By Ava Fleisher    In our September/October 2022 issue, we featured jazz vocalist, composer, host of “Real Jazz” on SiriusXM and Katonah resident Andromeda Turre. On July 26, she will release “From the Earth,” a 12-track contemporary jazz album comprised of four concertos, each focusing on a part of nature experiencing the environmental impacts of climate change: earth, sky, ice ...

By Serena Norr Photography by Adria Ellis On October 6, Bedford resident Christy Counts was drenched. She’d spent her day, beginning at 7 a.m., working with her all-female team to harvest the cabernet franc grapes at her new vineyard, Hidden View Vineyard, and it had rained most of the day. Located in the Finger Lakes on the west side of ...

By Gia Miller Photography by Justin Negard One late October morning in 2009, Sunny Cover (pronounced like “clover” without the “l”) put on her beige 1940s vintage women’s business suit and drove from Peekskill to Hawthorne to meet with the board of Community Capital New York—they were her last hope. Cover needed $63,000 to save her beloved coffee shop, Peekskill ...

By Max Chwatko Photography by Justin Negard Imagine walking down a busy city street, the hurried pace of life engulfs you as you navigate through throngs of people. Amidst the loud noises and bustling crowds of people, you catch a glimpse of a homeless person, their shabby shoes a stark reminder of their plight. Would you be indifferent to the ...

Writing & Photography by Justin Negard While Katonah resident Robert Ayers may be new to the local art scene, he’s somewhat of a legend in England. Originally from Newcastle, England, Ayers made a name for himself as a performance artist willing to do what others could only dream of (a show about a stripper, staging his own kidnapping, etc.). He’s ...

By Gia Miller Photography by Justin Negard Deep in the forest, the morning sun is bursting through the canopy. Its rays beam down, straight into a gushing, cascading waterfall. A lone hummingbird is ready to dive in, perhaps searching for its next meal. A crow sits idly on a branch. About halfway down and slightly to the right, there’s a ...

Writing by Robin Goetz Artwork by Justin Negard Fourteen-year-old Max Lazarowitz stands on the river’s edge, skipping stones. One after another, the smooth rocks gently ripple through the calm waters of the Ossining waterfront, the portrait of an idyllic childhood. And he’s determined to keep it that way. “The waterfront has always been my playground,” says Lazarowitz, a freshman at ...

Writing by Gia Miller Photography by Justin Negard Author’s note: Beginning in 1987, the Sudanese civil war caused an estimated 20,000 young boys to flee their homes in southern Sudan and leave their families behind. Most of these boys were only six or seven years old; they fled to escape death or capture—the former being a horrific thought and the ...

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; ...