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Gristmill: 57 Channels

A cable TV search for something to watch. Something other than ads.

Apr 7, 2022
Guestwords: The Last Slap Story

Poor confused Will Smith.

Apr 7, 2022
Mike Pence, Savior of Democracy

Details of a plot by allies of former President Donald J. Trump and Mr. Trump himself to overturn the results of the 2020 election are increasingly coming to light.

Apr 7, 2022
Point of View: Transcendence in the Everyday

Sag Harbor Village is the big city for me. 

Apr 7, 2022
The Mast-Head: Spring Cleaning

Of late, I have gotten interested in a psychological aspect of cleaning.

Apr 7, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: In the Dark

It was at Theater 80 that I received my education in Barbara Stanwyck and Greer Garson.

Apr 7, 2022
As Per Usual, Sign Laws Ignored

Why are easy-to-enforce local laws ignored every single day of the year?

Mar 31, 2022
Gristmill: Have Songbook, Will Travel

Word from sunny Florida raises hopes for a revived piano circuit.

Mar 31, 2022
Guestwords: Thank You, Frankie Avalon

A Frankie Avalon show at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead raises questions: What happened to romance? Where have the good times gone?

Mar 31, 2022
Plastic in the Blood a Warning Signal

In late March, researchers published a study that detected microplastics in the blood samples of more than three-quarters of their anonymous, healthy volunteers.

Mar 31, 2022
Point of View: What the Word Saoirse Means

I was delighted to tell Mary the other day what I’d learned, to wit, that the Gaelic word saoirse “means freedom . . . the freedom to be and to express yourself.”

Mar 31, 2022
The Mast-Head: First of the Year

The osprey’s success story.

Mar 31, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Mariupol, 1922

Recollections of an ancestor's relief work in Mariupol, Ukraine, a century ago.

Mar 31, 2022
Call-In Meeting Options Should Live On

Live-streamed local government and school board meetings are here to stay.

Mar 24, 2022
Gristmill: Thank You for Having Me

When expressions of thanks are unfailingly met with more thanks . . .

Mar 24, 2022
Guestwords: Mad for Movies

The sight of the shuttered Southampton movie theater brings to mind “The Last Picture Show,” Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 masterpiece, and further trips into a filmgoing past.

Mar 24, 2022
Important Fight for Fishing Rights

The East Hampton Town Trustees are making the right move in joining a group of fishermen suing to preserve their access to a 4,000-foot-long portion of ocean beach.

Mar 24, 2022
Point of View: Getting Back Into the Flow

Asked by an interviewer recently if I could describe the two Covid years in one word, I replied, “Constraint.”

Mar 24, 2022
The Mast-Head: ‘Don’t Eff It to Death’

It was one of those little moments when something someone casually says can change your trajectory for good.

Mar 24, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Twinkies and Trix

The world of 1970s snackitude was fully encompassing, a total sensory experience of taste, texture, aroma, sound, and vision.

Mar 24, 2022
Thinking the Unthinkable

Our hearts break for the Ukrainian people, as bombs and missiles continue to wreck their cities, and we fear that the worst days may still be ahead.

Mar 24, 2022
Back in the Trade Parade

Heavy eastbound traffic in the morning has resumed in force this week, prompting thoughts of limiting growth.

Mar 17, 2022
Cable Opponents’ Last-Ditch Claim

Opponents of an underground electrical wind farm cable now being installed in Wainscott have filed a lawsuit.

Mar 17, 2022
Gristmill: Rage Rover

Sag Harbor’s mayor alludes to a stigma on wheels.

Mar 17, 2022
Guestwords: From the Jan. 6 Archive

The former president famously doesn’t like emails, so many of his feelings were recorded on the back side of his McDonald’s orders from Jan. 4 and Jan. 5.

Mar 17, 2022
No to Alcohol at Main Beach

Something about selling alcohol at East Hampton Main Beach seems off.

Mar 17, 2022
Point of View: Coming Out of Cocoons

We went to the Sag Harbor Cinema recently, and in leaving I said to Mary that we’d never again have to go to New York City.

Mar 17, 2022
The Mast-Head: Missing in the Letters

For the first time in my memory, we have not a single letter to the editor about East Hampton Airport.

Mar 17, 2022
American Right Laid Bare

With Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine now nearing its third week of active hostilities, the time may have come for conservatives of good conscience in the United States to take back the narrative from the Donald Trump-Tucker Carlson right wing.

Mar 10, 2022
Gristmill: Bad News

Personality-driven commentary and ingratiating displays of concern in place of reporting is exactly what the father of the 24-hour news cycle, Ted Turner, did not want.

Mar 10, 2022