A Beatles song introduced Gian Carlo Feleppa to the sitar, and the multi-instrumentalist and Springs music teacher has never looked back.

A grant for the D'Amico Studio, a printing workshop at The Church, an artist talk at Guild Hall, and new shows at the White Room and Ashawagh Hall.

If weather forecasts are to be trusted, the next few nights will be clear, making the brightest comet of the year visible due west, shortly after sunset. The comet is in an Oort cloud on an 80,000-year orbit of the sun. 

If weather forecasts are to be trusted, the next few nights will be clear, making the brightest comet of the year visible due west, shortly after sunset. The comet is in an Oort cloud on an 80,000-year orbit of the sun. 

Have a family heirloom, a special estate sale find, or another treasure that seems valuable? Specialists from Doyle, a New York auction house, will be at the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran House on Friday to offer auction estimates for watches and silver, paintings and prints, and jewelry.

The doctors behind Hamptons Boutique Medicine have launched Dune Spice, a source for spices, pastries, desserts, and Turkish coffee on Main Street in Bridgehampton.

Wine classes at Park Place, special menus from 1770 House and Elaia Estiatorio, and Thanksgiving options from the Cookery and Amber Waves.

Terrence McNally's comedy "It's Only a Play" takes dead-aim at Broadway reviews, critics, actors, celebrities, and wannabes.

A long-running oral history-photography/film project elicits the views of East End women on two historic elections.

A Swiss man was pronounced dead at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after going missing in the water near Gibson Lane Beach in Sagaponack on Oct. 4 around 3:30 p.m.

Guild Hall will screen a military-centered contemporary opera from the Met, and Benedict Cumberbatch as "Hamlet" from London's National Theater.

Sundance prize-winner at the Parrish, sneak preview screening at Bay Street, book talk at The Church, classical piano in Montauk, jazz and rock at the temple.

A multidisciplinary adaptation of Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly," including narration and choreography, is coming to Bay Street.

The season for blackfish opened Friday for those who fish in Long Island Sound. Like calamari? Then head to Montauk. The night bite has been pretty consistent of late.

The Suffolk County Department of Public Works will share information and seek comments on traffic mitigation on County Road 39 on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Southampton High School at 141 Narrow Lane.

People across the South Fork, and indeed much of the northern part of the United States, were treated to a vivid display of the aurora borealis on Thursday night, prompting many to look out their windows, pull over their cars, post pictures on Instagram, and wonder: Why? Next question: Will they be visible again Friday night?

On Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the downtown green, there will be farmers market vendors, activities for kids, bands, beer and wine, a silent auction, and, on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m., the popular clam chowder contest.

Paid Notice: Elizabeth (Beth) Browne Bennett, a longtime resident of East Hampton, peacefully left this life to be with The Lord on March 3, 2024. She passed away in her home in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team, said this week that the team, whose record stood at 5-3-1 as of Monday, was “in the hunt for a playoff spot.” 

In the First Assembly District, a key difference between the candidates — Southampton Town Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, Stephen Kiely, the Shelter Island Town attorney — came into focus about halfway through a debate sponsored by the local chapter of the League of Women’s Voters on Oct. 7.