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Updated 03/30/2009 – 11:25 pm

Remember Vince Offer, the ShamWow/Slap Chop guy from the TV infomercials?

Turns out his real name, according to his police booking report in Miami Beach last month, is Vince Shlomi. More...

Doncha jus' love a nice juicy scandal?

"If you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it..." More...

Updated 03/27/2009 – 10:22 pm

...and the NY Daily News listens, exclusively.

S&M big Donald MacPherson says...

(You'll have to forgive More...

Updated 03/27/2009 – 11:36 am

...in a mug shot!

And certainly the Southampton Town Police Department did no one any favors for their ar­raignment photos this week! More...

Southampton Supervisor Linda Kabot and the Town Board have "closed the dump!" More...

Updated 03/26/2009 – 08:37 am

...has dropped, and as Groucho Marx had it:

"Either there are cops in Il Trovatore, or the jig is up." More...

My old college chum Marty just called with the news... but of course he had to pose it in the form of an advanced pop history1 question.

"Most famous for having been traded away." More...

Updated March 22, 2009 – 06:48 p.m.

...out of Oakland, California where five police officers have been shot, resulting in four line-of-duty deaths.

It's a terrible story, but one which will thrill More...

From this week's Southampton Press:

Kabot claims bad record keeping led to financial mess

According to More...

Several OtBB regulars have with ill-disguised irritation demanded to know why I didn't report on Trustee Toni-Jo Birk's "outrageous" call for locals to "stop shopping locally." More...

Nope, not an assessment of the just concluded Saint Patrick's Parade Day activities1, just a pointer to a im­pressive photoblog featuring the flora and fauna of the area. More...

It was, as with so much of my life experience, a matter of happenstance rather than any sort of "Intelligent Design." More...

Updated 03/18/2009 – 02:02 pm

If it had been a prizefight the referee would've stopped it in the third round.

The March meeting of the Village Planning Board More...

...and the language would be stronger except that OtBB is trying not to plunge into R-rated territory.

Comes now word that Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot is planning to close the Westhampton and Sag Harbor transfer stations More...

One of OtBB's regulars has advised that some sort of showing of local consumers is in the works for Thursday evening's Planning Board meeting. More...

Being a continuation of "Not quite 'full circle'"

When Rocket Gibraltar's production com­pany realized that they were going to be denied their original Sagapon­ack site, Locations Man­ager Diana Pokorny was already scheduled to scout several possible secondary locales in the Westhampton area. More...

...addressed Peace in the Middle East. More...

...but close enough to inspire another writer to revisit the not-so-wayback machine. More...

Updated 03/08/2009 – 11:38 am

Patiently awaiting news of the film fare available at Six Corners this weekend, it seems that someone at the Hampton Arts dropped the ball in getting its schedule out to the newsprint and on-line publishers. More...

A full compliment of Village officials this evening for a discussion of some Zoning Code tweaks and perhaps the first formal shot across the bow of the proliferated real estate offices in the downtown area. More...

Updated 03/06/2009 – 08:40 pm

Terrible news in this morning's Southampton Press... a friend of more than 50 years standing, Peter Marbury, died last Saturday of injuries in a motorcycle accident in Sarasota, Florida. More...

Not a lot of people noticed, but an era just ended... New Yorker Films has ceased operations. More...

Updated 03/03/2009 – 09:57 am

One of the Grand Dames of Westhampton Beach has left us.

The widow of former Mayor and two-term Southampton Town Supervisor Theodore O. "Dode" Hulse, the former Clara Culver More...

...for traveling, but time for a big shout-out to the Village Highway Department!

We knew it was gonna be more than a "light dusting," and it wasn't just because the weather was the lead story on last night's news. More...

This is one of those "posted without comment" things... almost.

No, that's not Derek Jeter More...