Once again, sharks have been making headline news. Whether it’s an aerial photo of one lurking close to a popular beach, a scrape with a bather, or a specimen caught from shore, every incident seems to be amplified on social media and other platforms more than ever before.

In many ways, the history of 303 Gallery is the history of the past few decades of art in America, and particularly of that halcyon mid-1980s moment from which so much of today’s art world still descends.

The sounds of America are ringing out at Guild Hall this summer. Last month, the arts and cultural center’s second annual Guitar Masters Festival saw intimate performances by the likes of Buddy Guy, the Allman Betts Band, and Roseanne Cash, and the blues phenomenon J.D. Simo opening for the progeny of the Allman Brothers Band.

There were a number of new restaurant openings this spring and summer that were worthy of interest and celebration, but to many, the most exciting, happy-news opening, or more like return-to-from-whence-they-came, was Bostwick’s on the Harbor.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's “Dvorak in the New World” was narrated by the author, playwright, and Stony Brook professor Roger Rosenblat and centered on a few years (1891-93) when the Czech composer was in the United States.

The Hamptons Dance Project was born on the sands of East Hampton’s Main Beach many years ago, after Jose Sebastian was adopted at the age of 3 but before he joined the American Ballet Theatre in 2010.

It’s well known that animals are disappearing at an alarming rate due to overharvesting, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution, and global climate change. "Sea of Change" is about something else, the rising incidence of wildlife crime.

In these dark times of global unrest and uncertainty, Guild Hall has decided to bring a little light into at least our corner of the world with “Sunny Days,” an exhibition of work by Ugo Rondinone, a renowned Swiss-born artist with a residence in Mattituck.