Andromeda, as the classical Greek myth goes, was the victim of the hubris of her mother, Cassiopeia, and the god Poseidon’s rage, and in the end was saved from a sea monster by the hero-god Perseus. But along the way, one never really hears from Andromeda herself.

A gray and rainy spring did little to uplift the spirits, but it bodes well for the gardens of Landscape Pleasures, the annual horticulture event of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. This year, in addition to the usual Saturday symposium and Sunday garden tours, a related workshop and film screening have been added to the offerings.

New in Montauk

The owners of Pulcinella, a pizzeria and restaurant in Massapequa, have opened Pulcinella East on Edgemere Street in Montauk. The menu features pasta dishes such as pappardelle Bolognese for $29, and spaghetti with clams for $38, as well as chicken, veal, and seafood entrees.

We are accustomed to seeing “small works” shows in the winter around the holidays, when people are thinking about gifts. The high season is typically known for larger, even colossal works, both in size and spirit.

When he was 23 and just out of New York University’s musical theater program, Walker Vreeland took a job as a lead singer for Norwegian Cruise Lines, never suspecting that the voyage would last a decade and include a stopover at John Hopkins Hospital’s Mood Disorder Psychiatric Ward.

Levain Bakery’s chocolate chip walnut cookies should probably come with a warning label: These cookies are known by the State of New York to be highly addictive. Huge and gooey and packed with chocolate chips just this side of melting, they have been named to just about every best cookie list in New York, which helps to explain the famously long lines outside of Levain’s 74th Street and Amsterdam Avenue locations.

One of the high season's traditions for fans of the documentary film genre, the Hamptons International Film Festival's SummerDocs series returns for its 11th year on June 29 with a screening of the "Maiden" by Alex Holmes. It will continue with Mads Brugger's "Cold Case Hammarskjold" in July and Rachel Mason's "Circus of Books" in August.

AMAGANSETT            

M. Cohn to E. and C. Fagan, 39 Wyandanch Lane, .52 acre, Jan. 10, $2,750,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

R. Miller to J. and J. Finestone, 18 Bridge Hill Lane, 1.07 acres, March 8, $1,850,000.

J. Mansfield Trust to M. Picozzi, 857 Ocean Road, .94 acre, March 28, $3,900,000.

EAST HAMPTON

R. and C. Antoneck to J. and G.

Accabonac Harbor in Springs and Northwest Creek in East Hampton will receive a new degree of scrutiny after an expansion of a water testing program run by Concerned Citizens of Montauk.

AMAGANSETT

P. Solomon to E. Lubnina, 6 Phelan Court, 1.69 acres, March 8, $1,282,500.

R. and T. Schaefer to Wattiker and Carfrae, 10 Shore Road, .55 acre, Feb. 22, $3,900,000.

P. Goditsch to R. Greenberg and C. Kane, 68 Windmill Lane, .76 acre, Jan. 8, $600,000.

A. Jaffee to J. Vineis, 24 Wyandanch Lane, .23 acre, March 7, $1,630,000.

J.

New at Roy Greenberg

Thomas Crouch has joined the office of Roy Greenberg Esq. as an associate. 

Prior to joining Mr. Greenberg’s East Hampton firm, Mr. Crouch represented plaintiffs in labor and employment litigation in New York City and Long Island at the Garden City firm of Borrelli & Associates, P.L.L.C.

I have never had so many reports of grosbeaks in town in the 37 years or so I have been writing my column for The Star.

Bates Masi + Architects of East Hampton has won a National Housing Award from the American Institute of Architects for the second year in a row.

A proposal to demolish most of the existing structures at the Driftwood Resort, a nearly 70-year-old oceanfront hotel on the Napeague stretch, and redevelop the property in a more environmentally friendly manner was discussed at a meeting of the East Hampton Town Planning Board on May 1.

All of a sudden it’s hot and humid, the time when all hell breaks loose in nature: eagles feeding their chicks, spring peepers crawling out of the water to climb trees, alewives spawning.

Blumenfeld + Fleming, an advertising, marketing, and design firm in Montauk, has won seven platinum and nine gold awards in the international Hermes Creative Awards competition.

There were bobwhites around throughout my youth on the North Fork, but today, on the South Fork too, you almost never hear their telltale call.

The heated debate about the social justice component of the Green New Deal will run up against the scientific arguments regarding climate change and raise serious questions about how and on what basis environmental policy is developed.

The first of two electronic billboards along Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays was made operational in time for Memorial Day weekend. Green-lighted by the Shinnecock Indian Nation, they were described in the tribal trustees’ news blitz as a source of much-needed economic development. They may turn out to be more of a miscalculation than an asset.

At least eight million tons of plastic end up in the marine environment each year, according to researchers. No part of the ocean is immune; contamination reaches even the deepest submarine trenches.