December is crammed with holiday concerts, with performances at practically every school, church, and cultural institution. Someone else might get bored with holiday music, but not me. My interest in music doesn’t diminish, even when the music being performed gets a bit repetitive.

Meg Gage stopped by with a rare artifact this week — a vintage metal license plate with the silhouette of a fisherman pulling a net from a small sharpie below the words “The Springs N.Y.” in two-inch-high, dark-green lettering.

At the Choral Society of the Hamptons Christmas concert at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church last week, I found myself getting quite misty listening to the opening notes of the first carol. Aside from being transported by the music, by the familiar notes, I realized how many years it had been since I had first learned the carols.

Breaking news, Verizon. There’s a new kid in town, a challenger for your WCW crown — Worst Company in the World.

Justin Gubbins, in recounting the reluctance of his daughter Megan’s Portuguese water dog, Geronimo, to run anymore — marking the end of a career whose highlight was a 42nd-place finish among more than 600 Montauk Turkey Trot entrants four years ago, said that food was pretty much Geronimo’s sole concern these days, sex apparently being out of the question.

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To celebrate New Year’s Eve in a safe, alcohol-free environment, the South­ampton Town addiction and recovery committee will throw a New Year’s Eve party at Parrish Hall at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The 2020 Clear Vision Party, as it’s called, will start at 8:30 p.m. on Dec.

An action list for every household on the East End. Because, duh!, it’s time to take personal responsibility for the climate emergency

Former Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota and his top chief aide, Christopher McPartland, were found guilty Tuesday on felony charges related to their attempt to cover up the beating of a prisoner by the disgraced Suffolk police chief James Burke in 2012. 

Bridgehampton High’s all-time leading scorer in basketball, two late coaches who contributed greatly to that small school’s winning tradition, and two graduates who have given back generously over the years were inducted into Bridgehampton’s Hall of Fame Friday.

Kevin Bunce Sr. thinks the chances of the Montauk Rugby Club reviving are slim, but things are looking up for one of his protégés, Brandon Johnson.

The Bonac boys basketball team led with its defense over Rocky Point Monday, the swimmers sank Lindenhurst, and some personal bests were recorded in winter track.

Last Thursday we were visited by a full moon. It was mostly hidden by clouds, but just because the seas can’t see the moon dosen’t mean they don’t feel its tug.

Recounting the football team’s heartbreaking Division III county playoff championship loss to Comsewogue.

There’s wrestling here tomorrow night, Bonac winter track continues apace in Brentwood this weekend, and boys hoops hosts Eastport-South Manor midday Saturday.

The timing was perfect. Last Thursday’s full moon, backed by a strong wind, finally brought in a great low tide. It had been at least nine months since I’d witnessed one of such magnitude. Its significance also prompted me to head over to one of my favorite sand flats to dig up some steamer clams.

“I don’t know if I would have been a decent architect,” the film composer Carter Burwell recently mused, sitting in his private studio on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Amagansett. But his interests all come together in architecture.

Ric Burns’s fascinating new documentary opens in Sacks’s Greenwich Village apartment on Feb. 9, 2015, a month after he received a diagnosis of terminal cancer and not quite eight months before his death at 82.

A recent Saul Steinberg Foundation gift to the Parrish Art Museum is a collection of 49 works by the artist over four decades touching on most aspects of his creative practice.