By Georgia Suter
In the age of long whaling voyages and merchant sailing trips, seamen were on board for months at a time, sometimes years.  Amidst long hours of work in harsh seafaring conditions, sea chanties were sung to ease the burden of hard labor and boost morale amongst crew members.  
Tim Fitall, member of the [...]

Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker tend to let the subjects of their documentaries find them.
“They almost always come to us. It’s very Zen. Zen [Buddhism] says ‘never look, never refuse,’” Pennebaker remarked leaning back in a wooden chair at his kitchen table in Sag Harbor on a warm weekend morning.
Above: George Stephanopoulos [...]

Crowded around a lunch table on a Friday afternoon last fall, men and women displayed the smiles of young children, licking a luscious chocolate sauce from their fingertips while enjoying the crisp, creamy flavor of homemade profiteroles in honor of Quail Hill Farm director and organic farmer Scott Chaskey, whose birthday was the cause for [...]

By Vee Benard
“The Chalks,” a folk-singing sister act featuring on-stage ‘siblings’ Judeen, Judelle and Belva Chalk, is hitting the Hamptons once again. Following their East End debut at the Bay Street Theatre last February, the country singing group is making appearances at the Parrish Art Museum over the next two weeks.
The Chalks, brainchild of Mary [...]

By Francesca Normile
Last summer, The Custom House presented an opportunity to the children of Sag Harbor (and those of the greater East End): a chance to tour the town they strolled around in everyday, but had perhaps not yet really seen. Led by New York City architectural educator and part-time Sag Harbor resident, Janet Sygar, [...]

By Francesca Normile
This summer, there has been a widely undiscovered art exhibit tucked away in the Bridgehampton Historical Society’s Archives Building. Located just east of the Nathaniel Rogers House, which appears abandoned and debatably haunted, the Archives Building is not in the natural line of vision from downtown Bridgehampton.
“No sidewalks connect us [to the town] [...]

By Ellen Frankman
Pop art simply isn’t what it used to be. At least not according to David Pagel, Los Angeles art critic and adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum. Pagel curated this month’s “Underground Pop” exhibit at the Parrish, assembling 35 works by 10 artists who all share a quirky new perception of the [...]

By Francesca Normile
“‘What’s behind those hedges?’ is everyone’s favorite guessing game [out here],” quips garden ‘stylist,’ as she prefers to be called, Dianne Benson. Benson, who designed the Appel Garden in East Hampton, is one of six garden designers being showcased in the upcoming Guild Hall event, ‘The Garden as Art.’
“Everyone in the Hamptons is [...]

By Bryan Boyhan
This show is wildly offensive. And wickedly funny.
“Romance,” David Mamet’s careening hour-and-twenty-minute courtroom comedy now onstage at the Bay Street Theatre, attacks just about every religious, racial and sexual stereotype, on way to reinforcing the notion that the road to world peace — or any peace for that matter — is littered with personal [...]

By Ellen Frankman
 “The title of this play is not a misnomer,” Reg Rogers insists, the actor who plays a defense attorney in this month’s production of David Mamet’s “Romance” at Bay Street Theatre. It certainly seems however, that audience members may have to dig deep – or perhaps just stick to the surface of absurdity [...]