With a summer full of beach reading (hopefully) ahead of us, we're faced with the technological dilemma of the season: How venture outside without ruining our fragile, not-amenable-to-the-elements e-reading gadgets. So what to do? The Atlantic Wire spoke with the Internet's tech experts and gadget nerds for their advice on e-reading outside like a pro.
I am all for torturing children. As the overlord of a 9th grade classroom, I forced them to memorize sections of The Aeneid, socked them with the one-two punch of The Odyssey and The Iliad and finished them off on a Shakespearian rack. Let them suffer, I say.
Something happens to coffee in the summer! It changes form. A lot of us don't want it hot, and instead, seek to quench our thirst with something cold. What do you need to know about ice(d) coffee — what separates the good from the average, and even bad? And what do you need to know about yourself, based on the kind of coffee you are drinking? We asked around.
Summer is the best time of the year, because of the beach, the ocean, fresh fruit, beer, sports, and enough Vitamin D to end seasonal depression. But it comes with a cost: humiliating sweat stains. You are not alone. Look at all these sweaters.
It's hot. Are you going to the beach this weekend, city-dweller who lives near an urban beach? Do you know how to behave at said locale, not only there but on your way there and on your way home again? Here are some rules.
Anyone who's been around for more than a season — anyone who's old enough to drink legally in these United States, let's say — probably remembers a time, historically or lived, in which certain drinks that we no longer drink were popular. But these things go in cycles.
With the help of my Atlantic Wire colleagues, I have compiled 12 contenders for the best summer food, along with the reasons we would consume these items all year round if we had our druthers. Who is the top of the summer food pile? Help us choose.
Memorial Day Weekend is here! The summer season has officially started, with all the joys and stresses that come with it. One of those stresses is the mad, fraught dash to get out of the city every Friday, sometimes successful, sometimes not. But that's OK. A weekend in the city can be fun, too. Really, there are infinite ways to enjoy a summer weekend. Here are a few.
Now that we've reached Memorial Day weekend, the kick-off to the season and all of its sweaty flair, Mister Softee worship can begin in full, right along with a lot of Mister Softee hate.
It's that time of year when people begin to ask you, "What are your plans this summer?" So, what are your plans this summer? Will you be traveling? Or will you be embarking on the most beautiful travel plan of all, the one in which you vacation to your own home?
All over the U.S.A. it is pretty darn nice out. People are wearing their summery dresses, their shorts, their sandals, their T-shirts and pants, without the necessity or precaution of an added jacket covering just in case. It is finally, maybe, summer. What should one do about that? Get ready. Like so.
Soon there will be pumpkins in the streets and root veggies in the green markets; Halloween decorations in the drugstores; an array of soups available from your lunchtime establishment; a certain renewed vigor in the air. Better prepare for fall while you still can. Here's how.
We're breaking up with Summer, and moving on to Fall. We'll always have the memories, though—at least, of the things that we remember.
Today The New York Times offers some solutions to an issue of etiquette that you may have confronted this summer, or perhaps another time of year, if you're popular or have a great house in a great location. Are people always wanting to stay with you, and you don't want them to, and you don't know what to do about it?
Today in Sweatiquette, our summer advice column, we get another spate of air conditioning debates — dividing the bill with an A.C.-happy roommate; saying no to sex when there's no A.C. — plus, how to work a sweater in the summer; and how to handle first-date sweat.
Summer Fridays--getting out of work early, getting a head start to the weekend, and all that good stuff--sounded really great, awesome in fact, until we read The New York Times Styles Section today.
This spring-summer season has been a big one for warm-weather records, but the news that July was the hottest month ever recorded in the lower 48 states is the least-qualified one we've seen.
Yes, it feels like it's all downhill from here, but there's still time to make it the best summer ever, or a halfway decent one, if you really try.
In this Friday's Sweatiquette, there is a theme. Air conditioning questions, they abound! There's a little bit of anger, too. I guess it's that time of year.
It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?
It has come to our attention that it is hot. How does one make him or herself otherwise?
Today in questions of summer etiquette, we take on guests who expect lodging; the ethics of outdoor boozing; hot, wet hugs; and how to tell a friend you're interested in some summer lovin'.
The most important rule of presidential vacations is this: Never let people take pictures of you on vacation.
On Monday, when The New York Times wrote about hot politicians snapping at everyone some folks called shenanigans, however, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie really is having a tough time of it in this heat, as we can see in a TMZ video of him getting in a guy's face on the Jersey Shore.
It's been hot recently, and that's especially hard on politicians who are expected to spend their day in suits speaking outside. How are they supposed to keep their cool in this kind of weather? They keep cursing, snapping or generally sounding stupid.
It's a good thing most of us get the day off Wednesday as the heat is making some of us loopy, including New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who exhibited some comically bad timing with a meltdown at a press conference.
We don't know when it was determined that we could not read books of substance on the beach. But with the help of some literary-minded friends of The Atlantic Wire, we're calling hogwash on this verdict.
Today in the questions of summer: Dealing with face sweat; telling the truth about biking to work; the ethics of going shirtless; what does a middle-of-the-week Fourth of July tell us about God?; stealing from bars.
While we love summer and simply cannot get enough of its charms, it has come to our attention that not everyone is completely thrilled with the hottest season. To help you weather it, we're taking on your most pressing questions — to beard or not to beard? Do clear bra straps count? — in our new Friday column.
This is not a post about climate change, about what we are doing to our global environment, or even about recycling. This is a post about how to embrace what you have been given, even when it's a heat wave.
We tried to warn you. Summer is coming, and you've got to get ready, we said. Save up some money and make some travel plans and get a pitcher of iced coffee going, we said. But did you listen? Well, maybe. If not, though, we understand.
Well, it's only June but Game of Thrones has already laid down its sword and Mad Men will once again close its offices this Sunday, but fear not. Richard Lawson has picks for what to watch, and, because it's summer, a drink pairing for each show.
Declaring some part of New York City the "new" it spot is as much a trend as going to the beach in the summer. For your consideration: The Martha's Vineyard of the Bronx.
Everyone's busily putting forth what, exactly, you should be reading this summer, so we won't bother you with that. Instead, we're supplying you with the information you need to choose the right book all by yourself.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Summer started earlier this year and is on track to be hotter than almost any on record. And that means it's going to be expensive, because whatever it is you like to do during the summer, you're going to do more of it and that's going to cost you.
There are some important things you can do right now to start getting ready for America's best season. Here is our list of ten ways to get an early jump on making Summahtime 2012 the best one ever.
Terrible, terrible news: East Hampton's 2,900 non-resident beach parking permits have sold out completely in record time this year. What are beach-going New Yorkers to do?
We're not here to pass judgment on why you wound up in police custody, but it may happen, and you should know how to comport yourself while getting arrested and once you're in a holding cell.
As much as we're enjoying these halcyon early spring days of bare legs and light breezes, perfect al fresco weather, and walking jacketless through the park, we are also worried.
Or: how to cook well when it's too hot to eat
Sausage spokeswoman defends hotdogs against an "animal rights group"
Keeping cool with the city's emergency water supply: Not as illegal as you thought
Marketing guidelines for sunscreen are being updated for the first time in 33 years
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