"Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of 'Midnight Cowboy,' " which will have its East Coast premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, places the Oscar-winning film in the larger social, political, and cultural contexts of its time.

Next up at The Church is an exhibition of rare and classic guitars selected by G.E. Smith and a display of bronze sculptures of the hands of 31 American visual artists.

Blending excerpts from Verdi's opera "Macbeth" with a story based on the 1849 Astor Place Riot, "The Shakespeare Riots" will come to the Bay Street stage as a world premiere operatic dramatization.

Judy Carmichael, the jazz pianist, vocalist, writer, and radio host, will celebrate the publication of her new book with a reception at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor.

Drama, music, and literature at The Church, classical music at the Parrish Art Museum and Perlman Music campus, gender and justice panel at Watermill Center, sports memorabilia at Ashawagh Hall, and more in Bits.

Irina Alimanestianu and Brian O'Leary at MM Fine Art, group shows at the Gardiner Mill Cottage and White Room, eight East Enders in the Long Island Biennial at the Heckscher, Nicole Corbett at Colm Rowan Fine Art

Fritto misto, Caesar salad, eggplant Parmigiana, and linguine with clams are some of the stars at Dopo il Ponte in Bridgehampton, but take note, the pleasure is "overpriced."

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele is looking for nominations of high school seniors for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Program, founded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Weighed down by discovery documents turned over to him by a Southampton assistant town attorney, the defense lawyer Edward Burke told The Star on Friday that his clients, Pamela and Peter Miller, are "beyond traumatized" following an Aug. 3 fire at their Spring Lane house in Noyac that left two sisters dead.

A History Festival and a Harvest Festival set to take place on Saturday in East Hampton Village have both been canceled due to weather. 

Heavy rains brought high bacteria levels across Montauk last week, with the Surfside Place outfall pipe downtown leading the way with an off-the-chart enterococcus reading of greater than 24,196. 

Comments and kvetches.

A flurry of mid-September overnight car break-ins in Montauk, Amagansett, and Springs has had victims and residents taking to social media to bemoan an apparently organized racket and warn others about the incidents. Police say they’re on the case but have no suspects.

People see firefighters in their trucks, police officers writing tickets, and ambulances streaking by, but they don’t see the public safety dispatchers, who coordinate any emergency response in East Hampton Town and are also specially trained to give guidance over the phone on everything from CPR to childbirth to electrocution and even getting a car out of submerged water.

The ongoing malware crisis that has afflicted Suffolk County computer systems for three weeks should not impact elections here, according to Betty Manzella, the Republican commissioner with the Suffolk County Board of Elections in Yaphank. Nevertheless, the cyber intrusion presents challenges for the board of elections.

East End lawmakers and the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill to end the so-called “puppy-mill pipeline” that has sent untold numbers of unhealthy and abused cats, dogs, and rabbits to New York State retail pet shops.

Bluetongue, a serious virus, has been detected for the first time in New York State deer. A cousin of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, it is spread by the bite from a midge, or no-see-um, and incubates in a deer for seven days before the animal begins to show symptoms. There is no treatment for the virus, which typically kills an adult deer within 36 hours.

The Montauk Village Association faces an uncertain post-Covid future after the old guard nonprofit saw its fund-raising plummet during the pandemic.

The Cookery, a grocery store, bakery, and prepared-food shop that is operating where Simply Sublime stood for 10 years at 85 Springs-Fireplace Road, has worked out some of the issues with its site plan application and is now ready for a public hearing. An application for National Grid's East Hampton generating station still needs work before a hearing can be scheduled.

An East Hampton Town Planning Board hearing for a proposed 185-foot cell tower that would be installed by American Tower at Camp Blue Bay in Springs has been scheduled for Oct. 19.