Hamptons Real-Estate Ad War Spreading?

Weak in the knees over the competition for lucrative Hamptons real-estate ads?

Here, at the corner of 54th Street and Lexington, is a fallen soldier: a box for Dan’s Papers, the beloved and batty Hamptons weekly. Although it’s not exactly involved in the drama between The East Hampton Star and the budding East Read More

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • Ann Coulter doesn’t like inconsiderate liberals in East Hampton: “It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those ‘eco-friendly’ mansions… Liberals are already comfortably ensconced in their beachfront estates.” But who else is ensconced? Ms. Coulter has a $1.7 Read More

  • Marriage Is the Dark Horse Alternative

    TEDDY: I woke up last Sunday in a dorm room in Harvard’s Dunster House, logged into facebook.com and noticed a recently published photo album entitled, “Austen and Tito’s Wedding!!! Location: East Hampton.” It wasn’t the first album of this nature I’d encountered. I contemplated waking up my lady friend, who is Harvard class of Read More

    Jon Bon Jovi, John Sabini


    photo credit: Jeff Pulver, Bon Jovi fan

    Here is an email I got from a talented artist-turned-political-operative:

    “Hey, Azi, I nominate the following for Coolest Political Fundraiser. If not, then at least Coolest Political Fundraiser Invite.”

    In that spirit, check out these pictures on The Jeff Pulver blog (via JustHillary) of Read More

    George and Hilly

    DR. SELMAN: Good to see you. What’s up?

    HILLY: Nothing.

    DR. SELMAN: Last time you were here, Hilly was about to go to Rome.

    HILLY: It was fun! It wasn’t anything like when we went to Rome, because George wasn’t there and I was with work people, and the first couple nights we were actually Read More

    Katie Couric Buys $6.3 M. Hamptons Home


    Goodbye Matt Lauer, hello Hamptons!

    After a tear-jerking send-off on Wednesday, Katie Couric is ready to move on: to the Hamptons!

    The future CBS News anchor just bought a $6.3 million home in East Hampton, according to the Wall Street Journal.

    It seems like a nice way to spend the Read More

    Art and Artists on a Pedestal— In Town and in the Country

    On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance artist Marina Abramović re-enacted a Joseph Beuys performance from 1965 called How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Honey was used to adhere gold leaf to her face; it fluttered like flame at the back of her head. She Read More

    Jerry ‘Pork Chop’ Della Femina

    Jerry Della Femina would make a marvelous politician. The famed advertising mastermind seems to have a knack for composing the kind of populist, pragmatic screeds that worked oh-so-well on the campaign trail in ’04. His weekly column, “Jerry’s Ink,” published weekly in his own paper, the East Hampton Independent, contains diatribes on everything from piping Read More