A Day at Sagamore Hill
Writing and photography by Justin Negard For this issue, we thought a travel story to someone’s home was appropriate. However, ...
Hole in One
Writing by Robin Goetz Artwork by Justin Negard Fourteen-year-old Max Lazarowitz stands on the river’s edge, skipping stones. One after ...
How to Refresh Your Home
Writing by Clare McAlpin Artwork by Aeneas Eaton Do you want to breathe new life into your home this spring ...
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A Day at Sagamore Hill
Writing and photography by Justin Negard For this issue, we thought a travel story to someone’s home was appropriate. However, ...
Upcycling Your Clutter
Writing by Susan Trumpbour Artwork by Phoebe Polk Ready to embark on a spring cleaning journey? Here’s what to do ...
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A Day at Sagamore Hill
Writing and photography by Justin Negard For this issue, we thought a travel story to someone’s home was appropriate. However, ...
Hole in One
Writing by Robin Goetz Artwork by Justin Negard Fourteen-year-old Max Lazarowitz stands on the river’s edge, skipping stones. One after ...
How to Refresh Your Home
Writing by Clare McAlpin Artwork by Aeneas Eaton Do you want to breathe new life into your home this spring ...
A Day at Sagamore Hill
Writing and photography by Justin Negard For this issue, we thought a travel story to someone’s home was appropriate. However, ...
Upcycling Your Clutter
Writing by Susan Trumpbour Artwork by Phoebe Polk Ready to embark on a spring cleaning journey? Here’s what to do ...
Coconut Fat Wash
By Dr. Elixir Mixing cocktails at home can easily result in your cocktails matching or exceeding cocktails served in most ...
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The Home Issue
People Profiles
How to Take Good Pictures of Everything
Writing by Rob Cavenagh This is a user participation article. Before you read the rest of this story, please take out your phone – we’re sure it is within reach. Go to your photos app and view the last fifty pictures you took. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. What did you find? Did you find five or ten shots of the ...
Cracking the Cooking Code
Writing by Oliver Berke Artwork by Erin Nazzaro It’s a kitchen nightmare that has haunted all of us. A canvas of sauces and spices blanketing the floor tiles, smoke billowing out from a crazed assortment of pots and pans on the stovetop, and the fire alarm ringing through your ears. Your hands streak across the cookbook’s pages, eyes scanning each ...
Shining Star
Writing by Gia Miller Photography by Justin Negard At 6:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning in 2015, Josephine Hollander, then a fifth grader living in Los Angeles, began sorting through trash bags filled with clothing. As the morning went on, the piles of bags grew to about the size of small houses, but Hollander, along with her friend Keira and Keira’s ...
Life
Connecting with Andre Catrini
Writing by Oscar Andy Hammerstein Northern Westchester native André Catrini graduated from John Jay High School in 2007 and is now a musical composer and lyricist in Manhattan. A graduate of the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (CCM), Catrini composed the score for the new musical S/He & Me, which tells the story of Alexandra Billings; ...
5 Myths About Mindfulness Meditation with Dan Harris
Have you ever tried to meditate? Were you successful? Or did you stop and think “I must be doing something wrong,” because your whole world didn’t magically change? Or your mind wandered? Perhaps you felt silly or uncomfortable? There are a lot of myths surrounding meditation, so we sat down with Chappaqua resident Dan Harris, to dispel some of the ...
Leveling the Playing Field
Writing by Gia Miller Artwork by Justin Negard There’s no such thing as “normal” when it comes to education – every student learns differently and at a different pace. Some children excel in certain subjects (or all subjects), some children find particular classes easier than others and some struggle with one or multiple subjects. If your child is struggling to ...
Bringing Charity Home
We proudly worked with local charities to bring attention to their well-deserved causes. Check out our day of glamour and fun.
Home & Garden
3 Ways to Save Money on Home Heating & Cooling
Spring is finicky – one day it’s warm, the next day it’s cool. Sometimes the air conditioning is on, and other days you need the heat. But regardless if you’re heating or cooling, it definitely costs more these days. And, unfortunately, experts say oil prices may continue to rise for months or even the remainder of the year. There are, ...
Building the American Dream
Twenty years ago, Ecuadorians Mauricio and Patricia Guevara built a hotel in their hometown of Ibarra. To pay off their loan, they decided to move to America, but only temporarily. They landed in Bedford in 2006, and Mauricio took a job in construction while Patricia began cleaning homes. Fast forward 18 years – the Guevaras never made it back to ...
The Newest Home Trend: Optimizing Spaces
The economy and current events heavily influence our homes. We can thank the end of the 1918 flu pandemic and World War I for the glitz and glamour of the 1920s. The stark modernism of the 1930s is due to the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. The rebelliousness of the 1960s brought bold, youthful colors and ...
Cooking & Cocktails
Lobster Rolls
Yields: 10 Rolls Ingredients For the lobster: 2 ½ lbs. fresh cooked lobster meat Juice of one lemon 1 – 1 ¼ cups mayonnaise 2 ½ stalks chopped celery Salt Pepper For the buns: 10 New England brioche rolls ½ stick butter, room temperature Directions Chop the lobster meat. Combine lobster with lemon juice in a large bowl. Add the ...
Classic French Cuisine Comes to North Salem
In 2020, chef Andrea Calstier and his wife Elana Oliver were ready for their next move. Born and raised in Marseilles, France, the high school sweethearts were living the American dream. They’d moved to Manhattan in 2017 and opened their first restaurant a year later, when they were only 23 years old. Papilles was a 10-table restaurant in the East ...
The Strawberry Cobbler
The Inn at Pound Ridge’s Millwood says he created this drink based on his girlfriend’s request for “something strawberry.” Serves two. 2 strawberries 1 oz. simple syrup 1 ½ oz. lemon juice 1 oz. aloe liquor ½ oz. blood orange liqueur 3 oz. white rum Place the strawberries and simple syrup in a shaker, then muddle the strawberries to a ...
Health & Wellness
Saving lives, one kidney at a time
In the summer of 2007, South Salem resident Jennifer Flood, received a call from her sister Heather. Their father, who was diagnosed with chronic renal failure, needed a kidney within the next six months or he would need to begin dialysis. He was on a national waiting list, but the list was long – it would take two to six ...
“Soul Deep” Self Care
The term self-care gets bandied about quite a bit these days – here’s what you need to do before you can take care of yourself properly For many people “self-care” brings to mind the image of candlelit baths and aromatherapy massages. And while those are two stellar ways of caring for yourself, if you’re dealing with any kind of mental health challenge, ...
The Basics of Meditation
Did you know that meditation can actually change the structure of the brain? According to researchers, it can enhance the part of your brain that governs learning and memory, and it can also promote emotional regulation and self-referential processing. That same study also found that regular meditation practice can decrease the number of cells in the part of the brain ...
Events
A RARE Celebration
by Emma Richman There’s a birthday party in town, and you’re all invited. The third annual RARE Community Event will be held on June 11th, 2023 at the newly renovated Lewisboro town park from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Thanks in large part to Gossett Brothers Nursery, the main sponsor, this party will include pony rides, a disabled petting zoo, ...
Chili and Spice
Spicy. I wanted spicy. After a few months in Katonah, I still hadn’t found the hot singles scene that I was looking for. Sure, I tried the sewer ribbon-cutting in December – that was a big dump. I’ve sauntered the aisles of DeCiccos in a striking pair of Louboutins, but I always leave with dinner for one. I even bought ...
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