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Looking back over the past year, I cannot help but be thankful for some of the many positive things in my life: friends and family, a job that I love, increasingly good health, a great place to live and an exciting social calendar—to name just a few.
It took me some time to come around to life on the East End (especially during my first dreary dose during the desolate months of January and February), but I now feel like this is my home and I hope I’m here to stay. So whenever I do get those rare January/February blues, I remind myself that we are all fortunate to live in a place where others pay thousands, some millions, to just vacation here for a short period of time.
Even in the dead of winter, we have a burgeoning arts scene—three new plays open between now and next Thursday—and plenty of other cool, fun and interesting things to do. Check out some of them below.
Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” opens at the Southampton Cultural Center on Thursday, January 7, at 8 p.m., at the Levitas Center for the Arts in Southampton. Performances will run through Sunday, January 31. Tickets are $22, or $10 for students. For reservations, call 287-4377, e-mail klonnie@southamptonculturalcenter.org or visit southamptonculturalcenter.org.
Even closer to home, the Hampton Theatre Company will present “Mauritius” starting on Thursday, January 14, at 8 p.m., at the Quogue Community Hall. Performances will continue through Sunday, January 31, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $25, $23 for seniors, or $10 for students. Call 653-8955, e-mail hamptontheatre@optonline.net or visit hamptontheatre.org for information and reservations.
The North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck will stage the classic “Arsenic and Old Lace” beginning on Thursday, January 14, at 8 p.m., and running through Sunday, January 31. Tickets are $15 each. For a complete list of showtimes and performance dates, call 298-NCFT or visit nfct.com.
And for those who would rather be on the stage, “Hampton Idol” auditions will be held on Friday, January 8, at 4:30 p.m., at the Hampton Bays Community Center. There is no cost and auditions are open to all students in grades 7 through 12 who live in Southampton Town. For additional information, call the Southampton Town Youth Bureau at 702-1960, e-mail lgala@southamptontownny.gov or visit southamptontownny.gov.
The “Finest in World Cinema” series will continue at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center this weekend with screenings of “A Serious Man” on Friday, January 8, and Saturday, January 9, at 7:30 p.m. both days, and again on Sunday, January 10, at 1 and 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students and seniors, and $3 for Film Society members. Call 288-1500 or visit whbpac.org for more information or to reserve a seat.
We all owe a round of applause to Speonk Lumber on Montauk Highway in Speonk, and its sister store in Mastic Beach, for raising more than $1,000 for local needy families last month.
In early December, each store put up an undecorated evergreen tree in its respective showroom and then sold raffle chances on a gas barbecue grill for $5 each. All money collected was used to “decorate” the trees, which, by Christmas, were festooned with bills of all denominations.
All funds were donated to the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Quiogue and St. Jude’s Roman Catholic Church in Mastic Beach to help support “Adopt-a-Family” and community outreach programs. Grant Werner, marketing director for Speonk Lumber, said he was encouraged by the community outpouring, adding that his company will offer the fund-raiser again next year.
“Even in these tough economic times, our customers were very generous in their donations,” Mr. Werner said. “We are very pleased to support the local community and look forward to our ‘Money Tree’ fund-raiser as a yearly event.”
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