Last night, Tanisha Scott auditioned hundreds of kids, ages 6-13, for the 16 competitive spots on the 2014 Brooklyn Nets Kids Dance Team and it was incredible. There were moments where I felt like I was in the gymnasium of the same school that Beyoncé was eating apples in—which, by some odd form of the transitive property—made me feel like Beyoncé.

Just off the Staten Island ferry—which happens to be free and sells beer—in a Staten Island castle on top of the hill, Penguin's Molly Barton, Lisa Weinert Consulting's Lisa, and The New Yorker's John McElwee hosted a garden party for New York's literari, native Staten Islanders, and kids. There was a fire pit, a fish pond, mint juleps, fiddles, vodka infused watermelon (that ended up on the kiddie table) and lots of kids (complaining about how bad the watermelon was).