An uncomfortable evening of entertainment dramatizing life in the old South from 1898, and more from East Hampton’s yesteryear.

Praise, kvetches, arguments — it’s the week in Star letters.

Just as a lot of bad news about water was coming out, the Suffolk County Legislature failed to authorize putting the Water Quality Protection Act on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Major new reports say that smartphone use could be directly linked to poor educational performance while harming children’s emotional stability.

If there were a grand prix of weeding, it would be ridding grass from between patio or walkway bricks without toxic herbicides like RoundUp.

I’m mindful that the threat Trump poses is one thing that cannot be ducked.

Blue-collar envy.

Refreshing humanity and entertainment in an afternoon with comic books.

New real estate action, Hamptons-style. (That means not cheap.)

The Southampton Town Board, at a special meeting last Thursday, voted unanimously to hold an Aug. 8 public hearing on the imposition of a six-month moratorium on applications for battery energy storage systems, following an outcry from residents near a proposed installation on North Road in Hampton Bays. Several board members expressed support for the proposed moratorium.

Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District has joined the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, a group comprising an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

The invitational East Hampton ocean lifeguard tournament is to be held Thursday, July 27, at East Hampton Village's Main Beach and will be bigger than it's ever been, what with 14 men's and nine women's teams. Distance swims, landline rescues, rescue board relays, beach run relays, run-swim-run relays, and beach flags are to be contested.

Jordan's Run, a 5K run and walk through the village and along the water in commemoration of Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter, who was killed in action in Iraq in 2008 at the age of 19, is set for Sunday morning.

Here is the Jackie Bouvier Kennedy you may not know — photog, columnist, gal about town.

A Philip Schultz poem in tribute to the East Hampton artists Connie Fox and William King.

Artisanal ice? Because Albert Vigneau’s company Hampton Ice makes flawless cubes, oversized cubes, even spheres and personalized ice, his product is in demand for benefit events, private parties, restaurants, and more.

Known for such films as “Diner,” “Cocoon,” and “Police Academy,” among dozens of others, Steve Guttenberg will star in his autobiographical play, “Tales From the Guttenberg Bible,” at Bay Street Theater.

A successful NFT release last week featured images captured from the floor of Jackson Pollock’s studio, sold as “phygital sets,” or limited-edition NFT artifacts paired with physical prints of the same images.

Ed Sheeran will be coming to the Stephen Talkhouse in the latest of SiriusXM’s private concerts, with only SiriusXM subscribers and trivia game participants eligible to win tickets.

Playwrights’ Theatre of East Hampton returns to LTV with a riff on Chekhov, Joe Delia brings blues piano to the venue, and Jane Hastay, Peter Martin Weiss, and Darcey pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.