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Bits and Pieces 02.02.23

Tue, 01/31/2023 - 13:14
Caroline Doctorow is next up in the Masonic Music Series in Sag Harbor.
Grover Gatewood

Judge and Rocker    
The Knowledge Friday series at The Church in Sag Harbor features local residents who are active in a variety of fields. Andrea Harum Schiavoni, an attorney and a judge, is also an actor who performs regularly on the East End and a singer who fronts a rock cover band called Eastbound Crossing! She will be the venue's next guest, Friday at 6 p.m.

Ms. Schiavoni succeeded her father as president of the Florida firm Harum & Harum in 1997. Four years later she opened an office in Sag Harbor, practicing as a New York State mediator. Since then she has served as a judge in Southampton Town Court, Sag Harbor Village Justice Court, and the East End Veterans Court. She now serves on the New York State Family Court.

Tickets are $10, free for members.

Doctorow at Masonic    
The singer-songwriter Caroline Doctorow will perform on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Music Series at the Sag Harbor Masonic Temple. In addition to 11 solo albums, she has received the Alexander Award from the Long Island Arts Council and a New York State Proclamation honoring her many years as a folksinger.

Ms. Doctorow recorded the first retrospective album featuring the songs of the 1960s folk icons Mimi and Richard Farina. Her own songs and voice have been heard on many soundtracks.

Tickets are $20.

Film Classics in Montauk
In a nod toward Valentine's Day, the Montauk Library's Fridays at Five classic film series will feature four romantic comedies during February. It starts Friday with Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night." The 1932 film, which stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, won five Academy Awards: best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and best adapted screenplay.

The series will continue on Friday, Feb. 10, with Howard Hawks's 1938 "Bringing Up Baby," featuring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn; Ernst Lubitsch's 1939 romantic comedy "Ninotchka" (Feb. 17), starring Greta Garbo and the recipient of four Oscar nominations, including best actress for Garbo, and "The Lady Eve" (Feb. 24), Preston Sturges's 1941 screwball comedy with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

Winter Gardening
Is February a good time to grow winter vegetables, start new plants from seeds, and force bulbs indoors for an early display? These are some of the questions that will be answered on Saturday morning at 10:30 during "It's Winter: Let's Start Gardening," the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons' next roundtable discussion at the Bridgehampton Community House.

The guest speaker at the free event will be Renato Stafford, an organic-growing consultant who specializes in the planning, design, and installation of year-round organic vegetable gardens and greenhouses.

Farther Afield
A rock-and-roll weekend is on tap at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead. Friday is '90s Alt-Rock Night, with the tribute bands Bombtrack, Nearvana, and Unglued bringing music to the venue from Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, and Stone Temple Pilots. Tickets are $53.

The Sixties Show will take over the stage on Saturday with a full multimedia concert experience including special effects, narration, and archival audio and newsreel footage, all to enhance note-for-note renditions of hits, B-sides, and deep cuts from the decade. Tickets range from $57 to $67.

Doors open at 7 for both shows; the music starts at 8.

New Foundation Head
John Giorno, a poet, performer, and visual artist who was an influential figure in the New York art scene for more than 50 years, lived in a house on the North Fork with his husband, the artist Ugo Rondinone, and had two sculptures installed in 2021 at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.

The John Giorno Foundation, established in 2020 to support Giorno's legacy, has announced the appointment of Anthony Huberman as both its executive director and the artistic director of The Bunker, Giorno's longtime residence on the Bowery, which has become a venue for cultural programming by the foundation.

Mr. Huberman comes to the post after 10 years as the director and chief curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco.

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