It’s probably safe to assume that these dogs are stoned, not because surfers of all breeds adhere to the stoner beach bum stereotype, but because they seem really calm. What gives? Aren’t they afraid that all this erratic doggy paddling and splashing will draw the attention of great white sharks? That happens, you… » 9/14/13 5:00pm 9/14/13 5:00pm

Parents whose children are in New York public schools are pissed that Rosh Hashana has fallen so unusually early this year, which means they have to deal with their kids for an entire extra week of summer break. » 9/04/13 12:30pm 9/04/13 12:30pm

By now, summer is lukewarm, like that beer you fell asleep with by the pool you do not own (wait, do you own a pool? because we should be friends if you do). Was it everything you'd hoped it would be back on Memorial Day, or, like most summers, did it slip into the room late, looking suspicious and smelling of… » 9/02/13 6:30pm 9/02/13 6:30pm

Sand sculpture artist Morgan Rudluff, from Santa Cruz, Calif., carves a Kool-Aid Man design at the 81st Annual Great Sand Sculpture Contest, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, in Long Beach, Calif. (Rene Macura/AP Images for Kool-Aid) » 8/11/13 6:00pm 8/11/13 6:00pm

This baby elephant at the Fort Worth Zoo is reveling in the annual miracle of summer, when all the pools are open and the supermarket's freezer section is overstocked with Flintstones Push Ups. » 8/11/13 5:30pm 8/11/13 5:30pm

Summer is full of the sorts of hidden dangers that come with being drunk and out in the hot sun for longer than usual. You could fall asleep in a wading pool and be urinated upon by your neighbor’s dog. A shark could attack you while you’re flipping around on your boogie board like a dying seal. You could wear a really … » 8/11/13 4:00pm 8/11/13 4:00pm

TOYOOKA, JAPAN - AUGUST 04: A woman pulls her pet dog in the water at Takeno Beach on August 4, 2013 in Toyooka, Japan. This beach is open for dogs and their owners every summer between the months of June and September. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images) » 8/04/13 3:30pm 8/04/13 3:30pm

Hey there, Eastern-seaboard beach-goers! Been enjoying your summer of cold beer, casual sex, outdoor music festivals, ice cream dinners, and mysterious dolphin carcasses? Of course you haven’t — who can enjoy ice cream dinners with so many rotting dolphin carcasses lining our beaches, fouling up the air and attracting… » 8/04/13 3:00pm 8/04/13 3:00pm

But don't shit in the ocean, because then you're just a monster. » 8/02/13 10:25am 8/02/13 10:25am

It's so hot on the East Coast right now that, last night, I had a dream I robbed a bank with the cast of Pretty Little Liars and was incarcerated in an oven as punishment. Amazingly, not everyone is sweltering right now/having sweat-induced dreams! We're doing this to ourselves! » 7/19/13 5:00pm 7/19/13 5:00pm

Skinnydipping is one of life's great free pleasures. » 7/18/13 2:10pm 7/18/13 2:10pm

It's mid-July and in this particular section of the Northern Hemisphere, it's hotter than the hinges of Hell with a long stretch of blinding sun and more heat ahead. If you can't concentrate and you're feeling distracted and you, uh, can't concentrate, you may have Summer Brain. » 7/16/13 4:30pm 7/16/13 4:30pm

An Ohio man who loves summer, like, more than a friend, was charged with public indecency after several children witnessed him having sex with a pool toy this week. How does that even work? What is going on? » 7/10/13 5:45pm 7/10/13 5:45pm

It's too damn hot. Even in San Francisco, when it's usually cold as a yeti's ice-frosted tit, it's hot as dragon balls. That was great for Pride and all — but it's Monday now, and this shit has got. to. stop. » 7/01/13 12:40pm 7/01/13 12:40pm

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ - MAY 27: Nicole Zupp carries a huge stuffed monkey on the boardwalk on the first weekend of Jersey Shore beaches re-opening to the public on May 27, 2013 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The region continues to recover and rebuild after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the coastline. (Photo by… » 5/27/13 10:00pm 5/27/13 10:00pm

Myrtle Beach’s modesty police has apparently been out in full force this luxuriously long weekend, with news that three different women were arrested and charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure on three separate occasions. It’s off to South Carolina! » 5/27/13 3:30pm 5/27/13 3:30pm

Ahead of what has proved for many Americans to be a happily gluttonous Memorial Day weekend, The New York Times ran a Q&A with ice cream trucker Peter Van Leeuwen, of the artisanal ice cream Van Leeuwens. Obviously, there was lots of delicious banter about ice cream and the scooping thereof, banter most definitely aimed … » 5/27/13 2:30pm 5/27/13 2:30pm