Littoral Drift
Needless to say, I wasn't dining at the Maidstone Arms Sunday night where the featured entrees were a "terrine of monkfish liver" and "clam soup." Nor are you likely to find me shelling out large sums of money to dine on seaweed-wrapped sea urchin at a sushi bar.

TOR LUNDVALL:A Little Danger Lurking
A caped, masked specter glances furtively over its shoulder, as if caught in the act of scurrying back into dark woods. An abnormally bright and pastoral landscape is marred by a plane's falling almost unnoticed in a corner of the sky. Figures play innocently enough in a church yard, except that one, jumping rope, may be a bird or an insect.

Nice Guys Finish A Film
Art mimics life which mimics art which mimics life in Ben and Orson Cummings' first feature film, "Nice Guys Finish Last."

Amagansett Nets Academy Awards
Well, maybe that's pushing it a bit, but Kim Basinger, who lives there part of the year, won Best Supporting Actress for her role in "L.A. Confidential." And Don Lenzer, who lives year-round on the Bell Estate, was the cinematographer on "The Long Way Home," which won for Best Documentary.

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From The Studio
While the group exhibits at the Arlene Bujese and Lizan Tops Galleries, which neighbor each other off East Hampton's Newtown Lane, are strongly marked by East End land and seascape painting, the individuality of each artist among some 50 is striking, with materials, body rhythms, and perceptual outlook clear and distinct.