A short film brings new friends to The Church, filmed drama at East Hampton Library, saxophone virtuoso at the Parrish, "It's a Wonderful Life" radio plays on both forks, and the Watermill Center now accepting residency applications.

Kiki Smith print to benefit Pollock-Krasner House, new art in the Leiber Sculpture Garden, closing reception for "A Celebration of Trees," solo shows in Southampton, and Conceptual Art revisited in TriBeCa

Claudia Fleming dives into the sweet and savory, Ina Garten leans into no-fuss cooking, and Katie Lee Biegel counts on creative twists to shake up simple recipes in recent cookbooks.

If it's Hanukkah, there must be potato latkes, brisket, and doughnuts, and Rowdy Hall, Nick and Toni's, and L&W Market are offering those specials and many more.

The special holiday feasts, both to go and on site, just keep coming, this week from Nick and Toni's, Lulu Kitchen and Bar, Rowdy Hall, Almond, Townline BBQ, the Cookery, and L&W Market.

Beulah Pollock tells marvelous stories of a childhood in the English countryside, her acting days, the good times she had with her late husband. But when asked what kind of advice she has to offer younger generations, she gets a bit shy and denies having any. In describing a life lived to the fullest, though, some tidbits of unintentional wisdom revealed themselves.

As a weird cheating scandal rocks the game at its highest levels, kids take to chess in increasing numbers. Tom Gogola reports on opportunities for the next generation of players.

You’d recognize a bright Lilly Pulitzer shift at 100 paces — but do you know who actually created those magical Palm Beach-to-Southampton prints?

Here’s an old photograph that will call out — like the sound of echoing ice, crack! — to those who spent the winter afternoons of their adolescence cruising Town Pond on skates as the sun went down. It’s a Saturday or Sunday, we’d wager, and — judging by the Fair Isle sweaters, the fuzzy earmuffs, the cut of the jeans — probably around 1980.

Let's revive the midwinter house party, pre-millennium style.