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It was a sensational evening of Jazz with 2025 GRAMMY® Nominee Christie Dashiell and her Quartet at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York. If you have never been to Caramoor, it is worth a trip from anywhere to visit there, and for the opportunity to experience Christie Dashiell in concert in such a magnificent setting, made for a most memorable and magical evening of music. Once the magnificent home of Walter and Lucie Rosen, Caramoor …

Ken Ludwig’s play, The Fox on the Fairway provided a hilarious evening of merriment at the Music Theatre of Connecticut (MTC) in Norwalk, Connecticut. The play has a brilliant, fast-paced script about two rival country club’s annual golf tournament complete with zany characters played to great aplomb by the actors Missy Dowse, Ted Gibson, Sean Hannon, Josh Powell, Anette Michelle Sanders, and Erin M. Williams, and directed by Amy Griffin. If you need a laugh-out-loud night of entertainment, The Fox …

Oscar Wilde’s farcical comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest opened the 2025-2026 season at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut on November 1, 2025. First performed at the St. James Theatre in London, England, on February 14, 1895, the play still has the power to keep audiences rollicking with laugh-out-loud laughter over the antics of the characters where mistaken identities and cutting-edge dialogue about love, marriage, and high society, make for a very enjoyable evening of theatre. Melissa Rain …

I grew up baking with my mother, which is what attracted me to the beautiful award-winning cookbook, German Heritage Baking Time Volume I: Honored Recipes, Traditional Techniques, and Culinary Secrets by Heidrun Metzler, as she also learned from her mother, as well as from her aunts and grandmother, all very accomplished bakers. It is important to note that Heidrun’s recipes are easy to follow whether you are an experienced baker or a novice, and the photos are mouthwatering stunning. The …

Giving Advent calendars are a tradition in our family, with the recipient opening a numbered “door” on the calendar to reveal a small chocolate each day beginning on December 1 and running through the Christmas holiday season with the last door to be opened on December 24. It is always fun and provides something for the recipient to look forward to each day during the hectic holiday season. As tea drinkers, we were excited about Tea Forté Limited Edition Warming …

WhistlePig, based in Quechee, Vermont has established itself as a renowned Rye house specializing in experimental and aged Rye. Each year they craft an incredibly special Rye for collectors, and new this year is WhistlePig The Boss Hog XII Feather & Flame Straight Rye Whiskey aged in new American oak and Pulque Curado de Cacao barrels. The impressive gift box tells the story behind the limited edition and has an inspired design that opens to reveal the stunning collector bottle …

The excitement of Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) returned to the Greenwich Polo Club in backcountry Greenwich, Connecticut, with the CSI*5 Grand Prix of Greenwich 2025 Major League Show Jumping held on Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28, 2025. After a Summer of so-so weather, fans were rewarded with two glorious blue-sky warm Autumn days to watch the Show Jumping with competitors representing 14 countries. It was an exciting weekend of show jumping at its best. The first time …