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In this issue, we address some of the pressing concerns of our time, including the need to protect the historic Black community in Sag Harbor, and the importance of raising children to be more mindful about race, sexuality and gender. We also highlight another pillar of wellness: fitness.

Just as positive thinking about ourselves and others can reinforce positive reactions, pleasurable acts like taking a walk or a swim can stimulate good behavior.

Leading the charge on both fronts is our ambassador of fitness and positivity, Brooke Shields. The icon has pivoted her fitness regime into a fitness platform. I’ve had the good fortune of getting to know Shields through our husbands, who are friends, and have witnessed her commitment to helping others through what has helped her. I have observed people stop to say hello to her, and how she treats every woman, every person, the same—with kindness and respect. May we all treat the women in our lives like the icons they truly are.

The expression ‘you can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf’ speaks to attitude. Nonjudging, accepting, letting go, trusting, showing patience and gratitude...these are just some of the mindful ways to surf the obstacles on the path to happiness. The recent Instagram movement of #womensupportingwomen was so wonderful to see, and evidence of much-needed positive reinforcement, woman to woman. Negativity is not a proxy for insight—being nasty should be seen for what it is: objectionable. Women should be building each other up if we want the collective to do better. Instead of being quick to judge, we need to promote self-love and self-compassion, important pillars of wellness. How can we fight against the issues women face today on a systemic level unless we are aligned?

The ‘waves’ quote above is attributed to author Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction clinic, and his teachings offer the perfect guidelines for how to deal—not just with this pandemic, but with each other. As my Brazilian mother always said, we women have to stand up for each other, amplify each other, and teach kindness to our daughters, so that they

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“The minute we got into COVID, there were two ways to go. ‘Oh, I’m just going to drink and eat and watch TV.’ Or ‘No, I can’t. I haven’t come this far to then have something like this undo me.’”

FEATURES 106 BEING BROOKE Cover star Brooke Shields sits down with actress and comedian Ali Wentworth for an intimate discussion on self-love, pandemic coping mechanisms and tried-and-true wellness rituals.

112 FIT FOR LIFE A supergroup of coaches share best practices for staying in shape.

126 GET OUTDOORS

Three open-air activities with big health benefits

130 THE INS AND OUTS OF CANCEL CULTURE

Looking at the toxic phenomenon plaguing our divisive culture, and offering a better way forward.

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134 SAFE HARBOR

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26 LEAD WITH LOVE Lessons in mindful mothering from Jodie Patterson, author of The Bold World 28 THE PATH IS THE GOAL Moving meditations 30 MUCH ADO ABOUT EVERYTHING In times of strife, empathy is more important than ever.

32 A MODERN-DAY MASTER Lang Lang takes on Bach’s Goldberg Variations

36 OUT OF THE BOX Boxed Water is Better’s ecoconscious initiatives

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38 CTREE At the Center for Therapeutic Riding of the East End, horses heal humans—with unconditional love.

50 LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID How to keep your relationship healthy during troubling times, and when to call it quits

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42 ASK THE DR. Healthy alternatives to vegetable oils

54 NATURAL SANCTUARY Heaven’s in the Landscape Details.

64 THE PRO-AGING PLAYBOOK A guide to aging gracefully from Paul Jarrod Frank, MD.

44 CAN SEAFOOD MAKE US HAPPY? The mood-boosting power of omega-3 fatty acids

56 ASSEMBLED IN LIGHT Author Alastair Gordon shares a glimpse into the imagination of Barnes Coy Architects.

46 THE CLEARING The fight for a more sustainable Suffolk County

58 PURE PROPERTY Hamptons real estate gems to discover now

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62 PEPTIDES AT YOUR COMMAND Tiny miracle workers

66 REVITALIZE At Bridgehampton’s JECT or with Debra Townes 68 AHHH, SPA TIME! Ten wellness destinations reopen for ultimate relaxation.

70 HAIR RESCUE Outdoor glam sessions

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34 G.E. SMITH & LEROY BELL Two musical powerhouses join forces on a searing new album.

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Antoine Rose’s photography captures the serene ambiance of beach-day relaxation.

five delivery services bringing clean eats to your door 98 THE ULTIMATE BURGER Irresistible plant-based comfort food from Lekka Burger, the latest creation from Dirt Candy’s Amanda Cohen 100 GARTEN PARTY Socially distanced entertaining with the Barefoot Contessa 102 FRESH FLAVORS Six intoxicatingly delicious natural beverages from Montauk Mocktails

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76 WONDERS OF THE SEA Tamara Comolli’s newest creations are adorned with ultrarare Ocean Jasper.

78 HEELS ON WHEELS Accessories guru Tamara Mellon takes retail therapy on the road.

80 WELLNESS INSPIRATIONS Seven fantastic Black-owned beauty brands to discover right this minute

82 EDITOR’S PICKS Purist founder Cristina Cuomo’s must-have fitness accessories 84 PURE PICKS Jax Kylie Williard of Suite Reyad shares summer essentials.

86 FASHION INFUSION Fun summer pop-up shops and boutiques in the Hamptons

FOOD IS MEDICINE 90 SUMMER BANQUET Designer Peter Som’s cuisine elevates seasonal flavors.

94 EAST END FRESH The health benefits of CSAs; plus, 16

140 AT A GLANCE Virtual and socially distanced events in the Hamptons. Plus, info on this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival 141 RACE FOR THE CAUSE Meaningful strides: the Ellen Hermanson Foundation and its 25th annual Ellen’s Run 5K 142 NUMEROLOGY A by-the-numbers look at Dr. Anthony Fauci, the man at the forefront of America’s Coronavirus Task Force 144 PURE LOVE Activist, model and screenwriter Paige Kay’s guide to self-love

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HOW CAN ENERGY HEALING HELP US CULTIVATE A POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE? “Our energetic ‘body’ is the template for every experience we have. By challenging false beliefs about ourselves, we can connect to our purpose.”

HOW CAN WE LIFT OURSELVES UP WHEN WE ARE EXPERIENCING FEELINGS OF SELF-DOUBT OR INADEQUACY? “By understanding the universality of that feeling. Everyone doubts themselves at times, and reflecting on that helps you to realize no one is perfect, and no one expects you to be, either.”

WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER BEEN GIVEN? “Well-behaved women seldom make history!”

HOW CAN “CALLING PEOPLE IN” INSTEAD OF “CALLING PEOPLE OUT” BENEFIT SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS? “The essence of community-building is working together; calling people into communion and conversation creates progress.”

WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF THE OCEAN RESCUE SQUAD? “Living out here, I am inspired by the amazing East End lifeguards and their incredible service to the community.”

A former lawyer and fashion designer, Butler found her calling six years ago while studying energy work at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Bevin’s loving approach has helped clients grow physically and mentally. She is a mother and board member of the Environmental Voter Project.

Kay is an activist, screenwriter, actor, model and entrepreneur who is passionate about selfempowerment, education and self-actualization.

Her unique perspective on self-love is informed by years of world travel, learning multiple languages and studying across six continents.

Actress, comedian, author and producer, Wentworth is known for her roles in Head Case, It’s Complicated and Jerry Maguire. Wentworth made her acting debut as a cast member on the sketch comedy series In Living Color from 1992 to 1994.

She also created and starred in the television series Nightcap.

White is an award-winning journalist and author of the popular Rizzoli coffee table book How to Slay.

She has helped steer brand and editorial direction for a number of publications, including Essence, Elle and The New York Times.

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you start to feel love in more and more parts of you.

Naturally, as love grows, pain dissolves. So if there is a space where old pain is stored and where you cannot feel the love, bring even more love to that space to dissolve the pain.

To deepen the experience of love, if you have willing friends, gather them in a circle. Ask each friend to call in their own feelings and memories of love. Let everyone’s felt sense of love grow. Then, one by one, gently invite each friend to stand in the center of the circle and feel this growing bath of love.

Soak in it, bring it within. As you practice, try allowing the love to settle into more and more challenging parts of you. Feel wrapped in love.

Bring that experience with you as you leave the middle and rejoin the circle. As each person goes in and feels love, the strength of the love-bath grows. Repeat the exercise, over and over.

Heart-opening can be painful if we have had trauma, and we all have. Different parts of the body may be more comfortable with allowing love in; others will be uncomfortable or even painful. Allow the discomfort.

Welcome it to stay. The more comfortable you are with the discomfort, the bigger it will get. And this is good. This is the pain finding room to be held and thus to expand until it melts or diffuses or wiggles its way out of your body. There may be tears or coughing or shaking. This is welcome.

Allow the experiences. If it feels too much, find someone who can provide guidance and support.

If you can sit still and you can feel love in your chest and in your body? Wow, what a miracle. You’re starting to remember. You are love. This is the energy of self-love.

Take a moment to look at a photo of yourself as a baby. When you were born, everyone’s hearts burst open. They knew a profound new capacity to love. Why? Because you arrived as pure essential love. You are love.

I am love.

Sound woo-woo? Ask any parent what happened when their baby was born and universally you will hear that they knew a love they had never known before.

That love is you; it is every baby who is born.

To know human love is to know self-love, and all that is required is to remember Bring the same unconditional love who we truly are. To be is to you feel for others be love. into your heart.

Sit for a moment. Breathe.

Wait for the experience of stillness to wash over you, to settle into your system. Let it take time if it needs to. Breathe in. Hold. Breathe out. Hold.

Let your breath slow down until you feel yourself here.

Feel your seat on the chair, feel your toes wiggle and your legs get heavy, allow yourself to drop your mind and settle into your body. Bring your consciousness to your chest. What feelings are here? What sensations? Can you remember a time when you felt loving toward another— perhaps a family member or pet? Or a time where you felt yourself loved? Take a moment to allow the experience of these memories to settle in. What happens in your body when you bring your awareness to these experiences?

Can you allow love to wrap all around you, like a cloud or a blanket? Can you direct it into your stomach, which is the energetic center of self-love?

Any experience of a loving moment that you can feel in your body is the beginning of self-love. If you struggle with self-love, try a daily practice of opening your heart and letting that loving moment grow in your body until 24

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Jodie Patterson, author of The Bold World, and chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her insights on mindful parenting.

PHOTOGRAPH AND INTERVIEW BY CATHRINE WHITE CATHRINE WHITE: How do you create authentic, diverse experiences for your children to learn about others?

JODIE PATTERSON: When we teach our children, it’s not an academic conversation with pie charts and diagrams. We just pick up a book and start reading it to them. Or when we’re cooking, they just watch and learn. It’s this concept of modeling that works best. If we want to broach the topic of diversity with our kids, we have to have diversity in our own lives. Model it.

I took a look at my own friend group, at my Facebook friends one year, and they all looked like me: Black, female, moms over 40, upper-middle class, cisgender. I hadn’t thought much about it before then, but when I took a deeper look I realized that my social group didn’t reflect the diversity of my own family. One of my five kids identifies as transgender, another as genderqueer. It was then that I mandated for my family a wider cast of friends. I actually insisted that we all make new friends that year and that they had to be “gender nonconforming.” My kids thought it was weird and uncomfortable—and I agreed. But it takes that type of intent to go beyond your comfort zone. Now, years later, our friends are way more diverse—in many ways: gender, sexual orientation and age. And I make sure to keep reminding us to expand our friend group all the time.

Parents, we should ask ourselves who’s at our dinner table? Who’s on our bookshelves? What is the language we use? What are the documentaries we watch? For cisgender heteronormative families, we have to add books by queer people on our bookshelves. For white families, we have to decolonize our bookshelves and have books by Black revolutionaries. We have to tell children stories about trans kids and gender nonconforming kids. We have to invite a diverse group of friends to sit with us in our homes so that children can see it, smell it, taste it.

were born ready, love. Ready for anything that comes your way. You can move through any problem or person, any construct or system that stands in your way. I promise. You can even fly over it because you are bigger than it. You are a ninja and what you’ve come here to do is important. I promise.” We have to empower our children.

CW: How are you examining your own biases?

JP: I thought as a Black woman I don’t hold much bias. I thought I was very egalitarian and open-minded—only to find out I hold the privilege of being cisgender, which takes up more space than it should in this world. Most of our language is gendered and even the intonation in our voice is gendered. We speak in different tones to boys and to girls. Our expectations around what we want our children to do and be in life are often gender-specific. If we want to be part of the change that’s necessary now, we have to dissect every part of our life. It sounds complicated and annoying and it does take effort. But we can also see it as a challenge. We can either be stuck in the past or be with the people we love—the young, the vibrant, the future.

CW: What has shifted within you?

JP: I always find myself doing things in relationship to my kids. Part of my new radical approach to mothering is letting go of everything that defines me. Drop it, cut it, say bye-bye. If only for a day. Sometimes for a week.

Sometimes for an hour. I run, I curse, I recite hip-hop lyrics: “Got a lot to be a man about.... Got a lot to pop a Xan about.... Man you gotta let it go before it get up in the way.

Let it go, let it go.” That’s Lil Wayne. I exercise in mediocre form. I refuse to cook on a Monday. I say ‘fuck it’ out loud.

I don’t sweat what a good mother of five looks like. I just roll. I just be. I call this untethering. For women it’s radical to untether. We’re taught from the time we’re young to anchor ourselves to our families, children, husbands, morals. Yet people can’t always be anchored—even to good things. Spirits need to fly. So these days I make sure I untether for a day or 30 minutes and when I return to my children I’m a much better leader.

CW: What behaviors are you modeling for your children, and how do you continue to build their self-esteem?

JP: My goal is to raise powerful activists. I remind myself that my children aren’t here to be pretty or perfect or polite. They were born to be powerful. I tell them: “You 27

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THE PATH IS THE GOAL A step-by-step guide to walking meditation. BY DIMITRI EHRLICH

Anyone who has ever attempted to sit down on a cushion for 30 minutes knows that meditation is difficult. Most of the challenge, of course, is mental. Stabilizing our wild monkey minds isn’t easy, and penetrating deeper levels of consciousness is an endless challenge. But another thing that often interrupts our seated meditation practice is something much simpler: pain in the back or knees. Which is why walking meditation can be a wonderful tool for our spiritual practice.

There are many ways to practice walking meditation, but all of them have to do with bringing awareness to our breathing and our body while walking slowly. There are some practices that involve walking back and forth in a limited space. There are formal group practices done inside monasteries, and of course you can simply go for a walk in nature by yourself. If you are more open to visualization, you can imagine you are walking toward enlightenment—or what some Buddhists call “a Pure Land.”

One simple method of walking meditation is simply to count how many steps you take for each inhalation, and how many you take as you exhale. The goal is not to control the pace of your breathing or walking. Just walk and breathe at a pace that’s comfortable for you. Your pace may change if you are walking uphill or down, and if your energy waxes or wanes. The point is simply to bring complete awareness to our bodies as we breathe and walk—two activities that we normally do on autopilot.

In our usual way of walking, we may dawdle, dragging our feet if we’re on our way to a meeting we’d rather not attend. We may walk like a weary donkey dragging ourselves uphill on a hot day. Or we might find our pace expresses impatience and aggression, especially if we’re late for an appointment. Sometimes the habit of walking in a hurry is just that: a habit.

When you practice walking meditation, the only destination is peace.

Often our minds are focused on a screen in front of us, or distracted by thoughts about the past or future. Walking meditation is a way to bring the mind back into the body as an antidote to our habitual distraction.

Our breath can be like an ambassador between our body and mind, because it is directly linked to our mental and emotional states. When we’re tense, our breathing becomes choppy. When we’re nervous or excited, our breathing speeds up. When we’re calm and peaceful, our breathing deepens. By linking each step we take to our breath, we connect body and mind, and deepen our relationship to the world around us.

Some points to keep in mind as you practice walking meditation:

• Notice each step. Feel the sensations of the ground as your foot rolls from heel to toe, and as you shift your weight from one foot to the other.

• Become aware of your arms swinging, your hips twisting, and the feeling of wind or sun or rain on your body.

• Move in an unhurried way, grounded in the present moment. If you pass other people, meet their eyes with a gentle smile.

There is no right or wrong way to practice walking meditation. Simply relax, put away your earbuds and notice the sights and sounds around you and within you.

When you practice walking meditation, there is no goal.

The only destination is a peaceful mind. Wherever you find yourself, you have arrived.

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gender parity, civil unrest, protesters and protests, systemic racism and how to root it out. I often feel that it’s more challenging to deal with and discuss these issues with family and close friends.

Painful as it is to take a stand in public, we must call out a cousin or a beloved aunt who makes a racist remark. Be courageous, speak up with kindness and compassion, yes—but give that boat a good-ol’ necessary rock in the hope that those we love, even the closest of kin, will see the injustice and ugliness of whatever they said.

And of course, before you go crusading and pointing out the incipient racism of others, take a really candid look at your own biases and prejudices— and whatever you do, try not Taking small steps in a positive direction to fall into the smarmy selfcan lead to a righteousness of those who say healthier future. they are without bias. We all know insufferable quasi-saints who proclaim they “don’t see color” when it comes to friends and associates who are people of color. Call out and object to the racist dig, homophobic or bigoted comment spoken in your presence. Even if it’s made by someone in your circle of family and friends. Especially then. Be prepared for uncomfortable moments, and hopefully better understanding. Create a safe and sacred environment to talk and share with kindness, forgiveness, compassion and grace.

Continue to do what you’re able to do for yourself and others. Get up, stand up, don’t give up. I have created special meditations inviting us to choose to see with love, and to include those who feel unheard and forgotten: https://DonnaDCruz.lnk.to/AnxietyMeditationEM https://SleepBeditations.lnk.to/7hrEM https://SleepBeditations.lnk.to/7hrInstrumentalEM donnadcruz.com

Is it just me who’s already weary of hearing about the New Normal? The New Normal can quickly become Ye Old Cliché.

It annoys because like most clichés, it has an element of truth running through it. I don’t want what we’re going through to be the template for what’s still to come. Neither do I want to emulate an ostrich and hide my head in the ground fearing, like Chicken Little, that the sky may drop on us.

Many of us are staying vigilant in our practices and continue to do what’s advised, what’s needed: Eating well, exercising to cattle-prod the endorphins into action, keeping in touch with family and friends, meditating, practicing mindfulness, remembering to live in gratitude for the good things we do have.

And still, we are left with nagging feelings of enervation and ennui. As much as I enjoy the fun and quirkiness of witnessing legions of people taking to baking sourdough bread and working their way through Julia Child and Jacques Pépin’s recipes, I also sense a maddening—at times very complex—undertow of emotions ranging from anger, to fear, to frustration, to boredom, to envy and back again.

Are we doing enough real self-evaluation so we can best navigate these tumultuous waters? With many of the groups I work with, especially Female Founders, I spend a great deal of time devoted to cultivating teamwork rather than competition. The concept terrifies and electrifies at the same time. Believing in might and fight, one could miss opportunities to expand awareness and more fully embrace the power of collaboration.

How do we best navigate? Small actions just may be the ticket. Write a list of steps you best resonate with. Get quiet and allow your flow to come into written form.

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A MODERN-DAY MASTER

RAY ROGERS: You performed the Goldberg Variations at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, where Johann Sebastian Bach used to perform and is laid to rest. What did it mean to bring that piece to life in that place?

LANG LANG: St. Thomas Church is really unbelievable. It’s a place that I feel Bach is still there. To play with the same kind of acoustics like many years ago was the sort of experience I never thought I would have. Especially when I was playing the Variation 30th, I feel he is always next to me. It was a bit like Isaac Stern talking about Carnegie Hall. In one of the documentaries he said, “Every great musician is hearing you playing.” So I have a similar feeling about the situation.

the strategy is to play with less emotion in the beginning and to gradually go deeper and deeper and to play with more ornamentations and play more with colors. So I’d say the first 10 variations take off, not flying too high. Then gradually, from the middle one is going up. Then comes the most important, which is variation 25, which is the adagio. This is the most difficult. It’s the darkest color of the piece. After that it becomes easier, mentally. Though technically it’s getting much more difficult, but mentally it becomes much easier after variation 25. The last area is the memory of the piece.

When you’re 90 years old, remembering what you did when you were young.

RR: I can only imagine the amount of mental focus and clarity it takes to perform something like this. How do you stay in the zone?

LL: It’s a very challenging, long piece. Almost 90 minutes. So

RR: What went into being able to roll with all those emotions and sustain the mental focus for all that time?

LL: This piece is written for someone who couldn’t sleep.

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RR: We are in a period when audiences aren’t able to go see live music right now. Do you miss performing in front of a live audience?

LL: Yes. I totally miss that. I feel so sad we are experiencing this. I really hope this nightmare will end soon and we can go back to performing. They postponed most of our concerts this year and I’m very fortunate that before this coronavirus I already started to focus on the Goldberg Variations. So in a way thank God I have this recording and I’m able to perform and I was able to study it before the disaster came in. If the coronavirus took place one month earlier, I would not have completed my study of the piece.

and chill and pure. The reason behind the name Goldberg is that [legend has it] he was the best keyboard student.

It was not actually written for Goldberg—it was written for Goldberg to play for one of his very important friends [Count Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, Russian ambassador to the court at Dresden] who had helped Bach very much. I would say this piece is very successful for wellness, in a way. It’s not a very quiet piece. It has a lot of emotions behind it. I would say this piece will give you a good sleep, but very dramatic dreams. I actually had a few experiences of listening to this piece and sleeping at the same time. It’s a great piece to relax your spiritual self.

RR: Did it give you any dreams?

LL: Yes. In the beginning it’s quite dramatic, with lots of chromatic changes. So it’s almost like mathematics. You dream of stairs, you dream of certain characters. Because each variation means different moods. When you analyze the piece you realize how much of a genius Bach was.

It’s unbelievable, the way he envisioned the piece.

Just incredible.

RR: Did recording this change you as a person, as a performer?

LL: Yes. It took me so many years of study and strategizing how to work as a mature artist. You’ll never find a more complex piece than the Goldberg Variations. I never played a piece deeper beyond Goldberg Variations—the space, the dimension and depth of the musical lines and musical phrases and harmonies, the chords.

RR: And what do you listen to when you get ready to sleep?

LL: Adagios of symphonies, slow movements, of Brahms symphonies, Mahler symphonies. I also listen to pieces like Verdi’s Requiem, or some opera by Wagner. Or something completely different. Mostly I would say I feel like hearing symphonic and jazz.

RR: I saw a documentary where you said at the end of a concert you have to feel you’re part of this piece, you’re one of the owners of this piece. What did you mean?

LL: I never performed this piece in a big public way before.

I did play a few times for a very small audience, friends of mine. But the real experience is much more risky than practice. Also, I cannot drink too much water before the concert because it’s really hard to not go to the bathroom.

It’s a very long concert—an hour and 30 minutes. The first performance, I was so nervous. Then gradually I feel so great because this piece really takes me to another world and another dimensional music planet—another milestone, or another mountain, another zone. I never find this type of enjoyment by playing other pieces.

RR: Music means a lot of things to different people: Some find release, others find it a meditation. What are your thoughts about music as it relates to wellness?

LL: I’m always trying to have a good massage. I believe we will not do well in our professions if we are not completely mentally balanced or physically balanced. As musicians, we’re very sensitive. When you’re feeling 1 percent uncomfortable, that will give you less confidence to play. I’m someone who’s very focused to have a healthy condition, mentally and physically as much as possible.

RR: You’re one of the most streamed classical musicians— your last album was streamed something like 165 million times. What music do you stream when you want to hear music?

LL: I like to listen to symphonic music, I like to listen to jazz music. I also like to hear hip-hop and something very recent, with great rhythm. Rhythmic pieces.

RR: You had a pretty serious injury just a few years ago with tendinitis in your left arm. Did the recovery inspire you to take on such an ambitious piece of work now?

LL: Yeah. That was almost two years ago. I’m very grateful that I had one year and three months of not playing concerts. I had the best recovery you could imagine. Also mentally, I felt I needed some time to rest. Because of many years of heavy traveling and heavy playing, it was time to take a little break. I came back to play when I was more mature and with much more substance. That was a good break for me. I really reflected.

RR: Who’s your favorite hip-hop artist?

LL: I actually like Drake. And obviously Jay-Z. Lang Lang’s Goldberg Variations (Deutsche Grammophon) is due out on September 4.

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AMERICAN BLUES

airy Amagansett home, the duo has an easy way with one another, even while masked and seated far apart. Both are quick to compliment each other, and in song the two balance one another brilliantly. “I’ve been looking for the right singer to go with the way I play for about 30 years,” says Smith, who has worked with everyone from Hall and Oates to David Bowie, in addition to leading the Saturday Night Live band for years. “My wife heard him on Spotify and was like, ‘G.E., listen to this—this is the guy!’”

The resulting bluesy rock ’n’ roll album, bursting with instantly hummable tunes, proves the partnership couldn’t have come at a better time. “Music has always been the great common denominator—no matter what kind of music it is or where you’re from, it just speaks to you somehow. It has that human kind of thing,” says the Seattle-based artist, nephew of songwriter Thom Bell, who wrote the Delfonics’ enduring hit “LaLa Means I Love You.” “And I think as artists we have almost a duty to do something [about the times we’re living in]. If I’m pointing out inequalities, I also want the songs to have a unifying message of hope. The whole idea of pointing out the bad is to show that we can still somehow correct it.”

Working together on this body of work, says Smith, “made me think of the Eldridge Cleaver quote from the ’60s: ‘If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.’ That’s the way it feels now. Maybe I’m not going to be out in the streets behind barricades, but this is what we can do: music.”

The duo will be in performance with Joseph Arthur for a live streaming event of Smith’s PORTRAITS series through Guild Hall on August 27, with a special VIP acoustic set in the garden at Guild Hall on August 28; guildhall.org

In the video for the rousing and topical new song “America,” legendary axman G.E. Smith and revered soul singer LeRoy Bell sit down to a game of chess—not in some epic battle of wits, but more in solidarity, two friends from different backgrounds enjoying each other’s company.

Musically and “If you look closely, otherwise, Smith you’ll see the board and Bell have each starts out with black other’s backs. and white pieces mixed together on each side,” notes Smith, whose wife, singer-songwriter Taylor Barton, directed the visually arresting monochromatic clip.

It’s a hopeful message for a song, written by Bell, that decries the inhumane and divisive politics of the current administration: “No Dreamers anymore, democracy is out the door,” intones Bell in one lyric, soulfully singing about the plight of the “Dreamers,” immigrants brought into the US as children and granted tentative protections under former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “One morning when I was starting to write that song, I had a vision of the little girl who was crying as they were pulling her mom away and putting people in camps,” says Bell, a hit songwriter for the likes of Elton John and Jennifer Lopez. “And I thought, ‘What the hell is going on?’ It was like Nazi Germany or something—like, is this for real?”

“The song really resonates right now,” concurs Smith.

“I loved it as soon as I heard it, not only for the lyrical content, but it’s a good, structured song; it has that thing that great songs have where musically, it’s simple.”

Recorded at Applewild Farm, a bucolic equestrian facility in Bridgehampton with a little studio downstairs, the pair’s debut album, Stony Hill (BMG), out August 28, sounds every bit the work of polished professionals, but it’s also emotionally raw and direct.

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OUT OF THE BOX

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Boxed Water Is Better was born 11 years ago after founder Benjamin Gott was disturbed by the volume of discarded plastic he saw during day-to-day life. Months later, the first four cases of Boxed Water Is Better sold out at Grand Rapids, Michigan’s Grand Central Market in just three hours. The brand has grown exponentially and is now available online and in stores internationally. Boxed Water Is Better utilizes 92 percent renewable materials to create its refillable cartons. Recycled tree pulp, often discarded during paper production, is repurposed (or upcycled) to provide oil for their new plant-based cap.

“Our name is a challenge to always do better. We’re always looking for ways to do more,” says Robert Koenen, chief marketing officer of Boxed Water Is Better. The brand’s sustainability efforts reach far beyond merchandise, notably through its One Million Trees initiative in partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF). The “You Post, We Plant” social media campaign, in which two trees are planted in National Forests for every photo of Boxed Water tagged with #betterplanet and @boxedwater, has planted 1 million trees thus far, with plans to double that number in the future. “It’s beautiful because it not only raises awareness, but creates a community of people doing creative things online, with hilarious photos and families posting,” says Koenen.

Boxed Water Is Better acknowledges that forests aren’t the only ecosystem in desperate need of protection, and has collaborated with Ocean Blue Project to clean 3,000 miles of beaches from coast to coast. Each year, 8.8 million metric tons of plastic wind up on our shores, and the brand has taken action through corporate-sponsored cleanups, from beaches in the Rockaways to Montauk.

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HORSES HEAL

she’d see the horse and go, ‘Hi beauty, you’re beautiful.’ And her whole family would say: ‘She’s here, Mom’s here!’ We were all crying. It was the most emotional thing.”

At-risk youth get valuable life lessons from working with a handsome brownSaddled up and-white fellow for a healthier, named Mosely, who happier future. is known as being a bit of a bully. Kids see how their actions and reactions are met, and learn how to navigate better, notes Bocksel, who says the programs are “emotionally beneficial. Horses don’t judge you. They don’t judge if you were bad at school today or if you had a hard time doing your math today.”

The new space, now outfitted with handicap-accessible entranceways and ramps, is solely dedicated to CTREE’s use, which means the organization can add more horses to its stables, and offer more robust programs to more people. CTREE is excited to launch camp experiences, once it is safe to do so. “One of our goals is to have an inclusionary camp, so a person with a disability can come and have a horse-camp experience here,” says Bocksel.

“If you think about it, people with disabilities are totally segregated for the most part, in schools. And camps are not necessarily mainstream for them. That’s a huge advantage to being here.”

Not everybody involved is totally thrilled with the move to the idyllic new Sagaponack location—Pumpkin, a six-year veteran of the program affectionately dubbed “Plumpkin,” is clearly missing the grass paddocks he enjoyed so much at CTREE’s previous location. But even he is reaping benefits at the new locale’s dirt-floor riding rings: “His sides are a little flatter,” says Bocksel. “When you look at him head on, his belly doesn’t look pregnant anymore.” Good job, Pumpkin.

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For the past 10 years, The Center for Therapeutic Riding of the East End (CTREE) has provided all kinds of emotional and physical health benefits to a range of communities, from disabled and autistic children to elderly Alzheimer’s patients, in the Hamptons and nearby towns. This year, they’ve moved from a dedicated spot at Wölffer Estate Stables to their very own location in Sagaponack, and instituted a new free-of-charge program, Horses Heal, to assuage the stress of the pandemic on medical personnel, front-line workers, essential workers and military families.

“One of our volunteers is a trauma nurse from Islip, the hardest-hit town in Suffolk County. They had over 300 people die in their hospital alone,” says CTREE’s managing director, Karen Bocksel. “I sent her an email and said, ‘I know we’re closed, but if you need to come, you let me know.’ And I got a text message one night and she said, ‘Can I come tomorrow morning and just sit with the horses. I won’t go near anybody, because I’ve been in the hospital.’” She came and sat in the paddock with Pumpkin, her favorite of the four horses in the CTREE stables, and just watched him graze. “She said, ‘Just watching him eat—it’s normal, what he always does—it gives you hope that things will go back to normal someday.’”

The success stories are many, and moving. Take, for instance, the family whose matriarch suffers from Alzheimer’s. Earlier in life, the woman was a rider, and once she laid eyes on the majestic beauties at CTREE, her children could sense her coming back to herself. “I have a mom with dementia, so I know that most of them are in their own world,” notes Bocksel. “And you don’t really know if they see you or hear you, or anything. But when this woman came to CTREE, it took her a little while but 38

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ASK THE DR.

Some vegetable oils are as bad for your health as sugar. Here are five reasons why— and what to do about it. BY DR. FRANK LIPMAN For years, my wellness colleagues and I have designated sugar as the No. 1 dietary evil, a true destroyer of health.

And although most people still eat way too much of it, U.S. sugar consumption is finally on a slow decline. But the battle for your health is far from over. There is another killer, “vegetable oil,” on the loose. The stuff is as big a problem as sugar, and should be eliminated from our diets just as quickly. Here’s a top-line list on why—and what to use instead: 1 VEGETABLE OIL HAS NO VEGETABLES! Many healthy fats come from plants, including olive, walnut, coconut, palm and avocado oils. But some of the unhealthiest fats around are also plant-based, and Big Food’s marketers know that if they slap the phrase “vegetable” or “heart-healthy” on a label, consumers will buy it for the presumed benefits. Trouble is, there’s no vegetable benefit or nutrients to be had in that gleaming bottle of golden vegetable oil. What’s in there is an industrial oil product better suited for cleaning and lubricating machinery.

3 VEGETABLE OIL INFLAMES YOUR BODY. As if the whole solvent issue wasn’t unappealing enough, another big reason to avoid vegetable oils is because they’re a very unstable form of fat. Unstable fats oxidize and turn rancid easily, forming free radicals. These free radicals damage healthy cells, and trigger inflammation, which we all should avoid at all costs. Granted, any fat can oxidize and release free radicals, but the polyunsaturated fats found in vegetable oils are the most unstable, and all it takes is some light exposure to kick off the oxidation process, even before you crack open a bottle. Planning

Opt for cold-pressed, small-batch oils like extra-virgin olive oil rather than overprocessed vegetable oils.

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2 KNOW THE ENEMY I refer to vegetable oils like canola, corn, cottonseed, safflower, sunflower, rice bran and soy as “industrial oils” because they were never part of the human diet until we developed factories to produce them. Though technically “plant-based,” these oils are made with barely edible seeds, grains and legumes that our bodies can’t properly break down and digest. Refining these ingredients into something edible involves high heat and chemical solvents, like the neurotoxic solvent hexane, to remove the unappetizing taste and smell, and enhance the oil’s appearance and pourability.

on sauteing dinner with a bit of vegetable oil? Heating the pan will further destabilize and oxidize the polyunsaturated fats and unleash free radicals. Why risk adding more inflammation to your body? One more cause for concern: The severity of COVID-19 outcomes are increasingly being linked to inflammation. Ditching vegetable oils has never been more essential.

ingredient lists, which are virtually impossible to decipher (unless you’re a food scientist). Ultimately, what you want when it comes to oils are stable, unrefined, minimally processed saturated fats—not polyunsaturated—which support the health of your heart, brain, gut, immune system and hormones, and help tamp down inflammation.

HERE ARE 10 SIMPLE WAYS TO BE SMART ABOUT YOUR OILS: 1| Look for cold-pressed oils, to ensure they haven’t been treated with heat or solvents. If that oil is refined, leave it behind.

INDUSTRIAL OILS ARE GOOD FOR MACHINES, NOT YOU. Take, for example, the sounds-healthy-but-it’s-not canola oil, a made-up food derived from rapeseed. “Canola” is said to stand for “Canadian oil, low acid,” because it was originally developed in Canada and the word “canola” had a nice marketing ring to it. So, no vegetables, no benefits, highly refined and plenty of free radicals. It’s the worst of all worlds.

The trouble is, these cheap, readily available, extendedshelf-life industrial oils are so prevalent in the foods many of us eat every day—restaurant food, processed foods, baked goods, prepared foods and packaged foods—it’s easy to consume lots more than you think you are. And all that unstable, polyunsaturated fat threatens your health in several important ways: They’re often made from genetically modified crops.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can have harsh consequences for your health, destroying good bacteria and altering your microbiome. An imbalanced microbiome leads almost immediately to weight gain and inflammation, and all the symptoms of unwellness that inflammation brings on.

They throw off the balance of omega-3s and omega6s. Omega-3s are a type of fat found in fish, flax, nuts and seeds. Omega-6s are a type of fat found most frequently in meat, dairy products, eggs and other animal fats—but also in industrial oils. Ideally, your ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s is 1:1. But our modern consumption ratio is more like 10:1 or even 25:1, because most of us eat too much industrially raised meat and poultry and not enough grass-fed meats, wild fish, nuts and seeds.

To help keep your omega 6:3 ratio on track, trade processed foods for fresh, whole foods. Eat few—if any— fried foods. Ditch baked goods, prepared foods, and Frankenfoods like nondairy creamers. Don’t eat or cook with faux-butter products or vegetable shortening.

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2| Look for oils in dark glass or metal packaging to prevent light exposure. Clear plastic is a major no-no, and a big clue that the stuff inside the bottle is most likely low-grade, industrial crap.

3| Buy the highest-quality oil possible—either from smallbatch producers, or organic or artisanal producers at the farmers market—to minimize concerns about chemical pesticides or genetically modified ingredients.

4| Make oils-with-benefits your top choices, opting for fruit and nut oils, like extra-virgin olive oil, walnut oil, coconut oil, sesame oil, flaxseed oil, macadamia oil, almond oil and avocado oil, as well as palm oil—but only if it’s responsibly and sustainably sourced.

5| For those who prefer to cook with animal fats—like butter, ghee, duck fat and lard—look for it to come from organic, grass-fed, pasture-raised animals.

6| For everyday use, extra-virgin olive oil works well for sauces, light sauteing and salad dressings.

7| For higher-heat cooking and for those who follow the vegan path, coconut oil is an excellent and reasonably priced go-to.

8| Always store your oils far away from sources of heat and light to prevent rancidity. You can also wrap them in tinfoil for an additional layer of protection.

9| Clear the kitchen of “vegetable” oils like canola, corn, cottonseed, safflower, sunflower, rice bran and soy.

EMBRACE TRULY HEALTHY OILS WITH REAL BENEFITS. Know what you’re buying, cooking with and eating!

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CAN SEAFOOD MAKE US HAPPY?

Depression is a common, disabling condition that can affect up to roughly 1 in 10 Americans. And it is on the rise. Though depression is increasing in America in all groups, it is most rapidly increasing in the younger population.

This is especially true of millennials—in 2018, according to one analysis by Blue Cross Blue Shield, the reported rate of diagnosis in that age range rose 47 percent in one year. Despite the rapid incline of depression cases, depression frequently goes undiagnosed. The frightening fact is that people with untreated depression are at the highest risk for suicidal behavior.

The Standard American Diet (SAD) may be to blame. Our culture of fast and processed foods has burdened us with more omega-6 fatty acids than we have consumed historically.

Though omega-6 fatty acids are an essential part of a healthy diet, they tend to be more inflammatory than their omega-3 counterparts. It’s estimated by some researchers that the prevalence of these inflammatory oils in our diets has increased by as much as a ratio of 30:1 in the past 110 years. This relatively high ratio of omega-6’s to omega-3’s has been associated with inflammatory disease and other conditions, including depression. Julia Ross, in her book The Mood Cure, explains that this 6:3 ratio is the brain’s worst problem, and may be the cause of the worst moods. The imbalance may help account for the general rise in depression, and the rise in depression for our youth, who often consume processed foods high in vegetable oil (think french fries and chicken nuggets) that contain omega-6.

The answer to this problem may

A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids can balance the negative effects of excess omega-6 intake.

be found in the ocean. Seafood— specifically wild salmon, sardines, herring, anchovies and mackerel— tends to have the highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids. A higher consumption of oily fish and shellfish can counterbalance our relatively high intake of omega-6 fatty acids.

Omega-3 fatty acids appear to be helpful in reducing the risk of depression. Julia Ross even calls it the “good-mood fat.” Omega-3’s can help raise levels of happy hormones like dopamine and serotonin, while also reducing inflammation and symptoms of depression. Though various study results on omega3’s and depression have been inconclusive and more research 44

is needed, it has been observed that depression is less prevalent in countries where large amounts of fish are consumed. In a 2018 study that examined the relationship between seafood consumption and depression, it was observed that moderate consumption of fish was impactful at reducing depression risk.

Moderate consumption of fish here is defined as two to three times weekly.

This is consistent with the studies that show the greatest protection against depression is the intake of omega fatty acids in the dose of 1 gram per day. This translates to approximately three servings of fatty fish per week.

Good fish sources of omega-3’s include anchovies, sardines, herring, oysters, salmon, lake trout, cod, mackerel, pollock, striped bass and catfish. Larger deep-water fish are also a good source of omega-3’s, but they come with a caveat: Fish like swordfish, king mackerel, shark, bigeye tuna and tilefish have the highest mercury levels, and other ocean pollutants, so should be eaten less frequently than smaller, safer fish (fish with higher mercury levels should be avoided by women who are either pregnant or nursing). Non-fish sources of omega-3’s include flax, chia and hemp seeds, walnuts, algal oil, Brussels sprouts and perilla oil.

So, if you’re looking to lighten your mood, think about ways to incorporate more fish into your diet.

Toss salmon into your salad, or make fish burgers or fish tacos in lieu of turkey or beef. In addition to being delicious, these mood-friendly fats might provide the emotional boost you are looking for.

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THE CLEARING

We need to develop more convenient and cost-efficient public transportation systems. I’m a big fan of the Hampton Jitney, which alleviates some of Suffolk’s traffic burden. The only other way out to the East End is by car, train—which takes two hours—or, God forbid, helicopter, and we’re trying to stop that.”

“Air pollution is more of an issue in cities,” says Joan Leary Matthews, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and former director of the Clean Water Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 2 during the Obama administration. “You get a hot, muggy day and you can have ozone pollution—the street term for that is smog.”

Esposito and Matthews also agree that the main problem facing Suffolk County is water pollution. “Right now, the greater concern is our drinking water: quality and quantity,” Esposito explains. “Long Island is a sole-source aquifer, which means 100 percent of our drinking water comes from underground. We have literally 3 million people living on top of our drinking water source.”

That’s scary enough, but there’s more. “Over 70 percent of Suffolk County doesn’t have sewers, so the waste mixes with our ground water. In addition, any industrial or homeowner activity, such as the application of pesticides or dumping toxics, will eventually leach down into our drinking water system. We have a very vulnerable and complicated drinking water challenge. A multitude of toxic chemicals can be found in our drinking water; some are regulated, and some are not yet regulated by state and federal agencies. We’ve made a lot of progress over the years, but there’s a long way to go.”

Suffolk is an agricultural county, so runoff from the pesticides used in farming is absorbed “into the wells and waterways, and down into the aquifer,” explains Matthews, who is also the NRDC’s head of the Urban Water Management team. “Nitrogen from sewage is also a problem for Long Island’s water,” she says. “Suffolk County has an aggressive program for homeowners to install nitrogen-removal systems for wastewater. In addition, other toxic chemicals have been detected in Long Island

Trying to stay one step ahead of COVID-19, more American urbanites are eyeing less-densely populated regions of the country. In New York, city dwellers are steadily relocating—temporarily or permanently—to the Empire State’s easternmost county, Suffolk. Home to the Hamptons, among other desirable suburban communities, Suffolk County offers ample room for social distancing.

Unfortunately, it has a serious pollution problem. Residents are now making it their mission to achieve peace of mind about what they breathe and drink.

One NYC-to-Suffolk transplant, Perry Gershon, a former Democratic candidate for New York’s 1st Congressional District, relocated to the South Fork more than two decades ago. In June of this year, he penned an impassioned op-ed piece for the Long Island Press that pulled no punches: Citing statistics from the American Lung Association (ALA), which annually assesses the state of America’s air, he wrote, “The ALA just gave [Suffolk] their lowest mark—again. Our county earned a ‘grade of F’ for air quality—indicating a spike. Under the category of ozone (the bad, ground-level sort, not stratospheric ‘hole’ type), we suffered 29 so-called ‘orange days,’ which is ‘unhealthy’ for sensitive populations (e.g. young, old or confronting heart, respiratory, diabetes and related health issues),” the letter continued. “We suffered two ‘red’ days, completely unhealthy for anyone who breathes!” This information is doubly alarming when we consider how COVID-19 attacks its victims’ ability to take in air.

To be fair, “Suffolk County always fails the air-quality test for ground-level ozone. This is largely due to the number of cars on the road—we are an island that loves our cars,” says Adrienne Esposito, co-founder and executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, a statewide organization headquartered on Long Island, that’s been fighting to protect drinking and coastal water for more than three decades. “The problem isn’t limited to Suffolk— it’s associated with any high-density population with a lot of cars,” Esposito adds. As for improving the air, “the best thing we can do for our air is more public transportation, which will alleviate the need for so many cars on the road.

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Excess algae production caused by pollution poses serious health risks to humans and wildlife.

drinking water. PFOA and PFOS are two of a class of unregulated chemicals, aka ‘forever chemicals’ because, Matthews adds, “they don’t break down easily and can accumulate in people’s bodies. They’re also highly mobile and spread quickly in the environment, so they’re found in our air and drinking water, and can be harmful even at extremely low doses. These chemicals have been detected in the drinking water of several Suffolk County communities including Hampton Bays, Southampton, Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, and Yaphank.”

In addition to PFOA and PFOS, there is also “the nowfamous 1,4-dioxane,” Esposito adds. “These chemicals are very toxic: all carcinogens that cause neurological disorders. The PFOA and PFOS are so toxic they are actually measured in parts per trillion. Due to CCE’s work, the state has embarked on setting drinking water standards for these three chemicals.” Those standards came out on July 30. Find them on CCE’s website, citizenscampaign.org.

it’s not good for us.” If you have a private well, as many people (over 40,000) on Eastern Long Island do, get your well tested once or twice a year. “At least you’ll know not to drink from it; then you can install some kind of filtration system, or get yourself hooked up to the Suffolk County Water Authority,” Esposito adds. “Many people with private wells haven’t had them tested in years, and ignorance is not bliss—it’s dangerous.”

One advantage to a private well is not having the possible issue of contamination from a lead service line, a hazard that faces public water systems as near as Newark, New Jersey, and as far as Flint, Michigan, both places where the NRDC has worked tirelessly for the replacement of lead service lines. However, while private wells may not have lead service lines, they could have other problems, says Matthews. “There are few requirements even for testing of private wells and most EPA standards and protections don’t apply to private wells. So it’s really ‘buyer

“Right now, the greater concern is Long Island’s drinking water: quality and quantity. One hundred percent of it comes from underground.

We have 3 million people living on top of our drinking water source.”

The challenge for Long Islanders now, say experts, is to be good stewards of drinking water, to avoid the use of pesticides, to hook up to a sewer where it’s available, and to replace antiquated septic systems and cesspools with innovative, alternative systems that remove nitrogen.

“It’s the year 2020, and Suffolk County has to progress and treat our sewage,” Esposito explains. “We can’t allow our sewage to continue to mix with our drinking water and coastal water, because the excess nitrogen from the untreated sewage is leaching out into our harbors, seas and lakes, causing harmful algae blooms. These are very serious and [potentially] toxic algae; blue-green algae, which blooms in freshwater, causes liver failure and it’s already killed several dogs. In salt water, there’s brown tide, mahogany tide and red tide; some are toxic to fish, and the red tide is toxic to humans.”

“What we don’t know matters,” concludes Esposito.

“When we have pesticides, toxic chemicals, nitrogen from improperly treated sewage, and trace amounts of pharmaceutical drugs, all in our drinking water, we know

beware’ if you draw your water from a private well. Check with your water provider, if you’re on public water. If you have a private well, you wouldn’t have the lead service line issue—but you’ll still want to get your water tested, so Google for a lab near you. Stay informed, consult the information on the EPA website, educate yourself as much as possible, then take it from there.”

Speaking of education, one of the issues NRDC has been working on is lead in school drinking water. “New York has a mandatory program to test school drinking water,” says Matthews. “But it could be more protective for children. We are advocating for changes.” If tests show lead levels to be elevated, there must be a method of remediation in place—such as hydration stations with water filters—that will ensure safe drinking water for kids.

“Start with your school. Ask the principal about lead levels, go to the school district website, then contact the state education department or the state health department,” Matthews advises. “If there’s a problem, the schools are supposed to fix it.”

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LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID

How to keep your relationship thriving amid challenges of the pandemic. BY DR. LEA LIS specific, easy and enjoyable ways to be together without overburdening those times with tackling tense topics about finance or other issues likely to bring stress and discord,” suggests Rachel Alexander, a family law attorney and divorce mediator. “Physical activities can be a low-pressure way to share time together regularly, with the added benefits of releasing stress, producing endorphins and grounding oneself in the body.”

It seems that COVID is either increasing baby-making or ending relationships. Is spending an abundant amount of time with your partner making you happy? Or is the neverending togetherness putting a strain on what was already strained? How do you make your relationship pandemicproof? Here are my suggestions, as a psychiatrist and sexuality expert: SCHEDULE A DATE WITH YOUR PARTNER ONCE A WEEK. In order to make it more fun, I recommend the date be a surprise to the other person. Dress up in sexy underwear, cook a special meal or watch an erotic movie. Come up with a plan to get the kids to sleep, or keep them occupied with technology behind closed doors. Each week, the hosts alternate.

YOU CAN’T GET EVERYTHING YOU NEED FROM YOUR PARTNER. Friends are a great way to get needs met without causing a breakup. Find your COVID pod and dig in on intimacy with friends who share interests that your partner does not. The famed Nurses’ Health Study from Harvard Medical School found that the more friends women had, the less likely they were to suffer physical and medical problems. “Before COVID, there were natural, lengthy periods of time that couples spent apart, getting needs met in other environments, through other activities, roles and relationships,” says Alexander. “If our whole sense of self and purpose must now be fulfilled solely through our spousal relationships and home lives, well, we are all in trouble.”

DO NOT LET YOURSELF GO! It is easy to pack on the pounds during quarantine, forget the skin care routines, the hair coloring and the shaving. Do not do it. That is not hot at all.

It is time to learn how to cover your own grays, pluck your own eyebrows, buy some self-tanner. Your razor is still your friend; it should not get rusty in the shower.

GET NOSTALGIC: Remember why you started this relationship. Chances are that was a great memory, deserving of a trip down memory lane where you can rekindle that love. Other ideas include looking at old pictures, playing your wedding video or song, asking your friends to list their favorite memories of you as a couple.

This can make for a romantic night. “Determine some

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DON’T MAKE YOUR PARTNER READ YOUR MIND. Tell them what you need, and be specific. If you want a big fuss made for your birthday, or an item of jewelry, tell them.

Include a link to the site. Be happy when you get it, show appreciation, and brag about it to friends. Praise works wonders for any relationship.

FIND SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF, WITHOUT YOUR SPOUSE, AND MAKE THAT TIME A DAILY RITUAL. “This time is for you, without any backlash or negative judgment from your spouse,” says Alexander. “It’s a gift you agree to give one other, a way of acknowledging you are separate people.

Be compassionate for yourself and your spouse. Kindness is the best antidote we have.”

being emotionally abused by a partner.

If your partner keeps you from socializing or seeking

help from friends or professionals. Or they may even

work to turn others against you, like your family or co-workers.

It may feel like your partner is indifferent to your

needs, or refuses to compromise or as if you are always

walking on eggshells to keep them happy.

You may find yourself turning to marijuana or

alcohol in order to cope when this person is home.

If your children become worried for you.

But what if the pandemic continues and you are unhappy, and can’t handle your emotions? If the crisis is more than just a blip, it is possible that your relationship is no longer healthy.

Is there emotional abuse? While that definition can take on many possible forms, some are: Belittling, or in today’s slang, “negging,” in which

the abuser makes some backhanded compliments

or insults.

Gaslighting: This term comes from the 1944 movie

Gaslight, where a man manipulates his wife

into thinking she is going crazy. It is when the abuser

makes the victim feel they are losing their mind.

Passive-aggressiveness: You cut off a discussion,

or deny the other person’s needs by avoidance of

the conversation.

Financial control: Keeping all accounts in their

name and making the partner ask for every penny,

even though the partner contributes to the

household in many ways.

Derogatory names and patronizing: Calling the

person names like chub, or patronizing your partner

with comments like, “You’re such a blonde.”

What to do? Start by setting boundaries with statements like, “If you yell at me or call me names, I will leave.” Or if the person’s emotional abuse is alcohol-fueled, make sobriety a condition of a continued relationship, along with therapy or medication, if necessary. Build a support network of friends and family who can help you maintain your boundaries or be there for you in a crisis.

Come up with an exit plan to enforce the boundaries you set. This can include living with a friend or parent, having a lawyer on standby for legal arrangements, calling an abuse hotline or getting counseling.

Lea Lis, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and author of the upcoming book No Shame: Real Talk with Your Kids About Sex, Self-Confidence, and Healthy Relationships. shamelesspsychiatrist.com Rachel Alexander, Esq., a family law attorney and divorce mediator, is the director of the Alexander Mediation Group.

Her Sag Harbor-based practice supports families through thoughtful separations, which protect the well-being of couples and their children. alexandermediation.com

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Shelter in a beautiful place: Landscape Details enhances and refines outdoor living.

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End this spring resulted in newfound awareness, for some, of what actually grows on their land. “One man said, ‘This is the first time I’ve seen the rhododendrons. They’re amazing. I’ve never been here in March!’ The guy owned the property for 15 years.”

Other residents are adding zen features to soothe during challenging times: “For one, we’re carving out a space in a wooded area, which will be an oasis for contemplation,” Derrig says. “At another home, we’ve created a relaxation space with hammocks and a stone water feature.” Clients request pots of gardenia and jasmine, with their calming scents, to be placed by doorways and on patio areas.

The Landscape Details teams observe social distancing protocols; everything from tools to trucks is disinfected.

“I’m hoping that life will get back to handshakes and hugs,” Derrig says. “The thing is, if you go outside, and into a garden, it doesn’t look as though there’s anything wrong with the world. Then you turn on the news, and things aren’t OK. When you’re in the garden, it all seems pretty normal.” Derrig’s theme for the summer, he says,“is a Lukas Nelson song that he’s sung with his father, Willie Nelson, that goes: ‘Turn off the news and build a garden.’” landscapedetails.com

At 7:30 on a summer evening, approaching a crossroads on the north side of Montauk Highway in his Jeep, Michael Derrig, founder of Landscape Details, the East End’s go-to for property beautification, had an epiphany: “Never in my life—and I’ve been here 21 years—have I ever come to this intersection, in the middle of the summer, and seen nobody. I realized that everyone was where they were going to be for the night.”

Thanks to Landscape Details, homes this summer on the East End are bedecked with enchanting flowers such as dahlias, phlox and astilbe; they glow under soothing LED lights. Sheltering in place can be Shangri-la. This year, Derrig says, more than ever, residents want vegetable plots lined with tomatoes, kale, cucumbers and lettuce—salad essentials that maximize garden square footage.

“We are up 100 percent from last year, in terms of requests for vegetable gardens,” says Derrig. “We’ve planted about 40 this summer. The gardens are of varying sizes, from small plots of 12 square feet to 250 square feet.”

All are organic. “Composting is everything,” adds Derrig, who swears by Coast of Maine’s Raised Bed Mix soil, a briny blend with worm castings, lobster and kelp.

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LIGHT FANTASTIC

As dedicated modernists, Barnes Coy Architects have been obsessively engaged with the more subtle nuances of design: the way a corner meets, the texture of stone, the reflectivity of a glass-curtain wall—just the kind of elements that are often overlooked, but make the difference between an everyday experience of architecture versus a kind of spatial poetry. No two of the firm’s houses are alike; each is custom-tailored to the client’s needs and dreams.

For Christopher Coy, founding partner of Barnes Coy Architects, the commitment to pure design has become something close to a religious calling.

Coy grew up summering in the Hamptons and had a passion for mechanical devices, airplanes, motorcycles and James Bond movies. In his preface to Assembled in Light, the new monograph published by Rizzoli and Gordon de Vries Studio, he writes: “Designing a house is the front line of modernism…. It becomes a catalyst for self-discovery and personal transformation.” Over the 25-year span of their partnership, Coy and Robert Barnes stayed true to a modern vocabulary of minimal forms, flat roofs, revealed

Designing a house, says architect Christopher Coy, can be “a catalyst for self-discovery.”

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A new book celebrates the site-specific designs of Barnes Coy Architects.

Here, author Alastair Gordon, gives Purist a preview.

rhythms of the oceanfront site were not overwhelmed by the building. It’s all about interpretation of setting and natural context, as exemplified by the acrobatic engineering they invented for a steep jungle site in Costa Rica that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. The crescent shape of the house is pierced by a long, elevated walkway that points toward the setting sun. In a completely different setting, the architects designed a house for the tidal swamps of southeast Georgia by lifting the main structure high above the floodplain on giant cypress logs that were harvested from a nearby marsh.

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structure, wildly intersecting geometries, skylights and floor-to-ceiling transparency, so that interiors are saturated with natural light. The title of the book, Assembled in Light, refers to Le Corbusier’s quote about architecture as a “magnificent play of volumes assembled in light.”

Barnes Coy believes that architecture begins with the site; all of its houses are site-specific insofar as the essential forms are generated by the surrounding environment. The shape of an oceanfront house in Water Mill, for instance, was prescribed by environmental setback lines from the ocean on one side and a freshwater pond on the other.

The curve of the house’s north façade follows almost exactly the wetlands setback, while the south façade echoes FEMA’s coastal flood line. With one of their more recent houses, the architects broke up what might have been a fairly massive, monolithic volume into smaller parts, resembling three beach houses, so the scale and natural

Assembled in Light: The Houses of Barnes Coy Architects, written by Alastair Gordon with a preface by Pilar Viladas and principal photography by Michael Mundy, is co-published by Rizzoli and Gordon de Vries Studio in September 2020. barnescoy.com

The High Desert home, located in Palm Springs, California, echoes the slopes of the surrounding mountains.

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If the end of the world is what you’re after, Compass’ Chris Coleman has a listing that checks every box. This custombuilt, lakefront home is situated for privacy with a gated entry. Inside, the traditional design features antique oak flooring throughout, and modern touches like a Sonos sound system and top-grade security. The eat-in kitchen features top-of-the-line appliances (Wolf, Miele and Sub-Zero) and the dining room opens onto a stunning patio and pool. A custom den makes working remotely a delight. Even your guests have gorgeous water views from their bedroom, when they’re not hanging out in the downstairs rec room. Upstairs, take in the sunset over Lake Montauk from a wraparound deck off the master bedroom, or admire your wisteria-filled, quintessential Hamptons garden. From any vantage point, this East Lake Drive home has it all. Asking $6,995,000.

Living in Sag Harbor village has never been more desirable, and this listing in the historical Hills district, from Aleksandrina Penkova and Raphael Avigdor at Douglas Elliman, does not disappoint. The brand-new luxury home

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is a private oasis with a zero-edge pool, a spa and a spacious covered porch for dining alfresco. An open layout connects the double-height great room with a Poggenpohl kitchen and formal dining room. Atrium windows, a custom staircase and an open second-level landing connect the master suite to a guest wing via a sky bridge. There’s even a secluded lounge for sunbathing off the second-floor mahogany deck. Designed by local architect Richard Hirt, this 6-bedroom, 7½-bath home is close to Havens Beach, comes with moorings rights and takes every advantage of the gorgeous Sag Harbor Bay light. Asking $3,849,000.

Quogue is a hamlet known for grand estates and quiet seaside living. A rare circa-1908 home is offered from John P. Vitello of Brown Harris Stevens. Asking $13,900,000, the Southern-style residence has 5 bedrooms, 3½ baths, and a living room, den and dining room all with magnificent fireplaces. The grand center hall’s sweeping staircase leads to a master suite with a sitting room, master bath and two fireplaces. An L-shaped screened porch looks out over an estate that includes a 4-bedroom guest house, a caretaker’s cottage, a heated gunite pool and pool house.

There is even a two-car heated garage with an attached potting shed, all on lush landscaped grounds.

In Southampton, on Downs Path, Brown Harris Stevens’

Christopher J. Burnside brings to market at $11,400,000 a private gated property with wide lawns and sweeping specimen plants surrounding a heated swimming pool and pool house. The centerpiece is the traditional home, with a majestic double-height foyer and a formal dining room.

The gourmet kitchen opens up to a family room and den, making for easy entertaining. Six bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a master suite with a massive walk-in closet and private outdoor terrace are eclipsed only by the finished lower level, with a state-of-the-art movie theater, gym with sauna, game room and custom wine cellar.

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225 East Lake Drive offers picturesque lakefront views and a manicured garden.

The sprawling grounds of 25 Shinnecock Road include a guest house, heated pool, caretaker’s cottage and pool.

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A Perfect Relationship Your house is de-toxed, what about your landscape? How well do you know what is going on out there? Isn’t this the time to deepen your relationship? Make some promises to it, to you, to your family, to your planet. They are all connected.

THE TEN COMMITMENTS I WILL embrace this place as my partner.

I will get to know what it really needs, and what it offers.

I WILL do this place no harm, I will use no toxic fertilizers or pesticides.

I WILL use nature based practices to support the health of my landscape.

I WILL keep and compost all the leaves and twigs and grass that grows here.

This is the food my place made for itself.

I WILL not kill insects until I know if it is necessary and understand the non-toxic options.

I WILL reduce the size of my lawn to just what gets used.

I WILL plant mostly native plants to provide food and shelter for song birds.

I WILL get to know the names of my plants and birds and include them as my family and friends.

I WILL carefully consider everything I bring here—can it be used for a long time? can it be composted or repurposed? Does it really need to be plastic?

I WILL keep thinking of more ways to make this relationship fun, interesting and rewarding.

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AT YOUR COMMAND

In praise of peptides, short chains of amino acids that get right to work firming and toning skin. BY CHRISTOPHER ARDANT proteins. Not only do proteins build muscle, but they are essential to life, as they regulate bodily functions, modulate inflammation and enhance antioxidant benefits. Having a remote control (peptide) to modulate more efficient production of proteins can be transformative.

A jar of peptide cream contains thousands of microscopic remote controls. As soon as you smooth the cream on your neck and face, your skin cells respond precisely to the command. If the peptide taps the collagenproduction part, in a few weeks your skin will seem firmer.

If the peptide targets melanin production, in a few weeks your skin tone might be visibly more even. There’s no need for peels or lasers—all of this improvement is induced, effortlessly, by peptides.

Even better, peptides have a synergistic nature, meaning they team well with each other, and their application on the skin produces none of the side effects we often see with other wrinkle-fighting ingredients like retinoids or the overused glycolic acid.

Some of the newest peptides include: Preventhelia - This peptide helps prevent damage caused

by UV radiation to DNA and proteins, and protects skin from photoaging. It can be found in Circadia Light Day Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF-37 and Grown Alchemist Detox Toner, or look for the INCI (International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient): Diaminopropionoyl Tripeptide-33.

Matrixyl Morphomics - This extensively studied peptide has an overall lifting and redesigning action. At our centers, we’ve noticed remarkable improvement on lines from the mouth to chin, and on the upper angle of eyebrows, after just six months of use. It can be found in Isomers Matrixyl-4 Pur Collagen Peptide Serum and Dermorevision C-Cellular Plus Concentrate, or look for the INCI: N-Prolyl Palmitoyl Tripeptide-56 Acetate.

Telangyn decreases the appearance of facial redness and telangiectasia caused by an exaggerated inflammatory response. It directly blocks the interleukins that create inflammation and is an antidote to redness, and can be found in Dermorevision Advanced Repair Creme and HydroPeptide Redefining Facial Serum, or look for the INCI: Acetyl Tetrapeptide-40.

In serums and creams, as preventative and corrective tools, peptides deliver results that are too good to overlook.

Peptides can stimulate collagen production and protect skin from sun damage.

Christopher Ardant is a dermocosmetic scientist with centers in Lugano, Switzerland, and in New York City. For information, visit christopherardant.com.

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Peptides are short chains of amino acids, and they are currently the hottest thing in age-management science.

The research-and-development and patenting divisions of laboratories that create age-fighting ingredients are busier than ever, seemingly introducing new and innovative peptides to the market every few weeks.

Visualize peptides as microscopic remote controls.

Press a button and a command is given. For this reason, they are known as “signal peptides.”

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THE PRO-AGING PLAYBOOK

In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, Paul Jarrod Frank, MD, famed New York cosmetic dermatologist, gives wellness-minded steps toward looking and feeling your best.

experts agree that positive and negative habits can be developed or broken over 30 to 90 days. Incremental changes will end up giving you big results.

Life has stresses and endless challenges. They are essential for change and progress for all forms of life on our planet. But success in life is about balance, and pro-aging is all about finding that balance and maximizing it for optimal health and beauty. The future is bright in our ability to live longer and better lives. What is most clear is the need for us all to be active participants in our own well-being.

Pro-aging is not a diet or a regimented workout. It’s a transition to the rest of your life.

Even though my workdays are very busy with seeing patients, running my business, teaching, writing, conducting research and consulting, I always find time to connect with my family, refresh with meditation, nourish with a healthy diet and move with morning exercise. I’ll do five days of fast-mimicking three times a year to give my body the break it needs, usually after vacation indulgences. Honestly, I can’t recall over my 50 years ever feeling so good, so strong, so vital, and self-confident. That doesn’t seem boring at all, does it?

Your body wants to nourish and care for itself. It’s built to do that, when given the chance. One million years of evolution is a lot more informative and useful than an infomercial selling you “what you need.” When you stay away from things that aren’t good for you, even for a little while, your body repairs itself. You just need to give your body time to do what it’s supposed to do. I always say to my patients, “You can’t get a bruise to go away until you stop punching yourself in the arm.”

The best way to incorporate all of my pro-aging advice into a lifestyle that works for you is to start slowly—one step at a time. One exercise routine, one dietary change, one product or procedure at a time until you’re sure it works for you. When in doubt, follow my dad’s rule of KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

Give yourself 30 days for a pro-aging reboot. Most

When your body is challenged, your stress hormones kick in so you can try to manage the situation. The two main ones are cortisol and adrenaline, primarily released by the adrenal glands. These stress hormones help regulate your immune system, your metabolism, the rest of your hormones, cellular activity and just about every other function of the body. Not having enough of these natural chemicals can have a detrimental effect, just as having too much of them can. Stress and challenge, to some degree, are an essential part of our evolution and wellbeing. Balance is key, as with all things pro-aging.

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building muscle mass, have sleep irregularities, irregular periods, dark circles under your eyes, skin issues such as acne, and/or sexual dysfunction…think about stress and the physiologic changes that go along with it. It’s easier said than done to “manage your stress,” but these facts certainly make it a priority.

Now I don’t believe that stress is the origin of all medical maladies, but there is no question in my mind that stress is a huge exacerbating factor. People ask me if stress causes their acne or eczema. Believe it or not, it was believed by doctors years ago that many such skin diseases were a direct result of neurosis. It would be great to have such a simple response, but, yes, some vacation time, a good night’s sleep and falling in love, among other stressreducing activities, certainly help most chronic medical issues of any kind. So be aware of what is stressing you out, and try to figure out ways to control it.

aiding learning, memory and self-realization.”

The rigorousness of all these studies was the primary reason why TM appealed to me. Followed by the fact that it was nonreligious, and more focused on the health and quality of life—one of the keys to pro-aging. I was still skeptical that sitting still and saying some mantras could do all that, but I had nothing to lose by trying it.

Part of what makes any kind of meditation so effective is that it’s a daily habit. I know some people think that they can go off on a meditation retreat for a few days and reap the benefits for many months to come. That’s not how it works…just as crash diets or extreme exercise routines don’t work over the long term. They’re quick fixes.

Meditation is a long fix for life. Once you incorporate such a good habit into your daily routine, it becomes effortless.

It’s not a chore. You look forward to it because you know how good it makes you feel. (This is how you should feel about exercise as well.) That’s the progressive and profound part of pro-aging.

What I love most about TM is how it sends me right into a kind of free-flowing state of mind that often leads to not thinking at all. This is the “zone” that is used euphemistically in everything from professional sports to the arts. It’s where creativity breeds and where excellence comes from. If there is a goal to meditation—this is it. As soon as you come out of it, you feel as if you had taken the most refreshing nap. In fact, meditation has the same refreshing effect on your brain and body in a shorter time than a nap, and is so helpful because most people don’t have the option to take a nap undisturbed during the day.

Whatever form of meditation you do, one of the most satisfying benefits is that it helps you sleep better. It not only refreshes you when you do it, but it also reduces stress and anxiety, which are the two most common causes of insomnia. Intense meditation practices help to achieve a harmony between body and mind. Study after study confirms meditation practices clearly affect brain functions, from its metabolism, hormone production, neurologic pathway plasticity, and neural wave form—all of which help mediate its regulatory functions.

I also believe that meditation helps with sleep and replenishment because it clears the space for you to focus on what you value most—the people you love, and your self-care. Meditation makes you stronger, more centered and more focused. It allows you to say, “I need this time now for myself.” I worked as an EMT in college, and rule No. 1 is to protect yourself first. It’s the mental and emotional equivalent of pro-aging’s definition of vanity: It’s not wrong to think of your own needs, to lead a better, happier, more empowered life. Others around you will benefit from it as well.

PRO-AGE YOUR WAY TO CALM WITH MEDITATION Meditation changed my life.

With my background and training in conventional Western medicine, in my early stage of training, I used to think of meditation as nonsensical, with no grounding in science. I fully admit to being closed-minded about other healing options outside the confines of my rigorous by-the-book approach to medicine. As for beliefs of a more spiritual nature, well, I was raised by a Sicilian Roman Catholic mother and a mixed-European Jewish father. Nonetheless, religion played very little role in my upbringing. We ate a lot, laughed a lot, liked to disco roller-skate, and spoke loudly and above each other most often—and that was a great formula for family in my household.

The biggest intellectual accomplishment any human being can make is admitting how little they know, even about topics they have studied or practiced in depth and are considered expert on. As the world-renowned cellist Pablo Casals said when asked why he continued to practice for at least four hours every day, well into his 80s: “Because I think I am making progress.”

I was a bit skeptical about Transcendental Meditation.

While researching it, I learned that TM has had the highest amount of peer-reviewed scientific studies over the years— investigating its benefits for reducing high blood pressure, in drug recovery, the prison rehabilitation system, helping veterans with PTSD, and with several types of chronic disease. In fact, a 2012 review of 163 studies published by the American Psychological Association concluded that Transcendental Meditation helped to “reduce anxiety, negative emotions, trait anxiety and neuroticism while 65

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Debra Townes helps clients hit the reset button. BY BETH LANDMAN Debra Townes, a coveted massage therapist on the East End, now has bigger plans—helping a broader range of people with a more comprehensive detox. To this end, Townes, who has certifications from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, is doing both virtual and in-person work, and has teamed with what she calls her “tribe of healers,” who are kindred spirits.

“I will travel with an esthetician and she will do a facial while I focus on massage,” explains Townes, who owned her own holistic day spa in Cobble Hill for 15 years.

The ultimate goal for Townes is to rid her clients’ bodies of toxins. “No

matter how healthy we try to be, we can’t run fast enough to avoid contaminants and pollutants,” she maintains.

While 10-day cleanses are popular, Townes advocates a more thorough three-month deep cellularrejuvenating program using herbal supplements, dietary adjustments and body work, which she says rids the body of old, damaged cells. “What I coach people through is not just downstream cleansing, but going to the root cause of what might be creating a toxic burden,” she explains.

“Slowly but surely, we go through all the systems of the body so we don’t overwhelm it. I call it nature’s reset button.” debbiedoesdetox.com 66

Months of isolation have seen a decrease in makeup sales, but a greater focus on skin care.

Revive your “People are skin at JECT. home staring at their lines, and they’re more willing to invest in doing something about them,” says Gabrielle Garritano, founder and CEO (with Devon Nagelberg, co-founder and head of brand) of the medi-spa JECT, which has two locations in Manhattan and on Bridgehampton’s Main Street.

The spas, overseen by medical director Dr. Ali Vafa, offer services including Botox, fillers, microneedling, intense pulsed light (IPL) to combat hyperpigmentation, chemical peels, facials and radio-frequency treatments for a lifting effect.

The most popular treatment is Aquagold Fine Touch, which uses 24-karat needles along with a cocktail of vitamins and hyaluronic acid to shrink pores and brighten skin. The mix can be tailored to the client’s skin.

Unlike other procedures, Aquagold can be done without restricting your beach activities.

“The needles penetrate less than a millimeter so there is no downtime,” explains Garritano. “It’s for people who want perfect skin, and don’t want to worry about sun exposure.”

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AHHH, SPA TIME!

Beauty sanctuaries are back, and not a minute too soon. BY BETH LANDMAN

A STUDIO SPA In the heart of East Hampton, this cozy treatment center uses organic products. In addition to massage, services include waxing, keratin lash lifts and laser photorejuvenation that has no downtime and helps with skin tightening, texture and pigmentation. astudiodayspa.com; 631.903.9669 CURATED BY THUYEN “Everyone was scared to be touched, but touch is important to keep your immunity up,” maintains Thuyen Nguyen, who is finally back to doing body massage as well his signature fitness facial involving deep lymphatic drainage. “At first, everyone wanted house calls, but now they want to escape from their homes,” he observes. The timing is good for Thuyen, as he is opening a new East Hampton location with retail space for his products and holistic beverage line, and a treatment room with big bay windows. He will also have visiting specialists from the city. thuyenskincare.com HAMPTONS CANINE WELLNESS It’s not just humans who get stressedout: Renowned vet Dr. Cindy Bressler has opened a retreat in Sagaponack to heal, treat or prevent conditions that affect dogs physically, emotionally and spiritually. On-site therapies include acupuncture, aqua therapy, body wraps, massages and customized blood panels, along with targeted

supplements from Mixlab. Bressler also organizes outings including beach walks and seagull viewing. “Our pets’ lives are already only a small fraction of the duration of our own. We can proactively give them the gift of longer, healthier, more joyful and graceful lives while they age,” says Bressler. “It is up to us to take the best care of them that we can.” hamptonscaninewellness. com; 631.490.5830 KARINANYC SKIN & LASH CLINIC “Now that we are wearing masks so much of the time, women are really emphasizing their eyes and brows,” notes Karina Freedman, who has put her result-oriented facials on hold for now to focus on lash extensions and brow enhancement as well as body treatments. “Clients are asking for fuller lashes—and henna, which accentuates the brows naturally, has become extremely popular.” shop. karinanyc.com; 212.355.3919 and 516.625.3919 NATUROPATHICA Locations of the beloved oasis in Chelsea and East Hampton are offering massage as well as facials in which a client’s nose and mouth remain covered. The Clear Facial employs spearmint, chlorophyll and other refreshing botanicals, along with salicylic acid for radiant skin, while the emphasis of the Chill Facial is relaxation with the help of CBD, kava and tamanu seed. Don’t miss the Nourish Massage, with a heady mix of lavender, mint and sea fennel to ease the nervous system and aid in the therapeutic wind down. naturopathica.com; 631.329.2525 ORGANIC EDGE This new Southampton spot focuses on detoxification via colonics and infrared 68

therapy. The advanced pod used for the latter also features aromatherapy, pink Himalayan salt and vibratory lymphatic drainage, and is meant to help with weight loss and muscle tone as well as cleansing the body. yourorganicedge.com; 631.488.4086 SIA’S BEAUTY The women who emerge from Karen Hong’s Soho skin emporium always have a celestial glow, thanks to her triple-whammy treatment that uses a hydrafacial machine to cleanse pores and balance skin pH, microcurrent remodeling for lifting, and an intraceutical treatment with oxygen spray to help antioxidants and vitamins penetrate beneath the skin’s surface. Now she not only wears a mask and shield, but has designed a special face box cover for her clients, so they have an extra layer of protection. siasbeauty.nyc; 347.247.6381 27 HAMPTON SALON Cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank has teamed with Bianka Lefferts at her Southampton spot to offer his beautifying artillery including injectables, laser resurfacing, Emsculpt muscle toning and Emtone body tightening. Frank will be available Mondays through August. Salon: 631.377.3107; Dr. Frank: 212.327.2919 VSPOT Cindy Barshop is opening a branch of her women’s health spa in Water Mill, a stone’s throw from SoulCycle.

The pain-free procedures performed by medical professionals focus on post-childbirth issues and increased intimacy satisfaction, and include lasers and PRP. vspotmedispa.com; 212.988.1387

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As stressful years go, this one rates pretty high. Never have we needed spas more. Fortunately, they have started to reopen in New York and the Hamptons, and while some treatments remain verboten, there are still plenty of therapies on the menu. Below, some oases for soothing body and soul.

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HAIR RESCUE

Top stylists now offer outdoor and at-home appointments throughout the Hamptons.

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cuts, has styled everyone from Victoria’s Secret models to Yankees players.

He’s offering his services in the Hamptons for the first time this summer. miawagner.com; 212.651.0312

27 HAMPTON SALON Bianka Lefferts’ eco-friendly salon pampers Hamptonites with keratin treatments, extensions and blowouts, using clean products from Oribe and Lenor Greyl.

27hamptonsalon.com; 631.377.3107 ADI ALONI Aloni, who just opened a new jewel box of a studio across from Bloomingdale’s, is coming east in August and September to offer gentle keratin treatments, Brazilian blowouts, highlights, color, cuts and styling. 917.528.4531 JULIEN FAREL “The city is a ghost town, so now I go wherever I have to go,” sighs Farel, who can be seen zipping on his Vespa to cut or color his clients’ hair at their homes—or even on the beach—Thursdays through Sundays. julienfarel.com; 212.888.8988

rity hairstylist has launched Supreme Head Agency offering cuts, color and blowouts from Hershberger and her team. “People are wanting a more laid-back look this summer,” she says, “that is easy to maintain but still appears polished.” sallyhershberger.com; 212.206.8700

VALERY JOSEPH An expanded outdoor area at Joseph’s Bridgehampton salon may seem bucolic and relaxed, but it runs like clockwork. “What most people want is manageable hair to wear naturally,” reveals Joseph, who arranges consultations to figure out which taming treatment is best for a client’s hair. He also says extensions are popular this summer: “People love them because they give fullness and keep hair from frizzing.” valeryjoseph.com; 631.537.8967

ISHI OF MIA WAGNER SALON The famed Japanese hairdresser, known for impeccable straightening and amino acid conditioning treatments, as well as precision

PAUL LABRECQUE The Core Club, where Labrecque has his New York salon, won’t open until the fall, so one of the country’s top talents is heading east.

Sally Hershberger brings her style expertise to the East End this summer.

Valery Joseph offers a safe, outdoor salon experience in Bridgehampton.

Bianka Lefferts of 27 Hampton Salon, which offers cosmetic dermatology treatments from Dr. Paul Frank

He will focus on hair treatments such as cuts and “catch-up color” for those who have missed months. paullabrecque.com; 212.988.7816 SALON XAVIER Though Xavier Merat has the chicest beauty spot in Sag Harbor, Merat is spending most of his time doing house calls and boat calls.

“There are not many parties or dinners,” he notes, “so we do fewer blow-dries now, but everybody wants keratin treatments.” salonxavier. com; 631.725.6400 LORETTA WOLLNER “People have been experimenting with color,” points out stylist Wollner, who trained with Louis Licari. “If they want to try platinum, now is the time—and you wouldn’t believe how many people are asking for it.”

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Our tonsorial gurus have never been more valued than after months of dealing with fading shades, conspicuous roots and shaggy styling. Now that they’re back in business, some top New York stylists have joined those already on the East End to service clients.

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Antoine Rose’s aerial shots capture the human experience with a minimalist eye.

Since 2012, Rose’s work has appeared in Emmanuel Fremin’s New York gallery, in the collections of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, Tiffany & Co. stores, and the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

In September of 2017, La Maison de la Photographie in Lille presented the artist’s first retrospective. fremingallery.com

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AMERICAN ABROAD

Mark Cross celebrates 175 years of mindful globe-trotting with the 1845 Mini Trunk collection. BY GABRIELLE ECHEVARRIETA

to influence contemporary creations, such as the vibrant Grace Cube Bag and ultra-modern Grace Plexi Box Bag. To celebrate the 175-year milestone, Mark Cross has unveiled the 1845 Mini Trunk, a collection of 20 one-of-akind handbags. Slated to be unveiled at the World of Mark Cross pop-ups in Hong Kong and Shanghai, the 1845 Mini Trunk features modernized solid brass, light gold-plated lock hardware and sustainably made upcycled leather.

Inspired by a 1904 ad of a top-opening trunk packed with handy travel accessories such as tiny manicure items and a sewing kit, the Mini Trunk emulates this fusion of function and fashion. “Mark Cross is the American abroad,” says creative director Sean Mathews. “We keep the spirit of travel in mind.

Finding out what is needed for that specific experience and supporting everyone as they move around the world.”

Current sustainability efforts are intertwined with the philosophy that durability is synonymous with luxury. This shines through in the All Vintage collection, an assortment of vintage items that features one-of-a-kind pieces from the late 1800s through the 1990s, including an ornate floral suitcase and alligator skin handbag. Swapping fast fashion for secondhand and upcycled pieces decreases the worldwide textile demand, meaning fewer resources are used and wasted. “We always make products that can be resold or cherished from generation to generation,” says Garde Due. markcross.com

Since 1845, a singular passion has run through the Mark Cross brand: the creation of luxury goods for the modern traveler. Mark Cross was initially established as an equestrian outfitter and later acquired by Patrick Murphy, who developed the brand in tandem with the rapid technological developments of the early 20th century. As automobile and aircraft travel replaced the horse and buggy, saddlery was swapped for luxury accessories that incorporated fine china and crystal from abroad.

Driven by a shared wanderlust, Patrick’s son Gerald and his wife, Sara (whose family once owned the property where The Maidstone Club in East Hampton now sits), explored the globe together, soaking in the aesthetics of exotic nations and befriending renowned creatives like Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

They weaved the spirit of adventure into the brand’s vision, expanding the collection to include luggage and jeweled evening bags. “They had a lifestyle everybody dreamed of.

It was bohemian, it was chic, sophisticated and fun,” says Ulrik Garde Due, president and CEO of Mark Cross. “This was reflective of what was found in the offerings of that time. A very large, eclectic gathering of styles.” The brand’s space within the pop culture ethos was secured when Grace Kelly sported a Mark Cross Rear Window Leather Overnight Case in the 1954 thriller Rear Window. A replica of the case is still sold today, and the iconic box silhouette continues 74

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WONDERS OF THE SEA

Discover Ocean Jasper, the ancient earthbound treasure that inspires Tamara Comolli’s fine jewelry. BY GABRIELLE ECHEVARRIETA

creating a fusion of solidified rock.

Comolli developed silhouettes that would capture the distinct beauty of each gem. Featuring olive-shaped beads, the coconut bracelet and necklace provide a three-dimensional view of every Jasper. The coconut design is embellished with two delicate water droplet charms, another homage to the life force of the Tamara Comolli brand. The collection also includes an Ocean Jasper cocktail ring, adorned with a border of champagne diamond pavé set on a warm rose-gold band.

The Tamara Comolli brand holds a deep respect for the source of its inspiration, and has partnered with nonprofit organization Oceana to preserve the health of our oceans.

Each piece is created with sustainability in mind, utilizing every harvested stone and manufactured without synthetic materials. “Each new collection is built on the past. It’s sustainable because it embraces tradition,” Comolli says. “Everything from nature needs to be honored, not exploited.” tamaracomolli.com

Tamara Comolli’s fine jewelry is built on Earth’s natural gifts: precious stones and gems. This passion has taken the brand’s founder on a constant quest for rare minerals. “I wanted pieces that spark a twinkle in the eye, that are wearable,” Comolli says. Growing up near oceans and lakes, Comolli developed a strong connection to water, which shines through in the soft, flowy shapes of the brand’s designs, including the new Ocean Jasper collection.

Ocean Jasper has enchanted collectors for decades; it’s been incorporated into Tiffany lampshades and used in crystal healing to open the heart chakra. After laying eyes on the radiant swirls of Ocean Jasper at a mineral show in Hong Kong, Comolli found her latest obsession. “I had an inspiration for a collection with earthy, boho appeal,” she says. “I was looking for a gem with a pattern. When I came across this Ocean Jasper, I said, ‘That’s it.’” Acquiring the gems was no easy task. Found exclusively on the coast of Madagascar, Ocean Jasper formed millions of years ago when mineral-rich lava plunged into the cool ocean, 76

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Sustainable beauty: Tamara Comolli’s jewelry draws inspiration from the Earth and the oceans.

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Footwear queen Tamara Mellon delights the East End with mobilized shoe therapy.

footwear closet. “Over the years, the biggest request I’ve always had from magazines and papers was, Could we shoot your closet? Look at the hashtag #shoecloset on Instagram—you’ll see so many. They’re like candy stores for adults.” The Mobile Closet delivers all that and a shoe box.

Its next stop: the East End, where Mellon, who has a home in Bridgehampton (“To be honest, it’s my favorite house”), reckons her fellow Hamptons habitues will delight in the new selection of wedges: “Cool and really comfortable, with a not-very-high pitch, they’re amazing, with a fun edge to them.”

In response to the pandemic, the truck has undergone a few modifications: “We’ve amended it so that the sides are all windows,” Mellon says. “We’ve removed two windows on each side, so there’s fresh air flow through the truck, to be really safe. Normally, we can get quite a few people inside, but for everyone’s safety now, we’re limiting it to one person at a time. You can book a 15-minute appointment so you have your own personal time. We also welcome walk-ins, if there are no previous appointments.”

The therapeutic benefits of fancy footwear may be purely anecdotal, yet compelling: “Shoes are moodaltering—putting on a good pair makes me feel good, and empowered,” believes the proud owner of 3,000+ pairs.

To make an appointment, visit tamaramellon.com/ pages/mobilecloset

The latest variant on the Cinderella story finds beloved footwear designer Tamara Mellon playing fairy godmother, on a mission to bring exquisite shoes to all who crave them.

Although she hasn’t left her California home since March, Mellon is sending her shoes on a grand tour of America, in a vehicle even more magical than Cinderella’s upcycled pumpkin carriage: the Mobile Closet, a retrofitted, snow-white Freightliner truck with stunning glass panels that afford a clear view of killer heels, sandals, flats and boots.

“I try to cover every aspect of a woman’s life,” the designer says. Forget Zappos: Here’s a truly innovative footwear-delivery system that enables the designer to connect directly—if remotely—with her clientele, gathering valuable customer feedback. As well-traveled as it is wellheeled, the Mobile Closet made stops last year in Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as well as California and New York.

“We’ll be launching more,” Mellon promises. “By the end of September, we expect to have three Mobile Closets on the road. We wanted to do something to delight our customers, to bring a little piece of joy into their lives—to lift their mood and take them out of their daily routine.”

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Seven Black-owned beauty brands at the forefront of the wellness movement.

BY GABRIELLE ECHEVARRIETA

Desiree Verdejo, founder and CEO of Hyper Skin

This blend of fruit enzymes, turmeric, kojic acid and vitamins C and E purifies skin and eliminates hyperpigmentation.

Hyper Clear Brightening Clearing Vitamin C Serum, $36, Hyper Skin; gethyperskin.com

Infused with rejuvenating CBD oil, the cruelty-free formula tightens and brightens skin with gentle fragrance notes of geranium and citrus.

Glow Elixir, $42, Undefined Beauty; un-definedbeauty.com

Elevate your evening self-care ritual with a stress-busting fusion of pink Himalayan and Dead Sea salts, rose petals and lavender essential oils. Deep Detox Bath Soak, $23, Goodnight Darling Co.; goodnightdarling.co

Winner of Allure’s Best of Beauty award in 2018, this creamy formula provides a dewy glow while softening skin with argan oil and hyaluronic acid. Skin Fetish Highlighter + Balm Duo, $48, Pat McGrath Labs; patmcgrath.com 80

Beyoncé snapped an Instagram selfie sporting this dramatic, cruelty-free and smudge-proof liquid lip formula; it’s the perfect hue for a classic red lip look.

Matte Lip Whip in Cranberry Stiletto, $20, Beauty Bakerie; beautybakerie.com

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An organic two-in-one makeup remover and moisturizer, Epara gently removes pore-clogging impurities without stripping the skin of its natural lipid barrier. Cleansing Lotion, $56, Epara; eparaskincare.com

Made with sensitive skin in mind, this refreshing facial spray soothes irritated or sunburnt complexions without alcohol, parabens or artificial fragrance.

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EDITOR’S PICKS Accessories for effective outdoor and virtual fitness.

“Hands-free phone holder for jogging, to prevent falls and screen cracks.” Sweaty Betty media armband, $30, Carbon 38, carbon38.com

With my Carolina jumping for joy in her new Moncler graduation gift, and me in my favorite Shan bathing suit I’ve had since discovering their East Hampton store years ago, in search of the perfect one-piece for surfing.

“Move over, Peloton: Technogym’s new Bike Personal is excellent on biomechanics and connectivity—and the sleek Italian design looks great in any room in the house.” Bike Personal, $11,650, Technogym, technogym.com

“The lightest-weight sneakers for tennis to floor mat to Tracy Anderson classes, that look good all the time.” Alodie sneaker in white, $445, Moncler, store.moncler.com 82

“Lightweight ankle and wrist weights used by Isaac Boots. They never scratch or cut during his IG Live morning classes.” Bala Bangles, 1lb. lightweight, $49, Carbon38, carbon38.com

“These core sliding disks activate every muscle in the body, and can be used with or without resistance bands. The dual-sided mat prevents slippage or damage to wood floors.” Turf mat, $99, Turf on the Go, turfonthego.com

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“The most comfortable high-rise leggings from Tory Sport’s weightless collection.” High-rise tempo chevron 7/8 leggings, $138, Tory Burch, toryburch.com

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PURE PICKS

Summer style inspiration and beauty obsessions from Jax Kylie Williard, colorist and co-founder of the Upper East Side’s Suite Reyad salon.

“After a long day of work, this product helps detoxify and restore my skin. It’s a blend of antioxidant- and mineral-rich botanicals and salts. Your skin is a dream after using it.” nourish facial exfoliant, $46, Ona Organics, onaorganics.com

“This blend of hydrating oils and reparative protein is all I need during the summer. I use it on my dry ends after a beach day, and my hair soaks up the coconutwoodsy smell.” Healing oil, $42, Virtue, virtuelabs.com

“These sunglasses are sexy, taking your outfit from basic to chic. Or in my case, mom to cool mom.”

Mektoub Black Acetate, $360, Port Tanger, porttanger.com

“This vegan bronzer, blush and highlighter trio gives your face a luminous wash of color using a luxe cream-to-satin finish.”

ILLUME™ sheer color trio in sunset, $62, Hourglass Cosmetics, hourglasscosmetics.com

“Just as any working mom in New York does, I always strive for balance. These essentials inspire me to keep life simple yet sophisticated, so I can focus on building our business to its potential.”

“I rock these flats with shorts, dresses or jeans; they are timeless, effortless and casual.” Flat Princetown bee & star mule, $820, Gucci, available at Bergdorf Goodman, bergdorfgoodman.com 84

“We leave this book on our table in the salon, and have a few of her pieces hanging on the walls.

Her book and photographs exude complete creativity, and a bit of rebellion—just how we like to work.” The Untamed Eye, by Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, $45, available at Barnes and Noble, barnesandnoble.com

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“This limited-edition line was created to promote diversity and women’s empowerment.”

Imaan x FRAME zip up hoodie in poppy, $225, Frame, frame-store.com

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FASHION INFUSION

Perfectly-timed pop-up shops give Hamptonites a much-needed style fix.

BY JULIA SZABO AKRIS Last month, the Swiss luxury label opened its first Hamptons pop-up, offering a free mask with any purchase. Interiors connoisseurs and natural-fiber fans will delight in the store decor, featuring furnishings by Vitra and haute seating by Jean Prouvé, Verner Panton and George Nelson. 52 Jobs Lane, Southampton, us.akris.com ALVIN VALLEY The “King of Pants,” beloved for his exquisite power suits, scores this summer with ultrafemme looks showcased in his new Southampton pop-up shop: cotton caftans, charming chiffon or eyelet dresses, must-have straw hats. “There’s a formality to Southampton that you don’t have in other beachy communities; you need a dressier look,” Valley tells Purist. “Even if gatherings are smaller, people are looking for normalcy and tradition—they haven’t given up on that. I’m excited that people still want to dress up!” 42 Jobs Lane, Southampton, alvinvalley.com

Swiss luxury label Akris pops up in Southampton.

GIORGIO ARMANI For many of us, a little trip abroad—if only in our imaginations—might be just what the doctor ordered, and who better than Armani to bring Italian style to the East End? The space has an exotic jungle vibe that’s sure to combat COVID anxiety. “It’s fun and bold, and reminds us to smile,” says Kristen Glosserman, lifestyle coach, East Hamptonite, veteran shopper and author of the forthcoming If It’s Not Right, Go Left. “A smile is always a step in a positive direction.” 54 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, armani.com A WILD DOVE x SOLE EAST Store owner and stylist Lynn Levoy’s killer eye shows in her curated selection of lifestyle items whose origins span the globe, from NYC (Bread Monster beaded jewelry) to Australia’s Bond-Eye swimwear. Levoy’s specialty: “A mix of brands people know with harder-to-find pieces.”

Après swim, cuddle up with Morphew Vintage’s cozy, super-tactile robes repurposed from antique chenille bedspreads. With keeping clean on everyone’s front burner, artist Sarah Coleman creates ingenious sleeves for travel-size Purell bottles, reusing pre-owned leather accessories by Goyard, Gucci and Vuitton. To light your fire or ignite a favorite scented candle, the shop carries Coleman’s logo’d lighter covers, and two delicious candles to deploy them on (by Costa Brazil and Lake &Skye).

90 2nd House Rd., Montauk, awilddove.com

Giorgio Armani’s East Hampton outpost flaunts tropical decor.

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Alvin Valley’s collection includes easily upstyled summer looks.

ERES swimwear is perfect for a summer getaway.

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Bonpoint’s storefront showcases its girls’ spring/summer collection.

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ERES ERES makes ravishing Gallic swimwear. You’ll find mostly bikinis and body-hugging one-pieces, and a few lovely lingerie and activewear items here, too. 14 Jobs Lane, Southampton, eresparis.com SUNSET BEACH HOTEL A large square scarf can prove to be a lifesaver in late summer, whether worn fashionably, as neckwear, screening the sun, or used as a makeshift face covering. Shelter The Hotel collaborated with artist Ivan Terestchenko (of Biarritz) on a limited-edition cotton carré ($75) for an artsy summer souvenir. 35 Shore Rd., Shelter Island, shop.sunsetbeachli.com BONPOINT Discover seasonal baby, girl, boy and skin care collections, plus vintage and custom furniture from France, housed in a romantic, Parisian-inspired atmosphere.

20/22 Main St., Southampton, bonpoint.com

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FOO D I S M E D I C I N E Peter Som’s recipes incorporate local ingredients like fresh zucchini from Marilee’s Farm Stand in Sagaponack.

“Just as clothing should be fashionable and functional, food should look good and also be good for you.” —Peter Som

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SUMMER BANQUET

Designer Peter Som cooks up a fashionable feast at his Sag Harbor home. BY RAY ROGERS (using local Bees’ Needs honey) that’s a nod to his Asian heritage. “During the peak of the pandemic I didn’t realize the thing I missed the most was Chinese food. I was like, oh my god, I’ve gotta figure out how I’m going to get some,” says Som, clad in an Alex Mill cotton buttondown and Uniqlo shorts.

“There’s been plenty of time to experiment and play around with the flavors I grew up with, and soy and tofu and all that kind of stuff.”

Baking pies is what initially got the designer—who has held creative director and consulting roles at brands ranging from Bill Blass to Tommy Hilfiger in addition to his namesake line—into the kitchen. “Making a pie was very therapeutic” during high-stress periods of fashion seasons, he recalls. “There was a beginning, middle and end—a rewarding end, hopefully, if you bake it right. And being a designer, I wanted to make the plate look nice.” Today, he’s serving seared local scallops on elegant tableware from MONC XIII in Sag Harbor (“This is the advantage of having a boyfriend who’s an interior designer”), and an appetizer of deconstructed zucchini blossoms from Quail Hill Farm with ricotta, and the peach crumble dessert course, on glazed earthenware Marumitsu dishes with petal-shaped edges from Roman and Williams Guild in SoHo (“I love how they look like classic paper plates, but they’re obviously not”).

Offsetting a penchant for desserts, Som and his boyfriend have set up a little gym in the basement with weights and rubber workout bands. “I do miss Barry’s Bootcamp classes, but we’re adapting to a different time.

I’ve also been discovering the joys of jogging,” he says with a slight roll of the eyes. The pair jogs or bikes down to the beach, just across the road. “It’s right there, so it’s really great to take advantage of the water. It’s very restorative and calming, which we all need.”

“What makes clothing fashion, and what makes food cuisine?” asks Peter Som, whose elegant dresses have graced everyone from Michelle Obama to Scarlett Johansson.

“It’s that extra attention to care and detail and a little bit of a dream, you know?”

The boyishly handsome 50-year-old designer, who has a slate of consulting projects in the fashion and lifestyle space coming up, is getting creative in the kitchen, whipping up an array of fantasy meals this summer. “I really found that cooking married my love of food, creativity and design in a great way—and I love how it brings people together.”

This season, more than ever, has been one for nesting—a natural fit for this self-described homebody and his boyfriend, interior designer Timothy Brown.

The pair likes to entertain small groups of friends for socially distant home-cooked dinners at their Sag Harbor home. The massive picture windows looking out over Noyack Bay provide nightly entertainment with spectacular sunsets (“only the birds don’t love it—we had one do a bonk the other day, and fly away”).

“This is sort of Timothy’s lab—it changes a lot and things come in and out,” notes Som, who’s shared the home with Brown for the three years the couple has been together.

The eclectic mix in the living and dining areas includes iconic mid-century modern pieces like Bertoia side chairs, vintage Danish furnishings and “a funny pretend wicker chair” Som found, but, he notes, “the overall feeling here is total relaxation—put your feet up.”

The day he invited Purist to dinner, he prepared a seasonal three-course spread, with local ingredients foraged from nearby farm stands and Hamptons favorites.

Atop his Wölffer Estate rosé-macerated Pike Farms’ peaches, for instance, drips some luscious vanilla gelato from Carissa’s The Bakery—“because why mess with perfection?”—and a homemade five-spice honey sauce 90

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Peter Som at home with a bounty of fresh local produce

Roasted Squash Blossom and Zucchini Salad With Herbed Ricotta

BY PETER SOM SERVES 4 Roasted squash blossoms (Quail Hill Farm, Amagansett), shaved zucchini (Marilee’s Farm Stand, Sagaponack), whipped ricotta with local herbs, Tesuque Hot Sauce (The Hoppy Acre/Springs Fireplace), za’atar

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Courtesy of Peter Som

INGREDIENTS: 12-14 zucchini blossoms, divided Olive oil, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper (for sprinkling) 2 small zucchini 1½ cups ricotta 2 tbsp. whole milk 3 tbsp. olive oil ½ cup mix of basil, chives, parsley, mint, plus more for garnish 1 tbsp. lemon juice Tesuque Hot Sauce (optional) Fleur de sel and za’atar (for finishing)

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. 2. Place 10 to 12 blossoms on a parchment-lined sheet pan (set aside 2 blossoms for garnish) and drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast in the center of the oven for 13 to 18 minutes or until flowers have taken a touch of color and squash ends are tender.

3. Using a mandoline or a very sharp knife, carefully slice zucchini lengthwise into very thin ribbons. Cut reserved blossoms lengthwise and set aside.

4. To make the herbed ricotta, in a food processor add ricotta, milk, olive oil, herbs, salt and pepper and process until smooth and combined, adding more milk if mixture is too stiff.

5. To serve, place dollops of herbed ricotta on a serving plate; top with zucchini ribbons and add roasted and raw zucchini flowers. Sprinkle with lemon juice, then dot with hot sauce (if using). Garnish with remaining herbs, fleur de sel and za’atar and serve immediately.

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Pan-Seared Scallops With Corn, Tomatoes, Bacon and Basil Coriander Oil

BY PETER SOM SERVES 4 Local scallops (Serene Green, Sag Harbor), corn (Pike Farms,Sagaponack), tomatoes (Marilee’s Farm Stand, Sagaponack), Bacon (Mecox Bay Dairy, Bridgehampton), local basil coriander oil, herbs, sea salt (Amagansett Sea Salt Co.)

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. To make the basil coriander oil, in a food processor, add basil, coriander, lemon juice and pinches of salt and pepper; pulse until basil is chopped. With motor running, slowly stream in olive oil and blend until smooth. Set aside.

2. Pat scallops dry with a paper towel; salt and pepper each side.

3. In a 14” saute pan on medium heat, add bacon and cook until most of the fat has rendered and bacon is crispy, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer bacon to a paper towellined plate to drain, leaving the fat in the pan. Add scallops, leaving space around each, and saute 1½ minutes on each side. Remove from pan and set aside.

4. To serve, arrange tomatoes, corn and bacon on a platter; top with scallops, reserved basil and parsley. Drizzle with basil coriander oil and finish with sea salt.

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INGREDIENTS: ½ cup basil leaves, plus more for garnish 1∕8 tsp. coriander 1 tbsp. lemon juice Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper ½ cup olive oil 1 lb. scallops 8 oz. thick-cut bacon, cut into ¼” cubes Half-pint cherry heirloom tomatoes, cut in half 2 cups cooked corn kernels (approximately 2 ears) Flat-leaf parsley (for garnish) Sea salt (for finishing)

Rosé Peaches With Five-Spice Honey, Brown Butter Almond Oat Crumble and Vanilla Gelato

BY PETER SOM SERVES 4 Rosé (Wölffer Estate) and turmeric macerated peaches (Pike Farms, Sagaponack), brown butter almond oat crumble, honey (Bees’ Needs, Sag Harbor) with five-spice seasoning, vanilla gelato (Carissa’s The Bakery, East Hampton)

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INGREDIENTS: For the crumble: 7 tbsp. unsalted butter 1 cup old-fashioned oats ½ cup almond flour ½ cup rough-chopped almonds 1∕3 cup coconut sugar ¼ tsp. kosher salt ¼ cup honey 1 tsp. five-spice powder Fleur de sel (for finishing) Vanilla gelato

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. In a medium bowl or container with lid, add peach slices, coconut sugar, turmeric and rosé. Cover bowl or container and let sit for 2 to 3 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.

2. Preheat oven to 350°F. 3. In a small pot over medium-high heat, melt butter, stirring until color has turned a dark nutty brown, approximately 2 to 3 minutes. Set aside and let cool.

4. In a medium bowl, combine oats, almond flour, almonds, coconut sugar, cooled brown butter and salt and mix until thoroughly combined and moist. Pour mixture onto a parchment-lined sheet pan and pat into an approximately ½” thick layer. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until deep golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool. Crumble into large pieces.

5. In a small bowl, combine honey and five-spice powder; stir to combine.

6. To serve, add peaches with some of the liquid to a serving bowl; add scoops of gelato. Drizzle with five-spice honey and top with crumble. Sprinkle with fleur de sel and serve immediately.

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Fresh sage from Balsam Farms

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Live healthily and sustainably by participating in communitysupported agriculture.

BY WYATT SCHIFF

CSA, otherwise known as community-supported agriculture, is based on commitment. Typically, CSA shareholders pay an initial fee for a share of crops and then pick up a basket of fresh produce from local farmers each week. Food from grocery stores is often overprocessed, packed with preservatives, and transported hundreds of miles, causing excess carbon emissions. Supporting local growers benefits the health of our bodies and our planet.

BALSAM FARMS, AMAGANSETT

Amagansett’s Balsam Farms stand provides an abundance of fresh produce to the East End. Balsam offers a different basket to its shareholders each week, depending on what’s newly harvested, including its signature crop, sweet corn. However you serve it—grilled or steamed— this summer favorite is lauded by the stand’s loyal customers. balsamfarms.com BHUMI FARMS SEVA

Courtesy of Balsam Farms, Bhumi Farms and Green Thumb Organic Farm

This nonprofit, plastic-free, spray-free and chemicalfree farm works to provide fresh, healthy food to communities with the greatest need and least access. Seva—meaning “to be selfless in service”— relies on sales from the farm wagon and farm

shares to help support food pantries, including NYC’s NY Common Pantry, and its farm wagon produce stand is filled with freshly harvested fruits and veggies (open daily, payment is via the honor system). Join the inaugural “The Great Hamptons Tomato Derby” this season—adopt two specialty heirloom tomato plants for $100, and harvest them on Labor Day. The plant with the most fruit or biggest tomato wins a prize—a portion of the program’s sales go to a local food bank in the winning family’s names. bhumifarms.com

Green Thumb’s CSA members receive a weekly share of seasonal, nutrient-rich produce.

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where customers buy items a la carte from local vendors. The extensive online menu offers an array of ready-to-eat premade meals, baked goods and more. EEFI offers curbside pickup in Southampton, and twice-a-week delivery in the East End. shop.eastendfood.org

Rather than collaborating with shareholders, the EEFI program operates as a virtual farmers market through an online store,

GREEN THUMB ORGANIC FARM, WATER MILL

Started by the Halsey family in 1644, Green Thumb is one of the oldest farms on the East End. Green Thumb invites CSA shareholders to pick up a weekly allotment of $20 worth of fresh vegetables and fruit. greenthumborganicfarm. com Sylvester BhumiManor FarmsEducational uses agricultural Farm allows technology shareholders to track to thecustomize nutritive theirdensity weekly of produce their produce. bundle.

HASKELL’S SEAFOOD, CALVERTON

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Seafood operates as a CSF (community-supported fishery). Each weekly shareholder’s basket includes seasonal seafood, and might include fish fillet, seafood salad and a frozen seafood dish. According to manager Peter Haskell, “Haskell’s Seafood is committed to bringing the bounties and seasonal seafood harvests of the North Atlantic right to your front door.” From $60 weekly. haskellsseafood.com QUAIL HILL FARM, AMAGANSETT

Amagansett’s Quail Hill Farm, now a stewardship project of the Peconic Land Trust, was founded a little over 30 years ago by eight to 10 families, with the goal of providing biodynamic and organic food to families. It is one of the oldest standing CSA systems on the South

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Fork, and offers seasonal subscriptions for summer and winter membership. peconiclandtrust.org Sakara offers detox programs and supplements in addition to their weekly nutrition plans.

SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM, SHELTER ISLAND

Sylvester Manor Educational Farm allows shareholders to customize their weekly produce bundle.

SPECIAL DELIVERIES

Five Purist-approved meal, cleanse and veggie delivery services and packaged meals-to-go FARMBOX Farmbox Direct, created by single mom Ashley Tyrner to address the needs of busy moms and food-challenged families, offers the delivery of fresh produce all over the continental US. Produce boxes range from $43.95 to $68.95. farmboxdirect.com

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THE ULTIMATE BURGER Dirt Candy’s Amanda Cohen has created, with the Lekka Burger, the next-level veggie patty, surpassing Impossible and Beyond Burgers in both taste and nutritional content.

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Lekka Burger satisfies comfort food cravings with nutritious ingredients.

testing ancient recipes. A top-secret technique, that, she allows, includes “a couple of different flours, beans, and mushrooms” and a combo of “sauteing, smoking and baking” creates a burger that’s not overly processed (like the lab-created options out there), decidedly not mushy and holds up on the grill for a wonderfully charred flavor. (They are now shipping nationwide for at-home grilling, via goldbelly.com.) Free of gluten, soy, GMOs and chemicals, and made fresh every day, “our burgers are really, truly whole food,” she says.

“I’m not going to split a bean into molecules and atoms and just pull out the protein.”

Kerzner, Cohen’s business partner in the venture, which launched late last year with a space in Tribeca that pays homage to the American diner, notes that the health benefits are significant, compared to the competition: “A Beyond Burger is about 260 calories per patty, and ours is 160. If you start 98

comparing ingredients, fiber and sodium, we’re way ahead of them.”

Not to mention the personal and planetary benefits over a beef patty.

Lekka clocks in at roughly less than half the fat of USDA grass-fed beef (6.8 grams compared to about 15 grams) and zero cholesterol (compared to 88 mg).

“Thirty-one percent of our carbon footprint depends on the cattle and dairy industry,” notes Kerzner, citing a United Nations report that inspired Lekka’s birth. “My background has been in the nonprofit world, and working with children in poverty.

Growing up in the hospitality field, I thought about what I could do to have some kind of impact on climate change. So my idea was to make a vegan burger that’s as delicious a burger as any meat-eating person would want.”

Mission accomplished—with a side of crinkle-cut fries and an oat-milk shake. lekkaburger.com

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For the past 11 years that she’s helmed her East Village vegetarian paradise, Dirt Candy, the James Beardnominated chef Amanda Cohen has had one goal in mind: “Getting people to eat more vegetables.”

Cohen explains, “I live in a world of vegetables, and that’s what I always wanted to focus on.” Easier said than done, apparently, even when her inspired creations have included such legendary dishes as the sublime smoked cauliflower with waffles and addictive Korean fried broccoli. So when South African hospitality scion and philanthropist Andrea Kerzner approached her about creating a new vegan burger joint in Manhattan, with plans for expansion to other markets, the answer was an immediate and emphatic “Yes!” Cohen sees it as a gateway food to bring people into the plant-based fold: “When it comes to comfort food, what’s more iconic than the hamburger?” she notes. “Every chef’s dream is to have a fast-casual place. I am no different than every other chef.”

She discovered the formulation that would become the Lekka (Afrikaans slang for “awesome” and “delicious”) burger while working with a Chinese food historian and

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Barefoot Contessa’s Ina Garten on socially distanced summer entertaining.

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Watermelon Mojito INGREDIENTS: 30 large fresh mint leaves, coarsely torn by hand 3 to 4 thick slices fresh watermelon 12 ounces light rum, such as Bacardi 1/2 cup simple syrup 6 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice (3 limes) Sprigs of mint and spears of watermelon, for serving INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Use a mortar and pestle to mash the mint leaves. Remove and discard the rind and seeds of the watermelon. Put the fruit into a food processor fitted with the steel blade and puree. Put the mashed mint into a large serving pitcher with 2 cups of puréed watermelon, rum, simple syrup and lime juice; stir to combine.

2. Place ice cubes in 6 glasses; pour the mojito mixture into the glasses. Garnish with sprigs of fresh mint and spears of watermelon. Serve ice cold.

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IG: I really don’t do dinner parties now. First INA GARTEN: Keeping my friends safe of all, we never invite people from more and healthy is the top priority. As soon than one household at a time, so it’s hard as the weather improved and we could to think of getting together as a “dinner see friends outdoors, I rearranged all the party.” During this difficult time, the most outdoor furniture to be sure that the chairs important thing is staying connected with were 6 feet apart. It was important to me friends, and in-person meetings are so that the furniture felt natural, so instead much more satisfying of just pushing the than “Zoom cocktails.” chairs apart on our For snacks, I wash my terrace, I bought a hands, put on gloves 4-foot-square coffee and a mask and table to put between prepare very simple the two outdoor separate plates of sofas. I bought lots hors d’oeuvres—salted of big umbrellas to cashews, radishes give shade from the from the garden, or sun, and put some sliced salami and lounge chairs under a cucumbers. Friends grove of trees around bring their own drinks a fountain so there so we can safely are lots of places to spend a good time sit at a safe distance together. outdoors. I’ve even ordered some outdoor PURIST: How have heaters so we can you adapted your have friends outdoors approach to setting when the weather Ina Garten’s new book, Modern Comfort a table for a socially gets colder in the fall.

Food, will be available October 6. distanced dinner?

IG: I often set up a side table that we all PURIST: How do you see entertaining use for drinks and appetizers. I’ll have an changing during these challenging ice bucket, in case people bring wine that times? needs to be chilled. If I bake something IG: The important thing is to see friends, like homemade cheese straws or pigs not necessarily to entertain them. In order in blankets, I’ll just bring the sheet tray for the weekends to feel different from directly from the oven right to the table so weekdays, we have friends come for people can safely help themselves. socially distant coffee or cocktails. Dinner is trickier because it’s easy to forget to keep your distance, so the only thing I might do is PURIST: Finally, what’s the one ingredient you just can’t live without? order pizzas and serve wine. We can sit at IG: The one ingredient I can’t live without opposite ends of a long table and still have is kosher salt. It makes everything taste a very good time. better—even sweet things like chocolate and caramel.

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beverages in the quest for a healthier lifestyle. Montauk Mocktails enables people to get the cocktail taste, look and feel without the need for alcohol. 668’s sober season could not have happened at a better time.”

The idea behind Montauk Mocktails is simple and direct: No hidden ingredients, no unknown words and no gimmicks. “While other mixers on the market are full of sugar and overly processed ingredients, Montauk Mocktails is dedicated to using only natural ingredients, made in small batches with natural sweeteners,” says Dukas.

Fresh-pressed fruit juices Montauk Mocktails provide the base, and reimagines classic mixed drinks using house-distilled botanicals natural flavors and give the beverages their fresh botanicals. distinctive, rich flavor profiles. The names of the six varieties reference natural elements, and each is reminiscent of classic cocktails. The Aqua, for instance, uses fresh watermelon juice as a base, in a nod to a watermelon martini. “In the past 10 years, cocktails that include watermelon have become a summer staple.

It looks good, tastes great, and makes you feel like you are drinking a glass of summer,” she says. “Incorporating rosewater into the drink was an instant hit for me—it plays more to your sense of smell than anything, something that watermelon tends to lack.” The Ignis (Latin for “fire”), meanwhile, is a take on the spicy margarita craze. “Adding ginger into the mix was a no-brainer—it’s trendy and health-forward, and it supplies heat without being overbearingly spicy.” And best of all, they’re each delightfully hangover-free.

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Bartending at breakneck pace during the past nine summer seasons at The Surf Lodge taught Thea Dukas a thing or two about revelers’ tastes for the perfect drink— and demand for immediate satisfaction. This year, while the bar scene is on hiatus due to the pandemic, she put her mixology skills to good use and launched Montauk Mocktails, an allnatural, small-batch bottled beverage with distilled botanicals (like rose water and lavender water) to help quench people’s thirst wherever they may be, with or without booze.

“I wanted to create a high-end mocktail/cocktail experience you can take anywhere,” says Dukas, who has called Montauk home every summer season since childhood. “Instead of having to go to your local mixology den, I wanted to give people the luxury of specialized drinks at home and on the go.”

The inspirational spark for the line came during the early days of the pandemic, when 668 The Gig Shack— Montauk’s favorite local joint—offered her the opportunity to create a beverage program for their Gig To-Go menu, long before any restaurants were allowed to reopen for socially distanced dining. Dukas, who managed the Shack in its early days, launched Montauk Mocktails in collaboration with Gig Shack proprietor and family friend, Tracey Gardell.

A summer of health, she notes, fits the bill for the current times. “Quarantine has forced many people to change their lifestyles and habits. Even before COVID, there has been a big spike in alcohol alternatives such as CBD and other natural mood enhancers. It has been my experience that a lot of people are moving away from alcoholic 102

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Brooke Shields finds tranquility at the beach.

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Brooke Shields’ wellness regimen is a balance of self-acceptance and healthy lifestyle practices.

BEING BROOKE ACTRESS, AUTHOR, MODEL AND GENERATIONAL ICON BROOKE SHIELDS SHARES COVID-19 SURVIVAL STRATEGIES AND INSIDE INFO ON LOOKING AND FEELING HER BEST, IN A CANDID CONVERSATION WITH FRIEND, ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN ALI WENTWORTH.

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AW: Were you a gym rat back when you were on Suddenly Susan?

BS: I was a Tae Bo disciple. I would take it at 6 o’clock in the morning. I was on this revved-up type of crazy energy, which was, “Tae Bo as hard as you can, and then sweat and then go do the day.” I loved the group mentality of Tae Bo, and then I ended up really hurting my hips. My body couldn’t handle it.

Ali Wentworth: Hello, Brooke Shields! I see pictures of you in magazines and photos from paparazzi, and you are basically my age and you look amazing. My question to you right off the bat is: Fitness is a big part of your life, yes?

Brooke Shields: It is, but I came around to it from a very different perspective. I never worked out as a way of life. I didn’t really enjoy it. I liked being active, and then I danced. I would dance in these shows where the schedule is so grueling, and you’re doing eight shows a week for up to a year and beating up your body. I would get into this ridiculous dance shape, and then not do anything for a while. And then I tore my knee, had to get a partial knee replacement, and then was supposed to get back surgery.

And I said, “Do you know what? This is crazy. I don’t want to go into these surgeries not as fit as I can be.” So I got a trainer, and he just did preventative exercises, and it was unlike anything I had ever experienced before. I ended up not having to have back surgery, and recovered from my partial knee replacement really quickly. Unfortunately, I now have to get the other one fully replaced, but my doctor said, “You’re so active, and you’re active in a very safe way. Let’s try to get as much life out of your knee as possible.” And you love hearing that—you feel a thousand years old. Working out became a thing, because I’ve had to be really creative about it while we’re in lockdown.

AW: It’s interesting how when you were younger, and me too, you think about working out as you want to be skinny and sexy. And then at our age, it’s much more about staying alive longer and maintenance. I don’t work out like you do. But when I walk on the beach or whatever, what goes through my mind is, “I don’t want a bikini body,” because those days are gone. Instead, I’m thinking, “The next wave of the virus, I want my body to be strong.” Or, “I don’t want osteoporosis.” It’s all old-lady shit now.

BS: Yeah. But you know what? There’s a hybrid on that, too.

Like first of all, I now think my curves are good. Whereas in my 20s I was given the message that I should have the body of a little boy, you know?

AW: Mm-hmm. But that was the look, right?

BS: It was. And I always tried to justify it by saying, “I’m an athletic type. We’re big-boned in the Shields family. I’ve got strong arms.” When I was pregnant, I felt really sexier because my curves justified housing a life. And then, what is so fascinating about the mixture of you and me in regard to this, is that when we go on beach walks, or go somewhere and spend girl time together doing whatever, those are as healing as doing some class. I was just a sweaty mess after [we went] clamming.

AW: Right.

BS: I don’t have a full gym, and I couldn’t always FaceTime or Zoom, so I thought, “How can I keep doing this, so I don’t come out of COVID worse than I went in?” When you say you look at me as aspirational, I appreciate that, because it’s very kind, but I’m hoping that it also represents hard work and doing that hard work for yourself. A lot of the time, I see people and they’re just naturally fit, or they’re so much younger, and I have to work at it. I’ve always had to work at it because I’m not rail-thin, you know? But I’m strong, and so I had to focus on that. You and I have had these conversations. It’s like, you have to find the thing that you enjoy doing, and hopefully that will either get your heart rate up or clear your mind, and at the same time activate your muscles. But you’ve got to like it, because otherwise it’s just drudgery.

AW: Yeah, that’s hard work. I don’t know why we haven’t started clamming as an actual exercise class that people sign up and do. Because we could teach that.

BS: And then we can have a big dinner. Six feet apart.

AW: Don’t you find that, particularly at our age, the fitter you are the sexier you are? You know, unfortunately I am not in the best shape because of this whole pandemic thing, but my husband [George Stephanopoulos] works out twice a day.

BS: And you had COVID.

AW: Completely. It’s horrible.

BS: I had to say, “What are my strengths? How can I keep myself healthy?” When I started getting scared about COVID, or scared about the future, as long as I just got my heart rate up, or just even danced like crazy in place, or got on a bike—with a mask, obviously—I found that my head was cleared a little bit more, and I was able to then be stronger for my kids.

AW: And I had COVID. But George is incredibly fit. And I find that at times where, even if I’m beach-walking or swimming and feeling fit, I feel sexy. And that helps my marriage. The fitness thing can help all aspects. Besides 108

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WHEN I STARTED GETTING SCARED ABOUT COVID, OR THE FUTURE, AS LONG AS I JUST GOT MY HEART RATE UP, I FOUND THAT MY HEAD WAS CLEARED, AND I WAS ABLE TO THEN BE STRONGER FOR MY KIDS.

Shields released a series of popular quarantine workout videos on Instagram.

have a salad and then work out for an hour?

BS: No, I eat like a linebacker, as you so astutely pointed out, and I drink like a sailor, which I’m trying to work on.

I don’t eat badly, but I do love food. I try not to eat the wrong things, but if I want a bowl of pasta, I’m not going to deny myself.

being stronger and healthier, you feel sexy. And when you feel sexy, you demonstrate it.

BS: And you want to share it.

AW: That’s what I mean. I didn’t mean to speak for you.

BS: Oh, that’s a change. Just kidding. But my husband [Chris Henchy] has noticed a difference, because we’ve been together for more than 20 years, and he’s seen all of the different stages of what I have felt about myself. When I am fitter, or active or doing something, I feel friskier, you know?

He celebrates it not because I look better, but because I’m more available to him in a way that’s more intimate.

AW: You have a very healthy relationship with food.

BS: Growing up, there was really no stigma around food.

In my dad’s family, eating all your dinner was a sign of respect. My mom and I were bohemian; we would eat Chinese food and go to Italian restaurants, and it was always a sort of celebration of just being together. I was never told, “Eat less, lose weight.” During this time of COVID-19, I was like, “When did we become that family that has four different flavors of Häagen-Dazs in the freezer?” Using any kind of a thing as a comfort can become dangerous, but not in these times. And if ice cream is going to give you a little immediate gratification, don’t deny yourself.

AW: He must just pinch himself, still, that he gets to be married to you. Does he?

BS: I don’t know. That’s a whole other argument.

AW: He’s not going to read this. Say yes.

BS: Yes. He can’t believe his good fortune in marrying...

AW: There you go.

BS: What I have noticed is that he is not as in shape as he wants to be. I witnessed insecurity from him that would have been me in the past. It’s interesting, because my being in shape has made him now want to step up again.

AW: Readers will want to know about your beauty regime.

BS: I’ve tried so many different things, and I find that the simpler it is, the better: moisturizer, sunblock, drinking a lot of water. They’re the most boring things. I don’t know if there is magic in a bottle.

AW: Yeah. It inspires me from afar. I want to talk about the pandemic. You started doing exercise videos on Instagram, with whatever you had at home. And all I could think was, you did it for all of us girls who were stuck in the house and couldn’t go to a gym or to Pilates. And so what was the impetus for those videos? Did you just feel like, “You know what? I’m going to do these exercises with two cans of tomato paste, and I’ll videotape it for people who are in my position as well.” People really responded to them.

BS: The minute we got into COVID, there were two ways to go. You could be like, “Oh, I’m just going to drink and eat and watch TV.” And I was like, “No, I can’t. I haven’t come this far to then have something like this undo me.”

So I called my trainer and I said, “What are the exercises that I can do?” I didn’t have the equipment, so he would say, “Do you have something that’s 5 pounds?” I picked up a sculpture and was like, “This is really good. I can do a deadlift with this.” I mean, it’s a little bizarre, doing an arm exercise with a bottle of tequila. It’s a little comedic, which to me is always my medicine.

AW: Do you put sunscreen on every single day?

BS: Yeah. I guess in the dead of winter, no, because I’m hardly outside. But definitely March through November.

AW: Because your whole body is tan in the summer.

BS: I wear SPF 30, and I also use self-tanner. I’m all for anything that anybody wants to do if it makes them feel better. It’s hard to embrace wrinkles. I have to sort of talk myself down and say, “They’re from smiling. You’re not 22.” I’ll use pads that smooth my skin, or eye cream. I’ll get a facial, or do whatever’s available, but I don’t want to change the way I look. I just want to try to be as naturally healthy as I can.

AW: Am I hearing you saying you would not have plastic surgery?

BS: I don’t want to go under the knife, because I think that I would look so different. The times that I tried Botox, I looked a little freakish. If I dared to do any filler at all in my lips, you would notice it in a second. I want to feel good; I just haven’t found anything that doesn’t make me feel claustrophobic, or like I’ve clearly had something done. I’m not against it, but I haven’t found that thing yet that I feel safe with, and comfortable with.

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When it comes to skin care, Shields opts for healthy practices like hydration and sun protection.

AW: Have you tried threading?

BS: I’ve never done threading, but I did wear those individual glue-on lashes. Loved them, and they looked so natural. But then after overdoing it a year, my real lashes were just half their size. So I stopped that, and started using an enhancer, GrandeLASH, that comes in a wand—it’s over the counter, or you can get it on Amazon—and my lashes have grown back.

that over the years and decades that I have created a platform for myself to speak, to learn, to grow, to share throughout my whole life. And I’ve been very outspoken about every period of my life, every era, all the struggles, all the highs, and I believe there is room for that community out there in my age group. I don’t claim to be an expert at anything, but I’ve had so much personal experience, and I’ve ferreted out people who are experts. So I will be creating that, yeah.

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AW: You don’t spend a fortune on products. You’re pretty savvy about high-low stuff, aren’t you?

BS: Yeah, it’s really hard for me to get convinced.

I’m not going to spend time doing a ritual of six things at night. I want to wash my face and moisturize it. I’m not looking to turn back the clock, but I’m trying not to look older than my years. That’s why when I find something I like, I give it to you. They’re not fancy, they’re really reasonable things.

AW: Well, I’m happy that you are, and I know that most women will be happy, too. So come the day you have a platform for sharing all this stuff, sign me up.

BS: I want to assemble people where real conversations are happening, with the idea that it’s never too late to start investing emotionally in yourself. Taking care of yourself.

Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. I think we all need people in our lives, and we need communities in which we can grow and feel empowered.

AW: You could have a website where you get to show your knowledge. Have you thought about that?

BS: I have thought about that quite extensively. And I’m currently in the process of something coming to fruition that I’m very excited about. Here’s my thing: I realized that, through COVID, and through people reaching out to me,

AW: I didn’t know if you were wanted to talk about your website or not, but I was teeing it up just in case.

BS: Well, you set me up. You teed me up. I was curating the correct ending, and you just gave it. That’s perfect.

See, we’re a good team.

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Priorities have shifted from looking great to staying strong and resilient. Purist called upon its A-team of coaches for advice on maintaining one’s personal best in our new reality. Plus, healthy activities—swimming, surfing and walking—anyone can do right now.

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IN TRAINING: The East Hampton Village Ocean Rescue lifeguard squad, led by East End Ocean Rescue president Jimmy Minardi (far left), on Main Beach in East Hampton. Their daily one-hour routine includes beach calisthenics, rescue drills, Jet Ski training and open-water swimming. eastendoceanrescue.org 113

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appreciate how far I’ve come,” says the 5-foot-9 Oneida, New York, native, one of six kids, who drove a U-Haul from Syracuse to New York City almost 15 years ago and never looked back. “I started sharing my workouts online five years ago in my living room, using a $24 tripod, with zero editing or lighting. Simply the raw and real me. On many occasions I remember asking Noah to be quieter on his calls, all with a baby monitor right off to the side of my mat in case my son woke from his nap. Well, fast-forward, and with staying home and social distancing in place, I came full circle...filming myself, with two kids and my husband, and all that comes with that in the background.”

Wood-Tepperberg, who was married at The Plaza hotel nearly four years ago with a Page Six list of guests, says, “I love my family, and comparatively, this is a nice problem to have. As an instructor I prefer being the only person in the room when I’m filming a workout, because I connect on such a deeper level to all my members. Giving myself ‘room’ to visualize people following along, doing my flows with me, really fuels my practice and keeps me going.”

It’s been a long go of it for the 37-year-old former model.

“In the past a lot of built-up anxiety would lead me to binge-eat and purge,” she says. “Today I have much healthier tools to handle all that comes up—meditation, movement and mindful eating are my absolute go-tos.

Having an overall healthier approach has not only made physical differences—like clearing up my acne—but more importantly, it’s allowed me to be at peace with myself.”

At first, there was little peace when she moved to Manhattan. She worked at Tepperberg’s first Marquee club by night and modeled full-time by day. “Never did I think I would end up marrying the owner, and having two beautiful children with this incredible man.”

Her trademarked MWH (Melissa Wood Health) teaching method is “all about slowing down these movements, so that you do not compromise your form, to sculpt beautiful muscle tone throughout your entire body,” she says. “And the best part is that my flows can all be done by using your own body weight. So you can literally work out anytime, anywhere.”

Diet plays a role, too. For her, it is all plant-focused. “I’m a true believer that eating this way helps lessen my anxiety, clears up my skin, and overall, fuels good gut health. I’m moving away from labels, however, so that I no longer feel the need to live inside a box if I decide I want to eat something other than plant-based foods now and then.”

Wood-Tepperberg instructs: “Listen to your body, decide what makes you feel good, and be gentle with yourself in the process.” Asked what her last meal would be, she says: “The healthy vegan pizza my husband has been making me all through the quarantine.” melissawoodhealth.com

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By Steve Garbarino

One doesn’t necessarily muster a comparison to Richard Simmons when you look at Melissa Wood-Tepperberg. Yet the striking New York- and Hamptons-based health and wellness coach happily accepts the analogy when she is faced with it, despite the fact that she does not own striped Dolphin running shorts. “I couldn’t agree more, and this is actually what led me to becoming a teacher,” says Wood-Tepperberg, who is married to nightclub maestro Noah Tepperberg, co-founder of Strategic Hospitality Group/TAO Group (Marquee, TAO, Avenue and LAVO, with outposts located in Manhattan, Las Vegas, Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as internationally).

As a teen, Wood-Tepperberg had chronic acne and a weight problem, which helped prompt an eating disorder. Faced with oft-sadistic trainers, she thought to herself, “Why not try a little gentleness?” Richard Simmons reference, incoming: The hyper-positive TV personality, who suffered bullying for being a chubby kid growing up in New Orleans, has always extolled building his following up, not breaking them down like a Parris Island drill sergeant.

“I had gone down the road of beating myself up in the gym for years...doing hours of cardio and weight training because I did not like my body,” Wood-Tepperberg says from her home in Sag Harbor—where she’s been mostly sequestered and making instructional videos for her sizable following—during round two of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I spoke horribly about myself, and allowed personal trainers and instructors at the time to beat me down mentally as well, telling me I needed to lose inches off my thighs and get rid of my cellulite. I knew there had to be another way. It hit me one day leaving a class where, yet again, I had paid for someone to make me feel badly about myself; it clicked, and I realized that I wanted to become a teacher who made everyone feel incredible in their own skin.

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they did boxing. I give them a fun experience. I keep it so individual. It’s about people doing what’s best for them.

Running their own race. Fighting their own fight.”

Pre-COVID, Prince divided her work life between Gotham Gym’s West Village and Bridgehampton locations: “I was up at five, six days a week, traveling to and from the Hamptons every single weekend. Don’t feel badly for me, not even a little bit. There are great perks with the job.

I got to spar with Bradley Cooper. Justin Theroux talked about me on the Kimmel show. But what I did realize in the pandemic was how I’d been running on pure willpower.

During the first lockdown, I slept for a week straight. Naps are my wellness thing right now.”

In these stressful times, Prince wants her clients to take the low-impact route when it comes to staying in shape.

“Don’t feel that you have to work out six, seven days a week right now. We’re not meant to be inside like this. If you commit to 20 minutes a day, four days a week, you did that. Do whatever works best, based on how your life was before COVID. Big, drastic jumps normally lead people to regressing to where they didn’t want to be to begin with.

Slowly building and progressing is the key to longevity.” gothamgymnyc.com, @iamthebatman__ on Instagram

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“Boxing took a hit during COVID-19,” says Claire Prince, a Gotham Gym personal trainer whose specialty is the combat sport distilled into sweat-drenched workouts. An amateur fighter on her way to the Golden Gloves semifinals before the virus knocked out so much in its path, Prince, 27, has moved her training programs online, now offering a series of one-on-one 45-minute strength-conditioning workout sessions.

She also leads 30-minute HIIT (high-intensity interval training) weekend workouts, free on Instagram Live, set to “a kick-ass playlist” including tunes with Rihanna like “This Is What You Came For” and “Where Have You Been,” and Dua Lipa (“Love Again”). The full-body exercises offer the toning and shaping benefits of boxing, minus the mitts.

“You feel like you’ve hit all the major muscle groups, like with boxing, but you’re not boxing,” Prince says. “I’ve created a fun routine that’s different every time, that’s easy to follow, with modifications in my head, just in case. You never know who you’ll have in a class.”

Prince followed her instincts as a track and basketball star in her hometown of Wellington, Florida, enrolling in John Jay College of Criminal Justice because she knew she wanted to live in New York and pursue law. A college counselor told Prince, then a literature major with a minor in health and physical education, that she needed two more classes to satisfy a second minor in phys ed. Prince signed up for boxing. A new window opened; soon law was out and pugilism became her new passion, and then career. “Boxing exposes a different level of yourself,” she says. “It’s all about conditioning and mental toughness.

Once you experience it, everything else becomes a whole lot less scary.”

Hired by Gotham Gym three years ago, working double time as both trainer and manager, Prince learned the fitness business inside out. Her strategy: Maintain high standards of quality and commitment while giving clients what they want. “I offer the most authentic experience and session that I can, based on what the client’s goal is,” she says. “If someone wants to just hit something hard, I make sure their form is good. If someone genuinely wants to learn boxing, their session will be different. Boxing is repetition, if you’re doing it right—I threw about 5,000 jabs, which is my left punch, before I learned to throw a cross, my right punch.

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Kaur has been teaching the kundalini practice for over 20 years.

Rosante offers virtual training and one-to-one sessions at Wild Strength Club in Napeague.

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KUNDALINI CONNECTOR

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“Kundalini yoga promises to help reprogram your mind and body,” says Siri Rishi Kaur, a self-described “modernday mystic yogini mama” whose clients include fashion designer Donna Karan and fellow designer and artist/ photographer Edward Wilkerson. Founded on the belief that we all have dormant energy gathered at the base of the spine, ready to be released, kundalini yoga, a blend of spiritual and physical practices, is “a complete system of yoga,” Kaur explains. “It’s not asana-based, meaning it’s not just a physical practice. The objective of kundalini is to expand our awareness so we can create a deeper awareness of our subtle energy and activate our intuition.”

Donna Karan says of her teacher: “She’s beautiful inside and out. Siri Rishi reopened the practice of kundalini yoga for me. It’s an amazing way to center yourself and release.

I don’t think people realize how important breath work is— even myself, who has been doing yoga for over 40 years.”

“Kundalini yoga may sound exotic, but it’s really just working with the most powerful creative energy in your body. It’s extremely accessible,” says Kaur, who discovered the practice over two decades ago as a newly divorced mother with a young daughter. “Kundalini was the only thing that kept me balanced and gave me the faith to believe in myself, my vision and my mission. It also helped me to become a great mother.”

Kaur offers private workshops and virtual classes, with seven weekly classes through her Brooklyn studio, Temple143, which opened last year in the heart of BedStuy. Workshops include meditation practices that balance brain hemispheres and shift patterns of the mind, mantra chanting and pranayama breathing exercises to stimulate the circulatory and respiratory systems.

“COVID happening, and pushing me onto the internet, has been evolutionary,” says Kaur. “For years, I used to think, ‘How do you teach beyond the walls?’ I am now finding that people are logging into my Zoom classes from all over. I’ve had people from the West Coast, Africa and Paris all in one class. It has been an incredible journey.”

This month, Temple143 opens up registration for the Magus Portal, a virtual program designed for women who want to practice kundalini yoga on a deeper level. Kaur will also be teaching Saturday classes in the garden at The Baker House 1650 in East Hampton and seasonal workshops at Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts in Amagansett. temple143.com; @siririshi on Instagram

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THE LIBERATOR Fitness philosophy: Even if you’re a performer or an athlete who’s prepping for a role or a season, the work we do to strengthen and mobilize your body should help you live your life to its fullest. The aesthetics, while nice, are just a byproduct. While it makes me so happy to see my clients hitting their aesthetic goals or doing something like pullups for the first time, my greatest joy comes from hearing how they’re waking up every day with more energy and stamina. When you see how strong you can feel, it creates a mental shift that opens up a whole new world to you. Fitness creates freedom in every area of your life.

Morning ritual: It starts the night before, with great sleep.

That’s the bedrock of health and optimal performance.

After that, I wake up, drink a glass of water, meditate, then go for a walk outside. No phone, no music, no podcasts.

Just a quiet walk in the wild. When I get home, I have a coffee from Cashin Coffee Roasters—they’ve got a roasting shop in Montauk, and also sell it at Amber Waves.

Virtual offerings this summer: I just opened Wild Strength Club in Napeague. It’s a private gym where I see clients one-on-one or in very small family units. I also offer private training remotely. It’s something I’ve been doing with clients for years—long before COVID-19. It’s different than most digital fitness programs in that it’s tailored to each individual client, and not a cookie-cutter workout. staywild@wildstrengthclub.com; @adamrosante on Instagram 119

Live music and nutritious postworkout food are featured in McGee’s Montauk classes.

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Fitness philosophy: Each body is different, every day and every hour. Listen to your body, respect where it is in that moment. Be kind to yourself. Fitness, or movement, is not a punishment or a chore. I barely use the word fitness. I believe your “movement” practice should allow the rest of your life to be better and allow you to do the everyday things that you love. We move because it is good for all parts of us: mind, muscles, joints and organs.

Best fitness hack for people working out at home: Don’t overcomplicate it. Pick a no-props, real-time Zoom class; the ones with three to 10 people typically cost the same as the ones with 20 or more. Also, try new teachers. You are no longer bound by location and geography!

Advice for people who are about to give up: It’s different for everyone. Any teacher—or person—who says they have an answer for this is generalizing. The key to helping someone not give up is to understand why they are about to give up. Only then can you actually help them continue, or pivot their goals.

Recipe for success: Our bodies are fascinating. Learn something about them; it will help you move better. Find something that makes you happy more days than not.

The rest will follow. 212pilates.com; @212pilatesstudio on Instagram

Morning ritual: A combination of pranayama (breathing exercise), asana (physical practice), dhyana (meditation) and shaucha (self-purification). I always eat a healthy breakfast (matcha, smoothies, scrambled tofu) to help fuel my day.

Key to motivating clients during lockdown: I’m offering a variety of multisensorial classes both online and offline.

I’m teaching public classes every Sunday at 10AM outside in Montauk on my beautiful lawn off Surfside Avenue.

I rotate local musicians and artists who play live music and exhibit artwork for purchase. Dumbdumb Food Truck delivers yummy, fresh, locally sourced, hand-crafted post-yoga munchies made with quality ingredients.

Health precautions are implemented to ensure everyone’s comfort and safety: BYO mat, props and mask. Virtually, I’m teaching private and public classes, where I also bring in musicians to play live music during class.

Recipe for success: Broadly speaking, well-being and contentment. The specific recipe is varied based on the individual, but I believe the general recipe involves evaluating what is important in your life, removing the obstacles, moving closer to your inner truth, living fearlessly, continuously thriving in personal development, and striving for a healthier lifestyle. ashleymcgee.yoga; @ashleymcgeeyoga on Instagram

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NGO OKAFOR

sets of 15 reps for men; 20 for women), you don’t need a lot of weight to get a great workout.”

As motivating as his personal story is, Okafor finds inspiration in his clients, whether it’s the 64-year-old man who underwent his rigorous program, or Brooke Shields, on whose Instagram Live workout sessions he’s a familiar presence. “Brooke is showing women that they can look amazing at 55. You can be in the best shape of your life at 50 and beyond, and be represented.” iconoclastfitness.com; @catchngo on Instagram

THE TRANSFORMER

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By Ray Rogers

Twenty-eight days to a new, shredded you? If it sounds too good to be true, you haven’t seen the results of Ngo Okafor, one of Manhattan’s top trainers, who has worked with everyone from Jennifer Lopez to Purist ’s current cover star, Brooke Shields, to legions of everyday New Yorkers of all ages who are committed to serious change—and willing to put in the serious work required to achieve it.

Look no further than the man himself for inspiration: He’s the ultimate living transformation story. As a child in Nigeria, Okafor was in and out of hospitals for years with asthma, respiratory issues and bouts of pneumonia. “I used to say I had 360 ribs—you could see them all around my body.”

When he was a teen his ailments mysteriously vanished, and he took to fitness in earnest. After working in IT throughout his 20s, he decided to take up boxing at age 31, and went on to win the Golden Gloves championship two times, launching himself into a full-time career as a fitness trainer.

“I tell all of my clients, if I can do it you can do anything,” he says. “We have one life. We don’t get another one. So whatever it is you want to do, or however you want to look, do it now. Don’t wait till tomorrow, don’t wait for approval from anyone.”

His method for rapid, dramatic body transformations involves “very simple, old-school movements—squats, deadlifts, leg curls, all the stuff everyone knows about— but the difference is the pacing of it.” By employing lower weights, higher reps, some cardio and very little rest in between, “your heart rate stays elevated for the entire workout, so it feels as though you were running or doing cardio for the entire hour, but you’re actually lifting weights,” explains the 46-year-old father of two. “So you’re building muscle and burning fat at the same time.” Thirty to 60 minutes of actual cardio after the daily sessions continue to burn calories—and a carb-restricted diet means the body is burning fat.

Okafor’s Iconoclast Fitness facility is on Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron district, and clients can book individual sessions with a virtual at-home program that requires little to no equipment, and is customized for every level and age.

“The body is a machine that you can use to build itself, with calisthenics, squats, bridges—there’s so much you can do without equipment at home,” Okafor says. Books in backpacks, and bottles of water or detergent also work just fine. “Because my workout is higher rep ranges (three

Okafor helps clients achieve dramatic results in less than a month.

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THE ENERGIZER

How to optimize home workouts: Be playful and start “microdosing”—little hits of focused activity with creativity and curiosity. You can do this with diet (colorful, vibrant, nutrient-dense snacks), movement (whether it’s a few sun salutations or 50 jumping jacks) and mental-fortitude practices (meditation, drawing, flower-arranging, decluttering your home).

Words to live by: As Carl Sagan said, “We’re made of star stuff,” but sometimes the density of our physical form and the intensity of our mental activity can prevent us from feeling that radiance. I encourage people to get out of the way of the free flow of fresh life energy that is trying to enter the body on every inhale. As long as the breath is moving, there is no “giving up.” I also remind people that for something to work, it needs to have an infinite number of judgment-free fresh starts built in.

Recipe for success: Notice how you respond to different foods, movements, and energetic interactions. Be willing to shift. Vibrant health isn’t a chore; if you’re not having fun, adjust your ingredients. erikahalweilyoga.com and tapovana.com; @erikahalweil on Instagram

Fitness philosophy: T​ rue fitness addresses the physical, energetic/emotional and mental aspects of health. My philosophy begins with an honest assessment, and from that, commit to a personalized version of enhancing your life experience through vibrant foods, purposeful movement, deep breaths and gratitude.

Morning ritual: I wake up early, around sunrise, drink two full glasses of water (the first with lemon juice). As the coffee is brewing, I do uddiyana kriya (an energizing, abdominal purification exercise) and then sit upright and take 10 smooth, even breaths. As I breathe, I visualize the fresh life energy, on the breath, traveling through my body.

Best motivator for clients during lockdown: Reminding them that doing just a little bit of practice every day (or a few times each day), even 10 minutes—with gratitude, sincere effort and consistency—is the most powerful gift we can give ourselves.

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Gary centers client workout plans around their personal fitness goals.

Guanilo recommends furniture sliders for a high-intensity home workout.

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Strategic ways you’ve adapted training during lockdown: Momentum Fitness has added a variety of virtual options for our customers. Being a small gym with very few machines, our trainers are all experts at coaching through free weight and body-weight training, along with using any equipment and space available to get a great workout in the comfort of your home.

For those who want a little more oomph in their workouts, we also have small, socially distanced group classes in Central Park, where we bring all the kettlebells, sandbags, ropes and various other equipment, along with all the wipes and sprays needed to ensure a great workout in the sun with proper toys.

Best fitness hack for home workouts: Furniture sliders. It is the one thing we recommend to our virtual clients, as they are inexpensive and can be used for a variety of strength and mobility exercises.

Recipe for success: Make a plan and stick with it. Consistency is key in any aspect of your life. momentumfitnessnyc.com; @nycfitpro on Instagram

Morning rituals: Meditation and journaling. Focusing on my goals for myself and visualizing how my schedule will go for the day. Setting intentions goes a long way in crafting your reality. I use the Inscape app as my meditation tool.

Keys to keeping clients motivated during lockdown: First my team and I remember—and take seriously—our roles as the trusted fitness adviser to our clients.

We focus on why they’re training, at the most basic level: Is it to build resiliency? To overcome a stressor?

Keeping the “why” in mind helps us keep our eye on goals.

Best fitness hack for home workouts: Best at-home fitness hack that I’ve seen so far is definitely a backpack full of books. It’s like a weight vest with handles so you can use it for squats and lunges.

Recipe for success: Have goals. Write them down and review them often. Meditation is the key to staying mentally settled, positive and focused on those goals. bodyspacefitness.com; @kelvingary on Instagram

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Through social media, Pryce works with clients who live outside of NYC.

The key to a successful practice, says Plamondon, is consistency.

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JEN LOBO PLAMONDON

Fitness philosphy: Confidence is the most attractive asset, and whatever it takes for you to live there most days, do it.

Strategy for keeping clients motivated during lockdown: People have been checking in daily on our live workouts on our app, DanceBody Live. Instagram has also been a great tool. When live classes aren’t enough of a touch point, our instructors can schedule virtual private sessions, either to learn the new dances we launch every three months, get personalized form corrections, or connect to their trainer in real time.

Best fitness hack for people working out at home: Create the right space, and make it a priority, not a luxury.

If your body doesn’t feel good, your mind won’t, either.

Essential advice when clients need inspiration: Keep moving: One percent of something is 100 percent better than nothing.

Recipe for success: 2 cups of resilience; 1 cup of ambition; a tablespoon of emotional intelligence; and a dash of humor. dancebody.com; @katia_dancebody and @dancebody on Instagram

Fitness philosophy: At bode ˉ nyc, we believe in the benefits of a consistent hot yoga practice combined with yin yoga, vinyasa, HIIT and meditation, and in the importance of returning to the mat day after day. That’s where real change begins.

Most important training adaptions made during lockdown: We made the decision early on to offer a robust schedule of live-streaming classes, up to six per day, to make practicing more accessible for working and nonworking schedules alike. Many of our clients have become more committed and stronger than ever before.

Best fitness hack for people working out at home: Humidifiers, sweat balms, space heaters and even sauna suits were popular add-ons in our Zoom classes. Now that the weather is warm, those aren’t needed!

Words to live by: Self-care is where the good life begins.

It only takes a few weeks to begin to feel radiant health, which will seep into every part of your life.

Recipe for success: Kindness, focus and determination. ˉenyc.com; @bodenyc on Instagram

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outdoor cycling, which is very special to me as that’s how I started Minardi Training 22 years ago.

The key to working out at home: Get your training done first thing in the morning before the kids are up, before the job, before the daily responsibilities hit. One thing for sure is that stuff happens and unexpected meltdowns, conflicts and so forth will interfere with your training plans. Life has an uncanny way of interrupting great plans, so get your training done first thing.

Most important inspirational advice: I constantly feed the client/athlete with positive reinforcement. As a former professional athlete, I tell my clients that when you quit, you do more than quitting on yourself—you’re quitting on all of us and those around you. I have created a community team environment in my training. We support each other through group dynamics; we’re all in this together.

Recipe for success: Keep it simple and efficient. minarditraining.com; @jimmyminardi on Instagram

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Photograph by Mary Ellen Matthews Fitness philosophy: Get outside and play.

Wellness wake-up routine: I remind myself that every day is a gift, so seize it.

Strategy for training clients during quarantine: There is a big difference between health and fitness. In Minardi Training I tell all my clients you want to be healthy and fit?

You’ve got to get outside in the fresh air. I don’t do virtual workouts, because you get virtual results. I’m at the Minardi Training part of Main Beach in East Hampton every morning at 9:30, offering training with an amazing blend of heart rate, stabilization and mobility. I also do private one-on-one

Minardi at Main Beach, where he trains clients every morning at 9:30AM.

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NO GYM? NO WORRIES. TAKE IT OUTSIDE AND REAP THE BENEFITS OF TIME SPENT ON YOUR OWN IN NATURE.

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The beaches in East Hampton and Montauk are the perfect place for healing body and mind right now. “There’s been so much anxiety in our lives this year that it’s important to get outside and move,” says Dr. Heather Madigan, an avid paddleboarder and surfer. Madigan, a New York physician with internal medicine training, studied the mind/body connection while completing her residency. “What surfing offers that is different than, say, biking, is an element of danger. You have to be present at all times,” Madigan says.

“That, along with the connection to nature, helps us get out of our heads.”

Between treating COVID patients at the hospital and returning to her family, Madigan finds time to take to the water almost every day, a routine she credits nature with preventing her from bringing any suffering home.

“Most people respond to ocean waves,” she says. “There’s something about being out there and the solitude; you’re a different person when you paddle in than you were when you paddled out. The ocean feels so big that it helps us with perspective, and is very calming.”

The Dalai Lama once said that “a calm mind brings inner strength”—something we all need a dose of now. The health perks that come from hanging ten range from core strength and anti-aging to balance and agility. “From a physical standing point, it’s an amazing ab, back and upper-extremity workout, concurrent with gaining agility and core balance,” Madigan says. “You have to be one with the board. If you’re too rigid, you’ll fall off. So surfing helps with posture, mindfulness and center of gravity, which in turn helps you with any other sports and workouts you do.”

FOUR SURF SPOTS TO TRY: Georgica Beach (East Hampton) The consistent surf, and mix of right- and left-handers for short-boarders, make up for the crowds that are often found at this celebrity-laden beach jetty.

Ditch Plains (Montauk) Grab your longboard for this elite surf spot. The decadently long waves and rocky bottom are recommended for experienced surfers only.

Turtle Cove (Montauk) Down the beach from the Ditch, on the tip of Montauk, some enviable swells can be found at Turtle Cove.

Flies (Southampton) Great for beginners, this average surf spot picks up with northwest winds and has a solid long right-hander on the eastern jetty. Its biggest allure? The beach break is steadfastly locals-only.

who now volunteers with the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. Dr. Bedell, who’s also a cancer survivor, tried to walk a little each day when she was in treatment.

Now that she has recovered, she continues to walk two to three times a week for about 2 miles at a stretch. One thing she makes sure to do during those walks is switch off her phone. “There’s accumulating evidence that our brains need a rest from the pressures that our phones and other devices bring to us throughout the day,” Bedell says. “Having the time to allow our minds to wander can improve mood and our ability to focus later.”

An added plus in the time of COVID may be the exposure to nourishing, direct sunlight. “Vitamin D is a notable immune system booster,” says Logie, “and research suggests a lot of individuals with COVID-19 have decreased vitamin D levels.”

Perhaps the best thing about walking outdoors is that it can be a solitary experience, but it doesn’t have to be. “Unlike some other types of exercise, like swimming, walking can provide a chance to be sociable,” says Bedell.

“You can use the time to catch up with your partner or a friend.” If you want to dedicate a few hours to getting your cardio fix while exploring nature, the Hamptons has many walkable trails worth exploring, including the following:

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With most gyms and boutique fitness studios shuttered for the season, you’ve likely taken to working out with your favorite instructors on Zoom or Instagram Live. But who wants to be indoors when the weather is divine and you’re surrounded by natural beauty? It’s time to shut that laptop, lace up your shoes and head outdoors for a long stroll.

“Walking outside in nature not only helps oxygenate the lungs and tissues, it can also have a meditative effect,” says Jamie Logie, a certified personal trainer, health and wellness coach, and author of Taking Back Your Health.

Yes, you can walk on a treadmill at home if you so choose. But walking outdoors has added rewards: “Your mind becomes more alert, and it has to process the ever-changing environment,” says Logie. “Not to mention the fresh air you’re getting.”

The health benefits of walking have been welldocumented. “They include improved memory, lowered blood pressure and overall improved mortality,” says Jane Bedell, MD, a retired internist and public health physician

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RED CREEK PARK (HAMPTON BAYS) While strolling this 3.8-mile loop, be on the lookout for red-tailed hawks, blue herons and monarch butterflies flitting among the oak and maple trees.

SAMMY’S BEACH (EAST HAMPTON) On this 2-mile trek, take in views of Three Mile Harbor and Gardiners Bay. The first half of the walk is on a marsh where you’re likely to spot ospreys and egrets. You’ll return along a beach rife with terns and plovers.

SHADMOOR STATE PARK (MONTAUK) This 4-mile bluff walk overlooking the Atlantic eventually leads to the surfer hangout Ditch Plains. On the way back, you’ll spot the “Seven Sisters” homes—shingle-style residences designed by Stanford White that are now considered a part of architectural history.

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learning to swim,” says Dobrica. “Every time young children reach a milestone in learning to swim—like putting their face in the water, or overcoming their fear of jumping in— they gain a sense of accomplishment. Children who start learning to swim as babies have a much smoother, faster and fun experience” Whether you religiously swim laps or just go in for a dip, water is good therapy. “Even five minutes of swimming,” says Dobrica, “will give you a boost of energy and help you forget about life’s problems for a little while.”

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The coronavirus’ primary form of transmission is through airborne particles, so now is an especially good time to go underwater. “There is no evidence that suggests that the coronavirus can spread through swimming pool water,” says ENT and Allergy Associates’ Jason Abramowitz, MD. “That, plus the salt concentration of a swimming pool makes transmission of the virus unlikely in the water—this is supported by current data.”

An aerobic exercise that tones muscle and improves flexibility, swimming places minimal stress on the joints.

This lifesaving skill helps with mental health—especially depression and anxiety—and has been known to improve asthma and other bronchial conditions. “Salt water can absolutely have a positive impact on your sinuses,” says Abramowitz. “Our body’s natural fluid has some salt in it, and saline is often used to rinse the nose and throat. The salt concentration in swimming pools and the ocean is typically higher than that of the body. While this concentration of salt water can help decrease swelling in the nose, as it pulls fluid from the lining, be aware that very high salt concentrations in the nose can dry or irritate it.”

Breath control and meditative calming are among swimming’s considerable benefits. “Because of its repetitive nature, swimming can have a great impact on the mind.

Some swimmers find that focusing on the rhythm of their stroke helps them clear their head and relieve stress,” says Gilda Dobrica, a private swim instructor and founder of PROSWIM NYC, which offers private classes in swimming to children in New York City and the Hamptons.

“Babies as young as 6 months old are ready to begin

SOME GREAT LOCAL SPOTS TO TEST THE WATERS:

MONTAUK DOWNS STATE PARK A public pool with three lap lanes and a wading pool for children, adjacent to the golf course. With showers and restroom facilities for après-swim.

50 South Fairview Ave., Montauk BIG FRESH POND One of the largest freshwater lakes on Long Island offers 150 feet of waterfront, where many locals have learned to swim. Protected by the Nature Conservancy, this is an ideal spot for swimming and fishing.

Enter at Emma Rose Elliston Memorial Park, 40 Millstone Brook Rd., Southampton In Amagansett, both INDIAN WELLS BEACH and ATLANTIC AVENUE BEACH have concession stands (and Indian Wells also has a volleyball area).

DITCH PLAINS BEACH At this surfer’s paradise, lifeguards are on duty, and there’s a hiking trail to explore. Montauk Peninsula, Montauk COOPERS BEACH With chairs and umbrellas for rent, and Henri, a concession stand (think vegan quinoa bowls and lobster rolls), Coopers, often voted one of the most beautiful beaches in the country, hosts drive-in movies and clambakes. 268 Meadow Lane, Southampton.

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THE INS AND OUTS OF CANCEL CULTURE @taylor_melesh

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Influencer Jenna Marbles amassed 20 million followers to her YouTube channel, but despite this impressive success, in June she quit the platform amid a slew of disapproval. The actor and comedian, 33, whose real name is Jenna Mourey, faced mounting criticism for offensive YouTube videos from her past. Viewers charged that one video was misogynistic—slutshaming girls who slept with multiple guys. In a second video, Marbles purportedly donned blackface and dressed up as rapper Nicki Minaj and in yet another, she mocked Asians.

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over 20 million YouTube followers.)

Issuing an apology is the first line of rebuilding, but as Lee’s experience illustrates, it doesn’t always work.

Cancelers deemed her three apologies all insincere.

Kat Von D, the tattoo artist and reality show star, lost thousands of followers as a result of her saying she planned on raising a “vegan child, without vaccinations” (she later said she was not anti-vax) and an eyeliner that some followers said was a rip-off because it deliberately packaged the eyeliner to look larger than it really was.

For other canceled stars, the number of followers doesn’t notably shrink, but the brand takes a qualitative hit when canceled. They lose cachet. This is what happened when Kylie Jenner’s products and Kylie herself were criticized.

Some followers harped about a face-wash demonstration video by Jenner: How can we buy a face wash from someone who doesn’t even know how to use the product properly? Her credibility was being called into question.

And would there be a #metoo movement without cancel culture? Millions of women have taken to the internet with the hashtag, many of them calling for a reckoning on powerful men accused of being alleged sexual predators and sexual harassers. The speed and broadness of #metoo accusations upended public support for the accused, ranging from actors, music producers and news journalists to politicians, business executives and doctors. Harvey Weinstein emerged as its dubious poster boy; the list is long, including players such as Bill O’Reilly, Kevin Spacey, Travis Kalanick, who stepped down as CEO of Uber in 2017, Matt Lauer, Roger Ailes, Ryan Adams, Russell Simmons, Dr. Dre, Tony Robbins, Les Moonves, Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Larry Nassar, the convicted gymnastics doctor.

In July, a group of academics issued an extraordinary epistle signed by more than 130 Ivy League educators and luminaries like Wynton Marsalis, Gloria Steinem, J.K Rowling and Malcolm Gladwell decrying what they described as “an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism…”

While they made no mention of canceling, their aim was clear. Rowling herself was caught in the cancellation crosshairs about her position on trans people. The letter was strident, finger-wagging and maybe even a little amusing. A forceful tenet of cancel culture is speaking truth to power. Giving voice to the voiceless. Signatories of this letter are among society’s most powerful.

In a move that should surprise no one, an opposing group of writers and academics emerged with its own letter supporting cancel culture.

Cancel culture is neither all good nor all bad. “Cancel culture is popular justice,” says Van Susteren. “You

An early influencer who’d been on YouTube since 2010, Marbles apologized for the racist and sexist videos. She blocked the videos, so they can no longer be viewed and she issued a tearful apology to her followers. “It’s not OK,” she said. “It’s shameful. It’s awful. I wish it wasn’t part of my past. I don’t want to put anything out in the world that’s gonna hurt anybody,” she sobbed in her video farewell to YouTube.

Clearly, she’s remorseful. Yet, Marbles remains canceled.

Marbles knows as well as anyone, cancel culture can be particularly unforgiving.

And in our increasingly connected, polarized and diversified society, cancel culture is ubiquitous. But is it sometimes going too fast, as well as too far? Are we helping society while hurting individuals?

“It’s a slippery slope,” says Dr. Lise Van Susteren, MD, a psychiatrist who co-authored the book Emotional Inflammation (Sounds True Publishers). in response to a climate where emotional stressors have been ratcheted up, cancel culture is just one result of an on-edge social environment. “The more emotional inflammation you have, the more passion, the more cancel culture,” she observes.

But what exactly is cancel culture? It can be confusing.

Though it may owe a debt in part to television shows being canceled by popular outcry, there’s more to it.

It’s the mass act of cutting off support for a person or brand to punish them for hurtful or offensive behavior.

Think of it like a swift and impassioned boycott. “It’s no different,” says Umindi Francis, whose global brand consulting firm, UFCG, represents personalities and corporations. “I see a need for it, but I also don’t like it because mental health has become so important, and no one should be canceled.”

Strictly speaking, anyone can be canceled anywhere.

It’s impossible, however, to uncouple cancel culture from the internet. Social media is the fuel of canceling, which first garnered attention years ago as a term and hashtag used on Twitter by African Americans.

Canceling is now rife in the beauty industry, where personalities and brands are canceled and seemingly uncanceled with the frequency of rain as new cosmetics— or their creators—are deemed unworthy or deceptive.

Popular beauty personality Laura Lee reportedly lost more than 500,000 followers in 2018 due to past racist Tweets, with no comeback in sight. James Charles reportedly went from 16 million to about 13 million followers after a feud with another beauty maven, Tati Westbrook, which was sparked by his sponsorship of a line of hair vitamins that rivaled her own. (There were apologies and statements issued all around and today he has bounced back with 132

amygdala and, in turn, our fight-or-flight response, rather than our reasoning response, or what Van Susteren calls “our situation room” in the brain’s frontal lobe, where we resolve problems thoughtfully and with empathy. “It worries me when we reduce complex ideas to simple solutions,” explains Van Susteren, “because the world is not a simple place.”

From boycotts to hit lists, the impetus behind cancel culture is not new. “Unions did it too,” notes communications expert Elyse Feldman.

“Unions said, ‘Don’t buy this product because of unfair labor practices, unfair salaries.’ Before the internet you couldn’t have the impact because the reach wasn’t there. What is cancel culture without the internet? It’s demonstrations.”

All our experts agreed cancel culture is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Kendra Bracken-Ferguson, founder of BrainTrust, a global brand management and representation agency, has been at the forefront of influencer and digital marketing since her days at Ralph Lauren over a decade ago. She says the past few months have seen an increase in cancel culture across the board.

“Since cancel culture is fueled by a group mentality that empowers the community—whether right or wrong— to disempower a single person or company, it will unfortunately always exist,” she explains.

While the term hasn’t made its way into corporate conference rooms, it’s never far from the minds of any crisis-communication practitioner.

“Is there a way you can get ahead of cancel culture?

It’s a question every brand has to ask,’’ says Feldman.

“You don’t want to wake up one day and find your company has no product because you did nothing.”

Adds Francis: “No matter what you do, until you remedy the problem you have, that’s where you’ll be. Some companies have a poor value system and they know it.”

But there may be a gentler antidote, the kind that nukes only the bad cells of the organism and preserves the good. “It’s accountability culture, not cancel culture,” says Lindsay Peoples Wagner, editor in chief of Teen Vogue, speaking at a closed Zoom town hall for a new coalition called Black in Fashion Council, which she co-founded to work with corporations for the promotion of diversity, inclusion and accountability in the fashion and beauty industries.

Some intractable problems and unrepentant players will need a blend of both, and under appropriate circumstances there is value in canceling’s bracing cold-water-in-the-face affect and accountability’s arms-outstretched approach.

Constance C.R. White is the author of How To Slay (Rizzoli).

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EMOTIONAL INFLAMMATION MAY FOMENT CANCEL CULTURE BY REDUCING OUR ABILITY TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS WITH EMPATHY.

have very decisive, powerful action that bypasses the entrenched interests.”

“I’m reminded of Lucretius in the town square,” she says, referencing the Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus.

Lucretius, as he’s called, is credited with the Latin saying “quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum,” popularly translated into “one man’s meat is another man’s poison.”

“I like it when it’s something I support. If the issue is not one you embrace, then it’s your poison,” says Van Susteren. “You have this enormous polarization.”

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THE PUSH AND PULL BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS AND MEGA-DEVELOPERS IS TYPICAL OF EVERY AREA IN THE HAMPTONS. IN CHOICE WATERFRONT SUBDIVISIONS OF SAG HARBOR KNOWN AS SANS, THE STAKES—AN IMPORTANT BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY TO PRESERVE—ARE THAT MUCH HIGHER.

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$1,000; inland, $750. Terry’s sister, Amaza Lee Meredith, a prominent Virginia architect and recognized as the first African American female architect in America, designed at least two residences. By the post-Harlem Renaissance 1950s, Black professionals from NYC built houses, raised families and created a vacation community that attracted the likes of Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes and others—for cocktails, barbecues, soirees, jazz; the community rocked.

Even before: Legend has it, evidenced by a trap door, St. David AME Zion Church had been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Key SANS residents included Edward R. Dudley, a lawyer, judge and ambassador to Liberia under President Truman, the first African American ambassador in the U.S. Dudley had been instrumental in civil rights legislation, along with William Pickens, a founder of the NAACP. Busloads from the area marched on Washington.

Still, when Renée V. H. Simons, a Sag Harbor Hills resident since 2003 and president of the SANS organization, attempted to preserve its legacy by establishing historic district landmarking, she received support from residents, but Sag Harbor authorities declined funding. Fearing the loss of history in the generational changeover of property, “We should be doing more to preserve an African American community in a historic time,” she says. “African Americans carved out their own communities, found a spot that was safe, and through their own private financing, built homes. In those days, African Americans were being redlined out of most areas; banks would not make loans, not even to GIs.” The effort to designate SANS as a historic district started in 1994, Simons points out. The village considered the possibility, recognizing an expansion that included communities adjacent to Eastville. A document exists stating that areas with cultural significance developed in the Jim Crow era should be revisited. “The village should have come back within five years and extended its historic-district designation,” says Simons, “and for whatever reason it never happened. Part of my motivation was to complete this process.”

A few people, aware of her concerns about retaining the integrity of the community, said, ‘Oh Renée, you just did it because you hated developers grabbing for profits only. How can we save this district?’ A few people in the village said, ‘There’s nothing here.’ I said, ‘There is.’ They said, ‘You’re on your own.’ We fundraised and researched seeking historic support.”

Simons cited several newspapers reporting that corporate America is buying up houses en masse with the express purpose to rent, not for people to have individual

Depicting his salad days in 1985, when Sag Harbor was not yet a “Hampton,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead in his 2009 novel, Sag Harbor, describes the phenomenon of being “out,” that is, out East for the season “in our summer world”: Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah Subdivisions (SANS), choice waterfront subdivisions of Sag Harbor, purchased by African Americans since the late ’40s. From childhood, his protagonist, Benji, knew this leafy area with summer homes and trappings of middle-class life, paradoxically bougie (“we were Black boys with beach houses”), existed off in the margins, outside the map of Sag Harbor as illustrated in Guide to Sag Harbor: Landmarks, Homes & History, a book in his parents’ living room.

But then, precocious as Huck Finn, and privileged as Benji was, he knew American history does not include everyone. As he roamed free, from yard to unfenced yard, he asked, “Will they allow us to have this?” Benji lands a job at the village ice cream shop, and a first kiss. But as he and his posse engage in the usual adolescent mischief, he’s wise to where the exits are, “in case something racial went down.” After Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, in our Black Lives Matter era, the words send chills.

Since July 2019, SANS has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, following its March 2019 addition to the State Register of Historic Places. Only 2 percent of the 95,000 listings on the national registry for districts are focused on African American historic entries, and SANS is one. In terms of Hamptons mega-development, the distinction may not have much impact on the typical controversies at play: the character of neighborhoods vs. the interests of investors and profiteers. Painter and graphic designer Reynold Ruffins (a founder of Push Pin Studios in 1954 with Milton Glaser) built his summer house in Ninevah in the late 1950s “because there were no alternatives for Blacks,” he says. “It turned out to be the most beautiful place in the world.” Observing buyers coming because “they could get a good deal,” he said recently on the phone, “wealth is a bit smothering for people who feel part of the place.”

One in a big picture of middle-class Black-owned American beach communities established during the restrictions of the Jim Crow era (places such as Highland Beach, Maryland; Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard; and Atlantic Beach, South Carolina), SANS has a rich backstory.

Maude Terry, a Brooklyn school teacher in the 1940s, convinced a landowner to sell a 20-acre undeveloped parcel between Hampton Street and Gardiner’s Bay as a private summer community for Black families, and played a key role in finding buyers and helping them finance mortgages. By 1948, the price of bayfront lots was 136

It is believed that St. David AME Zion Church was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Vintage images from SANS, which was first established as a middle-class Black community during the Jim Crow era.

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Poet Langston Hughes often visited historian William Pickens in Sag Harbor.

Sag Harbor, the code already exists governing scale and character; they have to do a better job at enforcement.

‘Local historic district’ for SANS would be another layer of oversight and management.”

SANS is the opposite of Hilton Head Island, an image of development that has lost its soul by losing connection to the cultural history of the Gullah, the once-enslaved people who had created homes there, and by being a transient summer-rental destination, where few actually live. More in the line of the historic campground on Martha’s Vineyard, SANS is still a community. Says Simons: “Whether or not the original owners are there, people treasure it and ask about the history.”

Legacy assured, SANS is on the map.

homes that they own. “Corporations see this as a new horizon. Instead of stocks, the new paradigm is for home ownership going to corporations. Home ownership was a primary way for middle-income people to amass wealth.

That option is being removed for individual families.”

And yet, Simons says: “Millennials are buying homes here, fixing up mom’s house, inviting friends to consider ownership of this property.” Now, in pandemic mode, “People are rethinking what’s important. People who want a sense of community should have those options. The lifestyle here is enviable. We are trying to figure out how to get people to hold on to their homes. In the short term, we have the pride of having the national and state historic district registries.”

When asked whether the registry guarantees that a buyer will not be able to build a 25-bedroom mansion to an inch of its border, Simons replies, “The local registry can prevent a person from maxing out the property. In

Regina Weinreich, author of Kerouac’s Spontaneous Poetics and co-producer/director of Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider, lives in Montauk.

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A guide to socially distanced art, education and activism in the Hamptons.

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AUGUST 17 Ladies of Liberty: 100 Years Strong This virtual concert celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage and the history of women’s rights in America. Award-winning cabaret artist Valerie diLorenzo takes audiences on a musical journey from the origins of the civil rights movement through contemporary feminist movements such as #metoo.

Free. Register online for Zoom link. rogersmemorial. librarycalendar.com AUGUST 17 Detoxification Diets With Dana Dragone Nutritional consultant Dana Dragone of Root Wellness Co. shares practical strategies for purifying the

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Crowd gathering at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington in I Am Not Your Negro, to be screened at Parrish Art Museum’s Outdoor Black Film Festival.

body, protecting ourselves from environmental toxins and developing healthier lifestyle practices to benefit the well-being of ourselves and the planet. Free. Zoom link will be sent out 15 minutes before the event to registered attendees; easthamptonlibrary.org AUGUST 20 Monarch Butterflies Find Sanctuary at Halsey House Witness the beauty of monarch butterflies during their annual migration from Canada and the Northeast United States to Mexico.

Monarch Watch communications coordinator Angie Babbitt teaches attendees about the vital role these creatures play in our ecosystem, and ways we can protect the future of the species. Free. Attend via Zoom, Southampton History Museum, 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton; southamptonhistory.org

AUGUST 25 Hummingbirds in Your Garden Cultivate an optimal habitat for hummingbirds by providing nectar from native botanicals and sugar feeders. Participants will learn more about the tiny pollinators through action photography. Free. Zoom link will be sent out 15 minutes before the event to registered attendees; easthamptonlibrary.org SEPTEMBER 9 Maidstone Club Golf Outing Play a round on the historic, meticulously maintained grounds of the Maidstone Club. The afternoon shotgun tournament will conclude with dinner, a cocktail reception and award ceremony celebrating the top golfers of the day. $1,100 per player. 50 Old Beach Lane, East Hampton; guildhall.org/events 140

Following the success of their July drive-in movie series, which included classics like The Wizard of Oz and The Parent Trap, The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will return—virtually—from October 8–14. Like in years past, audiences can enjoy an array of forward-thinking feature and short films created by talent from around the world, each eligible for cash awards of up to $200K. Tune in for post-screening Q&A sessions, educational panels, and one-on-one conversations with A-list talents like co-chair Alec Baldwin.

HIFF’s progressive philosophy has always shone through in their curated selection of films that promote diversity (HIFF premiered the documentary about the local Shinnecock Indians, Conscience Point, and was an early champion of the Oscar-winning Moonlight).

Last year, HIFF opened and closed the festival with thought-provoking films like Just Mercy, Waves and Clemency, starring Academy Award-winning actress Alfre Woodard, all of which address issues of race and class. HIFF has more big plans for 2021, with virtual classes, screenings and film camps in the works for cinephiles across the East End. Founder passes will be available from August 24– September 5. More passes to be announced on September 8, and individual tickets will be available from September 27. hamptonsfilm.org

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AUGUST 14 & AUGUST 21 Outdoor Black Film Festival The Parrish Art Museum hosts a curated lineup of documentaries depicting the historic and modern antiracism movements.

Screenings include ’63 Boycott, an account of the 1963 youth protests against school segregation, and I Am Not Your Negro, which chronicles the lives of James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Tickets $10 museum members, $20 nonmembers. Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Hwy., Water Mill; parrishart.org

RACE FOR THE CAUSE

Celebrating the achievements of the Ellen Hermanson Foundation on the 25th anniversary of Ellen’s Run. BY JULIA SZABO

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A $25 donation to the Ellen Hermanson Foundation supports essential health care resources for breast cancer patients.

and showing up at the starting line. I had no idea what goes into producing a run.” Three months later, in August 1996, the starting gun fired as more than 500 Hamptonites began competing at Ratner’s tribute to her sister: the very first Ellen’s Run, which has since grown to one thousand participants. Although not a runner herself (“My sister was a klutz,” Ratner recalls with a laugh), Ellen often cheered on her athletic sibling. “She was an extraordinary advocate for women, especially women with breast cancer.”

The battle against cancer is an ultramarathon, so the foundation created in Hermanson’s honor goes the distance, supporting cancer warriors long after the euphoria of “runner’s high” fades. The year-round program Ellen’s Well is a wonderfully thoughtful resource that offers free individual, group, couple and family therapy; mindfulness-based stress reduction, boxing and Reiki; plus free mammograms, MRIs and transportation assistance to get patients to their medical appointments. Nobody is turned away for lack of insurance.

Among the foundation’s high-profile supporters—who all rallied for the 25th Summer Gala, celebrated last month (how else?) virtually—are Hillary Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Fran Drescher, Toby and Itzhak Perlman, Kristen Dahlgren, and Dr. Larry Norton of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “There were so many times when I could have used Ellen’s physical presence in my life, to help me through stuff,” Ratner concludes. “With this run, it’s as if she’s with me. My sister’s life mattered, and still matters, beyond the 42 years she lived, because of what we’re able to do in her name.” ellenhermanson.org

With COVID-19 virtualizing gatherings large and small, from work meetings to weddings, not-for-profit groups must devise innovative ways to keep their followers connected, safely and securely. The Ellen Hermanson Foundation gives creative new meaning to “social distancing” by continuing the annual Ellen’s Run 5K, a beloved Hamptons fundraising tradition. Participants in this year’s competition are invited to “Chart Your Own Course,” supporting the race to beat breast cancer by running or walking 3.1 miles anytime, anywhere. Instead of pounding one path on a designated morning with 999 other runners, follow your solo circuit between Sunday, August 16 and Monday, August 31—or take it easy by spreading out your fun run over those days.

The Ellen Hermanson Foundation is committed to empowering people affected by breast cancer, helping patients and their families cope with the physical and emotional aspects of the disease, and providing access to state-of-the-art care at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Ellen Hermanson Breast Center. Athletes may take a rest before an endurance run, but “breast cancer doesn’t stop because we’re in the middle of a pandemic, and neither will we,” promises the group’s founder and president, Julie Ratner, a seasoned marathoner and elder sister of the foundation’s namesake, an intrepid journalist, activist and cancer warrior who passed away at age 42 in 1995.

The following year, Ratner—who has completed races in London and New York City—was speaking about her sister with a friend, who said, “‘You need to honor her’—but I didn’t know what to do, until my friend added, ‘You run marathons.’ All I knew was signing up, getting my number 141

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A by-the-numbers look at Dr. Anthony Fauci, immunologist, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a public spokesperson in the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

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The age Fauci joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as a clinical associate, before being promoted to chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation in 1980.

Dr. Fauci has advised six presidents on the HIV/AIDS health crisis, and played a key role in developing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

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Dr. Anthony Fauci in May 1993, receiving an honorary degree from Bates College

“I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

I’ve tried to accomplish this goal by choosing a life of public service. I am a physician and a scientist confronting the challenge of infectious diseases. I consider my job a gift. It allows me to try and help alleviate the suffering of humankind.”

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He has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.

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Dr. Fauci’s family ran a pharmacy on 83rd Street in Brooklyn, New York. Fauci delivered prescriptions from the time he was old enough to ride a bike.

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universities have awarded Dr. Fauci honorary degrees, including Northwestern and Duke.

The year Anthony Stephen Fauci was born on December 24 in Brooklyn, New York.

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decisions that complicate your life and keep you from realizing the dreams your heart longs for.

How do we cultivate self-love? First, we must practice radical honesty. You must ask yourself what it is you truly desire out of life, and reach for it. Work for it. Now, I don’t mean a goal as superficial as “I want 1 million dollars.” You must ask yourself, what does the million dollars represent to you? Security? Stability? The ability to purchase a home you can raise your family in? Not having to worry about paying bills? Well, your true goal, then, is to feel secure, stable and safe, so now it rests within the realm of your ability to create that life for yourself as best you can, barring oppressive systems outside of your control.

Second, you must practice accountability.

Identifying your own harmful habits takes work, and can trigger a downward spiral. So while you practice accountability, you must simultaneously exercise selfforgiveness. This is an integral aspect of self-love. Give yourself grace, and to paraphrase Maya Angelou, now that you know better, do better. Seek out people, relationships, work environments, goals and abodes that reflect the values most important to you.

When I look at my life now, it is one filled with purpose, passion, self-forgiveness and growth. My relationships have improved immensely, my goals are within reach, and the sense of peace and surety which pervades my thoughts has never been so strong. Self-love takes work.

But as you cultivate it, you also betray yourself less, and your life choices will reflect this. With changed thinking, you will be propelled into the life you have always dreamt of—the life you deserve.

“Life is always working out in your favor.” These words, uttered ages ago by a well-meaning friend, struck me like an open palm to the face. At the time, when I looked at my life, I felt that nothing I achieved had come about favorably, or easily: Everything had come about with grit, after Herculean amounts of hard work, sacrifice and pain.

This feeling of powerlessness led to me constantly overworking, entertaining toxic situations, selling myself short, and listening to the opinions of others over my own intuition. Decisions were made out of fear, and these fear-based choices led to draining, unsatisfying situations. So, after much reflection on these wise words, I realized the issue with my life was not actually my life itself—the issue was my perspective on it, my feelings of powerlessness, and my choices.

My own thinking was betraying me.

There is immense power in decision-making: Our decisions—how and with whom we choose to invest our time—ultimately steer the direction of our lives. If we desire harmonious lives of peace, fulfillment and—the most ethereal, largely unattainable goal of them all— happiness, then we must first focus on growth and self-love.

But what really is selflove? These days, the term has been bastardized and mass-marketed to mean buying expensive products, taking bubble baths, eating chocolate and guzzling down Champagne. It has also been twisted to imply caring for only oneself. I agree with neither concept.

If your mind is not in a state of growth, you will continue to make poor

Practice radical honesty and accountability to create a positive self-image.

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