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The Top Eight Celebrity Tax Evaders

After clutching at the spotlight, a lot of stars learn how to evade things--like parapazzi, fans, and especially the IRS. Here's a very timely summation I was just sent which details the top celebrity tax evaders of all time. It's free, so don't even think of writing it off! Top Celebrity Tax Evad ... More >>

Eight Great Shows You Haven't Binge-Watched on Netflix Yet

Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Great White Shark

Her name is Mary Lee, she weighs 3,500 pounds, she's swimming around near the Hamptons, and she's writing about her adventures on Twitter. (She's even invented her own shark smiley face, fin and all.) The social media-saavy shark sure gets around fast. Only two weeks ago, she was chilling 200 yards ... More >>

Interview: North Fork Table & Inn's Gerry Hayden

[See More Chef Interviews: Travis Post of Yunnan Kitchen | Dragonfly's Cornelius Gallagher] It's possible that the modest Long Island via Manhattan chef Gerry Hayden would cringe at the comparison to Blue Hill's Dan Barber. However, due to both individuals' devotion to local produce, community, and ... More >>

Vicious Halloween-Time Swan Attack Reminds Us We Are Terrified of Swans

Today, the adorable animals in trouble are the HUMANS. If you loved the video of a turkey chasing down a TV newscaster and scaring her silly (watch it, if you haven't), you may also enjoy this video of a mad swan bent on revenge and taking it out on a family hiding inside their trusty vehicle in Eas ... More >>

Here Is A Song About The Lack Of Magic Possessed By The Hamptons Jitney

If only the MTK Music Festival was still happening this weekend—this ode to the Hamptons Jitney by Nina Katchadourian would have made for a fine, if slightly existential-crisis-inducing, introduction to one of the ways people could have traveled to the East Hampton Airport. (Oh, and if you're ... More >>

Farewell, MTK Music Festival, We Hardly Knew Ye

Sorry guys.​What is it about Long Island and its inability to let multi-day music festivals blossom? Today organizers of the MTK Music Festival—the fashion-forward, Vampire Weekend-headlined event scheduled for next weekend at the East Hampton Airport—announced that they'd pulled t ... More >>

This Month's Dueling East End Music Festivals: How To Tell Them Apart

Take a holiday with Vampire Weekend at the MTK Music Festival. And go shopping! After many stabs at hosting multi-day music festivals on Long Island (Field Day Fest, we knew you when), August 2011, at least for now, brings us two festivals happening on the East End: Escape To New York kicks off tomo ... More >>

Stressed-Out Hamptons Puppies May Get Valium, Earmuffs

via​This Reuters headline really says it all: "Pampered pooches may pop Valium to cope with N.Y. rock festival." Did you get that? We'll expound. East Hampton is playing host to the "Music to Know Festival" August 13 and 14. The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons is located on the same patch o ... More >>

Giant 35,000-Pound Teddy Bear Coming to New York City

via East Hampton Star​Remember your childhood teddy bear? The one you had a truly special friendship with, your very own Mr. Bigglesworth? That guy you dragged to every park, play date, and preschool until he got too dirty and worn out? Your mom then had commit her first truly evil deed as a m ... More >>

Gael Greene Asks Us to Remember Craig Claiborne

​When the Barneys' holiday windows went up last November, Gael Greene took exception to the absence of Craig Claiborne from the display, which featured food innovators and "personalities" past and present. Today, she uses her Fork Play newsletter to elaborate upon her displeasure, and to make ... More >>

Not Even Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel Can Save True Love in The Romantics

Rich Lady Goes Batshit, Busts Up Hamptons Restaurant With Her Shoes

​There is a serious wave of crazy out there, people. Let's call it late August and hope it ends (or hope it doesn't, depending on where on the side of this blog you sit) soon. In the meantime, here's the latest example of What Not to Do: The Entitled Rich Person Edition. Amy Paul, 57, of Rye, ... More >>

Previously Unseen Andy Warhol Images Debut in East Hampton This Weekend

Photo by Dennis Hopper, Courtesy of Eric Firestone Gallery.Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney, and Jeff Goodman in 1963.​Warhol fans won't want to miss the largest ever collection of Andy images -- including 100 previously unseen photos of one of our favorite quintessential New Yorke ... More >>

Beach, Please: New York Officially Has America's Best Beach

Via National Geographic. Beaches be jealous. Click to enlarge.​It's likely irritating enough for the rest of the country that we think everything here is the greatest thing ever. It must get even more difficult when we know that's the case. Like when they're told by a coastal research professo ... More >>

Poor Baby Whale Stuck in East Hampton

A young whale may find itself in trouble if it ventures to East Hampton alone.​Warning: This is a sad one. Not only do we hate when an adorable animal is in trouble, this particular adorable animal, a humpback whale calf, is stuck in possibly the worst place for whales -- Main Beach at East Ha ... More >>

Turns Out Alan Greenspan Is An Oil Painting After All

thegallerysagharbor.com​There is, according to the Wall Street Journal, a market in oil paintings of Alan Greenspan, and like most markets it's somewhat depressed of late.

New Food Stores Opening in the Chelsea Market, Including Lucy's Whey

​ Nearly a year ago, I wrote a scathing story about the Chelsea Market, detailing how the culinary complex had lost several of its food stores, while others were turning from providing serious supplies and equipment to more touristic uses, evidenced by the explosion in cupcake vending. Non-fo ... More >>

Under the Toque--Kiddie Chef Signs TV Deal; Mario Magliaccio Has NOT Moved Back to Italy

Leah Cohen, who has been named executive chef at Centro Vinoteca, said her food would differ from her predecessor Anne Burrell's in that it would be less rustic, more modern, "incorporating a little bit of Asian notes and flavors into the dishes." [The Feedbag] Sigh. A 14-year-old "chef" from East ... More >>

Soul Sonic Summer: Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor

A veteran novelist looks back at his teen self—with your monkey ass

Robert Wilson Pays Homage to Suzushi Hanayagi at the Guggenheim

I'm On PBS With Edie Beale

A.M. 7-28-08: Big Oil Agitprop, Hamptons Gloom, Release the Hounds

The Hamptons Gallery Booze Bust: Day 2

The Rich Are Not Like You And Me: Foreclosing in the Hamptons and Goldman Sachs' City Windfall

Christian From Project Runway Has a Boyfriend!

Siddown and shuddup! It's da Kollege of Musical Knowledge.

The Eastern Bloc

Yaeger Travels to the Hamptons. Rides Jitney. Eats Muffin.

'The Beales of Grey Gardens'

New Lessons in Class

NEST school kerfuffle pits working class, one rich visionary against slightly privileged middle tier

Divagations With Music

Living in the pastiche: Are the strong, dotty women of Grey Gardens the real Beale?

Blonde Ambition

Portrait of a lady: Reese takes on Thackeray's social-climber heroine while playing herself

Dean Calls Clark a Republican

Ex-Vermont Governor Shows Confidence, Defies Media's Harried Portrait

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Letters

Stay Alive

••• Gins and Arakawa vs. The Grim Reaper

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1972 Sailboat

No Scrubs

Don't Want Your Money, Don't Want None of Your Time

Attention, All You Simply Marvelous Shoppers!

The love of her life

We got your hip-hop hall of fame

The Rubber Match: Beaches Bounce Back

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Erode to Knowledge

Tracts of My Tears

Tooth To Tell

Hamptonites Gather Baby Teeth To Fight Radiation

Maid Man

Maid's room in Park Avenue building