Boston Common - 2014 - Issue 5 - Late Fall

men’s issue

Who’s the boss?

Meet Boston’s leading men

REV UP Access the stealth world of exotic car racing

Harry Connick Jr. How this renaissance man seeks serenity on our cape cod shores

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a giant dinosaur suspended by a helicopter against the Boston skyline? Award-winning freelance photographer Arthur Pollock captured this surreal scene some 30 years ago, when the Museum of Science staged a marketing event to promote a new dinosaur exhibit. The aerial star of the day: a 40-foot-long animatronic brontosaurus, its massive bulk transported by chopper across the Charles River en route to its final resting place in front of the museum’s planetarium. (These were the days before the Mugar Omni Theater, of course.) “It was just one of the best stunts I’ve seen in my career here,” says Pollock. “You hardly ever see these PR stunts anymore. It’s a throwback to yesteryear.” Larry Ralph, the museum’s director of education enterprises and temporary exhibits, recalls the

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day with a bit more restraint. “This was part of a long series of [events] displaying various animatronic dinos as temporary exhibits during the 1980s and early 1990s,” he says. Fair enough. But time has only increased affection for the spectacle, and in particular for the faux beast that once flew across the skies of our fair burg. The shot was later included in the book Arthur Pollock (2011), a collection of the photographer’s most acclaimed images, compiled by his son, Jesse. Among a career’s worth of compelling works of photojournalism, the dinosaur snap is the one that seems to resonate most with the public. “People come back to it,” says Pollock, who modestly downplays the significance of the photo. “It’s amusing, but it doesn’t say too much.

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Gucci expands its men’s suiting program for Fall/ Winter 2014.

14 // Front runner 32 // Letter From the editor-in-ChieF

34 // Letter From the PubLisher

36 // ...Without Whom

this issue WouLd not have been PossibLe

38 // the List

style 43 // boston’s other neW maier

Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier brings the iconic fashion house to the Back Bay.

46 // PoWer PLays Boston heavy hitters punch up their fall threads with pops of gray and Celtic greens.

50 // sPotLight Gucci suits up the gents, Michael Kors creates a new watch for charity, and Darby Scott comes back to Boston.

52 // reaL men Wear siLver

The South End’s Kristina Pitaniello custom-designs macho baubles.

54 // Lights, Camera, aCtion!

New CNN entertainment reporter Sian-Pierre Regis reveals his favorite Boston spots for leading a well-styled life.

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Chef Daniel Boulud’s award-winning cuisine—like this savory lobster aioli—arrives at the Mandarin Oriental.

Erin Gates shares her interior design genius in a gorgeous new book.

68 // LOve, actuaLLy Emily Romano nurtures single men and women into the world of dating.

70 // a fine BrOmance

Love may be a battlefield, but Emily Romano is bringing the weapons of marketing to modern dating.

57 // Opera in the Buff Boston Lyric Opera shakes up La Traviata with fresh voices, tight corsets, and (gasp) nudity.

58 // Between the Lines The Boston Book Festival welcomes a roster of literary all-stars.

60 // pOetry in fLight The Peabody Essex Museum showcases the aerial masterpieces of sculptor Alexander Calder in an exclusive East Coast exhibit.

72 // heir Kraft Josh Kraft celebrates 25 years serving the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.

tASte 87 // fOur-star pOwer The acclaimed restaurant Bar Boulud arrives at the Mandarin Oriental.

90 // chefs On fire A new crop of ambitious chefs lights up Boston’s kitchens.

62 // spOtLight

92 // spOtLight

The Head of the Charles turns 50, Swan Lake gets a makeover, and antique lovers shop the Ellis Boston.

Star chef Jeremy Sewall shares his secrets, Thirst Boston returns, and philanthropy just got tastier.

94 // the Big appLe

people

Enjoy another kind of apple-picking with new twists on classic concoctions.

65 // spOt On

96 // Of fairy taLes and fundraising

Brian Halligan is planting a stake in the new Silicon Valley of the East with his company HubSpot.

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Organizers of the Storybook Ball chat about the gala over dinner at Scampo.

photography by Seth olenick (romano); Dominic perri (bouluD)

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Boston’s big shots hit the high seas as a high-powered fshing crew.

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New Orleans native Harry Connick Jr. finds his bliss relaxing on Cape Cod. Tack in indigo rigid jeans, Levi’s Made & Crafted ($158). 131 Newbury St., 617-262-0135; levismadeandcrafted. com. Henley sweater, bracelets, rings, and boots, Harry’s own

FEATURES 100 // See Harry Play Harry Connick Jr. launches a new season of American Idol and fnds tranquility on the beaches of Cape Cod.

By Larry Getlen Photography by Palma Kolansky

104 // leader of tHe Pack A new vanguard of Boston leaders takes charge with patience, compassion, and power.

By Michael Blanding Photography by Joel Benjamin

Boston Common pays tribute to the iconic timepieces created by a select group of storied Swiss brands.

By Roberta Naas Photography by Jeff Crawford

116 // SPeed racerS Get an inside look at the exotic, sexy, wide world of car racing.

By Robert Cocuzzo

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112 // legendS in time

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HAUTE PROPERTY 123 // Thoroughly Modern Maggie

A Boston broker takes herself on as a client and renovates a historic home for her growing family.

126 // he-Man reTreaTs Man caves have evolved into elaborate home spaces for entertaining, watching the game, and even practicing golf.

THE GUIDE 129 // aMerican all-sTar Room & Board arrives on Newbury Street.

130 // iMbibe Gentlemen prefer sophisticated cocktails at these local spots.

132 // Play Our guide to being the modern man.

134 // relax Must-have grooming products.

PARTING SHOT 144 // you’ve goT Male How Boston’s next generation of pickup artists fnds love at frst site.

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When broker Maggie Gold Seelig spotted this 1901 colonial near Harvard Square, she knew she had the perfect client: herself.

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“Patience.” “Passion.” “service.” “vision.”

“Learning.” These are some of

above: Maggie Gold Seelig gives me a tour of her gorgeous Cambridge home, along with

her interior designer Carolina Tress-Balsbaugh.

the words that the talented gentlemen—from musician to zookeeper, fire chief to entrepreneur—in our “Leaders of the Pack” feature cited as their definition of leadership. I like those words. They suggest other words, like “confidence,” “compassion,” “conviction,” and “open-mindedness.” Words that, when put into action, yield really big results. Our men are leaders in their fields, absolutely, but more than that, they are mentors and role models for generations to come. That’s the biggest result of all.

Roaring into fall surrounded by accomplished men is not too shabby.

But I didn’t expect to be aboard a fishing boat with some of these fine gentlemen—whom I’m accustomed to seeing decked out in black tie—sporting gnarly beanies and

tattered tees. As it turns out, Boston Ballet’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, routinely hits the high seas with a high-powered fraternity of fishing buddies (check out “A Fine Bromance” in the People section).

Moving along from stripers to cars… it was great to be on terra firma at the Boston Cup, eyeing one dream sports car after another. The lust continued at the opening of Newbury Street’s Vince boutique, where, along with exploring the men’s fashion line, I somehow found myself in a land of cashmere hoodies and leather bombers—in the women’s department.

And a few weeks from now, I’ll host a reception with Alexis Bittar to celebrate the fall women’s jewelry line at his Back Bay boutique to benefit the AIDS Action Committee. I’m planning to be there promptly on time, but if I’m not, my apologies. It means I managed to squeeze in a striper expedition with my new fishing pals.

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photography by bryce Vickmark (fishing); andy ryan (seelig)

left: Aboard Captain Richard Armstrong’s Fishstix with his crew of Boston masters of the universe. right: At the MacDowell Colony’s Medal Day with my Niche Media colleague, executive editor Matt Stewart, and writer Alex Halberstadt.

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from left: With Seth Greenberg at the opening of his new restaurant in Fort Point, Bastille Kitchen; at our ninth annual Nantucket Lawn Party, which is always a success thanks to partners like Chris Karlson and

As we mAde the finAl edits on this Men’s Issue, I started

With Tom and Jeannine Clarke at our annual Nantucket party.

thinking about what it means to be a modern-day man. If you compared this magazine to one from 25 years ago, the standards would be different: The stereotype of men as powerful breadwinners has slowly started to change. We often hear about women striving to “have it all,” but why not men? In addition to their careers, men are focusing on their health, fitness, fashion—and being dedicated, hands-on fathers—more than ever before. In this issue we present to you some of Boston’s most talented and modern males—men who are redefining the standards for excellence, including cover star Harry Connick Jr. Many of his fans know him best as an incredibly skilled musician, and now he’s sharing that expertise with contestants on American Idol as a judge. I couldn’t imagine a better cover star for our Men’s Issue.

After closing out summer on a high

note, literally, with Boston Common’s partner the Nantucket Music Festival, we welcomed two new Madewell boutiques to Massachusetts, one in Hingham and one in Dedham. We also congratulated Seth Greenberg and Cameron Grob on the opening of their new restaurant, Bastille Kitchen, in Fort Point. I know it will be an anchor for the bustling neighborhood.

As people returned from their summer vacations, it felt like school was back in session, and we kicked off September with our signature fashion event, partnering with Saks Fifth Avenue. We also partnered with Herb Chambers on two dynamic events, celebrating Jaguar and Maserati. And Boston Common was excited to join forces with Bloomingdale’s and Joseph Bezzone of BOKX 109 American Prime in Newton to offer a fantastic fall culinary event. It was a season of cars, couture, and cuisine—a mighty fine way to go.

Now we just need Harry Connick Jr. to serenade us…. Stay tuned.

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PhotograPhy by Michael blanchard (clarkes, karlson); richard bertone (bastille kitchen); lisa richov (Madewell)

the Summer House; with store managers Kristen Webber and Tara Trant at the grand opening of Madewell at the Derby Street Shoppes in Hingham.

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AmAndA FriedmAn Photographer Amanda Friedman is originally from suburban Detroit. She currently lives in Los Angeles and shoots for a variety of clients, including cosmopolitan, travel + leisure, people, budget travel, the Wall street journal, and London’s sunday telegraph.

Her photos have been published in the american photography 15, 17, and 18 annuals. surface magazine named her a 1999 Avant Guardian, she was a 2008 Critical Mass finalist, and she placed first in the photo essay category of the 2011 PDN/ National Geographic Traveler World in Focus contest. In this issue: Friedman photographed jeweler Kristina Pitaniello for “Local Treasure.” What impressed you most about Kristina’s work? “Her attention to detail and the craftsmanship.” How would you describe your own style? “Clean, graphic, and simple.” What made you want to pick up a camera the first time? “My stepmother was a photojournalist for a small newspaper in suburban Detroit when I was in eighth and ninth grade. I saw all the cool people and places she got to photograph. My parents also had many art and photo books lying around, which I loved looking at. I was drawn to art from a very early age. I was then given a camera in high school and instantly fell in love with the process.” What do you love most about Boston?

“Dunkin’ Donuts! We don’t have them in Los Angeles yet.”

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reBeccA Knight Joel BenJAmin Writer Photographer

lArry getlen entertainment writer

Rebecca Knight is a journalist in Boston. Her work has been published in the new york times, the financial times, usa today, and the economist. In this issue: Knight interviewed Brian Halligan of HubSpot for “View from the Top.” What struck you most about Brian? “He is a sharp guy who also happens to be incredibly funny.” If you were to develop your own software, what would it do? “I just bought a new place in the South End, and decorating it has been a challenge. I would love a program that would let me see exactly how a paint color/ couch/piece of art would look in my living room before I buy it.”

Larry Getlen has written about entertainment for time, esquire, new york magazine, the new york post, and other publications. In this issue: For our cover story, Getlen talked with Harry Connick Jr. about his life in music. What struck you most about Harry?

“Here’s a man who had one of the greatest musical mentors one could hope for in Ellis Marsalis, so he understands the importance of education and sees how so many american idol aspirants have missed out on this.”

What music resonates with you? “A wide variety, from jazz to heavy metal. But when a performer has the natural talent of Harry Connick Jr., labels slip away.

It’s just a joy to listen.”

Photographer Joel Benjamin has been shooting fashion and advertising for 20 years.

He has a bustling studio in Fort Point. In this issue: Benjamin focused his lens on the seven stars of our men’s feature. What impression did these men make on you? “I admired how these self-assured men were up for the challenges of this photo shoot and were both committed to the process and relaxed. It takes a lot of courage and humor to do a fashion shoot!” Are there any clothing items you coveted from the set? “I’m all about the black topcoat that Menton’s chef de cuisine, Scott Jones, wore.

I’m a jeans guy, and I thought this coat looked good dressed up or down.”

“When a performer has the natural talent of harry connick jr., labels slip aWay. it’s just a joy to listen.”

—larry getlen

photography by Josh Campbell (benJamin); Corky buCzyk (getlen)

...Without Whom this issue would not have been possible

the list late Fall 2014

Jim Gaffigan

Gerard Riveron

Les Otten

Bill Maher

José Luis Martínez de Larramendi

Ben Affleck

Billy Evers

Roger Pottanat

Eric Warnstedt

Michael Koenig

Renato Mazzaferro

Matthew DeRosier

Todd Lamothe

Tim Maslow

Mark D’Alessandro

Mark Rowen

Jason Segel

Aric Bernier

Nas

Michael Scelfo

David Sedaris

Matt Berninger

Arthur Winn

Brad Craig

Childish Gambino

Danny Meyer

Samuel Monsour

Ed Sheeran

Steve MacDonald

Mahmud Jafri

Jack White

John Maibach

Peter Lofaro

Seth Meyers

Ben Muenzberg

Jesse Plemons

Jimmy Fallon

Jim Xaros

Steven Leed

Joseph P. Hanley

Jonathan Mareno

Matthew Harker

Jonathan Dorfman

Jonathan Chin

Andrew van Dyk

Matthew Pinsent

Robin Williams

Seth Greenberg

Mark O’Leary

Dan Magoon

Jeff Eaton

Lewis Black

Garrett Harker

Chris Lessard

Chris Kavanaugh

Daniel Bass

Neil Young

Cameron Grob

Paul Guitard

Jason Mraz

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STYLE The Style Setter Tomas Maier has taken a fancy to Boston, which reminds him of his European roots.

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at last, BOttEGa VENEta CREatIVE DIRECtOR TOMAS MAIER BRINGs tHE ICONIC FasHION HOUsE tO tHE BaCK BaY, DEBUtING a BRaND-NEW BOUtIQUE ON BOYlstON stREEt.

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Call it nostalgia, but when Tomas Maier was contemplating his next boutique in the United States, he chose Boston because it reminded him of where he grew up. Which was not in America, mind you, but Europe. “I love to visit Boston, which has such history and culture,” the Germanborn designer says. “In many ways, it reminds me of a European city.” The eloquent, intelligent, and impeccably dressed Maier lived in Europe for more than four decades before moving to the US. “I love the city’s scale, its architecture, and its intellectual pedigree. The men and women have a low-key, classic style and an appreciation for quality, which is very in line with the Bottega Veneta aesthetic.” continued on page 44

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STYLE The Style Setter Looks from Bottega’s men’s Fall/Winter 2014 runway show in Milan. bottom right: Buffalo Leather Metal Gardena bags ($3,100 each).

“Boston’s men and women have a low-key, classic style and an appreciation for quality, which is very in line with the Bottega veneta aesthetic.” —tomas maier The Italian fashion house’s men’s and women’s collections emphasize timeless sophistication, relying on classic cuts cast in luxe fabrics such as crepe, silk, and leather rather than trend-driven pieces. The clothing is unmistakably Bottega, with its mix of graphic patterns, asymmetrical seams, and trompe l’oeil architecture—but not a BV logo in sight. “The Bottega Veneta woman and man are two halves to the same whole,” Maier explains.

“They are individuals who are more interested in

craftsmanship and lasting value than a logo.”

The new Boylston Street store is sumptuously decorated, with Ultrasuede walls, mohair-upholstered furniture, and custom-dyed wool carpets. The 2,500-square-foot space features the women’s ready-to-wear collection, as well as accessories, shoes, eyewear, jewelry, and fragrance for both men and women. Currently on display, the label’s Fall/ Winter 2014 collection focuses on movement. “I always start with color, not

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general shades but very specific, precise hues,” Maier says of his design process. “Next, I consider materials which naturally lead to shape and construction.”

For men, Maier’s renditions of traditional accessories are particularly clever. Monk straps are reimagined on weatherappropriate Chelsea boots, supple leather briefcases come with detachable nylon shoulder straps, and compartmentalized bags in chalky tones of eggshell and dove are ideal for

transporting electronics.

Overall, he says, the accessories represent an “athletic ease,” evident in the shop’s assortment of polished metal aviators, woven leather bracelets, oxidized silver pendants, and sporty leather gloves. For the men of Boston, “I’d recommend a structured cross-body bag with a wide strap,” Maier says. The sleek bags come in soft leather or the brand’s signature Intrecciato weave.

On the women’s side, the new boutique stocks bold black-and-white dresses with pops of crimson, evergreen,

and yellow, while some of the most distinctive designs are rendered in shades of gray, like an officeappropriate shift dress in a psychedelic marbled print and a cozy charcoal pullover paired with a midi-skirt painted to appear as if it were entirely pleated.

Transitioning seamlessly from work to weekend, Bottega Veneta offers a unique balance of luxury and versatility that seems as though it were tailormade for Boston. 300 Boylston st., 617-960-0880; bottegaveneta.com BC

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Great. Neither do I.” 30 years ago, Herb Chambers decided to buy a car. It didnít go very well.

In fact, the dealership experience left him so frustrated that he bought the place ñ then vowed to ˇnd a better way to sell cars himself.

It was a big challenge, but to Herb, the solutions were obvious: Treat customers with respect. Insist on firm and fair pricing. Offer a full safety inspection and generous return policy for used vehicles. And make a fresh start by hiring salespeople without any experience selling cars. Today, weíre the top-selling dealer in New England.

Our customers say they like us. And if you give us a chance, we think you will too.

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STYLE Accessories Heavy Handed Jade leather gloves are the perfect partner to a bold emerald coat.

Jacket ($2,600) and gloves ($390), Bottega Veneta. 300 Boylston St., 617-960-0880; bottegaveneta.com. Vest, Brunello Cucinelli ($2,845).

Neiman Marcus, Copley Place, 617-536-3660; neimanmarcus.com. Shirt, Burberry London ($325).

2 Newbury St., 617-236-1000; burberry.com. Tie, Vince Camuto ($70). Lord & Taylor, 760 Boylston St., 617-2626000; lordandtaylor.com. Tie bar, Burberry ($180). see above. Pocket square, Polo Ralph Lauren ($95). 93-95 Newbury St., 617-424-1124; ralphlauren.com

Power Plays

Boston heavy hitters punch up their fall threads with pops of gray and celtic greens.

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STYLE Accessories A slate-colored watch face paired with a sleek charcoal band completes the ultimate monochromatic look.

Gilet, Brunello Cucinelli ($1,005). Neiman Marcus, Copley Place, 617-536-3660; neiman marcus.com. Shirt, John Varvatos ($250). Copley Place, 617-236-8650; johnvarvatos.com. Tie, Brooks Brothers ($80). 75 State St., 617-261-9990; brooks brothers.com. Pocket square, Salvatore Ferragamo ($140).

Copley Place, 617-8594924; ferragamo.com. modelTwo e-cigarette, Ploom ($40). Buried Treasures Boston, 28 Haviland St., 617-2471011; ploom.com.

43.5mm Classic Chronograph watch, David Yurman ($4,600).

Copley Place, 617-2368777; davidyurman.com

A structured, minimalist bag adds an extra surprise in a rich forest green.

Sweater ($850) and Porte-Documents Voyage ($2,830), Louis Vuitton.

Copley Place, 617-4376519; louisvuitton.com.

Pants, Etro ($370). Saks Fifth Avenue, The Shops at Prudential Center, 617-236-3100; saks.com.

43mm stainless steel Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe watch, Blancpain ($10,500).

Shreve, Crump & Low, 39 Newbury St., 617-267-9100; shrevecrumpandlow.com.

Sterling silver Meteorite signet ring, David Yurman ($795). Copley Place, 617-236-8777; davidyurman.com

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Off the Cuff

An unconventional emerald velvet bow tie brings sleek elegance to eveningwear.

Statement-making cuff links in a cool shade of gray pair well with a range of shirts, from even colorways to fashionforward patterns.

Jacket ($2,295) and scarf ($295), Burberry London. 2 Newbury St., 617-236-1000; burberry.com. Shirt, Ermenegildo Zegna ($345). Copley Place, 617-424-9300; zegna.com. Bow tie, Marc Jacobs ($195). 81 Newbury St., 617-4250404; marcjacobs.com.

Accutron II watch, Bulova ($499). Joseph Gann Jewelers, 387 Washington St., 617-426-4932; bulova.com

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Jacket, Gucci ($1,890).

The Shops at Prudential Center, 617-247-3000; gucci.com. Sweater, Bottega Veneta ($8,000).

300 Boylston St., 617-960-0880; bottegaveneta.com. Shirt, Etro ($591). Saks Fifth Avenue, The Shops at Prudential Center, 617-236-3100; saks.com.

18k white-gold crystal and hematite square cuff links, Penny Preville ($4,295).

Lux Bond & Green, 416 Boylston St., 617-266-4747; lbgreen.com

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bmwmass.com BMW Gallery of Norwell 98 Accord Park Dr. Norwell, MA 02061 781-982-4556 bmwgallerynorwell.com

Wagner BMW of Shrewsbury 770 Boston Tpke.

Shrewsbury, MA 01545 508-845-0505 wagnerbmwofshrewsbury.com

BMW Gallery of Norwood 918 Providence Hwy. Norwood, MA 02062 781-762-2691 bmwgallerynorwood.com

BMW of Peabody 221 Andover St. Peabody, MA 01960 978-538-9900 bmwpeabody.com

BMW of Sudbury 128 Boston Post Rd., Rte. 20 Sudbury, MA 01776 508-903-5300 bmwofsudbury.com

Herb Chambers BMW 1168 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02134 617-731-1700 herbchambersbmwofboston.com

*Based on BMW NA test results of real-world driving. ©2014 BMW of North America, LLC. The BMW name, model names and logo are registered trademarks.

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KORS CARES

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DESIGNER DARBY SCOTT OPENS A STUDIO IN NORTH ANDOVER.

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WELL SUITED

Gucci cements its status as an It brand for men with the expansion of its suiting program. The collection features seven silhouettes—from the tapered, modern-feeling New Signoria to the slim-fit Monaco—and introduces luxe new fabrications for fall, such as wool and sable mohair. Suit up in one for Boston’s Unicef event on October 30, honoring model and humanitarian Heidi Klum. The Shops at Prudential Center, 617-247-3000; gucci.com

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Designer Darby Scott couldn’t escape her New England roots— and didn’t want to. After nearly three decades in Manhattan, she now plans to conquer the world from her new headquarters and design studio at East Mill in North Andover. “It’s a modern interior where I will be able to stage full runway presentations or display products gallery-style and manage all aspects of the business under one roof,” says Sco tt. The designer is also launching revitalized ready-to-wear and luxury accessories collections. In a style she refers to as “refined tribal,” she juxtaposes semiprecious stones against exotic skins and vibrant textiles and incorporates intricate embroidery on her handbags and clothing. Watch for Scott to offer men’s accessories and an expanded womenswear collection in 2015. 47 High St., Ste. 106, North Andover, 978-326-7236; darbyscott.com

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MAD FOR PLAID

Brooks Brothers ($265).

75 State St., 617-261-9990; brooksbrothers.com

Gucci ($190).

The Shops at Prudential Center, 617-247-3000; gucci.com

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BREATHING EASY

Boston-based Ministry of Supply has engineered the perfect dress shirt, created with body mapping and thermal imaging to provide ventilation and heat regulation. Visit the pop-up store through December. 299 Newbury St.; ministryofsupply.com

Boston men are crushing on tartan accessories this fall.

Burberry ($295).

2 Newbury St., 617-236-1000; burberry.com

Hermès ($145).

50 Park Plaza, 617-482-8707; hermes.com

Etro ($3,830).

Neiman Marcus, Copley Place, 617-536-3660; etro.com

PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRYCE BAK (DARBY SCOTT)

Great Scott!

This fall, Michael Kors will release a limited-edition 100 Series watch as part of the brand’s global “Watch Hunger Stop” initiative, marking the second year of Kors’s partnership with the UN’s World Food Programme.

With each 100 Series watch sold, 100 meals will be donated to needy children across the globe.

The timepiece is crafted in rose-gold-tone stainless steel with a gray-blue dial that depicts a world map. The caseback features both Kors’s signature and information about the campaign. To date, the company has helped to deliver 5 million meals. $295. Michael Kors, Copley Place, 617-2365700; michaelkors.com

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STYLE Local Treasure In her South End workshop (bottom), Kristina Pitaniello crafts rings, bracelets, and belts whose organic designs and rustic materials are proving equally popular with women and men.

“Masculine forMs are less refined; a feMinine forM is delicate and More coMplex—just like woMen and Men.” —kristina pitaniello

Real Men Wear Silver

Kristina Pitaniello was a hard-core tomboy as a kid, so it’s a tad surprising that she grew up to become one of the most imaginative jewelry designers in Boston. But those rough-and-tumble childhood instincts serve her well today as an artisan. “My grandfather Louis was a carpenter and taught me how to draw and some things about craftsmanship,” Pitaniello says. “I still remember everything he taught me.”

And while she loved jewelry and art from a young age, her parents “didn’t encourage an artistic life,” she notes. It wasn’t until Pitaniello had graduated from the University of New Hampshire and moved to the South End that she was able to focus on her passion for design: “I surrounded myself with other artists. I launched my first jewelry line at 21, and by 23 I was a working jeweler with a studio.” The first pieces were rings, which she sold to friends, but soon stores were snapping them up after seeing them at the influential New York Gift Show. Now celebrities such as Julia Roberts and Karen O wear her jewelry, and her belts and belt buckles are proving especially popular with men.

“Masculine forms are the easiest to make,” Pitaniello says. “They’re reduced and less refined; a feminine form will be delicate and more

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complex—just like women and men, I guess.” Many of her bracelets and rings for men feature deep-red and blue leathers with sleek silver accents; some are engraved with single words, like “truth” or “listen.” Her belt buckles— often organic-looking in design and made from hammered metal—are paired with distressed leather belts.

“I keep it rough and simple,” she explains.

Pitaniello finds inspiration in nature most of all, citing rocks, bugs, even seeds as fodder for her creations. “All design is derivative from natural shapes,” she says, “but I feel ideas are shared unconsciously among artists—all creativity is spiritual.” As for the stones she uses, diamonds are among her preferred mediums: “As building blocks of the earth, they have a certain infinite and eternal cellular intelligence.” And she believes they can be beneficial for the wearer as well. “Stones magnify a person’s specific energy,” she says.

“People do know the magic of stones on some unconscious level.”

While Pitaniello travels often to source materials, she always relishes returning to Boston: “The South End is amazing. It’s charming and beautiful. I love every part of it.”

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STYLE Social Network “burnt orange is the color this fall, so i’ll be looking for simple cardigans with clean cuts in that color.”

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Boston native and new Cnn entertainment reporter Sian-Pierre regiS reveals his favorite hometown spots for leading a well-styled life. by jessica laniewski The nightly news just got a style upgrade thanks to Boston-born, New York– and Paris-based Sian-Pierre Regis.

The Boston Latin School graduate will be covering pop culture and entertainment for the CNN Headline News channel. Regis, who founded the fashion, culture, and entertainment websites Swagger New York and Swagger Paris, aims to become a media personality

on the order of Ryan Seacrest— but a hipper version, clad in APC, Sandro, and vintage pieces. Here he talks about his favorite places for leading the good life in Boston....

“I dabble at multiple spots for threads in Boston. Rag & Bone (111 Newbury St., 617-536-6700; rag-bone.com) is always on the list, as is Barneys New York (Copley Place, 617-385-3300; barneys.com), but I find most

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of my goods at the SoWa Vintage Market (460C Harrison Ave.; sowavintage market.com), including one-of-a-kind jackets and tees from a seller named Gilbert White. He has the best eye for cool. Burnt orange is the color this fall, so I’ll be looking for simple cardigans with clean cuts in that color, or one really sleek peacoat with leather trim.

“Hotel 140 (140 Clarendon St.,617-585-5600; hotel140.

com) is where I tell my friends to snag a room when they’re downtown. Simple, clean, comfortable rooms that are affordable, and you’re in the middle of everything. Plus, I grew up in the apartments above, so it’s easy.

“I have to stop by Flour (131 Clarendon St., 617-4377700; flourbakery.com) for their egg sandwich, as it is quite literally the best am eats on the East Coast. For dinner, Coppa

(253 Shawmut Ave., 617-3910902; coppaboston.com) is a must when I’m back home. I love the vibe of that restaurant—so laid-back—and the animelle ravioli is mouthwateringly good. Pavement Coffeehouse (286 Newbury St., 617-859-9515; pavement coffeehouse.com) has become my spot for coffee in Boston.

It’s out of the spotlight, if you will, so it’s a great place to catch up with friends.” BC

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CULTURE Hottest Ticket BLO hasn’t staged La Traviata since 2006 (pictured). This fall the opera gets a racy new update, courtesy of Artistic Director Esther Nelson.

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Boston Lyric opera shakes up La TraviaTa with fresh voices, tight corsets, and (gasp) nudity. by jared bowen

Go ahead. Complain about Boston Lyric Opera switching things up. Esther Nelson dares you. “I wish we could have a conversation sometimes about what is traditional,” says the BLO’s general and artistic director, referring to the purists who condemn the company’s unconventional take on the classics. As the BLO opens its 38th season with a brand-new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, Nelson relishes the criticism she expects to come her way. “We have more and more heated arguments with every production we do,” she says. And that’s before the nudity.

This is the first time the company has staged La Traviata in nearly a decade. The opera tells the saga of Violetta Valery, a ferociously independent courtesan recovering from consumption. Making her BLO debut as the doomed heroine is soprano Anya Matanovic.

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Sara Coburn in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani in 2013.

“You see the undercurrent of societY [in la traviata]. it’s a world of excess, but not satisfaction.” —esther nelson Paris—everyone wanted to be around them,” Matanovic explains. “Yet out in polite society, they weren’t acknowledged. at the end of their life, when their beauty was lost, they would die as outcasts. to me that’s violetta’s greatest fear.” act i and the introduction to violetta is staged as a lush costume drama with long skirts and tight corsets—a world of hope, fantasy, and illusion. But that all literally falls away in act ii, when violetta’s sordid sexual past becomes her future ruin and

she’s cast into the fringes of her community. “You see the undercurrent of society,” Nelson says. “it’s debauchery.” that means a veritable bacchanal onstage at the Shubert, with performers stripped bare and women treated as sexual objects. “it’s a disorganized, frantic party environment,” she adds. “[it’s a] world of excess, but not satisfaction.”

Nelson is well aware of the controversy that nudity may provoke. “You don’t ever want to do it for the sake of it,” she says. “We have to be

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very careful because we are not a contemporary theater that does nudity on a regular basis. i am also aware of the point at which we do become a novelty rather than a part of a total progression.” But she’s also confident that the staging will bring audiences emotionally closer to violetta as she becomes a victim of both society and her environs. Purists, take note. october 10–19, citi Performing arts center shubert theatre, 265 tremont st., 617-482-9393; citicenter.org BC

Boston Book Festival founder Deborah Porter should be very proud: Her brainchild is now one of Boston’s most anticipated annual fall events. this year an estimated 25,000 people will attend more than three dozen indoor sessions, live music events, and the festival’s signature street fair in Copley Square.

With 200 authors—including Pulitzer Prize, National Book award, even Nobel Prize winners—guests can expect lectures, panels, and book signings galore. Porter says BBF was born out of the simple fact that Boston was the only major city in the world without a book fest. She characterizes it as “a festival of ideas” with the literary a-list: “People come because they know they’re going to see quality presenters—really important and interesting people who make a difference in our culture. and it’s fun. there are sessions that are hugely entertaining. i’m not trying to put on an academic forum.” aside from nominal charges for the keynote speeches, there’s no admission price for any author event. this year’s keynote speakers include Doris Kearns Goodwin, Susan Minot, rick riordan, Norman Foster, and music legend Herbie Hancock, whose memoir comes out in October. “i try to get the most interesting people that i can get, by whatever means i can,” Porter says. it’s a challenge to land big-name authors, she admits, even as she rattles off names like Noble laureate Orhan Pamuk, Booker Prize winner (and former fatwa target) Salman rushdie, and Cornel West as some of her biggest coups. She adds with a laugh, “i didn’t even realize that it’s really hard to get a Nobel Prize winner to come.” october 23–25, copley square; bostonbookfest.org

Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, author of My Name Is Red, has appeared at BBF.

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the Boston Book Festival celebrates six years with a roster of literary all-stars.

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Southern Cross (maquette), Alexander Calder, 1963.

The Peabody essex MUseUM showcases The aerial MasTerPieces of scUlPTor AlexAnder CAlder in an exclUsive easT coasT exhibiT. by jared bowen There was always an extraordinary balance to Alexander Calder’s career.

His sculptures are a blend of visual simplicity and mechanical complexity.

His mobiles are both a whirl of color and a spectacle of shadow. He created engaging miniature tabletop works and wondrous massive public installations. A new exhibition, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and making its only East Coast appearance at the Peabody Essex Museum, looks at the sculptor’s monumental contribution to modern art.

“Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic,” on view through January 4, 2015, features more than 40 mobiles and stabiles (the term for his stationary sculptures) made between the 1930s and the late 1960s and examines how Calder changed the sculpture movement (pun intended). “There’s a confidence that comes out of [his] work that many people find appealing, reassuring, and a little bit mysterious,” says Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, PEM’s chief curator. They wonder, “How exactly are these things made?”

Born into a family of accomplished sculptors in Pennsylvania, Calder broke from their more traditional ways and embarked on a lifelong pursuit

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of the art of the new. In the 1920s and ’30s, he made countless trips to Paris, immersing himself in an avant-garde milieu populated by Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, and Jean Arp. “It was such a fertile environment of change and opportunity,” says Hartigan, “that it opened him up to making art that did not have to emulate the tradition that was passed down through his family.”

In Paris he found a home with his wife, Louisa, who was from a prominent and artistically minded Boston family (the novelist Henry James was her great-uncle). From there, Calder launched a career that would turn him into one of the 20th century’s most enduring artists.

At his studio in Roxbury, Connecticut, Calder devised a sculptural vocabulary all his own. Drawing on his fascination with antique astronomical devices and his engineering prowess, he created sculptures that performed abstract ballets, each a mélange of color dancing in midair and an orbit of shadows cast on the wall. Says Hartigan, “He wanted to activate the relationship between time and space.” Not to mention spark an enduring conversation in modern art. Through January 4, 2015. 161 Essex St., Salem, 978-745-9500; pem.org BC

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Boston Ballet’s production of Swan Lake wings into the spotlight.

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The stage of the Boston Opera House will once again brim with Robert Perdziola’s spectacular costumes when Boston Ballet presents Swan Lake. The designer gave life to Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen’s new staging of The Nutcracker in 2012, and he’ll bring the same dazzling creativity to this production, Boston Ballet’s first of this piece in six years.

“I felt that it should not become a historical documentation of the ballet or be slavish to period detail,” says Perdziola.

“Yes, it needed to say period, but it also needed flair and heart.

I feel it to be a fairy tale that should resonate from a point of emotion. Sometimes in design, when detailing becomes too laborious, the original intent can evaporate. So for this I needed to make sure that scenes and costumes registered with strong strokes.”

This production of Swan Lake also features new choreography by Nissinen, including a more in-depth prologue detailing Odette’s kidnapping and Rothbart’s spell. But the romantic tale of the Swan Queen Odette and Prince Siegfried remains the same, with Tchaikovsky’s original score performed by the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Ashley Ellis, Petra Conti, Misa Kuranaga, and Lia Cirio will be among the principal female ballerinas dancing the part of Odette/Odile, while Sabi Varga will dance the role of the villainous Rothbart. October 30– November 16. 539 Washington St., 617-259-3400; bostonballet.org

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Known for her leopard prints, bold hues, and mixed patterns, Boston-based interior designer Erin Gates has made a career out of creating outrageously chic home designs worthy of a magazine spread. Building on the success of her popular blog, Elements of Style, Gates’s first book comes out in October. Titled Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life (Simon & Schuster, $35), it’s filled with gorgeous photographs and Gates’s essays, as well as tips for tweaking your own home design.

“It’s a blend of inspiration, reflection, practical knowledge, and laughs,” she says. “If people take one thing away from this book, I hope it’s that neither their homes nor themselves need to be perfect to be wonderful.” elementsofstyleblog.com

The Head of the Charles Regatta is the world’s largest two-day rowing competition.

Back to the Future Bostonians get the chance to travel back in time at the annual Ellis Boston antiques show. Returning for its fourth year, the four-day collectors’ paradise will feature an array of items, including fne art, 20th-century jewelry, and furniture from 40 exhibitors. October 23–26. The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-363-0405; ellisboston.com

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Grab your blazers and cashmere sweaters and stake out a coveted space on the banks of the Charles River to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the venerable Head of the Charles Regatta. The race was inspired by traditional regattas seen in England and started by the founders of the Cambridge Boat Club as a nod to their British rowing instructor at Harvard University.

At a gala on October 18, rowers old and new will enjoy a festive dinner and preview a commemorative documentary created by Fields of Vision, a Bostonbased production company, and Olympian Mary Mazzio. The races take place October 18 and 19, and 400,000 spectators are expected to attend. With 11,000 athletes participating, competition is high, whether it’s the men’s or women’s masters double or singles, Alumni Eights, or Club Fours. Teams come from as far away as Austria, but all eyes will be on the water when Harvard meets Yale in their annual epic showdown. 2 Gerrys Landing Road, Cambridge, 617868-6200; hocr.org

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Brian Halligan spearheads breakthrough marketing technology and the silicon Valley of the east with his company, hubspot.

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Some people consider it a coincidence when, after researching a product online, they receive an e-mail offering exactly what they were just looking for. But Brian Halligan knows it’s no fluke. It’s the work of HubSpot, his Cambridgebased company, which provides marketing research software that has some industry insiders touting Halligan’s baby as the next Google, Amazon, or eBay. But HubSpot and Halligan are headquartered far, far from the Golden State.

“I’m tired of people talking about Silicon Valley,” he says. “I want to bring Boston back.”

HubSpot’s future looks bright. Founded in 2006 by Halligan, 47, and his MIT Sloan classmate Dharmesh Shah, 46, who now serves as the company’s chief technology officer, HubSpot has to date raised $100 million. It boasts more than 11,000 customers in 56 countries and has 700 employees, working mainly in Kendall Square. Last year the company’s revenue rose 48 percent to $77.6 million, and in late August HubSpot filed for a $100 million IPO. Of course, there’s a reason for this: HubSpot is rapidly transforming the way small and mediumsize companies attract, retain, and connect with customers. “Humans have radically changed the way they shop for things,” says Halligan. “Coldcalling, mass e-mailing, advertisements—those don’t work anymore. It’s now a question of: How do you pull people in?” continued on page 66

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Part of Halligan’s collection of sports memorabilia; Halligan at Inbound 2013, his company’s four-day conference; the HubSpot offices.

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As students, the pair entered HubSpot in a business plan contest and… drumroll… did not win. But they kept hammering away at the idea each week. Michael Cusamano, a professor at MIT Sloan, taught both founders and has watched HubSpot from the start.

“Brian strikes me as extremely thoughtful,” he says.

“He realizes the world is changing.”

After they graduated, Halligan and Shah rented a small office at the Cambridge Innovation Center, hired some programmers, and began to pitch to potential customers. Today the office features a soda fountain and cereal and candy walls (all free) and teems with young graduates, sporting flipflops and shorts, who know that at any given time they could find Halligan sitting next to them for the day—working but listening to his staff, too.

“We just kept iterating and cranking, and slowly but surely it turned into this,” Halligan says, stretching out his arms and looking around at HubSpot’s trendy orange-hued offices. “Every day we got a little bit better. That’s what we’re still doing today.” BC

tech talk HubSpot’s creator shares the inspirations behind his bytes and bites.

The Thinker:

“I take walks in the Public Garden with my dog, Romeo, and we’ll look at the George Washington statue and ask ourselves, ‘What would George do?’ I go to the Boston Public Library in that big, cool room upstairs. I work and think in there. I like to walk around the main building at MIT—I fnd that inspiring.” home run:

“Fenway Park is always number one on my

list—I’m a big fan of the park and the games.” navigaTing kendall Square:

“I love Meadhall because they have an outstanding collection of Belgian Trappist ales. The Blue Room has the best brunch in Boston.” moTTo:

“When someone asks me how I’m doing and I’m feeling good, I usually respond, ‘Never better!’”

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HubSpot offers content management tools for creating and managing blogs and landing pages for midmarket companies; search engine optimization applications that help potential customers find those blogs and landing pages; and dashboard tools that analyze how well this process of customer engagement is working. In addition, HubSpot provides consulting services that help managers learn inbound marketing tactics, which aim to attract and engage potential customers instead of interrupting their lives with traditional advertising. For example, say a consumer is looking for beginner yoga classes.

If she Googles the topic, up will pop local studios and blogs (which are HubSpot customers) with targeted options—and maybe she’ll even receive that perfectly timed e-mail from a studio in her neighborhood.

The company also hosts an annual four-day conference at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center called Inbound. In late September of this year, the event featured speakers like Martha Stewart and Malcolm Gladwell. But one of the most popular speeches was by Halligan himself—who packed the room, no problem.

“HubSpot is truly a disruptive technology,” says Beth Best, a marketing executive at ConforMIS, a manufacturer of customized knee implants. “I see it as a profound game-changer in the way in which we market and engage with our customers. We can see in real time what’s happening with all of our campaigns, allowing us to make smart investments that effectively target our multiple stakeholders.”

Halligan’s professional vision took root early on.

He grew up in Westwood, near Route 128—dubbed “America’s Technology Highway.” His dad was an engineer at General Electric and later ran marketing for BBN Technologies; his neighbors had jobs at local powerhouses like Digital, Prime, and Wang.

After graduating from the University of Vermont with a degree in electrical engineering, Halligan landed a sales job at Parametric Technology, a Needham-based software company. There—at the age of 25—he was asked to build up the company’s Asian business, first in Tokyo and eventually in Hong Kong. When he moved back to the US, he did a stint at Groove Networks, a software firm that was acquired by Microsoft, and then enrolled in the MIT Sloan School of Management.

It was there that he met his cofounder. Recalls Halligan, “Dharmesh—in a moment of uncharacteristic extroversion—came up to me in a class and said, ‘Let’s work on a project together.’ We just clicked.”

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Online and Offline, Emily Romano nurtures single men and wOmen intO embracing the wild wOrld Of dating. by jim sullivan First, foremost, and above all, Emily Romano is not a matchmaker. She announces this emphatically over an Arctic iced coffee at a Coolidge Corner restaurant. “That’s a misnomer that gets applied to me a lot,” she says. Romano is an architect of romance, a resource for the reborn single looking for love in all the wrong first-date places, using unflattering profile pictures to boot.

It’s a far cry from law school, where the North Reading native first staked her ground: “I hated everything about law. I dropped out.” And dropped into the dating industry, where she discovered that, as Pat Benatar belted out, love is a battlefield. So Romano rolled up her sleeves and got to work. “Being single may be a symptom,” she says, “but the problem may be you lack confidence, you don’t feel comfortable talking to people. You’re not getting out of your comfort zone.”

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In 2012, she started Dateover, a dating consulting firm that coaches the lonely and lovelorn. Her goal is to groom clients—75 percent of whom are 40-something divorcees— and educate them on the realities of Dating 2.0. “It’s the same as when you go to sell a product: You’re going to present that product in the best way you can,” she says.

“While I think it’s important to be genuine and honest, this is an opportunity to sell yourself. You need to make yourself a commodity and position your brand. If you’re going to be this new, vibrant person entering the dating market, you have to look the part.”

Typically, Romano meets with a new client for two hours to assess his or her personality, interests, and comfort zones. Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Is a makeover and wardrobe overhaul necessary? Is a bar or a chess game your scene? From there, she proposes a form of attack: role-playing a mock date, writing a profile bio (“Don’t write a book!”), or shooting a great profile photo (“It is worth the investment”). For the super-shy, Romano will even serve as a clandestine chaperone. “I can act almost like a wingwoman on a date.”

“I wanted to update my look as well as my attitude,” says Susan Altwater, a divorced client in her mid-50s who works in human resources. “Emily was a great coach and really gave exceptional attention to helping me with hair, makeup, online profile, clothing suggestions, and setting goals for helping me find time in my overscheduled life to date. She gave me a fresh start.”

Once Altwater and other Dateover clients graduate, they can look forward to Romano’s newest venture: Vattri, an online resource that offers multiple apps for verifying your date’s background. Says Romano, “It will be a technology that could help thousands of people.” dateover.com BC

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Emily Romano brings the tools and tactics of 21st-century marketing to the dating world, where, she says, “You need to make yourself a commodity and position your brand.”

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PEOPLE Double Life Some of Boston’s heaviest hitters start the day with what Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen calls the “Zen-like” sport of fishing.

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“Let’s get out there!” exclaims Mikko Nissinen, Boston Ballet’s artistic director. “The water’s like glass.” It’s 6 am on a dock in Quincy’s Marina Bay. Nissinen has to be at City Hall for a presentation at 11 am, dressed in his signature black business suit, which is hanging in his car. But right now, right here, the only thing Nissinen is thinking about is whether today is a white or orange bait day.

He is not alone. His director of corporate and institutional relations, Richard Armstrong—again, mostly spotted around town in a suit and tie, encircled by the most elegant of ballet dancers—cracks dirty jokes while checking the rods.

The pair heads up an all-star crew of other Boston heavy hitters, brought together by another kind of casting call: for striped bass, tuna, blue fin.

There’s Summit Partners’ Stephen Woodsum, Ernst & Young’s Jim Clubb, psychologist Wayne Frieden, Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Jeffrey Bellows, Hill Holliday’s Andrew Still, Commonwealth Capital Ventures’ Jeff Hurst, and Admirals Bank’s Nicholas Lazares. The gang hits the water at every possible chance—before work, after work, every weekend.

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“Fishing is my priority in my free time, if the weather is good,” says Nissinen, who has traveled to Belize, Panama, the Florida Keys, the West Coast, Iceland, Finland, and up and down the East Coast for the Big One. “The battle with a big fish is indescribable—a huge challenge and huge fun.”

Like ballet, fishing requires coordination, patience, hard work, and dedication. “There’s a Zen-like quality to fishing. When you’re in it, you’re in it.”

Plus, the fundraisers and galas that the ballet hosts provide ample opportunity to add to the crew. “You see guys with sunglass tans, quirky fishing accessories—for example, a belt with fish on it—that they mix up with their business attire, or just something they say, and you ask, ‘Do you fish?’ And it’s like, ‘Hell, yeah, I fish,’” says Armstrong—Captain Armstrong, actually— who also owns Boston Fishstix, a fishing charter company.

On this particular morning, calm seas and mild breezes prevail. Seagulls swarm a patch of water. “There’s a good spot!” Bellows says. Captain Armstrong revs the engine. Within 20 seconds, the crew joins the gulls. All joking stops. Dead silence. Furrowed brows. The hunt is on. BC

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A scion of one of Boston’s most prominent families, Josh Kraft (far left) has devoted his life to helping kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, such as the Jordan Club in Chelsea (above and left), whose construction he spearheaded.

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We’ve all seen it. Tom Brady throws a touchdown pass.

Gillette Stadium goes wild.

Then the camera tilts up to the owner’s box, where Bob Kraft exchanges high-fives with his sons. The Krafts are part of New England folklore, the kind of bootstraps royalty that Bostonians have come to admire: revered but also relatable. “They’re good guys,” our fathers would say.

Yet there’s also a sense that the Krafts exist only in that box of luxury, looking down upon the rest of us from a tower built on paper and gridiron. That is, until you

meet Josh Kraft.

Kraft flops into a plastic folding chair in the teen rec room of the Boys & Girls Club in Chelsea, across the Mystic River from Boston.

He leans back and tries to prop his legs up on an air-hockey table, but the table is too high, so he pulls over another chair. “You want a footrest?” he offers.

The third in line to the Kraft kingdom, he is the president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. This building is his baby. Before Kraft became the organization’s president in 2008, he spent 15 years here in

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Chelsea, a tenure that began in the basement of a housing project, where he mentored kids after school. “We had 60 or 70 kids in a room maybe only three times bigger than this one,” Kraft says. He went on to spearhead the construction of this sprawling facility, the Gerald & Darlene Jordan Boys & Girls Club, and watch two generations of kids pass through it.

Cornered in this rec room, Kraft stays on message, but his gaze drifts to the windows, where he can see kids playing. “I like to say that the Boys & Girls

“we want to broaden the boys & girls clubs’ reach and deepen our impact on kids.”

— josh kraft

Club is the story of America,” he says. “Every single kid that comes in the door, no matter their economic status, their family status, religion, or physical or mental capabilities—they’re all afforded the

same equal opportunity.”

For the past three years, Kraft has led the charge on a five-year, $125 million comprehensive campaign.

Now his labors are beginning to bear fruit, as a continued on page 74

photography Courtesy of the Boys & girls CluBs (kids)

Josh raft celebrates 25 years serving the boys & girls clubs. by robert cocuzzo PhotograPhy by Ken richardson

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What: Celebrate empowered women at the frst cocktail party for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Young and Strong Program, which raises awareness about breast cancer in young women and provides support for those who have battled the disease. All proceeds beneft Young and Strong, a program of Dana-Farber’s Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers. dana-farber.org When: October 17, 7–11 pm Where: Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf

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Kraft strives to make a personal connection with kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs, like this young girl at the Chelsea center.

“EvEry singlE kid that comEs in thE door is affordEd thE samE Equal opportunity.”

—josh kraft

new teen center opens in Mattapan this October and the Boys & Girls Club in South Boston gets an $11 million renovation. “We want to broaden our reach and deepen our impact on kids.”

Out the window, a crowd of children spills into the hallway. “Oh, there’s my daughter,” Kraft says.

“She’s working here for the summer.” He flips to his feet and leads me out to the mass of yelping preteens, high-fiving them and asking about their brothers and their sisters and their parents, all of whom he knows by name. He then lingers with one poised young lady named Julia.

Fourteen-year-old Julia Agostini has been coming to the Boys & Girls Club since she was 6 years old. “I’ve known Josh pretty much since I can remember,” says Julia, who was raised by a single mother of two in Chelsea. The club became an extension of her family, with Kraft playing a leading role. When Julia’s mother passed away recently due to cancer and her 20-year-old sister became her guardian, Kraft and the club’s entire support system rallied around her. “They helped me get through the toughest part of my life when my mom died, which I am extremely grateful for,” she says.

“Josh has always been there for me. He’s truly an

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amazing guy. He has played a part in helping create the young lady I’ve become.”

Whatever was left unsaid in that rec room about Kraft’s motivation is answered by watching his interactions with kids like Julia. They call him “Josh” and are completely at ease with him. In their company, he comes alive. This is his element.

Following them into the cafeteria, he snatches a ham and cheese sandwich and takes a bite. He doesn’t just walk the walk—he eats the lunch. For a man in his position, Kraft is giving something more valuable than money. He’s giving his time, his experience, and his friendship.

After finishing a basketball game of Around the World, during which Kraft drained five of his first seven shots, it’s time to visit the Boys & Girls Club in Charlestown. When we get there, it’s more highfives with the kids, more ribbing with the staff. No one makes a fuss about having the president in their midst. Popping into a preteen center during lunch, a son of one of the staffers approaches him.

“You’re Bob Kraft’s son?” the child asks with wide eyes. Kraft nods. Wonder fills the boy’s face. “You must be rich!” he blurts out. Kraft smiles. “No. I’m Josh.” bgcb.org BC

What: Join model, TV personality, and Unicef honoree Heidi Klum for the Children’s Champion Award Dinner, an evening devoted to individuals striving to meet Unicef’s goal of saving every child from dying of a preventable disease. The organization hopes to surpass the $912,000 raised at last year’s event. Local philanthropist Barrie Landry will be honored with the Helenka Pantaleoni Humanitarian Award for her devotion as a donor to the US Fund. A reception will be followed by a live auction and dinner. unicef.org When: October 30, 6:30 pm Where: The Four Seasons Hotel, 200 Boylston St.

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What: Strap on your dancing shoes for a good cause at the Shades of Hope Gala. Heather Unruh of WCVB-TV 5 will emcee the event, while Bridget Brunet, Miss New Hampshire USA 2014, will share her melanoma survival story.

The evening will include live and silent auctions to beneft those affected by the disease. The organizers hope to exceed the $250,000 raised last year to support programs that reduce the risk of melanoma and increase awareness of the harmful effects of the sun. The night will conclude with dancing until midnight. mfne.org When: November 21, 6 pm Where: The Four Seasons Hotel, 200 Boylston St.

BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

What: Uplifting families through healthy nutrition will be the focus of Boston Medical Center’s 21st annual Food for Thought dinner. The event raises money to feed and support hungry children and their families throughout the Boston area, some of whom are patients at the Grow Clinic for Children, the Preventive Food Pantry, and other pediatric programs at the center. The evening will include cocktails and a seated dinner. Last year’s event raised $1.4 million. bmc.org When: November 24, 6 pm Where: Mandarin Oriental, 776 Boylston St.

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There was no shortage of red, white, and blue at the 2014 Boston Pops on Nantucket concert to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Former NBC anchor David Gregory hosted the event at Jetties Beach on August 9. continued on page 78

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INVITED Margot Hartmann

Lucy Cummings and Anika Walker The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra

David Herrlinger and Kelly Monahan

Laurie and Bob Monahan

POPS ON NANTUCKET

MORE THAN 7,000 PEOPLE attended the

annual Pops on Nantucket concert, including Robert Kraft and cohosts Laurie and Bob Monahan. The event featured conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade

Orchestra, as well as special musical guest Arrival from Sweden, an ABBA tribute band. In keeping with the evening’s patriotic theme, two Medal of Honor recipients, Lt. Thomas Hudner and Lt. Thomas Kelle, were honored on stage.

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PRESERVING EMERSON AT THE OLD MANSE YOU MIGHT HAVE GLIMPSED the

ghost of Ralph Waldo Emerson when his former home, the Old Manse, a historic Concord estate built in 1770, hosted the Trustees of Reservations on July 10.

Drawing more than 140 friends and members of the organization, the event, Katie and David O’Malley

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cochaired by Nancy Nelson and Christopher Lydon, featured a dinner with readings from Sukey Forbes and Alec Forbes Emerson (descendants of the great American poet and Transcendentalist) and a silent auction that garnered nearly $100,000 to support the Trustees.

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Attendees received a Bien Fait tote with each purchase, and a percentage of all proceeds benefited Dress for Success Boston, a nonprofit that helps women find employment.

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taste this Issue: Harvest Fare Coq au vin, a traditional French comfort food, prepared with a modern twist by Daniel Boulud.

four-star power AcclAimed French cheF Daniel BouluD opens the newest outpost oF BAr Boulud At the mAndArin orientAl. by scott kearnan photography by dominic perri Tables are set. Wine glasses filled. The kitchen fired up. Only one thing is missing at Bar Boulud, Boston, which opened in September at the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

“I wish I could invite Julia for dinner. She was a wonderful lady,” says star chef Daniel Boulud. He refers, of course, to Cambridge’s late Julia Child, who, among her many accomplishments, penned the classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Long before his daughter was a student at Tufts University, Boulud received an introduction to Boston by visiting, dining with, and cooking alongside Child. She, born in California, introduced America to fine French cuisine. He, born in Lyon, built his

culinary empire by refracting French cuisine through an American lens.

Now he becomes the rare globally recognized chef to bring his cooking to Boston. The Hub’s Bar Boulud is only the third location of his accessibly upscale urban bistro, and the second, following London, developed in partnership with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

As with all of Boulud’s cuisine—and reflecting the approach that catapulted the chef to fame—the menu is a marriage of French technique and American inspiration. “We think French but act American,” says Boulud of his team. “Because the liberty and creativity in cooking—for me, that comes from cooking in America.” Bar Boulud’s relaxed Continued on pAge 88

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taste Raising the BaR Bar Boulud unveils Boston’s first dedicated charcuterie counter.

clockwise from top left: Chef

Daniel Boulud and Bar Boulud’s chef de cuisine, Aaron Chambers; lobster aioli; the Cranberry Royale cocktail.

ambience means you may find anything from a high-end spin on the hamburger to a decadent poached local lobster with handmade garlic aioli. There are also more straightforward examples of soulful French cooking, such as coq au vin, a red wine– braised chicken with bacon lardons, pearl onions, carrots, and mushrooms. And served at a sparkling marble counter is Bar Boulud’s signature charcuterie, a selection of terrines, pâtés, and more from famed Parisian charcutier Gilles Vérot.

Boston’s Bar Boulud has been designed to feel more accessible to nonguests than the hotel’s former restaurant, Asana, says Alain Negueloua, the Mandarin’s general manager; there are even plans for patio dining on Boylston Street. Today the 200-seat interior’s main dining room sits beneath a dramatic

vaulted ceiling, designed to evoke the curvature of a wooden wine barrel. The glowing, zinc-top bar boasts cocktails like the Cranberry Royale, a Champagne-vodka elixir with a billiard ball–size “ice orb” of cranberry compote, as well as French wines from bottles as big as 18-liter melchiors. “They take two servers to pour,” Negueloua says with a smile.

“It brings the dining room a wonderful bit of theater.”

It should, given the marquee name attached.

Boulud is the rare chef whose renown and brand expansion haven’t obscured his original culinary gifts, which first became widely known at Daniel, his Michelin three-star flagship in New York City. But in Boston he knows better than to rest on his reputation, as the city is disinclined to knee-jerk fawning. Just ask

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“boston is a smaller community of chefs with great fraternity.”

—daniel boulud

the last global chef to make a go here, Jean-Georges Vongerichten. His Market, at the W Hotel, opened amid great anticipation and earned gracious reviews, but closed in December after four surprisingly short years.

Along with Boulud himself, Bar Boulud’s driving force is chef de cuisine Aaron Chambers. The 33-year-old wunderkind rose through the ranks of esteemed restaurants in the UK, Dubai, and Washington, DC, before landing with Chef Daniel in New York for five years, most recently as executive chef at Boulud Sud. Last year Chambers moved to the Hub

with his wife, a Swampscott native, to ready the restaurant and immerse himself in the tight-knit Boston community.

“Daniel pushes us to be the best ambassadors we can be,” says Chambers. “He’s the superstar but believes that people need to know me. He wants us to be approachable, walk the dining room, know the regulars, and be the face.”

Boulud himself says humbly, “I don’t know if Boston needs Daniel Boulud.

But it feels good to bring it a restaurant that is not just for the hotel, but for the city.” 776 Boylston St., 617-535-8800; mandarinoriental.com/boston/ fine-dining/bar-boulud BC

You may want to start planning your visit now. Timing is key at the recently opened Bar Boulud charcuterie bar, where only seven lucky guests can score the coveted seats at the marble-topped counter. Diners can choose from a selection of exotic terrines, pâtés, hams, and sausages that have been carefully chosen by Parisian charcutier Gilles Vérot, who worked on similar menus at Bar Boulud in New York and London. Terrines et pâtés maison include the tagine d’agneau, a lamb terrine with Moroccan spices, and the decadent pâté en croute, which marries duck foie gras with black mission fg. Diners can also indulge in the melt-in-your-mouth jamôn ibérico fermin from the Saucisson et Jambon menu. Each charcuterie tray comes with mushrooms à la grecque, coriander carrots, horseradish beets, celeryapple rémoulade, coarse grain mustard, and, our favorite, cornichons.

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taste Fresh Faces

Chefs on fire A new crop of hungry chefs lights up Boston’s kitchens. by annie copps

More than a few celebrity chefs in this town have climbed to the top of the culinary ladder—people we need mention only by first name, like Barbara, Ken, and Ming. But who are the next hot young turks simmering away in the city, waiting to come to a full rolling boil? Here are their names, where you can find them, and what separates them from the pack.

Fish Tale Francisco Millan is making waves as chef de cuisine at the oceancentric hot spot Row 34, part of chef-owner Jeremy Sewall’s culinary dynasty.

Millan’s résumé includes time in the kitchens of Jamie Bissonette at Toro and Gabriel Frasca at Straight Wharf. At Row 34, his specialties are the delicate arts of smoking and curing seafood, such as fluke crudo. “I am very much about letting the ingredients speak for themselves,” Millan says.

This means thinly sliced fish with a light wash of acidity, pickled peppers, a delicate pinch of dried Aleppo pepper—and not a hint of a chef’s ego.

“Fran definitely has all the tools to be a big deal,” Sewall attests. “He has a great palate, and his cooking sensibilities are rooted in excellent technique.”

383 Congress St., 617-553-5900; row34.com

clockwise from top:

Francisco Millan’s whole roasted trout with broccoli rabe and corn salsa at Row 34; Stephanie Cmar’s Stacked Donuts; Stacy Cogswell of The Regal Beagle.

Stacy Cogswell of The Regal Beagle in Brookline was the only hometown toque chosen for the Boston filming of Bravo’s Top Chef, airing October 15.

While that alone won’t make her a star, there’s plenty of proof to be found. She trained at Johnson & Wales and worked in the kitchen of Jean-Georges Vongerichten at Market in Mexico, before coming to Boston and joining chef Susan Regis at the local favorite UpStairs on the Square, where, Cogswell says, “I learned a different perspective on how to love and respect food.” The Regal Beagle is known for comfort food, but Cogswell puts a thoughtful chef’s mark on mac and cheese via braised short ribs. Look for pumpkin and bacon bisque and spicy pepitas on her fall menu. 308 Harvard St., Brookline, 617-739-5151; thebeaglebrookline.com

Where She Stops, Nobody Knows We have our eye on chef Stephanie Cmar and her pop-up sensation Stacked Donuts. Although she has proven herself as a chef at Stir and No. 9 Park, Cmar also distinguished herself by keeping her cool during a tough gig on Top Chef. She has shown that innovative cooking doesn’t have to be a fancypants nine-course tasting menu; sometimes it’s fried dough, albeit in completely unexpected iterations like Thai basil and lemonade. While a permanent restaurant is in the works, she uses social media to keep her many fans abreast of where and when she’ll turn up next. “We’re blessed,” she says. “For now, friends are extending their kitchen space.” Follow Cmar on Twitter at @stephaniecmar BC

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ONE OF BOSTON’S HOTTEST CHEFS SHARES HIS SECRETS. BY MEGAN SMITH Don’t worry if you can’t snag a reservation at the hot spots Row 34, Island Creek Oysters, or Eastern Standard. Their chef and co-owner, Jeremy Sewall, is bringing his magic touch to your kitchen this October with his first cookbook, The New England Kitchen: Fresh Takes on Seasonal Recipes (Rizzoli, $39.95), celebrating contemporary New England cooking with 100 recipes, divided by season. Among our favorites are the rich corn, bacon, and crab chowder and the light sugar pumpkin salad. Sewall loves cooking with shellfish in the fall “because they’ve had all summer to plump up and they’re really at their prime.” Now, if we could only get our hands on the recipe for Row 34’s bucatini and clams. Row 34, 383 Congress St., 617-553-5900; row34.com

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HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES?

Pull out your tweeds and rubber boots for applepicking season. The family-owned Russell Orchards (russellorchards.com) offers cups of steaming-hot apple cider, hayrides, and a petting zoo—and be sure to try the cider doughnuts. Nashoba Valley Winery (nashobawinery.com) boasts an orchard where you can pick McIntosh, Gala, Zestar, and other apples before or after a weekend winery tour.

Honey Pot Hill Orchards (honeypothill.com) also has hayrides and North America’s largest hedge maze.

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Chef Ming Tsai and Jeffrey Gates are key supporters of Hearth Shares.

HAVE A HEARTH

Try a spoonful of philanthropy for dessert. Hearth Shares lets diners add $1 or more to their restaurant bill to combat homelessness in Boston. Through November and December, Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar, Gaslight Brasserie, and many other restaurants will participate.

Celebrate all things liquid at this four-day forum.

appreciate the art of an excellent drink. Highlights include the kickoff gala at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, The Thing—a swanky, black tie–optional soirée at the Harvard Club—and the Portland-Providence Pop-Up, with bartenders from those cities coming

to Boston to show off their talent with the cocktail shaker. Stick around on Monday for the Bartender Brunch, when attendees and mixologists will gather together for one last hurrah.

Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 St. James Ave., 617-267-5300; thirstboston.com

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Keeping It Fresh

The unofficial queen of culinary television, Ina Garten—who hosts Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network and has written nine cookbooks— will be in Boston on November 5 for an intimate talk. Garten will answer questions from the audience and discuss filming her TV show, her life in the Hamptons, and her new cookbook, Make It Ahead (Clarkson Potter, $35). In the book, Garten details easy-toprepare weeknight meals, such as wild mushroom and farro soup (perfect for leftovers) and French pot pie with artichokes.

Guests will be eager to get home to their own kitchens and try out Garten’s gourmet recipes.

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Bar Boulud’s 8th & Orchard (pictured)—a twist on the Ward 8, the century-old cocktail created at Boston’s late fne-dining institution Locke-Ober— replaces bourbon with whiskey and lemon sour with apple cider. The result is a savory, sophisticated drink that’s perfect for fall.

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The Big Apple with new twists on classic concoctions, Bostonians can enjoy another kind of apple-picking this fall. by brandy rand There are few things more American than the apple, a fruit made famous by New England’s own legendary pioneer Johnny Appleseed (née John Chapman, born in 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts). Way back in his day, the humble apple was often employed as a base for alcoholic beverages, and that use is enjoying a resurgence here in Boston, with three particularly savory choices.

(An apple a day, indeed.)

In the Colonial era, the region’s abundant apples were often turned into hard cider, a fermented juice that at times was safer to drink than water. These days, thankfully, our water is government-certified good to go, but cider certainly remains a spirited way to make the most of an apple crop. Here in New England, a couple of Bates College seniors with a passion for preserving local apple

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orchards founded Downeast Cider House (200 Terminal St., 207-200-7332; downeastcider.com), a company hyperfocused on using only natural ingredients and fresh-pressed apple juice. You can stop by the cidery every Saturday from 1 pm to 7 pm for a tour and taste—and don’t forget to bring home a growler of cider to share with friends.

Applejack—a brandy distilled from hard cider—was also a product of Colonial apple cultivation and is considered America’s oldest native distilled beverage. A Revolutionary War soldier named Robert Laird, who served under George Washington, supplied the troops with his family’s applejack.

The tipple proved so popular that Washington requested the recipe, and by the 1760s he was producing “cyder spirits” himself. The Laird family, however, holds the distinction of establishing America’s first commercial distillery in 1780.

More than 200 years later, the company’s modern recipe blends 35 percent apple brandy (aged four to six years) with 65 percent neutral grain spirits. A single 750-milliliter bottle of Laird’s Blended Applejack contains six pounds of apples. Perhaps the most well-known classic cocktail using applejack is the Jack Rose, a tart-sweet mix of applejack, lemon juice, and (preferably house-made) grenadine. Try one at The Blue Room (One Kendall Sq., Cambridge, 617494-9034; theblueroom.net).

Applejack’s French cousin is calvados, an apple brandy from lower Normandy. The fruit is usually picked by hand, pressed into a juice that’s fermented into a dry cider, then distilled and aged for at least two years in oak casks. As with whiskeys, the longer it’s aged, the smoother and more complex it tastes. Renowned producer Christian Drouin makes a white apple brandy, Blanche de Normandie, which can be sipped as an aperitif or used in cocktails, like the cherry sidecar at Brasserie Jo (120 Huntington Ave., 617-425-3240; brasseriejoboston.com). Or settle into your favorite armchair and enjoy the sublimely sippable 15-year-old Couer de Lion Pays d’Auge Hors d’Age, available at Gordon’s Fine Wine & Liquors (894 Main St., Waltham, 781-893-1900; gordonswine.com). BC

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Shake the ingredients together and garnish with the fan of apple slices.

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taste On the town clockwise from left: Melissa Lynch and Dr. Peter Greenspan take a break from planning the Storybook Ball to enjoy dinner at Scampo, including savory charcoaled duck with celery root.

Of Fairy Tales and Fundraising

Storybook ball cochair Melissa lynch and MaSSachuSettS General hoSpital’S Dr. Peter GreensPan diScuSS boSton’S MoSt SucceSSful fundraiSer over dinner at ScaMpo.

Dr. Peter Greenspan: [Studying the menu] This is a tough choice. I’m going to order the tomato salad and the duck.

Melissa Lynch: I don’t think there’s a better Burrata in town. I will do the Burrata and the sea bass. And I love this outside space—it’s really pretty. I can’t believe how much Scampo has transformed. Peter, I was curious: From your

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perspective, what are Massachusetts General Hospital’s priorities for community and global health, or do you look at them as one?

PG: I think there is a difference. Generally when we talk about community health, we’re talking about the communities we serve, and we have three major health centers, in Chelsea, Revere, and Charlestown. Finding ways to help those communities is a high priority for us, particularly in the area of obesity, which is a huge problem everywhere.

ML: When we went to Chelsea, we could see a variety of challenges that those demographics are facing, and I think part of [the solution] is education and exposure to quality food. It’s an incredible focus, and the funds that come out of Storybook Ball are really making a difference. I got involved because I feel like it’s important to take a leadership role to bring awareness about this wonderful cause.

The waiter serves tomato salad with vitello tonnato and Burrata with peach from the mozzarella bar.

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A Storybook MeAl What:

A relaxed post-work dinner with cochair Melissa Lynch and Dr. Peter Greenspan.

When:

A cool evening in the dining room overlooking the terrace.

Where:

Scampo at the Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., 617-5362100; scampoboston.com

photography by bryce Vickmark

In a few short weeks, Melissa Lynch and Dr. Peter Greenspan will share the dance floor at the Storybook Ball at the Castle at the Park Plaza Hotel. It is one of the city’s swankiest affairs, with décor by Rafanelli Events and four-star meals from Max Ultimate Food. It also raises more money than almost any other fundraiser in Boston—$1,677,570 last year, with a goal of $1.8 million this year, earmarked for fighting childhood obesity. But long before the dancing starts, Lynch, a cochair of the ball, and Greenspan are hard at work lining their ducks in a row. Until then, they can enjoy duck—charcoaled duck with celery root sformato, to be exact—at the restaurant Scampo in the Liberty Hotel, right next to Mass General Hospital.

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A Fresca cocktail (made with rosemary-infused grapefruit vodka and elderflower) complements the meal. below: Lynch and Greenspan discuss Mass General’s programs to promote healthy eating.

PG: These tomatoes look amazing.

ML: Their salads are fresh and delicious.... It’s interesting to look at both global and community health, because global health is everywhere and MGH shows a lot of exposure.

PG: Financing and developing the right interventions, like child life programs, are important.

Storybook Ball has evolved over the years in an incredibly nice way to a place where, yes, it’s a great party, but now we have so many people who care about Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. I also feel like the focus by the cochairs over the last three or four years has been really extraordinary.

ML: I think it’s really important to focus on the fact that this is a community event. This year’s theme, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” is going to be wonderful, and to tie it back to some of the focus is all incredibly good…. We’re raising awareness and funds, but what are other things that people can do to move this initiative forward?

PG: Getting involved in a particular program in an ongoing way is important. We have an

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advisory board, and we also have a family advisory council, which is much more involved in education for parents and residents.

ML: I like the shift that’s happening: It’s not just people raising money for a party, but they’re actually involved in the cause. the waiter serves charcoaled chilean sea bass with roasted parsnips and puff pastry of parsleyed escargot, and charcoaled duck with celery root sformato, red beet, and fresh cherry gastrique.

ML: Wow, that looks delicious. Look at that sea bass.

PG: This is pretty spectacular.

ML: It is a beautiful presentation. I’m going to share some of this with you. This is what you should do every Friday at 5 pm. Do you love fish?

PG: I do. I’m also a sucker for these puff pastries.

I actually bake in my spare time.

ML: What do you bake?

PG: Desserts. I make a really good chocolate mousse cake. the waiter presents the dessert menu.

ML: I don’t think there’s a morsel left on my

plate. Do you have room for dessert?

PG: Yes, I do.

ML: The numerous times I’ve been here I’ve had the cookies and milk, but you choose.

PG: I’ll have the Chocolate Divinity.... So I guess I would say there are a few general categories.

One is to fund nonreimbursable projects, like some of the nutrition work in the community where you need to have a health coach. The second area is research.

ML: I think it’s important that we focus on community and global health and what are the priorities, and some of those will be told through the patient stories. the waiter serves chocolate divinity, with dark chocolate crémeux, toasted butterscotch marshmallow, and cocoa nib ice cream with cookies and milk.

PG: Oh, these are like s’mores.

ML: This was delicious.

PG: We surrender, we surrender. storybook ball takes place on october 18 at 6 pm. the castle at Park Plaza hotel, 64 arlington st., 617-724-3637; storybookballboston.org. BC

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“Part of the solution is education and exPosure to quality food. the funds that come out of storybook ball are really making a difference.” —melissa lynch

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Harry Connick Jr. improvises a creative life in Hollywood, in the recording studio, and on a new season of American Idol… and finds tranquility on the beaches of Cape Cod. by larry getlen

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f you found yourself sipping a cocktail in the New Orleans club Maison Bourbon on a lazy Saturday afternoon in the early ’70s, you might have cast your eyes on a 6-year-old lad, with a shock of chestnut hair, playing—no, jamming—on the piano. You would have seen this child amaze the crowd, grizzled music veterans and slinky waitresses alike, with complex harmonies and chord arrangements erupting in some sort of freaky, fabulous reincarnation of legendary jazz cat Thelonious Monk.

But it was just Harry being Harry. The young prodigy showing off his stuff in its larval stage would go on to become Harry Connick Jr.—pianist, bandleader, crooner, actor, and poster child for the jazz-saturated intelligentsia of his stomping ground, New Orleans. He has won three Grammy Awards and two Emmys, has been nominated for Tony Awards as both a composer and an actor, and, following a stagnant season marked by bitterness and backbiting, returned the joy to American Idol when he joined the show as a judge last season. Not only can Connick play, he can play well with others.

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Especially with his family. Cape Cod—where he’s had a home with wife and former Victoria’s Secret supermodel Jill Goodacre and their three daughters for more than a decade now—is his sanctuary. It is the place where he stops being a celebrity and becomes simply Harry the dad. “Family comes first,” Connick says. “If you look at American Idol, last year it was two days a week. That’s not that much. I fly out on a Tuesday, and I’d be home Thursday night.”

Connick got his first taste of New England at 16, when he spent a summer studying classical piano at Tanglewood in the Berkshires. “It was an amazing place,” he recalls, “the best place I knew of, and still know of, in terms of summer programs for young musicians trying to improve their craft.” Summers on the Cape, though, are filled with “nothing in particular,” he says. “We do everything from going to the movies, to going to the beach, to going to dinner, to staying home and watching TV.” Here he re-embraces the New Orleans–style “’s’all good” chillin’ that is his birthright. “We do all kinds of stuff. It doesn’t really matter.”

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“i remember having a piano in the house,

walking up to it, plunking the keys, and hearing notes and tones....

Harmonies would come, and I just found that so fascinating.”

—HARRY CONNICK JR. It’s about time Connick relaxed. He paid his dues early on, practicing feverishly to perfect his craft since the age of 3. “I remember having a piano in the house, walking up to it, plunking the keys down, and hearing notes and tones. I was fascinated by that,” Connick recalls. “I would play one note, I’d hear something, then I’d play two or three at the same time. Harmonies would come, and I just found that so fascinating.”

His parents were lawyers—Harry Connick Sr. spent 30 years as the district attorney of New Orleans— who owned a record store before Connick was born and often brought him and his sister, Suzanna, to see local musicians at clubs that opened before noon.

Connick, who still retains his New Orleans drawl, became completely immersed in music, meeting superstars like Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra at his father’s fundraisers. At 14, he began studying with Ellis Marsalis, patriarch of the Marsalis clan of jazz royalty. “Ellis and my dad knew each other from way back,” Connick says. “I studied with him every day, all throughout high school. He was the best teacher I ever had, for sure.” Marsalis, he explains, was tough and demanding, subjecting his students to intricate levels of analysis and critique and never letting them get away with half an effort: “When you’re up against that kind of scrutiny, you can’t get away with anything. There was never ‘Oh, you’re such a cute, talented little kid.’ There was none of that. If you did wrong, ‘Go practice it. That was subpar.’ And you did.”

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hat discipline is clearly evident on Idol. Connick served as a mentor to the contestants on Seasons 9 and 12 of the hit show, then joined as a judge last year. Following a season regarded as uninspired, his humor and critical intelligence brought a new energy to the star-making machine. “He was the only mentor who really took the time and spent days with us rather than a few brief minutes,” says Crystal Bowersox, Season 9’s runner-up, who recently performed at Worcester’s Mechanics Hall. When she sang Frank Sinatra’s “Summer Wind,” she says, Connick taught her how to make the song more enthralling by holding the note on the vowel in the word “wind” instead of on a consonant. “He said it was bringing the emotion out far more than what I had been doing, and he was totally right. He’s really a musical genius.”

This sort of specificity is important, Connick says, because most of the show’s contestants didn’t have the advantage of intense early training like he did. When asked about the nature of today’s musical aspirants, Connick answers without pause: “A lot of talent, no education. I see it with almost everybody that comes to audition. Most of them have no idea what they’re doing. If I can bring anything to Idol, hopefully it will be an awareness that education and craft are only going to enhance your musical experience and you as a person.”

Connick knows firsthand where a thorough musical education can lead. He moved to New York at 18, played clubs around town, and was soon signed to Columbia Records. But his real big break came from director Rob Reiner, who asked him to write music for the film When Harry Met Sally, an opportunity that boosted Connick from opening act to headliner and fueled his path to stardom.

At around the same time, the casting director for the 1990 film Memphis Belle caught Connick playing in Los Angeles and cast him as an Air Force sergeant. “I got an inside look at making movies and whether that was something I wanted to do—and it was,” he says. Since then, he has acted in more than 20 films, including the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, and earned acclaim playing Grace’s husband Leo on the NBC hit Will & Grace. He has also demonstrated a command of stage acting, earning a Tony nomination for best actor in a musical for his role in the 2006 Broadway revival of The Pajama Game.

Connick says the satisfaction he takes from music and acting comes from the ways in which they mine similar creative impulses: “The specifics are different, but the source is the same. [It comes from] going places that may be uncomfortable, or exciting, or mysterious, or intimidating. It comes down to how you interpret it, especially with other people. That’s where the fun begins, because you’re able to travel places in your mind that can be very exciting, or embarrassing, or humiliating, or empowering. They’re heightened experiences that are very intense.”

From Maison Bourbon to the American Idol stage, Connick’s talent has served him well. Mix that with his zest for novel experiences and we can look forward to seeing even more sides to this versatile artist. Except, of course, when he’s indulging in his bliss: doing “nothing in particular” with his family on the Cape. BC

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Leader of THE PACK A new VAnguArd of boston LeAders tAkes ChArge with PAtienCe, ComPAssion, And Power.

BY MICHAEL BLANDING PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL BENJAMIN

Good leadership is an inexact science. Some bosses excel because they’re drill-sergeant tough, others because they’re the trusted confidant who’s got your back. Some are visible every day while others are mysterious. Whatever their style, if they’re inspiring their team to get the job done in first-class form, they’ve got the leadership gene. We pounded the pavement to find an array of Boston’s new leaders—public servants, composers, explorers—each at the top of his game.

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SCOTT JONES

Scott Jones remembers when his love affair with science came to an end. Four years into a biochemistry PhD program at Harvard Medical School, he was experimenting with proteins that can stop cancer, when he suddenly felt empty. “I didn’t agree with how we were studying it or why,” he says. “It felt so self-indulgent, like it was more about getting money to keep your lab going.” So he dropped it all to follow a childhood love: cooking.

At age 26, Jones had never worked in a restaurant before applying for a job in Barbara Lynch Gruppo’s kitchen at No. 9 Park, but after some initial hazing, he rose through the ranks to chef de cuisine within four years. This spring, he received an even greater honor when he was named head chef at Menton, Lynch’s fine-dining restaurant known for its epic tasting menu—and the only Relais & Châteaux restaurant in the city.

In his six months at the helm, Jones has begun to revamp the menu, which combines French cooking techniques with Italian playfulness and experimentation—or, as he puts it, “a French brain and an Italian heart.”

But Jones is known as much for his leadership in the kitchen and his ability to inspire a passionate and loyal team as he is for his food.

Leadership is… “Faith. I am trying to create a cult of people who will work for long hours, for little pay, in dangerous conditions, and love every minute of it.”

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R. Malcolm Graham knows the importance of teamwork. In 1968 and 1969, he played for two magical seasons on one of the greatest teams in history: the back-to-back-championshipwinning Boston Celtics. “I had the privilege of being around some really competitive, focused, dedicated leaders—Bill Russell, Sam Jones, John Havlicek—who taught me that the best contributions in life we make together.”

After an illness stopped his basketball career short, Graham worked as a Celtics talent scout before studying for his law degree.

In 1982, he received an appointment as a trial judge, becoming one of just a handful of African Americans on the bench. In 2004, he rose to the Appeals Court, and over the years he has presided over the trials of some notorious figures, including Wakefield massacre gunman Michael McDermott and master con man Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (aka Clark Rockefeller). In addition, Graham has brought the rule of law to other countries by helping to establish the Massachusetts Judges Conference’s International Judicial, and as former president of the Massachusetts Black Judges Association, he has helped our system become fairer by advocating for more judges, clerks, and probation officers of color. “The only way [the court] survives as an institution is if people have confidence in it,” Graham says.

“And that only happens if people get a sense that there is fairness in it.”

Leadership is… “Selflessness.

You [need it] to accomplish some greater goal for society that goes beyond whatever aspirations you have for yourself.”

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It takes just a few minutes of talking with Andy Levine to realize you’ve been traveling— and probably living—all wrong.

“You bicycle through these small villages and you’re learning about wine and culture and art and smelling flowers and clean air and eating amazing food,” he says, describing life as founder and president of DuVine Cycling + Adventure Co., the world’s premier cycling tour operator.

“Who wants to ride in a car or bus?” Who indeed? Levine’s business has grown from a dream hatched on a cycling trip in France 20 years ago into a company with more than $7 million in sales last year. “I was like, man, if you build this, they will come—and then I knew when they came, I would do whatever I could to just blow them away.” The awe-inspiring landscapes of Burgundy or the Italian Piedmont do half the work; the other half is the level of service the company provides, from anticipating when someone needs a cappuccino to setting up a roadside feast on a white tablecloth at the moment a customer’s legs are about to give out. “People don’t understand what luxury is,” Levine says.

“Luxury is about support, and we so seldom get that in our lives.”

Leadership is… “Being brave, being focused, loving the details, being fair, being honest, being strong, understanding your weakness, knowing when to hold them and knowing when to run.”

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MUSIC DIRECTOR, RHYTHM OF THE UNIVERSE

SIMONE SCAZZOCCHIO

How many international musicians does it take to write one song? That may sound like the setup for a bad joke, but it was an honest question posed to Italian conductor and composer Simone Scazzocchio four years ago by Turkish musician Emir Cerman at Berklee College of Music.

Together they set about making it happen, eventually gathering 90 musicians to collaborate on a composition they premiered at Boston Symphony Hall in 2011.

“They came together with the lyrics of the same song and added their individual interpretation from their different backgrounds,” says Scazzocchio. Since then, he’s kept up the collaboration as the music director of Rhythm of the Universe, a loose band of multicultural performers who come together for public and private performances that might feature, say, a Brazilian percussionist, a Mongolian singer, and an Australian didgeridoo virtuoso—often with spectacular results. Scazzocchio is no stranger to musical experimentation.

Trained in classical piano as a child, he later toured Europe as the keyboardist in an Italian metal band. Now he works as a conductor and composer, often forging connections between different cultures in a city not always known for its multicultural openness. “I love entering into someone’s mind and saying, How do you feel music? What is beautiful to you? And then asking, How can I shape this music to reach others?”

Leadership is… “Collaboration.

You can wave your arms as much as you want, but they are the ones making the music, and in a way I am working for them.”

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, YOUTH DESIGN

TONY RICHARDS II

When Tony Richards II was a kid growing up in Dorchester, his grandfather impressed on him the importance of giving back to the community. “He was always dragging me out to food pantries and campaigning on behalf of representatives when it wasn’t fun,” he says. His father, an ironworker and union activist, founded the oldest and largest youth basketball league in Boston, called No Books, No Ball. Richards initially explored a different path, attending college in Atlanta to study media communications and then working in marketing and corporate communications. But something kept pulling him back to the old neighborhood. “I felt unfulfilled, like there was a chunk of me missing,” he says. “I came back to Boston and dove in.” Now a self-described “community service junkie,” Richards has since started programs to spur youth employment and civic engagement and to make micro-grants to neighborhood entrepreneurs in the tough Grove Hall section of Dorchester. His latest project, Youth Design, fosters the creative skills of talented young people and provides them with paid summer internships in fields such as architecture and industrial design. Recently his family legacy came full circle when his students painted a beam that was lifted up onto a new building— and his father, the ironworker, came to the groundbreaking.

Leadership is… “Vision. It’s important to be able to see not just the next step, but a few steps ahead—to know where you’re going and not shy away from making the tough decisions.”

Coat, Canali ($5,580). 1211 Centre St., Newton, 617-9694540; canali.com. Sweater, Burberry London ($695). 2 Newbury St., 617-236-1000; burberry.com. Dress shirt, Paul Smith London ($325). paulsmith.co.uk. Pants, Ermenegildo Zegna ($495).

Copley Place, 617-424-9300; zegna.com. Tie, Polo Ralph Lauren ($125). 93-95 Newbury St., 617-424-1124; ralph lauren.com. Pocket square, Tom Ford ($165). 1-800-TOM-FORD; tomford.com. Belt, Louis Vuitton ($500). Copley Place, 617-4376519; louisvuitton.com. Dressage Petite Seconde watch, Hermès ($8,050). 320 Boylston St., 617-482-8707; hermes.com.

Belgravia trainers, Jimmy Choo ($765). Copley Place, 617-927-9570; jimmychoo.com

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COMMISSIONER AND CHIEF, BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT

JOSEPH FINN

One of Joe Finn’s first acts as the new fire commissioner of Boston was to call for an industrialstrength washer and dryer in every firehouse. That may not seem like the kind of bold leadership the BFD needs—until you realize that cancer rates have skyrocketed in the profession and they’re tied to the hazardous chemicals used at fire scenes.

“I’ve buried too many guys over the years,” says Finn. “Cancer is really starting to take a toll on us.”

That initiative is part of a broader focus on health and safety that Finn is implementing to modernize the department and change firehouse culture. He established the position of deputy chief for health, safety, and wellness; he is hiring physicians and physical therapists to help firefighters work out core muscles and recover from injuries endemic to a high-stress profession; and he is encouraging a culture of physical fitness among younger recruits. “For every dollar we spend on health and safety, there is a sixfold return to taxpayers,” says Finn, who has run 13 marathons. The new approach is just part of the fresh air that Finn is breathing into a department criticized in the past for being lazy and hidebound by tradition. He has also appointed a new diversity officer in an effort to dramatically increase the number of minority firefighters by the next fire exam in 2016.

Leadership is… “Patience. On the fire ground, when it’s life and death, there’s no time to get buy-in. But when you are changing a culture, you need people to embrace the change, and that takes time.”

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Suede shirt jacket ($1,998) and micro dot shirt ($328), John Varvatos. Copley Place, 617-236-8650; johnvarvatos.com.

Kane jeans, J Brand ($154). Bloomingdale’s, The Mall at Chestnut Hill, Newton, 617-630-6000; bloomingdales.com.

Belt, Allen Edmonds ($98). 25 State St., 617-557-3131; allenedmonds.com

PRESIDENT AND CEO, ZOO NEW ENGLAND

JOHN LINEHAN

If you want to upset John Linehan, tell him a zoo is just a place to go and see animals. “Too many people view a zoo as a place to gawk at animals and laugh and go home,” bristles Linehan, president and CEO of Zoo New England since 2002.

“My biggest challenge is getting people to understand its role in conservation and research.”

Under his leadership, the zoo has not only dramatically improved the stewardship of the animals under his care—the gorillas now get cardiac ultrasounds, for example—but has also expanded beyond Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo to participate in breeding and environmental programs around the world.

Linehan originally dreamed of going to Africa or Alaska to work on wildlife conservation before he got a temporary job at the zoo in 1980. Nearly 34 years later, he relishes Zoo New England’s role as an entry point for urban children and their families to experience nature. This fall, Zoo New England hopes to double down on that commitment with an ambitious new $6.6 million Children’s Zoo at Franklin Park that will eschew high-tech gizmos for high-touch experiential exhibits. “People are losing their connection with nature—that hands-on, getting-dirty, climbing-up-and-crawling-under experience,” he says. “In some ways, we are an antidote to an overdigitized world.”

Leadership is… “Passion. In this business you’re making a commitment to care for an animal throughout its life. People need to see you will not sacrifice animal care or conservation when hard times come.”

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C a rt i E r ta n k MC S k E L Et On Origins: The Cartier brand is credited with creating the first modern wristwatch, based on a timepiece that Louis Cartier designed for aviator Alberto Santos Dumont at the beginning of the 20th century. About a decade later, the renowned Cartier Tank was unveiled, with a bold square case said to be inspired by tanks driven in the First World War. Evolution: One of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first square wristwatches, the Tank quickly became an icon. Regularly over the last century, Cartier has updated the collection, adding the Francaise, Americaine, and Anglaise versions, which feature rectangular and square shapes that mimic the original Tank design.

Lovers of the legend: Greta Garbo; Cary Grant; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Truman Capote; Andy Warhol; Diana, Princess of Wales; and Michelle Obama.

Details: This watch combines history and modernity in its skeletonized movement. Crafted in 18k gold, it contains the Caliber 9619 MC, which is designed in-house and features bridges ingeniously built to form Roman numerals.

Price: $56,000 Where to buy: Cartier, 40 Newbury St., 617-262-3300; cartier.com

Legends in Time

When Boston imagines a legend, Paul Revere or nathaniel Hawthorne may come to mind, but in the watch world a select group of storied swiss brands has created legends that rival those of local lore.

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Pat e k P h I l I P P e R e f. 53 96/1R a N N ua l CaleNDaR WIth Mo oN P h a s e s Reasons for renown: This year, Patek Philippe celebrates 175 years of regularly setting the standard for craftsmanship and innovation in watchmaking while remaining an independent, family-owned brand. Known as the Master of Complications, the company has created the most complicated watch in the world, raising the bar for aesthetic and technical excellence.

Iconic look: Part of the famed Calatrava series created in 1932, this watch is distinguished by its enduring appearance and uniformity in tone, thanks to the rose-gold bracelet and the warm brown dial. The moonphase complication adds another level of artistry and beauty, demonstrating Patek Philippe’s technical prowess.

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Details: Mechanical self-winding movement, 18k rose gold, brown sunburst dial, day and date indication, moon phases.

Noted wearers: Pieces in the Calatrava collection have been worn by Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president (and noted watch collector). Pablo Picasso embraced the artistry of Patek’s moon-phase designs.

Price: $76,900 Where to buy: Dorfman Jewelers, 24 Newbury St., 617-536-2022; patek.com

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Vac h e ron c on S ta n t i n t r a Di t ion n e l l e P e r P et ua l c a l e n D a r oP e n Wor k e D Brand history: Vacheron Constantin has the distinction of being the oldest Swiss watch brand continually in production. The company was founded more than 250 years ago, in 1755, and has always been committed to setting standards for excellence in its movements and craftsmanship. This pedigree alone makes the brand’s timepieces coveted collector’s items.

Skeletonization: Long a specialty of Vacheron Constantin, skeleton watches demonstrate the brand’s technical and aesthetic prowess.

Skeletonizing a watch—wherein every part of the movement (in this case, 144 pieces) is carved away until less than half of the original metal remains— requires countless hours of intricate and precise workmanship. For this timepiece, Vacheron Constantin’s artisans spent dozens of additional hours meticulously engraving and finishing each component of the Caliber 1120QP SQ. Details: 18k 5N pink gold, 39mm diameter case, automatic movement, skeletonized caliber, sapphire caseback, Geneva Seal certified, perpetual calendar functions (day of the week, month, year, leap year, and moon phases).

Boosters of the brand: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Windsor, Pope Pius IX, and Harry Truman Price: $174,900 Where to buy: Shreve, Crump & Low, 39 Newbury St., 617-267-9100; vacheron-constantin.com

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ROl e x Oy s T e R P e R P eT ua l GM T- M a s T e R I I Why it’s legendary: Founded by Hans Wilsdorf, Rolex is renowned for many firsts. In the 1920s, the brand created the first truly waterresistant watch, and later a Rolex descended to the deepest part of the oceans, the Mariana Trench—twice.

A Rolex was the first timepiece to ascend Mount Everest, on the wrist of Sir Edmund Hillary in the 1950s, and the company has achieved many other historical and technical breakthroughs as well.

Origins: The Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master was introduced in 1955 in cooperation with Pan Am, under the leadership of aviation pioneer Juan Trippe. The original timepiece was designed to help pilots who were traveling across time zones with increasing frequency as the passenger airline industry flourished.

Famous face: In the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger, Pussy Galore (played by British beauty Honor Blackman) was a daredevil pilot who wore a man’s Rolex GMT-Master, making a bold cultural statement for both women and the brand.

Turning point: Reintroduced as the GMT-Master II in 2005, the watch featured a rotating 24-hour graduated bezel to display three different time zones. The new version also included two-tone bezels made from high-tech ceramic.

Details: Stainless steel, 40mm case, rotating black and blue ceramic bezel, 24-hour hand, independently adjustable 12-hour hand, Oysterlock bracelet.

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Price: $8,950 Where to buy: Sidney Thomas Jewelers, The Shops at the Prudential Center, 617-262-0935; rolex.com For more watch features and expanded coverage, go to boston common-magazine.com/watches.

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A high-performance BMW rips around the track at Turner Motorsport, one of the meccas for speed freaks in New England.

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Sign up with the Motorsport Lab at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and feel what it’s like to whip around the track in this Ferrari.

I understand what he’s talking about as I take the corner at 43rd and Broadway and watch Times Square open up across my windshield. Cops line the streets, holding back traffic and pedestrians. They wave me through. I drop my foot on the gas and the acceleration pushes my eyeballs back into their sockets. The lights of Times Square streak across the windows. This wasn’t on my bucket list, but going 60 miles per hour through the heart of New York City in a $300,000 Ferrari was worth adding after the fact. We’re not in Cambridge anymore.

My mind starts to wander and I begin to visualize myself as part of this world, parading my wheels up and down Newbury Street like Miss Massachusetts. What makes Ferraris so exclusive is not necessarily their exorbitant price tag. You can’t just show up at a Ferrari dealership with bags full of Benjamins and pick any car off the lot. You must first develop a relationship with the company. If you’re deemed a loyal and good representative of

“ you can’t tell people how it feels to r ace; you have to show them.”

— r . j. valentine

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wo hundred fourteen miles south of Boston, 48 Ferraris are lined up outside the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan’s Battery Park in a dazzling display that stops people in their tracks. Pedestrians rush to pull out their cell phones and snap photos, as if they had just spotted a celebrity on the streets. An elderly woman flashes a thumbs-up, while a policeman tips his cap back and sighs, “Wouldya look at that.”

Indeed, these supercars are a sight to behold, prompting the sensory overload of a fashion show finale when the models strut out in rapid-fire succession, each more beautiful than the last. This is the Tributo Ferrari Rally, an exclusive gathering of exotic Ferraris and their owners, this year commemorating the 60th anniversary of Ferrari USA with an epic drive through the heart of New York City.

There are about 600 Ferrari owners in New England, and somehow I got the invite—but I don’t even own one. I’m a journalist who’s been loaned a $300,000 Ferrari along with the keys to this inner sanctum—what they affectionately call the “Ferrari family.” I want to know, who are these people anyway? Masters of the universe? Old money? Are they racers? Sunday drivers? Is there an exotic car racing clan in my hometown of Boston?

All of the above. Just ask Will Turner, who knows the lure of seductive grilles and the track better than most in Massachusetts. “Once you realize that performance driving on the street can get you in trouble, the track is logically the next step to push your car to the limits,” he says. “Once someone gets onto the track, they’re hooked. Next comes the competition involved in racing.” After driving in his first amateur race at the age of 25, Turner sped on to the professional circuit, driving highperformance BMWs in 119 road races and taking 50 checkered flags as driver or owner. Twenty years later, he owns Turner Motorsport (16 S. Hunt Road, Amesbury, 800-280-6966; turnermotorsport.com), based in Amesbury, and his BMW privateer team is one of the best in the world. “It’s the whole package that pulls amateur drivers onto the track: a combination of speed, pushing the limits, competition, exhilaration, and intensity,” Turner says.

“There is just nothing that compares to the feeling you get behind the wheel of a racecar.”

Th e C a r C a l e nd a r Fill up your black book with these hot-rod events.

Come fall, there are endless options to get your automotive fix at car shows all over New England.

Fall ClassiC show Drive down memory lane at this classic car show on the shores of Back Beach in Rockport.

In addition to Buicks, Cadillacs, and Fords, there will be raffles, games, and entertainment in a beautiful beach setting.

When: October 12 Where: Back Beach, Rockport More info: bearskinneck.net/listingsfallclassic.html

20th annual super wheels

showdown Making its 17th appearance at City Hall, the annual Super Wheels Showdown is touted as the Super Bowl of New England car shows. One

hundred vehicles are handpicked from 30,000 entrants up and down the East Coast to roll their hot wheels on the red bricks of City Hall.

When: October 4 Where: City Hall More info: cruisinnewengland.com/ wp-content/uploads/shows/SWS.pdf new england speed Meeting gathering oF the FaithFul Traditional hot rods as well as custom and vintage racecars from the ’60s and earlier rev their engines in Rochester for this 15th annual show. There will also be food, door prizes, and a car seminar to get your motor running.

When: October 18 Where: Rochester More info: 508-888-3103 or seaweed8@verizon.net

left: A procession of supercars at the Tributo Ferrari Rally. below: You

can borrow the keys to this Ferrari for the joyride of your life at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

the brand, Ferrari will allow you to buy an entrylevel model. This car must remain in your possession for at least two years in order for you to purchase the next step up. If you sell the car within two years, you’re out of the Ferrari family for life.

But you could still be a member of the Pilota Race Team (Independent Ferrari Service, 14 Bristol Dr., Unit F, South Easton, 508-238-4224; ifs ferrari.com). John Tirrell of Independent Ferrari Service manages this group of CEOs and other professionals, who hit racetracks around the country on the weekends. With the team handling all the logistics of transporting and servicing the cars, racers only have to show up at the track with their helmets and jumpsuits. While most of the gentleman racers of Team Pilota own their racecars, it is not required to join the team. And $250 buys you a spot for the year; Tirrell handles the rest.

New England has several other tracks within a reasonable drive from Boston. Three hours west of the city is Lime Rock Park (Lime Rock Park, 60 White Hollow Road, Lakeville, CT, 860-435-5000; limerock.com), a historic road course in Connecticut owned by race icon Skip Barber. After picking up

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Who drives what in Beantown.

steven leed Copresident, Royal Jewelers “This spring I purchased a car that blends classic and exotic like no other: the limited-edition 2005/2006 Ford GT. It is essentially a reissue of a famous 1960s super-racecar. I knew of the Ford GT 40 in my teens, never believing I’d one day own one. This car is rolling art.”

clockwise from top left: After 20 years as a professional racecar driver, Will Turner founded Turner Motorsport in Amesbury, where amateurs can test their mettle on the track; Lime Rock Park in Connecticut has a renowned race school and a 1.5-mile course; one of the classic Ferraris in the Tributo Ferrari Rally; R.J. Valentine made a fortune as the head of Jiffy Lube before launching his successful racing career.

racing while at Harvard in the late ’50s, Barber became a Formula One champion. He then went on to start a renowned race school with his name on it, which you can attend at Lime Rock’s 1.5-mile road course. An hour north of Boston is New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a regular host of Nascar races and the largest sports facility in New England. Sign up with The Motorsport Lab (1122 Rte. 106, Loudon, NH, 617-383-7655; motorsportlab.com) and you can whip around the speedway in a Ferrari F430 and feel the force of 503 horses in full gallop. Finally, there’s Thompson Motor Speedway (205 E. Thompson Road, Thompson, CT, 860-923-2280; thompsonspeedway.com), which recently opened a 1.7mile road course that you can drive your own car on.

To take it up a notch, Thompson’s High Performance Driving School can put anyone behind the wheel of a racecar. Going pro as a supercar driver, however, requires more than just a lesson or two. It’s a lifestyle—and an expensive one at that.

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“There are a couple ways to go about racing,” says R.J. Valentine, a legend in the New England race scene. “One of the ways is you go out there and become a racecar driver, but that costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time. So what I decided to do is make it in business first and make enough money to start my career in racing.” Since 1969, Valentine has built an empire of successful companies, including Jiffy Lube, which he sold to Pennzoil for a staggering 18 times its earnings. After the sale, he convinced Pennzoil to sponsor him as a racer. Since then, he has raced virtually every kind of car on tracks around the globe, even winning the grueling Daytona 24 in 2009, a 24-hour endurance race widely considered one of the most challenging of its kind. “That took me 26 years to do,” Valentine says. “It’s like trying to win two Super Bowls on the same Sunday.” Among his many ventures, he opened F1 Boston (290 Wood Road, Braintree, 781-848-2300; f1boston.com), a

photography by yasuyuki suzuki (turner); greg Clark/lime roCk park (lime roCk); Joshua simpson (tributo); Courtesy of ferrari spa (shoes)

billy Costa Cohost, “Matty in the Morning” on Kiss 108 “Black is beautiful,” says Billy Costa, who loves his black

Mercedes GL450 with the custom chrome package and black interior. “I like that I sit high up, and it has a lot of power and plenty of room to carry around all of my boating stuff. It is as luxurious as an SUV can get.”

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Herb CHambers Owner/CEO of the Herb Chambers Companies “My favorite car is a Ferrari Daytona Spyder in metallic beige,” says Chambers. “I first had the car 35 years ago when it was new, but it got wrecked and taken away and I never saw it again. Someone fixed it and reached out to my friend Wayne Carini of Chasing Classic Cars about selling it, and he called me. Wayne restored it to the way it should be.”

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Zooming around the track means outfitting yourself with precision attire.

FEET FIRST

HAND IT OVER

SHADES OF COOL

TIME ZONE

To put your best foot forward, you need the right driving shoes. For the fast and furious, Ferrari teamed up with Puma to create The Limitate Lo Scuderia Ferrari, a sleek black-on-white racing sneaker with Ferrari’s prancing pony insignia ($300, store.ferrari. com). Meanwhile, for the pleasure cruiser, there’s Tod’s Ferrari Gommino Collection (PICTURED), a luxurious suede loafer made in Italy with a raceinspired design and all the comfort you’ll need for long drives ($565, store.ferrari.com).

You have to hand it to Fratelli Orsini for creating a sleek pair of driving gloves with all the fine craftsmanship of an Italian sports car. Using high-end Italian lambskin, the gloves are hand-cut, hand-stitched, and truly handsome ($99, fratelliorsini.com).

Although now separate from the supercar company, Tonino Lamborghini creates sunglasses reminiscent of the eye-popping Lamborghinis that launched the brand back in the ’60s.

Lamborghini’s Competition sunglasses are the perfect set of shades for cruising with the top down and the attitude up ($700, lamborghini.it).

When Porsche Design teamed up with Grey’s Anatomy star and avid race enthusiast Patrick Dempsey to create a race-inspired watch, the result was a limitededition all-titanium timepiece that’s as sharp and sleek as a Porsche 911. Dempsey owns and drives for Dempsey Racing, and the watch has his team crest on its face. Only 50 were made, so pick one up while there’s still time ($6,250, Copley Place, 617-424-1400; porsche-design.com).

European-style go-kart racing track. “You can’t tell people how it feels to race; you have to show them,” Valentine says. With F1 Boston, he’s giving people that chance.

One such person is Kaz Grala, a 15-year-old racing prodigy who got his start driving go-karts at Valentine’s F1 Boston at the age of 4. Today he’s screaming up the ranks in Nascar, currently racing in his rookie season in the K&N Pro Series East, with six consecutive top-10 finishes and a handful of top-fives—this from a kid who can’t legally drive himself to the track. Racing is in Grala’s blood. His father, Darius, raced sports cars in the Ferrari Challenge and Grand-Am Series but never on the oval Nascar course. “If you’re born knowing how to race and how to drive, then that’s something you can teach to people no matter what kind of track they’re on,” Grala says of his dad’s influence on his racing. “It’s kind of like riding a bike: You don’t need to know the person’s street to teach them how

to ride.” Last January, Grala got the chance to test his stuff in a sports car like his dad, racing a BMW for Rum Bum Racing in the Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge. He topped out at 180 miles per hour. “I feel like racing in New England is not as common as it is in some other parts of the country, and other sports are a lot more prominent,” Grala says. “However, the racing fans in New England seem to be die-hard fans. So there might not be as many fans, but I definitely think it’s as strong in New England as it is anywhere as far as passion for the sport.”

But back to me and my adventure at the Ferrari rally. Rain was starting to fall from the heavens, splashing on the hood of my supercar. The droplets beaded up and spilled across its freshly waxed curves, dripping down the grilles, running off the wheels, and pooling on the pavement. Rain never had it so good. Neither had I. Pressing down on the pedal to accelerate, the engine roared, and I smiled. BC

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HAUTE PROPERTY Maggie Gold Seelig fell in love with the historic charm of this 1901 home, then set about making it perfect for her growing family.

Thoroughly Modern Maggie

Renovating a histoRic cambRidge home foR heR own family, a Real estate bRokeR shows what she does eveRy day foR heR clients: Realize potential. by kristine kennedy photography by andy ryan Maggie Gold Seelig and her husband were living in a Back Bay townhouse when their third son hit his toddler years. Seelig is a Boston-area real estate broker and advisor, and she recognized that her family, with all its child accouterments, now looked strikingly similar to those of many of her clients. While she counts professional athletes, doctors, and hedgefund managers among her clientele, a common buying scenario involves

a growing family looking for a highly functional home in a city full of houses that haven’t been modernized in 40 to 60 years.

When Seelig took herself on as a client, she was just as probing about her family’s habits and needs: a commitment to urban living, a contemporary aesthetic, three young boys who play loud indoor tag, a desire for no wasted space. Her house love-match was a 1901 continued on page 124

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A soft custom sofa complements the clean lines of the marble-topped kitchen island. The dining room fits in a narrow addition on the back of the house.

“THE HouSE HAdN’T BEEN TouCHEd iN 45 yEArS. NoW NoTHiNg ABouT iT iS THE SAME oTHEr THAN THE fAçAdE.” —maggie gold seelig center-hall colonial located near Harvard Square.

“There was no flow to the house,” she says, “but I saw the potential, where ceilings could be raised, where rooms could be opened up.” The couple bought it. Thus commenced a two-year renovation that was completed in the fall of 2013. “The house hadn’t been touched in 45 years,” Seelig says. “Now nothing about it is the same other than the façade.”

To execute her vision, she called in Stephen Hart of Hart Associates Architects and the builder The

Seelig’s experience as a broker helped her see the potential in her newly purchased home.

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Holland Companies. Hart helped tailor the colonial not just to Seelig’s current family, but to how the family would live 10 years hence. “We must have gone through a dozen ways to organize that first floor,” Hart recalls.

In all those iterations was a space at the back door for keys, cell phones, coats, and backpacks. “If you look at the quantity of space given over to the mudroom, it’s hefty,” he says. Installing an elevator for an aging parent and removing a quirky octagonal addition from the backyard dictated the flow and composition of the rest of the first floor.

“We tried to make the rooms multifunctional,” says interior designer Carolina Tress-Balsbaugh, who along with partner Manuel de Santaren coordinated with Hart and Seelig on the project. A combination living room/home office off the front entry is sheathed in white oak paneling and builtins for a unified appearance. The paneling’s clean details nod to the home’s history but also look contemporary. The office can be closed off; pocket doors feature hand-blown mirrored glass panes.

On the living room side, the closed doors reflect a pair of Christian Liaigre sofas. “I enjoy that sexy, curved ebonized wood,” says Seelig, who opted for comfy but stain-resistant chenille upholstery, accented with Fortuny pillows. An antique English secretary and a Murano chandelier from the Seeligs’ previous homes were mixed with an airy glass coffee table. “There’s not an excess of furniture in the room,” says Tress-Balsbaugh. “Everything is simple, easy to the eye.”

In the home office, built-in cabinets were designed with the exact depth to hold photo albums, kids’ memory boxes, and the printer. “With Maggie, it’s what’s practical, what will work, what will clean well,” says Tress-Balsbaugh. The same white oak is repeated on built-ins in the nearby family room, which is outfitted with a large A. Rudin custom sectional and an overscale, easy-wipe leather ottoman.

At the back of the house is the family’s only dining area, tucked into a narrow addition overlooking the patio. “We had to be extremely thoughtful about how we use the space,” says Seelig. De Santaren designed the custom walnut table to exactly fit the room, even angling in the table’s sides for diners’ comfort. Calligaris chairs are low-profile and can be pushed completely under the table when not in use. A row of Alison Berger for Holly Hunt pendants adorns the ceiling.

Walnut is also used in the kitchen, along with putty-colored painted cabinets. Seelig chose a golden-veined Vermont marble island top. The perimeter countertops and backsplash are offwhite Caeserstone. The snuggle spot is the custom sofa nestled up against an upholstered wall, where the boys gather to read.

For the Seeligs, their house offers modern-day functionality in a vibrant historic neighborhood.

“It’s very much figuring how to work with some traditional ideas,” says Seelig, “then tweak them so you know something new and exciting is happening here.” BC

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Man caves have evolved into elaborate hoMe spaces for gathering, entertaining, and even golf club swinging. by jessica laniewski

Media Savvy When a tech entrepreneur was itching for a private space that would mimic the feel of a rustic lodge, Thomas Catalano of Catalano Architects (115 Broad St., 617-3387447; catalanoinc.com) created a billiards room that also serves as a place for entertaining friends and business associates. Catalano cites “dark woods, use of stone, a bar, room for a card or game table” as the dominant trends for this type of high-end masculine retreat. He has also seen clients incorporate more personal touches, like vintage arcade games. “Most of the rooms include a ‘smoke eater’ so that guests can indulge in cigars, and several man caves that we’ve done have been adjacent to elaborate wine cellars with tasting rooms.”

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All Men, All the Time How about a testosterone temple?

Another trend in Y-chromosome designs is a private men-and-only-men space for entertaining. Architect Dan Reynolds (danielhreynolds.com) and Gary Rousseau of Herrick & White Architectural Woodworkers (3 Flat St., Cumberland, RI, 401-6580440; herrick-white.com) helped one client who had purchased a luxury penthouse—which could have been the perfect bachelor pad, except he wanted it filled only with bachelors.

No soft music, no candlelight, just a sleek curved walnut bar, lit from below and stocked with hard liquor—and an enormous flat-screen TV, tuned only to sports, for a guest list of 10 to 12 men. “[Man caves] are being granted a sophisticated space in the main living area of the home,” Rousseau says—or, in this case, all of it.

Having a Ball For the golf-obsessed modern man, architect Laura Brooks Meyer of Meyer & Meyer Architects (396 Commonwealth Ave., 617-266-0555; meyerandmeyerarchitects.com) can create an in-house retreat teeming with tees. One client, whose home overlooks the Dedham Country and Polo Club, was pining for a space where he could bring his game inside.

Meyer’s design revolved around a high-end golf simulator. “Since the simulator would not fit inside the home, they opted to build an ancillary entertainment structure for it,” she says. “Men are looking for a place to call their own.” An indoor golfer’s paradise sure fits that bill. BC

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Architect Dan Reynolds and woodworker Gary Rousseau created a bachelors’ paradise in a luxury penthouse apartment used only for parties. left: For another bachelor client, Rousseau employed rustic wood to create a masculine feel.

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Guys need their space. We all know that. These days, the hottest man caves for the modern male range from sophisticated multimedia entertainment rooms to in-house, who-needs-a-golf-course? sporting complexes. “Although its primary function is still as a gathering and entertainment space, the finishes are more refined while remaining masculine,” says Gary Rousseau, who custom-builds pieces for these dedicated rooms as the executive vice president of Herrick & White Architectural Woodworkers. “We’re seeing requests for dark woods, modern curves, and bold accents.”

We spoke with three interior designers and architects about the latest in macho man spaces.

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Room & BoaRd arrives in new england with a 39,000-squarefoot showroom on newbury street. by jessica laniewski “We’ve been looking for a space in Boston for seven years,” says Dave Nash, store manager of Room & Board. Well, they finally found one. The Minnesota-based design company, which prides itself on its made-inAmerica offerings, has landed in the Back Bay with an impressive five-story showroom dedicated to sleek, modern furnishings. “We have a really great concentration of customers on the East Coast,” Nash says. “Ninety percent of our pieces are sourced and produced in the United States, and so many of them—like Lyndon Furniture in Vermont and M.H. Parks Company in Winchendon, Massachusetts—are based in New England.”

Room & Board’s 10,000-plus existing customers in the Boston area

made opening in the city an easy decision for the company. The new digs are located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Newbury Street in the 106-year-old Sherman Building. After an extensive renovation, a glass structure and second-floor terrace were added to the property, in keeping with Room & Board’s crisp, clean aesthetic. And what to buy for your home this fall? Keep an eye out for the bold, minimalist pieces of the Parsons Collection by Bell Manufacturing. “Bell Manufacturing is a steel manufacturer; we asked them to make our popular Parsons dining room table, and they did it,” says Nash. “All of our pieces have great stories to them.” 375 Newbury St., 617-351-0020; roomandboard.com BC

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Del Frisco’s With its sleek mahogany bar top and panoramic views of Boston Harbor, this Liberty Wharf hot spot offers a relaxing atmosphere and a mean Manhattan cocktail.

Mixed with Maker’s Mark bourbon, Dolin Rouge sweet vermouth, and bitters, then topped with a maraschino cherry, Del Frisco’s version of the classic is the perfect accompaniment to the steakhouse’s famous filet mignon.

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Drink Don’t be deterred by its trendy Fort Point neighborhood. The mixologists at Barbara Lynch Gruppo’s Drink can make traditional cocktails with the best of Boston’s bartenders. The old fashioned is a popular concoction among men looking to unwind at this expansive bar in an industrial-chic subterranean space.

348 Congress St., 617-6951806; drinkfortpoint.com

The Gallows The Bangkok Block—a potent spin on the Manhattan—is spiked with bourbon and vermouth and blended with Thai-spiced brown sugar syrup. General manager Seth Yaffe based the drink on the exotic taste of massaman curry and finds his male customers at the South End saloon gravitating toward its tangy, multilayered flavor.

With its Corinthian columns, crisp table linens, and white-jacketed waitstaff, the setting at Grill 23 & Bar has old-world appeal while offering a cocktail menu that caters to the modern man.

Shaken with Grey Goose vodka, house-made vermouth, and a splash of Sriracha, the Hot and Dirty is a zesty yet refreshing drink that provides a swift kick when you reach the habañero-stuffed olive at the bottom of your glass.

161 Berkeley St., 617-5422255; grill23.com

Smith & Wollensky The Double Down, a thirst quencher that combines the citrusy taste of Cointreau Noir liqueur with the bittersweet essence of Mount Gay Black Barrel rum, is a guy’s go-to drink at this Atlantic Wharf institution. While the menu has an array of craft cocktails, beverage director Timothy Speziale says male customers generally stick to classics like the Double Down, best enjoyed on a crisp fall night while catching a football game on the flat-screen TVs outside.

294 Congress St., 617-7782200; smithandwollensky.com

Wink & Nod Designed with Prohibition in mind, this glitzy South End speakeasy has swinging chandeliers and a selection of Scotch that would make F. Scott Fitzgerald blush. Make like Jay Gatsby and sip the Halle—a Caribbean-flavored libation with Scapa Scotch, lemon juice, sweet and dry vermouths, and Falernum.

3 Appleton St., 617-4820117; winkandnod.com BC

Boys CluB Wink & Nod’s Michael Boughton announces the speakeasy’s new Scotch Club.

Why did Wink & Nod start the Scotch Club?

There are thousands of Scotches out there that you can’t fnd in the Boston area. The Scotch Club is an educational experience but still fun, and it’s a chance for us to share those hard-to-fnd bottles with our guests.

What’s your favorite Scotch-based cocktail?

The Monkey Shoulder.

It’s Scotch mixed with rosemary simple syrup and fresh grapefruit juice, topped with orange marmalade and egg white foam. It’s a lighter take on Scotch, which is something you don’t see often.

Do you think the surge in Scotch’s popularity is male-driven? Scotch defnitely has a perception as a “manly” drink.

But times are changing, palates are developing, and we see a number of Scotch-loving guys come in who want to introduce the women in their lives to Scotch.

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Barre Bell Many pro athletes count on ballet training to increase their speed, flexibility, and balance, so why not step up to the barre at Boston Ballet’s adult open classes? The levels range from beginner (teaching basic arm and leg positions) to advanced (for current and former pros), with each class focused on developing your skills. Every session is taught by one of Boston Ballet’s trained professional instructors.

19 Clarendon St., 617-6956950; bostonballet.org

Basic Cooking Skills and Techniques Don’t think your grilled cheese sandwiches will get you on Top Chef? No problem.

Running weekly at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education from October 7 to November 18, this hands-on cooking class will guide you through the chapters of

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Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything: The Basics alongside like-minded home cooks, as you master recipes such as bruschetta, lamb curry, and the all-important chocolate chip cookie.

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Beers of Massachusetts Looking to learn more about local brews? Join Urban Grape’s “Beer Guy,” Ben Bouton, on November 6 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm for Local Treasures: Beers of Massachusetts, one of the Boston Center for Adult Education’s popular “Man Code” classes. Bouton will find you a new local brew (or two… or three) that you’ll enjoy, and his insider knowledge will give you a better understanding of the area beer scene.

122 Arlington St., 617-2674430; www.bcae.org

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Boston School of Guitar Channel your inner Steven Tyler and pick up a guitar and pen. The Boston School of Guitar offers classes in guitar playing as well as songwriting. Even if you never end up performing like Bruce Springsteen or Jimi Hendrix, you can at least play their hit songs. Every guy secretly wants to be a rock star, right?

33 Harvard St., Brookline Village, 617-505-1822; bostonschoolofguitar.com

Broga The ability to twist your body into a pretzel or balance on one hand isn’t a prerequisite for this yoga class. Broga, a fresh style of yoga designed specifically for men, provides an approachable (no judging allowed) one-hour sweat session for those who may not be able to touch their toes but want a physical workout and mental detox. This class is

Do you have an idea for a business but aren’t sure where to start? Whip your thoughts into a formal business plan at Harvard University’s Business Model Innovation workshop on November 3 and 4. As you learn from Harvard’s finest professors how to utilize the nine-point business-model framework, you’ll feel more confident putting your idea into action and presenting it to investors.

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The Cigar Guys Roll your own cigar with The Cigar Guys, who will come to your home or office and teach you how to make your own stogie. The 90-minute workshop also covers the proper way to cut and light cigars as well as how to maintain your humidor. thecigarguys.net

French Cultural Center You’ll need a little more than “oui” to get through your next French vacation, whether it’s in Paris or St-Tropez. Brush up on your conversational skills and refresh your knowledge of French culture by signing up for a one-day immersion program at the French Cultural Center. The class will be held November 7 and December 13 from 10 am to 5 pm.

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What makes for a well-rounded man?

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Baxter of California This brand started in 1965 with a single product. Its purpose? To soothe men’s skin worn by sun and ocean water. Since then, Baxter of California has expanded into a full line geared toward everyday use. Opt for the firm-hold clay pomade with a matte finish, the herbal

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Clinique Let’s hear it for the boys: Clinique’s coveted formulas are available for men as well as women. The American skincare giant’s line for men includes products like a face scrub that gets rid of dead skin and unwanted oil. Follow up with the lightweight Broad Spectrum SPF 21 Moisturizer, which protects the skin with an oil-free formula.

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Fresh This Boston-born brand, well-known for its effective sensitive-skin products, has

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Men may have thicker skin, but they aren’t immune to dark circles under their eyes.

With this in mind, Kiehl’s is offering its Facial Fuel “Heavy Lifting” Eye Repair, a fast-absorbing lightweight cream—formulated with rye seed extract, linseed oil, and caffeine—that eases signs of aging around the eyes. Who doesn’t need a little help for that 8 am board meeting?

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branched out into men’s shaving. Try the nongreasy shaving cream with olive oil, sal seed butter, and meadowfoam seed oil, which nourishes and softens the skin during shaving, then moisturize with the skin smoother lotion, formulated with birch juice extract for extra hydration and quince extract to prevent pesky ingrown hairs.

121 Newbury St., 617-4211212; fresh.com

Harry’s Well-groomed men, take note: Harry’s, famous for its precision razors, is launching a men’s skincare line.

The first two products: a foaming shave gel and an aftershave lotion. Made with natural ingredients, including licorice root extract, milk thistle, and marula oil, they

While some celebrity fans of La Mer infamously use jars and jars of the face cream on their bodies, sensible gents will want to stock up on green bottles of the Treatment Lotion and apply it where it belongs, softening the face and preparing it for the day.

The potion is perfect in lieu of shaving cream or between shaving and moisturizing.

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Malin+Goetz With Malin+Goetz’s unisex packaging and neutral scents, men won’t mind borrowing from the ladies. Try the Rum Body Wash, a gentle foaming cleanser, rich with amino acids, that won’t dry out your skin. And carry the understated scent of rum, leather, and amber with you all day by following up with the Dark Rum Tonic eau de toilette.

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CHARITY MINDED THE NANTUCKET BLACKBOOK and David M. Handy Events (known as #ACKpartyhosts on Twitter) held a Boats & Beats bash at CRU on June 22 to benefit the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club. Guests enjoyed Ten Cane libations and local oysters as private themed cruises from Barton & Gray Mariners Club toured the harbor. On July 7, the duo also held a Sunsets & Roofdecks cocktail party, benefiting the Nantucket Historical Association, on Tucker Roof Deck. Guests snacked on local produce and sipped Pavan Sangria.

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN SAGER (THIS PAGE). OPPOSITE PAGE: PHOTOGRAPHY BY REBECCA LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY, GRANT COWHERD, AND ELIZABETH RAFLOWITZ (SOUND OF MUSIC); BRIAN SAGER (NAUTICAN)

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Steel Pulse brought reggae to Nantucket.

Ryan Miller of Guster wowed the crowd.

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Ayla Brown entertained the crowd with her singing and her stories.

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC THE ISLAND WAS ALIVE with the sound of

music at the first Nantucket Music Festival, which took place August 2–3 at Tom Nevers Field. The festival featured chart-topping hits from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Dispatch, Guster,

Donavon Frankenreiter, Steel Pulse, Ben Taylor, and Ayla Brown. Eight local bands also joined the lineup: Chuck Colley, Coq Au Vin, Earth Got the Blues, ECliff and the Swingdogs, George Young, Harrison Roach, SoNar, and You Scream I Scream.

Dispatch headlined the festival.

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IT WAS A ROUSING EVENING on July 26 when the

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Nautican Foundation, a group of young professionals dedicated to raising awareness and funds for Nantucket Island nonprofits, held its annual Summer Soirée to honor Nantucket Community Sailing. The event took place at the NCS Boat Barn, a brand-new industrial space that was designed for storing and repairing the organization’s sailboats. The soirée attracted a young, hip mix of Nantucket locals and visitors, including tastemakers Kiel James Patrick and Sarah Vickers.

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You’ve Got Male How Boston’s next generation of pickup artists finds love at first site. by robert cocuzzo

women to go on dates with them. “From flowers to jewelry, there’s a bribe for everyone’s budget,” Wade’s website states. So what’s the best bribe going in Boston? According to the site, a tank of gas. How romantic.

Maybe I’m just a cynic, but I’d bet a dozen roses that we’re paying a deep psychological price for turning our search for love into one fat, addictive—and ultimately empty—session of Angry Birds. Professor Sherry Turkle of MIT would agree with me. In her book Alone Together, she reckons that technology shortchanges relationships, that we sacrifice rich conversation for cheap connection. Big hug to Turkle.

Dating apps have put the casual dalliance on demand. They’ve removed all the social anxiety, awkwardness, and fear of mustering up the moxie to go over and talk to someone at a bar. Was that torture?

Sure. But it was also human—live and real. No airbrushed profile pictures, no beefed-up bios. (I have friends who use dating apps like Tinder to put up numbers that porn legend Ron Jeremy couldn’t shake a stick at. But I digress.)

So what’s the answer here? Can we find online the same kind of genuine love that kept our grandparents holding hands for 60 years? Can we Google up the pet name– filled romance that our parents enjoyed? If you figure it out, please don’t text me. Call. BC

illustration by Daniel o’leary

Online dating has always struck me as tacky. Call me an old romantic, but meeting your future girlfriend on the Internet somehow seems cheaper than if you serendipitously spill beer on her at Cask’n Flagon after a Sox game. Today you don’t even need to turn on your computer to play the field. Smartphone apps like Tinder allow men to thumb through women like baseball cards. It just seems to take all the charm out of it. “How did you meet Mommy?” a child will someday ask. “Well, son, I was sitting on the toilet at work, flipping through my phone, and your mother, boy, she just caught my eye. Man, did my legs go numb!”

I’m with whoever made up the following quote and attributed it to Einstein. “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction,” said fake Einstein. “The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Online dating is just another symptom of our frantic cultural evolution.

Let’s face it: Couples in Boston aren’t meeting at church socials anymore. In this age of Uber and Peapod, is it any surprise we have a generation of tech-savvy Casanovas who can measure their power of seduction in bandwidth?

Look no further than MIT alum Brandon Wade for a shining example of technology abetting Boston’s new-age pickup artists. Wade invented Carrot Dating, a smartphone app that literally allows men to bribe

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