EAST Magazine

Wild for watercress? Crazy for scones? Hie yourself to the Baker House 1650 for two special tea dates this winter.

You know you want some! Winter's winningest soup is a classic from L&W Market.

Fancy dinner by fireside? East brings you a roundup of the coziest restaurants, where logs crackle and the flames are kept alive.

Just beat it! With a blender and a few minutes' patience, you can turn ordinary cream into something extraordinary: your own homemade butter.

Deck the halls with these homemade ornaments using a traditional salt-dough method, tested by the very same hands that edit East magazine.

The art of tarot reading can inform your plans and inspire your dreams as you set your resolutions for 2026. These South Fork readers are on deck to help.

Sure, it's the thought that counts, but let's be honest: We've all felt the womp-womp disappointment of receiving a lame, generic present, and we'd all rather receive something wonderful. Here's a give-this, not-that guide to gifting greatly (with South Fork flair).

The cold and dark of winter can be hard on runners and others who love sports. But hibernation isn't the only option. From tennis to bowling to batting cages, there are plenty of warm places to play inside.

Government spraying of insecticide on Long Island has a checkered history. Mosquito eradication efforts, driven by fears of the spread of malaria, were paused in the 1960s after studies revealed the dangers posed by the insecticide D.D.T. to birds and humans. Twice a month — during the new and full moon tides — an East Hampton Town trustee and his team of volunteers walk miles of boggy marshland looking for mosquito larvae. The data, collected with the help of a plastic dipper cup affixed to a stick, is sent through a digital G.P.S.-enabled app to the county authorities who then tell their helicopter pilots precisely where to unload their cargo of larvicide.

We’re navigating weird days, are we not, friends? In this context of topsy-turvy, we thought it might help to provide East readers with an early glossary of 2026’s hard-working words and phrases, so, if nothing else, you can join the conversation and talk about it all.

Hometown memories echo and reverberate in new music of four emerging singer-songwriters from the East End.

Long Island’s East End shares a cherished coastal-winter pastime, iceboating, with its neighbors across the sound in Connecticut — which is where this month’s East magazine cover artist, John Ford Clymer, lived while producing an unequivocally American collection of artwork that today sings nostalgia in every brushstroke.

The South Fork has been a magnet for fashion people for a long time. See: Ralph Lauren, and his love affair with the old houses of East Hampton (and his charitable support of its historical society); Halston hanging out at Eothen, Andy Warhol’s place in Montauk, or Cheryl Tiegs shacked up with Peter Beard on a high bluff nearby. There’s Tom Ford, who bought Lasata, the childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy on Further Lane. Helmut Lang on Tyson Lane. And Calvin Klein, who has owned sprawling estates both on Georgica Pond and Meadow Way in Southampton.

During the Second World War, East Hampton boys in the services communicated with one another across the far-flung fields of battle using a method that is astonishing today and yet worked remarkably well: They wrote letters home to the editor of The Star; the Star collated and printed snippets of their news in a column titled “Army, Navy, and Marines” that ran each week on Page Four, and then the service members read all about one another’s escapades and heroics a couple weeks later when their copy of the newspaper reached them.

“Almost everyone has had a run-in with the ghost at LTV,” one staffer told a curious visitor to East Hampton Town’s public-access television provider.

Social media has proven a fair-weather friend to leftist political resistance over the past few decades. The 2010s saw pro-democratic uprisings in the Arab world coordinated over Facebook and Twitter on pages like “We Are All Khaled Said.” But the “Facebook Revolutions” couldn’t sustain momentum and the Arab Spring stalled. The Black Lives Matter movement dominated Instagram during the summer of 2020, spreading awareness about the pervasiveness of racism and even encouraging incremental wealth distribution.

Sometimes time telescopes and a personage from one epoch appears in a contemporary context causing cognitive dissonance: Harriet Tubman, for example, lived until the age of the Model T Ford. And so it was perhaps with some puzzlement, if not awe, that Hamptons art-world habitués must have regarded the Ukrainian poet and painter David Burliuk, the “Father of Russian Futurism,” when he appeared in the somewhat poky-prosaic setting of art openings at Guild Hall at midcentury.