The recipe here is for a sturdy, spicy, and very crisp cookie. It holds up well, and will not get soggy or stale. Follow the directions as written, practice your rolling, and make sure you have a good, airtight container. Don’t skip the dot of blue coloring in the glaze, and if you want to hang them, make the hole in the dough with a toothpick before baking. This cookie recipe can also be used to make gingerbread houses.

Gingerbread is the quintessential Christmas treat, but when mom is a Scandinavian baker and dad is a gifted painter, cookies are elevated to an art form. Nina Dohanos looks back on childhood holidays — and divulges some family secrets for better baking.

A trip on the Cross Sound Ferry's Cape Henlopen brings to mind the ship's storied history. The humble ferry boat of today participated in the historic invasion of Normandy on D-Day in World War II, dropping off 200 men and 70 vehicles of the 29th Infantry Division.

Dan White, East Hampton High's boys basketball coach, said the future looks promising for his team, which has three returning seniors.

In A.M. Homes’s latest, “The Unfolding,” it’s the revenge of the rich, white Republicans against a backdrop of family discord.

A poet and author of picture books contemplates dealing with anger.

Runners, especially those who had been confronted with strong winds and a deluge 11 days before at the Dock Race, couldn’t have asked for better conditions in which to run the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s 3 and 6-mile Turkey Trots on Thanksgiving Day in Montauk.

You don’t need to go deep into the woods to find a red-bellied woodpecker, but if you're looking for a distinctive red belly, you won't find it. Instead, its head is red, which explains why people often misidentify it as the red-headed woodpecker, which hardly shows up on Long Island.

At the Riverhead office of Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr., a "safe transaction zone" has been set up for people who are buying or selling goods from online marketplaces and need a well-lit, secure place to pick up or drop off those items.

Hamptons Doc Fest will feature 25 documentaries whose subjects range from Black voter registration in 1960 Alabama to an ethical and sustainable fashion collection to reflections on the movies "Midnight Cowboy" and "9 to 5" to a stolen de Kooning painting, and much more.

The Southampton Arts Center's "A Celebration of Trees" features numerous interpretations of the subject matter and theme by a vast roster of artists ranging from international art stars to the less well-known but no less ambitious.

Bay Street Theater's 2023 season will feature the world premiere of "Double Helix," which puts scientific discovery to music, the thriller "Dial M for Murder," a musical biography of Sammy Davis Jr., and Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning "Master Class."

Walter Klauss, a frequent choral society guest director and music director at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, will lead the holiday concert of the Choral Society of the Hamptons on Sunday.

Miami Art Week is in full swing, with South Fork artists' work represented there by Eric Firestone, Pace, Harper's, 303 Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, DC Moore, Halsey McKay, Mark Borghi, and Keyes Art.

Mel Kendrick will discuss his work at the Parrish Art Museum, and group shows are at ArtSprings Studio in Springs and AB NY in East Hampton.

Nobody knows more about guitars than G.E. Smith, Matt Umanov, and John Monteleone, and the three experts will talk about the instrument's past, present, and future at The Church in Sag Harbor.

Lady Blue Sax Quartet and all about Mel Brooks at the Rogers Memorial Library, holiday market at the Madoo Conservancy

With a new director of education, the FoodLab at Stony Brook Southampton is setting out to train the next generation of local farmers and food producers through its Small-Scale Farming training program.

Seven-fish feast with Italian wines at Nick and Toni's, Artists and Writers dinner at Almond, special cocktail with persimmon and elderflower liquer, and holiday specials from Bell and Anchor, EHP Resort and Marina, and Leon 1909

A body that washed up on the beach at the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island on Nov. 8 has been identified by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office as Dario Cholula.