Will Ryan, an East Hampton artist with a house on Maui, has organized two fund-raisers for the fire-ravaged community of Lahaina, a music concert at Stephen Talkhouse and an art auction at AB NY Gallery.

Opera is coming to Bay Street with Divaria Productions’ live multidisciplinary “Joan of Arc: The Opera,” and the return of The Met: Live in HD, starting with its premiere of a new production of “Dead Man Walking.”

Gabriele Raacke solo at Ashawagh, a retrospective for Sue Gussow at Cooper Union, Dennis Lawrence and Stephen Loschen at Lucore, Carl Bretzke and Viktor Butko at Grenning, and a documentary on three artists at Southampton Arts Center.

The Church will present music, writings and more from Taylor Barton and G.E. Smith, as well as a live podcast with Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood.

Parrish talk on the future of museums, glam jam, blues, and jazz at the Masonic Temple, auditions at Southampton Arts Center, nature’s sounds revealed at Guild Hall, Dylan tribute band at Bay Street, plant sale and talk in Bridgehampton, and more.

When a recovering breast cancer patient was in need of a healthy snack, her husband devised an organic, vegan, gluten-free protein ball, now in some 100 stores.

A new fall menu and Halloween party at Sole East, wood-fired pizzas in Sagg, a raclette party and harvest celebration at Bedell, Maidstone is open weekends, and more.

A federal jury convicted a Montauk fisherman on Wednesday of falsifying records in order to sell fluke and black sea bass in quantities that vastly exceeded legal limits. 

The long-awaited Fire Island to Montauk Point reformulation project, a coastal restoration and protection effort covering 83 miles of shoreline between Fire Island and Montauk Point, is set to begin this fall, with downtown Montauk to see the bolstering of its Atlantic Ocean beach with 450,000 cubic yards of sand dredged and pumped from an offshore site on Napeague during the winter or early spring. 

Heading east? You'll have your choice of activities in Montauk from the Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s Fall Festival to an open house at the firehouse and two days of extra fun at the Montauk Lighthouse.