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I’ve received an unusual number of emails questioning my Russian heritage.

East Hampton’s 12-U Little League team fought its way into the District 36 final by besting the North Shore Americans on July 3.

On the East Hampton Indoor-Outdoor Tennis Club’s 30th anniversary, Scott Rubenstein, its progenitor and managing partner, took stock of his 52 years in the business.

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The cooler is stocked with Topo Chico and watermelon slices. The umbrella is staked deep into the sand, and you've settled into your sling chair. Now all you need's a good read. Here's our suggestion of a dozen set right here on the South Fork.

From fishing equipment to cassette-tape converters — karaoke machines to clown-shaped cake pans — East End libraries are lending more than just books.

A uniquely American art form fills the air this month and into September, as Hamptons JazzFest returns. But what casual listeners may not know is just how rich the jazz legacy is here.

Meet Anita Fagan: former pharmacy clerk, James Dean fan, and outsider artist.

Edward Tyler Huntting Jr. of Huntting Lane, East Hampton, grew up playing tennis at the Maidstone Club. He was tall and handsome, graduated from East Hampton High School in 1952, and was a Theta Chi fraternity man at Bucknell University. He was a veteran who did two stints in the Army, then worked as an executive salesman on the road between Chicago and San Francisco. He had an acerbic wit.

The Wainwrights’ roots run deep on the East End of Long Island. “On my father’s side,” the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright says, “my family has been in East Hampton for 100 years or something. I have many second and third cousins who live out here.”

We hold the following truths to be self-evident and the following rights, for the residents of the South Fork, to be inalienable.

The photorealistic swimmer serenely swanning on our red, white, and blue cover is by Elise Remender, an artist who shows her sunshine-soaked paintings — with an old-school-Hollywood Technicolor filter — at the White Room Gallery in East Hampton.

The images from Nat Ward's four-summer informal residency at Ditch Plain resulted not just in a recent exhibition at Second House Museum, but also in a book of photographs, both titled DITCH: MONTAUK, NY 11954.

On the 50th anniversary of her father's famous novel, Caroline Doctorow has put together a multimedia event that illuminates her father, the novel, and how its themes resonate today more than ever.

Joy Behar's new comedy, "My First Ex-Husband," brings "razor sharp wit, charm, and charisma" to Bay Street Theater.

The Fireplace Project in Springs will open its final season there with solo exhibitions of work by Lana Kova and Curtis Kulig.

Guild Hall will host a chamber music recital, a conference on landscape architecture and interior design, a visit from the Dogist and lots of canines, and a talk about "Saturday Night Live."

The work of six abstract painters is coming to Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

Maidstone Market, the Tuesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league’s perennial power, didn’t look that powerful in its first game, but was back to dominant form in the next.