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Plan Needs Revision

In the seemingly never-ending effort to stimulate private affordable housing, East Hampton Town is working on regulations intended to make multiunit development attractive to property owners.

September Song

We regret to inform you that your summer is being cut short.

The Mast-Head: Horn Summer

Horns beget more horns, and, where once they were rarely used, they are now a near-constant Main Street intrusion.

The Shipwreck Rose: Home Alone

All of a sudden the nest is empty, and it’s just me rattling around and opening the refrigerator door and wondering if I need to cook something for dinner or if I should just have Stoned Wheat Crackers and cheese.

Gristmill: A Fan’s Lament

Dreams of tennis, yearnings for Queens.

Guestwords: Invalidated

Standing in a fish market, a valued 31-year customer gets a credit card company on the horn, and, oh boy.

HIFF 2025: The First Reveal

The 33rd Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its opening film, "Eternity," with Elizabeth Olsen, as well as new films from Richard Linklater, Bill Condon, and Eva Victor.

An Incomparable Art Exhibition

One hundred remarkable artworks from the collection of Lana Jokel, a documentary filmmaker and friend of contemporary artists, are on public view for the first time at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.

Biden in ’24: Self-Serving Self-Deception?

Was it a White House cover-up of dangerous incapacity? A plague of self-deception afflicting President Biden and those in his inner circle? Chris Whipple picks through the car wreck that was the 2024 election.

Where Are All the Protest Songs?

Two music writers and fans ponder why, at the current moment of political divisiveness, protest songs have yet to penetrate the mainstream.

Teens Expose Toxic Dumping

"Middletown," next up in the HamptonsFilm SummerDocs series, tells the story of how in the 1990s a high school English teacher and his students exposed toxic dumping in New York's Orange County.

Jazz at The Church in Sag Harbor

In collaboration with Hamptons JazzFest, the Jane Ira Bloom Quartet, featuring Ms. Bloom on soprano saxophone, will perform at The Church.

The Big Easy and Triplets From Nairobi

LTV Studios will host Real East End Brass, a New Orleans-style band, and MOIPEI, identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, who will sing Broadway, jazz, swing, and more.

A Posthumous Book Launch

A new book by the artist Tony Bechara, who died in April, will have a posthumous launch at LongHouse Reserve.

The Art Scene 08.28.25

Gabriele Raacke at Ashawagh Hall, John Haubrich and Steven Corsano in Springs, floral art at the Depot Gallery, landscapes at Lucore in Montauk.

Bits and Pieces 08.28.25

Melissa Errico, a Broadway actress and singer, to perform at the Southampton Arts Center, classical, jazz, and klezmer concert coming to Shelter Island.

News for Foodies 08.28.25

Pete Wells, former New York Times restaurant critic, comes to Guild Hall, South Fork Bakery operates a new cafe at the Rogers Memorial Library, and Feniks opens in Southampton.

On the Police Logs 08.21.25

A report of “a suspicious subject sitting in the woods” led officers to a man seated on a large rock off Hand’s Creek Road. He told them he works as a home health care aide nearby, frequently takes walks, and likes to take breaks on the rock.

Passenger on the Midnight Shift

On an unusually quiet overnight shift last weekend, The Star's police reporter rode along with an East Hampton Town officer and got a window into a world where a 911 call can be anything from a mistake to something much worse.