Homeowners should not automatically get the right to a second floor merely because of FEMA’s minimum elevations.

At Provisions in Sag Harbor, a woman entered the cafe area with a dog, which is against store policy, and ignored repeated requests to leave, finally stating that she would “burn this f***ing store down.” The owner got her name from a one-star review she left on Google later that day, and called police.

June is birthday month for the Rattrays. Chalk it up to the first chill nights of late summer and early fall putting people in the mood around here.

I tend to see the creatures who live in my immediate domestic orbit through a semi-comical anthropomorphized lens.

Once more unto a storied eatery at a Catskills crossroads.

East Hampton is home to a renowned Georgian artist, Sergo Tbileli, who has brought his native country’s art and culture to the forefront here.

Contamination was top of mind in the year 2000, from kids’ crayons to Sag Harbor’s Rowe Industries, a Superfund site at the time.

Watching home sales, it’s the pastime of the Hamptons.

Our readers have a lot on their minds, and this open forum to help them unload.

Six locations tested by Concerned Citizens of Montauk this week registered levels of enterococcus in the medium or high range, though most East Hampton Town sites tested showed low to no bacteria. 

Sal Salandra's erotic textile art not only inspired the film "Drunken Noodles," which recently played at Cannes, but a friendship with Dr. Ezriel Kornel, a neurosurgeon and actor who played the artist in the film.

A young couple's letters from World War II inspired "Bob & Jean: A Love Story," a play written by their son, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, now at Bay Street Theater.

"I Say Potato," a new show at the Bridgehampton Museum, takes a deep dive into the history and cultural manifestations of the tuber, including artworks, ephemera, and farming implements.

Suzanne Vega, whose new album, "Flying With Angels," feels "of the moment," will perform at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.

John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote the book for and starred in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" Off Broadway and on film, will take the stage at Guild Hall for an evening of songs and stories.

LongHouse Reserve will host a talk on the architecture of Central Park South and a conversation with a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist from Canada.

A new exhibition at the Clinton Academy illuminates the seven South Fork historic artists homes and studios so designated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Paid Notice: Henry Lohmann Murray died peacefully at his home in East Hampton, NY on Monday, May 26. He was 94. He had been a board member and treasurer of the East Hampton Library, trustee and chairman of the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton, and a founder of the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation who served as its chairman from 2002 to 2023 and was instrumental in the establishment of the East Hampton Healthcare Center, the Urgent Care Center, and the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department.

Paid Notice: Joan G. Lavinio of Southampton died peacefully at her home on May 21 at the age of 96 with her daughter and granddaughter at her side.

Writers and Artists hold forth in Amagansett, global music through a jazz lens, Laurie Anderson at The Church, lecture on Southern Plants for Northern Gardens.