Who’s Here in the Hamptons

Episode 60: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Lenny Ackerman, the lawyer, developer and author. He is the founder and  managing partner of the East Hampton-based real estate law firm of Ackerman, Pachman, Brown & Goldstein LLP. He penned both The Divorce Manual for Married Couples and The Real Estate Guide for Married Couples. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 59: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Sir Ivan Wilzig, recording artist and songwriter best known for his 1960s pop-dance remakes and early 1970s peace songs, as well as for the legendary parties thrown at his Water Mill castle. He created the Peaceman Foundation, a nonprofit organization that battles hatred, violence and post traumatic stress disorder, and has made numerous reality TV appearances through the years. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 58: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Rikki Klieman, a criminal defense lawyer and television personality. A native of Chicago, she is a legal analyst for CBS News, having previously worked in criminal defense in Boston and taught at Columbia Law School. Additionally, she is an author, actress and the wife of William Bratton, former police commissioner of the New York Police Department. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 57: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Robert Chaloner, Chief Administrative Officer of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Chaloner has over 35 years of healthcare administrative experience and an intense passion for community hospitals and nonprofit healthcare. He also serves as President of the Southampton Hospital Association and reports to the Board of Directors in that capacity. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 56: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Debbie Bancroft, socialite and fashion reporter. She has spent 20 years in business publishing, at Institutional Investor Magazine, Forbes and The Economist. She used her expertise as a consultant to Calypso St. Barth, while also writing for Avenue Magazine and Elle Décor. She’s a trustee at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where she summers, and also works with ARF and the Sag Harbor Cinema. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 55: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Juliet Papa, published author and award-winning reporter for 1010 WINS Radio, one of the top-ranked all-news stations in the United States. Papa has also received the prestigious Gracie award, which honors women in media. Her published books include Ladykiller and The Mafia Handbook: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mob but Were Really Afraid to Ask. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 54: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Andrea Anthony, co-owner of The Lobster Roll aka LUNCH. Throughout four decades of leading The Lobster Roll to great heights, Anthony published The Lobster Roll Cookbook in 2003 and earned worldwide recognition for the restaurant’s appearance on Showtime’s The Affair, hosted Eat, Drink and Bake with Andrea and now stands poised to open up a second Lobster Roll location, coming to Southampton this month. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.

Episode 53: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Dava Sobel — bestselling author, Guggenheim Fellowship Award winner and  Pulitzer nominee. They discuss her books, career and life in the Hamptons where she has lived for more than 30 years. Her seminal work, Longitude, is about the man who, in the 18th century, invented the first device to enable mariners to determine their longitude at sea.  Currently, she is the poetry editor for Scientific American magazine. Find the podcast at DansPapers.com.  

Episode 52: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Marya Martin, founder of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. A New Zealand native, Martin enjoys a musical career of remarkable breadth and achievement — balancing the roles of chamber musician, festival director, soloist, teacher and supporter of musical institutions. She founded the BCMF in 1984, which has been bringing world-class chamber music to the East End ever since.

Episode 51: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Karl Grossman, co-author of Cold War Long Island. The book, co-written by Christopher Verga, delves into the often overlooked history of the Cold War era in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Grossman has specialized in investigative reporting in a variety of media for more than 50 years and has hosted the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up for over 30 years.