with the adroitness of a seasoned diplomat. On April 14 he hosted a lavish banquet in honor of the players at the Great Hall of People. Toasting with a glass of potent Chinese Maotai, he told them why they were really there: “You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people. I am confident that this beginning again of our friendship will certainly meet with the majority support of our two peoples.” Zhou extended an invitation for more Americans journalists to visit China, provided they do not “all come at one time.” That same day, the U.S. announced plans to remove a 20-year embargo on trade with China. The New York Times ex-
claimed that Ping-Pong was “an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking.” But in spite of China’s friendly overtures, the U.S. withheld diplomatic recognition. This is where I came into the picture. Shortly after the Ping-Pong players left, Zhou invited me, a longtime journalist and Sino watcher, to China, along with my father, Chester Ronning — an old friend of Zhou Enlai, whom he had first met in Peking during the warlord era in the 1920s and again in 1945 in Chongqing, China’s war-time capital, during negotiations to avoid resumption of the Chinese Civil War. After our tour of China, Zhou invited us to The Great Hall for a private dinner in The Hubei Room, named after the province where my father was born of American missionaries. The premier acknowledged that he had engineered the Ping-Pong visit and then asked Chester: “Can we trust Henry Kissinger?” Dad was not aware that Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, was planning a secret mission to China to prepare Nixon’s visit. He avoided the question for personal reasons but
replied, “I believe any kind of communication with United States would be greatly beneficial to both countries.” Nixon and Kissinger kept their back-channel negotiations with China to themselves. It was not until July 15 that Nixon announced that he would make the journey. In 1972, Nixon became the first American president to visit China where he gazed upon the Great Wall and made his profound observation: “This is really a Great Wall!” Eight years passed. Nixon resigned and Jimmy Carter was elected. Then on Jan. 1, 1979, Carter announced the world-shaking event, innocently conceived a century ago by the sedate British parlor game of Wiff-Waff. A communiqué was simultaneously issued by the leaders of the U.S. and China, agreeing to establish diplomatic relations. It stated: “Both believe that normalization of Sino-American relations is not only in the interests of the Chinese and American peoples but also contributes to the cause of peace in Asia and the world.” So Wiff-Waff, take a bow.
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Peloton Cycle offers in-home fitness system BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ROZYCKI
Micaiah Bell demonstrates the Peloton cycle in White Plains.
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T’S OFTEN BEEN SAID THAT NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.
And the proverb has been proven true yet again by John Foley, the enthusiastic founder and CEO of Peloton Cycle. Foley and his wife — Manhattan residents devoted to boutique spin classes — found themselves frustrated a couple of years ago, he tells WAG during a recent chat. Always on the go, they were repeatedly shut out of classes with “the best instructors at the best times at the best locations.” “We weren’t the people who were able to be the first in line.” So, he created a line-free solution in an at-home fitness system that brings not only a spinning cycle to you, but also offers unlimited access to live and roundthe-clock, on-demand classes. Peloton is sold online and in brick-and-mortar sites from Los Angeles to the Hamptons, from Boston to White Plains. The showrooms offer live demonstrations along with related apparel and accessories. “It makes people who don’t spin get way more comfortable,” says Rob Piervinanzi, the manager of the Peloton showroom in The Westchester. Customers, Foley says, are quickly learning just
what’s offered by Peloton —its name a nod to the cycling term for the main pack of riders at the front of a race. You can take a class at 5 a.m., at midnight or “1:40 in the afternoon when your daughter takes a nap.” Classes are there, Foley adds, “any time you want to hop on the bike, whether it’s live or (on) demand.” Foley — a former president of e-commerce for Barnes & Noble and founder and CEO of Evite.com who holds an MBA from Harvard Business School — says Peloton might even work best for those in the suburbs. “Here in Manhattan, you might be two blocks away from a great studio,” Foley says. Out of an urban setting, it might take “10, 15, 20 minutes to drive to a boutique cycling studio.” Peloton customers have their choice of classes that feature different types of training, music and instructors, including those with Tour de France experience. Participants can track their progress, add weight-training elements, video chat with other riders or take the scenic route. “You can ride through a beautiful canyon in Canada,” Foley says, an example of the scenic ride offerings. Classes originate in a Chelsea studio — Peloton customers can attend these in person — and offer those at
home the chance to tap into camaraderie and support. “It’s better than trying to motivate yourself at a traditional gym,” Foley says. The clientele, Foley admits, grew somewhat differently than he expected. “I would have thought that we would skew slightly female, but it turns out we’re exactly 50-50.” And couples often purchase the Peloton cycle, which is $1,995 plus a $39 per month subscription that offers unlimited content. “It’s a high enough price point (that) you get your spouse involved in the decision,” he says. Today, Foley is proud of the company’s growth, building from the original showroom in The Mall at Short Hills in New Jersey in late 2013. Then, he says, “It was very much, ‘What is this thing?’” Now, says Peloton operations manager Austen Asadorian, people are becoming more and more familiar with Peloton. As staffers Micaiah Bell and Christa Panayotidis demonstrate the Peloton bike for us on a recent afternoon in The Westchester, Asadorian takes stock of the company’s progress. “I think we’ve finally crossed the threshold.” For more, visit pelotoncycle.com.
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Achilles ON THE HUDSON BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
OR FOUR PERFORMANCES THIS MONTH, THE HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL WILL PRESENT “AN ILIAD” UNDER ITS BIG TENT AT BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND GARDENS IN GARRISON.
Kurt Rhoads in rehearsal for “An Iliad.” Photograph by 30 Magee. WAGMAG.COM Travis
Note the title. “The Iliad” is a work familiar to students — or at least it used to be — as an epic poem of the Trojan War by the blind ancient Greek bard Homer that’s been famously translated by the likes of Alexander Pope and Robert Fagles and adapted with varying degrees of success on stage (the Aquila Theatre Company’s brilliant “Iliad: Book One”) and screen (the middling but watchable “Troy”). (You could also make the case for “From Here to Eternity” being a modern “Iliad,” with Montgomery Clift as the hotheaded Achilles, Frank Sinatra as his tragic pal Patroclus and Burt Lancaster as the wily Odysseus.) “An Iliad” is just that, another version of the epic, one for which adapters Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare scaled down Homer’s study of rage and loss to the intimacy of conversation, as if an old war buddy were telling you a story he can’t quite shake over a couple of beers. Or perhaps as if you were sitting around the campfire with Homer, thousands of evenings ago. “It brings the story closer to today,” says Gaye Taylor Upchurch, who’s directing Kurt Rhoads (Iago in HVSF’s “Othello” last year) in this the festival’s first one-man show. (The Poet is joined onstage by a Muse, in this case a junkyard musician making harmony out of chaos.) “It’s a guy there telling you what war is like,” Rhoads says of the adaptation’s colloquialisms and playfulness. “It’s not about hexameters.” But it’s still a story we think we know yet really don’t. “The Iliad” is not the tale of the Trojan War per se, but of an incident that takes place toward the war’s climax — spun more than 3,000 years ago by a poet, or poets, who places the characters and their participants on a path of rejection, rage, revenge and a kind of redemption. AUGUST 2015
It’s the 10 th year of fighting — begun when the Trojan prince Paris ran off with Helen, wife of the Spartan king Menelaus — and the Greeks are no closer to laying siege to the Trojan citadel, thanks to the mischievous gods and the hubris of the Greek high commander Agamemnon (Menelaus’ bro), who has taken the daughter of a priest of Apollo as a war prize. He’ll give her up all right, as long as he’s compensated with another woman. Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors and no lover of Agamemnon’s leadership style, objects to the unfairness of this and a violent argument ensues. Whereupon Agamemnon seizes Achilles’ beloved Briseis, Achilles withdraws from the fighting and his companion Patroclus dons Achilles’ armor to rouse the Greeks, only to be killed unwittingly by the noble Trojan prince Hector. Enraged and engulfed by grief, Achilles not only kills Hector, he drags his corpse back to the Greek camp and around Patroclus’ grave for 10 days. It’s only when the Trojan king Priam steals into the camp to beg for his son’s body that Achilles, who is fated to die in Troy, recognizes the parity of their situations — a son without a father; a father without a son. In loss, they achieve a kind of forgiveness, and the story ends with the funeral of Hector. It’s easy to look at “The Iliad” and see every misera-
ble boss, every unfair situation, every kid who picked up a gun, or planted a bomb, in response to real or perceived injustice. “Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare I think were very interested in the addiction to rage,” Upchurch says. “What do you do with rage?” There’s a clue in the scene between Achilles and Priam as Achilles puts the brakes on his anger, perhaps for the first time. “Achilles governs his passion here,” Rhoads says. “When that rage is on, you need that breath. You need that pause.” But how do you achieve that breath, that pause, they wonder, in the theater of war, the battlefield, or a place where war is theater, the football field. How do you switch aggression on and off? “In our own country, we’re not as connected to returning vets,” Rhoads says. ”We’re not connected to war and what transpires unless you have a son or daughter, wife or husband who serves.” That’s why both actor and director are happy to bring “An Iliad” to first-year cadets at West Point, directly across the Hudson from Boscobel, as part of its tour. “Every time I sing this song,” the Poet says in “An Iliad,” “I hope it’s the last time.” Except it isn’t.
“AN ILIAD” AT BOSCOBEL AND ON TOUR “An Iliad” will be performed at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Boscobel House and Gardens, Route 9D, in Garrison. 7:30 p.m. Aug. 3, 9, 21 and 24. Tickets range from $32 to $84. For more, call 845-265-9575 or visit hvshakespeare.org. “An Iliad” will also be presented Aug. 8 at the Hudson River Museum Amphitheater; Aug. 16 at Basilica Hudson in Hudson, N.Y.; Aug. 22 and 23 on Bannerman Island; and Sept. 2 at West Point.
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Nik Wallenda walking a 711-foot high-wire tightrope to celebrate the opening of the new Tanger Outlets Center at Foxwoods Casino & Resort on May 22. For every foot Wallenda walked, Foxwoods donated $7.11 worth of clothes from Tanger Outlets to the United Way of Southeastern Connecticut. Bill Shettle of Blue Chip Photography.
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NIK WALLENDA HAS BEEN “WALKING” ON A HIGH WIRE SINCE BEFORE HE WAS BORN. HIS MOTHER, DELILAH, WAS STILL PERFORMING ON IT WHEN SHE WAS 6 MONTHS PREGNANT WITH HIM. “It’s in the blood,” says Nik, a seventh-generation member of the Great Wallendas, who thrilled Depression-era circus audiences with a high wire act that featured a seven-person pyramid. “It’s something I grew up with,” he says of the high wire. “People say, ‘How do you get in the zone?’ It’s something I’ve done my entire life.” For those who closed their eyes and held their breath as Nik became the first person to walk over Niagara Falls on a wire on June 15, 2012, contending with wind swells, thick mist and 600,000 gallons per second raging over Horseshoe Falls; for those whose hearts beat a little faster when he became the first person to cross the Grand Canyon on a wire on June, 23, 2013, confronting 48-mph gusts at a height of 1,500 feet — Nik wants you to know that his heart beats a little fast in these instances, too. But courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the engagement of it. “Look, I think you can overcome any fear if you put your mind to it,” says Nik, a philosophy he shares in his 2013 biography, “Balance: A Story of Faith, Family & Life on the Line.” “When I’m on the wire and hit with a gust of wind, I say to myself, ‘Well, you’ve battled 120-mile-an-hour winds.’ One of the challenges is that complacency can set in. It’s important to focus on what I’m doing.” The key to that is preparation. Nik, 36, practices several hours a day three days a week on a wire that can be anywhere from 2 to 30 feet off the ground in the backyard of his Sarasota, Fla., home. He does some weightlifting for aesthetic effect but adds, “The best way to train for the wire is to walk on the wire.” The other part of preparation is the rigging, particularly as he and his family are famous for not working with a safety net. (Though Nik did use a safety harness for the first time ever for the live ABC telecast of his Niagara Falls walk, which took two years to prepare.) “My rigging team keeps me alive,” Nik says of a crew headed by his father, Terry, his safety coordinator, and his Uncle Mike, his lead engineer. Their meticulousness is the other side of tragedy for a family that has its roots in the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the 18th century. The Wallendas — led by Nik’s great-grandfather, the legendary Karl — were performing the seven-man pyramid in Detroit on Jan. 30, 1962, when the front man faltered and three men fell to the ground. Two family members — Dieter Schepp and Richard Faughnan — were killed. Karl’s son Mario, Nik’s great-uncle, was paralyzed. And Karl himself sustained a pelvic injury. But he went back to performing the next day. And Mario would return to the high wire in a specially rigged wheelchair.
“The show must go on” is the family motto, instilled by Karl, who died at age 73, falling to his death from a high wire in San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 1978, the result of faulty rigging. On June 4, 2011, Nik completed his great-grandfather’s last walk across a 135-foot-long wire strung between the two towers of the 10-story Condado Plaza Hilton. “Of course, every walk he’s with me,” Nik says. “I’m pretty confident he’d be doing what I’m doing.” What Nik is doing now is preparing for a 1,600-foot walk more than 100 feet in the air Aug. 11 at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee. He’s also looking at a walk in Abu Dhabi and between the Petronas Towers — the tallest twin towers in the world — in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But Nik isn’t just a solo act. He’s in pre-production to create an intimate, European-style circus featuring his family that he hopes to launch and tour with next summer. His wife, Erendira — whom Nik proposed to on bended knee on a high wire in Montreal in 1999 — is also circus royalty, an eighth-generation Ashton, the third oldest circus family in the world, and a seventh-generation Vazquez, trapeze artists who made quadruple somersault history. Their three children — Yanni, Amadaos and Evita — have all trained on the wire. But Nik adds, “We have made it a point to keep them out of the spotlight until they decide. “I started performing in front of an audience (as a tiny clown) at age 2. …I thought about being a pediatrician. My parents wanted me to do something other than perform. But we love what we do.” Older son Yanni is going to become a Marine, his father says. But first he wants one performance on the high wire. After the high-flying Wallendas, the Marines should be a snap.
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CONSTANCE “PINKY” MARKEY LIVES A LIFE MOST GOLF ENTHUSIASTS CAN ONLY IMAGINE.
The former high school English teacher and former owner of Lexus of Westport has spent her days since 2011 rating some of the country’s most pristine golf courses as a women’s national course rater for Golfweek, a print magazine and online publication known for its Top 100 rankings. The Greenwich resident — whose distinctive nickname, she says, came from her pink, “uncooked” appearance at birth — is also a course rater for the volunteer, Elmsford-based Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association (WMGA), which serves a 50-mile radius around New York City, including Westchester, Rockland and Fairfield counties and parts of New Jersey and Long Island. “We rate the distance of the course, topography, how many hills and valleys it has, and visibility from approaches to green, to name a few,” Markey says. “We want to know what it looks like, feels like and acts like and what it’s like to play that course.” Her two roles have taken her, usually with a fiveto-10 person team, to some of golf’s most hallowed grounds, including Augusta National Golf Club (No. 5 on Golfweek’s classic course list), home of the Masters Tournament; Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey (No. 1 among Golfweek’s classic courses); and the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, a series of courses along Alabama’s highways that Markey says is a post-
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BY EVAN FALLOR Markey has rated Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, the site of the annual Masters Tournament. Photograph by dreamstime.com.
er example for a couple’s course. At Golfweek — which ranks public and private courses throughout North America and the Caribbean — most ratings are determined by a 10-category system that includes memorability, variability, condition of greens, how well it compares to other courses and other mainly aesthetic features. If a course is flat, holds few trees and bunkers, or if it’s under 5,000 yards, it will likely receive a low rating. Most overall ratings, she says, range from the low60s to the mid-70s. On its website, the publication includes several Top 100 lists by state and category, most of which serve as selling points for national courses hoping to showcase themselves to potential members. At the WMGA, “it’s a much more formal process,” Markey says. “Everything is about the numbers.” The association looks for fairway bunkers, how much coverage there is around the green and hole visibility, to name a few criteria, all of which add or take away points from the total score. Oftentimes, the 10-person rating team will split up into two teams of five to cover both the back and front nine of an 18-hole course. Once the numbers are together, they are given to team captain Heidi Komoriya before they are entered in the organization’s computer database. Founded in 1899, the WMGA is the second-oldest women’s golf association in the country and includes
202 clubs and more than 2,500 individual members. In her role as a WMGA rater, Markey and her team recently “handicapped” the controversial, yet-to-be opened Trump Golf Links Constance “Pinky” Ferry Point, a former Bronx Markey toxic waste dump-turned18-hole golf course a tee shot away from the Whitestone Bridge. It’s her most exciting gig of the year to date, she says, though her favorite course remains the Country Club of Fairfield, which she praises for its beautiful layout. When Markey’s not rating courses — or spending time, and money, on her dream house, Whalerock, on Rhode Island (December 2014 WAGwit) — she’s on the links, often tops in competition. In June 2014’s Ladies Town Golf Tournament at the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course in Greenwich, Markey won the Senior Flight Championship with a round of 84. She was the first female member to be accepted to Greenwich Country Club whose parents were not also members. Her husband of 30 years, Terry, whom she first met in the third grade, is a men’s course rater. The two often rate and play courses concurrently. Says Terry Markey, “She lets me beat her every once in a while.”
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SERENA WILLIAMS AND THE BEAUTY TRAP BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
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one of the most successful players in tennis history — will attempt to become the first woman since Steffi Graf to win the Grand Slam — holding all four Slam titles in a calendar year. Yet all anyone seems to be able to talk about nowadays is her looks. Indeed, as she has gone deeper into the Grand Slam run, comments about her strong, muscular body have become increasingly sexist, racist and misogynistic. Such is the nature of jealousy, of course, and of the Internet, where anonymity emboldens the brutal. But what is particularly troubling is the variety of seemingly innocuous, even flattering articles by major publications that reveal how deeply entrenched gender stereotypes are in our society and reflect the Gordian Knot that is the relationship of gender, beauty and power. “Serena Williams looked like a Disney Princess at the Wimbledon Champion’s Ball” USA Today’s “For the Win” blog proclaimed. Sports Illustrated praised her as “the real American Pharoah.” (Should we be comparing a grown woman to a Disney princess and a horse, albeit a Triple Crown winner?) And then there was The New York Times’ piece by Ben Rothenberg (yes, the same Ben Rothenberg who wrote the introduction to “The Stylish Life: Ten-
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nis,” featured on page 48 of this issue). In “Tennis’ Top Women Balance Body Image With Ambition,” Rothenberg sought to blow the lid off the nagging double standard of women’s athletics — you must be pretty as well as pretty accomplished — only to wind up, critics said, reinforcing it. (He wasn’t helped by quotes like this from Tomasz Wiktorowski, who coaches the 5-foot, 8-inch, 123-pound Agnieszka Radwańska: “It’s our decision to keep her the smallest player in the top 10. Because first of all, she’s a woman and she wants to be a woman.”) Why is this still an issue in our post-feminist age — and not just for female athletes, who are on the front lines because of their physicality, but for women in any profession? Partly it’s because we can’t seem to quit the past any more than we can let go of our stereotypes of men and women. Tennis, thanks to advances in racket technology, is now entirely a power game. The days when teenage girls with pompons on their socks won big are over. But power of all kinds has remained a sticky wicket for women — who are immortalized in art history for their softness, smallness, passivity
and vulnerability and rarely for their Amazonian strength, while “with men, activity is implied,” says curator Bart Bland. (See page 12.) For eons, men have objectified and fetishized women’s looks as a way to attain and maintain power over them (although Bland says that this has been more unconscious than conscious on men’s part and all about lust.) Consciously or unconsciously, too, women turned that objectification into a kind of power, using their beauty to acquire status. Only they found that beauty, a multibillion-dollar industry, is a double-edged sword: You then have to maintain a standard that shifts with the winds of fashion and time, one that you may never have set. “It’s all very exhausting, isn’t it?” Bland says. It is. And maybe the solution is for all of us to set our individual criteria for what we want to be. Or else, in the words of Teresa Jusino’s angry blog post on themarysue.com, “…start writing articles about how (Williams’) male Wimbledon counterpart, Novak Djokovic, looked like a freaking Disney Prince at the Wimbledon Ball or something to even this sh-- out.”
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Steve Weatherford’s soft spot for felines BY EVAN FALLOR
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Wearing sunglasses, a backward hat and a feline-inspired version of his game jersey, Weatherford took photos with fans, greeted prospective kitty companions and spent time trying out Friskies’ new toy with celebrity cat Waffles, the day’s other high-profile guest. “I’ve always been a pet owner myself, both cats and dogs,” says Weatherford, who plans on bringing another cat to his soon-to-be-built San Diego home. “I wanted to get involved. To help these cats who need a home … it’s a great feeling.” Weatherford says the Pull ’n Play event was the first cat adoption he has been part of, though he has previously raised money and awareness for area pet shelters. He says he hopes eventually to bring some of his Giants’ teammates onboard for future events. “Once the season starts we’re awfully busy and don’t get to enjoy time with the family as much,” says Weatherford, who has four children. Friskies says it will donate 2,500 Pull ’n Play string pouches and 5,000 packages of Party Mix
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to shelters if the hashtag #MostPlayfulCat was shared 2,500 times. Justin Finlinson — the brand manager for Nestlé Purina North America, which owns Friskies — says the Pull ’n Play product uses edible strings in the body of a wobbly cat toy to keep cats and kittens both entertained and sustained. “Cats love to play with strings so we decided to make a toy with a string treat in it as well,” Finlinson says. “The event is the same thing. We’re bringing prospective cat owners in and hopefully sparking a bond between them and the cats.” Weatherford, a Super Bowl champion and the Giants’ punter since 2011, was in an accident in early June after his car skidded off a highway in New Jersey, but was relatively uninjured. He showed no ill effects during his morning on Gansevoort Plaza and says he was looking forward to training camp, which started at the end of July. The Giants finished 6-10 last year. “I was a little bruised up, cut up and mentally shaken up,” he says. “But I’m doing 100 percent now.”
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The elegant indoor lap lane at this Greenwich home is coated in copper on the outside and features a smooth, rounded ceiling inside, giving the pool a hidden-gem feel. Keeping with the home’s modern design, the pool can be accessed from multiple floors, either through sliding glass doors or a spiral staircase.
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HOME REC-ERS BY REECE ALVAREZ PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY HOULIHAN LAWRENCE
FROM INDOOR LAP LANES TO DISCO DANCE FLOORS AND NBA-WORTHY BASKETBALL COURTS, FAIRFIELD AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY HOMES BOAST SOME HIGH-END INDOOR RECREATIONAL FEATURES:
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Swimming pools thread WAG country. (Think of the story “The Swimmer” by the late Ossining resident John Cheever, which was filmed in Westport.) A $7.7 million Colonial home in Greenwich features a full-size indoor pool with abundant natural light for yearround fun. A full bath, sauna and changing room complement it and the equally large outdoor pool for a spa effect. (The home also includes an indoor greenhouse.) There is always the more modest indoor lap lane — although the one found in a $3.4 million Greenwich home is anything but modest. This submarine-like pool features portholes, a second-level spiral staircase and a curved ceiling bathed in turquoise reflections from underwater lighting that help to create a mix of nautical style and secluded grotto ambiance. The house’s modern design includes numerous sliding doors providing open lines of sight and connecting the indoor pool directly to the home’s entertainment room and custom-shaped outdoor pool.
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The disco-themed dance floor in this Rye home is just one facet of the multi-themed basement entertainment room.
You’re not a king of indoor recreation until you have your own bowling lane like the regulation lane in this Pound Ridge home.
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With a Ping-Pong table, classic arcade machine (not pictured) and a drop projection screen for in-home movie viewing, the basement of this Rye home is a kid’s paradise.
The second-floor basketball court blends seamlessly into a house in Old Greenwich.
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On those days when the heat and humidity have the upper hand, homeowners with indoor entertainment ranging from arcades and theaters to basketball courts and bowling lanes are especially lucky. The all-in-one home theater, arcade, dance floor and workout room in one Rye home is a playland for children and adults alike. Designed by the homeowner, the $2.4 million residence features a multithemed basement, including takes on a 1950s diner and the New York subway system and even a tropical cave bathroom complete with a replica stone toilet, sink and multihead open rain shower. For those especially rainy days, skipping the lines and crowds at the movie theaters is made easy with the home’s in-house projection screen. Meanwhile, a $6.5 million home in Old Greenwich blends box office and billiards with an in-house projection screen movie theater, bar and pool table, all overlooking the Long Island Sound.
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For sports’ enthusiasts, many high-end homes feature indoor basketball courts, not the least of which is the 52-foot by 36-foot basketball court in former New York Knick Allan Houston’s $19.9 million home in Armonk, which also has a top-of-the-line fitness room. The house in Old Greenwich mentioned above also boasts an indoor basketball court (not quite the size of Houston’s) on its second floor. Basketball courts are popular, but perhaps the crème de la crème of indoor recreation is the regulation AMF bowling alley inside a $2.5 million home in Pound Ridge.
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PAINT + WINE FUN BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ROZYCKI
SINCE I CERTAINLY DON’T CONSIDER MYSELF AN ARTIST, I was a little apprehensive when my editor
Budding artists participate in an44 evening class at MuseAUGUST 2015 WAGMAG.COM Paintbar in White Plains.
asked me to do a story about Muse Paintbar. I’d heard about places such as Muse, which opened recently in the heart of downtown White Plains. These wine bar-meets-painting class venues, where no art experience is needed, are billed as the ideal setting for girls’ nights out, bachelorette or birthday parties, fundraisers or even first dates. At Muse Paintbar, you spend a few hours, sip some wine (or beer or soda), nibble on tapas-style snacks and come away with a painting you’ve made yourself, thanks to step-by-step instruction provided by one of Muse’s own professional artists. I was up for the wine and snacks… it was the painting part that was making me nervous. Well, I shouldn’t have been, as my night at Muse proved that all of us — even me, of stick figure and distorted portrait fame — can summon our inner artist in a decidedly “judgment-free zone.” Muse itself is artistic, a modern space with a funky vibe created by brick walls, large picture windows that allow Mamaroneck Avenue passersby to peek in and décor that includes the options featured in Muse classes, an Andy Warhol
quote and a mural depicting Bob Ross, that famously soft-spoken instructor and PBS staple. At Muse, a New England-based company also operating locally in Norwalk and soon, Ridge Hill in Yonkers, the sessions, with materials, cost an average of $35. The materials include a much-needed apron, paintbrushes, acrylic paints and an at-first intimidating blank canvas set on an easel. On arrival, mingle, order a snack and drinks (served in plastic glasses to keep things safe) and find your reserved seat. Co-founder Stan Finch, who launched Muse with Vanessa Leigh and Ray Weaver, said the classes do appeal primarily to women — there were but two men among dozens of women on a recent evening — but date nights and couple events do attract the guys. “I think our core customer is kind of a pretty broad age range and lifestyle,” Finch said, with participants from their 20s through 70s. (Family sessions are also offered). Once settled in, me with a sangria and bit of French-bread pizza at hand, the class got under way — and it was easy to follow our instructor, professional artist (and onetime public-school art
teacher) Carla Olexovitch. As she told me before we began, “If you can hold a pencil, you can do this. It’s like paint by numbers for adults — with wine.” The instruction is indeed designed to take away any fear, progressing methodically and subtly building confidence within a laid-back atmosphere. “Everything I say is suggested,” Olexovitch told us, referencing the color-coded paintbrushes. “If I say use the big blue brush and you want to use the purple brush, go for it.” Talking to friends and neighbors added another element to the evening, with comments bouncing back and forth. “I want to do this for a living. Just paint,” said one woman. “Oh, this is not pretty,” said another, eliciting laughs and making everyone within earshot feel better about her own work. Yet another student wandered around, checking out everyone else’s work. “It’s fun, isn’t it?” she said. Olexovitch, creating her own work on a center stage, interspersed her encouraging remarks with true instructions, such as “Any time you have some-
thing going off the edge, it creates a more dynamic composition.” With a brief intermission to refuel — and let some of our paint dry — two-plus hours flew by. The classes, Olexovitch said afterward, often prove eye-opening to many of the participants who realize that painting is all about “following the simple steps. You can do this.” And everyone certainly did, to quite personal results. “It’s like handwriting,” Olexovitch said. “We all learned handwriting the same way, circles and lines, and we all have our own handwriting.” A glance around the studio proved that to be very true. We all had completed a sea-themed scene yet no two were alike. Now, when I look at my own “Coastal Creatures” painting, I can see beyond the wonky starfish — and the sand dollar someone mockingly likened to “a biscuit” — and realize painting, particularly at Muse Paintbar, is something I’d definitely like to try again. Muse Paintbar is at 84 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains. The company donates 5 percent of profits to local causes and partners with local suppliers. For more, visit musepaintbar.com.
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“FEW ACCESSORIES EVOKE A LIFE OF LEISURE AND LUXURY AS QUICKLY AS A TENNIS RACQUET,” BEN ROTHENBERG WRITES IN THE INTRODUCTION TO “THE STYLISH LIFE: TENNIS.” 46
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And few books capture that sense of élan better than this handsome 176-page coffee-table book, part of a series from teNeues Publishing Group. From the chewed-up green and white patchwork quilt of Wimbledon to the fiery terra-cotta of Roland Garros, from demure white Ted Tinling frocks to sleek, sherbet-colored Stella McCartney dresses, from an Ed Vebell painting of Don Budge in long pants to a shot of a male model in tennis-ball green and navy shorts and T, this volume illustrates how deeply elegance serves every
aspect of the game. Art and architecture lovers will thrill to the emerald and crimson palette of Franklin McMahon’s painting of tennis courts at the Hotel Del Coronado in California — perhaps reminded that Vincent van Gogh called red and green the colors of passion. Armchair tourists will lust for the jagged jewel of Il San Pietro di Positano resort or the bisque, blue and cream splendor of the Monte Carlo Country Club — two pristine playgrounds of the racket men and women. Fashionistas will marvel at the
evolution of tennis wear from high-necked, mutton-sleeved blouses and long skirts to peekaboo outfits, while history buffs will pore over images of a determined Arthur Ashe — brow knitted, mouth set — at the Queen’s Club in London, 1970, or a smiling Billie Jean King feeling Bobby Riggs’ bicep before their 1973 “Battle of the Sexes.” It’s the images of these people and others — the players who became stars, the stars who play — that will keep you coming back. There’s Rod Laver and his bride, Mary, walking under an arch of tennis rackets on their wedding day in 1966. There’s a pair of engaged Wimbledon winners who would never marry (Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors, 1974) and a pair of winners who later would (Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi, 1991). There’s a fetching Ava Gardner perched atop a courtside bench (1948), a smiling Jac-
queline Kennedy by the net at the Kennedys’ Cape Code home (1953) and a desperate Farley Granger returning serve — and hoping to save himself from a bogus murder rap — in a still from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 thriller “Strangers on a Train.” But our favorite images are juxtaposed on two pages. On page 74, a tuxedoed Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic — perhaps tennis’ best rivalry — head for the Monte Carlo Casino in 2008. Rafa appears pensive while Nole gazes off at something we can’t glimpse. Perhaps he’s looking at page 75, which shows Condé Nast creative director and Vogue editor Anna Wintour beaming at her fave, Roger Federer, at Moët & Chandon’s 270th anniversary party in 2013. When it comes to the stylish game of tennis, it’s love all.
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Sailboat participating in Antigua Race Week. Photograph copyright Onne van der Wal/Corbis.
THE HIGH LIFE
ON THE HIGH SEAS
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WHEN LEONARDO DICAPRIO SOLD HIS CAPE COD-STYLE MANSION IN MALIBU, THE PROPERTY WENT FOR $17 MILLION. When he wanted a little R&R off the coast of Brazil, he borrowed the 482-foot superyacht Topaz, worth $500 million. That says something about the sport of yachting, which Kim Kavin writes in the introduction to “The Stylish Life: Yachting” (teNeues Publishing Group, 176 pages) “has never truly been about boats. “Instead, it has always been about gaining mem-
bership into the most exclusive club on earth — a club filled with titans of industry, heads of state, entertainment moguls, and debutantes of the highest social standing. These men and women step with pedicured bare feet onto private teak decks from St. Tropez to St. Barths and beyond, seeking solitude and relaxation within a shroud of fineries that is, quite simply, unimaginable back on land.” “The Stylish Life: Yachting” lets you imagine. Sails dot the cerulean expanse of Sydney Harbor — like so many white caps — for the start of the 2008 Ho-
bart Yacht Race. A sailboat keels starboard as it cuts through the waves during Antigua Sailing Week, 2000. The Superyacht Hyperion, described as “one of the world’s finest sailing yachts,” calmly plies the water, blessed by a rainbow. You can practically scent the tang of the sea and feel the bracing wind against your cheek. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you say. But what about the parties? What about the celebs? No book on yachting would be complete without a shot of boats lit up in Port Hercule for the Monaco Yacht Show or one of fireworks igniting Vittoriosa Marina in Malta. These have almost as much wattage as a squinting President John F. Kennedy — sunglasses atop his head, a cigarillo in his mouth — as he looks up from his paper aboard the family yacht Honey Fitz in the early 1960s or a contemplative President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the former presidential yacht Sequoia. Such photographs are often poignant portals onto subjects who do not know
what we do. No two pictures are more striking in this regard than the ones juxtaposed on pages 58 and 59. On page 59 a solicitous Prince Charles and a dreamy Diana, Princess of Wales, lean on the railing of the Royal Yacht Britannia at the start of their honeymoon cruise. She’s smiling, her right hand holding her right cheek. On her left hand is her oval sapphire and diamond engagement ring. On page 58, you can just glimpse the ring on the left hand of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, the daughter-in-law Diana never knew. But what a different effect. Clad in fitted blue pants, striped shirt and baseball cap, this princess has no need of a fairy-tale prince by her side. Rather, the duchess keeps her eye on the prize and her hands on the wheel as she races that prince, hubby William, on America’s Cup yachts in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand last year. Two images, one of the way we were and the other of how far we have come.
Photographs courtesy teNeues Publishing Group.
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WOW ON THE WATER BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
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SOME FOLKS DON’T HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES TO GO ON VACATION. Sherrie Pellini’s home in Mamaroneck’s historic, gated Edgewater Point Association is a vacation. “I love the area. I love my house,” says the warm, chatty Pellini. “When friends invite me to go away with them, I don’t even feel like going.” You wouldn’t either. The house — whose 1.5acre waterfront site once contained the home of pioneering movie director D.W. Griffith — was designed in 1999 by architect Robert Keller to mimic the fluidity of the maritime ex-
Photographs courtesy Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty.
perience. The result is as yare as a superyacht. The open floor plan has undulating hallways and archways. The main floor offers curving views of Larchmont Harbor, the Larchmont Yacht Club and, on a clear day, that latter-day Emerald City — Manhattan. (The house is just 35 minutes away.) Upstairs, the views are only of the water. “I feel like I’m on a ship,” Pellini says. “When I walk through, I feel like I’m floating.” With a home like this, who needs the Hamptons? But the house is much more than a summer getaway or fair-weather weekend retreat. “It’s beautiful even in the winter,” Pellini says from the two-story great room. With its stone fireplace and butterscotch-colored wood niches, “it feels like I’m in a ski chalet.” Other main floor features include a professional home office; airy living and dining rooms, each with commanding views of the harbor; a suite that’s ideal for live-in help; and a gourmet chef’s kitchen with two of everything — stoves, refrigerators and sinks; plus an island range and a warming drawer. Upstairs, you’ll find a media room; the laundry; and the remaining five bedrooms, one of which has been turned into a home gym complete with reinforced flooring. Each bedroom has a skylit en suite bath, a deck and, Pellini says, its own character. The master suite boasts a sitting area, a bath with a double shower and a Jacuzzi tub, a vanity area and closet space the size of many Manhattan apartments. Throughout the house, the closets and drawers are both spacious and unobtrusive. Two bedrooms actually share a Jack and Jill bath and a deck. Each of
EDGEWATER POINT AT A GLANCE Mamaroneck 8,004 square feet 1.5 acres Bedrooms: 6 (one converted to a home gym) Baths: 8 Amenities: Gated community, 350 linear feet of direct waterfront, private member beach and dock, salt-water pool, fully stocked pool house, three-car garage, media room, Crestron automated system $7,895,000
these has a ladder that leads to a small loft, perfect for the junior “pirates” in your life. The last bedroom has an octagonal ceiling. But before Pellini even saw all this, the causeway had her at hello. It fans out to the harbor and, beyond that, the Long Island Sound as you wind along the road past residents jogging and walking their dogs. The property boasts 350 linear feet of direct waterfront uninhibited by the meticulously manicured grounds that contain a salt-water pool, a fully stocked
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pool house and a three-car garage. A private member beach and dock underscores the sense of security that Pellini has had in this gated community. So who would want to leave? Pellini says it’s time. Family in Stamford beckons. So does travel. Now she’s looking for an apartment with a doorman. “Easy,” she says. For more, contact Arlene Gibbs at 914-833-5971, 914-420-3344, arlene. gibbs@juliabfee.com; or Louis Katsoris at 914-319-9250, 914-319-3275, louis. katsoris@juliabfee.com.
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Katrina M. Adams hits the court at Life Time Athletic in Harrison.
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he United States Tennis Association — whose marquee event, the US Open, kicks off Aug. 31 — has been undergoing something of a transformation of late. There’s an 11-year deal with ESPN, set to begin its second year; and new construction of two courts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and a retractable roof on its Arthur Ashe Stadium, to be completed next year. There’s also a new face — USTA Chairman of the Board, CEO and President Katrina M. Adams. Six months into her tenure at the helm of the Harrison-based organization, she is no stranger to USTA or the sport it serves. Known for grace and power on the court — once ranked No. 67 in singles and as high as No. 8 in women’s doubles — Adams is the first former professional player, and the first African-American, to take on the role. She has also been a member of the USTA board of directors for 10 years, including a two-year stint as first vice president. Her grace and power were very much in evidence during a wide-ranging conversation with WAG in the Tennis Lounge of neighboring Life Time Athletic that she clearly relished. “I’m enjoying this,” she says at one point. A product of Chicago and the daughter of educators, Adams is as fiercely interested in the inner game as she is in the outer one. “I think the game has really gotten away from the morals of the sport,” she says. “It really starts at the top with the coaches and the parents.” And the USTA, she adds, has the responsibility of setting the rules for how the participants conduct
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themselves at its tournaments. Increased sportsmanship is one of the three initiatives she plans to implement during her twoyear stint. Another is outreach to the 400,000 high school tennis players around the country, whom she’d like to keep in the game beyond the eight-week school season. Adams said she wants to “make sure that we have opportunities for them to be competitive recreationally” in what she called “the sport of a lifetime.” While there are those who would like to see a star or two emerge from today’s juniors — knowing that would increase the American audience — Adams counters: “You can’t create a champion. A champion comes from within. You can teach all the tools necessary to be a champion, but to be a true champion, it comes from within because you have to have a certain level of grit, steel, passion to go that extra mile.” Her first priority, however, is involving the Hispanic community in the game. “It’s the fastest-growing demographic in America, and it’s the smallest group that we actually serve,” she says. “My main goal is to introduce the 56
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sport to more diverse communities within the Hispanic culture, to embrace them and include them in the process of learning how to play tennis.” It’s really no surprise that she is taking a grassroots approach, because that was her introduction to the sport. At age 6, she tagged along with her older brothers to a summer program four blocks from their house on Chicago’s West Side while their parents taught summer school. “It wasn’t really your normal tennis program,” she says of the Boys Club offering in the summer of 1975. After a few weeks of watching her brothers play, Adams, too young to participate in the 9-andup program, persuaded the coaches to let her play. “I loved it from the first moment I struck a tennis ball,” she says. Her brothers never played after the end of that summer, but she was a natural. And what sealed the deal was that same summer she watched Arthur Ashe become the first African-American man to win Wimbledon as he defeated Jimmy Connors. “I had just started playing and a couple weeks later I see this black guy on a 12-inch black-and-
white television,” she says. “It was like, ‘Wow, you can do this on TV.’” After retiring from the Women’s Tennis Association tour in 1999 with 20 doubles titles, Adams began her career with the USTA as a national coach for the top junior players. “I didn’t really grab a hold of the true meaning of the organization until I was actually on a committee,” she says. “It’s about going into our communities and getting people involved in the sport.” It’s a mission that takes her beyond her volunteer job with the USTA. She’s the executive director of the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program, a co-host of CBS Sports Network’s all-female “We Need to Talk” and a contributor to Tennis magazine and its website, tennis.com. And when she’s not playing tennis? “I’m playing golf.” Though not as much as she would like. “I haven’t done a lot of things that I would have liked to as of late,” she says. “But it’s good. I mean that time will come for me to really be able to get back to me, but right now I have the time and the passion to give to everyone else.” The US Open runs Aug. 31 through Sept. 13. For more, visit usopen.org.
Welcome to Knollwood Country Club World-class Recreational Facilities Outstanding Service and Hospitality Fun for Everyone!
A Tradition of Excellence! Knollwood Country Club provides facilities for the full enjoyment of its membership: an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, health and fitness center, clubhouse, swimming pool and a full service food and beverage operation. Knollwood Country Club is a fun and family-oriented club, dedicated to providing its members with quality products, programs, activities, facilities and services. Established in 1894, Knollwood Country Club has a rich history and stories to tell; a club of timeless traditions and enduring legacy; a club that has truly withstood the tests of time. Staying true to the ideals that the club was built around, today Knollwood Country Club is a place where families and friends come together to make memories and celebrate some of life’s most cherished moments.
Whether you are enjoying the pace of play on our beautifully tree lined golf course, networking with other professionals, utilizing our banquet facilities, basking in the sun by the pool, or enjoying a social event with family, Knollwood Country Club is your haven.
Our professional golf staff is available to give lessons to members and their families. Our professionally trained hospitality staff is dedicated to creating an enjoyable experience for every member and their guests.
Brand New Tennis Courts! 2 Har-Tru Hard Courts • Mixers Lessons • Club Tournaments We are pleased to announce the hiring of our new Tennis Director, Owen Robertson! For more information regarding our current membership opportunities and club amenities, WAGMAG.COM AUGUST 2015 please contact Rosanne Alfano at (914) 592-7411 or Rosanne@KnollwoodCC.com.
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INTO SCUBA-INSPIRED FASHION BY DANIELLE RENDA
Neoprene wetsuits aren’t the epitome of summer fashion — unless, of course, you prefer scuba diving to neighborhood barbecues. But select designers are turning the wetsuit into an everyday look. Wetsuitinspired clothing is typically slim-fitting, creating a feminine silhouette for the wearer without showing too much skin. And, after all, what better way to celebrate summer than by wearing an outfit you’d wear to the beach?
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1. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN’S SCUBA FIT-AND-FLARE DRESS This flirty dress, available in red, is a great selection for a night out. Its sleeveless, largetabbed epaulets and asymmetric, layered hem — balanced by the slim, natural waist — give it a certain flair ($2,295).
2. ALEXANDER WANG’S LONG-SLEEVE SCUBA ZIP DRESS The wetsuit, without a doubt, was the inspiration for this paneled dress. Available in midnight, this slim-fitting, structured piece by the
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New York-based designer — an expert in this niche, having used scuba influences for years — has a rounded neckline with zip details and a hidden back zipper ($450).
3. NARCISCO RODRIGUEZ’S SLEEVELESS CUTOUT SCUBA CREPE JUMPSUIT This chic, sleeveless black jumpsuit with a cutout, plunging neckline features curved yoked pants, flared legs and a banded seam at the natural waist. The cutouts and neckline capture the ultramodern look that has put Rodriguez at the forefront of Young Hollywood,
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4. SHOSHANNA’S SLEEVELESS LASER-CUT SCUBA DRESS This slim-fitting dress in lattice laser-cut scuba fabric has a mesh-like appearance, giving the wearer added attitude and spunk. The pattern is balanced by the contrasted band, square neckline and pencil skirt. Available in jet ($395). For more, visit neimanmarcus.com.
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PEEK BY DANIELLE RENDA
EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THAT NO OUTFIT IS COMPLETE WITHOUT THE PERFECT SHOE. But what she may not know is that for some people, the perfect shoe is the sneaker. Just ask Colin Kaepernick and Ryan Lochte, each of whom has hundreds of pairs of sneaks, and “Talk Stoop” host Cat Greenleaf (WAG, June 2014), who even wears them on the red carpet. Now the fashion world is catching up to Colin, Ryan and Cat as sneaks make their appearance on the runway. This month, we’re stepping out of our summer sandals and stepping into sneaks. With styles ranging from high tops to lows, slip-ons to wedges, Neiman Marcus Westchester offers an array of sporty options to complement any outfit:
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1. BOLTINA TRAINER RED SOLE PUMP Christian Louboutin’s red sole shoes have hooked the fashion world. Now, the signature soles are appearing on the bottoms of spiky sneaker-heels. Paired with mesh panels and lining, these sexy heels are sure to be a showstopper. Available in black/rose ($1,095).
2. SLIP-ON LEATHER SNEAKER When you’re sashaying out the door, you’ll surely need a pair of quick and easy slip-ons. This soft leather skate sneaker by Prada adds a touch of edginess with its metallic trim and heel counter. Available in nero/ argento ($495).
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3. KENT LACE-UP LEATHER LOW-TOP SNEAKER This selection by unisex brand rag & bone, a designer known for reinventing urban style, is the epitome of the classic sneaker. The lace-up shoe with the cushioned, leather foot bed is the perfect neutral, yet youthful accessory to add playfulness to any look. Available in white, whole sizes only ($325).
Elsewhere, there’s… 4. MOSSIMO SNEAKERS Looking for Prada without Prada prices? Here’s a Prada-inspired shoe with a fun, floral print. Available at Target ($16.95).
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Arriving at Hotel Hermitage. Photograph copyright Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer.
Monaco
IS BACK BY JEREMY WAYNE
Weekend in Monte Carlo, darling? You bet. Monaco, which went into social if not economic decline after the death of Princess Grace 33 years ago, has never been hotter. Albert, 57, no longer the bachelor prince but married to an adorable South African wife and now with adorable infant twins, is on the Grimaldi throne and the loyal Monegasques, well, adore him. Haughty elder sibling Caroline sensibly keeps her distance, while naughty
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Luxury boats of the rich and famous at anchor in Monaco. Photograph by Bob Rozycki.
younger sister Steph, for so long the thorn in the principality’s side, has managed to keep out of the tabloids for a while now. The Monaco year is stuffed with tennis masters, dog shows, opera, ballet, jazz, film and TV festivals, the world’s most famous Formula One event and what is still the Riviera’s most glamorous party, the annual Red Cross Ball. Gone are the waxed-moustache, stuffed Pucci shirts who used to clamor for Sunday afternoon tables at the Café de Paris in the Place de Casino. Gone too are the gigolos — well, most of them. These days, by comparison, Monaco is positively hip. There’s a Zara next door to Prada, coats and ties are no longer required in the fancier restaurants and female voituristes — car valets — now battle for tips with their male counterparts. Given the Côte d’Azur’s horrendous August traffic, choppers, of course, are the only way to go. You take the 7-minute helicopter ride from Nice airport and less than an hour after your flight from New York touches down, you can be sipping a frozen daiquiri at Le Deck at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel. Built partly on reclaimed land, winking at Cap Roquebrune across the water, this 1929 property, rebuilt and relaunched in 2005, is in the portfolio of Monaco’s all-powerful Société Bains de Mer, but is still the baby of the family in relation to the
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SBM’s other beaux enfants, notably the Hotel de Paris and Hotel Hermitage. At the Bay there’s an indoor pool leading to an outdoor pool, another pool with a sandy bottom (the only one in Europe), plasma-screen TVs in the bathrooms (of course) and plastic sea horses for you to play with in the bath. It’s almost self-consciously modern with striking, chiselled marble, oversized vases and abstract sculpture on every surface, plus a bar called Blue Gin with its very own twinkly night “sky.” The Sunday brunch here — oysters, tuna tartare, hamburgers, leg of lamb, all washed down with pink Champagne — is now a Monaco institution. And Monaco loves its institutions, one of them being fast cars. At the Ferrari garage in town, two men are permanently employed over the winter months to polish the beasts and take them for regular spins while their absentee owners are playing elsewhere. Grand Prix weekend in May marks the start of the Monaco summer season, with 300,000 people descending on the principality (population 30,000) to be deafened for 72 hours and fill their lungs with the smell of burning rubber and Arpège. The circuit roars right past the Hotel de Paris, the grande dame of Monaco hotels, currently one year in to a four-year-long restoration
to mark its 150th anniversary. When I was recently a guest, a request for aspirin had James, the assistant concierge, knocking on the door within four minutes offering me a choice — Tylenol, sir, or Ibuprofen Extra? American breakfast, with sausages and hash browns, arrived in 12 minutes flat. There’s posh Elgydium toothpaste in the Limoges tooth mug and Hermès soap in the soap dish and the views of the harbor are dreamy. Alain Ducasse operates his flagship little bistro (three Michelin stars) on the first floor and in the eighth floor Grill, the roof glides open to reveal the stars. Okay, this isn’t Monaco’s hippest side, but it’s divinely romantic and romance, they say, never goes out of fashion. Over at the Hermitage — another Sociéte Bains de Mer property, two minutes walk from the Hotel de Paris — you find marble so soft you want to hug it and exquisite Italian mosaics in contrast to the gilt, the frescoes and the giant chandeliers of Hotel de Paris. If restraint and discretion exist in Monte Carlo, this is where they are exercised. “In Monaco, they say, you come to the Hotel de Paris to be seen,” Mireille Rebaudo-Martini, press officer for the Sociéte Bains de Mer once told me, “but you come to l’Hermitage to disappear.” If I go missing any time soon, my nearest and dearest will know where to find me.
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MASERATI MEETS ZEGNA
Photographs by Fabrizio Ferri. Courtesy Assouline.
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takes on new meaning in “One of 100: Maserati and Zegna” (Assouline, 224 pages, 100 illustrations, $195), which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the luxury car brand and a collaboration twice over. First, Maserati and men’s clothing company Ermenegildo Zegna have teamed for the sleek, limited edition (only 100) Maserati Quattroporte Zegna. The pair in turn are joined by Roman-born, New York-based fashion photographer Fabrizio Ferri, who has captured the hands of artists, artisans, athletes, writers, musicians, TV journalists — New York Ranger Henrik Lundqvist and Matt Lauer of “Today” among them — to accompany the Quattroporte’s close-up.
It’s fascinating to witness the dialogue between man and car — the curve of a hand echoing that of a fin, open hands suggesting grille-work, splayed fingers indicating spokes, and, perhaps most beautifully, the lines of a palm reflecting the three prongs of the Maserati logo. As you turn the pages, the hands take on a kind of sign language, a finger ballet. Photographed in Shanghai, New York, Dubai and Milan, they “represent the past as well as the future,” the book notes. They say hands never lie. Here manicured, lined, tattooed, expressive, open, they speak of timeless beauty. — Georgette Gouveia
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Gifts and new products ideal for any occasion COMPILED BY MARY SHUSTACK
ON THE GO Native Shoes, a brand best known for its lightweight-but-durable footwear created via sustainable manufacturing, has introduced its newest shoe. The Apollo Moc comes in selections including Jiffy Black, Torch Red or Victoria Blue, all accented with Shell White. From $70, why not pick up more than one to take you from exercise class right through afternoon errands? Sold locally at Nordstrom in White Plains. For more, visit nativeshoes.com. Photographs courtesy Native Shoes.
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SAILING INTO YOUR DÉCOR (1) Jay Davidson Susanin has created a most clever way to add a distinctive nautical touch to your surroundings. “Pick Your Beach Town, Select Your Map Size & Color and Bring Paradise Home” is Bank & Surf’s tagline. And the company makes it easy, offering signature blueprint-style maps, available in 10 color choices and some 200 destinations. Remember special times sailing to Newport, visiting Palm Beach or coming home to Larchmont or Darien. The framed works of art start at $325 and can be customized in countless ways.
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BACK TO NATURE (2) For those who head to the great outdoors for recreational pursuits, Wittus Fire By Design in Pound Ridge — which has been importing quality Danish fireplaces and stoves to America for more than 35 years — has a suggestion. The Faltovn Camp Stove ($910, with optional accessories from $90) is a portable wood-burning unit that can heat your tent, dry your clothes and cook your meals without taxing nature. Sounds toasty. For more, visit wittus.com. Photograph courtesy Wittus.
SWING TIME (3) You’ve swum your laps, played your tennis sets, ran your miles or rounded that 18th hole. Now, it’s time to kick back. Hayneedle, the online source with a wealth of outdoor-furniture options, has the perfect reward. The Island Bay 13-foot Unwind Quilted Hammock with Faux Woodgrain Steel Stand is as sturdy as it is stylish, holding up to 450 pounds. We love the arc of the stand, available in cherry or mahogany, adding an elegant, decorative touch to your patio or backyard. From $287, including stand. For more, visit hayneedle.com. Photograph courtesy Hayneedle.
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SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION TOP REGIONAL PRIVATE SCHOOLS COMPILED BY DANIELLE RENDA ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC HIGH SCHOOL 950 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, N.Y. 10605 914-946-4800 • stepinac.org Top administrator: Thomas Collins, president
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FAIRFIELD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield, Conn. 06824 203-254-4200 • fairfieldprep.org Top administrator: Thomas M. Simisky, president
HACKLEY SCHOOL 293 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591 914-366-2600 • hackleyschool.org Top administrator: Walter Johnson, headmaster THE HARVEY SCHOOL 260 Jay St., Katonah, N.Y. 10536 914-232-3161 • harveyschool.org Top administrator: Barry Fenstermacher
IMMACULATE HIGH SCHOOL 73 Southern Blvd., Danbury, Conn. 06810 203-744-1510 • immaculatehs.org Top administrator: Mary R. Maloney, president IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL 173 Stratton Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-633-7744 255 Wilmot Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-632-0714 ionaprep.org Top administrator: Thomas R. Leto, president JOHN F. KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 54 Route 138, Somers, N.Y. 10589 914-232-5061 • kennedycatholic.org Top administrator: Mark G. Vaillancourt, president/principal KING LOW HEYWOOD THOMAS 1450 Newfield Ave., Stamford, Conn. 06905 203-322-3496 • klht.org Top administrator: Tom Main, head of school KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL 33 Calhoun Place, Bridgeport, Conn. 06604 203-335-2554 • kolbecaths.org Top administrator: Jo-Anne Jakab, president LÉMAN MANHATTAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL 41 Broad St., New York, N.Y. 10004 1 Morris St., New York, N.Y. 10004 212-232-0266 • lemanmanhattan.org Top administrator: Drew Alexander, head of school
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MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL 5142 Route 22, Amenia, N.Y. 12501 845-373-9511 • maplebrookschool.org Top administrator: Donna Konkolics, head of school MARIA REGINA HIGH SCHOOL 500 W. Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530 914-761-3300 • mariaregina.org Top administrator: Valerie J. Reidy, principal THE MASTERS SCHOOL 49 Clinton Ave., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 10522 914-479-6400 • mastersny.org Top administrator: Laura Davis Danforth, head of school MILLBROOK SCHOOL 131 Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, N.Y. 12545 845-677-8598 • millbrook.org Top administrator: Drew Casertano, headmaster THE MONTFORT ACADEMY 125 E. Birch St., Mount Vernon, N.Y. 10552 914-699-7090 • themontfortacademy.org Top administrator: David Petrillo, headmaster NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL 635 Frogtown Road, New Canaan, Conn. 06840 203-972-0771 • countryschool.net Top administrator: Peter O’Neill, interim head of school NOTRE DAME CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 220 Jefferson St., Fairfield, Conn. 06825 203-372-6521 • notredame.org Top administrator: William Sangiovanni, president OAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL 22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603 845-462-4200 • oakwoodfriends.org Top administrator: Chad Cianfrani, interim head of school
REGIS HIGH SCHOOL 55 E. 84 St., New York, N.Y. 10028 212-288-1100 • regis.org Top administrator: Philip Judge, president
SAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL 2320 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull, Conn. 06611 203-378-9378 • sjcadets.org Top administrator: William Fitzgerald, president
RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY 223 W. Mountain Road, Ridgefield, Conn. 06877 203-894-1800 • ridgefieldacademy.org Top administrator: James P. Heus, head of school
SAINT LUKE’S SCHOOL 377 N. Wilton Road, New Canaan, Conn. 06840 203-966-3409 • stlukesct.org Top administrator: Mark Davis, head of school
RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL 325 W. Patent Road, Mount Kisco, N.Y. 10549 914-244-1200 439 Cantitoe St., Bedford, N.Y. 10506 914-244-1250 rcsny.org Top administrator: Colm MacMahon, head of school
SALESIAN HIGH SCHOOL 148 E. Main St., New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801 914-632-0248 • salesianhigh.org Top administrator: John Flaherty, principal
RUDOLPH STEINER SCHOOL 15 E. 79 St., New York, N.Y. 10075 212-535-2130 15 E. 78 St., New York, N.Y. 10075 212-879-1101 steiner.edu Top administrator: William Macatee, school administrator RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL Cedar St., Rye, N.Y. 10580 91914-967-1417 • ryecountryday.org Top administrator: Scott A. Nelson, headmaster SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL 34 Convent Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. 10703 914-985-3114 • sacredhearts.net Top administrator: Maurice Moreau, head of school SAINT BARNABAS HIGH SCHOOL 425 E. 20 St., Bronx, N.Y. 10470 718-325-8800 • stbarnabashigh.com Top administrator: Joan Faraone, principal
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WONDERFUL DINING
LATIN FLAVORS
ON THE SOUND STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIELLE BRODY
Diners enjoy the dockside dining area at Paloma.
THE REPUTATION OF AARÓN SÁNCHEZ, CELEBRITY CHEF (“CHOPPED”) AND CO-OWNER OF PALOMA, MIGHT DRAW YOU TO THE STAMFORD RESTAURANT, BUT ITS WATERFRONT LOCATION, STYLISH ATMOSPHERE AND QUALITY FOOD WILL MAKE YOU GLAD YOU CAME. The year-old Latin grill at Harbor Point seats 250 in a sleek, two-story glass building. On a summer evening, the back glass walls were opened to let the dining room (all warm wood and stone) spill onto a spacious patio (a backyard vibe with wicker and flower benches) next to the Harbor Point dock. Well-ap-
pointed patrons enjoyed the light breeze and sunset as well as the flavorful offerings that reflect Sánchez’s heritage and the décor’s casual-chic quality. The well-plated dishes are unmistakably Latin, but also take inspiration from Southern barbecue and all-American favorites. Chef de cuisine Chris Bateman, who runs the day-to-day operations, says he and Sánchez put their own spin on traditional dishes. “We try to spice it up and change things to make it a little bit different. We try to have some fun with the food.”
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A plate of tostadas topped with mushrooms, chipotle aioli and micro greens.
A savory trio of Mexican street corn, albondigas (meatballs) and queso fundido (fried cheese).
Churros with agave-vanilla cream dipping sauce.
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Take the tostadas — Paloma’s upgrade of nachos. The plates of small tortillas, one topped with mushrooms and chipotle aioli, the other with shrimp and mango salsa, had us savoring each bite. The albondigas — Spanish for meatballs — were reminiscent of their classic Italian counterpart and Spanish tapas. Enjoy the spicy dish on its own — or with a forkful of creamy Mexican street corn. The queso fundido, or fried cheese, served steaming in a skillet with ingredients like huitlacoche (corn smut, it’s better than it sounds) and wild mushrooms, completed the savory trio. There’s something about eating tapas-style that is exciting, comfortable and awkward all at the same time. Grabbing bits, comparing and sharing, elevate the food fun and group dynamic. Perhaps that’s why when the entrées arrived, I wasn’t quite as excited. But the main course also lacked the bold flavor I had expected. The Cuban-marinated rotisserie chicken and the braised short ribs were tender yet safe. Still, Bateman says these are best sellers, along with the camarones mojo de ajo, or jumbo shrimp. Even though I’m not a seafood lover, I enjoyed the shrimp because they were spicy and presented on a tasty cake of grits. My favorite entrée was the garganelli pasta with ground chorizo. The fresh pasta served as a nice complement to the delicious spicy Spanish sausage. Come dessert, there were no complaints and not many leftovers. We ate doughnut-shaped, dolce de leche-garnished churros with an agave-vanilla cream dipping sauce. They could have used more dolce de leche filling, but that didn’t stop me from eating more than one. The salted caramel cheesecake, served in deconstructed layers in a mason jar, was a creamy, tasty take on the classic dessert. It came with a cherry chunk cookie on the side that was decent but better when combined with the star of the plate. Overall it’s the small offerings — the drinks, appetizers and desserts — coupled with the big waterside view and, of course, the potential for a Sánchez sighting that would bring me back to Paloma. For more, visit palomagrill.com.
WINE & DINE
Wine often tastes better at the source. This winery is Château de Rhodes, in France’s southwest region.
LOOKING FOR THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PAULDING
MY LONG MARRIAGE ENDED IN DIVORCE, WHICH WAS MORE OR LESS FINALIZED A YEAR AGO. Most people we knew or met thought us to be an unlikely couple, in part because we had different temperaments and interests. She was a passionate academic with multiple degrees, while I found pleasure in sports, music and in other directions. Her summer interests took her to Israel where she participated in archaeological digs and taught Holocaust studies while I have preferred traveling to different wine destinations, sometimes several a year. I also attend many winemaker luncheons, dinners and regional educational seminars in Manhattan and get the opportunity to talk, in depth, with industry professionals to discover their perspective on the grape. She had been a successful marathon runner and loved sports where she could go the distance, be it swimming, snow-shoeing, running or walking, which allowed her to tune out for several hours at a time. I always preferred my exercise to be camouflaged in sports like softball, ice hockey, rollerblading, skiing, road biking and mountain hiking. I would finish my sport du jour and have realized a great workout, but the exercise was almost secondary and a side benefit to the enjoyment of the event. I continue to coach skiing at Killington in Vermont and, until recently, I played a couple of different men’s league sports. 78
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One night she was in one of her moods, looked at me angrily and said, “I don’t know anyone who has more fun than you do. You ski, skate, play softball, go hear music, play golf, travel, dine with winemakers. Fun, fun, fun. Life’s more than just about having fun.” But I think life’s so much more than work. Maybe some of us are blessed with the temperament that finds the fun in work. Or maybe some of us are lucky enough to have glamorous work that takes us where the fun is. On one of my press trips to the Pacific Northwest, I met a longtime wine writer who told me, “A croissant in Paris tastes better than it does anywhere else. That same croissant won’t taste as good in another city. The same holds for pastas in Florence or chocolate in Zurich.” I have found this to be true and I have also found tasting wines on location with a winemaker at a winery will somehow show more accented and saturated flavors. There are many wineries to visit that don’t require a passport or even a plane ticket. I recently visited Hopkins Vineyard (Hopkinsvineyard.com) along the Connecticut wine trail in New Preston, Litchfield County, and was quite pleased with the quality of some of its wines. The late harvest Night Owl dessert sweet wine, crafted from the Vidal Blanc grape, was delicious and unctuously sweet and well priced at $15 for a 375ml bottle. There are now at least 24 wineries within striking distance in
Connecticut and many are worth the ride. I have also visited wineries on Long Island where many of them are now fully established and hitting their stride. The Lenz Winery (Lenzwine.com) in Peconic and Macari Vineyards (macariwines.com) in Mattituck on the North Fork are both making wonderful wines that can go head to head with some noteworthy wines of the world. There are close to 50 vineyard options on the north and south forks of the Island and several limo companies offer winery-to-winery transportation. The Hudson Valley is home to more than 50 wineries. A leisurely drive along the scenic and historic Hudson River should include some winery visits. Several of these wineries have restaurants and some organize live music, balloon rides and other entertainment. So as an alternative to visiting your neighborhood wine store, take a trip. Get in your car, hire a limousine, jump on your bike. Within an hour’s drive from where you are right now, there are vineyards and winery or brewery options. All of these destinations offer on-premise sales of their wines and all will offer case discounts. There is just something lovely, romantic, exotic, fun and almost otherworldly about tasting at the source. And when you open that same wine at home you can be transported back to the source — if only for a moment. Write me at Doug@dougpaulding.com.
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WHETTING THE APPETITE
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SPIRAL PASTA WITH TOMATOES, MARCONA ALMONDS AND PARMESAN CHEESE
BY JACKIE RUBY PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ROZYCKI
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2 pounds of heirloom mixed tomatoes 1 ½ tablespoons of red wine vinegar ½ cup good olive oil plus 2 tablespoons 2 tablespoons of minced shallots 1 tablespoon of dried oregano ¼ cup basil finely shredded ½ teaspoon sea salt ⅛ teaspoon of crushed red pepper ⅛ teaspoon of fresh ground pepper ⅛ teaspoon of oregano ¼ cup Marcona almonds ¼ cup fresh grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
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Looking at the big picture when it comes to sports injuries STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY LAUREN SHARKEY
“IF YOU THINK ABOUT A COMPUTER, YOU HAVE THE HARDWARE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE SOFTWARE,” SAYS ROBERT INESTA OF WESTCHESTER SPORTS & WELLNESS IN HARRISON. “A lot of the physical manual work that I do with the soft tissues is working with the hardware, which is the functional mechanics helping people to move better, and then there is the acupuncture, which has to do with the software.” Inesta is a certified chiropractic sports practitioner and strength and conditioning specialist. “I see all types of muscular-skeletal injuries, lots of back issues, herniated disks, many shoulder injuries, all types of sport injuries, hips, knees, pretty much anything nonsurgical.” He works with a variety of patients, including athletes in high school, college and professional sports as well as patients with arthritic and degenerative complications. “As far as the degenerative stuff goes, simple basics will decrease these issues, which include using good posture, trying not to sit for too long, more multi-dynamic activities, which means not doing one thing all the time.” Inesta adds that he has seen an increase in children at his office in our digital era. “Core stability, glute activation and balance are really important. These are the things I see lacking the most.” With the absence of these, the risk of injury increases. “With any changes, we have to work harder at balancing our mechanics.” He suggests a combination of things to “balance one’s mechanic”’ through acupuncture and proper nutrition combined with the physical, manual work he does as a chiropractor. “I have found the combination to be very effective. I focus more on
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Robert Inesta of Westchester Sports & Wellness in Harrison.
the soft tissue and do a lot of manual techniques to get those tissues to move better and feel more balanced.” Two of Inesta’s manual techniques are Active Release Technique and Fascial Manipulation Technique, which are designed to release tension and restore normal movement in the soft tissues, including tendons, ligaments, skin, membranes, muscles, nerves and blood vessels. “Once I have released the tension in the muscles, I have found that acupuncture helps to enhance (the release). With acupuncture, we are trying to stimulate your nervous system and your energetic flow.” This then pairs well with a healthy diet, he
adds. “What you eat is the building blocks of cellular repair as well as the fuel that our bodies use. I’ll make nutritional suggestions as well as providing someone with supplements if they need a little bit more.” Inesta has seen an increase in the amount of patients who require supplements to their diet. “In this day and age, we are not getting the proper nutrition, because our food supply has been altered, which is causing problems.” There is a saying, “He who looks at the site of pain is often lost.” This statement is relevant when considering Inesta’s practice as he believes that everything is interconnected: “You have to look at the whole body. Someone may come in with back pain and that’s where the pain is manifesting and where the symptoms are, but the problem may actually be in the hip. We try to establish as much balance as possible by looking at the whole picture.”
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
LIFE TIME UPS ITS GAME
BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANTHONY CARBONI
A lifeguard cools off at Life Time Fitness.
T’S THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND, TIME WHEN AMERICA TAKES A NAP, BUT YOU’D NEVER KNOW IT AT LIFE TIME ATHLETIC IN HARRISON. LUXURY CARS VROOM UP WESTCHESTER PARK DRIVE TO THE FACILITY, WHOSE PARKING LOT IS PACKED. Inside, members in swimsuits, tennis outfits, track clothes and yoga wear crisscross the lobby. In the Life Power Studio alone, there isn’t room for an extra mat as some 60 practitioners flow from one asana (or pose) to another under the excellent guidance of Life Power Yoga faculty member Jenna Williams, lengthening and letting go in a space heated to 95 degrees. A year and a half after it opened — and WAG previewed it in our January 2014 “Super Power” issue — Life Time is a hit, with more than 7,000 members. Senior general manager Susan Setna Mistri describes the membership in Goldilocks terms — not too many, not too few. “We have as many members as we need,” says
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the GM, who brings a warm, welcoming spirit to her job. “What we’re seeing is people really using the facility, practically living here. You see them when you come in in the morning, and they’re still here in the evening.” They’re grandparents, parents and children, she adds, friends and old acquaintances who are happy to connect over a cup of tea in the Life Café or poolside. It is a lifetime experience, one that plays out at 116 clubs in 25 states in 33 major markets, including Toronto. And it hasn’t changed now that Life Time — The Healthy Way of Life Co. has returned to privately held status. (The investor group that bought the company for more than $4 billion includes founder Bahram Akradi, TPG and Leonard Green and Partners.) “It is business as usual at Life Time,” says Natalie Bushaw, director of public relations, “with an eye toward growth and serving our members.” As well as the larger community. Life Time has partnered with the Wounded Warrior Project, offering these veterans a complimentary three-month membership on their road to healing, Mistri says. After the quarter is up, they can join at a reduced rate. It’s part of Life Time’s commitment to social causes, she adds, with the company happy to donate space inside the
206,000-square-foot White Plains facility for events. But you don’t have to be a charity, a wounded vet or even a member to enjoy Life Time. The Spa and Café are open to the public, as is “Yoga Under the Stars.” (Williams will conduct the last session for the season, which is $10 for nonmembers, at 8 p.m. Aug. 20.) Still, membership — $159 a month for individuals — has its privileges, to quote an old American Express campaign. At the pool, members can enjoy the new Diamond Bistro, whose nutritious, upmarket offerings range from Jamaican Jerk Chicken Wings to a salad of spinach, blueberries, red onion and pistachios with balsamic dressing to pecan-crusted salmon. There’s also a weekend grill, more pool deck attendants and extra striped beach towels, the kind that make you feel like you’re in a posh club. If a refreshing swim, a strenuous match or a fluid yoga class — to name but a few of the offerings — don’t get the kinks out, maybe the new Life Clinic, with its chiropractic services, will. And for those intimidated by the mere thought of a super-gym, there’s the 90 Day Challenge, which for $30 includes the center’s signature evaluation of your overall fitness, nutritional counseling and all the activities that Life Time has to offer. For more, visit lifetimefitness.com.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
CITADEL OF BLISS BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
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“The Royal Treatment,” the first issue of WAG under Westfair ownership (February 2011). You board your whirlybird from a helipad on either the East or West Side of Manhattan, landing at Westchester County Airport and tooling over to the hotel in a town car — “a bottle of the bubbly,” as general manager Gilbert Baeriswil puts it — in tow. Then it’s off to a tour of the wine cellar, a four-course meal at the hotel’s outstanding Equus restaurant and an overnight stay in one of the luxury suites. “It’s a nice little bit of pampering, right?” the très charmant Baeriswil asks, rhetorically, of course. Did we mention that this new package includes a treatment at Thann (pronounced “tahn”) Sanctuary Spa that the Castle officially opened a year and a half ago as part of its revamping under new management? (Sankara Hospitality oversees the Castle, along with Sankara Hotel & Spa on Yakushima Island.) Business at the spa is “fantastic,” Baeriswil says. “We are very pleased with the way it’s going. What is remarkable is the way the local market has em-
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braced us, too.” That’s apparent during another blissful visit to the spa, where the solidly booked clientele includes a couple who married at the Castle and are back for a fifth anniversary celebration of massages (though not a couple’s massage, which they could’ve had indoors or under the gazebo outside looking east over Westchester County), followed by dinner at Equus. “What is unique is the Thai massage,” Baeriswil says, “stretching out and relaxing the whole body.” Two years ago, WAG was introduced to this under the expert hands of Samantha Feig, who is still with Thann. This time, we try an anti-aging facial and yoga class, both with Anna Maria Poniros, who is a licensed aesthetician and a registered yoga teacher with an M.S. in nutrition from Columbia University. The yoga class offers a fascinating contrast with one taken earlier in the day at Life Time Athletic in Harrison. In that class, we flowed from pose to pose, the high dry heat helping to create a kind of water-dance. Poniros’ class is classic hatha yoga — slow, sustained movements that are connected, as in the LifePower Yoga class, by resonant, diaphragmatic ujjayi breathing. The result is the sense of emptying out fear and replenishing yourself with calm and strength. That is the effect, too, of the 70-minute Nano Shiso Anti-Aging Facial, featuring nanoparticles, tiny crystals, Age Inversion Face Cream and oil-free
Relaxation Lounge at Thann Sanctuary Spa. Courtesy the Castle Hotel & Spa.
sunscreen SPF 30 with Nano Shiso and white tea extracts to cleanse, exfoliate, moisturize and revitalize the skin. The 30-minute Detoxifying Lymphatic Facial Massage, which has the added benefit of really opening up the sinuses, includes a hand and foot massage during mask treatment that uses the new Eden Breeze (rose and jasmine), the scent we chose during a brief health discussion at the beginning of our spa journey. (The others are a minty Sea Foam, a citrusy Oriental Essence and a spicy Aromatic Wood that men favor.) It’s not just the treatments. It’s the 8,600-square-foot space itself — the bronze-colored showers; the common lounge with its tranquil garden view, its pots of tea, its mini spring rolls and tiny rectangles of banana bread; and the divans that make it so oh-so-easy to plunge into a book like Linda Carroll and David Rosner’s superb “Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar, and Racing’s Greatest Rivalry.” Euphoric, we treat ourselves to dinner on Equus’ terrace, where we devour a lobster club and fries, sip a summer cocktail of Prosecco and Stoli Raz and watch a mama bunny chase her wascally wabbit of a baby — who likes to nibble the strawberry plants — around the garden. Can there be anything more to add? A smiling Baeriswil says, “You must come see it.” For more, visit castlehotelandspa.com.
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PET OF THE MONTH
TIMIDTILLY Meet Tilly, a 2-year-old Pomeranian/Dachshund mix who was rescued from a hoarding situation. She and her siblings are all very sweet, but very shy since they never got the love and affection they so desperately need. Tilly has come a long way though since arriving and loves being held and curling up on your lap. She needs a quieter home, preferably one with another dog since being around other dogs gives
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her confidence. Plus, she enjoys their company. To meet Tilly, visit the SPCA of Westchester at 590 N. State Road in Briarcliff Manor. Founded in 1883, the SPCA is a no-kill shelter and is not affiliated with the ASPCA. The SPCA is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. To learn more, call 914- 941-2896 or visit spca914.org.
PET PORTRAITS
FED, WATCH THAT BACKHAND IS ELVIS A ROGER FEDERER FAN? Here, the 4-year-old Coton De Tulear reacts to the Wimbledon men’s final, in which Novak Djokovic defeated Fed. “He became somewhat bored after watching two sets of the men’s final,” observes owner Patricia Valenti, a commercial real estate broker with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, a Rye resident and a fan of the Maestro herself. “He doesn’t act that way when the golf is on.” No doubt, Elvis tuned into the British Open. Calling all pets (and their owners) Don’t forget to send your “Pet Portraits,” featuring you and your beloved companions, to our pet-loving publisher, Dee DelBello, at dee@westfairinc.com.
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WHEN & WHERE
Thing as the Future.” One-of-a kind handmade pottery and sculpture by Kelley Donahue. Clay Art Center, 40 Beech St., Port Chester; 914-937-2047, clayartcenter.org.
ROAD TO FREEDOM WALK - AUG. 9
AUG. 7-9 “CHESS, the Musical” — The 1980s rock musical is reimagined in a production in
THROUGH AUG. 8
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Mount Pleasant Community Theatre pres-
Suzanne Vega makes her second ap-
ents “Guys and Dolls.” Bustling with gam-
pearance in Caramoor’s intimate Span-
blers, gangsters and sassy showgirls, the
ish Courtyard. Hear this folk singer-song-
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production celebrates Broadway’s golden
writer perform “Tom’s Diner,” “Luka” and
The Amy Marie Crabtree Foundation
Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, a
era with a score by Frank Loesser that in-
more. 8 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music
presents its sixth annual “Amy’s Birth-
book by Richard Nelson and lyrics by Tim
cludes “Luck Be a Lady,” “Sit Down You’re
and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road,
day Celebration” fundraiser. An eve-
Rice. 8 p.m. White Plains Performing Arts
Rocking the Boat,” and “I’ve Never Been
Katonah; 914-232-1252, caramoor.org.
ning of casual dining and conversation
Center, 11 City Place, White Plains; 914-
in Love Before.” John S. Wheatly Theatre,
at a barbecue picnic on the restaurant
328-1600, wppac.com.
Westlake High School, 825 Westlake Drive,
lawn to honor the life of Amy Crabtree.
914-232-1252, caramoor.org.
which the game is still a metaphor for romantic rivalries, professional gamesmanship, political power plays and international intrigues. With a score by ABBA’s
Thornwood; 914-773-9171, mpctshows.com.
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“Festival Finale: The Power of Brahms
tle Road, Chappaqua; 914-666-8044,
Westport Country Playhouse stages the
and Tchaikovsky” — The closing night
kittlehouse.com.
world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s “Love
of Caramoor’s 70th season features pi-
& Money,” exploring the trials of class,
anist Hélène Grimaud and the Orches-
family, legacy and race, directed by
tra of St. Luke’s in a program conduct-
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Mark Lamos. 7 p.m. Westport County
ed by Pablo Heras-Casado. 4:30 p.m.
Clay Art Center presents the Barbara
being kids and honoring children with
Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport;
Caramoor Center for Music and the
Rittenberg Memorial Fellow Artist in
cancer, specifically Ty Louis Campbell,
203-227-4177, westportplayhouse.org.
Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah;
Residence exhibit “There’s No Such
who valiantly fought cancer. 11 a.m. to 4
6:30 p.m., Crabtree’s Kittle House, 11 Kit-
AUG. 8 The third annual “Muddy Puddles Mess Fest” — An outdoor event featuring food, music, games and, of course, plenty of mud. This day is a celebration of kids
THROUGH AUG. 29 ArtsWestchester’s summer exhibit, “Revisiting Arcadia: Contemporary Landscapes,” offers fresh perspectives by 15 artists on their ongoing love affair with Westchester’s natural settings. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays. 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains; 914428-04220, artsw.org/arcadia.
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THROUGH OCT. 1 A new “Summer Invitational” exhibit, “Interpretations,” features works by Katharine Draper, Catherine Caulfield Russell and Joan Poarch, with a fundraising reception Sept 10. Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Ave., Norwalk; 203-838-9799, lockwoodmathewsmansion.com.
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p.m., Kiwi Country Day Camp, 825 Union
Arts Center, 11 City Place, White Plains;
Valley Road, Mahopac; 845-204-5447,
914-328-1600, wppac.com.
messfest2015.eventbrite.com.
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Golf outing to benefit the White Plains
The 10th annual “Road to Freedom
Performing Arts Center. Lunch begins at
Walk” — Retrace the historic steps taken
11 a.m., Play starts at 1 p.m. A full bar-
by the Continental Army as it departed
becue and open bar immediately fol-
Westchester (Dobbs Ferry) for the walk
low golf. Trump National Golf Club, 100
to Yorktown, Va., Aug. 19, 1781. The pres-
Shadow Tree Lane, Briarcliff Manor; 914-
ent-day, half-mile walk ends at the Mead
328-1600, wppac.com/shows/golf-out-
House, the headquarters of the Dobbs
ing-to-benefit-wppac.
Ferry Historical Society. At an after-walk reception, hear Lt. Col. Alexander Hamilton, Gen. George Washington and
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French Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien
“All Things Must Pass” — Filmmaker
Rochambeau (costumed re-enactors) as they recreate the happenings in the sum-
Colin Hanks (son of Tom) spent seven
BYE BYE BIRDIE - AUG. 21
years working on this nostalgic tale of the
mer of 1781. The fun includes folk songs,
rise and fall of onetime behemoth Tow-
storytelling by Jonathan Kruk and a fife
er Records. 7:30 p.m. Jacob Burns Film
and drum corps. Walk starts 1 p.m. Gould
6:30 p.m. Lyndhurst mansion lawn, 635
grandfather Bebo Valdés, Cuchito con-
Center, 364 Manville Road, Pleasantville;
Park, Ashford Avenue, Dobbs Ferry; 914-
S. Broadway, Tarrytown; 914-631-4481,
tinues the legacy of great pianists from
914-747-5555, burnsfilmcenter.org.
674-0007, dobbsferryhistory.org.
lyndhurst.org.
Cuba. Featuring Cuban food and dance, specialty rum cocktails, cigars and more. 5:30 p.m. Ridgefield Playhouse,
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80 E. Ridge Road; 203-438-5795, ridge-
The 49th annual “Moonviewing Con-
fieldplayhouse.org.
cert” — This annual event at the Ham-
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Rickie Lee Jones — The two-time
The Little River Band — This 1980s
Grammy Award winner performs hits
Australian group performs hits like “It’s
like “Chuck E.’s in Love,” “We Belong
a Long Way There,” “Help Is on Its Way,”
Together” and “Don’t Let The Sun Catch
“Reminiscing,” “Lady,” “Cool Change,”
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You Crying” at Ridgefield Playhouse.
“Lonesome Loser,” “Take It Easy On Me,”
“Shakespeare on The Green: ‘The
lanterns, is a magical setting for this ob-
8 p.m. 80 E. Ridge Road; 203-438-5795,
“Man On Your Mind” and many more. 8
Tempest’” — The Hudson Valley Shake-
servance of an ancient custom, which
ridgefieldplayhouse.org.
p.m. The Levitt Pavilion for the Perform-
speare Festival’s young artists create a
every August brings together people and
ing Arts, 40 Jessup Road, Westport;
circus-like atmosphere in this 90-min-
the traditions of East and West. Midnight.
866-811-4111, levittpavilion.com.
ute version of the Bard’s tale of a mag-
28 Deveau Road, North Salem; 914-669-
ical isle. Free. 12:30 p.m. Ridgefield
5033, hammondmuseum.org.
AUG. 13 Shunzo Ohno Group —
Grammy
Award- winning trumpeter Ohno be-
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came one of the leading jazz trumpeters
Festival Cubano Featuring Chuchito
in his native Japan. He performs as part
Valdés Quartet — Following in the foot-
of the “Sunset Jazz at Lyndhurst” series.
steps of his father Chucho Valdés and
mond Museum is a tradition that was
Playhouse, 80 E. Ridge Road; 203- 4385795, ridgefieldplayhouse.org.
begun by Natalie Hays Hammond in 1966. The Japanese Stroll Garden, lit by paper
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opening-night ceremonies scheduled for Aug. 31 will include a performance by
Ossining’s Summer Concert Series —
Josh Groban and participation by Billie
Enjoy an outdoor musical performance
Jean King. usopen.org.
by the Old Mill Singers, a group that has been entertaining Westchester audiences for more than 40 years. Concert-
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goers are encouraged to bring seating.
“Bernie Williams and Friends Charity
Picnics welcome. Free. 7 p.m. Engel Wa-
Softball Game and Performance” —
terfront Park, 160 Westerly Road, Ossin-
Since he’s hung up his cleats, the former
ing; 914-941-3189, villageofossining.org.
New York Yankees centerfielder has devoted himself to his other great passion
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in life — jazz guitar. At 1 p.m. watch Bernie and his all-stars in a charity softball
“Bye Bye Birdie” — A production of the
game on the baseball field adjacent to
Broadway staple about an Elvis-style
the Ridgefield Playhouse. Then at 7:30
singer about to be inducted into the
p.m. attend a concert with his all-star
Army (as Elvis was) and the nature of ce-
band. 80 E. Ridge Road; 203-438-5795,
lebrity. 7 p.m. White Plains Performing
ridgefieldplayhouse.org.
THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE
Sizzling Summer Shows!
for movies and the performing arts
Non-profit 501 (c) (3)
Eric Hutchinson
Boz Scaggs
Wed, July 15 @ 8PM
Sun, August 9 @ 8PM
Fresh from his tour with Kelly Clarkson!
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle” and more!
A night of hits – “Rock & Roll,” “Ok, It’s Alright With Me” and more!
Steve Earle & The Dukes
Donavon Frankenreiter
Grammy Award Winning Artist known for hits “Copperhead Road” and more!
Surfer, songwriter and life-long collaborator with Jack Johnson returns to the Playhouse!
Thurs, July 16 @ 8PM
Wed, August 5 @ 8PM
A Night of Comedy Headliners
Nick Di Paolo
Starring Rich Vos, Bonnie McFarlane and Jim Florentine
Sat, July 18 @ 8PM
Nick DiPaolo returns to the Playhouse with a brand new show! Don’t miss a night of his razor sharp comedy!
Sat, August 8 @ 8PM
Sam Bush
Rickie Lee Jones
3 top comedians bring one night of hilarious comedy to the Playhouse!
Sun, July 19 @ 8PM
Wed, August 12 @ 8PM
The English Beat
Festival Cubano Featuring Chuchito Valdés Quartet
Grammy winning bluegrass mandolin player and “Newgrass King!”
Wed, July 29 @ 8PM
“Mirror in the Bathroom,” “Save it for Later,” “I Confess,” – You just can’t stop The Beat!
The Grammy Winning singer with “Chuck E’s in Love,” “We Belong Together” and more!
FESTIVAL CUBANO
Sat, August 15 @ 5:30PM
· Cuban Food! · Specialty Rum Cocktails! · Cigars and more!
Tickets on sale now! (203) 438-5795 • RIDGEFIELDPLAYHOUSE.ORG 80 East Ridge • Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877
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SPRINGING INTO ART } At the Katonah Museum of Art’s annual spring benefit recently, more than 350 art lovers and collectors, business and community leaders and area residents enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and cocktails in the museum’s sculpture garden, followed by a four-course dinner. A lively “paddle raise” garnered close to $100,000 in less than 10 minutes, and guests danced the night away during the after party at a Silent Disco (headphones) in the sculpture garden. The event celebrated achievements — past and present — on the 25th anniversary of the KMA’s iconic Edward Larrabee Barnes building. Photographs by Margaret Fox.
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HOLLYWOOD ON THE SOUND } The Greenwich International Film Festival had a special screening of the new movie “Entourage” recently at the Bow Tie Cinemas with an after party at Gabrieles Steakhouse. Attendees included “Entourage” creator and director Doug Ellin, model-interviewer Kelly Rohrbach and GIFF founders Carina Crain, Colleen deVeer and Wendy Stapleton Reyes.
} The UJA-Federation of New York’s Larchmont-Mamaroneck community recently held its 2015 celebration, honoring former New York State Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer and her lawyer-husband Martin at a private waterfront home in Mamaroneck. The event provided its 125 guests with an opportunity to pay tribute to the Oppenheimers for their leadership, service and community commitment. 4. Laurie and Stephen Girsky, Michael and Nancy Kanterman, Suzi and Martin Oppenheimer, Judith Hyman Darsky and Sherry and Robert Wiener
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FRIENDS INDEED } Friends of Karen’s recently held its spring gala benefit, which raised more than $320,000 to support children in the tristate area who are battling cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. Among the contributors was CNN anchor John Berman, who donated his $50,000 “Celebrity Jeopardy!” winner’s check.
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WOMAN POWER
} The YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester recently held its seventh annual “In the Company of Women” luncheon at the Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown. The event attracted more than 500 women and men who mingled with those who’ve made a difference in Westchester County.
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SUPPORTING OUR NURSES
} Visiting Nurse Services in Westchester Inc. recently held its 17th annual benefit gala at the Willow Ridge Country Club in Harrison. More than 200 friends, donors and health care partners contributed close to $125,000. Guests enjoyed cocktails, conversation, great food, a silent auction and views of the club’s verdant golf course. 6. Frank Corvino and Tim Leddy 7. Mary Gadomski, Sumir Sahgal and Michael Gargiulo
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SUPPORTING STUDENTS
} The Woman’s Club of White Plains Foundation hosted its annual Scholarship Luncheon and Spring Fashion Show at the CV Rich Mansion on Ridgeway. This event, which this year included almost 200 people and featured a silent auction, raises money to help educate White Plains High School students. 1. Laura Owens 2. Carolyn Lao 3. Cindy Phillips
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} The Breast Cancer Alliance recently held its third annual coed golf outing at the Glen Arbor Golf Club in Bedford Hills. Sponsors, players and reception attendees contributed more than $70,000 in support of the alliance’s breast surgical fellowship. Guest enjoyed a buffet lunch and a round of golf, followed by cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
CANCER HEROES
} A Rye woman and a Greenwich man have been named the winners of this year’s Man and Woman of the Year of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Connecticut Westchester Hudson Valley Chapter. The two winners, Erika Dimson and Francisco Gonzalez, raised the most money during a 10-week competition to support LLS’s mission to find cures for blood cancers and ensure that patients have access to life-saving treatments. 4. Francisco Gonzalez 5. Erika Dimson
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} At its recent benefit in downtown Yonkers, Greyston celebrated the success of its programs, which provide individuals with jobs and the tools to lead self-sustaining lives. More than 300 people attended the event, which raised $380,000 in support of Greyston’s holistic approach to alleviating poverty. Special honorees this year were Edward Falkenberg, Greyston board member, and Erika Karp, founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital Group.
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A DAY TO GIVE BACK
} Heineken USA recently held its annual “Day of Giving” in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx. Approximately 100 employees from the company’s White Plains and New York City offices joined forces with environmental nonprofit GrowNYC and Bronx residents to turn a vacant lot into a garden, creating a welcoming environment for neighbors to socialize and network. 6. Scene from the “Day of Giving”
COMEDY TONIGHT
} The Westport Country Playhouse recently staged “The Liar” by David Ives. Adapted from the classic comedy by Pierre Corneille and directed by Penny Metropulos, the play weaves an increasingly intricate web of lies that leads to hilarious romantic misadventures. Photograph by Carol Rosegg. 7. Rusty Ross and Rebekah Brockman
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‘PLAYING’ IN THE BURNS’ SANDBOX
} The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville celebrated its anniversary in style recently, with a performance from jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli and a nod to video technology. Guests had the opportunity to play in an augmented reality sandbox, where they experienced real time topographic video projection.
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Photographs by Lynda Shenkman Curtis. 1. Andrew and Judith Economos 2. Brian Ackerman, Janet Maslin and Noah Hutton 3.John Pizzarelli, Edie Demas and Hugh Price 4. Jonathan Demme
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GIVING BACK
} More than 400 members of the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester (BGCNW) celebrated 76 years of giving youth great futures during the Club’s 21st annual Humanitarian Award Dinner at the Westchester Hilton hotel in Rye Brook. The event honored former BGCNW executive director Brian Skanes as Humanitarian of the Year and recognized TD Bank for its longstanding community commitment with the John Beach Award.
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} Shawn Nelson, founder and chairman of furniture company Lovesac, encouraged other achievers to “talk big” at the standing-room only Fairfield County 40 Under 40 awards ceremony June 25 in Norwalk. “We make our own luck,” Nelson said. “I’m telling you, keep talking big, that’s how luck will find you.” Nelson gave the keynote speech at the 11th annual event, which honors 40 people working in industries including law, real estate, medicine, nonprofits and others in Fairfield County. More than 300 people attended the awards, presented by the Fairfield County Business Journal at the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. – Danielle Brody Photographs by Bob Rozycki
1. Shawn Nelson 2. Bill Fallon 3. Brian Davis 4. Eddie Meyer and Kathryn Scheinberg Meyer 5. Sean Keating and Renata Howard 6. Nicole Cioffi, Kristen Zaehringer, Elaine Sansone and Cheryl Elliot 7. Sergio and Elizabeth DaSilveira 8. Stephanie and Paul Bonomo 9. Paul and Nicole Santos 10. Lisa and Bryan Kelsey 11. Clayton Johnson and Jessica Curtis 12. Thomas and Elizabeth O’Connor 13. Donna King, Nikki and Mario Coppola and Christina DeCrescenzo 14. The LoveSac group: Laura Sperry, Adrienne DeTraglia, Pat Hicks, Chelsea Kostek, Klavdiya Solovyev, John Rosa, Matt Shepard, Danielle DeVito, Michael Chaney and Mike Majlak 15. Steven Fusco and Danielle Campo 16. Jason Jaronko and Santina Galbo 17. Joseph and Janet Cichowski and Sarah and Mark Calzone 18. John Grosso, Jamie Goldman, Nick Nguyen and Jon Sabrowski
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A HOSPITAL’S HOLE IN ONE
} White Plains Hospital recently held its sixth annual Ahmad Rashad Golf Classic at the Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale. The event raised more than $450,000 for pediatric services and featured an opening cocktail reception at The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester in White Plains.
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1. Athar Khan, Larry Smith, Ahmad Rashad, Susan Fox and Jonathan Spitalny 2. John and Michael Jureller, Rodney Hampton, Hans Flagg and Brett Jureller
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A SPARKLING EVENT
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} The Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival “Sparkle for a Cause” fundraiser, held recently at Crabtree’s Kittle House, was, not surprisingly, all about kids and books. The event raised funds to offer gift cards to children in need so they can buy books at the third annual book festival, which will take place at Bell Middle School Oct. 3. Photographs by Ronni Diamondstein. 3. Jean Coon and Brendan Preston 4. Chris and Barbara Dee and Susanna Reich 5. Harriet Helfenbein and Oscar Flores 6. Beth Kuck-Hundgen and Stetson Hundgen 7. Ben and Rachel Rosin 8. Adina Olan and Lauren Karr
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‘FORE’WARD FOR CHARITY
} The 12th annual Phelps Golf Classic, recently held at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, raised $135,000 for neighboring Phelps Memorial Hospital Center. More than 95 golfers spent the day on the scenic course, then enjoyed a sunset dinner. 3. Franklin “Bud” Zimmerman 4. Kevin, Larry Jr., Larry III and Patrick Waterhouse 5. Ellen Melvin, John Robbins, Daniel Blum and Bill and Melissa Melvin
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‘POINT’ED DISCUSSION
‘EYES’ ON THE PRIZE
} The Westchester Community Foundation recently partnered with the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville to present the documentary “Indian Point.” The film was part of an ongoing series dedicated to generating discussion and activism around topics that affect us locally, including health, the environment, education, housing and energy. After the film, the Burns Center’s Brian Ackerman led a panel discussion with filmmaker Ivy Meeropol, journalist Roger Witherspoon, activist Marilyn Elie and Brian Vangor of the Indian Point power plant.
} Guiding Eyes, the nonprofit known for its outstanding guide and service dogs, recently welcomed the return of New York Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning as host of the 38th annual Guiding Eyes Golf Classic, held at Mount Kisco Country Club. More than 250 golfers teed off, raising significant funds for the organization. At this year’s outing, the reigning World Champion of Blind Golf, Zohar Sharon, and his coach, Shimshon Levi, showed the star quarterback how to golf without vision — no mean feat.
Photographs by Christina Rae. 1. Brian Ackerman, Brian Vangor and Ivy Meeropol 2. Marilyn Elie and Roger Witherspoon
Photographs by John Vecchiolla.
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6. Eli Manning and representatives of sponsor PepsiCo 7. Eli Manning and Thomas Panek
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WIT WONDERS:
WHAT DO YOU DO TO RELAX?
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