For the last 81 and 67 years, annual end-of-the-year, or Christmas, bird counts have taken place without fail in two nearby areas, Quogue to Water Mill, and Central Suffolk. The tradition lives on and is increasingly revealing.

Police said Justin Williams, 23, of Middle Island cased the houses while working in the area.     

The 1979 suicide of Jean Seberg has been an inspiration to Margia Kramer and others after her series of art projects based on Seberg's F.B.I. surveillance files.

“Water/Ways,” a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution, will open at the Clinton Academy Museum in East Hampton on Saturday and remain on view through April 11.

The “Community Art Exhibition” at Grain Surfboards, hosted by the design group Stick + Stone, boasts an extended list of contributors, many from the surf and artist community here.

The death of a 14-year-old black girl in a June 1969 police-involved shooting in Omaha ignited three days of intense unrest there. Decades later, the biographic play “Vivian’s Music, 1969” focuses not on the death of Vivian Strong, but on her life.

The poet and professor Kimiko Hahn wonders in her new volume what sort of error it is to depend on stuff, as hoarder or as collector. Is it a societal problem of overconsumption? Or is it simply a behavior observable by a scientist?