The annual Box Art Auction for East End Hospice will feature imaginative yet portable art by 80 professional artists.

Ugo Rondinone at Madoo, gestural abstraction at Harper's, James Katsipis in SoHo, plein-air painting workshops, Abby Abrams solo in Springs, two shows in Montauk.

Music festival benefit, John Turturro in Southampton, Tony Yazbeck at Bay Street, jazz in Southampton and Montauk, Bow Wow Meow Ball for ARF.

Seafood paella is dished up every Wednesday evening at the fish farm on Napeague for as long as the weather permits.

Two documentaries celebrate an unsung hero of the Holocaust and a vibrant group of senior citizens.

The Yvonne Rogers Quartet will perform a free concert at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs.

The Hampton Lifeguard Association finished an impressive fifth in the United States Life Saving Association's national tournament in California last week, but the biggest news coming out of the tourney was that four of H.L.A.'s U-19s qualified to compete for the U.S. team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in New Zealand.

Nature’s next dazzling light show is the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks Tuesday and Wednesday this week with prime viewing opportunities at two East End state parks.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very little fishing this season. But I have a good reason.