Theresa Whelan, who had a long and distinguished law career on Long Island, died of cancer at East End Hospice in Westhampton Beach on Dec. 26. A resident of Wading River, she was 60.

A couple of professional historians cut through the agenda-driven amateurism that’s crippling civic discourse.

Margaret M. Johnson, author of 13 cookbooks, including "Teatime in Ireland," will talk about teacups at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Friday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. 

John Haubrich successfully juggles careers as a painter with a long exhibition resume, an art director at Fordham University, and, most recently, running a pop-up gallery in his studio.

A real-life drowning inspired Sam Wagner's screenplay about a haunted house on East Hampton's Middle Lane.

A new digital catalogue raisonne from Hauser & Wirth Institute illuminates the mature and later career of the Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline.

The Church will host the co-owners of Canio's Books, who will talk about the challenges of bookselling in the 21st century, and LayeRhythm, a New York dance troupe that will be in residence there.