ABOUT
THIS ISSUE
Marilyn Monroe. Her sentiment
perfectly carried the magic of summer to me: The feeling that you
can do any crazy thing you want.
As an adult, summer is the one
time of year when you can hit
pause on life without any lingering guilt; when you don’t feel like
you have to grow, change or rush
toward any of the million things
that clutter your brain the rest
of the year. You can be anyone
you choose to be — and maybe all
that is is the kind of person who
can grill a perfect burger, as we’ll
demonstrate in the pages ahead.
In this spirit, our issue features
the types of people who come out of
the woodworks during the summer,
from six typical festivalgoers to diehard gas and charcoal grillers (as
Craig Goldwyn puts it, “the flame
war ... burns brighter than the debate between Mac and PC users.”)
As for Summer, it can be anything it wants to be, too, and it’s
handed us a few themes to play
with this year. There’s punk, which
lives at The Met, and in the obscure
history of surf music. Stephen King
brings us an exclusive excerpt of his
upcoming novel, while a TV adaptation of one of his books is gunning
to become this summer’s critical
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hit. Then we have the 90s: Hanson,
Wu-Tang Clan and The Backstreet
Boys all return with new music in
the months ahead.
A special shout-out to Andrea
Nasca, who brilliantly conceptualized the look and feel of this issue,
Wendy George, whose hours of
research resulted in the stunning
photography you’ll see in the pages
Summer can be
anything it wants to be.”
ahead, and John Montorio for his
invaluable judgment and guidance
amid a grueling weight-loss regimen as he prepares for summer.
We hope you’ll enjoy the offerings we’ve presented here, and
if you follow our guide correctly,
you’ll find some creative ways to
use them. Because if you want to sit
on your couch in lucite heels and
watch Arrested Development, just go right ahead.
GAZELLE EMAMI