Nancy Irelan once told me that Americans torture themselves by not drinking bubbly every day. She’s the owner and winemaker at Red Tail Ridge, and she’s not wrong. In the past, I’d save my sparkling wines for special occasions, and, if I’m honest, this was mostly driven by cost. It’s hard to justify popping sixty-dollar …

Want to pamper the pooch in your life? Bones Dog Bakery, located at 39 South Goodman Street, helps you spoil your pup with dog treats and delicacies for every occasion. Owner Dani Fischer started baking for her dog when she began questioning the ingredients in store- bought treats, and what started as a hobby bloomed …

There isn’t much you can’t do at Midtown Athletic Club, but when tennis buff Alan Schwartz opened the club with his partners in 1973, it was for tennis players. It’s still a tennis venue today, with clay courts, hard courts, indoor and outdoor courts and paddle tennis, too, but forty- eight years later, it is …

Shortly before the world shut down last year, I was fortunate enough to get one vacation in. Costa Rica is a lush and gorgeous country. The food and fruit are phenomenal. Sloths just hang out on trees at beaches. Yet, the most memorable thing from that trip was just how kind everyone we encountered was—even …

If you open Professor Elizabeth Johnston’s new book of poems, Wild Things (Main Street Rag 2021), you’ll come face to face with Greek goddesses and famous women of the Bible. Fairytale princesses share space with historical women from the distant past and with those that grace the pages of People magazine. She tells their stories …

New York ranks second only to Washington state in terms of apple production, so perhaps it’s natural that New York—and, specifically, the Finger Lakes area with its adjacent wine industry—has become central to the current cider revival. While still only one percent of all alcohol sales in the United States, the sales of hard cider …