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LEFT: Holding a "Superhero" clutch with the designer herself, Stella McCartney, along with Saks Fifth Avenue Boston's vice president and general manager, Joel Ellzey, at the Stella McCartney fall preview fashion show at Saks. ABOVE: Winston Flowers designed my dazzling fascinator for the Party in the Park. Follow me on Facebook at facebook.com/boston-common and on bostoncommon-magazine.com. LISA PIER PONT PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL BLANCHARD (LISA AND STELLA); LISA RICHOV (PARTY IN THE PARK); PHANTOM GOURMET (MENDON); DOM MIGUEL (REVOLUTION JUICE); HAIR BY LOUISE RUSK/ANN SOUSA, MIZU; MAKEUP BY TAVI DE LA ROSA SUMMER TO ME HAS ALWAYS MEANT packing a duffel bag on Memorial Day that rolls with me right through Labor Day, from Maine's Southwest Harbor to Nantucket's Jetties Beach (laundry ge ts thrown in there somewhere). In the suitcase: swimsuits, summer reads, and piles of tear sheets of what to do and where to go. So, I command you to rip up this magazine. Shred it. Cut it. We have filled it with ripe-for-the-picking pages of concerts to hear, festivals to see, books to read, beach gea r to buy, lobster dishes to eat , a ll washed dow n w it h t he per fect ly pa ired Chardonnay. Consider it your guide to the ultimate New England summer. (You're on your own with laundry.) This issue of Boston Common also marks a special celebration of the local arts community—a celebration taking place in all of our sister magazines in the Niche Media family across the country. Doug and Mike Starn, after graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine A rts in Boston, have enjoyed global acclaim for their depictions of the natural world in a style that's both fragile and edgy. Their work graces our cover; their story will captivate your attention. Many events have captured my interest recently, beginning with the Hot Pink Pa r t y at t he Seapor t World Trade Center, honor ing t he sma shing E lizabet h Hurley, Amy Robach, and Andrew Shue, and raising both awareness and funds for breast cancer research. From there, I switched from pink to black and white for t he deCordova Sculpt ure Pa rk a nd Museum's Black a nd W hite Ga la, which recognized gallery owner and art expert Barbara Krakow and her enormous con- tribution to the Boston arts community. Happy summer. The heat is on. Rip it up. 1 2 // this issue // ON MY R ADAR 1. GREEN IS GOOD: I don't like veg- etables. I stuffed them in my napkin when I was a kid, and I hide them under the chicken at dinner parties. But I know they are good for me, so I order them pulverized and deluged with ginger and apple to stamp out any spin- ach taste. Revolution Juice's Easy Green is my new fave. revolutionjuice.com 2 . MENDON TWIN DRIVE-IN: Few things give me as much joy as roaring up to an outdoor movie screen and blasting open the sunroof at an old-fashioned drive-in theater—especially the one in Mendon (now revamped by the Andelman brothers). I saw Jaws there last summer. The entire town of Mendon heard us screaming. It was spectacular. mendondrivein.com 24 BOSTONCOMMON-MAGAZINE.COM LETTER from the Editor-in-Chief