Opinion

A “Minecraft” movie might sound unwatchable, but the phenomenon of teenage audience participation it has spurred is most welcome.

The mysterious pull of a struggling Southern Tier downtown and its one-of-a-kind hotel.

For 30 years my life and my brother’s did not cross, despite good reasons to reconnect. And then it all changed.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board made the right move recently by demanding additional study of a planned 50-unit industrial park in Wainscott.

I have always been a do-it-yourselfer, even about food.

Pondering this week where I’d stash my cash, apropos of the possibly pending global financial collapse, the strategy of parking money in companies that manufacture small indulgences seems about right.

What happens to our data when a company changes hands is just one of many good questions in this age of digital Big Brother. Too bad public indifference is so widespread.

It is a national challenge. In many places, there are simply too many people competing for too few affordable places to live, and nowhere worse than on the South Fork.

The pleasure and practicality of a loaner.

What happens when loss is slow, the goodbye extended? Is it something to treasure or to dread?

The osprey is a kind of modern-day phoenix, risen from the ashes of near-extermination.

Zaire had attracted me for what I perceived as its perch on the knife edge between order and chaos. I had sought a challenge.

All the way to Florida and back it was my daughter, Nettie, who led me in the right direction, not the other way around.

The Hands Off! protest on Saturday in front of Town Hall may start small, but it may also be the start of something big.

Public media is one of the greatest cultural assets this country has. Cue the congressional show trial.

At the Byron Young Fish Passage.

My husband and I took long, life-affirming cycling trips, until one day everything changed.

After 25 years in which no major investments were made at the Montauk School, the district’s school board will put a $38 million bond on the May ballot, seeking community approval to bring the aging facility into the modern era.

The Washington dipsticks who discussed apparently classified United States military planning on an unsecure chat app before a March 15 attack on Yemen’s Houthi militants must not have been familiar with teenagers.

One of the superstitions I have acquired with age is that I do believe houses and belongings acquire something from the generations who have been there before.

Behold gastronomic glory — the Rochester garbage plate.

Scientists have discovered a new pill that will do away with both toothpaste and toothbrushes, not to mention human agency altogether.

The American culture wars have become our own cultural revolution, censorship with a whimper, not a bang.

At long last, the East Hampton Town Board is expected to reduce the cap on houses relative to the size of a given piece of land.

The Bouvier Beales of Grey Gardens had raccoons in the parlor but they also had certain pretentions. They floated in time in a rather detached fashion, losing track of its passing days, weeks, months, years, decades, and centuries, and I understand and sympathize, especially when it comes to yard maintenance.

As the 2026 midterm elections loom more consequential than ever, it’s time to get out and get active.

Thoughts from someone who hated daylight saving time. Until suddenly he didn't.

The bandbox, a staple of 19th-century travel, was more than just a practical storage solution. It was a symbol of newfound freedom for a feminine work force.

Of all the work-force cuts by the Trump administration, none could top slashing the National Weather Service and its parent, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

As we watch wildfires on the evening news with horror, the question arises of how, exactly, an evacuation of East Hampton would work.