In addition to five world premiere screenings, this year’s Hamptons Film Festival will include “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” a documentary by Alex Gibney, and a new drama by Todd Haynes starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.

Sag Harbor Hills will be the site of Celebrating Creatives of Color, an art show and book-signing featuring work by 24 Black painters, photographers, jewelry-makers, ceramicists, and writers.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek will conclude its summer exhibition schedule with landscape paintings by Sue McNally that focus more on process than depiction, and ceramics by Ted Tyler that incorporate materials such as copper, wax, and stone.

A discussion about “toxic achievement culture,” a performance by the Harlem Gospel Choir, and a program of short documentaries are coming to the Southampton Arts Center.

The Sag Harbor Cinema is screening three boxing films, “Girlfight” with Michelle Rodriguez, “Hard Times” with Charles Bronson and James Coburn, and Luchino Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers.”

James Brooks panel at Parrish, Alice Hope at the Drawing Room, Georgica Pond images, performance at Dia Bridgehampton, rethinking portraiture in Los Angeles. Dalton Portella solo in Montauk, and more.

Charlie Parker celebration and Greek drama workshop at Bay Street Theater, piano master concert and American Songbook show at LTV, auditions at Hampton Theatre Company, classical concert series at LongHouse, violin recital at Perlman Music Program.

The new Vin Sur Vingt Bistro in Sag Harbor has terrific French food, a creative wine list, efficient service, lively ambiance, and, for "the Hamptons," reasonable prices.

The co-founders of Carissa’s Bakery will speak at The Church, a rosé celebration at Wolffer, a white day at Si Si restaurant, sparkling wine and potato chips on the North Fork, tomato madness in Sagaponack, and a new brew.

Main Beach will be the place to be on Saturday night when the East Hampton Fire Department hosts its annual fireworks show. The Sag Harbor Community Band will provide the music for the evening, starting at 7. Fireworks will be set off at dusk.

“When you think about a country that could be defined as divided, you come out here and it reminds you of our great history,” Governor Hochul said at a ribbon-cutting Wednesday in Montauk to celebrate the completion of several restoration projects strengthening and preserving the iconic 18th-century structure.

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Our Fabulous Variety Show's first Kids Night Out is Friday, giving school-aged children a chance to have fun while parents and guardians "get a night off" themselves.

The East Hampton School Board at its meeting Tuesday night rehired Bill McKee to coach the high school’s varsity boys basketball team and brought in Matthew Shimkus to coach the varsity girls tennis team.

An anonymous donor has pledged $54,500 to the Wainscott School so that the cash-strapped district can reinstate "specials," which are classes such as art, music, gym, and technology. Facing an austerity plan after the failure, twice, of a tax-cap-busting budget, Deborah Haab, the district superintendent, said it "will make a tremendous difference in the day-to-day operations, especially for the students, and the school itself."

Better use of the aquifer, and an appreciation of it as an existential resource, could help mitigate the vicissitudes of nature when it comes to the health of our water supply, and the Suffolk County Water Authority is at work on both fronts.

The Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, now predicts a 60-percent chance of between 14 and 21 named storms, of which six to 11 could become hurricanes, and two to five of them major hurricanes. An outlook issued in May predicted just a 30-percent likelihood of an above-average hurricane season.

Covid-19 cases have been increasing across New York State in recent weeks, with a new Omicron subvariant to blame. The good news, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital said this week, is that even among people who are admitted with Covid, it has not recently seen patients who are in need of intensive care treatment.

East Hampton Town is a place of both abundance and scarcity, an extreme example of the widening gap between rich and poor. But a new initiative, Hamptons Pantry Pickup, aims to connect the two, in a sense, while simultaneously reducing waste and providing for those in need.

Prosecutors in both Suffolk County and town court systems are turning up the heat on drunken drivers, leaving them with little room to plead down their charges.