We are a nation of ever-changing lifestyles, fads and of-the-moment hot products. The ubiquitous presence of smartphones, myriad apps and information sources at our fingertips has catapulted us into a society easily drawn into the newest trends and influencers. At
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera As a realtor, I have the opportunity to view a lot of furniture, and that furniture can be in varying stages of wear. In my own home, I have been giving the fish-eye for the past few
Read MoreLast month an interview I conducted with ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) generated a decent amount of buzz, and I’ve had a few people ask for an encore. I didn’t want to return to the device as a novelty. But I did want
Read MoreBy Michael Malone And the Mountains Echoed comes from Khaled Hosseini, whose novels are set in Afghanistan. The book offers a unique structure–ten or so tangentially connected stories that form an unconventional novel, each one featuring a character or two
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera A number of times through the long history of this column, I have referred to my “Aunt Pearl” who really wasn’t my aunt at all, but rather a dear older friend whom my wife and I made
Read MoreBy Morris Gut Partners Imer Rraci and chef Avni Brahimaj have opened Torcello Ristorante Italiano in the free-standing house that previously housed the long-running La Riserva on Boston Post Road in Larchmont. Torcello, which is named after an island off
Read MoreBy Brian McGowan It’s a Friday, our third day “in country,” and we leave Dublin on a grey, wet but still warm September day, bound for the Irish countryside. Our passage out of the city center is better than what
Read MoreThe Case Against Caged Birds By Brian Kluepfel A big celebrity news item in December 2016 was the birth of Mick Jagger’s eighth child, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger. Mick will turn 80 this year, and even in his
Read MoreBy Michael Gold George Washington was born on Feb. 22, Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12, but we simply commemorate their lives and achievements on Presidents’ Day, the third Monday in February. We’ve turned it into a day to go to
Read MoreI’ve been writing for a number of years about our individual palates and the unique characteristics of our physical and sensory innate traits. I attend several wine tastings over the course of each month. At these events, I am repeatedly
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