Sundays On The East End

Allan Zola Kronzek  is an author, educator, and sleight-of-hand artist. He is the author of six magic-centric books, including the NY Times Bestseller "The  Sorcerer’s Companion—a Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter" (co-authored with his daughter, Elizabeth), and most recently, of  "Grandpa Magic," a treasury of tricks, stunts, puzzles and brainteasers, designed to make grandpa the coolest guy on the block. Prior to his current career, he was a freelance writer, a jazz DJ, and general manager of a classic rock radio station on Eastern Long Island. He occasionally performs close-up magic at private functions, and  socially at the drop of a hat.

The Spur is the first private co-working space and innovation lab in the Hamptons, and Ashley John Heather, one of the partners responsible for getting it up and running, along with another local company i-hamptons.com, will be our guest this Sunday. "It's like WeWork and SoHo House had a baby at the beach," Ashley said. The Spur offers more than a workspace — it hosts panels, health and wellness and kids' programs, Mentorship Mondays, and the already highly popular "Shark Tank"-like "Riptide $ink or $wim".  Curious? Tune in with Bridget and Alec to learn more and listen in as we discuss innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, and The  Spur's role in the future of the Southampton landscape.

This week our guest is East Hampton resident Kate Mueth, founder of the avant-garde theater group The Neo-Political Cowgirls and instigator of "January Girls" at Guild Hall of East Hampton, a free weekly workshop this month for girls and women of all ages, led by a different artist each week, helping to find community,  self-expression, and support across generations.

This week's guests, Amy Zerner and Monte Farber. We did talk  about astrology, wellness, fate, destiny, Einstein, art, Zoroastrianism, and music. And lots more. Check out all of Amy and Monte's incredible books, spiritual tools, and art at www.theenchantedworld.com

This week on Sundays on the East End with Bridget LeRoy & Alec Sokolow, join Alec and his guest cohost Ann Liguori as they converse with artist/curator/surfer Paton Miller. After leaving his home in Hawaii to journey through Asia in 1974, Paton Miller arrived on the East End of Long Island with a collection of  travel inspired artworks that won him an art scholarship from  Southampton College. Graduating with honors,  Paton launched his career in over twenty solo and numerous group  exhibitions in New York City and throughout the United States. Today, his works are exhibited internationally, in cities such as Florence and  Shanghai. Paton’s paintings are now among the most widely collected works between the East End of Long Island and New York City.

Our guest this week is David Nugent, director of programming and artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival. David also directs the festival’s annual Screenwriting Lab. He has been a juror for the Student Academy Awards as well as the Sarasota, Newport  International, Silverdocs, Galway, Gen Art, and Newfest Film Festivals.   He has written festival coverage for Indiewire and participated on panels at the Sundance Film Festival and IFP’s  Independent Film Week Script to Screen Conference. He has delivered  guest lectures at Harvard University and Hunter College and served as a judge for student films at both New York University and the School for Visual Arts.

Our guests this week will be Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming and Group for the East End's Bob DeLuca. Bridget's primary policy initiatives focus on protecting and preserving  the natural environment, and particularly water quality, public health,  and responsible economic development. Bridget was a leader in the working group that drafted the first  Sanitary Code Revisions in 30 years to allow nitrogen removing systems  to replace outdated on-site septic systems that leach nitrogen to  groundwater and surface water, leading to brown tides, fish kills and  diminishing shell fish and fin fish harvests.  Bridget worked for almost a decade as an Assistant District Attorney  in the office of legendary District Attorney Robert Morgenthau in  Manhattan, where she served as a member of a Trial Bureau and the Sex  Crimes Prosecution Unit, and later as Chief of a Unit devoted to  attacking fraud in public programs. Bob DeLuca has served as President and C

Around the globe, April Gornik is known as one of the world’s most celebrated landscape painters, whose name is often sprinkled into conversations, and on museum walls, with the likes of Hockney, Turner, and Monet. But around Sag Harbor, she’s also known as Wonder Woman. Okay, maybe not exactly. But North Haven resident Gornik is involved in myriad causes to protect the environmental and cultural aspects of the area she and her husband, the artist Eric Fischl, choose to call home. She cofounded the Sag Harbor Partnership, which currently is the platform for the renovation of the Sag Harbor Cinema, she and Fischl have preserved acres of wetlands, the Eastville Historical Society, and there is much more. She even came up with a way to fish for sharks without hurting them. For real. Gornik has been the recipient of Guild Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. But back to Sag Harbor. Gornik is passionate about the history of the area – and not just the environmental and artistic history, but the industrial hi

Ken, a leading global expert in financial institution strengthening and Sag Harbor resident, is fluent in Arabic, and speaks indefatigably to share his deep experience of Arab cultures. He launched the East End’s first interfaith Iftar, now an annual tradition, and created a talk entitled, “Gays, Gender, and God in a Changing Arab World.” In addition to Arabic (standard and several dialects), Ken is fluent in Spanish and French and is conversant in several other languages. 

Shane is a member of the Shinnecock Nation, and currently a member of the Southampton Town Arts and Culture Committee, Watermill Center Fellowship Committee, Shinnecock Nation Natural Resource Committee, and the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Committee. He is also an artist, traditional dancer, traditional drummer, hunter, and fisherman, and gives presentations on Shinnecock life, history, and culture wherever he can, around the U.S. and elsewhere.