A seven-minute film made 30 years ago generated a fascinating and frequently entertaining 75-minute discussion about architecture and the architect-client relationship at the Parrish Art Museum.

Art Groove returns; RJD's annual art show for The Retreat; Walsh on Walsh, women realists at Grenning, and much more

Film screenings of "Wall Street" and "Free Solo," a "Star Is Born" concert, and a salute to Danny Kaye

Memorial Day is more than six weeks away, but it’s never too early to secure tickets for some shows and programs. Witness the return of the comedian Paula Poundstone to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on May 25. As of press time, only a handful of seats remain for what is certain to be a sold-out performance.

Our Fabulous Variety Show’s pleasing revival of “Art,” playing through Sunday at Guild Hall, quite literally offers us a small play about big issues.

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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

Although I have been known to carry on about how wonderful it is to live in a house that has been in the family for generations, and to answer proudly that “it came with the house” when someone asks about the provenance of some object or other, the other side of this seeming attachment to history and old things is, simply put, a deep-seated resistance to change.

There are many more dandelions in flower around East Hampton Village this spring than I can remember. This may be in part due to Village Hall’s decision to switch to no-toxin landscaping. But I also like to think it is in part the legacy of Matthew Lester, a young man who died way too soon, who loved nature and in particular, bees.

“Physically, I’m in decent shape, it’s my mental condition that worries me,” I said to my doubles partner the other day, and she, concurring, said that tennis was indeed “a mental game.”

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Ernst A. Ebsen of Montauk died at the Westhampton Care Center last Thursday. He was 88. A memorial ser­vice will be announced by his family. An obituary for him will appear in a future issue.

Montauk School District voters will have an opportunity to vote on a nearly $7.5 million expansion and renovation project next week.

Alarmingly, the White House appears intent on creating conditions for armed conflict in the Mideast by escalating a confrontation with Iran.

In the annals of jaw-dropping East Hampton political miscalculation, the bugging of the town trustees office is a new low.