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Give Thanks For Local Shopping! By kendra sommers
Friday, November 23 marks the biggest shopping day of the year, “Black Friday” and Saturday, November 24 is Small Business Saturday. Let’s support our local businesses and take advantage of the wonderful sales and holiday fairs offered on the East End. Let’s Shop! Jill Lynn & Co. will be having a fantastic sale starting Friday, November 23 through Sunday, November 25. You will find handcrafted fine jewelry by Jill Lynn at sale prices up to 30% off. Be sure to pick up your goody bag with each purchase. If you don’t make it in over the weekend, go to www.jilllynnandco.com and type in coupon code: “Thanks” at checkout and receive 15% off your entire purchase. Jill Lynn & Co., 81 Jobs Lane, Southampton. 631-287-1001. The first ever Black Friday Stitch Super Sale will take place on Friday, November 23, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. The first 25 people to shop will receive a $25 gift card to use in the boutiques holiday gift corner. Choose from an array of signature styles including skirts, dresses, blouses, scarves, hats and lots of accessories and fabrics. Every sale item is $25, $50 or $75—check it out! Stitch, 22 Nugent Street, Southampton, 631-3773993. Impulse for Men, a fixture in Westhampton Beach for over 25 years is known as a destination for men looking for a unique blend of fashion and selection. And they’re having a fabulous sale! Shop for the best array of offerings in men’s apparel and enjoy up to 50% off. Impulse Clothing for Men, 85 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, 631-288-5406. The
Parrish Art Museum Presents, the museum’s Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Shopping Extravaganza. For the last time, the museum’s popular Thanksgiving weekend sale that will take place at 25 Jobs Lane in the Village of Southampton. The fundraiser will open with a Preview Cocktail Party for benefactors, patrons, sponsors and associates on Friday, November 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. The general sale will be open to the public on Saturday, November 24, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, November 25, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 631-283-2118 parrishart. org. Jewelry designer, Mikelle Terson of Mikelle Design, will be hosting a trunk show at Sotheby’s Sag Harbor, Friday November 23 and Saturday, November 24 from noon to 5 p.m. A favorite among Hamptonites, Mikelle’s work has been shown each summer at the Hampton Classic and is also carried by ABC Home in Manhattan. Mikelle uses antique components, 18k gold, sterling, precious and semiprecious stones in her one-of-a-kind pieces. 10% of all proceeds will be donated to the disaster relief organization AmeriCares to help support the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Mikelle Design Holiday Trunk show, Sotheby’s, Sag Harbor, 7 Spring Street (located behind Fisher’s Home Furnishing and next to Sag Harbor Garden Center) 631-725-6000. There is an array of fabulous local holiday craft fairs, starting with the St. Nicholas Fair at the Christ Church Parish Hall on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. An assortment of freshly baked goods, tea shoppe, holiday plants, handmade wreaths, hand-made crafts and a visit from Santa. Christ Church, 4 East Union Street, Sag Harbor, 631-725-0128. Alex and Ani of Southampton are the official Toys for Tots drop off location for the holiday season. In addition, they will be running a special promotion from December 1–9, customers who bring a new, unwrapped toy during
these dates who will receive a free bangle with any $50 purchase. Alex and Ani, 38 Jobs, Lane, Southampton. 631-353-3309 www.alexandani.com. The Montauk, “Handmade for the Holidays,” fair will feature works of art, photography, food, apparel, ceramics, knitting, jewelry, antiques, gifts and much more. Saturday and Sunday, November 23 to December 23. Shop local and handmade, held at Sweet ‘Tauk, 34 South Etna Avenue, Montauk, www.sweettauk. com. Neoteric Fine Art, Main Street in Amagansett will present “Artist’s Holiday Market,” showcasing hand-made crafts and works of art including; jewelry, furniture, design items and more. Neoteric Fine Art, 208 Main Street, Amagansett, 631-838-7518, Nov. 27 – Dec. 21. Antiques Center at Flowers and Company Holiday Gathering, wine, cheese and sweets to celebrate the season! Dec. 1, 3 – 7 p.m. Save up to 30% of 30 plus dealers! Antiques Center at Flowers and Company, 245 County Road 39, Southampton, 631-726-7275. Happy Thanksgiving! Please send all sales and special store event listings to shoptil@danspapers.com
Food For Your Phone: App-etizing Ideas By matthew appel
As you read this, you’re probably sitting home by the fire, fondly reminiscing about your Thanksgiving Day feast. I hope the food was tasty and the drink refreshing. I hope you and your loved ones took a moment to bask in the warm glow of family. Most of all, I hope you had power. All this focus on food got me thinking about food apps for your smart phone. There are so many of them out there, and they come in all shapes and sizes: recipe finders like Epicurious, review apps like Yelp, reservation tools like Open Table and even food games like Sky Burger. I’ve done a lot of app taste-testing over the years, and I came up with three decent ones worth investigating. I use the word “decent” because I’m still waiting to see that perfect food app. Until that day arrives, these should keep you going. Local Eats ($.99) As I said, there are lots of restaurant finders— maybe too many. I don’t like Zagats—it’s expensive and all you really get are boiled down comments and a phone number. Urban Spoon is quite popular. It has a spinning wheel that randomly selects local spots by shaking your phone—kind of like the “I’m
feeling lucky” feature on Google—but in my opinion it’s too gimmicky. Local Eats is an app that strikes the proper balance between information, price and quality. Taken from the Where Locals Eat book series, the app delivers a curated list of the best 100 restaurants in the 50 largest U.S. cities. Simple right? You can search for places around your location, or filter by city, cuisine and name. You might not agree with all of the selections, but there’s no disputing that this app is a great starting point for finding a good meal. At 99 cents, it’s worth the download. Tipulator ($.99) Tipulator is an app that calculates your tip on a dinner bill. I briefly debated whether to recommend it, mainly because of price. There are many free tip calculators that do almost the same thing as this one. In fact, your phone comes with one already built-in. So why buy this app? Ease of use. Tipulator has a really simple interface along with various presets that let you add the tip based on different percentages. Once you enter the total, you simply press the desired percentage and it quickly adjusts the total. It also has a neat feature that helps you subdivide the check depending on number of people in your party. Some folks gripe that the app doesn’t let you
enter the tax, but you’re not supposed to tip on tax, so Tipulator is actually making sure diners don’t inadvertently overtip. Harvest ($1.99) Enter the dark horse. Harvest is yet another simple app (notice a theme here?) that performs a single function very well: choosing produce. Think about it for a second. How many times have you gone to the grocery store and wondered whether those strawberries were ready to eat? They look pretty good, but what are those brown spots along the tips? You get the point. Harvest helps guide you through this process for almost every fruit and vegetable you can imagine—and some you’ve never heard of. You browse a huge alphabetical list of produce, tap your phone, and in a split second you’ve accessed all the key information you need to determine whether that melon or berry is ready to eat. The app also displays information to help you determine pesticide levels of certain veggies, based on things like appearance, location and time of year. At $1.99, it’s not a cheap app. But it will pay for itself in spades just by helping you shop more intelligently. Happy dining!