Alastair Gordon, an award-winning critic and cultural historian, will be at LongHouse Reserve to talk about the life, work, and ideas of Buckminster Fuller.

In Adam Ross’s “Playworld,” the fictional family of four seems as fully rendered as the 1980 New York City he meticulously details, and the result is at once unsettling, relatable, and funny.

The East Hampton Library’s Authors Night fund-raiser will bring to the village’s Herrick Park a hundred authors working across all genres.

Four poets will read from their work in the gardens of the Leiber Collection in Springs on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers lithographs, Fireplace Project to close, solo show at Lucore, Rozeal and Nathan Slate Joseph at Keyes, group show at Grenning, Zacharias retrospective.

Norman Jaffe and Hamptons Modernism, opera at the Leiber Collection, chamber music concert in Bridgehampton, Mozart and more at the cultural center.

Frankie's Pizzeria Italiano is now serving Roman-style pizzas, pastas, main courses, and more, at its new East Hampton location.

Seventy-five artists have been selected for the 58th annual Springs Invitational exhibition, which is now on view at Ashawagh Hall.

Construction could begin as early as this fall on a new, Federal Emergency Management Agency-compliant, 20-foot-high dune at Ditch Plain in Montauk following the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's approval of a permit for the coastal restoration project.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Thursday for downstate New York and Long Island in advance of heavy rain and localized flooding forecasted to hit the areas in the evening. 

The East Hampton Village Foundation will recognize the village’s first responders at a fund-raiser on Aug. 13 at Swifty’s, the restaurant at the Hedges Inn.

The pace at which Lenny Ackerman moves belies his 86 years. The prominent East End attorney writes a weekly column for The Mountain Messenger, has taken up painting, and has just published his fourth book.

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photo Collection at the East Hampton Library shows the A.O. Jones Hardware Store at 51 Newtown Lane. Owned by Asa O. Jones (1857-1953), it later became East End Hardware and today is A.L.C., a clothing store.

Neighbors of a Beach Hampton couple who live at 183 Marine Boulevard in Amagansett made it known to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on July 22 that they would be no happier living near a house 10 feet higher than it is now whether its roof is gabled or flat. 

For her just-released science-fiction novel, “Black Hole Highway,” Georgia Flight, an East Hampton High School English teacher, drew inspiration from stories like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Star Wars,” and the work of Kurt Vonnegut — whimsical, fun to read, and not weighed down by extensive passages of “dreary” world-building.

Men in tactical police gear, at least two carrying rifles and at least one masked, converged on an Amagansett house on Monday evening in what the East Hampton Town police chief said was “a criminal investigation conducted by multiple federal law enforcement agencies, and was not solely an immigration case.” 

Lee Zeldin, who represented New York’s First Congressional District from 2015 to 2023 and is now the administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, was heckled and admonished by climate activists at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, in a chaotic scene that turned violent.

In a surprise announcement on Monday, LTV, which operates East Hampton Town’s public access channel, announced that Michael Clark, its executive director since October 2019, has resigned. Jonathan Olken, chairman of LTV’s board of directors, has also resigned, and Ellen Watson, LTV’s longtime operations manager, is soon to retire.

The Amagansett Village Improvement Society will tip its collective hat to Joan Tulp on Saturday. “I don’t think I’ve met anyone more committed to their hometown than Joan,” said Victor Gelb, who serves as co-president of the group with her.

A drunken neighbor tossed a chicken wing off a deck and “almost struck one of his children” late Saturday night, a Montauk Highway renter told police, which led to a “brief argument” between the parties, though he said the neighbor and his partner later came over and “attempted” to apologize.