The East Hampton train station is getting a bar.
It will serve Gatorade for your 6 a.m. summer Monday work commutes.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Today’s letter includes: an exclusive on a new bar in a Hamptons train station, my thoughts on Alix Earle’s new skincare line, shooting movies on iPhones, and an opening date for the new Beverly Hills Aman.
The Feed Me Substack Chat is discussing the best rooms in New York City.
Dispatch from the Polymarket bar from a reader:
Last weekend, Polymarket hosted a pop-up bar called the Polymarket Situation Room on K Street in Washington, D.C. It was billed as a sort of sports bar but for “monitoring the situation” and placing live bets on…anything the prediction market platform might have established a market for. I was pretty curious about whether this would be an interesting IRL version of the extremely popular platform, but was in California during its big weekend in DC. Thankfully, Margaux Bauerlein, a D.C. journalist and Feed Me reader, wrote in with an on-the-ground dispatch. There was plenty that was observable, as well as plenty that was chatter in the air. Take the latter for what it is: stuff people were speculating about.—Emily
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After spending three nights at the Polymarket Situation Room pop-up in Washington, D.C., I’ve come to the conclusion that aspiring insider traders are worse than actual ones.
Lack of internet connectivity on Friday, the first night, deprived the sports bar for the clinically online of the promised live Bloomberg terminals, X feeds, and cable news chyrons. Joshua Tucker, head of growth at Polymarket and former head of viral marketing for MrBeast, offered free fruit kabobs and room-temperature red wine in apology.
I thought Tucker and his troupe of millennial male creatives wearing sunglasses indoors were trying to create a sexy Washington, D.C. dark room where state secrets could be swapped over glasses of brown liquor. Instead, they created a haven for men with the outline of Zyn containers stamped onto the back pocket of their Target-brand jeans. Also in attendance, according to people I spoke with: DOGE staffers and convicted and pardoned January 6 rioter Bryan Betancur.
At one point, two young “creative directors” took responsibility for an orb that spun around a projection of the world map and displayed live Polymarket bets. “Russa x Ukraine ceasefire by end of April?” flashed in the background of a father-daughter selfie. This event would’ve been different if it had been in New York, they lamented.
—Margaux Bauerlein
Kareem Rahma is raising his hand to answer the question: Who’s going to make The Cut for men?
Madeline Montoya, Founding Creative Director of Byline, is the new Creative Director of Billboard. Madeline is such a star — the visual language of Byline both in print and digitally was such a breath of fresh air in media. She’s also worked at The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Teen Vogue. Keeping an extra eye on Billboard in 2026….
If you’re in Los Angeles, you should take advantage of the local pickup option for Gwyneth Paltrow’s home auction. Louis Poulsen lamps, Eames chairs, and Gwyneth Kate Paltrow-monogrammed Pewter. Thank you Kaitlin Phillips Substack Chat for tipping this off to me.