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Irina Ourusoff has become an artist in her retirement, and has now added building dollhouses to her repertoire. She builds them from scratch, decorates them just as an interior designer would design a real-life house, and fills them with handmade furniture, below. House Proud: An East Hampton Artist in Miniatures

There are tiny cabinets, hand-made with care. Bathtubs are repurposed soap dishes, and hand-cut curtains adorn the windows. Much of the furniture is fashioned by hand, with the exception of chairs — chairs are too time-consuming and tough for her hands to handle, seasoned as those hands may be.

Mar 10, 2016
Mark Mangini Choral Society To Sing of Spring Rebirth

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will welcome spring with two popular choral classics, on March 20 at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. The program will feature Bach’s Cantata No. 4, “Christ Lay in Death’s Bonds,” and Fauré’s Requiem.

Mar 8, 2016
A Guitar Player’s Second Act, at 86

One year, ago, when The Star wrote about Glenn Feit’s “Fingerpicking Second Act,” the semiretired attorney was five years into a resumed study of the guitar after a false start four decades earlier. His renewed interest, he said, had coincided with his 80th birthday, and after honing his chops on stages across the South Fork he felt ready to take that second act into the studio.

Mar 3, 2016
New Art School Opening

Karyn Mannix, an East Hampton artist and gallerist, will open the Mannix Studio of Art on Friday, March 12, at 38 Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton. The school will conduct classes taught by classically trained instructors for students of all ages.

Mar 3, 2016
Calling All Deadheads

Music of a different sort will happen Friday and Saturday nights at 8 when “What a Long Strange Trip,” a two-night Grateful Dead tribute concert, comes to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Each performance will highlight different songs from the band’s long history, which began in 1965 and ran until the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995.

Mar 3, 2016
LongHouse Winter Benefit to Honor Hugh Hardy in Williamsburg

East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve will open its jubilee year with Design for Living, a winter benefit to be held at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on March 15.

Mar 3, 2016
A.M. Homes signed copies of her novel “May We Be Forgiven” at the East Hampton Library’s Authors Night in 2013. A.M. Homes: Never Too Young for an Achievement Award

“The Safety of Objects,” A.M. Homes’s 1990 story collection, arrived like an open-handed smack to the bourgeois reader’s face.

Mar 3, 2016
Laurie Lambrecht's "Lightning," a cyanotype on rag paper from 2014 The Art Scene 03.03.16

See some modern Cyanotype photographs by Laurie Lambrecht at the Drawing Room in East Hampton. Cyanotype is a photographic process discovered in the mid-19th century that produces a Prussian-blue print. The show will remain on view through April 10. Barbara Groot, an artist who lives and works in East Hampton, will show her paintings at the art gallery of the Quogue Library through March 30.

Mar 3, 2016
Guild Hall Offers Opera and Awards This Week

The Met: Live in HD will present a new production of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. A lecture on the opera by Victoria Bond will precede the screening at noon.

Mar 3, 2016
Mozart, Ravel, Gershwin, and More in Montauk Piano Recital

For classic musicophiles, the Montauk Library will present a free concert by Kathleen Tagg of works composed by virtuoso pianists Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The program will include compositions by Mozart, Ravel, Liszt, Schubert, Medtner, Debussy, and Gershwin.

Mar 3, 2016
Guild Hall’s first five artists in residence will spend the next two months living in Guild House, which is adjacent to the arts center on Dunemere Lane. Guild Hall Welcomes First Residents

After almost a year of planning, Guild Hall has selected the first participants in its Artist in Residence program, who will be ensconced in Guild House, around the corner from the cultural center on Dunemere Lane, through April 30

Mar 3, 2016
Canio’s to Screen Spotlight with Journalist and Theologian

Canio’s Cultural Cafe will host a screening of the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight” at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton tonight at 6:15. The film will be followed by a discussion with Bob Keeler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and Richard Lawless, a theologian.

Mar 3, 2016
Scents and Sensibility at Madoo

“Madoo Talks,” a series of three horticulture-related lectures, will kick off Sunday at noon at the Madoo Conservancy, the two-acre garden established in 1967 in Sagaponack by the late artist, gardener, and writer Robert Dash.

Mar 3, 2016
Doris Day Tribute

The Bridgehampton Museum’s Art of Song/Parlor Jazz series will present “Secret Love,” a tribute to the music of Doris Day by Karen Oberlin, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the museum’s archive building.

Mar 3, 2016
Bridge Gardens Presents Talks for Foodies

“Long Island Grown III: Food and Beverage Artisans at Work,” a four-lecture series organized by the Peconic Land Trust at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton, will open on Sunday at 2 p.m. with “The Cocktail Party,” a discussion featuring Vaughan Cutillo of the Montauk Brewing Company, Michael Kontokosta of Kontokosta Vineyard, and Noah Schwartz, executive chef of Noah’s in Greenport.

Mar 3, 2016
The Art Scene 02.25.16

The vanishing East End landscape will be the theme of "Scenes and Structures: Here and Gone,” an exhibition of paintings by Eileen Dawn Skretch and photographs by Anthony Lombardo at the Southampton Cultural Center. The show will open on Tuesday and remain on view through April 10. A reception will be held March 12 from 4 to 6 p.m..

Feb 25, 2016
Cabaret Tribute

“Listen to My Heart,” a free musical tribute to the cabaret legend Nancy LaMott, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Rusty Kransky and Dee Martin, actor-singers who live on the North Fork, will be accompanied on piano by Jeff Wentz, minister of music at the First Congregational Church in Riverhead.

Feb 25, 2016
Lindsay Morris opened a copy of “You Are You” to “I Am,” an image of a camper posing for a portrait before a fashion show. The enlargement at right will be included in a Parrish Art Museum exhibition. An Eye on Gender, Family, Courage

Lindsay Morris became obsessed with both photography and travel at the age of 10, when her grandfather gave her a subscription to National Geographic magazine. “My parents didn’t have the means to take us on any big trips, so that was how I found my adventure,” she said during a recent conversation in the Sag Harbor house she shares with her husband, Stephen Munshin, and their sons Milo, 15, and Cecil, 11.

Feb 25, 2016
Bay Street Sets Summer Lineup

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has announced its full slate of 2016 Mainstage summer productions. The season will begin with the world premiere of “The Forgotten Woman,” a new play by Jonathan Tolins that will be directed by Noah Himmelstein and run from May 31 through June 19.

Feb 25, 2016
New Musical at Drew

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free concert staging of “Eco,” a new musical by Jenna Mate and Bethie Fowler, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Feb 25, 2016
For “The Ultimate Classic Rock Experience” at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, the drummers Corky Laing, above and below, and Kofi Baker will play the music of Mountain and Cream “the way it was.” Classic Rock, Exactly as It Was

Thanks to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, residents of the South Fork have had plenty of remedies for a long winter’s inevitable cabin fever. This off-season has seen a multitude of musical events that have warmed the cold nights, many of them paying tribute to rock ’n’ roll’s classic era and the artists who made it so.

Feb 25, 2016
'South Pacific’ Concert

Center Stage of the Southampton Cultural Center will present a concert adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” from next Thursday through March 20.

Feb 25, 2016
Kenneth Weiss, a harpsichordist with roots in Montauk Spring Chamber Series Adds Third Concert

Since its founding 32 seasons ago, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival has continually found ways to expand and vary its summertime programs, including different venues, themes, and formats. Last year, Long Island’s longest-running classical music series added BCMF Spring, with two concerts. The new venture had such a strong audience response that a third concert is on tap for 2016.

Feb 25, 2016
The History of Jazz

The East Hampton Library will present “Jazz: The First American Art Form,” a free lecture by Craig Boyd, on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4. Mr. Boyd, a professor of music at Suffolk Community College and recipient of the New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, will examine the history of jazz from its conception to the present.

Feb 18, 2016
Spice containers and salt and pepper shakers, above left, from “Black Memorabilia: Images and Icons,” Golliwogs and Gravestones Tell the Story

The Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor will commemorate Black History Month this weekend with a two-part exploration of African-American artifacts and memorials. On Saturday, an ongoing exhibition will open at the society’s home on Hampton Street, and on Sunday, a symposium and pop-up exhibition, presented in partnership with the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, will take place at the Bay Street Theater.

Feb 18, 2016
The Art Scene 02.18.16

The Guild Hall Artists Members Exhibition will open on April 23. The museum is now accepting entries and the judge will be Jia Jia Fei, who was recently named director of digital, the first to hold the title, at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. The Southampton Artists Association is holding its annual winter art show at the Southampton Cultural Center from today through Feb. 28, with an opening reception on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Feb 18, 2016
7 Daughters of Eve Performances and Tours Saturday at Watermill Center

The Watermill Center will offer a tour of its building and grounds on Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5:30, followed by open rehearsals by Sahra Motalebi from 6 to 7 and, from 7:30 to 8:30, by 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co.

Feb 18, 2016
Elaine de Kooning at her 1984 Vered Gallery exhibition The Many Faces Of Walter Weissman

For the past few months, Guild Hall has displayed an array of photographic portraits in the intimate space of its Wasserstein Gallery. The set of 15 predominantly black-and-white prints, the work of Walter Weissman, befit the room, and the room enhances them.

Feb 18, 2016
A scene from the film "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" ‘Anti-Western’ at Guild Hall

For those who think the Hamptons International Film Festival hibernates during February, think again. The festival that never sleeps will present, in partnership with Guild Hall, a screening of Robert Altman’s 1971 classic “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the John Drew Theater. Alec Baldwin, the festival’s co-chairman, and David Nugent, its artistic director, will host a discussion after the screening.

Feb 18, 2016
Calling Vocalists

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold auditions for upcoming concerts on Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., by appointment. The theater is looking for female and male vocalists to sing “in the style of Grace Slick and Marty Balin,” for a 30-minute set of Jefferson Airplane’s greatest hits, to be backed by a full band. Vocalists have been asked to prepare to sing “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.”

Feb 18, 2016