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I ll admit, I had fantasies of inviting James Cuomo the cantankerous Facebook Hamptons Douche Spotter to dine with me at the Hampton Social, a restaurant playing into the vibe of the affluent seaside destination on Long Island. I mean, the man has documented countless incidents of summertime asshattery committed by entitled twats in every neighborhood from Southampton to Montauk, and he s been doing it since 2013: fat guys wearing tiny Speedos and fur coats inside restaurants, running up huge tabs and leaving zero tip; oblivious women seating their tiny dogs in highchairs; boneheaded drivers double-parked, sometimes perpendicularly.
I had hopes but, sadly, no such contemptible behavior was observed at this whitewashed hotspot that took over the old Tommy Bahama space at Pointe Orlando. What a letdown. Oh sure, the place looks like the setting of a J. Crew catalog photoshoot, and wannabes get a kick posing in front of the Instagram wall, but there s not much else to snee
The quality of wood and woodwork in this Alamo Heights house is breathtaking. Perhaps that should come as no surprise, since the owners of one of the Alamo City s top lumber companies built it for themselves in 1927. The home, now on the market for $3.5 million, was built for members of the Vaughan family. George C. Vaughan and two business partners launched Vaughan Lumber Co. in 1893 to buy from mills and do wholesale distribution of wood from Chicago to Mexico City, according to the website of the San Antonio company now known as Alamo Forest Products.
The family s access to high-quality wood and millwork is apparent in the four-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath house s custom moldings, milled archways and the original wood parquet floor in the music room. The custom-milled windows are mostly pricy mahogany, as are the shutters.
PHOTO PROVIDED Christopher Rivas wrote and stars in The Real James Bond…Was Dominican. Diplomat. Soldier. Polo player. Treasure hunter. Race-car driver. Jet-setting international playboy. The FBI suspected he was an assassin working for the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. But you know him as the real-life inspiration for James Bond. “It’s kind of astonishing that one person can be in so many places at once,” Christopher Rivas says. Yet why do you not know Porfirio Rubirosa? “Is there really more of an international man of mystery?” Rivas asks. Rivas wrote and stars in “The Real James Bond… Was Dominican,” the new production by Geva Theatre Center, opening Friday and running through May 29.