Coming to The Church in Sag Harbor are a film about platonic touch, a talk by the artist Peter Solow, open studios with the newest resident artists, and a rehearsal of a performance in progress.

The Hampton Theatre Company will perform "A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play," complete with the vintage costumes, props, and commercials of a 1940s radio station.

"The Language of Surface," a solo show of paintings by Debbie Ma at the Bridgehampton Museum, highlights the artist's tactile approach to contemporary abstraction.

A holiday market at Madoo, tragic opera from the Met, cabaret in Southampton, rock at the Masonic Temple, kirtan changing in Amagansett, and a chamber concert in Montauk.

Small works by six artists at HaubrichArt in Springs, meet Jennifer Cross at Sara Nightingale in Sag Harbor.

A winter prix fixe at Cittanuova, Hanukkah specials at Nick and Toni's and Rowdy Hall, and holiday catering menu from Art of Eating.

Ponder for a moment the one food that could start an uproar if it wasn't served at the Thanksgiving table. Mashed potatoes? Nah, it's gravy. Plus: Here's the delicious, classic giblet-gravy recipe that East editors have been making for more than four decades.

The back-and-forth story of the 79 condominium units proposed for 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive now appears to be dead and buried.

If rezoning before the East Hampton Town Board is approved, it could lead to a 79-unit condominium development, the largest in the town. On Tuesday, the public said no.

After a decade on the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals, with five of those years as its chairman during the frenetic building boom of Covid, Roy Dalene is leaving.

Nancy Edith Yudelson, a Flushing, Queens, native who spent much of each year in Montauk, died on Nov. 7 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 83.

Vincent P. Balcuns Jr. of Springs, who for more than 50 years owned Balcuns Service Center in Amagansett, died on Nov. 21. He was 75.

The East Hampton Town Board’s recent hearing on proposed amendments to the town code pertaining to spurring the construction of accessory dwelling units was the subject of discussion Tuesday.

Around 15,000 cubic yards of sand for the dune reconstruction project at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk has been deposited, and the initiative to protect a residential neighborhood there moves toward completion.

Representative Nick LaLota said he would welcome a “fact-based, politically neutral review” of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decisions with respect to a Sept. 2 military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that some have called a war crime.

The dredging of the harbor at Lake Montauk, which is to restore safe navigation to the inlet, hit a snag last month when “they ran into a really big rock.”

A town board vote on the proposed rezoning of two parcels of land, at 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive, to make way for a condominium development will not be held Thursday evening.

A trivia night at the Point Bar and Grill in Montauk on Wednesday from 6 to 9 will raise money for an East Hampton High School service-learning trip in February to Malawi, where students will work with a rural community to construct a school.

The Hampton Ballet Theatre School returns to Guild Hall on Friday, Dec. 12, for its annual production of “The Nutcracker.” The holiday favorite will take the stage at 7 p.m. that day and on Dec. 13, and at noon and 5 p.m. on Dec. 14.

The Sag Harbor School District will host its first community forum on the $40 million Pierson Capital Improvement Project on Dec. 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the high school gym.