There was surf somewhere from County Kerry to County Donegal, if only they could find it.
The New York Times
Read MoreChasing Waves on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way →
Sketches for the eventual hit cartoon, SpongeBob Squarepants
The Billion-Dollar Sketchbook
We knew Steve as immensely industrious and creative. He’d made an ingenious comic book about marine life in a tidepool, as an educational aid, when he taught at the Ocean Institute at Dana Point. He’d won festival awards for two films he’d made as a grad student at CalArts. His drawings were loose, evocative, fun. He had a quick, easy, un-cynical sense of humor. But it’s fair to say that the group around that campfire was generally confident that while Steve, then 32, would likely have a successful career as a cartoonist and filmmaker, his sponge would remain in the pages of that sketchbook.
— The Surfer’s Journal
Read MoreTaos Had History and Mystique, but Few Skiers. Can a New Owner Change That? →
The inbounds, open-terrain avalanche deaths underscored a fundamental challenge for rugged ski mountains like the Taos Ski Valley: they are meccas for adventure skiing, which is inherently dangerous. We pray for deep snow, but on some slopes, under certain conditions it can kill. What is a resort’s risk tolerance; and what is ours?
The New York Times
Read MoreThe Slipstream of a Star: Vonn Says Goodbye to Racing After Storied Career →
in Ski Racing, sports
Vonn’s farewell races were classic Lindsey Vonn: pedal-to-the-metal power skiing. “I skied with all my heart,” she said at the finish, a line she might well have used every race of her life.
Ski Racing
When SpongeBob SquarePants Was Just a Sketch on a Beach in Baja →
When he created “SpongeBob SquarePants,” Stephen Hillenburg wanted simple stories taken from real-life experiences and a show with a moral code that reflected earnest sensibilities.
The New Yorker
Read MoreShiffrin 2.0 Steps In To the Spotlight →
in Ski Racing, sports
Shiffrin has been a sparkling figure at the summit of her sport for several years now. But in the run-up to the 2018 winter Olympics and through this summer, her star has shone like never before. Major stardom is now a huge part of her job.
Ski Racing
Read MoreDown the Drain →
No one is super eager to potty-talk about sewage and human waste. But the dirty, filthy truth is that it’s a huge pollution problem, ruining our waters, and we need to face it now.
End Magazine
Read MoreHunger in the Hamptons →
in EAST, Long Island
Why do thousands of our neighbors rely on food pantries, staffed mainly by volunteers, to make it through the week? And what are we going to do about it?
EAST
Read MoreTurn to the Sun →
Solar energy isn’t just good for the planet (and the homeowner’s reputation as an altruist). Today it makes real financial sense — and can have a bold impact on domestic aesthetics, too.
End Magazine
Read MoreTrouble on the Half Shell →
Oyster farming is a wonderful thing—for the environment, for foodies, for small-scale entrepreneurs. But what happens when the government grants aquaculture leases smack-dab where folks have been boating for hundreds of years?
EAST
Read MoreSchleper’s Amazing Journey →
in Ski Racing
“I was having a lot of fun,” she said in a recent interview from her 2018 winter home in northern Italy, “but I wanted to get back to racing at the highest level again.” Rejoining the U.S. team wasn’t an option, but helping build a Mexican team was.
Ski Racing
Read MoreIgor the American →
in Ski Racing, sports
Igor immediately had huge ideas for our Stowe program, and when he arrived he let loose with criticisms and frustrations — and then went to work.
Ski Racing
Read MorePublic conversation with Chef Colin Ambrose at the 2018 Food Lab Conference →
The noted East End chef shares stories from his long and amusing road to finding meaning and purpose as a culinary impresario.
Click here: Colin Ambrose and Biddle Duke, live at Southampton College
Whale Off! →
When I came along a year ago with a sketch of an idea to start a magazine for The Star — beautiful, authentic, local (in short, The Star in stunning pictures and carefully edited words) — I might as well have said: "Whale off!"
EAST
Read MoreSwimming With Mom →
Swimming, especially in the ocean, is a powerful thread in our lives. We remember places from the swimming — how cold or rough it was, how well we had handled it, how we had come to find a particularly fine beach or pool.
East Hampton Star
Read MoreBike Accident Dredges Up Memories of Tragedy →
in VT Digger
I’d never seen the police work about the crash on April 29, 1995, that killed my dad, partly because my mother asked me not to. Dad was gone, she would say, so what was the point? I never pressed it.
Vermont Digger
Read MoreDuke Era Ends at Stowe Reporter →
in VT Digger
Biddle Duke, who has owned and run the Stowe Reporter publishing company since 1998, is stepping down as publisher and becoming a minority owner of the company. His last day as publisher is Dec. 18. He came to the Reporter from the Evening Post Publishing Co. in South Carolina, where he had worked as a manager, editor and reporter, and before that as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Argentina, New Mexico and New York.
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