A look back at a public firestorm and its lingering aftereffects in the wake of a radioactive spill at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

“Spend your Sunday immersed in the words of American poet Grace Schulman,” says The Church in Sag Harbor, where she’ll be appearing at 2 p.m. But first, here’s one of her poems.

A surge of interest in the painter Joan Mitchell is reflected in two important exhibitions abroad, “Monet-Mitchell” in Paris, and “Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970” in London.

"The Dreamer," a new Off Broadway production from the Neo-Political Cowgirls, reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" through the eyes of a young girl.