We used to have a much closer relationship with flowers and other flora.

John Steinbeck holds up.

I am not the only one who has noted the frankly unfriendly reception science and scientists are receiving these days, but what is most disturbing is the exodus of young aspiring scientists, the next generation.

The latest report for real estate transactions, Montauk to Southampton Village.

Paid Notice: William James Lester of Westhampton Beach, and originally from Amagansett, died June 19th at the Cannas Hospice Center after a long courageous battle with respiratory illness.

Paid Notice: Debbie died peacefully under hospice care at a facility near her home in West Palm Beach, Fla, on June 3.

Ah, parenthood when your children are grown.

The artist Ted Tyler has sustained careers as an innovative ceramic sculptor and a successful designer and printer of fabrics and wall coverings.

Bay Street Theater's production of "Deceived" is a new adaptation of "Gaslight," the play and movie about a husband trying to drive his wife crazy in order to steal from her.

Michele Gerber Klein will be at LongHouse to talk about and sign copies of her new book about Gala Dali, wife of the painter Salvador Dali and ambassador of the Surrealist movement.

It was a performance of "The Weight" with Nancy Atlas at the Surf Lodge that launched Lynn Blue and her band into the top tier of East End rockers.

The summer concert of the Choral Society of the Hamptons will feature the world premiere of a new arrangement of love songs by the Beatles, as well as folk songs and two other premieres.

Alok, an acclaimed poet, comedian, public speaker, actor, and fashion designer, will bring "Hairy Situation," a new, "unfiltered" standup show, to Guild Hall.

Louise Bourgeois documentary at the Sag Harbor Cinema, Eric Fischl and Amy Sillman in conversation at The Church.

"Chic Mystique" at J. Mackey Gallery, contemporary artists engage with children's art at Watermill Center, 14 photographers at Lucore, group show at LTV, creative workshops.

Classical piano in Montauk, jazz at Duck Creek, flower arrangement at Madoo, Nancy Atlas at the Masonic Temple, Pianofest is back, Motown magic in Southampton.

A dual-propeller airplane crash-landed at East Hampton Town Airport just before 8 p.m. Sunday, closing the airport for several hours. The pilot, Curtis Doupe, was the only person in the plane and was not injured.

Even though it rained, water quality did not significantly worsen this week compared to last, according to Concerned Citizens of Montauk. Some sites even saw improvement.  

"Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios" is an engrossing history of some of the most influential and legendary recording studios and the men who founded and guided them.

Tom Van Scoyoc, an East Hampton native with 10 years in the film industry, took a flier on the Straight 8 competition with a three-minute Super 8 film and wound up one of eight finalists chosen to show their work at Cannes.