“Celestial Garden,” a monumental LED artwork and soundscape by Leo Villareal, will provide an immersive experience for visitors to Guild Hall.

A busy week at the Church in Sag Harbor will feature Susan Lacy, a film producer-director, Janet Wallach, an author, and, for a dose of jazz, the Matt Wilson Quartet.

Isaac Mizrahi, whose second act is as a cabaret performer, is up next in the Music Mondays series at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater.

The East Hampton Historical Society's Summer Lecture Luncheon will bring the interior designers Stephen Sills and David Netto to the Maidstone Club in East Hampton for a conversation next Thursday at 11 a.m.     

Opera master class and performance from Guild Hall and Bel Canto Boot Camp, Stephen Sills and David Netto at the historical society’s summer luncheon, Isaac Mizrahi onstage at Bay Street, classical piano at LongHouse, Broadway producers’ panel in Southampton.

Group shows at Eric Firestone, Hauser & Wirth, and Ezra galleries, Berry Campbell Gallery pops up in Bridgehampton, Noel de Lesseps, Kan Seidel, Bob Tabor, and Lou Spitalnick in solo shows, new gallery at Gosman's Dock in Montauk.

South Asian music at Duck Creek in Springs, live reggae in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton, piano from Hamptons Jazz Fest at LTV and the Parrish Art Museum.

Amber Waves Farm hosted a class on mocktails, i.e., zero-proof drinks, led by a mixologist from Boisson, the world’s largest distributor of booze-free libations.

Peaches are abundant and ripe for picking at the Truxel Farm, a newly opened you-pick farm on Route 114 thought to be East Hampton's first full-scale peach farm.

Goldberg’s Bagels to open in Water Mill, Hawaiian evening at Crabby Jerry’s in Greenport, Maison Close back in business in Montauk, outdoor cookouts at the Pridwin on Shelter Island.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced Thursday that this year’s Down Payment Assistance Program is now open for applications. The program allows first-time homebuyers $30,000 to purchase a single family home with the agreement that the buyer will live there for at least 10 years.

A “bracket bash” party is to be held Friday evening from 6 to 9 at the Clubhouse in Wainscott to work out a schedule for the double-elimination Travis Field memorial coed softball tournament that will be contested by 17 teams and is to begin Thursday afternoon at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett. 

The South Fork's own home-grown rock star Nancy Atlas will play to the crowd at the free Tuesday night concert at Main Beach this week. And the music continues every week through Sept. 5.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that due to heat advisories announced for Thursday through Saturday, state parks will be extending the hours of swimming facilities throughout New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley.

The Suffolk County Legislature voted 10 to 7 along partisan lines to recess and close its hearing on Tuesday without acting to put the Suffolk County Water Quality Protection Act on the Nov. 7 ballot, which would have let voters decide whether or not the county sales tax should be increased by one-eighth of a cent to create a Water Quality Restoration Fund.

AquaEye, the next wave of ocean-rescue technology, is here — and the Hampton Lifeguard Association is raising money to get it into the hands of town and village lifeguards. Its goal is $35,000 before the start of hurricane season.

Katie Baldwin and Amanda Merrow, co-owners of Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett, started the farm during 2008 financial crisis. “Our friends who had taken more conventional paths were losing their jobs,” Ms. Merrow said. "It felt risky starting a business, but it feels like life is risky, and it was less risky for us to be in control of our destiny. We thought, ‘The world is a weird place, maybe we should grow our own food.’ ”

A champagne cork, seven packets of condiments, balloons, straws, and more: The Star talks trash after spending two hours collecting garbage at Ditch Plain on Saturday.

Our coastal zones have hit an all-time low in water quality, with impairments that violate New York State and federal guidelines ubiquitous, according to a report released last week. East Hampton Town waterways, while benefiting from ocean tidal flushing, are not immune from such impairments.

Industrial Road, because of its geography and development, has long been a dangerous area for birds. One woman has found 11 dead gulls near the PSEG electrical substation there since late June, and it's not just gulls that are dying.