End of summer? No! 3-2-1… The Hampton Classic Horse Show starts this weekend, and London Olympians head the list of entries. And the U.S. Open is in town starting on Monday. Roger Federer has been named the top seed in the men’s singles. (Oh, and Maria Sharapova launched a new candy line called Sugarpova.) See you at Ashe Stadium! Here’s your weekly round up… 

• The perkiest host on TV Kelly Ripa is set to announce her new co-host on Sept. 4th. Word has it that it will be former footballer Michael Strahan.
• Designer Phillip Lim has made a comic book. You can get it on Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) September 6th.
• He brings us the hottest and sexiest movie screenings. His name is Andrew Saffir.
• Cornelia Guest leaves the debutante life behind.
• This sexy reading photo contest probably has something to do with 50 Shades of Grey.
• Rufus Wainwright and Jorn Weisbrodt are getting married TOMORROW in Montauk! Mazel Tov!
• W Magazine’s Stefano Tonchi is selling his Brideghampton pad for $1.795 million.
• Twitter item of the Week: Get your FNO groove on by following @FNOnyc on Twitter and get all the latest scoop leading up to September 6th!
• Happy birthday trifecta TODAY: Tatiana Boncompagni., John Borthwick and Kurt Andersen. TOMORROW: Ulrica Lanaro. FRIDAY is the birthday of dog lovers Wendy Diamond and Karen Biehl. SUNDAY: Alexandra Loeb Driscoll. MONDAY: Lily Baker. TUESDAY: Wish a happy birthday to uber stylist Robert Verdi and CNN’s Felicia Taylor.
• Upcoming events: TONIGHT: Susan Fales Hill will be celebrated for her new book “Imperfect Bliss” at J McLaughlin. THIS WEEKEND OUT EAST: The Bridgehampton Antiques & Design Fair kicks off on Friday night. Saturday is family friendly thanks to the Free Arts NYC Hamptons Kidfest chaired by Kelly Rutherford. And that evening support Kick4Life at the Southampton Social Club. See our events page for details on these events and more!

Jason Binn is making the rounds today to announce the launch of his new luxury publication, DuJour Magazine. Good Day New York (video) hosted Jason to talk about the new economics of the media, what with 110 ad pages and an estimated $4 million in booked advertising right out of the gate, Jason should know! Also launching today is the new Klout, that other ranking web site. Klout has rolled out a new improved algorithm that adds additional scoring factors including real world influence. Now President Obama has a higher score than Justin Bieber (99 to 91). Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• She’s a blonde, no a redhead, and then she’s not. Real Housewife Sonja Morgan turns heads and admits it was just a wig.
• Victoria Beckham showed up for the Spice Girls performance at the Olympics Closing Ceremony, but she didn’t bother to dance.
• If you can’t get enough of James Fairchild’s new collectibles shop in Southampton, there is now Fairchild TV.
• Venus Williams hit balls with Adelina Wong Ettelson and celebrated her EleVen clothing line in style. See Bettina’s Take.
• Aerin Lauder spent 48 hours in Morocco and Town & Country’s September issue has photos of it all.
• Twitter item of the Week: Despite spending countless tweets talking about his ideas for the screenplay for “Fifty Shades of Grey”, Bret Easton Ellis has been left off the short list of screenwriters for the movie adaptation.
• Happy birthday TODAY to the talented Douglas Friedman. FRIDAY is scribe Christopher Tennant’s birthday. NEXT WEEK: Wish a happy birthday to designer Maggie Norris on Monday, and to tech revolutionary Steve Case on Tuesday.
• Upcoming events: THIS WEEKEND OUT EAST: Haley Binn, Leni Sender and Amy Miller Gross launch their LIVTRU Collective - A Conscious Pop-Up Retail and Experiential Event - in Sag Harbor on Friday. Saturday is the 4th Annual Roar for a Cure Family Day Carnival at the Ross School in East Hampton. See our events page for details on these events and more!

Olympics, Olympics, and more Olympics! Who’s not loving it? The U.S. is kicking it up with the lead total medal count (you can check medal counts in real time here). It all comes to an end this Sunday when the closing ceremony hands off the torch to Rio for the 2016 Olympics. The broadcast of the ceremony is expected to be watched by an audience of 4 billion. And the Spice Girls will perform! Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• We landed on Mars! And NASA has an employee with a mohawk and shaved stars and new-found fame.
• This week Vogue features 5 days of looks in Montauk by its booking editor, Valerie Boster.
• The new show to watch on Bravo is “Gallery Girls“, which follows the lives of seven women who vie for their dream jobs in the art world. The season premiere airs on Monday, August 13th.
• Twitter item of the Week: Want to know the best way to get retweeted and acquire more followers? Conversation starters on Twitter.
• Happy birthday TODAY to the indefatigable fashion scribe and tweeter Jim Shi! SUNDAY: Wish a happy birthday to glamorous designer Nicole Hanley Mellon.
• Upcoming events: THIS WEEKEND OUT EAST: Saturday is the long-awaited Best Buddies Annual Hamptons Gala at the home of Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney in Bridgehampton. And Authors Night takes place at the East Hampton Library and in homes around the Hamptons. See our events page for details on these events and more!

If you missed Super Saturday in the Hamptons, you really did miss out. And we’re not just talking about the shopping benefit for Ovarian Cancer Research. There was a Cinema Society movie screening for Robot & Frank, Bridgehampton Polo Week 2, Watermill Center’s Big Bang Gala and Russell Simmons’ Art for Life. We were most intrigued with all the fashionistas at Watermill… From Vogue’s Meredith Melling Burke, to Vensette’s Lauren Remington Platt, Annelise Peterson, Valerie Boster, Sofia Sanchez Barrenechea, Margaret Luce, and FameGame’s own Tatiana Platt, it was a Hamptons olympics of style. Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• Hamptons Editrice Samantha Yanks dishes on CBS New York (see video) about Super Saturday and Art for Life.
• Vanity Fair has released its International Best Dressed List which opens with Kate Middleton, H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, very Olympic-ly spirited! The list also features NYT “On the Street” photographer Bill Cunningham, brand consultant Michelle Harper and Alice & Olivia fashion designer Stacey Bendet.
• Meanwhile, Vogue is now doing a weekly Best Dressed List, and this week the list includes Sofia Sanchez Barrenechea.
• Season 2 of Bob and Cortney Novogratz’s show “Home by Novogratz” premieres on HGTV this Saturday, August 4th.
• Taylor Swift, a future Kennedy? She is officially dating 18-year-old Conor Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy Jr. and the late Mary Richardson.
• Twitter item of the Week: Twitter has launched a political index that evaluates the sentiment of Twitter user feelings about President Obama and Mitt Romney: Twindex.
• Happy birthday TODAY to BFA’s Joe Schildhorn! TOMORROW, it’s Nick Loeb (Sofia Vergara’s fiance)’s birthday. NEXT WEEK: Monday is Frank Cilione’s birthday, and Tuesday Charlotte Ronson and Julie Dannenberg.
• Upcoming events: THIS WEEKEND OUT EAST: Saturday is Southampton Hospital’s 54th Annual Summer Party Grand Prix Monaco. And in Montauk, Sole East partners with Escape to Montauk for a weekend festival of music, food, fashion and activities for children. See our events page for details on these events and more!

Summertime, summertime… It is hot in the Hamptons! Bridgehampton Polo kicked off this past weekend, and rest assured the next few weekends will have you scratching your head over which of the myriad of events to attend in the Hamptons. Even newly engaged Sofia Vergara and her Onion Crunch fiance Nick Loeb escaped to Southampton for the weekend. But don’t count on getting into Hilaria Thomas Baldwin’s yoga class any time soon! Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• StyleCaster rounded up its 10 most stylish Hamptonites. Check out the list and gorgeous photos by Ben Fink Shapiro. No surprise, Samantha Yanks, Katie Lee, Kelly Bensimon and Julie Macklowe are on the list.
• A 22-year-old Brooklynite, Mindy Meyer, is running for New York State Senate in hot pink and sparkles.
• Mark Ronson is the new face for Fendi.
• The Spice Girls are not going to let us down. They will perform at the Olympics after all, Victoria Beckham included.
• Twitter item of the Week: Susan Sarandon takes to Twitter to pressure NY City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to pass legislation mandating paid sick days.
• Happy birthday TOMORROW to NYSD’s David Patrick Columbia. THIS WEEKEND: Friday is Leslie Stevens and Maximilian Weiner’s birthdays. Sunday is Paul Wilmot and Sessa von Richthofen Johnson’s. NEXT WEEK, Richard Frerejean Taittinger and Jerry Vittoria celebrate on Monday, and Denise Wohl and Valesca Guerrand Hermes on Tuesday.
• Upcoming events: TONIGHT is the African Rainforest Conservancy’s Annual Summer Party in the Concrete Jungle. THIS WEEKEND OUT EAST: Saturday is the much anticipated and celebrity packed Super Saturday Shopping Event to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. Saturday night is Robert Wilson’s Annual Watermill Center Gala: The Big Bang, and also Russell Simmons‘ Annual Art for Life in East Hampton. And for the kids, the Bridgehampton Carnival is in town this weekend! See our events page for details on these events and more!

The countdown begins to the London Olympics, 9 days to go! U.K. officials are using the Olympics as a launch pad for a massive fitness campaign for women, but what about those British men? Get all the latest updates on The Guardian’s live blog. Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• Kerry Kennedy’s Westchester accident may actually have been due to a seizure related to an old head injury.
• Linsanity is over. Jeremy Lin goes to the Houston Rockets, but Kardashian-ity Kris Humphries agrees to return to the Brooklyn Nets.
• 42 year old Uma Thurman has her third baby, and 47 year old Countess Luann de Lesseps visits a fertility clinic on the RHONY.
• Twitter item of the Week: Marissa Mayer is named the new CEO of Yahoo, and hours later she tweets that she is 6 months pregnant.
• Happy birthday TODAY to Richard Branson, Paul Johnson Calderon and Lewis Dvorkin, TOMORROW to Margo McNabb Nederlander. THIS WEEKEND: Friday is Alvin Valley’s birthday. NEXT WEEK, Dori Cooperman celebrates on Monday, and Melinda Hackett on Tuesday.
• Upcoming events: OUT EAST: Saturday will have you double/triple dipping between events…  ACRIA Cocktails at Sunset honoring Ross Bleckner, the 3rd Annual Unconditional Love Benefit for the Southampton Animal Shelter, and the Composition LongHouse Reserve Gala in East Hampton. Earlier in the day, take the kids to the Children’s Museum of the East End Family Fair in Bridgehampton. See our events page for details on these events and more!

Andy Russell continues to get rave reviews for his Trigger Media InsideHook email venture, now ready to go national. Even if you’re not a male 30-something, sign up and see what it’s all about! Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• Happy birthday TODAY to Frederick Anderson and Alison Minton, TOMORROW to Sara Herbert-Galloway and Anisha Lakhani. THIS WEEKEND: Friday is Alex Matthiessen’s birthday, and Sunday is Ferebee Bishop Taube’s. NEXT WEEK, Michael Gross and Katlean de Monchy celebrate on the 16th.
• Upcoming events: This Saturday is the Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Gala in Southampton. See our events page for details on July events and more!

Yoko Ono has developed #smilesfilm, a new iPhone app that aims to collect and share the smiling face of everyone in the world. A project she first conceived of in the 1960s, it is finally coming to fruition. Immortalize your smile today. Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• Designer Lisa Perry is opening up her house in the Hamptons for a 1-day pop-up shop with clothing, accessories and items from the Jeff Koons Collection.
• Twitter item of the Week: Margherita Missoni got married over the weekend and took to Twitter to clarify that she in fact designed her wedding dress.
• Happy birthday TODAY to Gregory D’Elia, TOMORROW to Christine Cachot. NEXT WEEK: Tuesday is Alex Matthiessen’s birthday. AND OF COURSE Wednesday is OUR NATION’S BIRTHDAY (and Joanna Goldenstein’s).
• Upcoming events: The July Hamptons calendar is heating up. Do you have your tickets for the Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Gala yet? See our events page for details on July events and more!

Welcome to the summer solstice! Today is the longest day of the year, enjoy! From here on out, it’s all downhill, at least daylight-wise. Here’s your weekly round-up… 

• Our favorite paparazzi bully Alec Baldwin throws a sheet on himself. Literally.
• Wealth management adviser Alexandra Lebenthal gives some good advice on charity spending.
• Budding author Tinsley Mortimer answers racy questions from Vanity Fair’s George Wayne.
• Former Housewife Kelly Killoren Bensimon’s book “I Can Make You Hot” is making the rounds in the Hamptons. Kelly will be signing books on Saturday at C. Wonder in Southampton.
• Does Wendi Murdoch qualify as a trophy wife?
• It won’t be long before you can click and buy that outfit that a celeb is wearing in a photo.
• Twitter item of the Week: Want to know what’s going on out east in real time? Follow @HamptonsMag on Twitter.
• Happy birthday on FRIDAY to Jogo Beach’s Pooneh Mohazzabi. THIS WEEKEND: Internet papa Vint Cerf celebrates his day on Saturday, and socialista Fabiola Beracasa on Sunday. NEXT WEEK: Monday is Jill Brooke and Desiree Gruber’s birthday.
• Upcoming events: THIS WEEKEND OUT EAST: Saturday night is a double dip: The Heart of the Hamptons Ball benefiting the American Heart Association, and the Group for the East End 40th Anniversary Benefit, with Billy Joel rumored to attend. See our events page for details on these events and more!