Summer benefit parties are back with a vengeance, enlivening weekends from early June through late August, with big tickets like Bay Street, the Parrish Art Museum, LongHouse Reserve, the Watermill Center, Guild Hall, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital only the tip of the fund-raising iceberg.

Bay Street Theater’s summer season will open with “Double Helix,” a musical about the race to discover the structure of DNA, and Rosalind Franklin, the scientist whose important contribution has been overlooked by history.

The new show at Lisa Perry’s Onna House, a showcase for women artists and designers, features conceptual art that addresses access to birth control and abortion as well as support for women’s causes in general.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Andy Warhol Foundation in a case that examined whether Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith was a violation of copyright.

A new show in the gallery and guest level at LongHouse Reserve will pair ceramics, wall pieces, and other objects inspired by Jack Lenor Larsen’s house with pieces from Larsen’s own collection.

Documentary on Depeche Mode by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, and Blake Edwards’s comedy “A Shot in the Dark” will screen in Sag Harbor along with a program of shorts by local filmmakers.

Kathryn Lynch at Drawing Room, Rosch and Smyth at Firestone, Alicia Longwell lecture at Parrish Art Museum, Judith Hudson talk at Sag Harbor Church, new art salon in Southold, landscapes in Springs, solos at Harper’s, abstraction at MM Fine Art, mixed-media at Nightingale, art and design at Molina, Janice Stanton in Sag.

Gil Gutierrez next up in Hamptons Jazz Fest, classical piano by a brother-sister duo in Southampton, music from Bach to the Beatles on Shelter Island, a rock ’n’ roll roster in Westhampton Beach.

Self-serve frozen yogurt, milkshakes, nitro cold brew coffee, home-made doughnut holes, cookies, and candy can all be found at the Sweet Spot, a new shop on East Hampton’s Newtown Lane.

A new nut-ritious and local snack for sale, Rita Cantina's new dishes and brunch, two new Montauk eateries, a Wolffer reboot, Meatless Mondays are back, and more.

After the success of his six-show run at Bay Street last summer, Mike Birbiglia will bring new jokes and stories to Bay Street for one night only, July 29.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Paul Baisley Jr. on Friday held the town in civil contempt for violating the temporary restraining order he issued last May to keep the town from converting the public airport to a private one or imposing restrictions on flight activity there. He ordered the town to pay the plaintiffs $250,000 and a fine of $1,000 per day “for each day it fails to comply with the T.R.O. from the date of this order.”

Caroline Joyce Whitby, an L.G.B.T.Q.+ activist who was a co-founder of the East End Gay Organization, died on April 22 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 88. A service will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

Seeded sixth in the county's Class A double-elimination bracket, East Hampton beat Comsewogue 13-5 here on May 17. It was possibly the first playoff win since the Ross Gload days of the 1990s. Bonac exited the playoffs the next day.

The best-of-three county Class C series opener went the Pierson Whalers' way in a 6-5 nail-biter.

From Bridgehampton to Montauk on Tuesday, school district voters supported most ballot propositions and all but one 2023-24 spending plan. The two key exceptions were in Sag Harbor, where the budget passed but the controversial Marsden Street land buy was rejected, and in Wainscott, where a tax-cap-busting budget failed by three votes.

After several months of heated debate over the Sag Harbor School District’s controversial plan to buy five wooded lots on Marsden Street, Tuesday’s vote did not end in favor of the district. The tally was 1,081 votes in favor and 1,156 votes against — a difference of 75 as the issue drew a record voter turnout.

Consultants hired by East Hampton Town to identify and recommend solutions to gaps in personal wireless service throughout the town estimated a need for 10 new antennas 100 and 140 feet tall and 44 smaller antennas over the next decade.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will officially kick off operations at its new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, signalling the start of a slow and careful decommissioning process at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which for the last 69 years has been devising ways to identify and treat transboundary animal diseases.

“You’ve been there 100 years. You have a roomful of locals, all we want is do go down there, have a dinner, have a drink and dance, and the town is trying to stop that, 100 percent," said the attorney representing the Shagwong Tavern. But the town's chief fire marshal tells a different story. “I did not cite Shagwong for dancing. I personally came upon an overcrowded issue in the Shagwong; I counted over 200 people."