East Magazine

Kym Fulmer intentionally blurs the line between hands-on and digital manipulation, which is how she went about creating this month’s magazine cover. “I like to do work that is figurative and recognizable but also stylish and fun,” she says when asked to describe her style. “Whimsical is overused — but maybe a little childlike? Technically good, neat and clean and simple.”

You say ceviche, I say crudo . . . but what about aguachile, poke, and tartare? Bountiful are the ways to prepare uncooked fish from the briny depths of Long Island waters. Laura Donnelly takes it beyond tuna and offers a few gorgeously simple summer recipes.

Skaters these days, they’re spoiled for choice. It wasn’t so in 1977, when skateboarding — like other youth subcultures, from punk on the Bowery to DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx — was still very much D.I.Y. As The Star reported on August 11 of that year, boarders on the East End really only had two destinations when they wanted to ride: “unused swimming pools” and “smooth, paved hills” like that at Mako Lane, down which the blond-haired boys of summer would bomb on their Santa Cruzes, scaring the bejeezus out of the grownups.

The best table in the Hamptons isn’t a table, it’s your lap. Make a reservation with friends for bare feet in the sand, sunset over the bay, and drinks in a jelly jar. Nina Dohanos shares a few picnic-paradise memories and tips.

July feels like the right moment for a little disorderly conduct, maybe a few improprieties. Rowdy summers, dontcha know, are an East End tradition.

Things can get tense out there, with SO many TERRIBLY Important People jostling for elbow room in parking lots and expostulating on why they deserve the table with the sunset view. Here, THEN, are a few much-needed tips on public etiquette.

William Norwich — chronicler of society, appreciator of beauty — clocks the changes on the South Fork.

Heather Rose Rauscher of Wainscott designs a high-style home-and-fashion line based on gorgeous mash-up prints.

A payphone still stands in East Hampton, behind Town Hall on Pantigo Road. Pick up the receiver and you’ll get an actual, albeit staticky, dial tone. Got your quarters ready? Thanks to 20-plus years of inflation, you’ll need two. A working payphone, in 2023 — is this really happening?

Bruce Cullum may not be the very last rabbit hunter on the East End, but he’s one of very few that remain. A century ago, rabbit hunting was common.

Don’t happen to own a luxury power lobster yacht or a Clyde-built wooden ketch? Never fear. There are so many fun ways for the public to get out on the water — party boats for everyone!

Summer is fleeting and life is short. Grab the sweetness of the moment by indulging in farm-fresh berries. Eat them at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In salads and margaritas and barbecue sauce. Ku-plink, ku-plunk them on everything.