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THE BEDFORD OAK – VOL II
READ VOL I HERE
RESCUE RIGHT
DISCLAIMER: if you came to see cute puppies and kittens... you're in the right placePenny Smith-Berk is the driving force behind Rescue Right - the animal rescue operation she runs, on a shoestring budget and as a labor of love, out of her Northwind Kennels business...
MARCH/APRIL COVER: ARIELLE KEBBEL
Arielle Kebbel is precocious and thoughtful, giggly, and charming. She gives off girl-next-door vibes and could certainly pass for a twenty-something, but is also perfectly cast in an array of more serious, sophisticated or sexy roles. She is always poised, and is...
Katie Sise Sweeney & The Bedford Oak Mystery
IT'S A MYSTERYKatie explains her method of writing bestselling mystery novels saying, “The twist always comes first, and the characters follow. When I start to write, I don’t have an outline or a plot. I throw the characters together and let them interact, almost as...
A LIVING LEGEND IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: Clive Davis
Long-time Pound Ridge resident Clive Davis is most often referred to as a ‘living legend’ in the music industry. Over the course of a 60+ year career that’s still going strong at age 90, Clive has signed a list of recording artists that most famously includes Janis...
Swimming In The Shark Tank With Storage For Students
These days, appearing on the hit TV show Shark Tank, no less getting investment from one or more of the Sharks, can be better than having a Harvard MBA. Entrepreneurs are today’s industrialists. And an investment from Kevin O’Leary, Damond John, Robert Herjavec, Lori...
CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC: Transforming a New Canaan Kitchen
The Nicolet family, including executive parents, two sporty teenagers, mother-in-law, a friendly Labrador Retriever and a GoldenDoodle puppy, decided to undertake a renovation of their kitchen, mudroom and bar, in the middle of covid - and while living in the house...
THE BEDFORD OAK – VOL I
VOLUME II IS NOW AVAILABLE: READ IT...
Newcomers: David Gordon & Marisha Pessl
In the now almost-three years since covid hit, one-third of all houses in the B&NC Mag area have been sold to newcomers - the vast majority of whom are young families!…Welcome! To illustrate the evolution, we’ve featured four young newcomer families in this...
Newcomers: Stephanie Sandler & Libby Kountzman
In the now almost-three years since covid hit, one-third of all houses in the B&NC Mag area have been sold to newcomers - the vast majority of whom are young families!…Welcome! To illustrate the evolution, we’ve featured four young newcomer families in this...
Newcomers: Coltrane Curtis & Lisa Chu
Coltrane Curtis is indeed named after John Coltrane. And he and his wife, Lisa Chu, have continued the family’s jazz-infused legacy in naming their boys: 10-year-old Ellington - after Duke, and 3-year-old Count - as in Basie. The Chu-Curtis family bought...
NEWCOMERS: Andy Yu & Evan Goldstein
In the now almost-three years since covid hit, one-third of all houses in the B&NC Mag area have been sold to newcomers – the vast majority of whom are young families!…Welcome! To illustrate the evolution, we’ve featured four young newcomer families in this...
Katonah’s Caramoor Center for Music & The Arts Fall Season is in Full Swing!
Katonah’s Caramoor Center for Music & The Arts Fall Season is in Full Swing! The 33 year old Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana dazzled the Caramoor audience when she kicked off Caramoor’s Fall - Spring Season on Friday September 30th. If you’ve been to a concert...
Caramoor to Present: Chevalier de Saint-Georges
This Sunday, July 10, at 4pm in the Venetian Theater, Caramoor will present a Concert Theater Work about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. This Sunday, July 10th, Caramoor will present a very special concert theater work by Bill Barclay about a little known,...
Flying Coffee’s Fantastic Car Conclaves
photos: Carter FishUnless you were one of the lucky couple of hundred locals who heard about the early-morning...
Not Just The Guy With His Name On The Fields…
By: Michael Kaplan | Photography:...
SOPHIA
Her art is bold, bright, expressive, textured and raw. Her marks are strong and decisive. Her work comes from a genuine place in her spirit, and she conveys her unique voice onto canvas. In works such as American Gothic, Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck, she translates...
A Cowboy Casual Wedding at the John Jay Homestead
photos: Heather Huie/Apollo Fields Both Sam and Helen grew up in the area, riding since a young age, and competing in the hunter/jumper scene. They each took jobs in the equestrian industry. But it wasn’t until stints at a barn in Florida that the pair met and...
ROUGHAN INTERIORS: REDESIGN OF THE WETMORE MANSION
by: Sue DeChiara - B&NC Mag Homes Editor and @Zhush | house photography: Jane Beiles | family photography: Carter Fish Along the twists and turns of a backcountry Bedford road, hidden from view, behind alarge wrought iron gate and up an impressive...
Chris Russo
As headliner of Mad Dog Sports Radio, at Ch. 82 on SiriusXM Radio, and host of the afternoon radio show on that channel called Mad Dog Unleashed, as the television host of High Heat on MLB Network, and with his new gig on First Take as partner to Steven A. Smith on...
PETER SPIEGELMAN
photos: Carter Fish In 2003, at the age of 45, Peter Spiegelman had his first novel, Black Maps, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The book, set in and around Wall Street of the early aughts, follows the exploits of private-eye John March, the black-sheep son of a...
OUR BASKETS RUNNETH OVER
photos: Carter Fish Here in the B&NC Mag area...our baskets runneth over! Picnics are a high art form. Meant to enjoy summer’s bounty, and set the scene for most memorable gatherings. Anything from the most casual to the full ‘dejeuner sur l’herbe’ warrants...
This Summer’s Hottest Events
Bedford 2030 Moondance on 5/21Bedford Playhouse X Idea Committee Event on 6/10Casey Kaplan...
CARAMOOR CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH, PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TOWN OF BEDFORD
Join Caramoor on June...
Summer Party at The Glass House
Bedford & New Canaan Magazine is excited to announce our media sponsorship of The Glass House 15th Anniversary Summer Party - which is set to be a not-to-miss event of the season. About the Glass House (from our 2021 Homes Issue) - written by James McCown...
Local Organizations Join Together to Make a Summer of Culture More Accessible
Four of our region's premier arts organizations have joined together on an initiative to make a season of arts and culture more accessible! Caramoor, The Jacob Burns Film Center, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and a group of Sleepy Hollow National Historic...
Westchester Land Trust 2022 Benefit Party to be hosted at the home of Angelina and Monte Lipman in Katonah
Westchester Land Trust (WLT) is thrilled to announce the return of its Annual Benefit fundraiser to raise funds for its land protection and stewardship efforts on Saturday, June 4th. The event will welcome 300 guests to the stunning...
EntreprenHER
Dede Thompson Bartlett
Becoming Martha Stewart
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16 Guard Hill
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Fran Hauser
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Gina Zangrillo – Retail Legend
Rowland Hussey Macy. Richard...
Emily Bayuk: The Future of STEM
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Heather Guadio – Femme de Fine Arts
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Shaz Khang
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Orchard’s End
The Pass
Farm-To-Label Cannabis in Massachusetts
Spring Planting
EXPERT ADVICE ON WHAT’S BEST FROM THE FOLKS AT COPIA
Bedford 2030 Update
Golf Perfection
Anglebrook celebrates its 25th year of great golf.
Mr & Mrs Shrager
Building Beyond ‘Green’
Whats the Buzz About?
oHHo: Helping People Have Better Days
At Home with the Kagan’s in Pound Ridge
Hiking Pound Ridge
Exclusive Resorts: Cayman Islands
O’Hagan & Carlson Wedding
Kathleen O'Hagan marries Tore Carlson in a beautiful barnyard wedding in Bedford. [pdfjs-viewer url="https://bedfordnewcanaanmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Wedding.pdf" attachment_id="7283" viewer_width=100% viewer_height=800px fullscreen=true download=true...
Wiz Kid To Watch
James D’Ambrosi was born and raised in Pound Ridge. He’s one of three founders of a start-up called Chalk, which aims to identify deep tech start-ups originating from a network of two dozen top U.S. universities and match the best with venture capital from established...
Lax Queen: Sammy Jo Tracy
Sammy Jo Tracy’s two-time All-American performance at UNC puts her at the top of women’s college lacrosse history. She tells B&NC Mag, “Growing up in Bedford, I always felt that the sky was the limit!” [pdfjs-viewer...
Acting Through Adversity: Matthew Del Negro
Matthew Del Negro has Cary Grant good looks. He’s Rock Hudson handsome. But it’s Matt’s discipline and motivation that define him - as an actor and, now also, as an author and inspirational guru. [pdfjs-viewer...
Running Girl
You’ve seen her out there...running. That long-legged girl with the blond ponytail, tight black top and shorts and a backpack, running...everywhere! She was out there on Oenoke when you were driving from Pound Ridge to New Canaan, she was on Westchester Ave when you...
Cheers! Charles Sachs & Piermont Brands
Building a Dream Home in Katonah
Shattering the Ice Ceiling: AJ Mleczko Griswold
Hometown Hero: Zach Allen
Zach Allen is 24 years old, 6’ 5”, 285 lbs., runs a 4.9 40 yard dash, can bench press 430 lbs., and was the #65 draft pick in the 2019 National Football League Draft. Now in his third season, he’s #94, a starting Defensive End, on the league-leading Arizona Cardinals....
A Sneak Peek @ This Year’s Holiday House Tour
The New Canaan Holiday House Tour is a biennial event hosted by the New Canaan Newcomers Club - that brings YOU inside of some of the most spectacular houses in town... and it's all to benefit great local charities. What could be better?! Peek inside homes that you've...
Neighbors Link
All The World’s A Stage
On View @ Heather Gaudio Fine Art
The Tseng Dynasty
Tikkun Olam
A New Canaan Immigrant’s Story
60 Years of Ski & Be Seen
When you think about it, isn’t it the people and places that make us love where we live? In our neck of the woods, only an hour or so from Manhattan yet a verdant, spacious, open-sky world away, certain people and places are “home” to us. Skip Beitzel is one of those...
SWEET: A Rock N’ Roll Re-Do
This rock n’ roll redo of the basement, garage and backyard of a New Canaan in-town residence is about as sweet as it gets! The just-completed space is filled with epic guitars, including axes used and signed by AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, and...
The Best Coffee In Bedford
Billy Fortin
You, the B&NC MAG reader, probably already know Billy Fortin. He is the owner/operator of both the Market at Pound Ridge Square and the popular Blind Charlie’s eatery across the street in Scotts Corners, and he’s somewhat ubiquitous in and at every local charity...
Home for the Holidays
5 Home Trends That Are Here To Stay
WEDDINGS: Levy & Pflumm
A Peek Inside: The Top Closets in Our Area
WEDDING: The Orrs
Monte & Angelina Lipman: At Home For The Holidays
By: Michael Kaplan Photos: Rhonda Spevak Monte and Angelina Lipman are a hit couple, in perfect sync and balance, with a great mood and rhythm, and singing a delightful tune. They are at once the epitome of the power couple, and still totally relatable, grounded,...
Tom & Marianne Davies: New Canaan’s Hidden Museum of American Art
The Hammond Museum
Book Review: There Will Be Lobster
Weddings: Kym Weiner & Todd Glazer
Weddings: Lindsay Bradsell & Cody Potvin
GIOIOSO (to be played with joy) INSIEMI (together): At Home With Joshua Bell & Larisa Martinez
By: Michael Kaplan / Photos: Frances Isaac Joshua Bell is among the greatest classical violinists - ever, and has added Musical Director of his cherished Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra to his repertoire; Larisa Martinez is an opera star who has...
Making Space: An Open Concept Family Room Re-Imagined in New Canaan
By: Sue DeChiara, B&NC Mag Homes Editor Photos: Jane BeilesJeanne Collins, of JerMar Designs, is an outstanding local designer, known for her ability to completely reimagine a space. ...So when a New Canaan family approached her about a big redesign of their large...
David Worby: The Renaissance Man
By: Michael Kaplan // Photos: Frances Isaac David Worby, a Bedford resident, is most famous for having successfully represented over 10,000 plaintiffs suffering from illnesses relating to their exposure at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attack. He hunted down the...
DETERMINED: An Entrepreneur’s Story of Brand-Building and Activism
By: Casey Kaplan // Photos: Frances Isaac Cathy Kangas, a New Canaan-ite, is the founder and CEO of PRAI Beauty, the producer of a complete collection of remarkably successful targeted products designed to help lift, firm, brighten, and tighten skin. Cathy is also a...
Fall 2021 Education Section: Rippowam Cisqua
By: Barbara Accetta B&NC Mag shines a spotlight on four of our area's most dynamic private day schools - and what makes each unique! Rippowam has a focus on project-based learning, which leads to more successful and lasting results with students. [pdfjs-viewer...
Fall 2021 Education Section: King School
By: Barbara Accetta B&NC Mag shines a spotlight on four of our area's most dynamic private day schools - and what makes each unique! King School: Examining the role of athletics in college matriculation, B&NC Mag interviewed a D1 alum from the school who now...
Fall 2021 Education Section: Ridgefield Academy
By: Barbara Accetta B&NC Mag shines a spotlight on four of our area's most dynamic private day schools - and what makes each unique! [pdfjs-viewer url="https%3A%2F%2Fbedfordnewcanaanmag.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F09%2FRidgefield-Academy.pdf"...
Fall 2021 Education Section: New Canaan Country School
By: Barbara Accetta B&NC Mag shines a spotlight on four of our area's most dynamic private schools - and what makes each unique! [pdfjs-viewer url="https%3A%2F%2Fbedfordnewcanaanmag.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F09%2Fcountry-school.pdf" viewer_width=100%...
Horizons
By: Isaiah Bien Aime (a former Horizon's student at the New Canaan Country School, and current Board member for the NCC location) In 1964, the New Canaan Country School Headmaster, George Stevens, had what was then considered to be a bold and prescient idea: That...
American RoadSchool
Photo Journal by: Emily Neville Fisher published: September/October 2021 So in late summer 2020, amid the escalating COVID-19 pandemic and with the treat of another year of remote school and work, my husband, Murray, and I, decided to pull our three kids out of...
Georgina Bloomberg @ Gotham North
HORSES HELP
HORSES HELP TWO LOCAL THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP BARNS OFFER EXCEPTIONAL EQUINE THERAPY What is now called Equine Assisted Services (EAS) actually dates back to when horses were used for therapeutic riding during the Greek Empire. Hippocrates, known as the Father...
THE FAT JEWISH: May/June
For the Instagram-less, who have no idea who The Fat Jewish is, or that his phenomena even exists... He’s got over TEN MILLION FOLLOWERS and has managed to parlay his top influencer status into millions of dollars of sponsorships, placements and promotions...He...
IN-TOWN INFLUENCE: May/June
Layla Lisiewski & Jessica Blouin of the Local Mom's Network It seems almost obvious that grouping local moms on social media would produce some of the most dedicated and trusting audiences, and that successful influencers in this category can have outsized...
TIME FOR A VACCI-BRATION: May/June
He looks like every soccer dad and he’s probably one of the most unassuming, soft-spoken, even demure, guys around; but make no mistake, Dan Pearson is the life of the party! Always has been - and when people start partying again - always will be! Chances are, you’ve...
INFLUENTIAL INSIGHTS: May/June
Knowing which influencers have influence, with whom and how deeply their influence extends, the demographics and behavior of each influencer’s audience, and ultimately what influencer impressions will trigger a purchase decision, is a science. Billions in influencer...
LOOK THE PART: May/June
Influencers can offer a window into a seemingly perfect life. For many, a lot of the appeal is based on a flawless appearance. With some making that unattainable image a part of their brand, and others building a business dishing on the behind-the-scenes how-tos. ...
LIZ & JD WILLITS: May/June
Elizabeth (Liz) and Jefferson Dillard (JD) Willits became Mr. & Mrs. Willits on October 17, 2020. The ceremony was held at the St. Matthew’s Chapel in the Woods, a romantic spot with wooden benches that fits about 30 people comfortably, followed by a reception at...
INFLUENCING THE INFLUENCERS: May/June
As the business of being an influencer has grown into an industry, early experts have emerged to explain and educate - the influencers and the influenced. Experimentation and experience in the evolving world of influencer commerce can be used to inform the potential...
WHERE TO GET FIT: May/June
B&NC MAG follows @the_laura_young, a lifestyle Instagram with 7.4K followers, that highlights Laura Young’s fitness journey over the past few years. Laura is a second grade teacher at South School in New Canaan and lives nearby with her husband, Ben, and their...
THE BURNHAMS: May/June
Martha Lee Civitillo and David Hunter Burnham were married in a beautiful ceremony at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church on September 19, 2020.Martha and Dave met in August of 2016 when they were set up by a mutual friend. Martha tells the adorable story, saying, “...