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Our long wait is over.
Mrs. London’s Bakery — the highly anticipated, long-delayed successor to Aux Delices, Java, Wild Pear, Chef’s Table, and a few other places I’ve probably forgotten on Church Lane, at the foot of Elm Street — is scheduled to open the moment this Roundup hits your email inbox: 10 a.m. today.
That’s according to Sal Liccione, the unofficial mayor of downtown.
The 2nd outpost of the Saratoga Springs-based shop features pastries, baguettes, croissants, grilled sandwiches, paninis, salads, quiches, soups, “decadent desserts,” espressos and teas. Ingredients are organic, locally grown and sourced.
Word from upstate New York fans is that Mrs. London’s Bakery will be worth the wait.
And let’s hope she is around much longer than some of her predecessors.
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The Staples High School Guidance Department invites seniors, their parents — and anyone else interested — to “Spark Your Future.”
The counselors, through their College & Career Center, are sponsoring a 4-part series. Alumni tell stories of how they got where they are, with all the twists and turns that make up life. The goal is for students to learn from others who were in their shoes a decade or so ago — and perhaps “spark” an idea or two for the future.
Each event includes information on the importance of soft skills too — learning from failure, networking, persistence.
The most recent session — about careers in media and entrepreneurship — featured Nicole Seo (Staples Class of 2011), who runs a recruiting business; D.J. Sixsmith ’11, senior manager, social media for CBS News; Melanie Mignucci ’12, lifestyle editor at Bustle, and Rachel Treisman ’15, digital correspondent for NPR.
Next up: Careers in Business and Computer Science. Georgia Fox ’16, Megan Root ’15 and Jake McCambley ’11 will be panelists. It’s Tuesday, April 5, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Click here to register. Everyone is welcome.
The May 3 session focuses on careers in science.
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Sustainability and fashion. What could be less of a pairing?
But the 2 concepts come together March 28 (6:30 p.m., Wakeman Town Farm).
Therese LeFever, Cynthia Davis, Carly Ridloff and Haley Lieberman will discuss the effects of fast fashion on our environment, consumers and workers.
Attendees will learn how to identify sustainable businesses, make smarter buying choices, and what it means to be a conscious consumer.
The event also spotlights local sustainable clothing businesses, including Our Woven Community, The Exchange Project, and Shop Tomorrows, to show how they make an eco-friendly impact on the fashion community.
Click here to register, and for more information.
Fashionable? Sustainable? Both?
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The Artists Collective of Westport’s pop-up shows are always fun, inspiring, and surprising. Members’ eclectic styles and subjects somehow always come together in provocative ways.
The next one is March 24-27 (2 to 6 p.m., Westport Country Playhouse barn). A reception is set for March 23 (6 to 8 p.m.), with an artists’ talk March 27 at 4 p.m.
Participating artists include Tom Berntsen, Michael Brennecke, Bevi Bullwinkel, Leonor Dao, Hernan Garcia, Katheryn Gray, Carmela Kaufman, Karen Kent, Sandra Meagher, Guy Philips, Norm Siegel and Ginny aters.
To learn more about the under-the-radar (but very cool) Artists Collective, click below.
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Speaking of art: Amy Simon Fine Art welcomes the new season with a show aptly called “(We Need) The Promise of Spring.”
Featured artists at the 123 Post Road East gallery include Liz Dexheimer, Cara Enteles and Fumiko Toda.
It opens tomorrow (March 18) and runs through April 30. When the weather, we are sure, will be as beautiful as the paintings.
“Passion Daze” (Cara Enteles, oil and silkscreen on acrylic sheet)
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Sure, and it’s St. Paddy’s Day! Celebrate with Weston’s favorite pig, Jolantha.
With the luck of the Irish — or any luck at all — you can see her on Kellogg Hill Road.
(Photo/Hans Wilhelm)
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Morning walkers, joggers, bikers, fishermen — and anyone else wandering by Schlaet’s Point — enjoy scenes like this “Westport … Naturally” one every day.
(Photo/Lauri Weiser)
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These days we are all Ukrainian.
And today, we’re all Irish.
