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The Southold artist Michael Combs comes from a long line of Long Island hunters and baymen who made a hard living off the land. In his work, both gorgeous and grotesque, he draws a bead on the masculine culture of killing — of forever taking more from the bleeding Earth.
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Plasto-Sphere, 3014 (2014), by Rossa Cole, an artist who grew up in East Hampton and now lives and works in Sag Harbor. “The idea behind this piece,” he says, “is that when the atmosphere starts to fail, we put up a massive plastic barrier to keep space out. When that starts to fail, we use huge Band-Aids to fix the holes.”
An action list for every household on the East End. Because, duh!, it’s time to take personal responsibility for the climate emergency.
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Read MoreWhy do thousands of our neighbors rely on food pantries, staffed mainly by volunteers, to make it through the week? And what are we going to do about it?
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Read MoreOyster farming is a wonderful thing—for the environment, for foodies, for small-scale entrepreneurs. But what happens when the government grants aquaculture leases smack-dab where folks have been boating for hundreds of years?
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Read MoreWhen I came along a year ago with a sketch of an idea to start a magazine for The Star — beautiful, authentic, local (in short, The Star in stunning pictures and carefully edited words) — I might as well have said: "Whale off!"
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