"Couples Squared" at the Southampton Arts Center focuses on the interplay between creative partners.

We are in full-scale summer mode as August approaches. In Montauk stripers are still running, and the same is true for fluke and a plethora of undersize sea bass.

Coming up this weekend are the two-mile, one-mile, and half-mile ocean challenge swims at Kirk Park Beach benefiting the Montauk Playhouse, and Jordan’s Run, a 5K road race in Sag Harbor that commemorates Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter.

The Kraken pitched well, fielded well, and hit well in Sunday’s Hamptons Adult Hardball League’s championship series opener against the East End Ospreys at the Bridgehampton School.

Vanessa Rizzo, 14, and Matteo Somma, 17, won races here over the weekend. Somma, who lives in Malverne, topped a field of 443 in the Montauk Lighthouse sprint triathlon, and Rizzo of Sagaponack won the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s Run-Swim-Run at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach.

One Saturday, two book talks: a tale of Dutch Nazi resistance from John Tepper Marlin at the East Hampton Library, and thoughts on all things Montauk from Bill Akin at the Montauk Library.

Concerts by Grace McLean and Torres are coming to The Church, as is Frank Bruni, whose talk is sold out (but there's a waiting list).

Mardi Gras party at the Talkhouse, Watermill Center honors Lucinda Childs, Nancy Atlas at the Masonic Temple, Guerrilla Girls at LTV, and more.

Mardi Gras party at the Talkhouse, Watermill Center honors Lucinda Childs, Nancy Atlas at the Masonic Temple, Guerrilla Girls at LTV, and more.

A concert of music by Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem — and Schubert — will be performed by students from Curtis Institute of Music and its president.

Guild Hall's "Stirring the Pot" culinary conversation series will launch with Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park.

Smoky Buns has various types of smash burgers, a blackened fishwich, vegetarian options, and 50 bourbons and whiskeys.

A new outdoor terrace and bar at Arthur & Sons, tiki time at Coche Comedor, and a beer release from Kidd Squid for ARF.

A new outdoor terrace and bar at Arthur & Sons, tiki time at Coche Comedor, and a beer release from Kidd Squid for ARF.

The Drawing Room has Costantino Nivola's carved concrete sculptures, sandcast reliefs, and marble and bronze forms.

Artists in the Leiber Garden, Parrish panel on the state of the art world, a call for artists from the Warhol Visual Arts Program, and more.

The Road Forward Scholarship Fund's recent fund-raiser, Cabaret for a Cause at LTV Studios in Wainscott, was a resounding success with 150 people attending and $186,000 raised for scholarships.

Expect delays on Route 114 between East Hampton and Sag Harbor from Monday through Friday, July 26, as New York State creates new turning lanes at Goodfriend Drive. 

The 911 system for East Hampton Town and Village is operational despite the global outage of Microsoft-based technology and systems that impacted hospitals and emergency services in other regions Friday morning and also grounded planes and disrupted banking and broadcasting.

Residents of the East Hampton Village Manufactured Home Community on Oakview Highway say they are frustrated at the frequency and duration of recurring power outages over the last several years, and are taking action to encourage the community's management company to finally solve the problems.