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There’s an application for guests to download upon their visit. This app unfolds another dimension of the exhibit, from augmented reality imagery to listing businesses with sustainable practices.

Created by Valentino Vettori, Arcadia Earth was designed as a luminescent display for a much darker conversation. Indy caught up with Roe to learn more.

How did you become involved with Arcadia Earth?

I was introduced to Valentino Vettori, who created Arcadia Earth, through my son. My son is connected with Oceanic Global and told Valentino about my work. At the time I was thinking about creating a gyre. As it turned out, he could envision it and thought it would be cool to add mirrors and additional ideas to the piece. So it’s a collaboration with his vision.

How would you describe Valentino’s vision?

He wanted to create this experience that would be taking on the issues that are facing Earth today and us as a species, and that it would be a very immersive experience for people to come from using technology, art, and his ability to create an amazing set. But to use it toward a solution in terms of educating people as opposed to it being a problem.

Have you met the other artists before?

The first Arcadia Earth was last year down in Miami for Miami Art Week. I met other artists last year down there, not all of them.

How do you incorporate the East End into your piece?

I have incorporated all of the marine plastic that I picked up off the local beach in the sculpture. My piece is a chandelier and I actually got a vintage airplane fuselage cover from John Mazur of Lumber and Salt in Jamesport.

It’s a six by six-foot cone shape.

What inspired the piece?

Just after I’d met with Valentino, I was driving home on the North Fork, and I saw this huge cover and I was like, “Oh my god, that would be amazing. It’s so perfect to create this gigantic chandelier.” I had already created a smaller replica of the chandelier gyre in my studio. So it had already been on my mind.

I feel that using fiber optics is a way of bringing in a whole new audience and teaching them about plastics and a way of really engaging people with the art.

There are 14 large gyres around the world. The one that most people know about is the island of plastic out in the Pacific, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the size of Texas, that’s a gyre, the confluence of current and wind.

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The East End’s very own Cindy Pease Roe is part of an immersive exhibit featuring several environmental artists in New York City. Arcadia Earth, open until the end of January 2020, dives into the depth of our waters with 15 rooms and 13,000 square feet of artistic creation, heightened by augmented reality, to a multi-sensory, fully interactive experience. Arcadia, defined as an “image of life that is believed to be perfect” by the Cambridge Dictionary, is more than meets the eye. The maze of colorful hues and seemingly beautiful displays contrasts with a more serious subject, climate change.

Featuring additional works by artists Tamara Kostianovsky, Chika, Meta, Basia Goszczynska, Poramit Thantapalit, Charlotte Becket and Emmy Mikelson, and Etty Yaniv, each of the rooms focuses on a different climate change issue. Through the help of charity and educational partner, Oceanic Global, the art exhibit gives way to an educational tour on the very real threat global warming poses, with factual texts and voice-overs throughout the

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Tickets start at $27 and can be purchased at www.arcadia.earth or at the door. To view more of Roe’s art, visit www.cindypeaseroe.com.

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As a former Navy enlisted and officer (Penn State 1963, NROTC) I am concerned with the Chinese missiles designed to thwart the capabilities of our aircraft carriers, because the anti-ship missiles can be launched beyond the range of our carrier-based aircraft. This places us at a disadvantage countering Chinese threats in the Far East.

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News & Opinion Montauk’s Hero Beach Club In A Jam? Applicant fails to provide guarantee, public hearing in doubt

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Once known as the Smiley Face motel, Montauk’s Hero Beach Club is still seeking approval for parking spaces. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

The Montauk Hero Beach Club, formerly known as the Oceanside Resort, also formerly known as the Smiley Face Motel, has been before the East Hampton Town Planning Board since early 2017, seeking approval for a site plan that includes a restaurant. The application came up again for review by the board on December 4.

The motel was built pre-zoning code, and, as such, could have continued functioning as it has since the 1950s; a motel at the entranceway to downtown Montauk on Montauk Highway, just a dune away from the Atlantic Ocean.

However, the ownership group, headed by Jonathan Krasner, had a different vision for Hero Beach.

Partnering with Bridgeton Holdings, a luxury resort and hotel management organization, the site was renovated and transformed from a somewhat sleepy motel into an upscale operation, complete with an on-premises bar.

As a motel built before the zoning code was written, the fact that most of the parking spaces used at Hero Beach Club are in the public’s right of way on both Montauk Highway and the western side of the property, along South Eton Street, was moot, since the motel’s

parking scheme was grandfathered in.

But adding the restaurant meant that the site would have to meet town regulations regarding the number of onsite parking spaces for both the motel and the restaurant, which made obtaining approval a challenging chore for the club’s representatives, Britton Bistrian and Tiffany Scarlotta.

That the owners had obtained a liquor license and built a bar without permits from the town did not help the applicants’ standing with the planning board. Nor did a series of signs posted until earlier this year claiming public parking spaces were on the motel’s private property. That the liquor license allows up to 499 patrons to be served at any one time was yet another hurdle the applicants had to get over with the board.

Recently, the applicants offered mitigation to the parking dilemma in several ways. They have agreed, if granted site-plan approval, to install a new septic system. They have also agreed to cap the number of customers on the property at any one time to 200, excepting occasions when Hero Beach obtains a mass gathering permit from the town. In addition, they are adding 11 parking spaces on the south lawn of the motel.

Bistrian and Scarlotta have been pushing to have the application deemed complete, so that it could be scheduled for a public hearing. The board has been adamant that, without a real solution for the discrepancy between the number of onsite parking spaces the code requires and the number Hero Beach is providing, the application remains incomplete.

“The code requires 43 parking spaces. We are providing 47,” Bistrian said December 4. “The big issue here is, they are identifying 47 parking spaces,” Samuel Kramer, the board’s chairman, responded. “It is undeniable that 25 spaces are not on their property.”

There are two paths the Hero Beach applicants could take to get past the parking space jam-up they are stalled in. One is to take the matter to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals and seek a variance from the town’s parking space requirements. The other is for the planning board, after examining all the forms of mitigation being offered for the parking shortage by the applicant, to grant an exemption from the parking requirements, and allow Hero Beach its public hearing. But such an exemption could provide a bad precedent going forward, Kramer warned, adding, “The next

applicant will say, ‘What about us?’”

Ian Calder-Piedmonte suggested the board go ahead with the public hearing, while reserving the right to not issue an exemption for parking until after the hearing is closed. Perhaps hearing from the public on the parking issue might illuminate points board members have overlooked, he said.

Sharon McCobb agreed that public input might be helpful. Eric Schantz, a senior planner for the town, said that lacking both a variance and an exemption from the parking requirements meant the application was not complete. Kramer pointed out that it was not a matter of only a couple of parking spaces, but, rather, a couple of dozen.

Bistrian warned, “If we walk away from this, I think I am inclined to recommend to my client not to go for the variance. That is not a process we want to entertain. So, everything goes away.

The upgraded septic system, the number of people on site, and we operate as we operate. I just want the board to consider that in this discussion.”

At the end of the December 4 meeting, Bistrian and Scarlotta were to get a public hearing for the application, as long Continued On Page 46.

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EH Arts Council Has Wins, Losses Encouraging, supporting working local artists is the mission

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Jane Martin and Janet Jennings co-chair the East Hampton Arts Council. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

The East Hampton Arts Council held its monthly meeting December 11 at East Hampton’s town hall.

Co-chairs Janet Jennings and Jane Martin were joined by Teresa Lawler, newest member Rich Mothes, and, remotely, Carol Steinberg. Also at the meeting was East Hampton Town Board member Sylvia Overby, who acts as liaison between the local government and the arts council. The EHAC was founded in 2013. [Editor’s note: The Independent’s Bridget LeRoy also sits on the council, but was not in attendance that night.]

The council’s mission is to support and encourage all forms of art, encompassing all media. “Our scope is rather limited,” Jennings said, with Martin add-

ing, “limited and wide at the same time.”

The focus is on working artists in East Hampton.

The group has created many different initiatives for artists. One of those is called Creative Networking Nights. Held at the Golden Eagle barn on North Main Street, each night, five or six artists present their work. The event gets a good turnout, Martin said. “It is a chance for an artist to stand up before a crowd,” Jennings added.

The next scheduled networking night will be held on Friday, April 12, at 6 PM, with work by Kate Mueth, Chris Walsh, Margery Gosnell-Qua, and Aaron Warkov.

Another event that is popular and useful to local artists involves bringing

in members of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts to meet and educate local artists about issues, such as copyright law.

Through that program, Overby said, artists learn “how to conduct their business in a legal way and not get taken.” Artists, Overby pointed out, are no different than other small business owners.

The council can point to signature successes, such as the installment of the Bill King sculpture, “Nureyev & Fontaine,” on the great lawn of the East Hampton town government complex on Pantigo Road. It was donated by Laura Cutler.

Another triumph is the role the EHAC played in helping the Art Barge on the Napeague stretch attain historic status.

But there have been disappointments, too. The pending demolition of the Brooks-Park house on Neck Path in Springs is one. The council had pushed to preserve the structures, but lacked the needed funding until it was too late, and the house and cottages were declared unsalvageable, with the town board approving the demolition. It was suggested by an observer that perhaps next time they are in a similar fight, they will be successful.

“There isn’t a next time once it is demolished,” Martin said.

Jennings reported to her fellow council members that she had approached LTV about possibly renting small studio space, in which artists could display their work. Unfortunately, Continued On Page 46.

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EH Town Fast-Tracks Cash For New Septic Systems Rebate language gone; direct payments for approved systems

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The East Hampton Town Board passed legislation on December 10 that changes the way the town will pay for new lownitrogen septic systems voluntarily installed on properties within the town.

It expanded the program to include commercial properties located “within village boundaries within the Town of East Hampton.”

Gone from the law are the words “rebate” and “reimbursement,” replaced by the words “incentive” and “payment.” Rather than making a property owner wait for rebates, the town now is willing to directly pay a contractor installing “a Suffolk County Department of Health Services approved low-nitrogen sanitary system.”

In addition, property owners will no longer have to obtain a building permit for the installation of a new system.

Instead, an owner need only apply for what is called a “limited septic registry authorization.” That is described in the

new law as “a form of permit, issued in lieu of a building permit, together with continuing obligations on the part of the property owner, issued in circumstances in which an existing sanitary system is proposed to be replaced voluntarily, with a low-nitrogen system, with no expansion of sanitary system capacity, no increase in the proposed occupancy of the premises, and no proposed change in use of the premises.”

The new law reads, “The incentive will be for the direct payment to the contractor for and/or reimbursement to the eligible property owner of approved costs associated with replacement, including equipment, labor, materials and excavation directly related to the removal of the existing sanitary system and/ or installation of the new low-nitrogen sanitary system, to include reasonable site restoration costs to pre-existing

Gone from the law are the words “rebate” and “reimbursement,” replaced by the words “incentive” and “payment.”

conditions.”

The town board, the law states, will be responsible for periodically setting and adjusting the payment schedule.

Kids Holiday Camp

The presents have been opened and played with. What do you do with the littles when they’re going stircrazy and you’re on the verge of drinking before noon?

The Clubhouse on Daniels Hole Road in East Hampton has the answer. The week of December 23 (except Christmas Day) and the week of December 30, two junior programs are being offered for ages seven and up. Monday through Friday, from 10:30 AM until 2 PM, kids can enjoy bowling, the arcade, and lunch, plus a two-hour tennis clinic with East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s pros.

There are different variations of clinics, camps, and price points. To check out everything the Clubhouse has to offer kids and adults (including the New Year’s Eve bash), visit the website at www.ehitclubhouse. com or call 631-537-BOWL. BL

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Goldberg’s Sag Harbor Location Helmed By Village Resident Affordable breakfast, lunch for families the goal, chef says

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com In expanding to Sag Harbor, taking over the old Golden Pear space on Main Street, the Goldberg bagel empire has added a new teammate, Sag Harbor native and chef Dan Mitchell. Mitchell has teamed up with fellow full-time Sag Harbor resident Paul Wayne, a partner in several Goldberg’s Famous Bagels stores across the town of East Hampton.

Mitchell, a graduate of Pierson High School, was a regular customer of Goldberg’s in East Hampton on Pantigo Road, which is how he met Wayne. The two became close through their children, who play team sports like basketball and baseball together in Sag Harbor.

Wayne’s father, Marty Goldberg, was one of four sons of Izzy Goldberg, whom Wayne calls the original “bagel maven.”

Marty Goldberg changed his last name

to Wayne, after his favorite actor, John Wayne, during a brief pursuit of an acting career. He soon returned to the bagel world and passed on his love for the business to his son, Paul Wayne, who now has partnership in Goldberg’s Bagels shops in Wainscott, East Hampton, on Napeague Stretch, and two in Montauk, along with the new store in Sag Harbor.

Wayne, who greets his customers at the Pantigo Road store in East Hampton, has a knack for recalling how they like their bagels. “Pumpernickel, lox, slice of onion, slice of tomato, capers, and tofu spread? he asks one, assuredly.” Mitchell works in the “back of the house.”

Mitchell’s first job was as a dishwasher at the Corner Bar in Sag Harbor at 14 years old. “I gradually worked my way up to prep cook, then on to line cook . . .

got all my way up the line to grill.” Mitchell left to go to college, then returned to work in the Corner Bar kitchen, before leaving again, this time to attend Johnson & Wales University College of Culinary Arts in Charlotte. Since graduation, he has served as chef at both Edgewater Restaurant in Hampton Bays and the Corner Bar.

“I have always been a ‘back of the house’ guy,” Mitchell said. “The challenge for me is to be more up front.” He said that it “is not always easy to break out of your comfort zone. But I am getting there. I am working on it. You can’t just jump onto the stage the first day,” he said, laughing.

Mitchell and Wayne have a common vision for the new store. They see it as more of a sit-down deli than simply a bagel shop, a place where a family in Sag Harbor can go for an affordable breakfast or lunch. While only open a few weeks, they are already doing a brisk business in brisket, pastrami, and corned beef.

The fresh homemade chicken soup and matzoh ball soup are very popular, as well. In the morning, of course, it is eggs and more eggs, cooked to order by Veronica Leon of Sag Harbor.

Mitchell said The Hobo sandwich, consisting of bacon, egg, cheese and hash browns on bread, a roll, or a bagel, is popular with high school students. The homemade chili is a big seller with that demographic as well.

“When I was a kid, every Saturday, Sunday morning, I always woke up early to have my dad take me to The Paradise across the street. Back in the day, The Paradise was your luncheonette diner, old school, with milkshakes, real mom and pop, with counter booths,” said Mitchell.

His father would have coffee with his friends, while young Dan would sit in the corner drinking a chocolate milk with a bowl of cereal. Then his father would take him down the street to The Ideal stationery store to buy a comic book. “That was the biggest deal in the world to me. I want to have that place for my kids. Goldberg’s on Saturday and Sunday mornings,” he said.

Festival Of Lights

The North Fork Reform Synagogue kicks off the Jewish holidays with a Chanukah service on Friday, December 20, at 8 PM. It’s BYOM, bring your own menorahs. For further information, go to www.northforkreformsynagogue.org.

In East Hampton, the Jewish Center of the Hamptons is celebrating a “pop-up Chanukah” at Nick & Toni’s on Sunday, December 22, at 5 PM. For more information, visit the website at www.jcoh.org.

Enjoy a menorah lighting and latkes with the Temple Israel Riverhead at 5 PM at the Riverfront Park.

To find out more, go to www.templeisraelriverhead.org.

In Greenport, it all begins on Sunday at 5 PM, when members of the Congregation Tifereth Israel will gather in Mitchell Park to light the first candle on Greenport’s giant menorah. Jews and non-Jews are invited to witness the menorah lighting. For more information, visit www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org.

Temple Adas Israel will celebrate the lighting of the menorah on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor with a community candle lighting at 6 PM on Sunday. There will be blessings, songs, hot chocolate, sufganiyot, and even glow sticks for the kids.

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ORSTED, THREE WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT. IN FACT, THEY COULD JEOPARDIZE THE ENTIRE GREEN ENERGY MOVEMENT.

Here’s why.

ENERGY THAT’S TOO EXPENSIVE FOR LONG ISLAND

The energy provided by Orsted’s proposed South Fork wind power will generally be the most expensive ever purchased in Long Island’s history. Nearly double the cost of any other current wind energy projects under development. And more than four times the cost of conventional energy in the New York State markets.

How is that good for the green movement? For our town?

EXCESSIVE ENERGY CAPACITY WE DON’T NEED

There is increasing evidence that LIPA can solve its power needs on the East End in a far more efficient and affordable way, making the need for Orsted’s expensive and subscale energy project unnecessary in as little as five years after it is scheduled to open. Yet, this South Fork project would lock in expensive power for at least 20

years - boosting the profits for Orsted at our expense.

That will only undercut confidence in the green energy movement.

BROKEN PROMISES

Orsted’s behavior continues to be less than transparent.

For example, trust in their written promise to work in good faith to explore Hither Hills and reach a settlement that avoided Wainscott was, after the election, betrayed

by Orsted who, according to the implication of media reports abandoned their sham consideration of the Hither Hills site. This deception hardly helps the green energy movement’s credibility.

LET’S MAKE THIS RIGHT

Let’s stop this movement in the wrong direction. Go to wainscott.org. Learn more about how we can do the right thing the right way.

Do the right thing the right way. Go to Wainscott.org to support a sustainable green energy future on Long Island.

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December PEP Talk Peconic Estuary Program’s CAC meets to forward goals

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

The Peconic Estuary Program’s Citizens’ Advisory Committee met on December 5 to discuss a new logo, a new storyboard, and more.

The draft version of “The Story of the Peconic Estuary” contains information about what’s been called “one

of the last great places in the Western Hemisphere” by the Nature Conservancy.

The Peconic Estuary lies between the North and South forks. It begins at Brookhaven National Lab with the headwaters of the Peconic River, spans

the several bays from Flanders to Gardiners, and ends in Block Island Sound between Plum Island and Montauk Point.

In total, the Peconic Estuary Study Area includes more than 158,000 surface water acres and 125,000 land acres. The Peconic Estuary Study Area consists of more than 100 distinct bays, harbors, embayments, and tributaries.

In 1992, the Peconic Estuary became the 20th estuary in the nation to receive the designation as an “Estuary of National Significance” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Peconic Estuary Program — a collaborative partnership of local, state, and federal governments, citizens, environmental groups, businesses, industries, and academic institutions — was established.

Currently, the PEP is working on

updating its comprehensive conservation and management plan from 2001, and submitted a draft for public view in September of this year. The goals, of course, include clean water and healthy ecosystems, but also improved partnerships and engagements, and to help communities be more resilient to climate change.

A spokesperson for the Peconic Estuary Program said that the plans probably wouldn’t be finalized for “The Story of the Peconic Estuary,” the new logo, and the CCMP until the spring.

To learn more, and to engage in any of its various programs and educational events, visit PEP’s website at www.peconicestuaryprogram.org. To view the storyboard discussed at the December meeting, visit the same website and look under “Protect the Peconic” for more information.

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Hit And Run Victim Identified

Compiled by Jenna Mackin

Brophy:Woman Of The Year On Thursday, December 12, the Suffolk County Republican Women’s Association gathered at Villa Lombardi in Holbrook to honor Dawn Brophy, who was recognized by the East Hampton Town Republican Committee as its nominee for Suffolk County Woman of the Year.

Dawn and her sister, East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana, spearheaded the cooperation and communication between the EHTRC and the Fusion Party.

LVIS Scholarship Winners The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society of East Hampton announced that there are two winners for this year’s Madelon DeVoe Talley scholarship, Ivonne Tovar-Morales and Sarah Greenbaum.

Tovar-Morales attends Long Island University and is working toward a bachelor’s degree in social work.

Greenbaum is a full-time undergraduate at NYU Tisch at the Kenbar Institute for Film and Television.

EH GOP Holiday Cheer On Friday, December 20, join the East Hampton Town Republican Committee for an Antipasti and Holiday Cheer at Bel Mar Restaurant at Maidstone Park in East Hampton. There will be a cash bar and the event is from 6 to 9 PM.

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A man killed by a hit and run driver in Riverhead has been identified.

Riverhead Town Police identified the victim as Rosario Losardo, who lived at 629 West Main Street. Losardo was 70. The victim’s identity was initially withheld by police pending notification of his next of kin.

Losardo was crossing West Main Street from south to north in the vicinity of his residence just west of Marcy Avenue at about 5 PM on December 2, when he was struck first by an eastbound vehicle and then by a westbound vehicle, police said. The driver of the eastbound vehicle, described by police as a small, white-colored SUV, fled the scene. The driver of the second vehicle stayed at the scene.

Police, on December 3, located the vehicle at an auto body repair shop and subsequently arrested Christopher Oborski, 45, of Center Moriches on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death, a class D felony.

Oborski was arraigned on December 4 before Riverhead Town Justice Allen Smith and released on his own recognizance. He is due back in court on January 27.

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Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Plans Move Rafael Viñoly and HKS named as architecture design team

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

The future site of the new Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Independent/Shannon O’Shea for Stony Brook Southampton Hospital

Two firms have been tapped to design the new Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on the site of the Stony Brook Southampton University.

“Both Rafael Viñoly Architects and HKS Architects are global firms who together bring us brilliant architectural talent and deep and broad healthcare expertise,” said Ken Wright, chairman of the Southampton Hospital Association.

“They have built community hospitals and academic medical centers

and are keenly adept at solving cultural, technological and environmental concerns, as well as those of function, with unique and unprecedented solutions and inspired designs. We are excited to have this vibrant team onboard to help us reshape the healthcare landscape on the East End.”

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ings, population health, patient experience, new care models, and the existing facility. Fifteen acres on the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University have been designated as the site of the new state-of-the-art facility that will replace the existing Meeting House Lane hospital location, which dates back to 1924.

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Police Hampton Bays Pedophile Pleads Guilty Suffolk County correction officer sexually abused boy under 11

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The Suffolk County correction officer from Hampton Bays who sexually abused boys in his care pleaded guilty to all eight felony charges he was facing December 9. Robert Weis, 56, is scheduled to be sentenced in front of New York State Supreme Court Justice Mark Cohen on January 8.

Weis had sexual intercourse with a boy under the age of 11 on multiple occasions, he admitted December 9, as part of his guilty plea, as well as with another youth under the age of 13. At least one of the two victims is Weis’s adopted child. Over the years, he adopted five boys, all considered challenged youths,

Robert Weis, shown here after his arrest April 4, is facing many years in state prison after pleading guilty as charged. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

and acted as foster parent to many more.

The prosecuting attorney, Laurie Moroff, of the Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Bureau, said during Weis’s initial arraignment April 5 in Southampton Town Justice Court, that Weis had “sleepovers” for friends of his five adopted sons, during which he would abuse and fondle the other boys.

The crimes occurred over 15 years ago. Southampton Town Police detectives investigated and arrested Weis April 4 after one of the victims came forward. After that arrest was announced, it appears that a second victim came forward, as well. The

It’s ‘Little Siberia’ For Gilbert Serving time in state’s coldest, third oldest, and largest prison

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

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Before former surfer playboy and Maidstone Club member Tommy Gilbert was sentenced earlier this year for the murder of his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr. back on

January 4, 2015, his mother, Shelley Gilbert, beseeched the judge to allow her son to be placed in a facility to treat his mental illness, and to choose one close to the city.

victims’ identities are protected, due to the nature of the crimes. There is no statute of limitations for the violent sex crimes Weis committed.

In addition to the four sexual assault charges, Weis pleaded guilty to three felony counts of weapons possession, and one felony count of criminal possession of stolen property he had taken from the Suffolk County Correction Department Yaphank facility, including bulletproof vests and handcuffs. Police found three unregistered handguns, along with 36 long guns, and 50,000 rounds of ammunition when they raided Weis’s residence in Hampton Bays in April.

Weis was being held in lieu of $5 million bail. After pleading guilty, he was ordered remanded.

Weis also has an open charge of sexual misconduct from 2016 in Columbia, SC. When that charge was made, Weis was required to turn in his gun by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and was reassigned to the quartermaster office.

Because the Correction Department feared possible retribution against Weis while being held since his arrest, he has been housed in an undisclosed facility west of SuffolkCounty,possiblyonRikersIsland,orin Westchester.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., who is not eligible for parole until 2045, will be spending this holiday season, and likely many more to come, in a state prison nicknamed “Little Siberia,” located just south of the Canadian border.

The Clinton Correctional Facility is in Dannemora, NY. It is one of the oldest and is the largest prison in the state, housing just under 3000 inmates, with 1000 correctional officers guarding them.

Growing up, Gilbert spent his Christmases with his family at their Georgica Association residence. Their Christmases were traditional, Shelley Gilbert recalled during one of her court appearances before the case went to trial.

The property has since been sold, and the

house razed, to allow the new owners to build a larger, more modern structure.

Justice Melissa Jackson explained during sentencing that the choice of correctional facility to house Gilbert was not hers to make.

Dannemora is more than a five-hour drive from Manhattan. Clinton does have a mental health facility, first constructed in 1899.

Tommy Gilbert’s attorney, Arnold Levine, has filed an appeal against his client’s conviction. He maintained throughout the trial that Gilbert was not mentally competent at the time he shot his father at point-blank range in his parents’ Beekman Place apartment and was not mentally competent to stand trial.

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Indictment Ahead For Montauk Woman Vehicular manslaughter charge expected, Rooney’s lawyer said

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Lisa Rooney, second from right, who showed up at East Hampton Town Justice Court December 11 with an entourage of supporters, was drunk when she allegedly struck and killed a bicyclist, test results show.

Independent/T. E. McMorrow

The Montauk woman accused of being drunk when her 2019 Chevrolet Silverado struck and killed a bicyclist October 30 will likely be indicted on a vehicular manslaughter charge when the case is presented to a grand jury this week, according to the woman’s attorney.

Lisa Rooney, 30, was in East Hampton Town Justice Court Wednesday, December 11, with her

attorney, Marc Gann, where the results of a blood test taken well over three hours after the accident that took the life of John James Usma-Quintero, 28, were announced. The result of that test, Justice Lisa Rana said in court, showed a percentage of alcohol in the blood of .13 of one percent, over the .08 mark that defines intoxication in New York.

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Reward Offered For Puppy Abuser

The reward for whoever tossed a dog out of a moving SUV in Riverhead on Wednesday, December 11, is now $3000.

The saga began that morning when the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said someone called in to report the incident, which allegedly occurred on Route 25 near Calverton Cemetery at about 7 AM.

Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), Michael Koemm of Coram, headed east in his vehicle, witnessed the event — and just so happens to work as a veterinarian assistant. He came forward, reluctantly at first, as the word spread through social media. He acknowledged he was behind the suspect and pulled over to retrieve what turned out to be a puppy.

“She came right into my arms. I had a blanket in my car, and I put her in the blanket and she fell asleep,” Koemm told media outlets.

The animal, about eight weeks’ old, was unhurt, said vets who examined her at the East End Veterinary Center in Riverhead where Koemm works. The SPCA initially offered a $2000 reward.

The reward has since been raised to $3000 by authorities who noted a series of similar incidents occurred during the summer.

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date, Gann told Rana that he had been notified that the district attorney’s office will be presenting the case to a grand jury this week. The next meaningful court date will likely be next month in either Central Islip or Riverside, depending on which state judge the case is assigned to. At that time, the indictment Gann expects is coming will be unsealed, and Rooney will be arraigned.

The portion of the toxicology report that was sent to the courthouse by the DA’s vehicular crime unit only covered alcohol. The results of the blood test regarding drugs that might have been in Rooney’s system at the time of the incident were not included. Drugs, such as marijuana and cocaine, can take longer to test for than alcohol. The report presented to Rana specifically states that a “supplemental drug report” is coming.

Afterward, Gann was asked, given the results of the blood test, if he is anticipating a vehicular manslaughter charge from the grand jury. “I would assume so, yes,” he answered. Vehicular manslaughter can carry a sentence of four to seven years in state prison.

However, Gann acknowledged that the DA’s office will likely try to extrapolate a reading from the .13 number backward from the time the blood was drawn to the time of the alleged crime. According to the police,

Rooney refused to have blood drawn, forcing them to have to obtain a warrant from a state judge requiring Rooney to consent. That took over three hours, with the assumption being that in that time the level of alcohol in Rooney’s system would have been dropping.

If that extrapolation produces a reading of .18 or higher, the charge would be raised to aggravated vehicular manslaughter, which carries a longer sentence if convicted.

Normally, vehicular assault and manslaughter cases on the East End are assigned to New York State Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho, who is seated in Central Islip. However, Gann explained, because Rooney’s mother is also a New York State Supreme Court Justice working out of the criminal courts in New York City, the relationship between her and any judge selected would have to be vetted.

Rooney’s mother, Bruna DiBiase, “has tried to distance herself from the court process so as not to even appear to have any influence over the process,” Gann said.

Gann read a statement from the family expressing their sorrow for what happened October 30.

Rooney was accompanied for her court appearance by about 20 friends and family.

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October DWI Not Rooney’s First Arrest

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Rooney’s initial case was adjourned to October 11, 2018. At that point, it was agreed that as long as Rooney stayed out of trouble for six months, the case would be dismissed, which it was in April of this year. The court file was sealed. None of this was unusual for a first-time offender.

Three others arrested at other Montauk bars that night on the same charge received the same treatment.

On October 30, starting at 6:04 PM, after the accident which killed John James Usma-Quintero, a Colombian in Montauk on a work visa, police received two calls reporting the accident. Police were on the scene at 6:08, and an officer questioned Rooney, who apparently had exited the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado police said she was driving. “I swerved to avoid a car in the middle of the road,” she allegedly told police.

At 6:34, after failing sobriety tests, Rooney was charged with driving while intoxicated, and was taken to headquarters. There, she was asked to take a blood test. She wrote on the request form, in large, scrawling script, “Refuse.”

Police: Sold to underage drinker last year, case was dismissed

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

October 30 was not the first time Lisa Rooney, the Montauk woman who allegedly was drunk when her vehicle struck and killed a bicyclist, had been arrested

by East Hampton Town police.

On the night of August 10, 2018, Rooney was tending bar at Liar’s Saloon in Montauk when she allegedly served two beers to an 18-year-old undercover agent. Rooney failed to proof the young woman, police said. The arrest was part of a sweep in Montauk that night by the town police to enforce State Liquor Au-

thority regulations regarding the sale of alcohol to minors.

Rooney was placed under arrest, charged with a misdemeanor crime for selling alcohol to an underage buyer, the police said. She was taken to headquarters, processed, and released, with an appearance ticket, to be arraigned in front of Justice Lisa Rana August 29.

Her attorney on August 29 was Christopher Carillo, the same attorney who represented Rooney after her October 30 arrest. Carillo’s family owns

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Rooney was placed under arrest, charged with a misdemeanor crime for selling alcohol to an underage buyer.

On another form, an officer notated that Carillo arrived at police headquarters in Wainscott at 7:56 PM, and “advised no further questions for his client.”

Police later obtained a warrant from a judge, forcing Rooney to have blood drawn. At 9:33 PM, three and a half hours after the accident, blood was finally drawn.

Springs Man Faces Felony Charge EHTPD: Violated order of protection, harassed woman for sex

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

A Springs man, Marlon RodriguezCamacho, 26, is facing three criminal charges, including felony criminal contempt after allegedly coercing a woman to have sex. The alleged incident also violated of a court order of protection filed by the woman.

According to the East Hampton Town police, Rodriguez-Camacho was issued an order out of family court in Riverside to refrain from any harassing actions against a woman with whom he has a child.

The alleged victim told police that the two of them have split up, but that when she goes to Rodriguez-Camacho’s residence to pick up the child after a visit, the defendant pressures her to have sex. The woman sought help from an agency that protects abused

women, and eventually was issued an order of protection.

On December 5, she went to his house after work to pick up the child when he grabbed her, attempting to force her to have sex, and threw her on the bed where their child was, the woman told police. The child began crying loudly, she said, and she carried the youngster to her car. RodriguezCamacho, however, followed her and got into the car with her, she told police, and refused to get out, even when she pulled out of the driveway.

He began yelling at her, eventually getting out of the car, she told police.

The woman called police, and Rodriguez-Camacho was soon in custody.

Besides the felony charge, Rodriguez-Camacho was charged with two

Marlon Rodriguez-Camacho is seen here being brought in for arraignment at East Hampton Town Justice Court December 6. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

misdemeanors, endangering the welfare of a child and forcible touching.

He was released the next day after his family posted $2000 bail.

Bloodied Man Near HB Graveyard

It was like a scene from a Grade B horror flick except it was all-too-real to the bloodied victim.

Southampton Town Police answered a call near Good Ground Cemetery in Hampton Bays on November 26 just after dark — about 6 PM — only to find a stumbling man, face and neck covered in blood. He told police he was stabbed during an altercation nearby.

Emergency personnel rushed the victim to the hospital; his identity was not revealed.

Police said they quickly apprehended the suspected stabber, Douglas Brownson, 50, of Hampton Bays and charged him with a felony, second-degree assault, and another for criminal possession of a weapon.

He was held for arraignment.

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JUST ASKING

What do you look forward to most about Christmas?

Fighting The Good Fight Together

Is it just me? © Karen Fredericks

Any hope that this sleepy part of the world could somehow avoid the shockwaves that shake this troubled globe has vanished.

The opioid crisis — our young dead in the street from overdoses — came at a sickening pace. Word from the border, and small-town USA, revealed stark images of racism at its core: infants alone in cages, crying parents in cuffs with everything they own slung on their backs like mules.

Closer to home, the subtle signs of Mother Nature’s fury crashed onto our shores, killed off our scallops, and infiltrated our once pristine waters. Yes, the East End fights with the world not just to save our lifestyle, but our planet. It’s a fight that hopefully defines our future resolve.

Next week is a very special issue, one that brings back to life all the major events, good and bad, that shaped our lives. The Best of 2019 will be available all over the East End, so grab one and hold onto it. It will be interesting to reread in the coming years.

But we survived, and we prevailed. In his holiday season, regardless of how you worship, remember we wipe the slate clean come January.

Our little piece of the world, with it sumptuous displays of food and art, offers world-class galleries and museums. There is plenty of good live music and please, East Hampton town, remember it needs to be heard. The shorelines may be eroding and the sea rising, but these are still the best beaches in the county. Here’s hoping a few wheeler-dealer politicians and idiot savants don’t have to look in the mirror and face themselves a few years from now after allowing one of our sacred beaches to be raped by cranes and drills.

If it touched a nerve, chances are The Independent covered it in 2019. The New York Press Association adjudicated us to be the best single-flag newspaper in the state, and next year, we’ll be adding even more features.

We are by no means resting on our laurels. If you haven’t noticed, The Independent is constantly growing, breaking local news on our various award-winning social media platforms, adding special sections and special events.

Stay in touch. Let’s make this brief holiday one filled with joy and make sure every neighbor is treated like friends and family.

If it’s anything like last year, we will be tested anew, and together we will take on our adversaries with resolve. We are East Enders, and we are New Yorkers.

Do you know why we have snowmen but no snowwomen?

By Karen Fredericks

Why?

Darren Going to my grandparents’ house.

Being with my cousins. Playing tackle.

But they're younger, so mostly, I let them tackle me. I love all the surprises opening presents together. Last year two kids liked what the other one got, so they swapped presents.

Zoe I love snow and sometimes Christmas is when we have the first snow. I also love spending time with my family and opening the presents. And I love when the Christmas music comes on the radio. It's so beautiful.

Juan We have a big family and we mostly go to cousins’ houses for the holiday.

It’s a lot of fun to be together. And it’s fun opening presents and trying out the gifts, especially when they are brand new gaming things.

Emily I love spending time with my family and celebrating the holiday with all of us together. And if it's snowing we go out and do things like make a snowman, throw snowballs at each other, and make snow angels.

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Arts & Entertainment Arcadia Earth Sheds Light On Global Warming

Arcadia Earth. Independent/D Mitchell

Cindy Pease Roe’s art part of an interactive exhibit that aims to educate

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The East End’s very own Cindy Pease Roe is part of an immersive exhibit featuring several environmental artists in New York City. Arcadia Earth, open until the end of January 2020, dives into the depth of our waters with 15 rooms and 13,000 square feet of artistic creation, heightened by augmented reality, to a multi-sensory, fully interactive experience. Arcadia, defined as an “image of life that is believed to be perfect” by the Cambridge Dictionary, is more than meets the eye. The maze of colorful hues and seemingly beautiful displays contrasts with a more serious subject, climate change.

Featuring additional works by artists Tamara Kostianovsky, Chika, Meta, Basia Goszczynska, Poramit Thantapalit, Charlotte Becket and Emmy Mikelson, and Etty Yaniv, each of the rooms focuses on a different climate change issue. Through the help of charity and educational partner, Oceanic Global, the art exhibit gives way to an educational tour on the very real threat global warming poses, with factual texts and voice-overs throughout the

tour.

There’s an application for guests to download upon their visit. This app unfolds another dimension of the exhibit, from augmented reality imagery to listing businesses with sustainable practices.

Created by Valentino Vettori, Arcadia Earth was designed as a luminescent display for a much darker conversation. Indy caught up with Roe to learn more.

How did you become involved with Arcadia Earth?

I was introduced to Valentino Vettori, who created Arcadia Earth, through my son. My son is connected with Oceanic Global and told Valentino about my work. At the time I was thinking about creating a gyre. As it turned out, he could envision it and thought it would be cool to add mirrors and additional ideas to the piece. So it’s a collaboration with his vision.

How would you describe Valentino’s vision?

He wanted to create this experience that would be taking on the issues that are facing Earth today and us as a species, and that it would be a very immersive experience for people to come from using technology, art, and his ability to create an amazing set. But to use it toward a solution in terms of educating people as opposed to it being a problem.

Have you met the other artists before?

The first Arcadia Earth was last year down in Miami for Miami Art Week. I met other artists last year down there, not all of them.

How do you incorporate the East End into your piece?

I have incorporated all of the marine plastic that I picked up off the local beach in the sculpture. My piece is a chandelier and I actually got a vintage airplane fuselage cover from John Mazur of Lumber and Salt in Jamesport.

It’s a six by six-foot cone shape.

What inspired the piece?

Just after I’d met with Valentino, I was driving home on the North Fork, and I saw this huge cover and I was like, “Oh my god, that would be amazing. It’s so perfect to create this gigantic chandelier.” I had already created a smaller replica of the chandelier gyre in my studio. So it had already been on my mind.

I feel that using fiber optics is a way of bringing in a whole new audience and teaching them about plastics and a way of really engaging people with the art.

There are 14 large gyres around the world. The one that most people know about is the island of plastic out in the Pacific, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the size of Texas, that’s a gyre, the confluence of current and wind.

Arcadia Earth is located at 718 Broadway, New York. The experience takes approximately 45 minutes to an hour.

Tickets start at $27 and can be purchased at www.arcadia.earth or at the door. To view more of Roe’s art, visit www.cindypeaseroe.com.

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North America Gets Its First Indoor-Snow Park Winter wonderland inside NJ’s American Dream mall

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

There are a few things New Jersey is known for — its diners, “The Sopranos,” Bruce Springsteen, and MetLife Stadium, to start. But, now the Garden State has fresh new bragging rights with the first indoor real-snow ski and snowboard park in North America.

Big SNOW, which is operated by Snow Operating, the same team behind Mountain Creek Resort, is located inside the American Dream mall, East Rutherford’s latest attraction in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. The year-round winter wonderland impresses with specs before even stepping inside the controlled 28ºF interior: four skiable acres across 180,000 square feet, making 4.4 tons of snow per hour at an average snow depth of two feet, with a 16-story vertical drop at 1000 ft long and 200 ft wide.

Hitting the slopes may not be what comes to mind once getting off the often-times gridlock of I-95, but here slope grades vary up to 26 percent at

the steepest point, marking a moderate run or a difficult Blue, with two moving carpet lifts and a fixed-grip quad chairlift.

“Our involvement with Big SNOW stems from an idea we’ve long had about bringing the mountain to the people. The idea of making skiing and snowboarding accessible for the masses by providing the opportunity to get on snow right where people live is game changing,” said Hugh Reynolds, vice president of marketing and sales at Snow Operating.

This idea was 10 years in the making, and Big SNOW had its first chairlift on December 5, welcoming Olympic medalists Kelly Clark, Lindsey Vonn, and Red Gerard.

As you walk through the doors of Big SNOW, you’ll pass the retail shop before arriving at the check-in counter. Here, sign up for any two-hour time slot and receive a wearable wristband ticket, which includes any rentals

you may need — jackets, pants, boots, gloves, and equipment. Then, enter one of three gondola welcoming areas where you’ll meet Big, the friendly yeti mascot of the mountain, and watch a brief welcoming video.

Continue on and it’s just like a real ski area, with secure lockers that are activated using your wristband. Entering the park itself is a little trippy, like a massively oversized ice-skating rink you can throw snowballs in. In one direction, there’s terrain and in another, faux pine trees line the walls between windows that overlook the arena, the aesthetic of a real-life snow globe. The ski chalet décor, once finished, will host a complete dining area, in addition to the already completed hot chocolate and pretzel station.

Opening weekend alone saw visitation in the thousands, with half being novice or beginning skiers and snowboarders. Reynolds said, “The Continued On Page B4.

We’ve decided to try something different this week. While we’ve written about travel for years, this marks our first issue completely dedicated to the subject.

Welcome to Indy Travel. We’ve mixed our regular Arts & Entertainment section with articles all about the getaway. We all know that on the East End, once the holiday season has come to an end, it’s the perfect time to navigate the globe near and far.

Within this section you will find suggestions that include everything from weekend jaunts throughout the tri-state, to features on far-away lands like Cuba and London.

Vanessa Gordon of East End Taste takes us to London’s finest restaurants as well as a look at dining in Cuba. Nicole Teitler takes us to the American Dream Mall for some indoor skiing as well as ski destinations within a short distance of the East End. She also heads to Asheville, NC for a brewery tour.

Beth Landman highlights where to stay in Palm Beach. And I recap Miami Art Week and my visit to the TWA Hotel at JFK airport.

We’d also like to introduce our readers to our latest photo contest, “Look Where I Traveled To This Winter.” You’re invited to submit your photos by March 6 to events@indyeastend.com.

Please include your name, town you live in, and the place you traveled to. There will be prizes for each of the winners.

We hope you enjoy our words and use them for inspiration for your own travels.

Jessica Mackin-Cipro Executive Editor

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Hit The Slopes Head to these New York and northeast ski areas

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com When the snow begins to fall, it has many aching for a trip to the mountains. Whether you’re a novice wanting a day trip or a more experienced skier, or perhaps just wanting to relax in a lodge, we’ve compiled a list of places to hit the slopes — good for all levels and desires.

New York has more ski resorts than any other state in America, amounting to more than 50. Whiteface in Lake Placid has two unique options to offer, beyond the slopes, bobsledding experiences and an Olympic village with all the winter activities. It also happens to have the longest intermediate run in the northeast. There are 90 trails across 288 skiable acres, with a 3430-foot mountain vertical drop. Last year, the mountain got 213 inches of snow in the 2018-2019 season. Learn more at www.whiteface.com.

Another spot is Peek’n Peak, located 30 miles east of Erie, PA. It has 27 ski slopes and trails with 10 miles of terrain for cross country. Head to www. pknpk.com. The most southern of the ski destinations in New York is Mount Peter, right in Hudson Valley, making it quick and ideal for beginner skiers. It’s catered towards newbies with free be-

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Continued From Page B2. current U.S. ski data tells us about 50 percent of first-timers choose not to take a lesson,” which is why Big SNOW offers “a self-guided lesson experience that incorporates specific stations, signage, and videos to assist guests who want to go at it on their own.” Instructors are available for more hands-on assistance if needed — a complimentary service.

All of this is done through a Terrain Based Learning method with specific shaped snow features to aid in the learning process. Kacper Polus, one of the ski instructors on site with 10 years of coaching experience, guides beginners through TBL before assisting them down the steeper slope, skiing backwards as he holds on.

With only 500 people allowed

ginner ski and snowboard lessons. Just an hour from NYC, it’s also open for night skiing. Book a session at www. mtpeter.com.

Take the ferry over to Connecticut and visit Mohawk Mountain ski area. There are 25 trails, 107 acres of skiable land, and a 650-foot vertical drop. It also happens to be the largest and oldest ski area in the state, with an elevation of 960 feet. Check out www. mohawkmtn.com.

For a more niche experience, visit Yawgoo, Rhode Island’s only ski area.

It makes all of its snow, with 36 acres of skiable terrain and the longest trail being 2200 feet. Learn more at www. yawgoo.com. inside at a time, projected visits are 500,000 per year. Big SNOW’s main allure is that it’s only a 20-minute drive from NYC, but it also benefits in feeling very much like any other mountain within a two-hour drive of the city.

Without the effects of outside elements, making every day a snow day, the snow actually feels mildly fluffier than other snow-making systems, making it less icy and therein less frightening for beginners. Their snowmaking process replicates nature’s; water from units in the ceiling freezes into snow as it falls. The radiant cooling system below ensures powdery consistency and any melt is recirculated into the water supply to reduce the environmental impact.

Right now, hard-hitting skiers and snowboarders are heading to the real thing, but come the warmer months, Big SNOW will be the only place to get

Up in Maine, Sugarloaf Mountain has 162 trails over 1240 acres. The summit elevation sits at 4237 and boasts a 2820-foot vertical drop with an annual snowfall of 200 inches. See www.sugarloaf.com.

Jiminy Peak in Hancock, MA contains 45 trails across 167 acres with a vertical rise of 1150 feet and an elevation of 2380 feet. For the environmentally conscious consumer, Jiminy obtains all of its electrical power from renewable sources. See more at www. jiminypeak.com.

Mount Washington in Bretton Woods, NH is the largest ski area in the state, with 464 acres of skiing and 63 trails. The base elevation is 1600 feet

and summit elevation, 3100 feet. With several lodging options, stay at one of the townhomes or opt for a luxury escape at Omni Mount Washington Hotel. Book a stay at www.brettonwoods. com.

In Vermont it’s hard to list just one place, so try two: Killington and Stowe.

Killington has seven mountain areas with 212 trails. Killington Peak stands at 4241 feet, the second highest point in Vermont, with a base elevation at 1165 feet. The resort area has 1509 skiable acres and 155 trails. Less than a twohour drive north is Stowe Mountain Resort. It gets 314 inches of snowfall annually over 116 trails and 485 acres.

Check out more at www.stowe.com.

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those runs in.

Big SNOW is open daily from 10 AM to 10 PM. Packages start at $49.99; private lessons and group rates are

available. Big SNOW American Dream is located at 1 American Dream Way in East Rutherford, NJ. Learn more at www.bigsnowamericandream.com.

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This Art Is Bananas A recap of Miami Art Week

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com It was bananas this year during Miami Art Week, and not just because of the art sale heard around the world. As we’ve all seen on Instagram by now, artist Maurizio Cattelan sold multiple bananas taped to the wall of Art Basel — a piece of art entitled “Comedian” — one of which New York City artist David Datuna ate. It was the most shocking display to hit the art world since the Banksy self-destructed.

I was thrilled to cover the art fair previews again this year, where many East End artists and galleries were represented.

On Tuesday, December 3, the first stop on my art tour was Scope Miami Beach, which returned to Ocean Drive for its 19th show. The fair included 134 contemporary exhibitors. Monika Olko Gallery of Sag Harbor was represented, as was the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton. Another highlight was Mister E’s project “Arbitrage.” Known for incorporating hundred-dollar bills into his art, the artist offers “an examination of value and the dissection of the complex relationship between art and money,” according to Scope’s website.

Later was Art Miami and Context Art Miami, two large fairs that are held next to each other under giant tents. In its 30th edition, Art Miami is a modern and contemporary art fair market globally recognized as a primary destination for some of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries. The show included the Mark Borghi Gallery of Bridgehampton.

Launched in 2012, Context, the

sister fair to Art Miami, is dedicated to the development and reinforcement of emerging and mid-career artists.

The next stop was a VIP reception to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Wynwood Walls. Goldman Properties and Wynwood Walls kicked off Miami Art Week with the unveiling of its new installations. The sprawling space was conceived by the late Tony Goldman, while looking to transform the warehouse district of Wynwood.

“Wynwood’s large stock of warehouse buildings, all with no windows, would be my giant canvases to bring to them the greatest street art ever seen in one place,” he’s quoted on the Wynwood Walls website. Artists unveiled in the latest exhibit include Faile, Buff Monster, Futura, Martha Cooper, and more.

If you’re in Miami, it’s definitely worth a visit. Stop by Joey’s Italian Cafe for a bite when you get there.

One of the best amenities that our hotel offered was the use of bikes.

We took them to see “Order of Importance,” a site-specific installation on Miami Beach by Argentinean conceptual artist Leandro Erlich curated by Ximena Caminos. Erlich’s playful and surreal installation for Miami Beach recast the 21st Century traffic jam as 66 life-sized sculptures of cars and trucks queued at an imaginary standstill on the oceanfront at Lincoln Road.

“Climate change and its consequences are no longer a matter of perspective or opinion. The climate crisis has become an objective problem that requires immediate solutions. As an artist, I am in a constant struggle

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to make people aware of this reality, in particular, the idea that we cannot shrink away from our responsibilities to protect the planet,” said Erlich.

It wouldn’t be a trip to Miami without a stop at my favorite Italian restaurant, Dolce. In front of the restaurant was a sculpture by Domingo Zapata. The artist’s sculptures could be spotted throughout the city and fairs.

I then walked over to Aqua, a short distance away. Aqua is an art fair that takes place in an Art Deco hotel. The fair provides a unique environment — a classic South Beach hotel with spacious exhibition rooms that open onto a breezy, intimate courtyard.

I later stopped by Artcade at Ca-

dillac Hotel & Beach Club for retro arcade games and live designs of limitededition tote bags by fashion designer Amanda Perna. We played games like Tetris and Chess. Drinks by Absolut Elyx, served within a bag of popcorn, just added to the fun experience.

I ended the art tour with a stop at Pulse Art Fair on Thursday, December 5, where I viewed many exhibits including one by Roman Fine Art of East Hampton. Pulse is another dynamic art fair that describes itself as the “calm in the palms.”

“We are dedicated to creating an experience that will stimulate all five of your senses and have you lingering for hours,” stated fair director Cristina Salmastrelli.

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South Florida Retreats

updated seafood bar to a stunning steakhouse situated on the golf course. www.thebreakers.com

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Head south for some seaside pampering

Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa

If a beautifully appointed quiet spot on a pristine stretch of beach is your idea of a vacation, check out this twoyear-old property north of Palm Beach.

If you are motivated, fitness and yoga classes are held on the sand, there is a state-of-the-art fitness center, and one of the two pools is ideal for laps.

The resort can also arrange fishing and sailing outings. End your day with a massage at the spa and dinner at Drift Kitchen & Bar, which serves up everything from pizza to day boat scallops. www.hutchinsonshores.com

By Beth Landman There has always been a major crossover between the Hamptons and Florida, with residents retreating south when the season starts after Thanksgiving. Not only are you bound to run into neighbors, but the town of Palm Beach has a manicured beachy feel that is quite familiar. For those who don’t happen to have a home down south, there are some wonderful retreats. Here are our recommendations of where to stay from Miami to Palm Beach.

this resort on a barrier island in Miami feels private and isolated, but it’s just a 20-minute ride to South Beach. For those who prefer to stay put, there are six restaurants including the signature Lightkeepers, which focuses on the freshest, locally sourced ingredients.

Seasonal is also the focus of the spa, so go soon and try a warm stone pumpkin cinnamon massage, scrub, and scalp treatment. www.ritzcarlton.com/en/ hotels/miami/key-biscayne

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Swimmers have a choice of four oceanfront pools and there is a jewel box of a spa at this high-end retreat in Sunny Isles. Diners can opt for sushi at AQ, an Italian feast at the onsite outpost of Il Mulino, or a picnic on the picturesque lawn set up by a butler. Its 98 rooms are some of the most luxe in Florida, and if you stay at the three-bedroom oceanfront suite, a Rolls-Royce is thrown in for good measure. www.acqualinaresort.com

Once you arrive at this sprawling resort, you might never want to leave.

There are 13 restaurants, and a spa modeled after the Alhambra Palace, which has a pool with piped-in music.

There is almost every activity under the sun, and if that’s not good enough, the hotel has a full range of indoor fitness classes. Surf lovers can choose the beach side, the spa set may opt for the main resort, and for those who want to really indulge, the new Yacht Club has a concierge floor and extra services. www.bocaresort.com

Carillon Fitness aficionados will revel in the myriad classes and medically oriented treatments at this wellness oasis. Accommodations are sprawling apartments with full kitchens and magnificent views, while a Mediterranean restaurant, The Strand, offers healthy fare. Among the spa’s attractions is a thermal hydrotherapy circuit. www. carillonhotel.com

Ritz Carlton, Key Biscayne So peaceful, yet so close to the action,

A magical spa with a scrub bar and picturesque outdoor garden is one of the main attractions at this top resort that has upped its ante with a concierge floor offering over-the-top personalized services. If you can get a lanai room, walking directly from your patio onto the beach makes you feel a bit like you actually own a seaside mansion. www.eaupalmbeach.com

Chesterfield Some of the cushiest romantic suites can be found at this very European style property, which serves a famous tea in the afternoons and houses the legendary Leopard Lounge. It has one of the most desirable locations, in the heart of town, and is walking distance to the beach. www.chesterfieldpb.com

Brazilian Court A perfect boutique hotel, this chic spot is just a stroll from Palm Beach’s most popular spots. It houses one of the island’s most prized restaurants — Cafe Boulud — as well as its social bar area.

There is also a Frederic Fekkai salon on property along with magnificently landscaped grounds and pool area.

The Breakers The grande dame of Palm Beach hotels, this palatial property has just undergone a renovation of the storied lobby.

Every detail of the rooms is designed for ultimate comfort, and those in the Flagler Club have their own concierge.

Work out in the gym, which faces the sea, and then indulge at the spa, or just take a therapeutic stroll on the lush grounds. Dining options range from the trendy HMF bar, to the recently

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Hutchinson Shores Resort And Spa

The Colony Abdicated British king Edward VIII used a penthouse suite at this hotel just across from Worth Avenue as his winter residence, and new owners who took over last year have been updating the property. They started with the lobby, opening CPB, an upbeat contemporary American restaurant. Chefs grow produce right on property and there is live jazz Thursdays and Saturdays. The Colony is reviving the famous Upper East Side gathering spot Swifty’s, which closed in 2016. It will be a pop up at the hotel this season, and then who knows . . . www.thecolonypalmbeach.com

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The TWA Experience Travel back to 1962

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Walking into the new TWA Hotel lobby not only makes you feel like you’ve traveled to a different place, but like you’ve traveled back in time — 1962 to be exact!

It was a time when flying was a bit more sophisticated. A time before travelers were herded like cattle, and long before there were baggage fees that cost more than an actual flight. Travelers dressed to impress to take flight. A gentleman might wear a suit while, for a lady, a mink stole would be considered completely appropriate garb. Today, donning your finest Lululemons is getting dressed up for wheels up.

On the downside, in 1962 you were also permitted to smoke cigarettes on airplanes and it cost twice as much to fly. In today’s world of accessible travel, we take the good with the dreaded economy middle seat ( . . . that only cost $130 to get to Paris).

Complaints about the current state of travel aside, arriving at the TWA hotel — located at JFK Airport in the refurbished TWA Terminal that was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1962 — gives visitors a glimpse of what it was like to travel during those early days. The hotel lobby is decorated with vintage cars and luggage and the mod architecture reflects the luxury of travel.

Guests are invited to climb aboard Connie, located on the hotel’s tarmac, a 1958 aircraft turned cocktail lounge.

Connie is one of only four aircrafts of its kind left in the world, and she’s been restored to her original condition. And while the 1958 Lockheed Constellation

airplane had quite the glamorous past, her future looks pretty promising as well. In her heyday, she was all about style as she was selected for TWA’s Jetstream fleet. Within each Connie was a Starlight Lounge, which offered predinner cocktails. Guests enjoyed while sitting on gold leather banquettes (a far cry from today’s seat in your Group F boarding zone that you didn’t pay extra to select).

The rehabbed Connie cocktail lounge was created to model the original and she has all her authentic parts.

Flooring and windows were installed, and the cockpit even has a full set of controls for revelers to admire.

The vintage-inspired cocktails just add to the experience. Try the Idlewild hot toddy, a negroni, or oldfashioned. Order the Royal Ambassador Martini, made with Absolut Elyx, Dolin Dry Vermouth, and olives.

It comes with a set of TWA Flight Wings. For junior, there’s always a Shirley Temple ready to be served.

Snacks are also available like a cheese board or the smashed avocado. The experience of walking up the stairs that read “Up, Up, and Away” and boarding the lounge might be the highlight of your travel, even if you haven’t left the airport yet.

If you’re looking at a layover at JFK or want to experience the hotel before a flight out, you can check in to a room, enjoy a swim or workout, or just relax at the cocktail lounge or restaurant. You can even book a hotel room for four-hour intervals, perfect in the case of a late night or early morning

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flight. There’s also an ice skating rink on the frozen tarmac and a plethora of Instagramable moments created within the space.

Be sure to check out the Paris Cafe for breakfast, lunch, or dinner at JeanGeorges Vongerichten’s on-site restau-

rant. Try the black truffle pizza, you won’t be disappointed.

You can find the TWA Hotel at Terminal 5 of JFK (same terminal as Jet Blue). Arrive a little early, drop your luggage, and go experience all that 1962 has to offer.

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OLD DOGS NEW TRIPS

By Vay David & John Laudando

Travel Tips Keep it simple and have fun olddogsnewtrips@gmail.com We’ve had the pleasure of writing about our travels for The Independent for more than two years now, and we thought we’d share some of what we’ve learned about traveling from here to there — wherever there may be. Some lessons are easy, some comical, some frustrating, but we learn to travel better as we go along. So here are some of our recommendations.

Enjoy the planning. Discover which aids you prefer for booking travel, be it Expedia, TripAdvisor, booking.com, Kayak — way too many to mention. Since most of them offer pretty much the same in prices and support, find the ones you feel the most comfortable working with. If you’re traveling with others, one of you may end up being the primary planner, but it’s important to confirm choices with travel

partners before solidifying them. Planning is perhaps the most important part of the traveling process. But not always.

Getting there can be half the fun. The journey itself can be as satisfying as the destination at its end. We often rent a car and drive nearly 1000 miles on a two-week trip, and the scenery along the roads often inspires us as much as the places to which we’re heading. So, we’ve learned not to hurry the journey from here to there, but to allow ourselves plenty of time to experience the in-betweens.

On so many of our trips, the sights we thought we’d most enjoy often turn out to take second place to accidental discoveries. We found a great overlook just because we needed to stretch our legs in the Southwest. And we’ve explored many castles we’ve come across when we were

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just out meandering.

Simplify. Going to fewer places for longer stretches of time makes everything easier.

That’s especially important if you’re traveling with children, because packing and repacking several times for several people can make a trip seem more like work than play. Simplifying also means time saved in the planning process, with fewer transportation issues and fewer rooms to book.

Pack less. Repeat — PACK LESS. Resist the temptation to fill that suitcase to the brim. It may seem like the biggest travel cliché, but it’s absolutely true, especially if you’re going more than one place. It’s amazing how often everything that fit in the suitcases when we left home refuses to fit in the suitcases on the next leg of our journey. Or how heavy that suitcase can feel if you are hoisting it onto yet another train. Rule of thumb: If you’re traveling for two weeks, pack for one. There are always laundromats.

Take advantage of shortcuts. If you travel a lot, consider investing in Global Entry or TSA Pre. Both allow you to bypass some security issues, but only in the U.S. So, don’t forget those quart plastic bags for any liquids that must go through security when you are flying back from another country.

Embrace technology. Computers, cell phones, tablets — they’re a huge help for

travelers. Our phones don’t have international service, but WhatsApp and Wi-Fi calling work just as well wherever Wi-Fi is available. And by loading offline maps on our cell phones, we enjoy satellite directions anywhere, even if we’re out walking with no Wi-Fi connection.

Where to stay is a matter of preference. We’re divided on the advantages of hotels over Airbnb. Hotels mean more amenities, while Airbnb means more privacy, homier amenities, and often lower costs. Whichever one we choose, we carefully study reviews for the places we book — what you see online may not be what you get. We’ve learned that photos can be misleading. Actually, we now start with the bad reviews first because, while we’re always open to new experiences, we do know what we don’t like. And because of our constant use of the internet, Wi-Fi is a must wherever we stay.

Eat the local cuisine. You’ll get a much better sense of the place you’re visiting, and you’re likely to save a lot of money.

Great examples — a crowded local restaurant in Prague, with HUGE inexpensive helpings; nearly every meal we’ve had in Croatia, where the prices were so low we couldn’t believe them; and the wonderful meat pies we fell in love with in Great Britain.

make it a community affair.

“Our goal with the new food and beverage program is to celebrate the property, and to just enjoy being here with our colleagues, friends, neighbors, and guests. We’re bringing great ingredients that our friends are growing close by and making delicious things to eat,” Sheedy added.

even request a comfy bed for your pooch so they are as comfortable as you are.

With an expansive farm centered on the property, the culinary program is a seed-to-table philosophy led by Chef Chris Eddy, harvesting most ingredients on the property, including honey from their own bees.

Whether you fancy a dip in the 40-foot pool, taking a spin on the bikes waiting on your deck, or playing a boozy game of foosball, the Winvian philosophy is to recharge and indulge.

Be ready to improvise . . . and have fun!

Dogs Welcome Two luxury country escapes

By Amanda Bourne

A hospitality trend popping up across New York City is boutique hotels adding special packages and accommodations for our four-legged friends such as artisanal doggie treats, bedazzled beds, and even pampering playdates.

As an urbanite and an owner of a 145-pound Newfoundland named Milo, I am always on the lookout for dogfriendly luxury destinations where I can escape the city without having to leave my gentle giant back home. Luckily, I discovered some gems over the years. Here are two.

Troutbeck Located in the foothills of the Hudson Valley, in Amenia, Troutbeck is only a two-hour jaunt from NYC by car or train. A 250-year-old property, renovated and re-imagined in 2017 by the Campalimaud family, is engrained with deep history. It was the meeting place for activists, artists, poets, and dreamers such as Mark Twain, Ernest

Hemingway, and Sinclair Lewis, to name a few.

Whether your visit to these bucolic 45 acres happens when trees are blanketed with snow or lush evergreen, the stone manor is a perfect spot for your furry friends. “Being pet-friendly in our eyes is an extension of hospitality and reality, and we have the space and accommodations to do it,” said general manager John Sheedy. A combination of 37 suites and rooms spans the property, each taking on its own hues and style, whether you stay in the Garden House, Century Lodge, or the Manor accommodations.

The culinary program at Troutbeck has always been focused on celebrating local ingredients. There is even a pantry stocked with local treats, available 24 hours for guests.

Recently they brought in Michelinstarred chef Gabe McMackin as executive chef and culinary director to elevate this culinary philosophy and

Winvian Farm Tucked away in the country hills of Litchfield, CT, this private estate was transformed into a whimsical getaway peppered with 18 unique cottages, each designed by different architects. Three of these magnificent cottages — Stone, Greenhouse, the Artist Retreat — are perfectly suited for your dog. You can

Check availability and pricing on the following sites: www.winvian.com www.troutbeck.com

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Female-Founded Fashion

There’s just one week of shopping left, and it’s time to break the mold with these fashionable finds sourced from 10 female-founded brands. From the perfect New Year’s Eve bag, to one in-

novative necklace filled with chic fragrances, each piece is bound to find its rightful place in the home of any discerning stylephile.

Gift ideas, from a crepe jacket to cashmere sweater

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Every Day I Pray For Love Exhibit by Yayoi Kusama at David Zwirner Gallery jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze Yayoi Kusama’s exhibit, “Every Day I Pray For Love,” at the David Zwirner Gallery in Manhattan, has been the talk of the town. Since the show opened in November, lines of onlookers have looped around the gallery’s block at West 20th Street, waiting hours to catch a glimpse of the famed artist’s “Infinity Mirrored Room — Dancing Lights That Flew Up To the Universe, 2019.”

Along with the Infinity Room, the gallery featured the artist’s new paintings, new sculptures, and an immersive light installation. I had the privilege of visiting the exhibit to see it for myself last week, prior to its closing on De-

cember 14.

It’s no argument that Kusama is one of the most influential artists of our time, resonating with a global audience. The artist was born in Japan in 1929 and established herself in New York in the mid-’60s as an avant-garde artist focusing on pop art and minimalism. She’s known for repetitive elements, like dots, and large-scale displays that have had viewers waiting for hours to view in recent years. Her “Infinity Mirrored Room” has been shown around the globe.

“My entire life has been painted here. Every day, any day. I will never

“Infinity Mirrored Room — Dancing Lights That Flew Up To the Universe” by Yayoi Kusama.

cease dedicating my whole life to my love of the universe. Oh, my dearest art, with the challenge of creating new art, I work as if dying; these works are my everything,” stated the artist in November.

The experience of visiting the exhibit is one of a kind. The Infinity Room offered an experience of endless space, with mirroring of flickering lights, conveying what the artist describes as an “eternal unlimited universe.”

The show also featured an instal-

lation of new soft sculptures, and new paintings in her “My Eternal Soul” series. Another highlight was a floor-based constellation, a ladder composed of almost 100 stainless-steel elements. The reflections in the installations include the viewer in the mirrors to infinity.

Although this exhibit has closed, the New York Botanical Garden will present a selection of the artist’s significant works from May 9 to November 1, 2020. To learn more about the artist, visit www.davidzwirner.com.

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Many people will use the catch phrase “global warming” to explain why this is happening. It annoys me, because as a person who has studied GW (that’s what we pros call it) at an advanced level for many years with scientists like Sartre and Harmon Killerbrew, I know the reason why it is getting warmer, and it easily reversible. There is a hole in the ozone layer. All the air conditioning is escaping.

Put in laymen’s terms (a layman is a stupid person, like yourself), when we turn the air conditioning on, the room gets cooler. This is how Earth works as well. You can buy a repair kit at the hardware store, cover the hole, and you are good to go.

As for the sea rising, open the drain for a couple hours, and that should do the trick.

Bird watchers should note Scarlet Tanager and Tufted Titmouse, named after two girls I dated, are among the regulars, as is the Black-Head Grosbeak, named after a guy in my high school chemistry class.

In the last few years, restaurants servers have taken to pushing $9 bottles of water on restaurant diners. The waiter will brighten up and say with an engaging smile, “Shall I bring a bottle of Perrier to the table?” And then his face will turn dark and sullen and his voice will change into something Satanesque. “Or do you want poopy water?” he asks ominously. He leaves little choice.

Limbo is where you go when you die if you have a spotless soul but don’t qualify for heaven. The nuns would use a newborn baby as an example: if a baby came into the world and then passed on before it was baptized, it would go to Limbo. That didn’t seem very fair. Limbo, we were assured, was just like heaven except you didn’t get to be with God. That’s like going to see The Stones with no Mick Jagger.

“What if the infant had impure thoughts?” I asked Sister Anne.

He said he wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. Ted Kruzewski, a 10-foot Pole, said he wouldn’t touch it either.

My filthy mouth has always been my first line of defense. I always figured if I sounded rough and tough that I actually WAS rough and tough. If perchance someone called my bluff, I would turn to my second and third line of defense, which is to run and failing that, weep.

Consider when we were growing up: the goto breakfast cereals were literally 90 percent sugar. Frosted Flakes, Corn Pops, and the like augmented by four big glasses of whole fat milk.

This was the beginning of the Organic Food Movement, which is a method of farming by which all food is soaked in poopy water. This gives the distinctive E. coli flavor health food freaks favor.

When someone realized all that fat was bad for us, they made two percent milk.

Then one percent. But they couldn’t stop there, so now we have zero percent, which when you think about it isn’t milk at all — hell, it’s probably poopy water.

Despite the negatives, we as a culture thrived eating organic food, which also incorporates free range, hormone free, cage free, and so on. My working theory is cagefree chickens play with the E. Coli chicks from the wrong side of town.

They did the same thing to cigarettes.

They took the tasty nicotine filled Big Red Marlboro and made Marlboro 100s, then they came up with Marlboro Mediums, then Light, followed by Ultra Light, Menthol, Smooth. I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, that these were no longer cigarettes. At a certain point, they became lettuce. Speaking of which, that Romaine is a nasty ass, eh?

I am by no means a professional chef, but I stand by my recipes and know my way around the kitchen. Let me rephrase that: No one has ever gotten sick from eating my food. Karen’s relatives, occasionally subject to her experiments in the kitchen, can make no such claim — a couple is literally clinging to life months after eating Karen’s meatloaf casserole, which tasted suspiciously like Meatloaf the singer.

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I was cozily snuggled up with my partner on the shelf when the light in the closet went on. We saw the face of our lovely lady who reached inside for her full-length, fancy coat. I stretched out my five limbs and hoped she would choose us to go on this trip. Hoorah!

She grabbed the coat, then us, and headed to the front door.

When she stepped outside into the chilly December morning, I gave my partner, Left, a hug, and he said, “See you soon, Right,” and onto her hands

we went. Left and I had an easy relationship with each other as we were so alike, cut from the same cloth or leather in this case, a mirror image of each other. We were quite a pair.

The air had a bite to it but we did our job well and made sure her hands were kept warm. The city was so festive and decorated for the holidays, and Left and I would give a pinky wave to each other as we enjoyed the day’s adventures.

After a while, she stopped to get

a water from the street vendor and pulled us off. Strangely, however, this time she put Left and I back in different pockets. She never did that. She knows we love to travel together. And now I was in the pocket with just, horrors, a tissue. My discomfort turned to terror when she reached in not for me but the tissue. I felt myself starting to slide out of the silk lining. I tried desperately to hold on but I just kept slipping until I was in free fall.

Noooooooo. Then I hit, hard, on the icy sidewalk. Don’t panic, I thought.

She’ll just reach down and fetch me.

But she didn’t. She just kept walking.

“Left! Help!”

I am a glove. I am not even a hat or a scarf, which can survive just fine on its own. No one picks up a single glove or rescues it to give it a new home. I am stuck, on a sidewalk, alone and without value.

“Psssst, Right,” I heard so I called out, “Who’s that?” I realized I hadn’t seen him at first because he was hidden underneath the bench. He was not sophisticated like my Left but bold in colored stripes and looked a little worse for the wear, his thumb worn through.

“It’s okay, you’re not alone,” he said, adding, “You’re beautiful by the way.”

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“Have you been here long?” I asked him. “Yes,” he answered sadly.

“Maybe,” he said, “We could make a go of it together? My Left to your Right?” I gave him a thumbs up and tried to keep the conversation positive but his voice seemed to get dimmer as the snow got thicker.

My hope had faded with the setting sun when suddenly, I felt a hand reach down and grab me. “Oh, there you are!” my lady said with relief. She lifted me up and put me on her hand and I saw Left glowing with happiness at our reunion. I looked down at my striped friend to wish him good luck but realized that he had gone stiff and lifeless, frozen in the snow.

I silently said a prayer, “May you have a gentle journey, my unlikely friend, to the land of the lost gloves.

And there, on this Christmas Eve, find peace.”

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Indy Snaps North Fork Art Collective Market Photos by Rachel Margaritis Herbst The North Fork Art Collective hosted its Holiday Market, sponsored by The Independent, on Saturday, December 14, at Sound View Greenport. Guests enjoyed local artists and artisans, face painting, photos with Santa, and more.

Hamptons Doc Fest Photo by CB Grubb/Courtesy Hamptons Doc Fest Hamptons Doc Fest founder/director Jacqui Lofaro, left, with “Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack” director Rachel Reichman, artist Audrey Flack, and director Deborah Shaffer. The film won the Audience Award at this year’s 12th annual Hamptons Doc Fest.

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FILM Oliver Sacks Hamptons Film presents: “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life” on Saturday, December 21, at 6 PM at Guild Hall in East Hampton with a second performance on Sunday. Grab tickets at www.guildhall.org.

The Purple Rose of Cairo On Sunday, December 22, at 2 PM, Sag Harbor Cinema will present “The Purple Rose of Cairo” chosen by artist Eric Fischl at Pierson High School. Learn more at www.sagharborcinema.org.

WORDS All Blood Runs Red The Eastville Community Historical Society welcomes Tom Clavin and Phil Keith with their new biography “All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard — Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy” on Saturday, December 21, at 2 PM. For more information, log onto www.eastvillehistorical.org.

THEATER Freaky Friday Southampton Cultural Center presents “Freaky Friday: The Musical” on Friday, December 20, at 7 PM and again Saturday, December 21, at 2 PM and 7 PM. Head to www.scc-arts.org.

Goat On A Boat Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will have “Itty Bitty the Marzipan Bunny” on Saturday, December 21, at 11 AM. Visit www.baystreet.org.

Christmas Carol Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor

will present a special holiday show, “A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol,” on Sunday, December 22, at 3 PM. Learn more at www.oldwhalerschurch.org.

MUSIC Jazz Night The Jam Session presents Jazz Night at Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Go to www.thejamsession.org.

Suffolk Theater The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead welcomes Ted Vigil performing John Denver on Thursday, December 19, at 7:30 PM; Lords of 52nd Street on Friday, December 20, at 8 PM; and CeeLo Green on Sunday, December 22, at 7:30 PM. Grab tickets at www.suffolktheater.com.

The Paramount The Paramount Theater in Huntington hosts Ratt on Thursday, December 19, at 8 PM; Lil Tecca on Friday, December 20, at 8 PM; Hanson on Saturday, December 21, at 7 PM; and Countess Luann on Sunday, December 22, at 7 PM. Head to www.paramountny.com.

Holiday Sing-A-Long Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents a holiday sing-a-long on Friday, December 20, at 7:30 PM, a free community event. See full details at www. baystreet.org.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will jam out on Friday, December 21, to Student Body at 8 PM; on Saturday, December 21, Unsung Heroes will play at 8 PM, followed by LHT at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

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Book clubs take note: One of the most original unsung voices around is that of Charles Davis. His latest short novel, “The Measure of the World,” once again shows his gift for combining the erudite and the everyday in an eccentric, accessible narrative full of historical adventure and romance that will likely prompt dictionary use as well as delight.

The fun and learning include a postscript that testifies to the wideranging, sometimes arcane, research in French and English that went into this book on the political and scientific world of France, as the Revolution deepened into The Reign of Terror in 1792 and played out in the countryside around the Pyrenees.

Davis, whose sardonic wit and gnomic sayings inform all his work, attaches them now to an affable, risk-taking young geographical engineer, aka surveyor, Jacques-Francois Darbon, charged by the Paris powers that be (at the time) with “triangulating a meridian arc,” or measuring and mapping regions in the mountainous regions of the south, near Spain, in order to come up with standard findings and nomen-

clature that will aid trade, “resolve food shortages and nurture rationality in its users.” Hah! The project, both radical and perilous, calls upon knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, geodesy, dialects, and topographical drawing skill, as well as “imbecility,” a quality claimed by both Citizen Darbon and the author.

Darbon, an innocent abroad from Paris, loaded down with all manner of measuring devices, and his beloved mule, Molly, soon finds himself in hostile territory, with a misguided naïve notion that “people are rational or might even wish to be so.” He comes to understand, though, among the uneducated rabble of peasants, shepherds, and smugglers he meets along the way, as well as from sophisticated con men, that “every age has its weakness, and ours was a faith in human reason.”

Still, with “luck and cunning,” he pursues his challenge to “map” the area, a goal that he imaginatively and ingeniously extends as a metaphor to map his life, which comes to include a deep and abiding love for a shepherdess who matches him in wit and wisdom.

Conversations move from wacky wise to musingly metaphysical, from philosophical discourse to colloquial bantering, and clearly resonate for our own day. Darbon grows from Candide to cynic but without abandoning a basic self-deprecating humanity and capacity for love. He comes to see that there may be charm, solace, and truth — not so much in straight lines of latitude and longitude as in “a more ancient world of winding ways and warped contours, a place of nooks and crannies. . . a world that resists the attempts of men of science to define it.”

And he comes to appreciate that there is “something unmapped in the human heart, a dark continent that is home to our most morbid desires” which even the greatest poets only seem to sketch the edges of but that he embraces, if only to survive.

It’s not easy to write a fiction series, but with “Evergreen,” Howard Owen’s eighth mystery featuring Richmond, VA newspaperman Willie Black, the author once again shows his skill balancing old and new and managing an engaging whodunit, even though it’s obvious (and desirable) that Willie must prevail if he’s going to make it to series number nine. In any case, readers of Willie’s world will find the first-person narrator to be a savvy, sarcastic, compassionate “nosy-ass reporter,” 57 years old now and happily married to Cindy, wife number four — he finally got it right.

Willie, whose father was black and whose white mother, Peggy, lives nearby in a perpetual marijuana haze, has gone from being a top-form investigative reporter to working the crime night beat (due to workplace insubordination plus print media contraction) and having to do a dopey This-Day-YearsGo column. He’ll find trouble, though, and trouble will find him. And so it is that, visiting a dying friend in a hospital, he learns that his father whom he never knew, has a grave in Evergreen, a

real African American cemetery (Owen knows his turf), and soon after learns that his father, Artie Lee, died under questionable circumstances in a socalled car accident. Off we go.

It’s a delightful ride, with colorful characters from previous novels back again to entertain. They include Peggy, oddly mum about Artie except to say he was a fabulous sax player. There’s also Awesome Dude, a wonderful creation from earlier books, a big, spaced-out but smart Indian who lives in Willie’s apartment complex from time to time. And Willie’s daughter, Andi, and her young son, William (named after Willie after they reconciled). Various members of the police department also reappear, as usual looking askance at Willie but yielding to his smarts and dogged persistence.

There are also, significantly, folks at Willie’s newspaper, forever in survival mode, waiting to see what the young inexperienced suits will do but, like Willie, dedicated to journalism. Indeed, one of the continuing pleasures of Owen’s books is his love — and Willie’s — for the good old days of print when newspapers seemed to care more about bylines than buy-lines.

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Dining Superlative Neapolitan Slices Sag Pizza fires up New York City-quality pies

By Hannah Selinger

There is no dearth of pizza on Long Island. This is a fact. You can wander through any town — through any East End hamlet, for sure — and stumble upon adequate (and even good!) Italian food. You can find a decent pie. You may even be able to find a decent slice.

Actually, when I think back on my New York City life, which has faded far into my past, I think, sometimes, of those slices that I ate when I had nowhere in particular to be. But I think, too, of the superlative Neapolitan pies that I enjoyed at places like Kesté, Motorino, and Roberta’s. I think about how pizza means a lot of different things in the world, and about how some of my favorite pies were not particularly crisp on the bottom, because Neapolitan pies rarely are.

That’s a niche that Sag Pizza, which is entering its third year, attempts to accomplish. Detractors may argue that it is expensive. And it is expensive. But the thing about good pizza is that it requires good ingredients, and good ingredients come at a cost.

Here is what Sag Pizza — which occupies the slice of Sag Harbor once home to the much beloved Conca d’Oro — sells: artisanal, Neapolitan, woodfired pizza, at both lunch and dinner.

There are 11 medium-sized pies available (by medium, I mean, yes, you can probably eat a whole one on your lonesome). The classic San Marzano pie is the standard-bearer here, a chewy pie with a charred crust, amplified by the best kinds of tomatoes, soft mozzarella, and fistfuls of basil. Would I choose this pie over the NYC Pepperoni, a pie made with, naturally, pepperoni, but

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also with Sicilian oregano? That’s a tough call, to be honest.

My husband and I have long battled the merits of the clam pie, which he turns his Italian nose up at, claiming the old adage that dairy and seafood should never meet. I think he’s wrong, especially when it comes to the Vongole, a pie teeming with clams, garlicscallion butter, guanciale, oregano, and lemon. But he prefers the Neapolitan regardless: tomato, caciocavallo, capers, olives, and anchovies. To which I say: Let’s agree to disagree.

Sag Pizza is all about that pizza, of course, but there’s more to enjoy, too. The meatball pomodoro appetizer is an impressive combination of veal and mortadella. The octopus is nothing short of addictive, its accompanying fingerling potatoes anchored by celery and cured olives. There is a slim pasta offering, too, including the fine shape known as mafaldine, which almost resembles a lasagna noodle, with ruffles on its edges. It is served with mussels, clams, scallops, calamari, clams, and shrimp, a veritable symphony of the sea-faring riches of Long Island’s East End. Or opt, instead, for the mezzi riga-

toni, made with Schiavoni’s sausage, bitter greens, pine nuts, and pecorino sardo.

If you feel that the perfect conclusion to a pizza adventure is one that comes up cold and sweet against your tongue, I can’t reasonably disagree.

Pizza and ice cream is a perennial favorite for a reason. At Sag Pizza, there are a number of soft serve options, made in-house, of course, and they are all stellar. Your personal palate may di-

rect you to the vanilla affogato, which comes cloaked in espresso. Or perhaps it is the swirl of caramel popcorn that really makes your afternoon. But my money is on the vanilla-amarena cherry, those tiny, soaked Italian stone fruits that bleed deep red into silky white ice cream. Through them, I’m transported, not to Italy, necessarily, but to a New York City that I used to love. Pizza, it turns out, and a spot of sweet to follow, is my madeleine.

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Culinary Discoveries In Cuba From suckling pig to fried plantains, the cuisine is unique

By Vanessa Gordon piña colada stand at which refills are complimentary and served in a fresh pineapple. Hairdressers’ Alley, located off of Aguiar Street, is not only the perfect spot to get your haircut while visiting, but also a smart choice for grabbing lunch.

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Cuba is an adventure of epic proportions. It never occurred to me that there would be a vast culinary journey through its unique farm-to-table restaurant concepts and ingredients that are at the heart and soul of its culture.

It is in Cuba that music and food are at the epicenter; it is where everything comes together.

When I traveled to Cuba this past summer, I had expected to be exploring a world through a maze, an isolated country from the United States where it would be tricky to uncover its many complexities and intricacies. Instead, I was greeted with open hearts and plenty of memorable gastronomic offerings from notable restaurants, quaint neighborhoods, and a farm located a short driving distance outside of the city of Havana.

Neighborhoods The neighborhoods in Cuba are as inimitable as the food they are known for. Three neighborhoods discovered on my visit include Hairdressers’ Alley, Old Havana where the famous Art Walk is located, and Chinatown near the Capital building. Each neighborhood has its own distinctive personality.

Cuba is already a destination known for its art, and the Art Walk is the place to purchase these one-ofa-kind works by local artists as well as some select pieces by international artists. Stunning graffiti and tile art are all around you. Come to the Art Walk thirsty as one of the local vendors is a

Dining out in Cuba is very affordable for visitors. A meal for two could easily cost less than $20 and the dishes are very wholesome and filling. Even for that price, you could expect to take home significant portions depending upon the restaurant. Notable restaurants include Cabaret Habana Café that has live music and dancing and is reminiscent of the Havana of the 1950s.

Another favorite nearby is the Floridita Café, the former hangout of Ernest Hemingway where you could spot a statue of him at the bar. Come early to El Floridita cocktail bar or when the lively and jubilant crowd gathers there at all times during the afternoon and into the night. Come for drinks and fall in love with the Havana that Hemingway admired. In Barbers’ or Hairdressers’ Alley, there is El Figaro, which offers a wide selection of rum-based cocktails, tapas, and vegetarian-friendly plates.

Mediterraneo Havana, in particular, derives its menu from its own farm just outside of Havana. The farm is called Alamar Organic Farm. The menu includes a selection of fresh cheeses (the freshest cheeses I have ever had, in fact), meats including sausages, fresh vegetables, and pastas. Sit outside or inside and be ready to spend almost two hours savoring the dishes, as they deserve all the time in the world.

The Farm A visit to Alamar Organic Farm is a true treat. From everything to rum cocktails made with freshly pressed sugar cane juice to horseback riding through the trails, you will appreciate even more the true farm-to-table cuisine that its restaurant serves. When visiting, you will learn how Cuban farmers have invested in their own businesses and developed additional forms of income.

It was there that I had the best tasting

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papayas and mangoes paired with a refreshing mojito underneath the open deck. Say hello to the farm animals including pigs, sheep, and cows, and spot the wandering peacock that loves to hide behind the tall trees.

Dishes If you are into creating a food and drink travel bucket list, Cuba deserves its own. According to our tour guide, Enrique Núñez of Cultour, “Cuban cuisine has elements coming from the Spanish, African, and Chinese food; however, the results are definitely Cuban. The sum of diverse cultures during the process of the birth of Cuban nationhood made Cuban food unique.”

In celebration of the Christmas season, enjoy a roasted pork (the whole pork roasted on a wooden stick or coal fire grill) or the pork leg in the oven. Accompany it with white rice, black beans potage, boiled yuca, fried plantains, seasonal assorted salad. For dessert, Núñez recommends majarete (sweet corn creme with cinnamon) or Spanish assorted Christmas almond, or hazelnut sweets.

For year-round, traditional dishes,

have fried pork steak, paella, or fricase de pollo. There’s white rice with black beans, fried plantains, or assorted (of the season) salad with lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, boiled beetroot, cucumber. In addition, as side dishes, Núñez suggests red beans, broad beans, white beans, peas, or lentils, or chickpea potage.

For dessert, it is torrejas en almíbar al licor de café, dessert flan al caramel, or mermelada de guayaba con queso blanco. Torrejas is a piece of bread or brioche is soaked in milk, syrup, or wine.

There’s also guava jelly or grated coconut in sweet syrup.

Drinks Cuba is most famous for its rum. Mojitos, a popular drink, are made with local rum. A mojito or piña colada are the drinks of choice all throughout the island nation. If you fancy another option, try a cold white wine, which pairs wonderfully with most seafood or pork-based dishes (suckling pig is a regular on most restaurant menus). Espresso is also very popular.

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Restaurants To Know In London Places to dine during your trip across the pond

By Vanessa Gordon @eastendtaste

London is truly spoiled with their selection of top-quality restaurants. From gorgeous cocktail lounges and whimsical bakeries to cheeky, traditional English pubs and Michelin Star dining destinations, your best bet would be to diversify your selections throughout your stay.

With so many choices, there are many to be discovered and recognized.

Below are our eight notable restaurants to know in London ahead of your next trip across the pond.

Cheneston’s Restaurant @ The Milestone Hotel The Milestone Hotel & Residences’ intimate and elegant restaurant emphasizes cutting-edge British cuisine. There is a particular focus on its wine list, which includes over 300 expertly selected vintages. For an intimate dining experience, guests can book a dinner in the Oratory, which is located just next to Cheneston’s, but can be privatized.

Once the private chapel of the original house, today it offers the perfect setting for a romantic dinner. Couples can even get married in the Oratory, as the space has its wedding license, making this one of the smallest wedding venues in all of London. www.milestonehotel.com/food-anddrink/chenestons

Chutney Mary After relocating to St James from Chelsea in June 2015, its new location inspired a new menu with the addition of a variety of salads, small plate options, and lighter dishes. The Indian restaurant also boasts a luxurious destination bar, which is open throughout the day for food and drink. Brunch is served on the weekends with live jazz and a menu that showcases and British and Indian fusion. Dishes to try include tandoori dover sole and wild Madagascan prawns marinated in green herbs.

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For dessert, go with the dark chocolate bomb surprise. www.chutneymary.com

Brown’s Hotel There may never be enough time for trying all of the afternoon tea selections in London. Brown’s Hotel has one that you simply can’t pass on, its “Detox” Tea-Tox Healthy Afternoon Tea. A bit of relief from the indulgence of the holiday season, its healthy approach to afternoon tea includes a selection of seasonal tea with bites like crushed avocado with pickled red onion and chili, grilled Mediterranean vegetables, and hummus with fried chickpeas. For your sweet ending, there is a selection of seasonal fruits and dips, raspberry compote and coconut yogurt, and chocolate and orange slice. Of course, it also serves a traditional afternoon tea. www.roccofortehotels.com

Launceston Place Launceston Place in Kensington, once regarded as one of Princess Diana’s favorite restaurants, is now part of the D&D London portfolio. Head chef Ben Murphy was appointed in January 2017 and has since created his own distinctive style of modern European dishes that are both original and elaborate.

The mid-century townhouse includes a 52-seat dining room and private dining room for up to 12 and features warm French gray walls with contemporary artwork. Dishes to try include the fig with ricotta, honey, and goat cheese; pistachio soufflé La Tante Claire; veal

cheek with BBQ eggplant and dates; and duck with coffee, pear, and onion. www.launcestonplace-restaurant. co.uk

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take on traditional Singapore. It features 1940s-style decor with wooden furniture, clean walls, and periodical art. www.singapulah.co.uk

With locations in Soho, Westfield, and Market Hall, Pastaio is the spot to be for a perfectly portioned plate of house made pasta. Start with one of its Moju cold-pressed juices served in a bottle or a refreshing cocktail reminiscent of summers in the Hamptons like an Aperol spritz or cherry cooler. Most of its ingredients are sourced from local farms, like its Coombeshead Farm sourdough. For pasta, try the squash ravioli or any of the rigatoni dishes.

The pasta itself deserves five stars. For dessert, a unique scoop is its almond, pistachio, and lemon ice cream. www.pastaio.co.uk

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Singapulah is a newly opened restaurant in Soho close to the British Museum by Singaporean restaurateur Ellen Chew (of Chinatown’s Rasa Sayang, Lobos, and more).

Chef Lynette Zheng has curated a menu of hawker dishes, many of which you cannot find in the UK, including bak chor mee (delicious noodles with minced pork), chargrilled iberico satay, and creamy roxy laksa. This is the only place you will find roxy laksa outside Singapore. That dish was founded in 1952, serving from a food cart outside a popular theater and made according to the same recipe ever since.

Singapulah features a bright and colorful dining room that is a classic

The famed restaurateurs, the Gladwin Brothers, recently opened Sussex in November. The restaurant focuses on a traditional menu with dishes including Jerusalem artichoke and lemon sour cream, Sussex Venison Wellington, and pumpkin gnocchi with wild mushrooms. Noteworthy desserts include its caramelized custard tart, and English ripe cheeses with blackberry pastilles. The restaurant in Soho offers a set lunch and dinner menu. Another to experience is its Local & Wild kitchen table that seats up to 14 guests. www.sussex-restaurant.com

Wild Honey St James is the latest restaurant by chef and restaurateur Anthony Demetre. This impressive corner site within Sofitel London launched in June and has a full-day menu boasting Demetre’s highly regarded modern European cooking, combining French techniques with the finest seasonal British produce. Think classic bouillabaisse Marseille-style; roast lacquered wild mallard, celeriac, quince — for two; and classic English custard tart, golden sultanas, pine nuts, salted butter. Demetre is hugely respected and owns several additional prestigious restaurants including Arbutus, Putney Bridge, and Les Deux Salons. www.wildhoneystjames.co.uk

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Calissa It’s time to party like it’s 1991. Join The Independent newspaper at Calissa in Water Mill for a New Year’s Eve celebration. The restaurant is offering a four-course dinner with a Veuve Clicquot midnight toast for $75, or appetizers and a Veuve Clicquot midnight toast at the bar for $40. Watch the Times Square ball drop while DJ Tony Kerr and DJ Ice spin ’90s classics. For reservations, visit www.calissahamptons.com.

Almond Gift Cards Almond in Bridgehampton is offering a gift card promotion until Christmas Eve. From now until Tuesday, December 24, diners can receive a complimentary $20 gift card with the purchase of a $100 gift card, and a complimentary $50 gift card with the purchase of a $200 gift card. The deal is also available online at www.almondrestaurant. com with the use of the code ALMOND2020. For reservations or more information, call the restaurant at 631537-5665.

Bel Mare Ristorante Bel Mare Ristorante in Springs is ringing in the New Year with a special fourcourse prix fixe menu, available Tuesday, December 31, beginning at 5 PM. Cost is $50 per person, plus tax and gratuity. A cash bar will be available until 1 AM. The last reservation will be taken at 9 PM and the cash bar will be open to the public. The regular a la carte menu will not be available. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the restaurant directly at 631-

658-9500.

Union Cantina Union Cantina in Southampton is hosting a New Year’s Eve party. For $75 per person in advance, guests can enjoy a four-hour top shelf open bar from 9 PM to 1 AM, passed and stationary hors d’oeuvres, a dinner buffet, party favors, a dessert table, and live coverage of the ball drop. For tickets, visit www.unioncantina.net.

Suffolk Theater Ring in the New Year with dinner, dancing, and laughter, at the historic Suffolk Theater in Riverhead. Long Island Comedy presents a lineup of world-class comedians. There will be cuisine from Chef Noah, and dancing to the sounds of DJ Phil. A champagne toast and the live broadcast of the balldrop on a giant full-stage projection screen will be on tap. Visit www.suffolktheater.com.

Southampton Social Club The Southampton Social Club is offering three packages for New Year’s Eve, starting at $95, which includes four hours of top shelf open bar, passed hors d’oeuvres, and a champagne toast at midnight. DJ Loki will be spinning all night. Visit www.southamptonsocialclub.com or call 631-287-1400.

The Halyard The Halyard in Greenport presents a New Year’s Eve dinner and dance party.

There will be an a la carte dinner from 4:30 to 10 PM. The luxury menu specials include truffles, caviar, foie gras,

Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor presents two New Year’s Eve dinner seatings.

Those dining from 5 to 8:30 PM will be offered a menu that’s $110 per person and the second seating, from 9:30 to 11 PM, will be $140 per person. Menu items include prime rib, free-range chicken, and appetizers to kick off the new year. To reserve a table, call 631725-2101. View the menu at www.baronscove.com/dining.

The Clubhouse The Clubhouse in East Hampton presents a New Year’s Eve Black Party.

Guests should come in black attire.

There will be open bar from 9:30 to 12:30 AM, party favors, passed hors d’oeuvres, a champagne toast at midnight, taco bar, music by James Ryan aka JRiNVENTOR, and more. Pre-sale tickets are $110. Visit www.ehitclubhouse.com or call 631-537-2695.

Bridgehampton Inn Bridgehampton Inn Restaurant presents a New Year’s Eve Dinner by executive chef Brian Szostak for $95 per person. Menu items include truffle lobster bisque, short rib agnolotti, lamb chops, and more. Call 631-537-3660 or visit www.bridgehamptoninn.com.

Almond NYE Almond in Bridgehampton will serve a special locally sourced four-course prix fixe menu in celebration of New Year’s Eve beginning at 9 PM. Guests will receive party favors and a champagne toast will be offered. Cost for the evening is $115 per person, plus tax and gratuity. The a la carte menu will be offered earlier in the evening alongside holiday specials. Call 631-537-5665.

Southampton Inn The Southampton Inn New Year’s Eve Gala and Getaway provides a classic celebration. An affordable staycation package offers couples and friends the start of a New Year’s tradition with walks on the beach, hot cider by the Inn’s fire, cultural experiences, and a night of dinner and dancing on the East End.

For $475, guests stay in an overnight room (double occupancy), and are treated to a New Year’s celebration in the Inn’s ballroom, complete with a DJ, dancing, dessert, premium open bar, a midnight toast, and a delicious brunch on New Year’s Day in Claude’s

restaurant. It’s an old-fashioned celebration of welcoming the New Year in a cozy, festive, and friendly atmosphere.

Guests can extend their stay for $100 per night. For those who only wish to attend the gala, the price is $125 per adult.

The Southampton Inn is also offering December vacation BOGOs between December 23 and January 5; those who reserve a room receive a second room at 50 percent off. This offer excludes December 31. Visit www. southamptoninn.com.

Green Hill Green Hill in Greenport presents a New Year’s Eve party. For $60 per person, you can enjoy open bar from 8 PM to midnight, with an all you can eat buffet and midnight snacks and toast. There will be live music by Lawrence Cooley.

Call 631-477-4900.

The Merchant’s Wife The Merchant’s Wife in Greenport presents a New Year’s Eve Party starting at 8 PM. There will be passed canapés followed by a four-course dinner with wine pairings by Lieb Cellars.

The cost is $125 per person or $100 for hotel guests and Lieb Case Club Members. There will also be a champagne toast at midnight. Call 631-333-2777 for reservations.

The 1770 House The 1770 House Restaurant & Inn in East Hampton presents a New Year’s Eve celebration menu by executive chef Michael Rozzi with wine selections by wine director Michael Cohen, followed by New Year dining deals starting January 1.

On New Year’s Eve, from 5:30 to 10:30 PM, Rozzi presents a wide assortment of dishes in a lavish fourcourse tasting menu, $110 per person (plus tax, gratuity, or beverage) that starts with small bites and lighter flavors that build into big, full flavors and multi-layer dishes.

Call 631-324-1770 for details.

Lulu Kitchen and Bar Lulu Kitchen and Bar in Sag Harbor will host a New Year’s Eve celebration.

The a la carte menu will be available until 7 PM. A special chef ’s tasting menu will be offered starting at 8 PM including a four-course dinner and a champagne toast at midnight for $125 per person, plus tax and gratuity. As well, a more casual option will be available in the “Lulu Lounge” featuring a family-style four-course meal and music by DJ Jeph starting at 9 PM for $85 per person. Entrance to the Lulu Lounge will be available for walk-ins as well on a first come, first served basis and table availability. Call 631-725-0900.

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Drink Up, Asheville

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As my trip was only three days, I decided that hitting each and every brewery would be an ill-advised idea (just think of the hangover). So, I set out to visited a few select locations for a sample of what the expansive beer scene had to offer. Going from the South Slope neighborhood to the River Arts District, I managed to try six unique breweries. Below is a list, in order of first to last, along with my recommended taste of hops. Be advised, I’m a porter/lager type of beer drinker.

A first-timer’s beer guide to this North Carolina city

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“There’s no competition because we aren’t like that here. We each have our own thing and everyone gets it. There’s plenty of tourism to go around,” an employee of Green Man brewery commented of the 11.1 million annual visitors to Buncombe County in North Carolina.

On my recent trip to Asheville, a popular tourism town in the county, I was nearly overwhelmed at how many craft breweries there were in the area.

The Asheville Brewers Alliance lists 53 members on its website (www.avlbrewers.com), Green Man being one of them. It’s been called the Beer Capital

Eurisko (www.euriskobeer.com) serves a Coffee Porter using Sumatran Jambi coffee prepared by local roasters, PennyCup Coffee Co. It has a taste of milk chocolate and coffee.

Burial (www.burialbeer.com) proves that sometimes the story is just as important as the brew. Each of its labels comes with carefully detailed artwork and a brief description. The Deliver Us To Evil Imperial Porter reads “Our blood runs thick with a tempting spirit, thirsty for the darkness beneath this flimsy ground.” The flavor features a blend of dark ales that are first aged in wood for over a year in dates, cinnamon, cocoa nibs, and anaheim, ancho, and cayenne peppers. If that doesn’t

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Green Man (www.greenmanbrewery. com) was established in 1997, making it one of the original breweries to hit the scene. For the ethically responsible drinker, the name matches its practices with high-efficiency systems, and recyclable and repurposed materials. The brewery is also seeking solar paneling for continued expansion. With three locations, and growing, Dirty Jacks is the original tasting room just a hop(s) away from a much larger, 20,000-square-foot mansion.

The Demon Dweller, American Imperial Stout, is the sinister twin of the seasonal stout, The Dweller, and both are limited releases.

Wedge (www.wedgebrewing.com) has two locations in the River Arts District, both established in 2008.

I visited the one at Wedge Studios which also houses 30-plus artist studios, a wine bar, and more. It’s a small indoor setting but outside are headlamps on the deck to keep warm, rotating food trucks, and a chance to socialize. My pick? The Golem, a Belgian Strong Golden Ale with a very heavy pour.

Wicked Weed (www.wickedweedbrewing.com) has several locations, but the Funkatorium in South Slope is the first taproom dedicated to sour beer on the East Coast. It’s a large space where the hungry and thirsty come to gather both inside and outside in the Biergarten. You can order food here off the bar menu or walk directly next door to Cultura for a wider selection of eats and a full cocktail list, in addition to Wicked Weed beers. For sours, the Sandiaca impressed with a gin barrel-aged sour ale that’s fermented with watermelon and basil. On tap at the time, the Bourbon Barrel Aged Milk & Cookies Imperial/Double Milk Stout quickly tied as a favorite (alongside Burial’s Deliver Us To Evil).

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Cranberry And White Chocolate Crumb Cake

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Ingredients

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Cake 1/2 lb butter (room temperature) 1 c granulated sugar 3 eggs 2 c cake flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 c sour cream 1/2 c plain Greek yogurt 2 Tbsp mayonnaise 1/2 c dried cranberries 1/2 c white chocolate chips

Topping 3/4 c light brown sugar 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground nutmeg 1 tsp ground all spice 3 Tbsp cold butter (cut into small pieces) 1/2 c chopped pecans 1/2 c almond flour

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line the muffin tin with paper liners. Use the paddle attachment on your stand mixer and cream the butter and sugar together until smooth.

Add the eggs one at a time and mix until light and fluffy. Sift the dry ingredients together: flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Mix the wet ingredients together as well: mayonnaise, sour cream, and yogurt.

To finish the batter, turn the mixer back on and add the dry and wet ingredients a little at a time, alternating dry and wet until a smooth consistency is achieved.

Add the cranberries and white chocolate chips and distribute evenly throughout the cupcake tin.

To make the topping, combine all the dry ingredients, except the nuts, in a bowl. Slowly, without working the mixture too much, press the cold butter into the dry ingredients until it becomes a crumbly mixture.

Fold in the chopped nuts and sprinkle on top of the muffin batter.

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Holiday Decor: From the most talented stylemakers we follow

Shannon Willey of Sea Green Designs shared a charming, understated yet festive custom garland she installed on a recent project.

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From the most talented stylemakers we follow

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

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e are conditioned to find that interior designers take license to go over-the-top when it comes to the holiday season. To our surprise, the interior designers we follow the most went in the opposite direction. Looks were naturalistic, cozy, and sometimes bold but with a nod to self-reflection and humble gratitude in their design.

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Mid-Century and other antiques, abstract carved wood sculpture, vintage portraits and an 18th century desk looks current and festive when decorated with simple local dried berries and leaves.

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Their aesthetic is very natural and “undecorated.� Michael Del Piero Good Design with Lukas Machnik incorporates the natural beauty of the Hamptons into their cozy holiday decor.

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The most opulent display came from Sasha Bikoff Interior Design, an Indy favorite since her tablescape win at the Hampton Classic two years ago. Hot pink, white, and gold tabletop

by Scully & Scully, modern chairs by Campana Brothers surround an ornate table from Newel Gallery. We love the exotic prints and porcelain animal figurines that bring nature into the romatic yet dramatic display.

Sasha Bikoff 646-524-5941 www.sashabikoff.com @sashabikoff Tara Benet suggests bringing in red accents to bring out the holiday spirit in her modern, luxe decor. Sofa by B&B Italia, "Domino" tables by Molteni, Husk chair by B&B Italia, red pillows by ABC Carpet. The decorative pillow is custom by Elitis, Tic Tac Toe set

by Jonathan Adler.

Zoe Hoarde and Chris Meade of English Country Home in Bridgehampton believe that simply layering fabulously festive pieces to bring out the holiday spirit is fast and can be a showstopper. They are particularly fond of the giant gold pinecones and silvery pine wreaths for a quick blast of glamour with a nod to nature.

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How To Jingle Bell Rock Homebuying Homeowners are looking to sell during the holiday season

By Laura Euler

It’s December. The weather outside is frightful but the fire in your superbly modern limestone fireplace is so delightful. Your eye rests on the Christmas tree, lavishly decked out by your decorator. You murmur, “How lovely are thy branches. Your boughs so green in summertime.” Uh oh. Summertime.

That brings you out of your reverie.

You promised the old ball-and-chain you’d seriously look into buying a place in the Hamptons for next year, and you haven’t done anything about it yet.

Don’t put down that prosecco yet, Prospective Homebuyer! While traditionally the holidays are considered a bad time to buy or sell real estate, ev-

erything is changing now.

In fact, according to a new national survey released by a real estate data firm, the best days of the year to buy a home are all in December. December 26 as a closing date, according to the data, is the day where the best discounts can be had. (The survey included more than 23 million single-family home and condo sales over the past six years.)

Other great days to close include December 4 and December 31.

“Closing on a home purchase the day after Christmas or on New Year’s Eve can be one of the most financially beneficial holiday-season gifts you can get,” said Todd Teta, chief product of-

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“While lots of folks are shopping the day-after Christmas sales or getting ready to ring in the New Year, our data shows that buyers and investors are buying homes on those days at a discount. That’s a far cry from buying during June, when they are likely paying about a seven-percent premium.”

But — as we all know — the Hamptons market follows its own trends. To find out more, we asked several prominent agents about buying (and selling) during the holidays.

“People who are looking around Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s, are usually a more serious type of buyer,” said Patrick McLaughlin of Douglas Elliman. “It’s a busy time of year, so the last thing they probably want to do is waste their free time meandering around open houses. If a house is on the market in winter and it’s getting traffic, chances are you’re seeing serious buyers that are ready to pull the trigger. Also, thanks to seasonal decorations, it’s a great time to really up the ‘comfy and livable’ qualities of your home.”

Aimee Martin, an agent with Saunders, agrees that people looking during the holidays are more committed to buying. “Motivated sellers who price their homes to sell have a good opportunity to attract more serious buyers during the holidays when the inventory is less plentiful and there’s less competition,” she said. “A home tastefully decorated for the holidays with a fire in the fireplace and cookies in the oven adds to an appealing and cozy ambiance for buyers to see.”

And in a second home market, it’s nice to have your buyer worry about the place during January through March.

“It’s an excellent time to buy. The small-

er pool of buyers, and people looking this time of year, make sellers perhaps more negotiable,” said Gary DePersia of Corcoran. “Many sellers don’t want to hold the properties over the leaner cold months, waiting for buyers to resurface in February or March, so are keen to make a deal and perhaps close early the following year, which could serve them tax-wise as well.”

McLaughlin added that the smaller pool helps buyers, too. “This helps give your potential offers more weight, as many homeowners don’t want to hold onto their home in the spring and deal with all the future costs and effort of clean-up and maintenance. Plus, in a market like the Hamptons, the houses are empty, so it’s easier for most brokers and agents to get viewing appointments. And, of course, there’s less traffic. You get a lot more viewing done this time of year!”

Martin added, “For buyers, the holidays provide an opportunity to find some good deals when a motivated seller wants to close for tax purposes or personal reasons. Also, buying during the holidays provides an opportunity for a buyer to do necessary repairs or upgrades so the house is ready for them to enjoy by Memorial Day.”

Of course, while the interior of a house decorated for the holidays may be cozy and inviting, the grounds aren’t at their best, points out DePersia. “The grounds and pool area will not show their best as they would earlier in the year.” If you’re thinking of selling, try to have a few photos taken when the garden is in bloom and the pool is open.

Relax, Prospective Homebuyer!

Don your gay apparel and start scrolling listings on your phone. This is a good time to buy, after all.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Christmas Mourning The end of a half-century-old love story denishamill@gmail.com

It was sad Christmas news.

Ryan read the email from his sister, the only girl in a family of seven kids born to Irish immigrants.

This kind of grim news always seems to come in the month of December when you hope to be celebrating joy to the world.

Bad news in December is always the hardest news.

The email from Ryan’s sister told her remaining four brothers that Tommy, her husband of 51 years, was finally taken to the hospital that morning after repeated falls.

He’d been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for the past several years. It was the same insidious disease that had taken their mother some 20 years earlier.

But Tommy was a tough old bird, born and raised in the scrappy streets of Brooklyn. He joined the U.S. Navy at 17 and the military service transformed him into a man with a salty vocabulary but a gentle heart.

He bounced around in odd jobs as bachelor after the service until one day, at age 29, he walked into a gin mill with his best friend and asked the attractive barmaid for a beer.

“You see that lady behind the bar,” Tommy told his pal. “Someday I’m gonna marry her.”

Tommy over-tipped Ryan’s sister and returned a few more times. On the third trip to the bar, called Our Place, he asked her to go out with him.

“I can’t,” she said. “I have a fouryear-old son and I have to go buy him an Easter suit after work.”

“Good,” said Tommy, unfazed.

“I’ll drive you.”

“That’s a date,” said Ryan’s sister, who never learned to drive.

Tommy took Ryan’s sister shopping. Then, on their first date, she had to take along her son. They ate in a nice restaurant and when Tommy was driving her home, her little boy barfed the big meal all over

the back seat of Tommy’s car.

“I was mortified,” Ryan’s sister said. “But Tommy just shrugged, said don’t worry about it. We cleaned it up and he drove us home. I fell head over heels in love with this good-looking, good-hearted, hard-working guy.”

A year later, on December 13, 1968, Tommy was 30 when he walked Ryan’s 28-year-old sister down the aisle.

“We went to Ireland on our honeymoon a year after we were married,” Ryan’s sister said. “We spent the first year finding an apartment and making a home.”

Tommy would also adopt that little boy who puked in his back seat and love him as his own. He would also become like a seventh brother to all of Ryan’s sister’s brothers.

Tommy worked as a manager in a precious metals plant in those years when no one paid much attention to the industrial toxins they breathed in. If you had a good job, you showed up on time, worked your butt off, and brought the paycheck home to the family.

Ryan’s sister also worked as an editor for a U.S. Navy publication, and together they saved enough to buy a fine home in Staten Island, where all her brothers and their families would come every Thanksgiving to eat like Celtic royalty and to argue politics and sports and to make memories that are a moveable feast.

Their son grew up and joined the U.S. Navy like his dad Tommy at age 17 and came home a mature man.

He would also marry the girl of his dreams and raise two great children.

When Tommy and Ryan’s sister retired, they sold the house in Staten Island and bought a house in a retirement community in the suburbs.

They stayed active, walking every day, going to the gym, movies, and community events. Tommy liked target shooting, but only in a

gun range. Instead of killing them, Tommy fed the deer that wandered onto his back lawn. Tommy and his bride had long ago given up cigarettes and alcohol because they wanted to grow old together. Ryan never knew a couple as happily married as his sister and Tommy.

“We’ve had a beautiful life,” Ryan’s sister says. “Then, five years ago, Tommy developed a slight tremor in his left finger. I told him not to worry; it was just an old age tremor.

But Tommy said no, he didn’t like how it felt. Our mom had Parkinson’s and I didn’t think for a minute Tommy had it.”

Until she went to the doctor. “The neurologist said blood work showed that Tommy had early Parkinson’s,” Ryan’s sister said. “Tommy wasn’t surprised. I was shocked. But I told him not to worry, my mom developed it when she was 60 and she died at 87.”

But Tommy’s Parkinson’s progressed rapidly. In the past year, the tremor became palsy. And this nondiscriminatory disease that attacks popes, heavyweight champions like Muhammad Ali, and famous actors like Michael J. Fox and Ryan’s sister’s favorite singer, Neil Diamond, affected Tommy’s

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equilibrium. He began to fall and bang his limbs and hips and his head.

Ryan’s sister would sometimes try to catch him before he fell and go down with him on her own artificial knee.

She kept bringing him to doctors and the emergency room until they told her that his Parkinson’s was so advanced that he would need to go into a nursing home for 24-hour care.

“I have loved this man for a halfcentury,” Ryan’s sister said on her 51st wedding anniversary. “I will love him, to his last breath and my last breath.

When I asked him if he knew what December 13 was he whispered, ‘Our anniversary.’”

She left the nursing home to go have a good old-fashioned cry and everywhere she looked Christmas decorations twinkled and carols played and people shopped in the festive season.

“I said a prayer to Mommy who suffered with this awful disease,” said Ryan’s sister. “I prayed to God for a Christmas miracle or to please not let my Tommy linger like my mother had.

I love my Tommy too much to watch him suffer.”

This was the sad news Ryan’s sister had to share with her brothers on her 51st wedding anniversary before the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Santa Experience At Eileen Fisher Photo courtesy Eileen Fisher The Independent Newspaper hosted a Santa Experience at Eileen Fisher in East Hampton on Saturday, December 7. Guests enjoyed sips and bites, a chance to meet Mrs. Claus, and an equine reindeer presented by Spirit’s Promise Equine Rescue.

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Children’s Museum Offers New Program Sensory Friendly Mornings geared toward kids with autism

By Valerie Bando-Meinken valerie@indyeastend.com The Children’s Museum of the East End hosted its first Sensory Friendly Morning on Saturday, December 8. Created in partnership with the Flying Point Foundation for Autism, the new event drew 30 families from across Long Island. Special museum access with dimmed lighting, art rooms, open play areas, sound-reduced exhibits, and quiet spaces were provided to encourage a soothing environment for children on the autism spectrum or with sensory-processing disorders.

“Our goal was to provide a safe, judgment-free environment for the children and give them an opportunity to enjoy and explore the museum, giving them the sensory experiences that they need,” stated Liz Bard, CMEE’s director of education.

“Other children’s museums nationwide host programs such as this. We want it to be a wonderful program and are asking the families that come to fill

out a survey and give us their feedback and suggestions on how to make it better. We will use those surveys to help improve and further create the program,” she added.

This growing segment of the population needs to be addressed on the East End,” said Elizabeth Barrowcliffe of Sag Harbor, who drives her son, Olin, to a program in Ronkokoma “because there are no adequate programs out here,” she said. “You have to give families the help that they need and create programs.”

In another room within the museum, Marcia Santiago watched her three-year-old son proudly stack makebelieve ice cream onto a cone in a mock soda-shop. While Santiago expressed her appreciation for the new program and the efforts being made by CMEE and the Flying Point Foundation, she was unable to hide her frustration with the lack of services available to autistic children.

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“It’s desperate out here! Early intervention is non-existent here on the East End,” said Santiago. Being of Latino descent, Santiago added, “The Spanish community, in particular, is in a bigger denial than others. Regardless of your ethnic background, no one wants to admit that something is wrong and their child is not developing or talking. Everyone goes through and experiences denial.

But it’s worse when you’re Spanish. You already stand out. Nothing is in your native language and they just don’t want to take their children and have them stand out even more.”

When Santiago found out that her son was unable to speak and communi-

cate, she decided to go back to school, enrolling at St. Joseph’s College as a speech communication major. She plans to attend a graduate program at Long Island University to receive her certification as a registered behavioral technician, which will allow her to work with children on the Autism spectrum and those with sensory processing disorders. “When I have my certification, I will be staying local so that I can help in my community,” she said.

The CMEE Sensory Friendly Mornings are scheduled for the first Saturday of every month from 8 to 10 AM. For information and to pre-register (required), visit www.cmee.org.

possible $250 to $1000 fine. Those fines go up to $500 and $2500 for secondtime offenders, and $1000 to $5000 for a third.

The ban does not affect homeowners or tenants who want to work on their garden or properties themselves, though there are curfews in place for such uses.

Becky Molinaro Hansen, village administrator, said the village sent out mailers reminding businesses of the

coming code changes, which become official New Year’s Day.

The rule applies to regional or even national companies that do business here. “A business entity shall be responsible for all employees understanding the applicable rules and regulations and compliance with the requirements of this article and the Village Code,” she said, even if the crew is sent from upisland.

East Hampton Village Will Regulate Landscapers Officials want to make sure all the rules are followed

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com East Hampton officials want to make sure the playing field is level, and that means everyone plays by the same set of rules.

Anyone doing business as a landscaper within East Hampton Village boundaries come January 1 will have to register and pay a $200 fee every year.

“The registration form, at a minimum, shall state that the landscaper has read, understands, and agrees to comply with the Village’s noise law with respect to the dates and times for permitted property maintenance and landscaping, the use of gas-powered leaf blowers, and all other relevant Vil-

lage laws and policies,” according to the adopted measure.

A decade ago, the village passed legislation limiting the hours that construction could take place and noisegenerating activity could begin. But too many contractors are still unaware of the limitations, residents say. The licensing law will hopefully rectify the situation.

A controversial East Hampton Village ban of the commercial use of gas and diesel-powered leaf blowers will be in effect for the summer season, from June 1 to Labor Day.

A first-time offender will face a

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Heartfelt Reality TV ‘Family Kitchen Revival’ features two East End families

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com There’s no better time to be thankful than during the holiday season. In the new reality show “Family Kitchen Revival,” Long Island celebrity chef Jonathan Scinto is bringing families together over a warm meal to show gratitude and appreciation.

Produced by Tough Monkey Entertainment, Amazon Prime and Roku both premiered the eight-episode season in November, featuring eight families from Nassau and Suffolk counties. Each 22-minute episode showcases a personal story about struggle and love, shared over a family inspired recipe created by Chef Scinto, formerly on “Chopped” and “Master Chef” and third-place winner in

Walmart’s World Food Championship.

In Episode 2, “An Unimaginable Thanksgiving,” Minna Waldeck of Wading River mourns the loss of her son, Michael, who took his own life several years ago. During the show, Waldeck finds comfort and happiness with her son’s favorite holiday meal surrounded by those who helped her through the grieving process, a lifelong battle for any parent who lost a child. Chef Scinto is assisted by Kate Merker, chief food director of Good Housekeeping Magazine.

The season finale, “In the Spirit of BBQ,” was filmed at the non-profit Spirit’s Promise Horse Rescue center at Blossom Hollow Ranch in Riverhead.

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Founder Marisa Striano talks about her diagnosis with breast cancer and undergoing a double mastectomy.

“Breast cancer was a gift wrapped in sandpaper,” Striano said at the start of the episode. She thanked those who helped keep Spirit’s Promise operating during her recovery and the episode features both family and volunteers participating

in a ranch-style BBQ with a special Spirit’s Promise burger.

Ultimately, “Family Kitchen Revivial” is a show about bringing people together over a dinner table, and a moment of gratitude to the support system that was there when it was most needed. Chef Scinto said, “The kitchen is the heart of every family and food brings people together.”

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Sports Lady Mariners Want A Piece Of The Action Tough schedule doesn’t deter Wingfield’s charges

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Hoop aficionados know League VII is a hotbed for girls basketball.

Consider last year, when Pierson (17-3) flirted with an undefeated season and won the Long Island Class C title and Mattituck (16-4) matched the Whalers win-for win in route to the Suffolk B title, besting Port Jeff (12-9) in the title game. All three of those teams are back and hungry for more hardware: In fact, the Royals already beat Mattituck December 6 in their first league encounter and would like nothing better than another crack at the B title.

The league has gotten even deeper

— tiny Smithtown Christian, winners of 10 games last season — is back. And so is Abby Loiacano, a five-foot, fourinch sparkplug who can light it up with anyone, and she’s only a freshman.

One team traveling under the radar is poised for a big step forward: Southampton, 9-10 last season, is looking to build on that rebuilding effort with a bevy of veterans led by senior standout Ishanti Gumbs. Anyone who isn’t aware of how dangerous the veteran mentor Juni Wingfield is, simply isn’t a student of the game.

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Baymen Blitz Bees For Fifth Straight Hampton Bays an early season force

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Hampton Bays traditionally has the misfortune of a schedule laced with the East End’s powerhouses, but this season, it’s the other way around – the Baymen look like the team that will be hard to beat.

Take Bridgehampton on Thursday,

December 12. The Bees have had a good old time of it playing against Baymen of yore, and the thought of an 85-39 blitzkrieg probably never entered their minds, even during a rebuilding season.

But sometime midway in the first

12, when the Mariners made Mattituck dig deep to come out of Southampton with a 55-49 win. The locals put the Tuckers on the alert early coming out of the gate and grabbed a solid lead, expanding it to nine at halftime. Gumbs (16 points) was wheeling and dealing and Wingfield’s pressure defense at time unnerved the Tuckers.

After falling behind by 10 mid-way through the third, though, the visitors started clicking.

Emily Nicholson started scoring with authority and equally important, asserted herself on the boards (seven rebounds).

Southampton began rushing shots and paid the ultimate price when Nicholson took over in the fourth. Aniah Thompson added 12 points for Mattituck.

The win made it three of four for the Tuckers (2-1 In League VII) who are 3-4 overall: They traditionally take on the crème de la crème in the nonleague portion of their schedule.

Southampton snapped a threegame winning streak with the loss, but Wingfield has to feel good about his team’s playoff chances. A game at quarter — during which the home team outscored the Bees 31-3 — it became apparent: Hampton Bays is an explosive team, at least at this level.

The winners drilled 11 treys, and coasted to an 85-39 victory despite substituting liberally. Lucas Brown had 22 points and eight rebounds to lead Hampton Bays (5-0) in non-league. Kyle Rodriguez scored 15 points and Jaden Ottati added 14 points.

That, folks, was victory number five as the Baymen have coasted through the non-league portion of their schedule undefeated, having beaten Ross three days earlier 72-40. That’s not to imply Hampton Bays has been playing Class D teams: a quality win against West Islip Decem-

Southampton's Cristine Delgado is averaging almost 10 points per game this season. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

Pierson on December 21 will tell us more. Next up for Mattituck is Center Moriches at home January 6.

Loiacano, by the way, is leading the county with 27.3 points per game average and worth the price of the ferry trip. Samantha Ayotte of Port Jeff (17) and Chastin Giles of Pierson (16) are also among the leaders. Nicholson will be in the top 10 shortly. ber 6 proved a portent of what was to come.

The Bees have dropped their first three encounters by huge margins. The two best players went off and found more competitive teams, including the coach’s son. It’s not a good situation.

We’ll know a lot more after the holiday break. Hampton Bays has five games, including a home encounter against archrival Southampton on January 7 and at Mattituck January 10.

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Shamir Cohen was in her Sag Harbor home, by Long Beach, a few years back, when she “noticed a gap in the market for natural cleaning products that were genuinely non-toxic, not made with irritating fragrances, but still effective.

My body is very sensitive to chemicals,” she continued. “I took my knowledge of essential oils and natural potent cleaning agents and started mixing my own products from my kitchen.”

And so, Pure & Peaceful was born.

“Cleaning can be an uplifting and therapeutic experience,” reads the website. The “products are aromatherapybased, designed to elevate your mood with delicious scents in order to improve people’s health and well-being.”

They also are plant-based, mineralbased, and eco-friendly, from the rosemary, lemongrass, and peppermint allpurpose cleaner, to lavender and bergamot floor cleaner, to air sprays, hand soaps, and more.

“In the cleaning product space, there is currently no other brand on the market that is exactly like Pure & Peaceful,” according to Cohen. “Pure & Peaceful doesn’t supplement any natu-

ral ingredients with fillers or chemical additives in order to save on cost. Trade secret allows for companies to hide chemicals in fragrance, so most fragrances have, on average, 100 different toxic chemicals hidden within them.”

The owner started the line in her Sag Harbor kitchen, in her home by long beach!

Cohen says her background influenced her interest in all things natural.

“My father’s parents were from Austria and Poland, and my mother is from West Africa. Both family cultures prescribe to a more ‘everything homemade’ way of living. From food to cleaning products, growing up we didn’t have many commercial goods in our home, and my mom would often bring back fresh, natural goods, like shea butter, from her trips to Africa each year.”

As a child, Cohen, who was brought up in Port Jefferson, spent many summers in Greenport and often visited family friends in Shelter Island and Southampton.

“After college, I was going to go to law school but I decided to defer and got a job offer working for a big interior

design firm in Bridgehampton, working alongside my college best friend. I spent nine years in Sag Harbor before relocating to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, five years ago,” she said.

Her origination of Pure & Peaceful had a larger mission than making nontoxic cleaning products. “I also wanted people to experience aromatherapy while cleaning,” she said. “The collection uses high-quality organic essential oils with plant and mineral-based ingredients so that cleaning can be enjoyable and therapeutic instead of a toxic experience.”

Years before creating the company, Cohen had taken yoga classes with several well-known East End instructors, “and many of those classes incorporated essential oils into the practice,” she said. “The oils helped me relax, and always put me in a good mood, so my passion for them was ignited. I began taking essential oil workshops in local studios. I would also spend time visiting lavender fields at friends’ family homes around the Hamptons and in Greenport, and the beautiful holistic community out there really incited my

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The morning of this plunge was unseasonably warm, with 50-degree ocean waters, however, there were high winds and waves reaching more than 10 feet in height. For everyone’s safety, the Southampton Ocean Rescue team warned the participants to not go in water deeper than their waist.

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Captain Tiger Prevails Presidents Cup filled with thrilling matches bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com

At last, the final competitive event of the 2019 calendar year has concluded. The Presidents Cup, played “Down Under” in Australia, pitted Team USA against the rest of the world minus Europe in this highly contested biennial international team competition.

Team USA, or rather Team Tiger, had to put on a final day full-court press to secure The Cup. As the final day of singles began, the U.S. was down by two points, 8-10, and needed a combined total of 15.5 to take the highly prized cup back to the U.S.A. Both Presidents Cup captains, Ernie Els for the International team and Tiger for the U.S., were confident as the match-

es started out. In the President’s Cup, unlike the Ryder Cup, the captains decide who will play against whom. Captain Els was pretty certain on that final day that Tiger would want to go out early in the line-up so he would be available for his captain’s role, and he was matched up with Abraham Ancer. Ancer was born in the U.S. but grew up in Mexico and played for Mexico for the International team. He had been on fire all week and appeared to have the best chance to defeat a hot Tiger Woods.

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be fully fit for the final Day Four singles matches. Speculation was running wild as to why Tiger would leave himself on the bench on Day Three. The stage was set. The U.S., trailing by two points going into the singles with 12 points at stake, needed to win seven and a half of them.

Certainly, a Tiger win would inspire the U.S. team, while a defeat would certainly boost the International Team’s hopes.

As predicted, Tiger did pick himself to go out in that first match which remained close before Tiger came up huge with birdies on 14, 15, and 16 to close it out and show the rest of Team USA that they could make up the deficit. Now the International’s dream of winning their second Presidents Cup suddenly became more difficult and, in the end, Team USA recorded a 16-14 win total and retained The Cup but it was thrilling right down to the last two matches.

This was Tiger’s first captaincy and he really wanted to make his mark as a winning captain. Tiger was determined and focused and ready and, as it turned out, he was the only player on either team who won all of their matches. The three points he won made him the winningest player in the history of the Presidents Cup. Basking in the glory of this Presidents Cup victory, an emotional Tiger, with tears in his eyes, was quoted as saying, “I love playing with these guys as my

teammates and couldn’t have a better group of guys to be captain for.”

This Presidents Cup had a little bit of everything. The crowds were tough on Patrick Reed after Reed’s rule infringement the week before at Tiger’s event, the Hero World Challenge. In fact, the situation got a little out of hand when Reed’s caddie and brother-in-law decided he had all he could take of the heckling and put his hands on one of the fans — a big no-no. The PGA Tour acted swiftly and informed Reed and his caddie that he was no longer welcome on the Royal Melbourne course and thus couldn’t caddie for the Day Four singles matches. But it was no problem for Reed, who put his swing coach on the bag. Reed’s victory over CT Pan in the singles gave the U.S. squad its first lead of the week.

I will leave you with two observations unique to Australia. The water in the toilet bowl spins in the opposite direction due to being in the Southern Hemisphere and in the month of December, the number of bothersome flies is absolutely incredible. Australia is still a beautiful country and if you ever get the chance to go, do it. I guarantee you will thank me.

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DreamyKid Finally, an app your kids can benefit from nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily Indy’s own Ty Wenzel, and Jenna Walter, are the innovative duo behind DreamyKid, the top meditation app that’s used by over 200,000 families and schools globally. It’s an idea that was conceived in East Hampton and is on its way to tech paradise, Silicon Valley, in 2020.

But what makes the app so special?

It’s specially designed for children.

DreamyKid’s goal is to teach children how to better handle their thoughts, emotions, and actions through meditation. Wenzel explained the concept further.

It triggered a lot of things from my past, after having dealt with clinical depression, a time where meditation pretty much saved me. I’m a very tech-heavy, full-stack designer, so I developed DreamyKid in 2016 I asked Jenna, who is very experienced with kids and yoga/meditation, to join me. She came on as our COO and for outreach because we offer DreamyKid to schools for free. She’s the true heart of DreamyKid now and she is an inspiring mother to three amazing kids.

How’d you come up with the concept?

As the original meditation app for kids, what’s ahead?

There were a few years when my son was transitioning from Springs School to East Hampton High School where there were numerous child deaths due to suicide.

We were invited and accepted to exhibit at Google-sponsored StartUp Grind in Silicon Valley in February. It’s so exciting to be able to speak with other founders and

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innovators and to see if we will align with venture capitalists and investors. I’m especially excited to attend the fireside chats with some of the biggest names in tech.

It’s our end-goal to see meditation implemented in all schools in the nation.

The science is there. There are countless stories and videos that show how it has helped in schools. At this point, it’s about scaling DreamyKid to a much bigger audience. An early investor is helping us launch our marketing push next month.

We’re ready for angel investors at this point as the product has been downloaded over 200,000 times with zero marketing.

In July, you launched version two of the app. What was the change?

The big update was adding the subscription model to DreamyKid. This makes it more profitable so we can move forward, but it also makes it easier to get promocodes to schools who want to implement DreamyKid into their curriculum.

I’ve also received requests from veterans coming back from war zones and active service. An adult DreamyKid is definitely in our future.

Is child meditation mainstream?

Since 2012, it’s gone up 500 percent.

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Jenna Walter and Ty Wenzel. Independent/Courtesy DreamyKid

when they meditate, behavior is markedly better, attendance goes up, grades go up, they get respite if there is drama in their lives, they change their self-speak to more positive tones. There are so many reasons why to meditate just five minutes a day — it’s all you need.

What does your app offer?

We offer meditations for eating healthy, better sleep, ADHD and anxiety, and more. Yahoo and Mashable have put us in their top apps for kids, so we are definitely seeing attention being put on children’s mental health. Our complete list of categories is available at www. dreamykid.com. I know meditation saved my life in the ‘90s. I know it works. There really is no stopping us now.

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Please pass this around ASAP. They won’t keep the movie here unless the box office is good. I am going tomorrow night.

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Fascist Behavior Dear Editor, Miracles can happen. I never thought our local Left-wing oriented movie theater would show the new Clint Eastwood movie “Richard Jewell.�

The film largely shows how the FBI (led by none other than our friend Mueller) and the lying media tried to railroad an innocent man. Rarely, if ever, do we see a film which criticizes the fascist behavior of our deep state bureaucrats and media scoundrels.

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Dear Editor, I am writing regarding an article in your December 4 issue by Laura Euler. I have followed Ms. Euler because she is a great voice for the real estate industry on the East End.

She writes in a manner that I like to educate my customers and others looking into the buying and renting homes in the Hamptons.

She seems to write with a due diligence about the industry. Thank you for sharing the information she provides. I am certain it helps your readers. I know it is useful to me.

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When Westhampton Beach High School junior Jane Paulson sat to take the ACT exam for the first time, she planned to use her results as a baseline to improve her score in the future. She said she was anxious, and didn’t think she would do well on the college qualifying exam.

Little did she know she’d be in the top .03 percent of test takers in the country by earning a perfect score of 36.

According to a press release, Paulson said she prepared for the ACT by taking practice exams at home and in her Junior Seminar class. She reviewed the answers she got wrong to ensure she didn’t make the same mistake twice. But when she took the actual exam, she said she left feeling unsure of herself. Her score came as a complete surprise to her.

“I wanted to do well, but couldn’t believe I got a perfect score,� she said.

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council can afford.

There were other prospective sites the council will look into, such as a back room at the Palm Restaurant that Mothes said might be available.

The next Arts Council meeting will be on January 13 at 5 PM. All are welcome to attend.

Continued From Page 6. as the board’s secretary, Jodi Walker, received a letter by December 11 recognizing the board’s right to veto the parking plan.

That letter was never received. With December 18 being the final planning board meeting of the year, the scheduling of a public hearing will now have to wait until 2020, if it happens at all.

EH Arts Council

Continued From Page 8. the rental price at LTV is more than the

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teams will probably be squaring off for first place.

Mattituck is 4-0, its latest victim be-

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In the final analysis, though the winners had a deeper, more talented team, each squad has a legit star. Xavier Allen had 34 points and 13 rebounds to lead Mattituck. Chris Nicholson added 15 points and nine rebounds and Luke

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Liam Leach and Luke Reese each scored 12 for East Hampton, and Frank Belluci and Logan Gurney, 10.

Incidentally, Allen is currently the fifth leading scorer in Suffolk with a 26.3 points average. Mattituck will square off against Shelter Island on December 28 on the North Fork: Luca Quigley-Dunning leads the Indians with 25.5 points per game.

East Hampton is 3-3 on the young season after losing at Islip 55-44 on December 12. Reese had 17 in a losing cause.

Bonac travels to Kings Park on January 3.

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