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An Exclusive Interview With DJ Cassidy: What Turns His Tables
[Photo via GuestofaGuest] Even with AXE Lounge’s impressive line up of DJs for the summer season (and almost equally impressive cloud of man musk at the door), there was one name that really stood out to us when we were sent over our first look at who would be hitting up their DJ booth. DJ Cassidy has created sweet music for the ears of just about every celebrity and who’s-who around, and we’re not just talking within the hip-hop world. Oprah, J.Lo, Diddy, the MTV Music Awards… The President?! The Native New Yorker who is one of the world’s most well-known DJs, and who was in action at AXE just this last Saturday, talks to us about Obama’s inauguration, relationships, vacation spots, producing, fashion, and well, just about everything… except Beyonce and JayZ’s wedding that is. So close!
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Interview: Celebrating 80 Years With Montauk Yacht Club’s Executive Chef Michael Domitrovich
[Michael Domitrovich. Photo via PaperMag] The Montauk Yacht Club is celebrating their 80th anniversary this year with a jam-packed weekend from start to finish including a Friday night Brooklyn Brewery BBQ, an activity-filled “Swinging Saturday Lunch” followed by live jazz, dancing, and a 1920’s faux casino on the Yacht Club’s waterfront Great Lawn for their Roaring 20’s bash. We had a chance to interview the yacht club’s new executive chef Michael Domitrovich who introduced a new Southern flavor to the yacht club’s Gulf Coast Kitchen, Hurricane Alley, Barracuda Bar, and Turtle Lounge this summer. The young and talented Domitrovich is not only an executive chef but also a professional multi-tasker with a published cookbook and a few successful plays under his belt. More »
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Interview With Nutritionist Layne Lieberman:The Do’s And Don’ts Of Summer From The Healthy Eating Guru And Hamptons Local
[Layne Lieberman] The sun may not be shining over the East End right now but it HAS to return at some point and we will be bathing suit ready when it does, as should you. We had the chance to chat with nutritional expert and fellow Hamptonite Layne Lieberman, who between creating recipes for Westhampton’s Baby Moon Restaurant and lending her expert tips to KingKullen.com and the Produce for Better Health Foundation, gave the GofGHamptons team some great tips on what to do and what NOT to do while heading to the beach in the Hamptons this summer. Click below for Layne’s advice on the perfect summer meal, low calorie cocktails, and how to look your best in your favorite summer dress… More »
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Interview With Steven Alan: On His New Store In The Hamptons, Another Birthday, And What It Means To Be A “Hipster Icon”
[Happy Birthday Steven Alan!]
Pop-up shops seem to be… well, popping up all over the place this summer. But one we’re really excited about is Steven Alan’s beachy casual boutique, located on 52 Newton Lane, in East Hampton. The larger-than-life designer literally does it all (showroom manager, jet-setter, dad) - including opening up a store in three days. No wonder he was struggling to hold on to his voice by the time I got him on the phone yesterday. After meeting him on Sunday, it was a pleasure talking to him again - the guy who has been called a “hipster icon”, and designer I’ve been following since I went in search of the perfect button down, is about as laid-back and cool as his clothing. Here he talks to G of G about the pop-up shop, his Hampton favorites, his Birthday, and just about everything else in between. More »
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Interview With Matt Levine: The Hamptons Welcomes The Georgica
Matt Levine is gearing up for a busy summer. While The Eldridge and the Hotel on Rivington are still kicking it in NYC, his latest venture, The Georgica, is getting ready to open its’ doors in the Hamptons this Friday. We had the chance to ask him a few questions about the new “eastbound getaway” which will host its’ grand opening over Memorial Day weekend. Levine talks thinking outside the box, the essence of Georgica, and The Chrystie, of course.
Read below for our full interview with Mr. Levine… More »
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The Hamptons: The Disney World Of New York??
[From Stephanie and Liam's skydiving adventure]
This past weekend, at the Red Cross benefit in East Hampton, George Gurley approached us to ask to describe our summer out East this season. I couldn’t come up with anything “juicy” enough for his column (”Summer of Surf Lodge?” didn’t seem to hold enough scandal for him), though I pointed him to a couple of friends who I was sure could satisfy his debaucherous-seeking pen. Stephanie Wei and Liam McMullam gave him a full account of their sky diving adventure, for his piece titled: “Stephanie Goes Bombs-A-Wei From Plane In Lark With Liam McMullan“, as well as some fabulous one liners from Stephanie that are too good to not share:
“After declaring it the summer of debauchery, decadence and absurdity, she said the Hamptons feel forced this summer, like Disney World.”
“It’s just that everything is a little bit over-the-top,” she said. “I walk into parties sometimes and it’s like, did they import these people?….
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Tripoli’s Travels: An Interview With Surfer/Curator Tripoli Patterson
Tripoli Patterson is a pro surfer. He’s lived in Bali and New Zealand. He puts together fantastic exhibitions for artists he discovers in his travels. His tee-shirt line’s like Christopher Holland’s on acid. New York’s hipster elite love him. So too do older, more established gallery owners. Among the east end’s young wave riders, he is God. And he is only 24. In part one of our interview, he divulges the world’s best beaches, Brazilian ladies, and New Yorkers’ naïveté.
What’s the story behind “Tripoli?” Have you visited it?
My Mother always love the name “Trip” for a boy so when she had me that’s what she wanted to name me. However my father wasn’t as found of the name, probably thinking it sounded a lil too, you know, Trippy. So my aunt Heidi came up with the name Tripoli which pleased my dad, because he is a very religious man and it refers to the name of the three kings who brought Mary presents for Jesus’ birth. And my Mom got her way as well because she knew she could call me Trip for short.
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Jeff Goldstein On His Glaciers Of Ice
Here in the Hamptons there are many boutiques and labels which strive to capture the essence of patrician weekend-wear. While the old guard still sport their St. James stripes and lightweight Chanel tweeds and the unsure stick to Ralph, Lily, and whatever the Intermix mannequins are wearing, the young, the artsy, and the sartorially aware movers and shakers have learned to use Blue&Cream in East Hampton as their closet, stylist, and evening hangout par excellence.
Curious as to the origins of this rather avant-garde collective, we hit up the store’s creator and owner Jeff Goldstein and got him to give us the 411 on juxtaposition, staying ahead of the curve, and why Charlotte Ronson is his muse:
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Beet It: An Interview With The Multi-Talented Literatus Roger Rosenblatt
Quogue’s reining renaissance man on liberal arts colleges, teaching writing vs. writing, and why he loves south shore winters.
Roger Rosenblatt has been the essayist for TIME and the New York Times, and a correspondent for PBS‘ NewsHour. He was the New Republic’s and US World Report and News‘ senior editor. He’s written 12 nationally acclaimed, often best-selling books. He’s amassed a Peabody, an Emmy, and two Polks. And he does not use email. I ask how such a feat is possible in our age of round-the-clock virtual connection. “A combination of inborn stupidity and laziness,” he tells me.
The people he cares about communicating with, and the people who care about communicating with him (me), have to pick up the phone. So Rosenblatt, then, is somewhat of an old-schooler. A hyperobservant, savagely witty old-schooler, as evidenced by his newest novel, the new-school satire Beet. More »
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The Kettlebell Of The Ball: Interview With Lorna Kleidman
When Rachelle and I first met Lorna Kleidman in the lobby of Core Dynamics, the same thoughts crossed both of our minds: a) this woman is a lean, mean, fighting machine, and b) how? The answer lies in a little metal ball with a trapazoid-shaped handle, and the determination of one asthmatic boxing burn-out to wield it. Somewhere between Lorna’s physical appearance, her friendly, yet empassioned demeanor, and the fact that, in just three years, she went from greenhorn to International Master of Sport and National Champion, she sold us. Below, Lorna talks Spetznaz, Ferraris, and why you’ll never need to run again…
When we first watched you, we were a little apprehensive. The way the exercises are performed, with all that momentum… it looks like they could hurt you!
Like any skill (golf, swimming), if you don’t learn proper technique, you could potentially get injured. But the reality is that once you learn the fundamental drills, the swing, for example, you have a full-body movement that is efficient, effective and less injurious than most other modalities. That’s why the Russians made kettlebells the only tool to keep their populous fit- it kept farmers, factory workers, laborers strong and productive, reducing health care costs. More »
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Interview With NY Times Best Selling Author (Of My Go To Beach Reads): Emily Giffin
[Emily Giffin signs books at Intermix in Manhattan]
In between book readings, numerous posings with fans across the country, posh parties, and interviews with the likes of Candace Bushnell, Emily Giffin was gracious enough to stop by our humble space for my most enjoyable interview yet. During the lunch, (put on by the staff of Dean and Deluca), I quickly discovered that this two-time NY Times best selling author, no, more importantly; this woman who satisfied my sister and I’s guilty pleasures of chick lit during summers spent on lakes in places far removed from Manhattan soirees, was actually as fun in real life as her words were for me on paper.
Her down-to-earthness is shared with identical parts fabulousness, and both come out within minutes of meeting her. She’s been called “A modern day Jane Austen.” and I like the comparison, as her heroines are becoming equally influential, (though I doubt her predecessor was as hip). Toting her addicting charisma, her radiant smile, and her new book, Love The One You’re With (which I finished in two days), Emily dishes out her real life tale… a best selling story in itself.
When did you know that you wanted to be a writer?
Well, I’ve always been interested in writing. It’s sort of one of my earliest passions. As a little girl I would write stories and poems. I still have them all saved I would say as early as four or five. I used to say “I want to be an author when I grow up.” I thought about Journalism, but there was something about going to college and graduating, It sort of felt like a weird thing to all of a sudden, graduate from college and try to write a novel. I was less interested in journalism at that point. So, I went to Law school by default.
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