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Gristmill: Slip Sliding Away

The weirdness of the Beijing Winter Olympics was perfectly mirrored by the intricacies and dead zones of NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

Feb 24, 2022
Point of View: Encore! Encore!

Continuing in the same vein as last week, more excerpts from “Five Characters in Search of an Editor,” read 50 years ago at Guild Hall.

Feb 17, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslaved

Four years ago when a few of us began looking into early East Hampton’s relationship with slavery, we were met with a cocked head and some variation of “We don’t have anything about slavery.”

Feb 17, 2022
Gristmill: Talking to Coltrane

Two essential graphic novels on the occasion of Black History Month.

Feb 17, 2022
A vintage typewriter-cleaning kit from the midcentury office The Shipwreck Rose: Desk Set

The news keeps reporting studies that conclude remote work is more productive work, but those studies are clearly incorrect.

Feb 17, 2022
Gristmill: No Free Lunch

This sounds cheap, but I’d like to protest the disappearance of soup and sandwiches at the mobile New York Blood Center drives.

Feb 10, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Country Social

Facebook is more interesting in Nova Scotia.

Feb 10, 2022
Point of View: Crypt Yields Antic Script

It’s funny, but when you’re looking for something, something else, something that you had given up looking for years ago, turns up.

Feb 10, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslavers

Black History Month has been busy here in recent years, since The Star and the East Hampton Library began looking into the history of slavery in earnest in the summer of 2017.

Feb 10, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Napoleon Brandy

My career on the stage was short and inglorious.

Feb 3, 2022
Point of View: Finding Warmth in Winter Days

Rather than kind acts, it’s the failures to act kindly that I tend to remember.

Feb 3, 2022
The Mast-Head: Dumb Stuff on Main Street

Road rage: Nine out of 10 people say they don’t have it. Actually, I have no idea if that’s true; I just made up the statistic to get your attention. But the subject has been on my mind a lot lately.

Feb 3, 2022