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Chicken Mcmansions
Weston Magazine

Chicken Mcmansions

There’s nothing like fresh eggs. I know because our cook used three of them in my Camembert omelet this morning. 

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Hamptons International Film Festival's Silver Anniversary
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Hamptons International Film Festival's Silver Anniversary

LIGHTS! Camera! Action! It’s hard to believe the Hamptons International Film Festival (off this) is celebrating a quarter century of showcasing great works in film. 

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A Medal Of Honor For Sargent William Shemin…a Century Long Odyssey
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A Medal Of Honor For Sargent William Shemin…a Century Long Odyssey

I am in the east room of the White House on June 2, 2015 for what is turning out to be the most amazing family reunion I could ever have imagined.

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Breaking The Fourth And Fifth Wall

Dear Evan Hansen began as a germ of an idea about the yearning for a connection with others; co-lyricist and writer Benj Pasek was considering the embellished ties his teenaged peers had to a suspected victim of suicide.

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Issue 61
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The Heirs

Eleanor belonged to that class of New Yorker whose bloodlines were traced in the manner of racehorses: she was Phipps (sire) out of Deering (dam), by Livingston (sire’s dam) and Porter (dam’s dam).

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One Atlantic Events

Over the ocean, your perfect special event venue is waiting.

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Scott Swimming Pools

Scott Swimming Pools, Inc. is a luxury design-build swimming pool company celebrating its 80th year in business this year.

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Is Marijuana The New Ambien?
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Is Marijuana The New Ambien?

Science and anecdote in the quest for better sleep 

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Black Edge
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Black Edge

The Fall of SAC Capital.

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Brain Fitness - It's All In Your Mind
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Brain Fitness - It's All In Your Mind

Frozen in mid-sentence, you forget a name. With your pen poised over a check, you cannot recall the date. You’ve gone into the kitchen, but you can no longer remember what for. And where is that damned cell phone? Are you one of the worried well? Many of us are anxious to live a long life, but fearful of our potential for the humiliation and debilitation of dementia. What to do? Should you try a computer game? Magnesium tablets? A week at an expensive brain training center? Brain fitness is the new buzzword and wealthy aging baby boomers are eager to buy a healthier brain.

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Humanity First
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Humanity First

As I listened to Donald J. Trump’s “America First” inaugural speech on NPR, I was struck by a conversation I had had with my Afghan daughter before she departed for a semester in Rome the day before the inauguration.

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Truth Or Consequence
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Truth Or Consequence

History In The Digital Age.

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Our Little Racket
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Our Little Racket

In the waning light of the predinner hour, Mina Dawes sat across the table from Isabel, desperate to keep their conversation aloft. During the silences her gaze wandered out over Isabel’s pool, its surface entirely untroubled beneath the late-afternoon sun. 

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Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty
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Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty

THE GRAND OLD NAMES OF AMERICAN Thoroughbred horse racing—Whitney, Phipps, DuPont, Mellon, and Widener—exude images of industry tycoons and lineages traceable to the Mayflower.

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Statue Of Limitations
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Statue Of Limitations

You can go in now, miss,” the receptionist directed.Emma crossed the waiting room and entered the office. The Chairman of the American Committee motioned Emma to a chair across the desk from him.

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Megyn Kelly Settle For More
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Megyn Kelly Settle For More

Rye’s Megyn Kelly, in the Spotlight.

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Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry
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Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry

On a recent Thursday evening in downtown Manhattan, nearly 50 women and a few men, ranging from millennials to baby boomers, gathered in a sleek co-working space to talk about weed.

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Issue 59
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Vice President Joe Biden Redraws The Battle Lines In America's Longest War

I know of no cadre of people in the world more desperately in need of hope than the sixteen million people with cancer,” Vice President Joe Biden told the nation’s leading cancer researchers and clinicians at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago on June 6, 2016.

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Issue 61
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Mah Jong Memory

I remember mah jong through a haze of memory and my mother’s Benson & Hedges cigarette smoke.

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Colonial Day Along The Gold Coast

Do you know about colonial day?

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