Life + Culture

Radical Honesty with Maria Bamford

Meet your favorite comedian's favorite comedian. Article by Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal | Photography by Bruce Smith Earlier this year, Maria Bamford’s brilliant, hilariously eccentric world was captured at the Sundance Film Festival in the documentary Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story , co-directed by Judd Apatow and Neil Berkeley (and now streaming on Netflix). But if you try bringing any of that glowing praise up to Maria herself? She’ll just shrug it off with the sweetest, most...

Food + Beverage

Snack of the Month

Sourdough from Flour Water Salt Bread Article by Madison Vitale | Photography by Flour Water Salt/Clay D. Rodriguez Madison Vitale, one of the eponymous sisters behind the food-review social media brand @sistersnacking, recently moved to Fairfield County. (A Connecticut native, she and her sisters were on the cover of our 2024 Food Issue.) She’s been tasting and trying restaurants and cafés all over the area ever since. In her column for Westport Lifestyle, Madison will be sharing a small...

Food + Beverage

A Very Foley Thanksgiving

Photography by Marika Domińczyk Foley Back in May, actor Scott Foley appeared on the TODAY show to promote his new Amazon Prime series It’s Not Like That . While chatting with anchor (and Westporter) Craig Melvin, the conversation turned, as it often does for Scott, to his annual Thanksgiving grocery runs with his wife Marika. “It just became a thing,” he told Craig of the viral holiday content. “Every Thanksgiving, we document this fantastic, terrible time that every person in the United...

Health + Wellness

For the Thrill Of It

A peek behind this Weston family’s dive into the amusement park business.   Article by Ali Schwartz Balbes If you had one superpower, what would it be? Telepathy? Invincibility? For Weston resident Rob Cannon and his family, the answer was taking flight. “Everybody loves to fly,” Rob tells Westport Lifestyle with the conviction of a man building an adventure park empire to prove it.  The Cannon family—Rob, his wife Lisa, and their daughter Caroline— has become the proprietors of a...