The scene outside my bedroom window was a blur of whiteout. It was like being inside the white-and-purple twister lifting the house to Oz.
The scene outside my bedroom window was a blur of whiteout. It was like being inside the white-and-purple twister lifting the house to Oz.
Guestwords: Current AffairsFreud equated understanding the mind with an archeological dig. The sites are sometimes real places.
According to the National Weather Service, freezing roads are responsible for nearly four times more deadly accidents than all other weather hazards combined.
It turns out that there is a powerful biological basis for helping out.
Ever since hantavirus became a thing on the East End, it has been war.
It turns out that all this snow isn’t, in fact, killing off the blasted ticks.
“Show us your papers,” the feds insist? They’re looking to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
A new public safety building in downtown Montauk is a great idea. Now what about some sidewalks?
According to Robert O. Paxton’s “The Anatomy of Fascism,” each country where fascism arises puts its own stamp on it.
We should all be concerned about the survival of the luncheonette.
What to do about submissions that appear to be the product of artificial intelligence, rather than an original work by a real person?
Guestwords: A Men’s Club for FilmThe idea of a men’s book club, but for films, ticked a lot of boxes: manageable time commitment for a perfectly masculine activity in which plot structure and technique were front and center. Thus was born the GODAWFUL Film Society.
Say what you will about the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, it was one hell of a lesson on the span of time.
The Ladies Village Improvement Society may be to blame for my psychological impulse to imagine each incoming “mail piece” as a potential present from some secret admirer or perhaps a fan letter with an enclosed hundred-dollar bill.
In the same spirit as his assault on America’s research institutions, President Trump is gunning for our libraries and museums.
Precious minutes can be lost if a house is aflame and firefighters have to scramble to find hydrants and then dig them out as the flames rise.
Gristmill: Here’s to the Losers“Wonder Man” on Disney+ succeeds with an unlikely friendship between two struggling actors compromised in different ways.
My crash course introduction to my mother’s imaginary world began with a home visit to plan her surprise 90th birthday party.
Dr. Russell Hurlburt’s tests reveal that about 30 to 50 percent of people regularly talk to themselves silently.
It may be snowy February, but people are starting to notice an East Hampton Village plan to extend its daytime ban on pets and vehicles on the beach to Columbus Day.
Gristmill: Color Me ImpressedHints of blue in a drift of snow? It’s a sign that a rare “real winter” has hit the South Fork.
Guestwords: About That Swamp MemorialMemorializing the former Swamp disco and Annex restaurant site on a 1.1-acre highway parcel in Wainscott is a misguided idea.
The 40-acre Montauk property known to surfers and surfcasters as the Ranch is a priority for preservation.
The Trump administration checks all the boxes on a list of fascist tendencies.
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