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vacations
Frolicking in beach sand will sicken you with fecal contamination. Just give up.
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Drama In The Hamptons!
Guest of a Guest's Rachelle Hruska's Wild Hamptons Night
Uh oh. Guest of a Guest blogger Rachelle Hruska just Twittered that she spent the end of her July 4th celebration filing a police report in the Hamptons this morning. So: what happened? The mysterious Twitter and answer, here! More »
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By Foster KamerComment by wholenuther: Thank god she's okay. Where else would we find a semi-literate Midwestern transplant willing to kiss faux-fabulous people's asses in... 3 Responses | Other threads
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the rich
The Hamptons: Still Sucking
Everybody already knows that the Hamptons is the universe's vortex of suck, but here's another reason why: Restaurant/club owners who, as a method of crowd control, roll up the awning sheltering the crowd outside waiting for tables during a downpour.
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Comment by ndhapple: Margaritas in a mason jar would get you laughed out of Austin. Seriously. On another note, why does Mexican/TexMex suck once... 14 Responses | Other threads
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crime
Rudy Giuliani's Bridgehampton Heckler Speaks Out
Yesterday, former New York City mayor, failed presidential candidate, and perpetual asshole Rudy Giuliani was publicly heckled by a guy in Bridgehampton. Naturally, Rudy had the guy arrested. And now the heckler speaks to us!
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By Foster KamerComment by Sir Winston Thriller: Dear New York: Please, please keep "Il Douché" on his meds, 'k? America 10 Responses | Other threads
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Douche totems
Dude There's This Axe Body Spray Club in The Hamptons With So Many Sluts, I Swear
Haha, we know exactly what to make of this: Axe Body Spray is sponsoring a nightclub in the Hamptons for the whole summer. Brah: More »
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Comment by restless: Axe is the new Drakkar Noir. Back in the day, that was the eau de choice for douchebags. 7 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
Times: Hamptons Just Like Us, Cutely Conserving for "Thrifty" Summer
People in higher income brackets: they're just like us. For example, they're still going to The Hamptons this summer, but they're going to be toning it down. What, you've heard this story before? More »
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By Foster KamerComment by ian spiegelman: Nice juxtaposing of Times stories, new weekend dude. See, this is part of why I quit--having to cover the weekend... 11 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
Shoveling Sand in Hamptons is the Last Job Left
How bad is the recession? So bad that it's 'eroding' the 'foundation' of real estate in the Hamptons! No seriously, a billionaire's beach house is literally sliding into the ocean. And it gets worse! More »
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Comment by Migrant: Man, has anyone read C. McCarthy's The Road? Because it sounds like a certain economist-guy has. 4 Responses | Other threads
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toby young
Toby Young Warns Of Writer-Less Hamptons
Toby Young, the British exile and former Vanity Fair writer whose mildly amusing book How To Lose Friends and Alienate People is now being turned into a (doubtless middling) movie, is concerned about how hard it is for even famous writers to make any serious money in America these days. Except for Toby Young himself, of course, who is getting paid to write cute little missives back to the UK about how hard it is for even famous writers to make any serious money in America these days. "I'm currently in the Hamptons," he starts off: More »
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people's parties
A Very Real Housewives Independence Day
Courageous Guest of a Guest blogger Doug braved the unthinkable this weekend: Jill Zarin's 4th of July party in the Hamptons. The Real Housewives of New York City star and her husband hold an annual backyard soirée at their landed estate, and Doug was (un)fortunate enough to receive an invitation. Everything just farted class, from the salmon and lobster salad to the lychee martinis to the "Team Jill" dessert cookies. And look, even RHoNYC costars Bethenny and Countess LuAnn (wearing flamenco water wings) were there, teetering about in all white, mistaking the event for an actual party (sort of) worth covering. A humble and grateful guest, Doug doesn't really dish any dirt, but there are photographs, so you can make up your own tragic stories. Some select few await you after the jump. More »
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Comment by Rachel Jack: why does LuAnn look like a bleached Carmen Miranda? Maracas would have sooooooo completed the outfit! And what's with the... more » | Other threads
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the riches
Subprime Crisis Hits Those Who Created It
While the merely superrich have been unable to sell or buy homes in the Hamptons for some time now, the mega-rich have continued purchasing giant estates for absurd prices. But as Vanity Fair explains, no more! Now there is precisely one man rich enough to buy a Southhampton property for an insanely inflated price, and he is the man who predicted and bet on the subprime crisis taking the toll it has. Now former Bear Stearns employees are worried about their mortgages, JUST LIKE REAL POOR PEOPLE, and it's all very, very, very sad. Listen to just how sad it is! More »
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By PareeneComment by ChrisRixBlows: @HK_Guy:"Life is unfair." Seems so hard for some people to accept. As Chris Rock says, "People tell you life is... more » | Other threads
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the rich
Exclusive Hamptons Social Networking Site Letting the Wrong Kinds of People In Already
The Hamptons are always of interest. Why? Because rich people and social strivers go there! Hamptons Undercover, an "exclusive networking and resource site dedicated solely" to the summering spot, will help you get your foot in the door. More » -
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Television Star Surrounded By Her Core Demographic
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shut up, rich people
Emily Brill's Harrowing Escape From New York
As long as we're piling on millionaire media celebrities today, here's the latest video blog clown show from Emily Brill. In the video Brill, the daughter of media mogul Steve, is traveling yet again to the Hamptons (a fact we're reminded of many, many times) with magazine person Devorah Rose and a silly little dog. They're in Em's Lexus, which she's driving in Manhattan for the first time. The dizzy duo is a bit lost and confused when trying to leave the island Manhattan (Emily about the Triborough Bridge: "Wait does that go to another borough?") and all they can tell is that they're heading toward the Beatrice Inn ("like, downtown.") Then! Yay! They find the tunnel and Emily just cannot believe that her car is going to Queens. Over and over again she says it! Filthy horrid Queens! Her precious car! Blahhh blah blah blah. Oh, and then Devorah calls herself "useless." Sigh. Silly Thursday afternoon video fun after the jump. More »
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who makes the nazis
Antisemitism: Cool Again!
When we were young, we assumed "The Hamptons" had something to do with a cartoon pig—now we are older and wiser and we know that it's a place on Long Island where rich people go, even though they can surely afford to go somewhere other than Long Island. Turns out, they're just going there to get away from all the goddamn Jews!
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town hell
Alec Baldwin Just Fighting With Hamptons Neighbors At HuffPo
Remember the story of the terribly racist "humor" column in the Hamptons Independent last week? It upset famed blogger Alec Baldwin! Baldwin wrote about the column earlier this week (and then again!) as an example of "how the Obama ascendancy is playing out in Small Town America." Leaving aside the fact that the Hamptons are "small town America" only if you are a time traveler from the 17th century, the column was idiotic and well worth piling on. BUT! Maybe Alec had an ulterior motive for singling out this particular piece of regrettable small-market bullshit for a very public flaying! Maybe Alec has some personal beef with the gentleman that wrote the column—the paper's editor, Rick Murphy. Maybe because Baldwin is involved with the East Hampton Democrats, who don't particularly get along with Murphy! Maybe Murphy mocked Alec's letters to the editor! And maybe Rick Murphy's wife left a long comment to that effect at HuffPo—a comment which mysteriously failed to appear! After the jump, Alec Baldwin's "Small town" Hamptons intrigue.
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and now he's dead
Bobby Van, 64, Dies In A Cab
Bobby Van, the Juilliard School dropout and owner of Bobby Van's Steakhouse in Bridgehampton, died on Tuesday. He was 64 and working as a cab driver in Huntington, Long Island. For a while, in the 70s and 80s, Bobby Van was the Hamptons' Elaine Kaufman. According to Steven Gaines' great book on the Hamptons, Philistines at the Hedgerow, his restaurant-saloon was "an oasis of warmth and country bonhomie in the bleakness of the gray Hamptons winter." It was also where Truman Capote, James Jones, Kurt Vonnegut and Willie Morris used to get shitfaced. And where shady and deposed real estate kingAllan Schneider did most of his business. According to Page Six, "Van's ex-wife, Marina, had him cremated with no service and no announcement."
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By Joshua SteinComment by Mediahohoho: @KarenUhOh: Actually, I'm here just pretty much for you. But don't tell anyone, because it'll ruin my street cred. more » | Other threads
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the best tabloid story ever
Crazed Gay's Crazed Gunman Wants His Baby!
Those born after 1975 probably won't remember New York's greatest and most tabloidiest gay, Andrew Crispo. He was a hoity-toity art dealer and sadomasochist who was—the week after he left prison for tax evasion!—the victim of a blown-up Hamptons home which happily provided him with a $5-million settlement. He would later go on to threaten to kidnap one of his own lawyer's children. Also, in the 80s, this guy who worked for him shot a kid that Crispo had met at the Hellfire Club. Now that guy is still in prison—while Crispo is laying pretty low—but the shooter has managed to have a baby—but his nutcase prison wife is divorcing him and trying to take his baby! More »
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By ChoireComment by SeaBassTian: Also she says his brother shot her cat with an arrow! I can just picture the inevitable PETA demonstration. more » | Other threads
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yom kippur
Dear Kristian, Dear Moby, Dear Braden Keil
Each year (or really, every 11 months and two weeks or so, kinda), the Jews observe Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, during which leather shoes and doing it are totally forbidden. Then there are many apologies. Let it begin with us! Josh is up first because he's the Jewiest. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by fakefakejazz: @gonzosmom: As long as they didn't list the Spam haikus at MyJewishBooks, too... more » | Other threads
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bellport
Si Newhouse's Lawn
Advance Publications chairman S.I. Newhouse—Conde Nast's big honcho—and his wife live on three adjacent lots in Bellport, Long Island, on South Howell's Point Road. The lawn proper is guarded by a little wooden gate at the road. As we unlatched it the other day, we pondered the legality of our actions—but we were accompanied by Eddie Hayes, the New York lawyer who's defended Jon Gotti, the mafia cops and Andy Warhol's legacy, so we thought we'd be okay. It turns out that Si Newhouse's grass is short, lush and well-kept. Surprised?
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By Joshua SteinComment by Freddie Freelance: C'mon, no one's gonna point out that Si has a Copper-Clad Erection? Scandalous! more » | Other threads
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By ChoireComment by earlytimezone: I'm going to the Hamptons this weekend.... well, Hampton ...... Hampton, N.H. Okay I suck. more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
The Hamptons Townies Speak
Around 1 a.m. today we got an email from one of the Hamptons kids that we wrote about on our last trip to the East End. (They were hanging out downtown when we met them, getting the hairy eyeball from uptight New York summer Hamptons people.) We're publishing it for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's a benefit of this medium that we get to have subjects of stories respond; if Google News can do it, why not us? And also, because we pretty much agree with it! More »
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By ChoireComment by Freddie Freelance: Nah, I'd be defending myself if I kept posting about how rough & tough I was when I was a... more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
Goodbye Forever, Ye Hamptons
I arrived into the town of Southampton late in the summer (two weeks ago) armed only with some class-consciousness, a copy of The Great Gatsby stolen from the Hennepin County Library and a rotating cast of photographers. First Laurel Ptak and later Amelia Bauer made the slog eastward with me. Here are our favorite photographs, some seen here for the very first time. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by the earl grey: speaking for myself The Earl Grey LOVES BET & "106 & Park" is my favourite post-Main Beach TV watching... current... more » | Other threads
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people to know
Inside "The Blue Book Of The Hamptons"
When we tried to order "The Blue Book" out at BookHampton, we were told that because of a New York Times article, the world's schmanciest phone book was all sold out. Allegedly. "Write down your name," the man said. "We'll call you." As I wrote my name down on a note card, I noticed the clerk's eyes narrow as each of my Jewy names spilled onto the neat white paper. "Uh-huh," he said," we'll call you." But they did! Affirmative action! The book showed up at our office in a plain white envelope. At $70 it is the most expensive phone book maybe ever. It's a phonebook full of people to whom really you'd have nothing to say. It is beautifully cloth-bound with elegant gold cursive on the front. It smells like fresh paper bills.
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By Joshua SteinComment by the earl grey: the prep handbook has aged poorly. i re-read it in 2006 & the only lacoste in it was the navy... more » | Other threads
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beat the rich
Remembering Katrina And Rita In East Hampton
We had but one reason for revisiting Main Beach in East Hampton over the weekend—we wanted to see if our favorite scorched old man was there. He was! Eating chicken salad from a Tupperware container all alone! But we're glad we did hit the waves once more. The tide was coming in, you see, and the wealthy families had to erect makeshift sand levees to protect their Martha's Vineyard towels and scattered copies of Hamptons Style. One found this the perfect opportunity to pay homage to the courage and resilience of their fellow Americans who were affected by Hurricane Katrina by inscribing "The 9th Ward" into their makeshift levee. Get it? New Orleans? 1,836 people died! Hilarious! Pass the Bloody Mary mix, Bunny, and move the beach chair, the tides comin' in! Amelia Bauer held the camera steady.
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By Joshua SteinComment by TheBigDoggy: The caption for the photo of the old guy napping (or dying): He's just playing out the string. more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
Inside The Star Room
If burgers and barbecues represent the best the Hamptons have to offer, then clubs like the Star Room, Dune and the Pink Elephant represent the Hamptons at their wondrous and strange worst. These nightclubs remind us of the beginning scenes of the Warriors when all the gangs gather in Van Cortland Park. Amelia Bauer caught the glory and the agony on film. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Scout: I'm most offended by the popped collar on the pink shirt worn by the guy to the left. more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
The East Hampton Townies
After trying to buy the Blue Book at Bookhampton in East Hampton (they were "out" of the social register, but they'd take my number), we ran into this kind of scary bunch of kids hanging out outside of Starbucks. The ringleader—we'll call him Brian—sported an Iron Cross tattoo on his arm. Above it was written "Race..." and "Culture..." Underneath it, he said, he was planning to get "History..." added on. He had carved "FTS" into his calf. It stood for "Fuck the System," he explained. His friends, who ranged in age from 13 to16, nodded. "I was part of the system," said one sullen girl. "Me too," volunteered a younger boy named Justin, who turned out to be Brian's brother. The system, it turned out, was the juvenile detention system. Couples clad in short white Ralph Lauren shorts and salmon polo shirts looked at me and Amelia Bauer as we chatted with the locals. The kids stared straight back. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by the earl grey: whatever the reason Im glad the eh beach overseers have prevented this punkish riffraff from ruining the amazing natural beauty... more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
'The Cube' Replicates In East Hampton
Driving aimlessly around East Hampton's backroads we came across this parking lot. Holy cannoli, we said, is that the Astor Place Cube? What is that doing here? Don't tell me those skate punks also weekend in East Hampton and brought the Cube—properly called "Alamo," by the way—out with them! We lurked in wait for 20 minutes and no scruffy urchins with cardboard signs reading "Hungry, Traveling, Please Help" showed up. Turns out the Cube's sculptor Tony Rosenthal lives in Southampton and a similar iteration was installed in front of Guild Hall, a local museum. Now this one keeps company with two Port-a-Potties in a parking lot. The argument could be made that this is the ideal spot for it.
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By Joshua SteinComment by Smirk: Who opened the Hellraiser box in East Hampton? Oh, that's right - EVERYONE WHO LIVES THERE. more » | Other threads
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the more you know
What Really Happened in Amagansett This Weekend
What follows is like aversion therapy for those who might want to go to the Hamptons. On Saturday night in Amagansett, as Jessica Coen reported today at New York mag, the sundry foodie blogging glitterati gathered for a burger cook-off. Coen was there to support her man Lockhart Steele, our (and her!) former boss at this very website. She looks really happy. That "typical summer share house" was Eater honcho Ben Leventhal's, and it is called "Southfork." Julia Allison was there too! She was cozying up with College Humor's Jakob Lodwick. Later they would have a huge knock-down drag-out fight but then go on to make up. Former Glamour blogger and Gawker enemy Alyssa Shelasky was munching on Doritos poolside, as was weirdly attractive photographer Jessica Craig-Martin. Hampton's Style editor Deb Schoeneman was there, as was College Humor millionaire and (coincidence!) Hampton's Style Contributing Editor Ricky Van Veen. His pictures can be found here; the one above is the only one of Julia Allison topless, just to save you time searching. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Trackback: Anyone can be found online, but only a few people can be “Internet famous.” And Jakob Lodwick (cofounder of College... more » | Other threads
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alumni notes
Scenes from what appears to be Gawker alum Jessica Coen and her boyfriend's Amagansett beach house, where Times food writer Peter Meehan, Spotted Pig owner Ken Friedman and chef David Chang grill burgers. Update: Ah ha! Is actually their friend Ben's house! [NY] -
the hamptons
Mort Zuckerman Pitches, Ken Auletta Catches
On Saturday afternoon, in a dusty softball field behind the East Hampton Waldbaum's, media mogul Mort Zuckerman was stretching his calves. For a captain of industry, his legs were remarkably rickety. On his right calf, a messy bandage alluded to some frailty. But this was Zuckerman's day. For 25 years he'd played in the East Hampton Artist and Writers Annual Softball Game; he is also often a sponsor. Today he and his fellow "writers" (clad in blue jerseys) were squaring off against the Hamptons Artists; that squad, in red, included noted artist Christie Brinkley. Amelia Bauer was there to catch the action. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by TheKydd: I've seen Lipton eat... He actually guards his food like someone's going sneak up behind him and steal the cookie... more » | Other threads
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back to the hamptons
We've sort of recovered enough from our horrendous Hamptons inferno two weekends ago to head back into the belly of the riche this weekend. We've got a good and full itinerary, but any other suggestions for events, people and places are most welcome! Do you have Hamptons questions? We have Hamptons answers. (N.B. "Why is it not bombed yet?" is not a question.)
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By Joshua SteinComment by francophony: Stay away! Stay away! The only good thing about spending any time whatsoever in the Hamptons is the feeling of... more » | Other threads
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welcome to brazil
Rich People In Wealthy Enclave Host Fancy Dinner Party
There are some mornings when you open the paper and see a story that fills you with dread, because you know that, no matter how repellent—or, because it is just so repellent—everyone will be talking about it. And so we had a flash of such anguish on Saturday, when we caught the piece about Billy and Debbie Bancroft, a family who summer in the Hamptons and rest-of-the-year on the Upper East Side. The article caught the Bancrofts in a moment of party crisis. More »
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By abalkComment by Sheryl Underwood's Purse: Da Crib is Le Petit Trianon-Hampton. I can feel the revolution getting closer... more » | Other threads
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lining up to be a hot lunch
Hi, Chum!
That dude they based the guy in "Jaws" on is still boating around Montauk—leaving a "mile-long slick of meat, blood and oil" in his path to attract sharks. Sure, the water's 75 degrees—but are you still sure you want to hit the beach? More »
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By ChoireComment by raincoaster: I think a "mile-long slick of meat, blood and oil" is more or less what Lindsay Lohan leaves when she... more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
East Hampton Street Style
Main Street in East Hampton is an avenue of dreams, as long as your dreams consist of having five Calypso boutiques on one block and a deli that serves sandwiches like the East Hampton (chicken salad of the day), the Southampton (turkey) and the Water Mill (grilled veggies). Or if your dreams, like ours, include characters like Roland Nivelais, a fashion designer who "just doesn't get sportswear" and who came directly from riding his horse, pronounced hohss, who is named Rigot Le Faire. Laurel Ptak and I cruised the strip looking for those East Hamptonites who "expressed themselves through their style." More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by PandoraSpocks: @Pope John Peeps II: They were tight, those shorts he wore in the movie. And so was I that night.It... more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
The Monogram Store
Right next to the "A Little Bit of What You Fancy" boutique on Newton Lane in East Hampton is the perpetually bustling Monogram Shop. We all love to see our names in print. But only the wealthy have the means to see their names embroidered onto almost everything they own: Baby sweaters, towels, tissue boxes, even diapers. Pragmatically of course, it makes sense. You wouldn't want Reese to grab Blake's towel by accident or Genevieve to mistake her baby sweater (only $85) for Panache's or even worse Epitome's! Also? Bob Balaban plays tennis. Who knew?
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ask an expert
Faran Krentcil On How 'Lucky' Would Describe This Man's Thigh
Yesterday, we learned that Lucky magazine has some funny ways with descriptive language. Today, we learned that it's important to wear sunscreen, courtesy of Hamptonite Dick Stern and the parts of him that weren't obscured by the Week In Review section. We had to wonder: how would Lucky editors describe Dick Stern's tanned hide if it was stretched across the frame of, say, a Fall dream handbag, and not a person? We asked Fashionista editor Faran Krentcil, who promptly responded: "Ridiculously luxe supersoft crinkly leather in the most delicious shade of caramel." Also: "Bottegan." -
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What The People Are Reading In East Hampton
The best way to read the New York Times's Week In Review section is: On the beach, clad in just a Speedo, whilst smoking a cigar. Certainly the man pictured, an awesome snowbird named Dick Stern, agrees. On Sunday, we checked out the beach, as they say "out there." (For non-snobs, that means we went to Main Beach, which is pretty much an extension of East Hampton's Main Street.) Awkward photographer of the rich Laurel Ptak and I hit the dunes to find out what East Hamptonites read. More »
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