“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.

The seventh-seeded West Islip Lions came in loaded for bear here Thursday afternoon, hoping that, somehow, they could upset the county Class AA tournament’s second seed, East Hampton. But, despite the fact that the visitors contested every ball, and pretty much matched the Bonackers when it came to corner kicks and free kicks, East Hampton emerged the winner, by 1-0, and will play third-seeded Huntington here Monday.

Lois Erdmann Wright, who had close relationships with Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie" of Grey Gardens fame, was "an intimate witness to the eccentricities of aristocracy," according to her family. Ms. Wright, an author and longtime LTV host, died of cardiopulmonary arrest and failure to thrive on Oct. 13 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. A nearly lifelong resident of East Hampton, she was 95.

A night of fright happens at the East Hampton Library on Saturday for adults and children 12 or older, and the aim is to get visitors quaking in their boots.

The Springs Food Pantry’s annual Chowdah Chowdown fund-raiser will happen under a tent at Ashawagh Hall on Saturday from noon to 3. Ticket holders get unlimited chowder, wine from Channing Daughters Winery, draft beer from Springs Brewery, and to-go containers.

Facing continued criticism from teaching assistants over what they say are unfairly low salaries — wages they also say were lowered without warning this year — the Springs School District has begun negotiating raises with the teaching assistants’ union, a year ahead of the usual schedule, while also performing a full audit of employee payroll.

There’s a lot we expect from our local governments, but East Hampton Village may be the only municipality that has a candy assistance program to help residents meet the high cost of handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween.