Thoughts of Harvey Pekar and life among the files.

Two years have passed since I started my adventure teaching memoir writing behind bars. It’s like group therapy without the therapist.

Looking for a Hamptons real estate report? Here’s two weeks in one.

After years of effort, accelerated recently because of dangerous conditions, the inlet at Lake Montauk will undergo emergency dredging, perhaps by the end of the month. At the East Hampton Town Board meeting on Tuesday, Councilman David Lys announced the development during his liaison reports, saying he was "very pleasantly surprised."

Next up in the Artists and Writers dinner series at Almond is Jackie Hoving, an artist, curator, and co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Brooklyn.

In his nonreferential paintings and large-scale murals, Aaron Parazette engages with issues of flatness, perspective, and illusion.

That Motown Band will bring the music of the Motor City to Sag Harbor for a benefit concert.

Jesse Matsuoka of Sen restaurant on cuisine and culture, Eric Fischl on "Heaven, Hell, and the Garden," and an Afro-Caribbean dance workshop at The Church.

The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club will host a standup set by Palma Florentino and a screening of a comedic take on immigration.

Curator-led tour of "A New Subjectivity 1979/2024" at the Parrish Art Museum.

New artist residents chosen by Watermill Center, jazz at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor, horticultural alliance lecture on native plants.

Valentine's Day specials from 1770 House and Bell and Anchor, food tastings at HarborFrost, and cooking classes at Silver Spoon.

Concerned that there could be "chaos in our community" because of deportation threats by President Trump, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen announced a press conference on Tuesday evening at 6 in the Emergency Services Building to ease fears. The public is invited.

The next guest in the Springs Historical Society’s Meet the Author series is Dava Sobel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of “Galileo’s Daughter.”

Paid Notice: Winifred Rosen, beloved children’s author and artist, passed away on December 5, 2024, at the age of 81. Raised and educated in New York City, Winnie graduated with honors from NYU. She taught high school English and Literature for several years before discovering her true calling as a writer of children’s and young adult books. 

The Federal Office of Management and Budget’s temporary pause Tuesday on grants, loans, and federal financial assistance programs that are targeted by President Trump’s executive orders was rescinded only 24 hours later, but not before sending local organizations into a panic.

“I know there are some folks out there that are concerned about the price, and I’m concerned about the cost too,” Kathee Burke-Gonzalez said, but compared the project, slated to cost around $30 million, to the $23 million expansion of the Springs School, completed in 2021, or the $56 million renovation and expansion of East Hampton High School, completed in 2010. “We support our kids. We need to be able to support our seniors.”

The first people in line to get one of the 1,600 coveted nonresident East Hampton Village beach passes made available to town residents at an in-person sale Tuesday arrived at 5:45 a.m. “It’s like an event, and we look forward to it every year,” one woman said.

They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but if so, no one told County Supreme Court Justice Paul Hensley. Just days after 84 Wainscott Hollow Road L.L.C. submitted a lawsuit against the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board seeking an annulment of the board’s Dec. 12 denial of its application, the judge granted the petition “in all respects.”

In a sort of reintroduction to a largely new planning board, the East Hampton Town Planning Department gave a short recap of what has happened since a 2023 hearing on the Wainscott Commercial Center, the largest development proposal in the town, at a 70.4-acre former sand mine.