By Annette Hinkle
So, what does summer on the East End mean to you? Beaches, barbecues, galas?
All these are worthy warm weather pursuits to be sure, but for many creative types in our neck of the woods, summer is a time for serious learning — with a liberal does of humor and fun, of course. [...]

By Annette Hinkle
The scene: a lovely estate in the country. The players: family members and loyal staff who have been keeping the place humming along nicely for decades. Enter: the aging owner of the property, a professor, who is related to the family through his marriage to a now dead wife. He brings with him [...]

By Annette Hinkle
Long Island may be known for its fabulous beaches, beautiful scenery and endless summer days. But in “Long Island Noir,” a new anthology edited by Kaylie Jones, it’s often what happens after the sun sets that really tells the tale. And in this collection of short stories, it’s the seamier, not the sunnier, [...]

(Rachel Carson at Hawk Mountain, Penn., in 1946. Photo by Shirley Briggs.)
By Annette Hinkle
In the late 1940s, after decisive victories in W.WII on two fronts, the United States turned its attention to waging war on a new enemy at home.
Insects.
The weapon of choice was DDT and in the post-war years, it played a huge role [...]

By Annette Hinkle
Say the name Tennessee Williams, and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” are the plays that most audiences call to mind. For good reason. Williams was a master of tapping into the human psyche and the heartache of dreams unfulfilled and all these plays strike [...]

By Annette Hinkle

When painting coastal landscapes, most artists who work al fresco prefer to focus on summer views. This is especially true in a place like Maine where darkness falls early once summer ends and the winters can be downright brutal.
But on view now at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor is the work of [...]

By Annette Hinkle
This is high season for the high school musical. While other kids on the East End may be out on ball fields or putting off homework as they battle spring fever, it’s not uncommon to find groups of dedicated theater students in darkened auditoriums perfecting song and tap numbers.
And that’s certainly been true [...]

By Annette Hinkle
A generation ago, many a housewife wiled away her weekday afternoons in front of a television screen watching her favorite soaps. Soap operas, so named for the commercials that peppered the breaks between the endless dramatic moments, were a way of life in those long gone days of one-income households. Tales of love, [...]

Kareem Massoud (brian halweil photo)
by Annette Hinkle
On March 29, the Parrish Art Museum presents “Lightning Round 2” a fast paced series of presentations by creative members of the East End community. Here are quick stories about three of them.
Kareem Massoud, winemaker
You were 10 years old in 1983 when your parents bought land on the North [...]

By Annette Hinkle
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” — so wrote William Shakespeare in “As You Like It,” his pastoral comedy of love and mistaken identity in the forest primeval. But while the Bard was probably thinking of the world as a theatrical place in the rhetorical sense, [...]