Our 12 Most Popular Stories This Week

Summer calls for blue crabs, beers and beasts. LA Beasts, that is, consuming a whole watermelon (also something summer calls for). Summer is also Tales of the Cocktail season, and we somehow have a report of what happened down in New Orleans! You don't so much write about Tales as drag your face across your computer and see what it types. Back in New York, we traveled around South Brooklyn and got as close to our fill of barbecue as exists. Enjoy this week's most popular stories!