Journalism

Get In My (Gold)Belly! Sagaponack Residents Joe And Vanessa Ariel Talk About The Business Of Food And Nostalgia

by Bridget LeRoy
July 21, 2022

You’re crazy for cake, but only if it’s from Kaminsky’s in Charleston, South Carolina. Problem is, you’re in Charleston, West Virginia.

From Wonderland To Shondaland, Kate Burton Stays Center Stage

by Bridget LeRoy
April 11, 2022

There’s only been one other time in four decades of writing where I’ve inserted myself into the narrative of an article (even writing “myself” makes every journalistic bone in my—“my!”—body shudder). But to not describe my lifelong friendship with actress Kate Burton would be disingenuous.

Susan Stroman: A Life In The Theater

by Bridget LeRoy
August 4, 2021

They call her “Stro.” It stands, of course, for Stroman (as in Susan) because that’s her name. But it also could stand for strode, as in “she strode across the stage to…

After ruling Broadway and reaching 100 million TV viewers, Andrews was the most famous woman in the world

Reflections With Julie Andrews

After ruling Broadway with “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot,” dazzling film audiences with “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music,” and reaching over 100 million television viewers in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,”...

Bridget LeRoy  June 8, 2017 Entertainment

HIFF previews HBO doc at Guild Hall

Interview With Jane Fonda: Actress, Activist, Octogenarian

With Jane Fonda, there are no in-betweens. Her life has been lived in the public eye and, popular or unpopular, she has always gone full steam ahead, whether sinking her teeth into...

Bridget LeRoy September 18, 2018 Entertainment

Songwriter partners with Les Claypool for band’s third album

Sean Ono Lennon: Bringing The Beauty

Some stories are more personal than others. It would be disingenuous to start this article without full disclosure — the Lennons were our neighbors at the Dakota in New York City. John...

Bridget LeRoy May 21, 2019 Entertainment

Tony Kushner revisits fantasy, fascism in reboots

Angels, Devil Are In The Details

You know it. He knows it. “Angels in America” is going to be Tony Kushner’s epitaph. Within moments of its 1991 premiere, everyone who saw it knew it was an utterly original...

Bridget LeRoy  July 2, 2019 Entertainment

Joe Lauro finds black and white, in color

Historic Films Archived In Greenport

It started with a love of music and a degree in film, and it led to a combination of both for Sag Harbor resident Joe Lauro, founder of Historic Films Archive, which...

Bridget LeRoy May 26, 2020 Arts

Appreciation for the arts is his core message

Alec Baldwin: All In On The East End

In a normal year, Alec Baldwin — sometimes with his wife, Hilaria, and sometimes with one or two or five kids (with another on the way) — is ubiquitous in these here...

Bridget LeRoy May 19, 2020 Arts

Weekly show brings music, laughs, and community to YouTube

Atlas: Just Another Friday Night Hustle

When you watch singer-songwriter Nancy Atlas and her band play live — with the guest performers, the jokes, the personal touches, the fun, and oh my God, that voice — half of...

Bridget LeRoy May 12, 2020 Arts

Yulin, Canfora bring Williams’s lyrical writing to Guild Hall

A Portrait Of Tennessee

Guild Hall is presenting a virtual staged reading of “Portrait of Tennessee Williams,” starring Mercedes Ruehl, Harris Yulin, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Tedra Millan, its first event since the beginning of the pandemic....

Bridget LeRoy May 12, 2020 Entertainment

Feel-good musical icon subject of new critically acclaimed film

Linda Ronstadt: Simple Dreams

Hers was the voice that launched a thousand ships. What girl in the 1970s and ’80s didn’t sing along with Linda Ronstadt, or wish that they had a voice like that voice?...

Bridget LeRoy November 25, 2019 Entertainment

Grants help bring happy endings to local hubs

Libraries: A Love Story

Once upon a time, a library was simply a place where books lived. But, as the years passed, and people became busier, and there was less time for reading and more distractions...

Bridget LeRoy August 27, 2019  Features

Astrophysicist lands on East End

Neil deGrasse Tyson: He’s Really Out There

Carl Sagan made the universe, the space/time continuum, and other vast theories, accessible to us regular Joes. But Neil deGrasse Tyson made it fun. Tyson, the astrophysicist and director of the Hayden...

Bridget LeRoy  July 30, 2019 Featured

Hamptons fundraiser celebrates a decade of support

The Apollo Theater: 85 And Still Growing

Although it’s only a tree trunk, its roots run deep. The last, famous remnant of the Tree of Hope — a stately elm which grew in front of another Harlem theater a...

Bridget LeRoy   July 30, 2019 Entertainment

Legendary performers honor their legacy and create their own voice

The Next Generation: Rufus, Rosanne, Teddy, & More

Is it nature or nurture? That was one of the questions that was posited to Guild Hall’s summer headliners who, coincidentally, come from famous performer parents, sometimes on both sides. The Allman...

Bridget LeRoy June 25, 2019 Entertainment

Mocked by Trump, Kovaleski says journalists won’t back down

Serge Kovaleski: A Reporter Reflects

Say the name Serge Kovaleski, and you’ll likely get a blank stare from most people, even though he is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has spent a lifetime at the world’s best...

Bridget LeRoy August 29, 2018 Featured

Catholic Holocaust survivor ‘will never stop’ speaking out

Bozenna Gilbride: What Hate Looks Like

A beautiful home in the woods of Southampton offers a moment of tranquil respite as Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride stands on her deck, handfeeding a trio of furry baby deer. One moves in...

Bridget LeRoy March 26, 2019 Arts

Descendent of Thomas Jefferson fights for the recognition of his African-American cousins

Lucian Truscott IV Continues His Mission

Lucian K. Truscott IV — best-selling author and journalist — is sitting in the living room of his Sag Harbor home, which was built in the early 1700s, more than 30 years...

Bridget LeRoy February 14, 2019 Featured

Award-winning chef a keynote speaker at The Food Lab on September 15

Colin Ambrose: Food, Connections, And Fish

  There’s an art to fishing. For Colin Ambrose — the highly-successful chef and restaurateur known out here for the original Estia in Amagansett and Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor...

Bridget LeRoy September 11, 2018 Arts

“When I was writing these new songs, I was experiencing a personal tsunami.” - Sophie B. Hawkins

Sophie B. Riffs With G.E. At Guild Hall

It’s such a cliché to say that someone “broke the mold,” and it doesn’t even apply to Sophie B. Hawkins — best known for her ‘90s hits “Damn, I Wish I Was...

Bridget LeRoy July 24, 2018 Arts