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.

The Sag Harbor Whalers celebrated July Fourth by routing the Shelter Island Bucks 16-6 at Mashashimuet Park, “shattering a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League single-game record with 20 walks.” Plus, Kenny Wood’s son, James, is now an M.L.B. All-Star.

Memories of a weird, egalitarian “Panathon” road race, and happy times at the Montauk Lighthouse Sprint Triathlon.

The Star's indefatigable food writer explores the new gourmet food stores and finds an awful lot to love.

Lee Roy Reams, an actor, singer, and dancer, celebrates his friendship with Lauren Bacall, while the Django Festival Allstars pay tribute to the music of Django Reinhardt.

HIFF reveals festival poster, jazz and tango in Southampton, benefits for LongHouse, OLA, and Bay Street, Jake Lear brings the blues.

The East Hampton Historical Society's annual Antiques and Design Show benefit will feature antiques, prints, art, furniture, and more from 50 dealers.

Artist talk in Springs, analyzing Bourgeois's spiders, classic car recreations at the Parrish, outdoor sculpture in Southampton, painting classes, blue-chip artists in new exhibition space.

A series of poetry readings lands in a choice location in Springs on Tuesday, as Rosalind Brenner, Dee Slavutin, Walter Donway, and Linda Opyr read from their work, with a museum tour and refreshments.

Pizza and spirits return to Cedar Point Park, Crazy Pizza, La Goulue Sur Mer, and Lucky's Steakhouse debut on the East End, while Mavericks Montauk offers high-end ingredients for takeout.

Luis Gonzalo Barrionuevo-Fuertes, the 18-year-old East Hampton High School graduate who was driving the car involved in a fatal accident in Springs on the evening of June 15, is scheduled to have his first appearance in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead on Wednesday morning, and faces a long list of new criminal charges.

Guild Hall in East Hampton kicks off its summer series of KidFest shows this week with Mario the Maker Magician on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Described as "contagiously upbeat and full of heart," Mario the Maker's shows are "an all-ages theater experience," according to Guild Hall. 

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will hold its Summer Fair — now in its 110th year — on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.