Governor Hochul has a chance to pass a critically important lifeline to local journalism as negotiations on New York State’s 2024 budget come down to the wire.

We were stunned last week to learn that Suffolk led by a huge margin among all of the counties in New York in pesticide and herbicide use.

In the basement one evening this week, I began thinking about tools, pacing one’s self, and focusing on the path, instead of the outcome.

Is it possible the pendulum has swung too hard toward time-saving devices, the no-brain zone, and ultraconvenience?

Notes from the barber’s chair.

No wonder April’s called the cruelest month.

A storm of aggressive and sometimes egregious development is upon us, and the East Hampton Town Building Department is unsupported. This is a disastrous combination.

The week in reader comment.

The week in South Fork real estate.

For the Paul McCartney superfan, here’s a mammoth tome documenting seemingly every waking moment of his life from 1969 to 1973. 

Richard Horwich, a Shakespeare scholar, has written a memoir about family, friends, academia, and his many years, and encounters, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

"Return to a Place by the Sea" at The Church showcases four Black abstract artists with ties to the village’s Eastville/SANS enclave and to each other.

The Docs Equinox film festival features three documentaries, panel discussions, receptions, and an information hub, all devoted to protecting and preserving our water.

The Hamptons Comedy Festival will bring four seasoned comedians to Bay Street Theater for an evening of laughs.

It’s abstraction vs. representation and artist vs. canvas in the exhibition “Showdown” at Sara Nightingale Gallery.

The Church is hitting the books this weekend with a talk by the art critic Jerry Saltz, a sale and signing of artists' books, a book binding workshop, and a reading by the venue's writer-in-residence, Drew Zeiba.

Ken Dorph, a Middle Eastern scholar, will discuss Arab diversity in two lectures at Bay Street Theater.

Tickets remain for Guild Hall’s Awards Dinner, musical offerings across the East End include West African songs, jazz, classical, rock, and reggae, Choral Society announces auditions, Montauk Library to host talk on film and television adaptations.

Botanical painting workshops at LongHouse, Amy Zerner tapestries and paradoxical paintings at MM Fine Art, surrealists at the Lucore Gallery, Dan Welden demonstration in Riverhead, Brooklyn outpost for Halsey McKay.

Ashley Cox’s Springs Salt has sophisticated cookies, cakes, breads, and more, now available at S&S Corner Shop and online, and coming this summer to farm stands.