Raving Beauty
Getting a Botox Fix - Beyond Manhattan by Janet Flora

I'm sitting in my car outside the office of Dr. Alexander Covey in Center Moriches. I have split my time between Manhattan and Sag Harbor now since 2002, and I have never been to a doctor outside of Manhattan unless it's been an emergency. I pull down the sun visor and look in the mirror; I raise my eyebrows and see deep horizontal ridges across my forehead. I lower my eyebrows. The ridges remain. This is an emergency.
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Classic Cars
Stayin' Cool (Even if it Means Bugs in your Mouth)
by Bob Gelber

In my last article, I mentioned how sports car drivers of the past had to be very tolerant about the idiosyncrasies of their cars. Today, most of us have zero tolerance when it comes to our machines. I gave several examples, but because of space restrictions, I had to cut the article short. This week, let me expand my tolerance tale to include not just sports cars, but all types of vehicles from the past.
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Earthly Delights
Botanical Art - Now That's
Gilding the Lily
by April Gonzales

The art of botanical illustration is alive and well and on view in the small gallery that John Brancati has dedicated to prints and photography in his East Hampton bookstore, East End Books, located on The Circle. The store will exhibit prints from the recently published edition of botanical artists' renderings entitled Today's Botanical Artists by Cora Marcus and Libby Kyer at an opening on Saturday, Oct. 11 at 5:30 p.m.
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The Y-Factor
Blades of Glory
by Christian McLean

As early as 3000 BC men and women were using metal razors for shaving. Like with most inventions, the Egyptians were the first to use metal (copper) to shave. Before them, men used clam shells to pull individual hairs from their faces - a long and somewhat painful task. A thousand years later, Alexander the Great made sure to shave before going into battle, and here we are in the 21st century complaining about shaving before work.
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