Paul Harding longlisted, Richard Brockman as survivor, Fran Castan and Canio Pavone read.

The wood sculptures of Jonathan Shlafer range from tall and sinewy to squat and abstract, tribalistic totems to biomorphic forms, all raw and unfinished, allowed to carry on a dialogue with nature’s weathering forces.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's full schedule has interviews of Paul Simon and Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro," and much more.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's full schedule has interviews of Paul Simon and Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro," and much more.

The current exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center, "Change Agents: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World," is a many layered thing. If ever an exhibition shared a multiplicity of viewpoints, backgrounds, and ideas, this would be it, even if its curators' focus is narrowed to artwork procured solely by women.

The Sag Harbor Song Festival will bring six young opera stars to The Church in Sag Harbor for three programs of opera, operetta, musical theater, and more, with music ranging from Mozart and Verdi to Sondheim and Sonny Bono.

Offshore Art & Film will bring three days of screenings, artworks, and panel discussions to Montauk.

Bay Street Theater will host the Hamptons Comedy Festival, featuring four master comics, and present “Speak to Me,” the next entry in the ongoing Black Film Festival.

The Montauk Fire Department will have a blood drive on Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m. at the firehouse, 12 Flamingo Avenue.

Indigenous music and Shinnecock celebration at Duck Creek, classical pianist and Joe Delia at the Montauk Library, auditions for the Choral Society of the Hamptons, dance-cinema in Southampton, four-hands piano recital.

A “bird happening” at the Leiber Collection, Indigenous weaving workshop in Bridgehampton, Amy Wickersham solo, group shows at Ashawagh and the Ranch, artist talk at Guild Hall.

Oktoberfest returns to Rowdy Hall, Ruby Murray’s delivers, pop-ups at Rosie’s, “Two Jews Making Food” go on the road, football at Corey Creek on Sundays.

A 63-year-old homeless woman was arrested late Sunday afternoon after a standoff with police in which she barricaded herself into a house in the Pine Neck neighborhood in Noyac, Southampton Town police said Monday.

If the giant blue globe full of gas were still there, someone would paint a smile on it. Just in time for HarborFest, the so-called "gas ball lot," where the globe once sat, but which has since become a 93-space parking lot of importance, will remain open after the village and Adam Potter, the developer who is to gain control of the lot on Saturday, came to an agreement Thursday evening.

Adam Nagler has raised $175,000 to support mental health by logging 3,500 offshore stand-up paddling miles over the past four summers, ending his latest solo ocean-borne trek, the Wicked 1000, at Vanderveer Marina’s launching ramp at the head of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton. 

East Hampton High’s field hockey team was at the top of Division II’s standings Monday morning, with wins over Pierson (Sag Harbor), Smithtown West, and Southampton already under its belt.

If you fish in saltwater in New York and are over the age of 16, you must possess a free Department of Environmental Conservation marine registry permit. But now the marine registry may soon cease to exist, as the D.E.C. is considering a fee-based license for fishing in the state’s marine waters.

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East Hampton’s boys soccer team had its first loss of the season on Friday to Comsewogue, but the players were quick to shake it off, routing New Rochelle 7-1 in a nonleague game played at Jericho High School on Saturday.

Scoring in every quarter, the East Hampton High School football team cruised to a 32-8 home-opening victory over Rocky Point Saturday. Hauppauge is next.