In California, where I’m from, we don’t know the power of the traditional summer vacation—the migration of souls, en masse, from the city heat and humidity to beaches and the casual land of time-off. On the West Coast, the summer air is cooler, there is no humidity, the nights cool off with a chilly fog, […]
What is the point of a new bikini, really, if one is going to gorge on the great eats of Montauk, NY and grow ripples of flab? Thus the joy of visiting a beach town in the early fall. So many flowy cover-ups to hide your excesses! So much food to suck down with the […]
Montauk after Labor Day is like the $1 Oyster Happy Hour at local palate palace South Edison: briny, simple and divine. Sure, as of this weekend, there are still hour-long Friday/Saturday waits for dinner at the best of the best. But for the most part, the see-and-be-seen weekenders who heart Long Island’s easternmost point have […]