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The Art Scene 11.27.25

Group shows at the Drawing Room and Keyes Art, exhibition tour at the Bridgehampton Museum, Tripoli Gallery in Miami Beach.

Bits and Pieces 11.27.25

A screening of "Philadelphia" and 40 quilts from the National AIDS Memorial at LTV, and Helen Harrison to read from her new murder mystery in Sag Harbor.

News for Foodies 11.27.25

A new Artists and Writers dinner at Almond restaurant, and a new happy hour at Lulu Kitchen and Bar.

Who Is That With Roy Cohn?

An author at work on a biography of Roy Cohn has a photo query for East Hamptoners of long tenure.

Food Drive Saturday in East Hampton

The East Hampton Food Pantry’s annual Harvest Food Drive happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Q. and A.: Sex After 60 Is Possible, This Doc Says

The Star spoke with Louise Collins, M.D., a board-certified gynecologist with Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in East Hampton about sexual activity during and after menopause.

Living in Community: What It's Like Inside a Retirement Home

A growing number of older Americans are residing in senior-living communities. Demand is far higher than supply, and costs are generally high. But there are many advantages to such accommodation, even if making such a move requires some adjustment.

Pickleball: Kind of a Big Dill

If you haven't heard of pickleball, you must be living in a mountaintop monastery somewhere in the Himalayas. Yet even there, at 10,000 feet in Bhutan, monks have been playing pickleball since 2023.

FIRST PERSON: The Answer to Everything? Age.

What's going on? Why is my hair falling out? Age, they'll tell me — that's the answer to everything I question, whether it's physical or mental. Age is always the answer.

Board Games to Play When You're Bored of Games

Move over, mah-jongg. See ya later, Scrabble. There's a whole world of board games out there that hold potential interest for seniors who may be looking for something social, something different, and maybe even something new and challenging. Here are a few fun suggestions from an elder millennial for the older adults in the room.

Five-Day Sentence for 2023 Graffiti That Unnerved Montauk

A 76-year-old Montauk man was sentenced to five days in county jail, followed by three years of probation, for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases around the hamlet in late 2023. 

New Energy at Calvary Baptist

A standing-room-only crowd gath­ered at Calvary Baptist Church Sunday for the pastoral installation of a new leader, the Rev. Trevon C. Fergerson.

Horseshoe Crab Protection Needed

Before the end of the year, Gov. Kathy Hochul will decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs.

Don’t Kill Journalists

How dispiriting to hear our president implicitly condone Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s sanctioning of the 2018 murder and dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who reported for The Washington Post.

The Mast-Head: Hours in the Bog

The key to picking cranberries is to think about other things, let the mind drift, and let the hands do the work.

The Shipwreck Rose: A Blow-Out

I do hate birthdays on the one hand: Who wants to be another year closer to death? But on the other hand, I love ’em.

Mary Dellapolla Curles

Mary Dellapolla Curles, described as a “pillar of the Amagansett community,” died at home on Nov. 10 at the age of 101.

Jean P. Parmelee

Jean P. Parmelee, a former flight attendant and nature lover, died under hospice care at home in Springs on Sept. 24. She was 98.

Bernice Beckwith

Bernice Marie Beckwith, a Round Swamp Lester who was born at home on the corner of Springy Banks and Three Mile Harbor Roads, died on Nov. 12. She was 97.

Jean S. Coakley

Jean Stewart Atha Coakley, a teacher and garden designer who was the first woman senior warden in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, died on Nov. 8. She was 96 and had lived in Springs.