Peter Dayton talk at Guild Hall, two new shows at Halsey McKay, graphic designer Virginia Edwards at The Church, group show at the Lucore Art Gallery.

Thanksgiving Day offerings from L&W Market and the Art of Eating, a Shinnecock seaweed celebration, and Day of the Dead specials at La Fondita.

The screenwriter, actor, and movie producer Edward Burns’s first novel is a sweet and sad Irish-Catholic coming-of-age story.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is running for her third full term in New York against Mike Sapraicone, a retired N.Y.P.D. detective.