Hayground Henry V, As Advertised on Main Street

Even if I weren't a sucker for student-acted Shakespeare, I'd show up for anything advertised with finger paint and watercolors. And who knows how many productions we'll all be able to enjoy at Bay Street before the theater closes?

Dinner Reservation Reminds Me of Banana Bread

Making my dinner reservation tonight for the American Hotel's dinner and a movie tonight reminded me to tell you that my Brown Butter Banana Bread recipe is up on Newsday.com. See you at Bay Street!

Happy Harborfest

If you forgot to buy tickets to the Whaling Museum's Lobster Bake, you don't necessarily have to stay home alone on Harborfest Eve. The Picture Show at Bay Street Theater is screening the maritime-themed Lifeboat (did you know that local author John Steinbeck wrote the screenplay?) tonight at 8, for $5. And you don't have to go hungry either--for another $20 you can have a 3-course dinner at the American Hotel before the show.

Good Vibrations (and a lot of Cash) for Haiti

The Bay Street Theater was packed to the rafters last night, for the Hamptons for Haiti benefit. As often happens to me when I leave my house to go to Main Street, I was taken by surprise by the diverse talents of my neighbors. For a while now I had been hearing about Djambeli Drum and Dance (led by Dan Bailey, of Monday Night Drum Circle fame) from my friend Sue, and I finally got a chance to see and hear them perform. Since I realized, after I recently purchased a metronome to help me with my piano practice, that I have no sense of rhythm, I was impressed by their skill. And their soulfulness. They sent out a loving rhythmic message to earthquake victims, while helping to raise much-needed funds.

Typical Sunday

It was a typical Sunday here in Sag Harbor, full of small triumphs and disappointments. I woke up early to make a loaf of buttery white sandwich bread, and while the mixer was kneading my dough I received an e-mail from my brother-in-law in Vermont, with a photo of a Shelburne farm stand where crowds flock to buy cider doughnuts. Those doughnuts must be good, because I'm sure there hasn't been a crowd that big in Vermont since the Jonas Brothers played the Champlain Valley Exposition last summer. Hoping against hope that someone had opened up a cider doughnut stand on Main Street overnight, I headed out. Since the Hamptons International Film Festival has been going on all weekend, I was betting on seeing Sharon Stone (who was due to appear at the Bay Street Theater at 1:30) eating a doughnut. But I was disappointed. No doughnuts and the only movie star I've seen this weekend is Alec Baldwin. No offense Alec Baldwin, I think you are hilarious! But I've seen you so many times before on Main Street that I wonder if you are following me! I'm afraid the closest I got to a cider doughnut was a gallon of Milk Pail cider from Falkowski's (Scuttlehole Road and Millstone in Bridgehampton). It was almost 2:00 when I walked into the tasting room at Channing Daughters and felt my luck turn. They had not yet sold out of their newest release, a coppery-colored wine called Ramato that I knew would be perfect with my Thanksgiving turkey if only I could get my hands on some of it. On the way home, I saw that Bay Burger had some new Fall ice cream flavors, so I stopped to pick up a pint of pumpkin. When I sit down tonight to enjoy my bread and ice cream, secure in the knowledge that I'll have plenty of wine to drink on Thanksgiving day, I'll only feel a little bit sad that I never got my doughnut.

IGA Item of the Week

My cable is acting funny since yesterday's rain and wind, and Optimum says it may not be able to send someone over until Monday! Fortunately, I have entertainment options. I plan on seeing Hobson's Choice, a David Lean movie I managed to miss in college, at The Bay Street Theater tomorrow at 8. The IGA sells movie theater-size boxes of Good & Plenty, Goobers, and Raisinets at a very reasonable $1.29. I bought all three, in case anyone expects me to share.