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Very ArtsyNail Dress
By Rachel Bonham Carter
Clothes are made to be inhabited by a living, breathing body, but a garment designed to be left vacant or empty takes on a powerful life of its own. Admittedly, this was not a thought that troubled me before I wandered around the AAF Contemporary Art Fair in New York this summer. At eight months pregnant, my most pressing sartorial concern was: Does it stretch far enough?’
Very Short
Health
By Abby Tallmer
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
Theater
Fall Preview
By Henry Edwards
The theater is called The Fabulous Invalid because it always seems on the verge of dropping dead on the spot. Yet it always survives and sometimes survives fabulously. The job of a fall preview is to celebrate the fabulousness of the fabulous invalid by convincing readers that every new attraction really is fabulous and qualifies as a must-see.
Ruth Maleczech
By Wickham Boyle
I have seen Ruth Maleczech for decades. You can’t miss the flaming hair and the intense gaze penetrating anyone she surveys and all the characters she fiercely inhabits from the avant-garde gender-reversed King Lear or James Joyce’s demented daughter Lucia or a dodgy malcontent in mainstream television’s ER. She has received awards for acting, directing, and design; her creative mind knows few limits.
Checking in at Hotel Cassiopeia
… where Charles Mee and Anne Bogart unwrap a few of Joseph Cornell’s boxes
By JERRY TALLMER
Picasso and Braque did collages – reinvented collage – on flat canvas. Robert Rauschenberg does collages on any surface he can find -- most famously, a rumpled mess of an old bed stood upright. The boxes of Joseph Cornell, which live on into this day and beyond, are themselves collages of what Cornell called “sparkings” – bits and pieces of jewelry, fabric, photographs, newsprint, dolls, leaves, buttons, coins, anything -- in, as it were, tiny fecund stage sets of deeply personal memory, emotion, magic. Personal yet universal.
Venture / SportsOld Guys Surfing?
By David Gibbons
It’s a little before 6 A.M. on a muggy late July morning, and I’m dragging my creaky bones out of bed in a tiny motel room in Montauk. The air is so heavy and fog-laden that it has left a blanket of huge droplets covering my SUV. I turn on my headlights and wipers and inch my way along the silent, steamy streets for a cup of coffee (to go) from Mr. John’s Pancake House, where the early crowd is just assembling. A big, warm, fuzzy glow from the east, in the direction of Montauk Point and its famous lighthouse, signals the sun’s efforts to burn through. Faint sloshing sounds carry on the humid air from the beach.
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.