The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a timely set of tips for people who plan to explore the great outdoors this summer.

As has been the tradition in East Hampton Village for more than four decades, hundreds of people marched down Main Street on Monday for the Memorial Day parade, which honored military men and women who have been lost in the line of duty since the Civil War.

Susan Kaufman's photographs of the city's handsome facades, ornate buildings, townhouses with their high-windowed loveliness, flower-bedecked stoops, and hidden alleys are all the things one rarely associates with the megacity's fiercely splendid, in-your-face personality. 

The Star's music writer offers a selection of live pop music highlights set for this summer with more than 30 concerts from Hampton Jazz Fest, including Wynton Marsalis and dozens of other recommendations from Riverhead to Montauk.