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Habitats: 119 East 17th Street; Living Over the Store, With a Manhattan Twist
By Tracie Rozhon |
| On the wall in the back of the new cafe is a painting of Anthony Macagnone's mother, Adelina. In the painting, Adelina Macagnone, for whom the cafe is named, is ladling out soup. "That was Mama at our old soup restaurant on Third Avenue," said Mr. Macagnone, whom a lot of people call Sal Anthony, because that's the name above his restaurants. "We had great soup; that was the problem -- that restaurant was ahead of its time." >>Read More |
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Back to Basics
by Thad Dunning |
| Basic movement," says Sal Anthony, Italian restaurateur and cofounder of Sal Anthony's Scheffel Hall Movement Salon, "is like Neapolitan cuisine—a favorite staple around which all other dishes are built." Anthony, 59, was struggling to learn gymnastics when he started taking one-on-one lessons with 29-year-old Daniel Giel. Because they did more than tumble—they studied basic principles of movement together—Anthony's tumbling prowess grew fast, and his enlightenment faster. >>Read More |
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Muscles Marinara
by Amy Larocca |
| At first blush, red-sauce Italian restaurants may not seem all that simpatico with gyrotonics -- a Pilates-like exercise in which people are strapped to complicated, old-fashioned devices that look, to the uninitiated, almost medieval. But Anthony Macagnone, the owner of New York's Sal Anthony's restaurant chain, couldn't agree less. >>Read More |
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GYROTONIC® Grace Under Pressure
By Wendy Marston |
| The machine may remind you of a medieval rack, but practitioners of gyrotonics say there's no better exercise for learning to move with elegance and agility.>>Read More |
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Do the Twist
By Jonathan Davis |
| Even though I exercise regularly on a TotalGymanother pulley tower devicethe GXS left me feelingbeneficially soreinplaces IneverknewI had muscles. I also felt I'd been stretched an inch taller. Whether you're lying on your back and pulling the pulley tower cords, or seated on the bench and rotating the exercisewheels, it's hard to use theGXS and not think about circles.>>Read More |
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Partners: Sal and Anthony. The result: SalAnthony's
By Jane Emery |
| His name is Anthony Macagnone. You may know him as SalAnthony. He doesn't mind. He answers to both. After all, his restaurant on Irving Place has been a neighborhood institution for almost 40 years.But there's more. >>Read More |
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