Late last year, a man named Aidan Vola, a plumber by trade, decided to launch a society magazine called New York Hamptonite. Using $118,000 of his own savings, he assembled a sales team and rented a small office in Bridgehampton. At 3 a.m. on May 22, 2009, the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, his distributor Read More
On a Friday evening in June, two blond teen heiresses were getting dressed for a party. Nicky Hilton, who is 18, and Amanda Hearst, who is 16, were in Ms. Hilton’s parents’ sprawling home in Southampton. They tried on outfits and said things to each other such as, “Why don’t you get your mom to Read More
On the evening of Saturday July 8, actor Alec Baldwin sipped from a plastic cup filled with orange liquid under a white tent that had been erected on the Sag Harbor pier. Dressed in a blue shirt, suit jacket, and some nifty leather moccasins, his sunglasses fairly embedded in his plump face, Mr. Baldwin was Read More
