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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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It will be up to the community which projects rise to the top of the list as the East Hampton School District begins to firm up plans for a bond referendum of more than $60 million it will put on the May 2026 ballot, and on Tuesday night the superintendent, Adam Fine, announced four workshops designed to gather that input over the next few months.

There will be a horse trough, but no horse, at a Further Lane estate that sold this winter for $70 million in one of the East End’s priciest real estate transactions of 2025.

Last week, mere minutes before the East Hampton Town Planning Board was to discuss the proposed Springs Brewery, an elephant squeezed into the room, in the form of a determination from Dawn Green, a town building inspector, turning what could have been a routine review of minor site plan inaccuracies into a snafu.

By Tuesday evening, lifeguard stands had been moved back from the water’s edge or removed entirely from ocean beaches in East Hampton Town and Village. Red flags Tuesday warned all but the most experienced swimmers to stay out of the water and by Wednesday swimming was prohibited at all town, village, and state beaches on the ocean and access was cut off too because of the dangerous conditions and significantly shortened beaches. 

By Tuesday evening, lifeguard stands had been moved back from the water’s edge or removed entirely from ocean beaches in East Hampton Town and Village. Red flags Tuesday warned all but the most experienced swimmers to stay out of the water and by Wednesday swimming was prohibited at all town, village, and state beaches on the ocean and access was cut off too because of the dangerous conditions and significantly shortened beaches. 

Two years after a groundbreaking for the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s new aquatic and cultural centers, Gov. Kathy Hochul led a jubilant gathering including East Hampton Town and New York State officials past and present in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for the expansive new facilities on Friday.