JAMES McCOURT: On Divas And Drag Queens
James McCourt, one of the discriminating band of writers who winter in the Hamptons, is back again after a hellish two-year stint in Washington, D.C., where his partner, Vincent Virga, co-authored the acclaimed "Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States" with curators from the Library of Congress.

Guild Hall Lands A Curator
After a 12-month nationwide search that resulted in over a hundred applications, Guild Hall has found a new curator.

GUESTWORDS: Heather Won Tesoriero
Church is guilt. Food is guilt. Wouldn't it be easier if they had a combined menu so one could make a manageable decision about which burden to wrestle with?

Critics

Opinion: Solid Sharks CD
From a distance, the cover of The Lone Sharks' new CD, "Fire, Theft & Casualty" looks like a scene out of Dante's Inferno - bodies writhing and fire roaring. Closer inspection reveals no gnashing of teeth at all, just a group of scantily clad cowboys and honky-tonk women whooping it up at a Lone Sharks show.

Long Island Books

From The Studio
Thirty years of drawings from the '50s through the '80s by the one and only Saul Steinberg make for an exhibit that confirms the stature of an artist whose impact on 20th-century vision can be compared to that of Picasso and de Kooning.

Opinion: CTC's 'Glass Menagerie'
"The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams's second play and first masterpiece, has probably had more productions than all his other works combined.