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Our September issue will be online 9/7...
Vent
Editor’s Letter
Summer’s here and the time is right...for everything
According to some etymological studies, the most pleasing word-combo in the English language is “cellar door,” but I disagree. For me, summertime, the old-fashioned paired word, conjures images that are both soothing and invigorating.
Very Short
Health
By Abby Tallmer
Senate Welches on Cheaper Drug Import Bill
In a shamefulness of concern to us all, the U.S. Senate has scuttled a Democratic proposal to let Medicare negotiate lower drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies, a process now prohibited by law and one which would have been of sweeping benefit to approximately 43 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Veritas / Vino
Under $20
By Doug Fauth
I believe summer wines should be of excellent quality, fairly priced, and should leave one with an overall sense of cheerfulness. Getting together with family and friends can be made all the more special with a lovely glass of wine.
Vittles/ Good Grub
The thrill of the grill
By David Gibbons
Ask Tom Colicchio his favorite food to grill and he’ll flash you a grin, then shoot back the culinary version of that famous triple-locution about the three most important factors in real estate (“location, location, location”) — “Meat, meat, meat!” A few breaths later he’ll tell you vegetables are definitely, above anything else, his favorite to grill.
Vital / Health
Your Sexy Second Half-Century
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer has written more than 30 books, including the recently published third edition of Sex for Dummies.
Verbiage
Beach
By Graham Meyer
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In This Issue
Venture / travel
Terrific Excursions
By E.J. Ruskin
New Yorl City offers so many terra firma choices to us locals that it’s easy to forget we live on an island. Surrounded by water. With luxury cruises just a subway-, bus- or taxi-ride away.
Venture / Mini travelNew York City Day Trips
Coney Island
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Birthplace of the hot dog, cradle of our nation’s first amusement parks, the latest bastion of baseball in Brooklyn, a cross-section of the 21st century melting pot … Coney Island spells summer fun in the city like no other American destination.
Vagabond / TravelTraveling to Ireland with big kids
By Nancy Weber
Grace and Joseph, born travelers, chose their grandparents well.
In the summer of 1978, when Grace was three months old, her British father’s parents, no longer up to a transatlantic flight, sent us tickets to London so they might put eyes on their only grandchild.
Veracity / Baseball
The Glory Days
By Jerry Tallmer
Two snapshots from a year to remember:
Wednesday, August 15, 1951. The beach on Fire Island. Blazing sun. The whole scene is a-twitter with word that Marilyn Monroe – Lee and Paula Strasberg’s protégé – is among us. Suddenly, there she is – trotting along the water’s edge, calling to some friends to wait up.
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Voices / Music
Levon Helm: Midnight Rambler
By Ken Shane
In Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz Levon Helm talks about his memories of the traveling medicine shows of his youth. “After the finale, they’d have the midnight ramble,” he tells Scorsese. “The songs would get a little bit juicier.
Music
By the time you get to Woodstock …
The town of Woodstock, New York, is around a two-hour drive from New York City. The Midnight Ramble doesn’t start at midnight, in fact it’s usually over just before midnight. That can still make for a late night if you’re driving, though.
Volumns / Browsing
Summer Books
By Nancy Weber
Books are portable. We love saying this over and over, especially up against those who glue themselves to wingspan-wide TV screens. But portability doesn’t mean that reading places are fungible. Where one chooses to read a certain book materially affects one experience of the words, and of course the converse is true.
Verve / Eye on Art
Queen of the woods
By Jerry Tallmer
When Mrs. N’s Palace, the room, or house, or Pharoah’s tomb, that Louise Nevelson put together over the 13 years from 1964 to 1977, was first made available to press and public, she took me inside it to hear the story of where she’d picked up from the sidewalk this wooden lintel or that door frame, this ancient chair or some other evocative piece of discarded junk that had gone into it.
Viva / Profile
In the studio of Peter Wayne Lewis
An interview by RUTH HARDINGER and C. MICHAEL norton
Luminous swathes of color dance on canvases ganged together forming rectangular grids that cover most of the walls of Lewis’s studio.