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Over-Building and the Environment

Builders seem driven by an investment mind-set, one that dismisses any sense of continuity and community scale in favor of more bedrooms, more square footage, and more amenities. Now a cross-section of East Hampton residents is demanding new limits.

The Mast-Head: Not Yet Rake Time

Only about a month remains in the village’s leaf-pickup program, and at this rate there will be nothing much to suck up.

The Shipwreck Rose: For the Birds

My children definitely don’t feel the sense of excitement we felt as children at the holidays. They’re quite blasé.

Gristmill: Two Commandments

L.A. story: eternal gratitude to that West Hollywood art house cinema for an introduction to Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Dekalog.”

Point of View: Dia de Muertos, Day of the Dead

On the Day of the Dead, I think about them, my immediate forebears.

Guestwords: Fractals in Our Far East

Dr. Robert Marshall’s metaphor of the fractals within a tree is useful in explaining the infinite patterns, and from there it’s a short leap to fractals in the arts.

The Way It Was for November 9, 2023

The poignancy of little kids taking pride in their 1898 classroom’s new flag and clock. A bronze plaque placed on a boulder in Montauk by the American Women’s Voluntary Services on Armistice Day in 1948. This was The Star of yore.

Letters to the Editor for November 9, 2023

A welcome invitation to check out the trees of LongHouse opens this week’s tranche of letters.

Welker Wins for County Legislator, Romaine for Executive

Tuesday night's unofficial results for Suffolk County races show Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine, a Republican from Center Moriches, prevailing in his bid for the county executive's seat, while Ann Welker, a Democrat and a sitting Southampton Town trustee, appears to have won the county legislator race in the second district.

Democrats Win Big in East Hampton Town

In a big night for East Hampton Town Democrats, Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez was elected supervisor Tuesday and will become the fourth woman to hold that post in the town’s history. With all 19 election districts reporting, the Suffolk County Board of Elections’ unofficial tally had Ms. Burke-Gonzalez and her running mates, Councilman David Lys and Tom Flight, cruising to victory over their Republican opponents.

Solidarity, Anger, and Heartache at Rally for Israel in East Hampton

Faced with the enormous task of helping people understand how to move forward after the Black Saturday attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, South Fork clergy offered a diversity of perspective at Sunday's Rally Israel and Peace at Herrick Park in East Hampton.

Open Mic Night in Bridgehampton

Poets, writers, songwriters, storytellers, and comedians are invited to an open mic on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

"No slammin', just jammin'," is the word. The event is for adults, teens, and children 9 and up.

Democratic Candidates Sweep Race for East Hampton Town Trustee

All seven of the incumbent East Hampton Town trustees were re-elected on Tuesday, and two new Democratic candidates, Patrice Dalton and Celia Josephson, will join them on the board, according to unofficial results posted by the Suffolk County Board of Elections. 

Beneath Secret Lives, More Secrets

With “The Helsinki Affair” Anna Pitoniak ventures into what John le Carré called the secret world, where spies can have lives even more hidden than those that come with their tradecraft — a potentially disastrous duality. 

LTV to Air Special Election Programming Tuesday

LTV, East Hampton's public-access television station, has announced a special slate of programming Tuesday night to highlight "the historical importance of our elections."

Skill, Care, and Simplicity in Every Bite

Isao Yoshimura learned how to cook and prepare sushi with one of the first sushi masters to come to America and is now a private chef on the East End.

Music to Solace and Sustain

The Reflections in Music series will bring "Sound & Spirit(s)," a concert conceived to bring solace during these trying times, to The Church in Sag Harbor.

Lichtenstein: The Centennial

Roy Lichtenstein’s centenary was marked the launch of the artists’s catalogue raisonne, a postage stamp, the declaration of Roy Lichtenstein Day in New York City, and the completion of the renovation of his former Manhattan studio into the home of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

Great Film Classics in Sag

Sag Harbor Cinema’s Festival of Preservation will feature everything from an animated short that began as a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney, to classics like Hitchcock’s “Spellbound,” Mervyn LeRoy’s “:Little Caesar,” a Vincent Price horror film, a Senegalese masterpiece, and more.

East Hampton Shines at Armory

East Hampton had a presence at the Art Dealers Association of America's “Art Show” in Manhattan with a series of paintings by East Hampton’s Joel Mesler, and a selection of work by Black artists from East Hampton shown by Eric Firestone Gallery.