EDGE Dallas

This season’s last issue of the Fire Island News marks the end of an era of sorts for this humble reporter.

Fire Island remains under a Hurricane Warning and a mandatory evacuation order in advance of Irene continues. The last ferries from Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove to Sayville will run at 11:50 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Thousands of LGBT people of color descended upon Cherry Grove this weekend for the ninth annual Fire Island Black Out, but a long-time Grove resident’s tragic death cast a somber shadow upon the beach.

It was a busy Saturday on Fire Island for this reporter-even if a fight at High Tea capped off what was otherwise a good day.

An intoxicating sunrise, a lucky hand and matrimonial illusions combined to create a magical night for this reporter at the Pines Party in Fire Island Pines over the weekend.

Some particularly sweet eye candy proved a bright spot during what can best be described as a calamitous weekend on Fire Island.

This Fire Island Dance Festival weekend on the beach certainly kept this reporter busy, but at the end of the day it was all about the dance.

A potential disaster in Cherry Grove was averted on Friday, July 8, when firefighters quickly extinguished a fire that had broken out in Xanadu’s guesthouse.

Independence Day on Fire Island would not be complete without hundreds of drag queens invading Fire Island Pines in the annual Invasion.

Fire Islanders’ joy over passage of the marriage equality bill in Albany late on Friday, June 24, was palpable on the beach over this Pride weekend.