Before it was called Easthampton or East Hampton, the tiny colonial town way out on the eastern part of Long Island was known as Maidstone. Supposedly. Proof is scant.

At some point over the summer I passed over an invisible boundary line and began looking ahead to that golden day when I will become a grandmother.

Two nights in a fully outfitted Episcopal chapel turned Airbnb lodging: creepy or restful?

I knew this would be no ordinary house. As a neighborhood kid, I saw Julian and Barbara Neski’s 1964 modernist masterpiece on Terbell Lane develop, and got to know the owners, Sy and Ronnie Chalif.

New on the real estate front here.

The 44th annual Montauk Fall Fest happens on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the downtown green. 

The East Hampton Town Board appears poised to move forward with legislation that will allow parcels as small as a half-acre to be designated affordable housing overlay districts.

An invitational at Lehigh University provided some personal bests and memorable moments for East Hampton's cross-country runners.

According to Long Island high school football hype, Saturday’s game against Smithtown West was not a contest East Hampton was supposed to win. East Hampton defied the hype.

After a screening of "Blue Moon" at the film festival, Ethan Hawke talked with Alison Stewart, a public radio host, about Lorenz Hart, the complex lyricist he plays in the film, his collaboration with Richard Linklater, its director, the legacy of Robert Redford, and more.

Tomas Majcherski, a multi-instrumentalist who grew up in East Hampton, will return to the South Fork with his Sonic Chambers Quartet, a New Orleans-based band that draws upon myriad influences.

Boots on the Ground Theater will bring Christopher Durang's comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" to the Southampton Cultural Center for a three-week run.

"In the Out/Out the In" at the Parrish Art Museum is a survey of the six-decade career of Nina Yankowitz, whose work has expanded the boundaries of painting, sculpture, sound, and installation.

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center and Black Public Media will present the sixth annual Black Film Festival on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater.

ext up in the East Hampton Library’s Tom Twomey series is “Trailblazing Women: The Legacy Behind East Hampton’s Nature Trail,” a talk on Thursday at noon by Julie Sakellariadis, a member of the New York Botanical Garden’s board and a member and former president of the Garden Club of East Hampton.

As of earlier Tuesday, there was still space in a defensive driving course at the Montauk Library taking place onThursday from 10:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sag Harbor's Roy Nicholson is one of a number of contemporary East End artists whose work is currently on view in Shanghai.

An exhibition of large acrylic paintings inspired by images captured from outer space will open in the newly renovated Tractor Barn of the Bridgehampton Museum.

Burt Glinn survey and "Banned Book Project" in Springs, watercolors at Ashawagh Hall, Loschen and Lucore in Montauk, group shows at the Depot and Stella Flame.

Jazz at the Parrish, hits from the '60s, '70s, and '80s at Bay Street, opera at the Leiber Collection, string quartet and Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks on Shelter Island.