Artist Brunch in Water Mill, special dishes for Mexican Independence Day in Amagansett, ramen bowls in Montauk

Notes on musicians playing live on stages and in venues all over the East End

A deputy commissioner in former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's office, Bradford Billet of East Hampton helped oversee a program to locate people who had been injured, killed, or had gone missing after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Manhattan. "At one point we had a list of over 20,000 missing people that we had to pare down," he said. "We had a solemn obligation to give the families closure."