Whalebone’s Best of 2016
As we shimmy the cork back into the bottle of 2016, it’s with startling awareness that we gaze back and somehow realize, in less than four years, the 90s…
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Make Eye Contact with 3 of the Most Influential Crime Lords in New York History
The American Mafia is considered by the U.S. Government, the FBI and investigative reporter Selwyn Raab, as “the most powerful, wealthiest, influential, successful, sophisticated,…
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$100 at Gansevoort
In a very recent two week-long study of New York’s holiday-gifting procrastination habits, Whalebone’s Division of Late Holiday Affairs found that 3 of 4 aspiring gift…
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7 Christmas Movies That Should Be in Your VCR This Holiday Season
Surely, sometime in the next week, we all will find ourselves in a place that one wouldn’t exactly consider “desirable”. A small seat aboard…
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Top 10 Novelty Waves on the East Coast (and Beyond)
Novelty… almost a perfect word to describe myself. I’m slightly new to this world, original (because everyone is) and definitely unusual. Until I sat…
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An Interview with the Lovely Missus Behind the Mall Santa Factory
Admittedly, I originally set out to track down and schedule a mall Santa for this Christmas interview… but mall Santas are far more busy/elusive than I…
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Unique NYC Hotels: The Mercer
Andre Balazs is known for his impeccable ability to combine luxury with style, and The Mercer is a perfect embodiment of this. The sister…
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NYC Perspective: Natalie Amrossi
Meet Natalie Amrossi, one of our six favorite New York City photographers featured in our NYC Issue. We asked Natalie to send us an image…
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Christmas Stories: The Last House in the Old Neighborhood
Sometimes you need something to make you stop and remember what Christmas is really all about. A few years ago, I did. You see,…
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Ice Cream Headaches: Surf Filmmaker, Tyler Breuer
There are few more passionate and prodigally involved characters in New York City’s surf community than Tyler Breuer. A writer, producer, filmmaker, event manager,…
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Radioman: An NYC Film Legend
Over the past 100 years, film has played a huge role in NYC’s cultural history, but the real story lies within the cast and…
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DJ Japancake’s Guide to the Lower East Side
When my publisher shot me a text saying that I’d be meeting up with Bill AKA DJ Japancakes over dinner to get a rundown…
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NYC Perspective: Saili Davidoff
Meet Saili Davidoff, one of our six favorite New York City photographers featured in our NYC Issue. We asked Saili to send us an…
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Burkle Chronicles Vol. II: Late Fall Run
This year’s run of late fall waves on the East End has been terrible. Lots of wind but no swell. So being greeted yesterday…
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[Watch] “el Leif”
One of the great things about email is that, if you’re in the line of publishing surf media, the lionshare of inbox notifications you wake…
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Ice Cream Headaches: Surf Journalist and Writer, Mariah Ernst
Writer Ed Thompson and photographer Julien Roubinet are collaborating on a book documenting surf culture in New York and New Jersey. At the moment,…
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