Celebrating Peter Matthiessen
On Thursday, December 17, at 6 p.m., The Peter Matthiessen Center will host a virtual gathering featuring an intimate reading of a few favorite passages of Peter Matthiessen’s most admired works by former friends and colleagues in the literary, environmental, human rights and Zen Buddhist world.
Foodstuffs: Food, Drink and Igloos to Liven Up the Season
Hungry for the holidays? Here's a rundown of some special drinking and dining offerings available on the East End this week — from roast suckling pig courtesy of Almond Restaurant and Hampton Coffee Company's peppermint mocha to Hanukkah to go from Lulus and cocktails with a twist from Main Street Tavern.
Four Years Later, Sag Harbor Cinema Presents Short Documentary About its Darkest Day
Four years ago this week, Kevin O’Brien Jr. walked inside the Sag Harbor Cinema, blanketed in thick smoke and insufferable heat, feeling his way into the dark building. He could feel the velvet rope that ran the length of the entrance way. Then the popcorn machine. But he could see nothing. Moments later, the firefighter and his team of volunteers scrambled back out onto Main Street — just before the cinema’s ceiling collapsed where they had stood.
Theater Pros Bring a Socially Distanced Holiday Dinner Theater to Greenport
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that life has changed dramatically in 2020 for Vanessa Leuck and Ethan Popp. For the husband and wife theater professionals — he’s a Broadway arranger, musical coordinator, orchestrator and conductor, while she’s a costume designer — the pandemic brought a temporary relocation from New York City to the North Fork, and also a reimagining of what they could do in their field on a local level.
Melissa Ericco Sings Her Way into the Holiday Spirit
Broadway star Melissa Errico, accompanied by jazz pianist Tedd Firth — is a natural storyteller, and in a virtual concert, she will spin a few tales on the Bay Street Stage, from why the greatest Christmas songs are recorded in July, and the reason they’re almost exclusively penned by Jewish-American songwriters, to how the winter holidays continue to unite, even in the most difficult of times.
What the Planet Wants for Christmas
In 1982, my mother had a nervous breakdown that we teenagers probably caused. She announced that we were going to have a “Love Christmas.”
“A what?” I asked, color draining from my face.
Paul Davis Portraits on View in ‘Black Lives’ at Keyes Gallery
The work of long time Sag Harbor artist Paul Davis goes on view this week in an exhibition titled “Black Lives” at Keyes Gallery, adjacent to The American Hotel on Main Street in the village. The show opens with a reception on Friday, December 11, from 4 to 8 p.m. and remains on view through January 10, 2021.
Holiday Shopping to Raise Funds for the Whaling Museum
The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is currently hosting its online Holiday Campaign and is offering the community an opportunity to help the museum raise funds while at the same time finding the perfect gift for someone special.
Bianca Jagger Shares her Insights on Human Rights
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton will host a Zoom talk from London by Bianca Jagger on the topic of human rights. Her talk will take place on Thursday, December 10, at 2 p.m. To reserve a Zoom link, attendees should visit stlukeseasthampton.org.
Quogue Gallery Presents a Bender of Fiction
Currently on view at Quogue Gallery is “Lauren Lyons: A Bender of Fiction,” an exhibition running through December 31. On view are 12 of the artist’s large scale provocative photographs from highly stylized shoots that the artist conceived and styled over the course of the past 20 years. The exhibition represents the first time these photographs are being exhibited formally together in a gallery.
Sharing Viewpoints on the Shinnecock Indian Nation
On Wednesday, December 16, at 5:30 p.m., The Watermill Center hosts a Zoom “Viewpoints” presentation with attorneys and activists of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and Hassanamisco Nipmuc Tribe, Tela Troge, Esq. and Kelly Dennis, Esq.
In Concert With Norm Lewis
Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce the premiere of “Norm Lewis in Concert,” presented by Feinstein’s/54 Below on Thursday, December 17, at 8 p.m. Lewis and his holiday shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below have become a New York City tradition over the past five years and this year will be no different as Broadway’s charming and acclaimed leading man returns to perform a very special concert this year, albeit online.
HTC To Film Socially Distanced ‘Miracle On 34th Street’ Radio Play
Faced with the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hampton Theatre Company has come up with a plan to film a socially distanced live performance of the Lux Radio Theater “Miracle on 34th Street” and will make the video available to patrons as part of the company’s traditional end-of-year appeal.
Are We There Yet? Ask Tripoli Gallery
Tripoli Gallery’s 16th annual Thanksgiving Collective is continuing and will be on view through January 28 at the space, 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott. Titled “Are We There Yet?” the show includes works by Sabra Moon Elliot, Rhys Gaetano, Judith Hudson, Bryan Hunt, Yung Jake, Liz Markus, Bella McGoldrick, Laith McGregor, Angelbert Metoyer, Miles Partington, Lauren West and Lucy Winton.
Hamptons Doc Fest: Fishing for Their Future
When Darby Duffin and Adam Jones set out to make their first documentary in 2013, they had no choice but to go big. It’s what the story deserved. Over the next six years, their journey took them cross-country and overseas as they documented the wild fishery collapse — where only five species make up over 85 percent of the American seafood diet, and 91 percent of the country’s inventory is imported.
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The Parrish Art Museum is Abuzz with Apiary Action
It’s not a practice one normally associates with a world-class art museum, but tucked away in a quiet corner of the expansive meadow surrounding the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill sit four beehives. And now, the honey that those bees have worked so hard to make all summer long has been jarred and labeled and is ready to come home for the holidays.
Lauren Lyons is Bending Fiction in the Most Colorful Way
Lauren Lyons has made it her mission to tell stories through the photographs she takes: Amy, a naked, painted woman smokes a cigarette as she sits on a public toilet; a spiky-haired man named John stands in front of a vibrant, pink backdrop — he wears trousers made of candy, an “Eat Me” T-shirt and a sneer; Carolyn, a woman covered in mud, crawls on the ground toward the camera under the darkness of night. Though Lyons controls every aspect of what appears in the frame — from the models and costumes to the color scheme, props and setting — the responsibility of ultimately determining what story the image is telling lies with the viewer.
Take A Guided Tour of Parrish Art Museum’s ‘Field of Dreams’
This week, the Parrish Art Museum offers socially-distanced, docent-led walking tours of Field of Dreams, the museum’s inaugural outdoor sculpture exhibition, as well as the opportunity to meet artist Scott Bluedorn who will guide visitors through his Road Show project “Bonac Blind.”