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Happiness in a Six-Ounce Confection

Levain Bakery’s chocolate chip walnut cookies should probably come with a warning label: These cookies are known by the State of New York to be highly addictive. Huge and gooey and packed with chocolate chips just this side of melting, they have been named to just about every best cookie list in New York, which helps to explain the famously long lines outside of Levain’s 74th Street and Amsterdam Avenue locations.

Jun 6, 2019
Ille Arts Gets Small

We are accustomed to seeing “small works” shows in the winter around the holidays, when people are thinking about gifts. The high season is typically known for larger, even colossal works, both in size and spirit.

Jun 6, 2019
Opinion: The Diva and the Underling

A new comedy-drama called “The Prompter” is getting its world premiere now through June 16 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The play might be what one calls a “grower” — that is, a work that is slow to build but keeps gaining momentum until, almost before you realize it, you find yourself in the emotional grip of its two-person cast.  

Jun 6, 2019
Optimistic Take on the Age Game

“Younger,” Darren Star’s delightful indulgence of a series that started off slowly on TV Land but has built its audience steadily year after year, primarily by word of mouth, is back for its sixth season, beginning Wednesday night.

Jun 6, 2019
Sag Cinema: Landis’s Lasting Laughs

The director John Landis is best known for his comedies, among them “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Trading Places,” “Three Amigos,” and “The Blues Brothers.” But that’s not why Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan turned to him to select the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s next film series.

Jun 6, 2019
Baldwin Goes Back to the DeLorean in a New Film

“Framing John DeLorean” will be screened by the Hamptons International Film Festival on June 8 at Guild Hall. Distributed by Sundance Selects, it will open in limited release in theaters and video on demand on Friday, June 7.

May 30, 2019
Bits and Pieces 05.30.19

HIFF focuses on caddies, Montauk Library celebrates female composers, Brazilian jazz at SAC, chamber music at Perlman

May 30, 2019
Lively Summer Begins Soon at the Art Barge

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, affectionately known as the Art Barge, has announced its summer classes, which will begin Monday with studio painting.

May 30, 2019
Opinion: Louche Charm in Quogue

Noel Coward’s 1930 play "Private Lives" is a tricky one. Written in three feverish days in a Shanghai hotel while Coward was bedridden with the flu, it has a sparky energy that’s laced with cruelty.

May 30, 2019
Tony Oursler Tony Oursler: Exploring Technology's Dark Arts

A distillation of Tony Oursler's "Tear of the Cloud" projections at Riverside Park in October will soon manifest itself at Guild Hall. "Water Memory" will be a museumwide exhibition devoted to the theme of water and how it has functioned as a vehicle for magical thinking throughout history.

May 30, 2019
Windmill Gallery to Celebrate Old East Hampton

“Picturing Old East Hampton: The Beginnings of an Art Colony” will open the Gardiner Mill Cottage Gallery on June 7.

May 30, 2019
The Art Scene 05.30.19

Solo shows at Duck Creek and Drawing Room, new gallery in Amagansett, big show in Sag Harbor church, Frank Wimberley in Chelsea, much more

May 29, 2019
ARF Transforms Its Thrift Shop Into a Designer Showcase

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will continue its tradition of opening up the South Fork high season with a benefit cocktail party and sale Saturday at its Thrift and Treasure Shop in Sagaponack.

May 23, 2019
Bay Street Theater Hopes to Build on Success

This summer Bay Street Theater will mount three world premiere plays, beginning Tuesday with previews for "The Prompter."

May 23, 2019
Bits and Pieces 05.23.19

A preview screening of "Late Night" with Emma Thompson, a Pete Seeger sing-along, and LongHouse on the lawn

May 23, 2019
Guild Hall's Season Starts with Flamenco, Streisand, and Comedy

It’s fitting that Guild Hall will kick off a summer full of music, plays, and comedy with “Call Her Barbra!” and a free workshop production of “Ball of Redemption,” a new dark family comedy by the actress Ellen Dolan.

May 23, 2019
The Art Scene 05.23.19

Group shows galore, tea at the Leiber Collection, tracing art history in Springs, a new Southampton gallery, and more

May 23, 2019
'Vantage Points' Opens Drawing Room Gallery

The Drawing Room Gallery is celebrating its new Main Street second floor gallery with a show of three photographers.

May 16, 2019
Bits and Pieces 05.16.19

Open gardens, tap dancing, and music, music, music

May 16, 2019
Candace Montgomery: Woven in Process and Politics

The recent weavings of Candace Hill Montgomery will launch this year's Parrish Art Museum Road Show at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum on Friday.

May 16, 2019
Noel Coward's 'Private Lives' in Quogue

The Hampton Theatre Company will open a production of Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, "Private Lives," written in three days while he convalesced from influenza during his travels abroad.

May 16, 2019
The Art Scene 05.16.19

Group show at Ashawagh, McGuinness at Harper's, glass artists at D'Amico, Crandell and Elliot at Studio 11, and more

May 16, 2019
Garden Fair Time in Bridge

The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will hold its 33rd annual Garden Fair at the Bridgehampton Community House this weekend.

May 14, 2019
Bits and Pieces 05.09.19

Opera at Guild Hall, standup at Bay Street, classical music at Parrish, open studios in Water Mill, and private gardens

May 9, 2019
Madoo Opens for the Season

On Saturday, when the Madoo Conservancy opens for the 2019 season, it will also celebrate 25 years as a public garden in Sagaponack with “Madoo: A History in Photographs.”

May 9, 2019
Pushing the Musical Envelope at Music for Montauk

Music for Montauk will open its fifth season under the leadership of Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky with “Endeavor,” a free concert by Sybarite 5, a string quintet, on Saturday afternoon at 4 at the Montauk School.

May 9, 2019
That's a Wrap for Tribeca

Those associated with the South Fork were involved in a good portion of the content presented at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.

May 9, 2019
The Art Scene 05.09.19

New exhibit at East Hampton Historical Society, four at Nightingale, Bob Colacello photos, cultural bus tour in Southampton

May 9, 2019
The Many Layers of Kimberly Goff

Given Kimberly Goff's varied pursuits and interests, how would she define herself? “I’m rarely introduced without the line ‘Elaine Benson’s daughter,’ which is fine with me. I am Elaine Benson’s daughter.”

May 9, 2019
Celebrating Eleanor Roosevelt at LTV

Blanche Wiesen Cook, who wrote one of the definitive biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt, will speak about her subject on Saturday as part of a daylong event to raise awareness of several initiatives involving the former first lady.

May 8, 2019