Living where I do down in the dunes past Amagansett, ticks are just part of the scenery.

Is it weird that I think of mortality — transience and permanence — whenever I drive my car on the New Jersey Turnpike?

When your kids start going to the movies without you.

Covid worries and pollen aside, I can think of nowhere else I’d rather be at this time of year.

I satisfied my departed dad’s spirit as Rosanne Cash sang about enshrining her departed dad during a benefit concert at the State Theatre, a plaster palace in Easton, Pa.

Readers have their say . . .

Here is the week in South Fork real estate action.

In 1897, early rumblings of a move toward village incorporation here, and 1972 memories of counting drinks at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton.

I decided to try a few quick drifts for striped bass in Plum Gut last week. The bass, according to reports, have been running in great quantities there.

“We’re a year away, and all of us knew it,” said Kevin McConville, whose East Hampton High School boys tennis team finished the season at 17-2.

The Montauk School’s baseball team, coached by Will Collins, and the Springs School softball team, whose coach is Beth Crowley, finished their seasons undefeated last week.

Sinead FitzGibbon and her husband, Dennis Loebs, put two production models of NEXT Boatworks’ 19-and-a-half-foot-long coastal rowers into Sag Harbor waters off Havens Beach on Saturday for their maiden voyage.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a timely set of tips for people who plan to explore the great outdoors this summer.

As has been the tradition in East Hampton Village for more than four decades, hundreds of people marched down Main Street on Monday for the Memorial Day parade, which honored military men and women who have been lost in the line of duty since the Civil War.

Susan Kaufman's photographs of the city's handsome facades, ornate buildings, townhouses with their high-windowed loveliness, flower-bedecked stoops, and hidden alleys are all the things one rarely associates with the megacity's fiercely splendid, in-your-face personality. 

The Star's music writer offers a selection of live pop music highlights set for this summer with more than 30 concerts from Hampton Jazz Fest, including Wynton Marsalis and dozens of other recommendations from Riverhead to Montauk.

On the heels of their sold-out show at Radio City, the Revivalists will perform an intimate benefit concert on July 4 at the Stephen Talkhouse.

Docs coming up at the Sag Harbor Cinema include one about Al Franken, who will be on hand to talk after the screening, and another about Andy Warhol, who will be remembered by close friends

Landscape Pleasures will feature talks by noted landscape designers Laurie Olin, David Hocker, and Joe Wahler, as well as self-guided tours of five private gardens.

Nature's colors at Christie's Southampton, Faith Ringgold in Montauk, new shows at the Leiber Collection, Mark Borghi, and Keyes Art, and much more