"The First Churchennial" features work by over 40 artists from different disciplines who have participated in The Church's unique residency program between 2021 and 2024.

David Ebner, an artist, craftsman, and studio furniture-maker, is showing five decades of work that reflects the wide range of styles, motifs, and materials he has explored.

"Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Radio Play" promises to bring fog, haze, lightning, even fangs and blood to the Southampton Arts Center.

Mary Ellen Bartley at The Church, Folioeast celebrates color, abstraction from Gerson Leiber, Michael McDowell at Ashawagh Hall, group show at Grenning.

Bellini opera at Guild Hall, Joni Mitchell tribute at Bay Street, jazz at the Masonic Temple, Montauk Library, and the Tractor Barn, new film from Lana Jokel.

"The Thanksgiving Play" at Hampton Theatre Company takes comic aim at well-meaning but culturally insensitive educators trying to create a holiday pageant.

Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" is an absurdly comical allegory about the rise of fascism that's as appropriate today as when it was written in 1959.

The age-old flip book format becomes a work of art in the hands of Soren Hope, who has a show in Manhattan.

Carl Safina talks to Caroline Sutton about her book of nature essays, and the M.F.A. program at the college throws open its doors, with a reading to boot.

Wine Wednesday Workshops have returned to Nick and Toni's restaurant, and Loaves and Fishes in Sagaponack offers high-quality, homemade baby food.

Next month, Maxim Bellenoue will become likely the first East Hampton High School student ever to run in the New York City Marathon, and will be among the youngest of the more than 55,000 runners expected to take part. 

The annual Tyler Valcich Memorial Car Show happens on Sunday at the Amagansett Firehouse.

Five months after Montauk voters rejected a $38 million capital bond for the district’s nearly century-old school, the superintendent and a member of the school board pitched a somewhat scaled back proposal that they plan to put to voters via a December referendum.

It seems that journalists aren’t the only people who watch town meetings — scammers do as well. And the information they collect has apparently been used to send invoices to applicants seeking approval for building projects before the town planning board or the zoning board of appeals.

A group of filmmakers, runners, walkers, and spectators will meet at Gubbins Perfect Fit in East Hampton Friday at 8 a.m. for a community 5K run and walk to Main Beach and back that is connected to the Hamptons International Film Festival screening of the documentary “Remaining Native.”

“I don’t feel like anybody can put me in a box,” said J.P. Foster, the sole Republican candidate for East Hampton Town Board this year. “I don’t feel like I fit in a Democrat or a Republican box. I fit in an East Hampton box. If there was an independent box, that’s where I’d be.”

The East Hampton Town Board was cautiously supportive this week of placing further restrictions on short-term rentals. “We are looking at commercial investments in our residential districts by investors who only seek to make profit and are not looking at being part of this community at all,” said Councilwoman Cate Rogers.

For the second straight year, the East Hampton Town budget will pierce the state-mandated 2-percent cap, shooting to nearly $110 million.

Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker, a Democrat who is seeking a second term in the 2nd District, and her Republican challenger, Raheem Soto, spoke of their records and policy agendas in a debate hosted by the League of Women Voters on Monday.

Michael Hansen, a Democrat, and Jeff Miller, a Republican, made their pitches to Wainscott voters as they run to succeed Carole Brennan as town clerk, while Cate Rogers and Ian Calder-Piedmonte of the town board addressed issues of local concern.