What do cotton, vegetable oil, and Jack Kerouac all have in common? Anyone who attended yesterday’s Trovata show knows the answer to that one: a school bus. Trovata founder John Whitledge has retrofitted an old bus to run on vegetable oil, and soon, with the support of Cotton, Inc., he intends to get on the [...]

Love of the surf is one thing; living to surf quite another. Anyone who’s journeyed to Ditch Plains this summer has gotten to see the distinction firsthand: There, on the once-lonely Montauk beach, it has been possible to observe the re-emergence of surfing as a mainstream pastime as each weekend, more and more freshly minted [...]