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Horoscope of the month featuring Scorpio’s! Listen in as we discuss Romance, Finance and Self care with Karyn Chabot and Special Birthday guest Anastasia Maksimova Arnold ! Subscribe to www.NewportLivingAndLifestyles.com & Stay Tuned for the next Horoscope of the Month featuring Sagittarius’s to be released November 23rd #NLandL #horoscope #GiftGiveAway #alexandani
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.
I’m Christon Gibson and we are live via Facebook and Instagram today to talk about Horoscope of the Month for Scorpios.
We are here with astrologer Karyn Chabot and a special guest. Karen’s gonna tell us a little bit about what she does and then we’ll hear from Anastasia Arnold the birthday girl !
Thank you! I am Vedic Astrologer & Sidereal Astrologer , which is different from the Tropical Astrology. A lot of people here in America use Western Tropical Astrology which is great, I love it, and there’s a lot of credibility. You can gain a lot of insight through that type of astrology, but mine is Eastern and it’s Vedic Sidereal Astrology, which is 23 degrees off. So when I tell you things about when a planet is going through a certain sign, if you’re a Western astrologer, you might wonder, oh my goodness, she must be off. I’m not off, I’m just using a different type of astrology. I just wanted everyone to understand that first.
Okay
Now do you want to introduce yourself?
Yes I’m Anastasia Arnold I’m a fitness coach here on Aquidneck Island and I work with women that want to get in shape I work with junior athletes and we lift eights together and get in shape and get our health back on track!
Fantastic!
Well it’s Anastacia’s birthday today, so we wanted to have somebody live with us today that actually had a birthday in this month and it’s a Scorpio.
That experiences all the craziness that we will go through this month.
Exactly, so we’ll be asking a lot of questions today and if we don’t understand something I’m just gonna jump up and say I don’t know what that word means.
So what’s going on in the month of November?
Happy Birthday to all you Scorpios and this is a really exciting time we have the end of the Venus retrograde happening right now. We have one more week of Venus retrograde. What does that mean? It just means the planet went backwards and it can bring back past lovers and I already reviewed this in the last clip but we have one more week of past lovers, past girlfriends, past things that may have happened around money and romance. and not just money and romance, but that is sort of front and center for one more week.
SO JUST SAY NO, correct?
Oh yes! Just say no! You may want to have lunch or dinner and do a reconciliation and find a closure with a past girlfriend, a platonic girlfriend, or a lover. This isn’t the time to to start something new. Maybe that closure might heal your heart and there could be some forgiveness but then move on.
Okay! So, today we’re going to be talking about finance, romance and self-care. I just wanted to kind of give a brief synopsis of what we’ll be covering today.
Yes, so what’s going on? We have Mercury going retrograde as well on the 16th of November when Venus goes direct. When Mercury goes into the sign of Scorpio it can bring up all kinds of communications that can be passionate, hidden secrets, mystical, magical, things deep conversation. You want to make sure that you don’t tend toward arguing. Keep your cool, take a swim, go for a nice walk by the ocean, and keep your calm. Go ahead and engage in passionate conversation, maybe a debate that’s stimulating. Just make sure that it doesn’t go down a different road, because that can happen during this retrograde. Mercury governs cars, and communications, and technology, so it’s not a good time to buy a car. It’s not a good time to rely on your computer, because sometimes technology goes wonky during this time. Then it affects everyone a little differently.
Work. Work. Work. Work.
Does any of this resonate with you as a Scorpio?
A lot of it resonates with me as a Scorpio. Yes, especially all the Venus things that we talked about as well, with taking care of yourself, and taking care of money, and the love life and the Mercury is coming up in Scorpio.
Mercury is coming up in retrograde and it’s in Scorpio now. And Jupiter is in Scorpio now. Jupiter is the money planet. We love Jupiter !
Okay, Jupiter we like!
Jupiter will also cause you to have not only expansion in your bank account that it could have expansion in your adipose tissue, which is…
Fat tissue!
OH! Well we wouldn’t know what that is!
It also depends on the condition of your chart and that planet. There’s so much to it, and what degree it’s at, and blah blah blah… but overall as an overall general , we can say Jupiter and Mercury are in Mars, Mars is a sign of Scorpio, right now which can bring adipose tissue front and center. So either you’ll lose weight or you’re gain weight. Most likely you’re gonna gain weight, because we’re coming up to holiday season.
So do some Squats! “Adipose Season!” Adipose Season, That’s a good one!
It’s there for one year until November 24th. Bank issues will come up, whether they’re good or bad. That will depend on your chart. Money will be front and center right now, children, travel. Jupiter governs higher learning too. It’s a good time to maybe take a course, or a workshop, or read a really interesting book about maybe ancient mystical secrets, or yoga, or you know the ancient knowledge, because Jupiter represents higher knowledge. and actually means “guru” when you are defining it in the Sanskrit language.
That is interesting. Do you have any Scorpios squat advice? Adipose advice?
Wear black and squat deep. Hope for not expanding as much in front and out to the side this holiday season.
I would just recommend more exercise in general. Up the ante on your spices. Drink some ginger tea …Ginger tea and licorice, really good quality organic licorice and ginger tea, ( you don’t have to mix them you can take them separately ) they do something called scraping fat tissue, as well as cholesterol.
Well I just had a whole bag of licorice yesterday, so this is really good for me!
“Adipose Scrape”
That has the sugar! No, no, no! You want like the real hardcore like gingerroot, put it in some water, boil it up, make a tea.
so I better wear black this holiday…
Make it magical.
Yeah, so you want more exercise, more ginger tea, more licorice. (Okay) and you can put some more black pepper on things spice things up a little for digestive fire. But not too much! Because we have Mercury sitting in Mars’s side. I mean, things can get a little spicy, emotionally. We want you to check the body, so you don’t gain the weight, but we don’t want to over check and overdo and cause emotions to get inflated and too fiery. We want to keep that balance. That’s why I recommend for exercise, this time around, swimming. Swimming is cooling. The water is soothing, and calming, and then you can spice up your pasta and put some cayenne pepper and hot sauces. Spice it up!
Swimming works every muscle in the body..
Swimming works top to bottom.
So we got the spice in food and the cooling effect of the water. which Scorpio is a water sign. Don’t overdo the swimming too because sometimes swimming in the wrong conditions can actually be one of the exercises that makes you gain weight, because of the water element, you can actually get more swollen. but with this unique paradox of Mars, because Mars is very feisty, this is a good time to… you’ll just trust yourself to know, okay today I’m feeling a little feisty, everything’s upsetting me today, I think I’m gonna go for a swim and then come home and balance it off with something spicy.
Yes, well Anastasia makes personalized plans.
So this is a good month to add spices and my clients nutrition.
It is yeah
What can we teach non Scorpios, and our friends that are watching that do have Scorpio’s in their lives, about how to better communicate with them, how to get
their message across with a Scorpio Sun or Moon person.
YES please, I have a lot of Scorpio’s in my life!
That is a really good question.
How to talk to the November people.
When Sun is in Scorpio in someone’s chart, the Sun is really the seat of the soul. Their true nature can be secretive. Not in a bad way. There are a secrets that are sacred and should be kept sacred and quiet. There are people who like mystery, they like to be kind of in the darker corners and observe as a witness before they decide to step out into the limelight . When you meet a Scorpio you might want to be very careful how you approach them. Introduce yourself, earn their trust and don’t just jump right into something deep. because they may not want to share and they might all of a sudden shut down.You have to, not to be manipulative, but to honor their nature of just disclosure come slowly for them and once you earn their trust they are so much fun and they’re one of those friends that you can just knock on their door and go right at it and talk to them about deep. You know nothing surface and boring. They are fun, deep, and meaningful conversational people and I have probably 70% of my girlfriends are Scorpios. I love them.
Oh wow, so would you say that in general maybe Scorpios are more extroverts or introverts or does that even apply?
Not really, you can’t generalize to that degree. I would like to be able to. I was married to a Scorpio and he just wanted to go out all the time and whenever he went out he was passing his business cards and he was vote for me and very extroverted, he was a Scorpio, but his deepest inner self was, don’t ask me that, I will disclose that when I’m ready.
oh wow
Yes, yes! Not in a way that was standoffish it was just he had boundaries.
Right, there are some private questions and private comments that we like to keep to ourselves until the time is right or the person is right.
Exactly!
I feel like it takes a little bit of time for them to open up and like you said you might start off with a introverted quieter person that eventually opens up to his friends and that’s why the best friends always feel they’re the center of the group and who you have the most meaningful conversations with. I agree yeah.
They’re not shallow types of people, they either say nothing at all and maybe they’ll entertain a shallow conversation for a little while to see if you’re someone trustworthy and then, if you are, in their perspective, they will talk to you about meaningful things that are transformational. Scorpio is a sign of transformation. You can’t transform if you’re just floating at the surface,so they’re willing to go into the deep dark corners, and dig things out, and shine the light on them, and help you resolve, and understand things, so that’s why I like these Scorpio friends of mine, because they’re interesting to talk to, and there’s never just like blah blah blah, surface chatter. Right? Yeah. yeah, and I like deep meaningful things to talk about, so that’s just my nature.
Yeah, so what are the main ways to describe a Scorpio, we got deep so far, what are the main characteristics or words we use for a Scorpion? Well we got that, we got deep and passionate, intense.
They are passionate people and they happen to be what’s the word for it? Queen and King’s of the root chakra. I have no idea what that just meant. The root chakra is very meaningful to Scorpios. A lot of the center is focused on the seven chakras. They are in charge, sort of, over the root chakra which is all around.
If you can imagine a root of something. It’s underneath so it’s under the soil, and it’s often hidden, and it also is safety, comfort, protection, and and money. You’re feeling safe if you have money so these people… you can’t just generalize that, you know, I can’t just give you a whole personality of a Scorpio, because we have to look at their moon, we have to look at other placements but in general somebody with a Scorpio Sun is going to be someone of depth. and I can’t… I’m just…
the words aren’t coming, but I really like them. I know when I meet one.
We are coming closer to an end and I wanted to know if you guys had any more quick questions and answers that you guys would like to ask or make points of.
Looking to see if I have anything else here.
You brought up the moon, and the moon is also in Scorpio tonight.
Yes, that’s a really good one I want to talk about. Since we have a Scorpio moon currently in the sky right now, and it is affecting everybody, even if you’re not a Scorpio. So what that does is it brings up hidden secrets, and it can, or you can actually, actually have a secret that isn’t disclosed and so it’s all about secrets. In this particular Scorpio is in a dark moon, so the moon was new last night. When the moon is new, there’s not a lot of light, so things don’t get lit up or illuminated which makes it even more secretive, right ? yes which is fine because there’s a time. A season and a reason for everything. That was a time for, a more, private things to be front and center, secret things and a cult, mystery, passion. yeah so it’s never a dull moment in the life of a Scorpio.
No it is not.
Well I have something for our Scorpio birthday today. A little happy birthday ! Thanks for coming on the show today. Thank you Karen for going over Scorpios with us. We’ve covered finance, romance and self-care. Next month the Sagittarius starts November 23rd, I think I believe , so we are going to do a pre-recording because I will be out of town and Karen will be out of town so we’re going to pre-record next month Sagittarius horoscope and to be released November 23rd. So stay tuned for that! and again happy birthday to everybody out there and thanks for joining us! Happy Birthday !!! Happy Birthday!!
We look forward to seeing all of you on Newport Living and lifestyles!
Have a good day everybody!! Bye-bye everyone!
September 2018 Gift Give Away with Newport Living and Lifestyles
Drum rolll pleeease …. and the picture of the month winner for hash-tagging themselves #MidtownOysterBar & #NLandL is @veltri.jen via Instagram ! pass the good word ! The $100 gift certificate and bottle of Syltbar Prosecco is waiting for her at Midtown Oyster Bar
Special Thank you to Midtown Oyster Bar and participants and the participants who hash-tagged themselves in September!
@SharonForster and @EricaChristine @ItIsClaire @StaceyMills @TylerBernadyn @shapsbrightidea @harrywgraham @veltri.jen
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Hi everybody, I’m Christon with Newport Living and Lifestyles and joining me today is Ann Sullivan.
Hi everybody. So today you may be familiar with Midtown Oyster Bar.
We are going to be drawing the photo of the month for anybody who is hash-tagged
#MidtownOysterBar or #NLandL which stands for?
Newport Living and Lifestyles
So you may be familiar that we did an interview with Charlie Holder of Midtown Oyster Bar at the beginning of the month
Which was released September 5th. If you haven’t seen that video, you have to check it out after
We announce the winners for this month. So
We printed all of the pictures where people have hash-tagged themselves
And we’re going to go through them
one by one and talk to you about what we like about each one of them so that you are familiar with
Why we chose the winner ready?
Okay, here we go. I know so this one was by Sharon Foster and Erica Christine
It looks a little funny because it was a video and they posted a video the day of our shoot
So the day we shot the Midtown Oyster Bar video (They wanted to be the first one.) That’s right. They were
So they were the first ones it was super cute and they really liked that (Look at those two girls) because they posted
Hanging with Miss Erica at the Midtown moisture bar waiting for the film crew to get here.
They will be filming Midtown Oyster Bar through Newport Living and Lifestyles. ( I love that one. They are super excited to be there. )
Well, I want to give a big cheers really quickly because we’re allowed to have a glass of wine while we are filming today.
Okay Hoda!!!
Today we’re gonna pretend to be Hoda and Kathy Lee and drink wine on camera!
Cheers Everybody!
Cheers!
We have to wet our wet our whistle a little bit ( it helps.) Yeah exactly.
We see a bunch of people are coming on and joining us today. So hi everybody. Good afternoon
Yeah, so tell us a little about yourself Ann. Alright, my name is Ann Sullivan
I’m really happy to be here with my good friend Christon. I lived in Newport for five years
I don’t think there is a more spectacular
area in all of the United States.
You have 400 square miles of oceanfront. How could you go wrong with that? I think it’s gorgeous.
Today is 70 degrees, gorgeous, beautiful Indian summer here in Newport.
So if you haven’t visited yet, come. If you haven’t been to Midown Oyster Bar, come. They are great food , great people and you got this beautiful face!
And joining me with your beautiful face. Thank you for the compliments, I’ll take them all day long
In fact I’d like to record them and then I put them on my alarm
So I can wake up in the morning and hear all your amazing comments.( She’ll just loop this every morning
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. ) I love it, I’ll take it, right?
Oh should we get started with the next one? We really like this one?
yes, that’s why I was posted by it is Claire? @itisiclaire, it is I Claire!
Is she an English Major? A poet and we didn’t know it?
This one on is a picture of all the oysters that they chose. ( looks so good) Yummy Yummy
We really like that one and thank you so much for hash tagging #MidtownOysterBar in that one. ( This is tough already
and we are just getting started. ) I know that one is delicious. I know I think we are gonna need to get some oysters…
( or whatever I see on this page!)
Lobster tacos with mango salsa posted by Stacey Mills who is a good friend of mine. (That looks amazing)
Yep, so she posted #MidtownOysterBar
#NewportBuzz, #HungryRhody. #WhatsUpNewp # Foody #Foodyheaven and all kinds of stuff!
It’s a great photo Stacy Mills. Look at all those comments. Those are yummy those are fabulous
I love those ! (yummm.. ) The list goes on and on. We’re gonna be really full after this.
Okay, this one was toast … toasted, okay
CHEERS!
How about every time I say toasted we just drink. ( I like it and does it count when I say it too? ) YES! ( perfect ! )
All right ! and does it count when you say too?
(Sure does! )
TOASTED!
We have a peanut gallery back there, by the way! ( Hi Peanut Gallery! )
CHEERS!
Okay, ( and by the way the wine here is very delicious and what are you drinking? )
I am having a white wine spritzer Pinot Grigio ( and this is Pinot Noir ) mmm….
TOASTED! TOASTY!!
Okay next photo
posted by
Tyler Bernadyn ( I like this, I like this ) Hi Tyler. We love you Tyler
yes, this is a really cool retro poster that he posted and he wrote, ” this is everything ” and he actually
hash-tagged #NLandL and #MidtownOysterBar
( so he knew to do that perfect! )Yeah
( Tyler, I see this as your next tattoo, just sayin. Putting it out there )
Very retro (92 likes on that one too.) Oh, yeah, 92 likes, that’s great!
Oh! We should mention that. okay, perfect. Good idea, Good idea. Okay this one we loved
But it didn’t actually qualify because it was posted before ( Awe, Look at these cuties )
The September 5th requests to post, but it’s a video and you have to check this out. It’s
@shapsbrightidea ( I like it ) I’m going to show it to you
It’s a video and I just loved it and you recognized some of the comments on here. ( I did.
I think the comments are really cute. It says basically they’re the norm they’re composed
But Marissa is always out of control and Ryan is always out of control
But that’s what brings us together and that’s why they love each other. That is the sweetest thing.
Couple’s you can have fun together and love each other and be goofy) Yes , exactly
( I want to know who their orthodontist is, look at those teeth! Those teeth are amazing !)
Go to their page @shapsbrightidea Actually you can go to #MidtownOysterBar and check out their video.
Yeah, so… OH! another one by Tyler Bernadyn. ( Tyler !) Yes he is really going with this! I love it ! It’s a really great
photo of the second floor, right upstairs. Oh, no wait, it is right over here.
It has a certain name. The Burgee Bar! The Burgee Bar! This is the Burgee Bar!
(How did they get the name Burgee Bar? )
Because it has the burgee flags
It’s really cool, it’s never this empty, I don’t know, he must have been before hours ( or after hours or before hours
I don’t know. It’s usually full of people. ) ( Including Tyler behind the bar ! )
(We should have drawn him on there. A little stick figure with a little head. )
He would live that! ( with his little hat. He always wears his hat. Oh , we should have done that. ) Poor Tyler….
( You’re in for it now! We can’t draw! )
This is beautiful. ( That’s what we need to order. )Yeah. We’re gonna order one of everything after this.
We’ll need it. So this guy @harrywgraham
He’s posting the most beautiful pictures of food here.
Now it might have been mentioned that he may be a chef here ?
( Maybe ? ) okay, we’re thinking that it might be possible. (Did we decide that he has an Instagram account so we can follow him? )
He does! yep! All of his pictures are really beautiful.
Somebody says brighten the camera, I don’t know how….
Maybe we should just turn our face like that, is that better? ( Like this?)
Is that Good? (Is that good? )
Sorry, we’ll get closer…
( I don’t want to touch it ) No, I don’t want to touch it either.
So guys, great photos @harrywgraham, (That’s beautiful. That is a beautiful picture ) Yeah, he has a lot,
So check out his Instagram page, but you can just go to #MidtownOysterBar and all those are there.
so, okay this one my favorite one because it was
from a shoot that I did with Charlie. I have to … OOP! Don’t throw it away!! Okay, check that out. That’s so fun!!!
That is a real live video shoot here… Everybody look so happy…
( We know this can’t win number one, but she is always
number one in our lives. ) Oh I will take that, Thank you Ann.
(Always number one in our lives. ) I just got to get her liquored up, that’s all….
( That helps , A lot )
( You got to get her, Toasted ! )
Oh ! CHEERS!
I’ll take it. Okay. I hope that you guys can see it. Okay. This one was super fun. Go ahead , you tell the story.
( We’re gonna put this up on the camera and I’m sure everyone will recognize it)
But I didn’t !! (First person to post the name of this little character and I’ll give you a hint
It’s on the Pirates of the Caribbean
Who is it? )
Who is it? We can’t hear you. You gotta speak up!
Peanut gallery ? Anyone ? Anyone ?
( Dave Jones ! )
David Jones? Davey Jones, (Davey Jones ) okay, Do you know where this picture was taken?
( Where was it taken? ) it was taken recently last weekend at the
Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, so they had this big display out with their oysters and this huge octopus out there
It was a lot of fun. I hope that you guys made it out there.
That’s a great let us know by commenting., if you guys made it out to Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival.
So that’s a great photo. ( I Iove this so cute ) mmmhhhmmm.. it’s fun
( Charismatic. I love it )
Now a couple people from our peanut gallery back here that you can’t see , they’re back there making fun of us.
They chose this photo ( Beautiful photo, it’s making one of them very hungry right now )
It is a great motive the lobster roll there
roll there. Yeah, super good. This one got 72 likes. ( Read the comments , that’s great! ) Ok
This was posted by @tinygirlhugeappetite
(Love that ) I feel yeah, I do. Okay. So this one says give me a lobster roll and I’m a happy girl !
You give me any food I’ll be happy.
(TOASTED! )
CHEERS!
Okay, how’s your what are some of these comments bring them on camera watch it
Oh, oh you can bring people on camera
I don’t know. No, I can’t bring anyone on camera. Sorry, but
Okay. So this is we are down to our very last two and then we’re yeah
Then we’re gonna announce what the winner actually gets to win. So this one’s really special because
couple just got married this week this weekend that they posted this so they came here to celebrate
their wedding
at Midtown Oyster Bar. ( I love that they chose Midtown Oyster Bar to come and have
a specific memory that will last a lifetime and then they tag themselves for this event! )
What did you say earlier?
Making Magic at Midtown. (I did say that ) That’s brilliant. I love that. I think that should be a new hashtag.
( Oh!? ) Yes. ( Charlie ?! ) Charlie?!
Charlie Holder get down here! Making Magic Memories Happen…
( Making Magic Memories happen) Ok I love it. (At Midtown ) #MakingMagicMemoriesHappenAtMidtown
Tell us what your thoughts are, please, in the comments
( That is the sweetest. ) Okay so that was a really nice one. ( That one is really sweet, I love that one )
So should we announce the winner now?
( I think we should… Ready? )
Okay, this one we loved for many different reasons. ( You have to turn the camera ) We have to turn the camera? ( Oh! it’s sideways…… )
( We’re getting a note saying that we have to turn the camera. ) I don’t know if we’ll both be in it if we do that.
( I don’t know, what do you think? )
So that’s what they’re saying! (okay, turn the camera )
Is that better?! ( Is that better ?! ) Do we get some thumbs ups ? Do we get some thumbs ups ?!
*Had to start live again, Facebook cut the live feed..*
Now we are really cozy…We had to space out there for a second cuz apparently we didn’t know what we were doing
But we’re back now with Newport Living and Lifestyles, and now we’re super cozy.
Yeah, so apparently we have to have the camera profile. We didn’t know. ( We didn’t know. Sorry guys )
So, how are we doing now? Are we good ?Are we good? ( Are we better? )
Okay! Perfect ! Yay!
So we were just talking about all of the people that posted and hash-tagged
themselves at #MidtownOysterBar and hash-tagged themselves #NLandL and we’re picking winners of the photo
contest to win a local gift of the month ( and the question is before we do that,
do we need to go back and show any photos while Christon…. okay Vanna… )
While you were talking I just thought I would do something fun.
( Do we have to go back and show you guys any photos at all, because we understand the camera was a little wonky,
so just let us know. We’re watching you right now on our live feed. ) Yeah. Yeah, what are they saying?
Okay, good, ( Okay. All right ) So we can tell you what our top three photos were. (Let’s go back and review )
Oh Bridgette Soby says hi! Michael Murray’s got the martini glass there. Hi guys.
(Let’s just go back and review the top ones. ) Okay , Lets just review the top four.
All right, let’s do this one first. Okay. Yeah, this one with super super great, loved it. And what was the name?
( Davy Jones ) frommmm ( From Pirates of the Caribbean. )
Caribbean ( or Caribbean. ) Yeah, yeah, yeah ( or Caribbean. ) Tomato – Tomato…! eh… who cares eh?
So we loved this one this one got 58 likes
It was posted 6 days ago
And this was from the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival and I recognize it because I was there.
Let us know if you guys were at the Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival and saw this. ( That’s a great photo )
Yeah, so that’s one of the top of the four.
This one was highly liked as well
( Yeah, I’m so hungry ) Looooobsterrrrr roooolllllll……
Everybody loved the lobster rolls
72 likes posted by @tinygirlhugeappetite. ( I love that name, by the way. ) ( There’s like a whole lobster in there )
It’s a lot of lobster and you know what looks really good about it? It’s not too mayo’ey ( I actually don’t see any mayo at all )
No… ( It’s fresh! )
( And you know what? They have the ultimate lobster roll bread too) – yummy yummy
Okay, I gotta stop looking at that because we’re gonna get one.
(Here is our cute photo that we love. ) We love this one because this couple got married
September 7th and they posted here at Midtown Oyster Bar September 10th. ( And what do we say the new hashtag should be? )
( Making Magic Memories at Midtown. #MakingMagicMemoriesAtMidtown )
That’s awesome. That’s going to be the
newest, bestest hashtag, yet!
So #MakingMagicalMemoriesAtMidtown. ( I love it. ) I love it too. (I love it ) New hashtag !
okay, so… ( Awe, look at this crew!
This is really nice because The Salve Regina reunion is this weekend and I love the fact that this picture was taken )
Yeah, so a little bit about why we like this photo
It is a mother and two daughters
celebrating together here at Midtown. You can see a picture of all the food you can see pictures of the water with the label of
Midtown and I think that it really just
emphasizes the people, the food
the
memories that people are making here. ( I think it epitomizes the new hashtag we just came up with. )
That’s right! absolutely!
( I mean look at this food, it looks tremendous!
And they’re here making memories, it’s the sweetest and look just how adorable they are. )
( And whatever they ordered it needs to be on this table right now. ) Yeah !
Hey! They have the octopus! Oh my gosh. I love that. Check it out. Do you see the octopus down there?
Yummy. That’s one of my favorite dishes here. (Here ya go ! ) If you haven’t a seen the interview with Charlie Holder and myself
on Newport Living and Lifestyles. You’ll have to go watch that, after you’re watching us today. So this was posted by belt
@veltri.jen If you go to a hashtag #MidtownOysterBar
you can see all of the photos that we have chosen from today and we have chosen ….
Drum rollll…..
We have chosen this one as our number one favorite pick of the month ( Yay! ) Yes and
we are going to be reaching out to
@veltri.jen and she will be the winner of a
$100 gift certificate to Midtown Oyster Bar and
included is a
bottle of Prosecco by Syltbar and a little bit about this.
( So this is organic
Prosecco ) Yes ( and by the way for those that don’t know this , this is actually vegan. Who would know?
I don’t even know… ( I had to google that ) I didn’t even know that Posecco was not vegan, honestly. ( Right? Right! )
So this is low calorie, low sugar and it’s supposed to be really helpful for you and a bunch of us tasted it
recently, maybe, more than once and its super good.
( Basically, you can drink all day and loose weight and you don’t even have to go running, perfect! )
Yeah , the runner over here. I’m still working on my run….
Yeah
So congratulations to the winners ( Yes Congratulations!) Keep on hash tagging #MidtownOysterBar
Hashtag NLandL. We are also going to be doing a gift of the month every month.
So make sure that you hashtag NLandL in everything that you do and
You may qualify to win a local gift of the month. ( I love it. ) Thanks Ann for joining me today. It was a lot of fun!!
( No Thank you ! )
Toasty! ( Toasty! )
Cheers everybody!
Thank you Hoda!
Signing off for now until next time. Look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles.
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Newport Haunts with Newport Living and Lifestyles.
Newport Haunts with Newport Living and Lifestyles. Join Maura Lindsey of Tresor Estate Sales, Tori McNally of Ghost Tours of Newport and me on a brief tour of Newport Haunts. For a full tour of Newport Haunts head to Www.GhostsofNewport.com
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles
I’m Christon and I’m here with my good friend Maura Lindsey of Tresor Estate
Sales and she’s going to join Tori McNally and I on a haunted ghost tour of
Newport!
Welcome everybody and happy Halloween!
Thank you!
We’re gonna start right here with Washington Square.
Newport was really the hub of colonial commerce but it’s also
very much a paranormal hub as well.
This is the spot where 26 pirates were hanged
in July of 1726 . Right where we’re standing.
People definitely get the feeling of overwhelming doom, strong sadness,
people will also sometimes get the smell of tobacco
completely out of the blue
with no one around them or perfume.
So it is definitely is a very active square.
Like I said, this is really the hub of commerce and everything kind of ripples
out from here, I tend to feel.
All right, well let’s go take a look at some of the other places on your agenda today.
Absolutely! Absolutely! Why don’t we do maybe Brick Alley or as we
or as we call it, Blood Alley!
This is the K2 meter. It measures electromagnetic frequencies and it
allows us to kind of sense what energy is around us. So here in Blood Alley
we definitely get a lot of interesting readings. As a matter of fact,
it was just going off, (Yes it was) like crazy !
The whole reason why this whole area is called Blood Alley
is because sailors were coming in to town with pockets full of gold,
from being out at sea. The whole area was pretty much covered with tattoo parlors,
brothels and bars. ( Oh! ) It was said that there was a lot of
fighting from the soldiers and the sailors. That’s why it’s called Blood Alley!
So let’s check that off our box! Oh! So nothing to do with deaths and spirits.
We were wondering why it was called Blood Alley!
Check!
Welcome to The Artillery Company here on Clarke Street in Newport. It’s the oldest
continuous working artillery company in the country. Started off with a charter
by King George II in 1741. During the day it is a Museum of all war
artifacts. Things that soldiers and sailors would carry with them in the
battle or at sea. So we’ve heard everything from whistling,
to boot steps, the members of the Artillery Company
have heard revelry coming from the second floor.
Really! So these are harmless spirits I would gather?
I would gather, otherwise we would hear stories.
So they are harmlessness in the sense that they do not do damage?
Anytime that you have energy that’s connected with war it is very dark.
Welcome to the White Horse Tavern. It is actually the oldest continuous
working tavern in the country. It was built in 1673
by a gentleman by the name of Willie Mays, not the baseball player.
Good Clarification!
It’s been everything from a tavern, to a cabinetmaker shop,
to a boardinghouse and is now a fine-dining restaurant.
And shall I say, it definitely has a lot of activity.
People go in there for the spirits and they get a little bit more than they bargained for!
This has been great! So Fascinating! Thank you so much Tori!
You are most welcome! I’m happy to do it!
If you guys would like a Haunted Newport Tour ( Yep ! ) You can call Tori !
Contact Newport Ghost tours !
We are still doing tours every night up through Halloween.
Then starting November we tour on Saturday
and then we take a hiatus until April.
I’m also available for Tarot parties, as well as table tipping parties.
Well this has been such a treat!
Yes! Thanks so much guys for joining me today!
We look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles!
Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween!
Explore the History of Belcourt Castle with Newport Living and Lifestyles
October 24th 5-7PM Explore Historic Belcourt Castle after partaking in hors d’oeuvres, wine and a discussion with Therese Anne Fowler, as she shares her experience writing “A Well Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts”. Hosted by Reading with Robin through a Belcourt Speaks Series. VIP seating $115 and general seating for $85 are still available, but moving quickly. Complimentary gifts included! ** Purchase your tickets at Belcourt.com and use code October **
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.
I am Christon and I am here with
historic documentary filmmaker David Bettencourt.
We are here to talk to you about a very exclusive event
being held here at Belcourt Newport.
It is hosted by Reading with Robin.
It is called Belcourt Speaks.
It is all about A Well Behaved Woman
a novel of the Vanderbilts.
Written by Therese Anne Fowler
October 24th 5 – 7PM
How can people purchase tickets?
You can get more information on our website
Belcourt.com
This is an event we are really proud to have at Belcourt.
It is sponsored by Alex and Ani, Bar and Board Bistro and
Carolyn’s Sakonnet Vineyards.
General admission tickets are $85 and $115 for VIP tickets
Where you get a Sakonnet tasting for 4 and a bottle of wine
hors d’oeuvres & wine.
An Alex and Ani set of 3 bangles,
Reserved seating and a copy of “A Well Behaved Woman,”
It is a really great event
where you get to learn more about how Theresa wrote this historical fictional novel
about the two figures who actually lived here
from 1896 to 1908.
Oliver is the reason why this building is even here.
He built it in 1891.
This is going to be a really interesting event. I am excited to host!
It is going to be gorgeous. Let’s go inside and take a look
at where the event is going to be happen inside.
So this is Alva Vanderbilt’s bedroom.
Who is this, with this fabulous hair?
This is the current owner of the house.
Carolyn Rafaelian.
Visionary. Entrpreneur. Philanthropist
The people who did the work in this room, the plaster work,
actually made that sculpture for her as a thank you
for allowing them to do the work in this room.
This room was extensively restored by Carolyn.
There was lots of damage to it through out the entire room.
This room is important for the night of our event because
Alva would have slept in this room.
In 1896 she married Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont.
She quickly realized this one bedroom, 44,000 square foot apartment
needed a woman’s touch.
So she built this bedroom for herself.
It also has a sunken boudoir and bathroom,
which is actually hidden by a secret door.
Which I’ll show you in a second.
Visitors for this event on the 24th, should make sure to absolutely stop in this room,
because this is where Alva, the heroin of this book, would have spent most of her time at Belcourt.
Let’s check out the boudoir.
Oh! It is big and beautiful!
What room are we in right now? It is gorgeous.
We are on the second floor and this is where Oliver had his first party
here in September of 1895
This is where they would entertain.
There is a place for musicians above us.
There is an organ at the far end of the room.
The fireplace would have been lit.
The stained glass is 15th century.
This is where most of the events would have taken place at Belcourt.
Originally, the first floor, the entire first floor was for his horses.
His bedroom is right through that door.
This was really the main living area for Oliver.
When Alva moved in, they lived here together.
And when I say lived here, they only lived here for the summer.
Like 5 or 6 weeks out of the summer every year.
She built herself that bedroom that you just saw.
Then they began to change the downstairs, the coach house,
into a banquet hall where they could have more events.
Then Alva started to really entertain lavishly here at Belcourt.
Well, I can tell ya. I had a couple dance moves right here in this very room.
I went to a couple of events here…
This has a very Church-esque feel to it.
It really does, it is a beautiful space and its been meticulously restored.
Thoroughly cleaned, all the plaster work was redone, the stained glass was taken out and cleaned and refurbished and put back.
We have even brought back some of the armor collection.
The previous owners of the house were a family called the Tinney’s.
They had an armor collection and Oliver Belmont had a really beautiful armor collection back in the day in the 1890’s.
So we brought back some of the Tinney armor collection
so that it is similar to what Oliver would have seen in this room originally.
Let’s go check out the bedroom.
Oliver’s room.
O wow.
So this here is how Oliver lived his life.
This was his favorite saying, sans crainte, which means without fear.
And that is really how he lived his life.
He was a very interesting man,
He was kind of a playboy.
He was really into fashion.
A bon vivant…
He was an interesting guy
Alva always says she married first for money
and then married second for love.
I think they were really in love with each other.
For 12 years they summered here and they built things and
they entertained their friends and they had a really good time.
That is what Newport is about right?
It is really is! I think it is a really cool place to explore and
we are really looking forward to the event on the 24th.
This is where the event is going to take place.
This is gorgeous.
This is the coach house of Belcourt originally.
And originally it was a place for Oliver to keep all of his carriages and coaches.
He had kind of like the Ferrari’s and Lamborghini’s of his time.
The best, state of the art, most modern coaches and carriages and he kept them in this room.
The entire first floor of Belcourt is actually devoted to his horses and to his racing and to his carriages.
After Alva and Oliver married in 1896 she started to realize that this was kind of a room that she could use for other things.
Such as big elaborate parties.
Ballroom Dancing…
And it became a ballroom, which is what it is today.
The event will take place in this room.
It is probably the most majestic room that we have for events here in Belcourt.
I love the mosaic tiles. Where is this tile in from?
The floor is amazing
As I told you, it was originally for his garage, essentially.
He had Italian artisans put in this Italian marble mosaic floor.
It is just amazing
Tell us about a state of the art coach? What does that include?
In 1897 he brought a motor coach here, which would have been the first automobile in America.
And the first automobile parade in America took place in 1899 on the grounds of Belcourt.
They drove cars up Bellevue and ended with an obstacle course
and a contest for who could decorate their car the coolest.
Oh That’s fun!
And Alva led the way! It was Alva’s idea and Oliver played along and they all had these cars on the front lawn.
It was not long before his coaches got out of Belcourt and this became a place for them to entertain.
It really showed Newport and all of society at the time who Oliver and Alva were all about.
So even though you get a book here for the event.
You can still go online and purchase one and read up on it, so you are prepared with questions.
Yes , you can. You can even get an audible on audible.com You can listen to it being read
That is what I do!
Therese Anne Fowler’s book, A Well Behaved Woman is in book stores now.
To come to the event it is $85, $115 for VIP
All tickets include a copy of the book and you will be able to
hear how Therese wrote this fictional historical novel.
It is going to be a really fun time. There is food and wine.
Can’t beat that.
Can’t beat that. Hope you all come down to Belcourt.
Thanks so much for telling us all about this event and
We look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles!