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The Hamptons is back in full swing this weekend with events, galas, art, readings and everything that drives the culture in one of the most beautiful places on the east coast.

For the first time since Michael Jackson's death, a major portrait of the artist is being offered and is now at a Hamptons art gallery.

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Aldemar Lopez, 47, of East Hampton was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree, a misdemeanor, on June 30 after he was pulled over by Sag Harbor Village Police for talking on a cell phone while driving, they said.

What a truly marvelous Fourth of July weekend. After one of the wettest Junes in recent memory, the weather was just swell from Thursday on, making it a pleasure to do just about anything that involved going outside - to the parade in Southampton, a friend's barbecue, the fireworks, or even getting up at the crack of dawn to make sure our new puppy ...

Bob Hope once said, "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." Perhaps that's one reason, despite the country's worst recession since World War II, the Hamptons is buzzing with its usual roster of great benefits and optimism abounds.

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Former Africa Israel USA chief executive Rotem Rosen has been named president of Polar USA/HFZ Capital, The Real Deal has learned.

Last Friday, Ruth Madoff agreed to give up her claim to the Montauk oceanfront home in Hither Hills that she and her husband Bernie have owned and enjoyed for the last 15 years.

Scenes from Westhampton Beach Village will soon be immortalized in virtual reality, as part of a new computer game that is affiliated with USA Network's "Royal Pains," a new television series about a Manhattan doctor who flees the city to start over in the Hamptons.

Copa, a wine-and-tapas bar, is expected to open soon, maybe as early as this weekend, in Bridgehampton.

Wanna live in the fabulous Hamptons on the site of a former nuclear missile base? That is what advisors are hoping will lure people to this 96-acre parcel in the scrub pines of Westhampton adjacent to Gabreski Airport, just in back of Old Country Road.

Howard Lorber , chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman , is on the list of Bernard Madoff victims , according to Vanity Fair.

On July 6 at noon in the Municipal Building in Sag Harbor, Brian Gilbride will cap 20 years of public service on both the town and village level by assuming the duties of Mayor of the Village of Sag Harbor.

For Israeli teenagers Edan Daniel and Yasmin Dunsky, coming to America as a delegate for the Israel Scouts was a dream come true.

This Sunday at Guild Hall, Visiting Mr. Green, a major play with local roots, will be presented as a staged reading.

Last week I wrote extensively about the disgust, anger, revulsion and even acts of violence exhibited by residents of this place when they have returned to a private parking lot to find that their cars have been immobilized with an iron boot on a front tire.

The Rev. Donald G. Huston died June 13, 2009, in West Chester, Pa. He was born May 19, 1928, in Pittsburgh to the late J. Leslie and Kathryn Huston.

It took nearly two years, but Lisa Kerkorian, ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian , may finally have found a buyer for her 10,000-square-foot Bridgehampton barn.

Last weekend, Billy Joel was not sitting at his baby grand nor cruising around the harbors in his custom-made Down Easter boats.