Xenophobia, at its rotten core, is ignorance. And ignorance, as Anna Sewell’s “Black Beauty” has taught children since its 1877 publication, is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness.

The Southampton Cultural Center is offering three-course dinner-theater packages with “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” its current production from Boots on the Ground Theater. This critic’s advice: Skip the dessert course, because the play is a delightful and satisfying confection.

Just what exactly is the legacy of Harry Houdini, this remarkable magician, escape artist, movie star, aviator, author, and investigator of the paranormal?

A Los Angeles food primer, from a poolside lunch to a celebratory meal at a classic, and the best of the high and low of West Coast cuisine

Get ready for corned beef and cabbage and all things Irish for St. Patrick's Day, more restaurant specials, the Clam Bar reopens, and more

The Drawing Room gallery is filled with work by five of its regular stable of artists — Gustavo Bonevardi, Sue Heatley, Hector Leonardi, Vincent Longo, and Aya Miyatake — who inadvertently express through abstraction and their own processes what it feels and looks like outside.

"Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Flying Dutchman" have screenings at Guild Hall, new HamptonsFilm's screenings, women speaking about migration, and more

Alice Hope at Tripoli, another exhibition pops up at Markel, and Howard Kanovitz has a show in Riverhead.

The United States Postal Service has announced plans to remove a mailbox from the Bridgehampton Commons, in front of the King Kullen grocery store.

"The volume collected from this collection box is no longer significant enough at this location to warrant keeping [one] there," the Postal Service said in a notice placed on the mailbox and tacked up at post offices regionally.

The man in his 40s is being treated at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, and the brewing company has closed its Peconic location for a thorough cleaning. As of Tuesday morning, he remained the county's only confirmed case of the virus.

As Patchita Tennant's trial on attempted murder charges began in Riverhead on Monday, six witnesses took the stand for the prosecution, including the Southampton Town police dispatcher who answered the victim's 911 call after the shooting.

A man who was confirmed as Suffolk County's first coronavirus patient on Sunday is improving while reportedly in the care of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, and one person he had come in contact with is under mandatory quarantine, according to Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

Sag Harbor Village police this week investigated a threat of violence that was said to have been made by a Pierson Middle and High School student, ultimately finding it to be without credibility

Nothing beats good hand washing, but you can easily make a great DIY hand-sanitizer.

You'll need very high proof vodka or rum (we used Spirytus grain alcohol from Poland that is 192 proof — 96% alcohol!) and aloe (available in food stores and Latino specialty shops).

Seventy-three State University of New York students recalled from study-abroad programs were on a plane Saturday to Kennedy Airport, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news conference at noon, and some could be quarantined at the Stony Brook Southampton campus.

Lisa Rooney appeared briefly before the new judge assigned to her fatal drunken driving case in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverhead on Friday morning. 

The Family Service League will host a workshop at the Springs School on Monday to help adults, teens, and children avoid becoming addicted to vaping.   

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation’s monthly wellness fair will take place Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the former Most Holy Trinity Catholic School. Parking is in the church lot off Buell Lane. Services will include screenings for cholesterol, blood pressure, and H.I.V.

After sharing space with churches in Wainscott and East Hampton for nearly 14 years, the Vida Abundante New York congregation will finally have a home of its own this spring as it moves into the historic St. Thomas Chapel in Amagansett.     

East Hampton Library's Long Island Library Collection's Item of the Week focuses on a crew at the Amagansett Life-Saving Station in the early 20th century.