“It wasn’t a beautiful game,” Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, said on leaving the field after last Thursday’s 2-0 loss — the first of the league season for the Bonackers — to Half Hollow Hills West.

Solutions to problems, political opinions, and more from Star readers this week.

It’s been a long, long time since we actually were amped about a candidate for political office, but we are very much amped for John Avlon as a stellar candidate here in the First Congressional District.

Turnout is what ultimately determines tight elections. To a great extent, the idea of swing voters is outdated in these highly polarized times. What matters now is which party can get more of its side off the couch than the other.

The clock is ticking down to Election Day, Nov. 5. Are you ready? Today is a good day to make extra sure there’s no snafu.

There is a certain kind of camaraderie that occurs at the counter of the beer store that I believe happens nowhere else.

For all those curious about recent real estate transactions on the South Fork, this week's recorded deed transfers.

I learned from a cheap book I read once on dream decoding, back when we read books, that if you dream of swimming or of the sea that what you are really dreaming about is your subconscious.

Rediscovering the pleasures of AM radio.

Plastics come from multiple sources and have been accumulating in the environment for at least 70 years, since they came into our lives.

With a site-specific installation at Guild Hall, a shout-out from Artnet News for his booth at the Spring/Break NYC art fair, and artworks at Chanel stores worldwide, Peter Dayton is on an extended roll.

The story behind the foresight and planning that left us so much public land for our collective enjoyment. Stories, plural, actually, and 27 distinct histories.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's slate of programs will include films by Steve McQueen, Pedro Almodovar, Mike Leigh, Steven Soderbergh, and star turns by Angelina Jolie, Julianne Moore, Cillian Murphy, and Colman Domingo.

The Sag Harbor Cinema's Booksmart series will feature three films inspired by or adapted from literature—and one by DC Comics.

The 21st Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons will screen three feature films with themes of heroism, strength, and resilience at four East End venues.

Terrence McNally's two-character "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," the story of an unlikely romance, will have six performances at the Clubhouse.

Lidewij Edelkoort will receive the first Larsen Textile Award at LongHouse and talk about rugs, carpets, and design in the global South.

Textile tour of New York, group shows from Folioeast, Ma's House, Lucore Art, and LTV, solo shows at Ashawagh and Keyes Art.

Dulce Sloan of "The Daily Show" at Guild Hall, Vegas lounge act parody at Bay Street, rock opera at LTV, auditions for the Choral Society.

Oktoberfest specials at Rowdy Hall, benefit for East End Food, Artists’ Table in Water Mill, wine dinners at the Ram’s Head Inn.