Registered voters in East Hampton and Southampton Towns have through Sunday to cast their ballots under New York State's early-voting provisions.

Alice McDermott’s new novel gives us remarkably realistic characters while fleshing out the zeitgeist of the 1960s as experienced by American women expats in Vietnam.

Francis Levy talks his new story collection, “The Kafka Studies Department,” while Brooke Kroeger and David Alpern discuss her book “Undaunted” and women in the history of journalism.

Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.

Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.

When Monday’s county Class AA high school boys soccer semifinal was over, and when it had sunk in that Huntington, the tournament’s third seed, had defeated second-seeded East Hampton 3-1 in a penalty kick shootout that followed almost two hours of riveting play, not only did Bonac’s players tear up, but so did their coach, Don McGovern.

“Shot in the Arm,” a new film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, looks at the fear, uncertainly, and politicization surrounding vaccinations and takes dead aim at the unproven arguments of the anti-vaxxers.

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible,” which used the Salem witch trials as an allegory targeting McCarthyism, is next up in Bay Street Theater’s Literature Live! series with two and a half weeks of public performances and daytime shows for school groups.

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky — but this isn't the Addams family we're talking about. They're the Social Skellies, a front-yard installation on Route 114 in East Hampton that started as a Halloween display in 2020 but has since become a platform for social commentary and parodies of pop-culture phenomena.

Hundreds of Montaukers and friends from nearby communities came together Monday afternoon — with friends calling friends calling friends, until the gazebo was nearly surrounded — to stand up against antisemitism, which reared its ugly head at dawn that day when swastikas and other hateful graffiti were discovered spray-painted in several places in the hamlet.

The Church has a talk by the founders of a local Spanish-language media organization and an evening of music and dance by local Latinx artists this weekend.

Dante Nero is a trained martial artist and Mike King is a pediatric dentist, but both will bring their comic chops to Bay Street Theater.

A classically trained Russian artist brings her complex surrealistic paintings to a Montauk gallery.

Solo shows for Jeremy Dennis, Pat Lipsky, and David Slater, quilting workshop at The Church in Sag Harbor, White Room Gallery moves to East Hampton.

Hamptons Doc Fest tickets on sale, Carl Safina plays jazz, Steve Taub talks television, and four comedians in a Southampton showcase in Bits.

Cool weather calls for the warmth and comfort of soup. This week’s "Seasons by the Sea" covers the history of soup and offers tips and recipes to make it at home.

The Matthiessen Center at Almond, a new discussion series at Armin and Judy, Thanksgiving orders, pizza returns to Nick and Toni’s, and much more in food news.

Reservations are now open for the Cormaria Retreat Center's afternoon high tea, which will take place on Thursday, Nov. 9, from 2 to 4 p.m.

An East Hampton Town Police dispatcher confirmed Monday morning that officers are on scene in Montauk investigating multiple incidents of antisemitic hate-crime vandalism.

East Hampton Town Hall's meeting room was standing room only on Thursday afternoon, and despite intense community pressure that nearly brought the chairwoman of the town's architectural review board to tears, the board voted 3-to-1 to deny an application by Rowdy Hall to paint the façade of its new location on Amagansett's Main Street black.