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The latest in South Fork real estate transactions.

Charity-minded residents have an opportunity over the next month to contribute to the Retreat's annual Adopt-a-Family program, which collects gifts and gift cards for families in need during the holiday season.

Sparked by music at the age of 2, Christian John Wikane followed his passion, becoming a music journalist and essayist who has interviewed over 500 recording artists, songwriters, and producers in print and on video.

Sag Harbor Cinema's Festival of Preservation will feature an eclectic roster of films by notable directors, dating from 1923 to the present, and featuring conversations with filmmakers and curators and a live salute to vaudeville.

After 29 years at Guild Hall, including 20 as its museum director and chief curator, Christina Strassfield will become executive director of the Southampton Arts Center.

Shot in the Hamptons with a Sag Harbor-based director, "Love . . . Reconsidered" is a truly independent film about a young woman trying to find her footing in an angst-ridden farce.

A new Parrish Art Museum show of photographs, images, letters, and other ephemera provided by the artist's family focuses on Frida Kahlo's dramatic medical history and its impact on her life, work, and relationships.

MM Fine Art in Southampton will mount a benefit show for Heart of the Hamptons, with work by more than 20 local artists.

Solo shows for Scott Bluedorn and Paton Miller, holiday exhibitions at Grenning and Romany Kramoris, 26 East End artists at Ashawagh Hall, benefit for African children at Keyes Art

Audition workshop at Bay Street, piano recital at Southampton Cultural Center, wellness workshop at Watermill Center, news about water from Cornell, Dead tribute band in Sag Harbor

Sag Harbor's Dockside Bar and Grill will reopen in the spring with a new name, Bay Street Tavern, and new owners, among them chef Eric Miller of Rita Cantina, who promises to continue Dockside's commitment to local purveyors and an egalitarian atmosphere.

Tempting Thanksgiving menus are on offer from 1770 House (to go or at the restaurant), Art of Eating, Lulu Kitchen and Bar, and L&W Market.

Tutto Cafe and Sant'Ambroeus are poised to open in East Hampton, and Townline BBQ has offerings for hungry football fans (and everybody else), including wings, rib tips, homemade potato chips, nachos, and mac and cheese bites, and a Splat dinner to be cooked at home.

Starting Monday, the Southampton Town Police Department and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital will be collecting donations of winter coats, gloves, hats, and scarves to help provide warmth to those in need.

The Sag Harbor School District’s bid to buy five wooded lots on Marsden Street for the purpose of creating new athletic fields passed on Thursday by a vote of 638 to 521. 

The Bridgehampton Museum will host a reading called "Ocean Road: The Story of the Circassian," involving new research by Peter Walsh, a museum trustee, on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Dockside Bar and Grill, which is closing for the year on Sunday, will also be taking a bow. It was officially announced on Thursday that Stacy Sheehan and Elizabeth Barnes, the owners of the much-beloved Sag Harbor eatery, have sold the business to Eric Miller and Adam Miller and the developer Adam Potter.

A memorial service for Rose Pizzorno, a former Springs resident who died on Sept. 20 at the age of 100, will be held Nov. 26 at 3 p.m. at the Springs Presbyterian Church. Read her obituary here.

It’s a career route that around 20 percent of veterans have taken when their military service is up: Join a municipal police force and transition from overseas warrior to domestic peacekeeper, and on the East Hampton Town police force there are several former active service members.