“Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine” is a massive compendium of text, photographs, lyric sheets, and other artifacts, published by Nicholas Callaway of East Hampton, who reflects on the book and on his own career as a publisher who aims to “make the printed page sing.”

The life and photography of Elliott Erwitt, who died last month, are chronicled by a writer who briefly met Erwitt in Amagansett as a boy and went on to follow his work, including a recent retrospective in Paris.

Unique and affordable holiday gifts can be found in gallery exhibitions, on South Fork art and cultural organizations' websites, and at the Parrish Art Museum shop.

At the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead this weekend the Long Island Concert Orchestra will perform a program of holiday classics, and the Lords of 52nd Street will celebrate Billy Joel.

Silas Jones and Reilly Rose, singer-songwriters who recently graduated from East Hampton High School and Sag Harbor's Pierson High School, respectively, will perform an evening of music Friday at 7 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

Among the hundreds of international art galleries drawn to Miami’s December art fairs, reports from South Fork venues Eric Firestone, Harper’s, Halsey McKay, and Keyes Art confirm that the fairs were buzzing and the energy was high.

Now ensconced on Amagansett’s Main Street, Rowdy Hall still has wonderful French onion soup, impressive salads, terrific burgers and fish and chips, affordable prices, and throngs of happy customers.

Nick and Toni’s, 1770 House, and Almond have multicourse New Year’s Eve menus, Fresno will offer a la carte and other specials, and more.

Last-minute Christmas meal options from Citarella and Jean-George at Topping Rose House, plus some special breakfasts and brunches at Southampton Inn.

When Santa Claus visited Long Wharf on Dec. 9 as part of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s tree-lighting festivities, what families may not have known was that the man originally slated to play the role, Ken Dorph, had been asked to return his red suit to the chamber three days earlier. 

The East Hampton Presbyterian Church’s “Wonderful Christmastime” holiday handbell concert is on Friday, and on Saturday at St. Luke's there's a performance of the “Christmas Oratorio” by Camille Saint-Saens and a singalong with a full choir.

A gingerbread house contest sponsored by Project Most will wrap up with a free party and judging on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Most Holy Trinity school building on Meadow Way. 

With the winter holiday season in full swing, efforts are afoot in Bridgehampton to help those in need.

Paid Announcement: Deborah L. Thompson, 73, peacefully passed away at her home in Montauk while surrounded by family on Dec. 6, 2023.

After months of discussion prompted by a fatal fire in Noyac last summer, the Sag Harbor Village Board has amended its seasonal-use dwelling-unit law, resolving Tuesday night to require the addition of a rental registry permit. The intent of the new law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, is to ensure the safety of rented properties, in accordance with New York State Code.

Town, county, and state officials were in a celebratory mood last week at Town Hall, toasting the electricity that began flowing from the South Fork Wind farm through 78 miles of underwater cable to a LIPA substation here.

Small house, small addition, small parcel, big problem. That was the sense at the meeting last month of the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals as it discussed a 707-square-foot house on Mulford Lane on Napeague, built before the adoption of zoning, that needs a natural resources special permit and variances before it can add a small addition and outdoor shower and rebuild a deck.

As the town prepares to start clearing next month at the Amagansett site where the new center will be built, the two people who spoke at a public hearing on the project both said the town may be moving too fast and that there are questions that should be answered first.

It was a good run for the health food and vitamin shop Second Nature — almost 52 years in East Hampton — but on Sunday the shop closed its doors here for good. It wasn't the high price of rent but rather the lack of foot traffic that drove the decision, an owner said. “Southampton is livelier.”

A plan to alleviate chronic flooding and improve safety by constructing a traffic circle at the five-way intersection between Fort Pond and Fort Pond Bay in Montauk was hashed out at Tuesday’s meeting of the East Hampton Town Board.