by Marianna Levine
Luis Murillo, a 16-year-old Pierson High School student, may be the youngest member of the Choral Society of the Hamptons, yet his voice already has the warmth and maturity of a more experienced singer. Murillo is eager to point out that he has come a long way vocally since arriving in Sag Harbor [...]

Perhaps only Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” can rival it in terms of sheer popularity and accessibility. Since it opened in Chicago in 1945, “The Glass Menagerie” has been performed countless times on stages everywhere, from high school drama departments to community playhouses to Broadway. Now, Williams’ autobiographical tale about the Wingfield family is [...]

By Marianna Levine
Blair Seagram, a Canadian artist and photographer, who has been a part-time resident of Sag Harbor since the mid-90s, will have her first solo exhibit “Surf Report” at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor starting Saturday May 23 with an artist’s reception from 6-8 p.m.
Seagram has been drawn to water since her [...]

By Andrew Rudansky
Lillian Woudsma is eager to show the distribution center underneath the Old Whalers Church on Union Street, carefully going over each shelf and refrigerator. She looks over the assortment of canned and fresh food with a sense of pride. Woudsma has been the director of the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry for the [...]

By Marianna Levine
Terrie Sultan, the director of the Parrish Art Museum, decided to do something a little different with the museum’s up-coming show, “Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End” which opens with a reception on Saturday April 18 at 6 p.m. Instead of presenting a traditional juried art show she decided to [...]

By Marianna Levine
With movies ranging in subject from butterflies and turtles to building in an eco-friendly way, Stony Brook Southampton’s First Annual Green Film Series was started as a way to further celebrate and communicate the campus’s focus on sustainability. It features a free film about environmental sustainability each Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. and [...]

By Marianna Levine
In honor of Black History month, the Eastville Heritage House on Hampton Road in Sag Harbor will feature an exhibition called “Partners in Progress” open every weekend in February. The exhibit highlights the cooperation between blacks and whites in the abolitionists and civil rights movements. In light of the recent election and inauguration of [...]

By Marianna Levine
It is rare to find something interesting to do and beautiful to see for free in the Hamptons, but that is exactly what you get at the Dia Art Foundation’s Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton.  Simply stated it is a permanent florescent light exhibit in a former church that was once a firehouse. [...]

 

By Marissa Maier
At the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival, Sag Harbor residents, and acclaimed husband and wife filmmaking duo, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will present their film “The Return of the War Room.” The work revisits material from their Academy-Award nominated 1993 documentary “The War Room,” which followed Bill Clinton’s talented and young campaign [...]

Sometimes it’s simply easier to think in an uncluttered space, and Silas Marder knows as much. He knows that by not filling the old Christys Auction House space on Main Street to capacity, by letting the space breathe and with the assistance of some old sea chanteys and whaling songs, visitors to his temporary gallery [...]