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Within The Hedges - On Saturday, March 7, the WITH Care organization hosted their “Art With Care” benefit cocktail party showcasing the work of local artists. The event was held at Ziggy's in Bridgehampton from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and included an open bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, William Falkenburg on the piano, and a silent art auction and raffle.

Within The Hedges - An exhibition of James Kennedy’s abstract paintings opened at Sylvester & Co. At Home in Amagansett Square recently. The show runs through May 20 and features a range of Kennedy’s works from his early landscape pieces to his most recent layered paintings. The selected works showcase Kennedy’s progression in the artistic process and illustrate his versatility as an artist.

Within The Hedges - Those crafty folks at the American Heart Association came up with an irresistibly sweet idea to break up the winter blues and pull folks away from their fireplaces recently. They invited some of the area’s top chefs to create a heart healthy dessert to be judged in an open competition at Trata restaurant in Water Mill by the attendees.

Within The Hedges - Sag Harbor residents Beatrice Alda and Jennifer Brooke screened their documentary film “Out Late” to a packed house at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor on Saturday night with proceeds going to benefit advocacy groups on Long Island. Arlene and Alan Alda, joined by Marlo Thomas and Phil Donohoue, were among the crowd that turned out for the local screening.

Within The Hedges - Hamptons Green Drinks organizers announced their upcoming East End event highlighting everything green. The 'Great Green Weekend in The Hamptons' will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and June 7 at Stonybrook Southampton.

Within The Hedges - Ross School students in grades eight through 12 presented a student-organized Holiday Fashion Show in collaboration with Intermix in East Hampton. Proceeds from the event will go to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons (ARF) and the Steven J. Ross Scholarship Fund.

Within The Hedges - Step away from the rushing and hustle of the holiday season and take the family over to the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum. Built in 2001, the museum is a place where you can go back to a time when Native Americans up and down the East Coast cultivated a thriving culture that dates back 10,000 years.

Within The Hedges - The Parrish Art Museum celebrated the opening of their newest exhibition, “East End Stories: Students Explore Our Creative Heritage” on Saturday, Dec. 13 to a packed house of student artists from across the East End and their parents, families, and friends. The day was the culmination of months of work for students and their art teachers who rose to meet the challenge of creating art that directly related to a piece from the museum's permanent collection.

Within The Hedges - The Bay Street Theatre played host to the First Annual Holiday Sing-A-Long coordinated and produced by pianist Brenda Landrum with a performance by Irish tenor Ciaran Sheehan, and emceed by Bill McCuddy.

Within The Hedges - As adults all over the Hamptons were finishing up a day at the office and getting ready for a long night out, some 150 children under eight started celebrating 2009 early at the Children's Museum of the East End's (CMEE) first ever “Ball Drop.”

Within The Hedges - To get the new year started with a splash, a group of about 40 at Gurney's Inn Resort & Spa in Montauk held their annual Polar Bear Dip under the watchful eye of the Spa's resident registered nurse, Susan Yunker.

Within The Hedges - It may be the beginning of January, and it may have been fairly cold this weekend, but it couldn’t have gotten any hotter inside the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Saturday night, as blues-rock ensemble Little Feat brought the sold-out East End crowd down South with their original and eclectic sound.

Within The Hedges - The evening, hosted and attended by Hamptons residents, began with the unveiling of a special gallery installation raised significant funds for the newly opened research center and showcased the diverse collections from over 70 dealers featured in Antiques & Arts at the Armory.

Within The Hedges - Mamalee Rose and Friends rocked The Stephen Talkhouse on Friday, Jan. 9, at the 8 p.m. show. Arlethia Lawler or Mamalee as she is known in the music world, and her band - including husband Jimmy (on drums) and daughter Rose (on vocals) has been entertaining audiences on the East End for more than 20 years.

Within The Hedges - Despite the snow and treacherous road conditions on Saturday, friends and fans of local civil rights activist and author Bob Zellner filled the spacious living room of Jim and Kathleen Schwartz in their North Sea home as he addressed his long-standing commitment to social justice and his estimation of what the future holds with the upcoming inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama.

Within The Hedges - Just as our nation’s capitol was mobbed with enthusiastic crowds of ecstatic Americans celebrating the inauguration of our 44th president, so too was Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor where it seemed the entire community turned out to revel in President Obama’s ascension to this country’s highest office, filling the community theater to standing room only capacity.

Within The Hedges - On a bone chilling Saturday love was in the air in Southampton at the Rogers Mansion home to the Southampton Historical Museum for the opening of two very special and very site perfect exhibitions truly filled with love.

Within The Hedges - The East End's Latino organization OLA has added a new youthful voice to its organization - OLA YG (Youth Generation). Both organizations held a benefit at Town Line BBQ in Bridgehampton on Sunday, Jan. 25.

Within The Hedges - As the nation watched newly sworn-in President Obama dance with the First Lady at home, a few hundred fun-loving folks celebrated history at the Southampton Inn's Inaugural Ball.

Within The Hedges - The streets of Riverhead and much of the East End were covered in ice as temps dipped well below freezing but that didn't stop over 400 people from heading to Polish Hall in Riverhead for the “Rockin' for the Homeless” benefit concert for Maureen's Haven Homeless Outreach. The evening was part cocktail party complete with kielbasa and sauerkraut, part Chinese Auction with over 50 prizes on the block, and part rock concert with three of Long Island's hottest bands.