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The Springs Brewery, a new business started by Lindsay Reichart and Gunnar Burke, who live locally, will debut its first cans of beer on Saturday in a pop-up at the Springs General Store between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. The brewers call it Arethusa and describe it as "citrus forward, with lots of flavor and low bitterness."
David Alpern, a former Newsweek senior editor, looks back on the many pleasures of a trip to Morocco, among them an unexpected meeting at a desert campsite with G.E. Smith and Taylor Barton.
Simon Van Booy has drawn from the stories of one rural Kentucky family for his new book, and he repays them with an affecting, generous novel.
The East Hampton Library's Authors Night returns this weekend, celebrating more than 30 authors with in-person and online talks.
Bach “had an appreciation for the pleasures of being alive,” said Alan Alda in his introduction for the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's first summer concert. “He was also an obstinate, headstrong grouch who didn’t mind insulting musicians he didn’t admire.”
Jazz returns to Gosman's Dock with Billy Hart-- a drummer "who swings beyond belief" -- joining the Bill O'Connell Quartet for a Hamptons Jazz Fest performance on Sunday.
Guild Hall will celebrate its 90th birthday with a silent disco, a performance by members of the New York City Ballet, a soundwalk, a drip painting workshop, and a popup performance by the Hampton Ballet School.
Still defiant on Tuesday in the wake of a state attorney general's report that said he had sexually harassed current and former female state employees, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced his intention to resign effective Aug. 24.
Five East End restaurants have earned the designation of an Ocean-Friendly Restaurant from the Surfrider Foundation, joining a group of more than 600 restaurants nationwide that commit to low-plastic endeavors. Rosie’s Amagansett, Organic Krush Amagansett, La Fin in Montauk, the Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton, and First and South in Greenport have all obtained the status.
The Parrish Art Museum's Midsummer Weekend will feature a dance party with D.J. James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, a dinner honoring Tomashi Jackson, and a family party with the National Circus Project.
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center’s annual Marburger Memorial Lecture will take place virtually this year, on Sunday at 5 p.m. via Zoom. Manuel Borja-Villel, the director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, will discuss Picasso’s 1937 painting “Guernica,” the artist’s response to the bombing of that city during the Spanish Civil War.
Recent paintings by John Alexander, a 26-acre art ranch in Montauk, Picasso's "Guernica" reinterpreted, abstraction at Phillips, NFTs in Bridgehampton, and more
Dinner parties for Bay Street Theater, chamber music at the Parrish, Jazz from Southampton to Montauk
The Hamptons Jazz Fest continues with performances in Southampton and Montauk, Vanessa Trouble at Ram's Head, Nancy Atlas at Surf Lodge, and more
New sushi restaurant in East Hampton, Japanese-Italian at Moby's, Korean barbecue meal kits available from New York City
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is asking residents to be on the lookout for infestations of Asian longhorned beetles, a 1.5-inch-long, black-and-white invasive insect that has reached central Long Island.
On Tuesday, the Hamptons Observatory will host a free virtual talk where Dr. Zimmerman of NASA will discuss NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The manager of an East Hampton restaurant asked a diner early Saturday evening "to put on shoes, because the restaurant had a shoe policy. He refused and proceeded to seat himself," according to the police report. He left before an officer arrived, but filed a separate report, saying that "he was with his 93-year-old mother in a wheelchair when the manager told him that he was not wearing the right footwear for the establishment and had to leave." He told police he "felt slighted and thought the manager was rude and unreasonable in that he has been a 40-year-customer."
It was "one of those things," said Pat McKibbin, the owner of Mary's Marvelous in East Hampton, speaking of a flood in the kitchen on the afternoon of July 27 that resembled "a miniature of Niagara Falls."
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