By Bill Primavera As Christmas draws near, it will soon be time to start thinking about our front door wreath. For some years, we never had to worry about sourcing our wreaths because our grandson Richie, as a dutiful Boy
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By Morris Gut The original Ambadi Indian eatery on East Post Road in White Plains was opened by the Kalathara family of Bengal Tiger fame to highlight the street foods and cuisine of India. Simson Kalathara’s Bengal Tiger was renowned
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Restaurant wine lists, crafted by today’s wine-focused chefs and highly educated sommeliers, can be the quintessence of the overall experience at a restaurant. Many restaurants painstakingly pair food and wine offerings and invest significantly in well-stocked wine cellars. However, when
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By Bill Primavera Is anyone here old enough to remember the song “Artificial Flowers” by Bobby Darin? It was probably the most miserable song ever recorded, about a little orphan girl who survived by making artificial flowers from silk, wire
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Mount Pleasant recently purchased $15,000 of electric lawn equipment for its parks and pools, another step in the town’s efforts to lower carbon emissions. The leaf blowers, weed whackers and pruning chainsaws will be used primarily during
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By Bill Primavera It is impossible for me to dull the memory of that nightmarish middle-of-the-night experience when my wife Margaret awakened me and told me that she had had a dream that a man was in our bedroom, looking
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By Brian McGowan A term often heard today is “The Irish Diaspora.” It refers to the roughly 70 million people living throughout the world today whose ancestors left Ireland over the past several centuries. Many groups, of course, have their
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By Morris Gut Whether you’re planning to take in seasonal festivities at Westchester’s Winter Wonderland, the White Plains Holiday Market, Holiday Lights on the Farm at Muscoot Farm or the myriad seasonal concerts and get-togethers around the area, there is
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The Loire Valley is mesmerizing. It enjoys a storied past of the high times of the French nobility. For centuries, the region provided the epitome of the finest of French life: fine cuisine, exquisite castles and chateaux and elegant wines.
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By Brian Kluepfel What’s the size of a Coke can, lives in old knot holes and comes in three different colors? If you guessed screech owl, you’d be correct. These pint-sized predators, existing in more than 25 genera across the
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