STEFANIE CARDINALI: Torch Songs Over Dinner
The smoky blues and smooth jazz that filled the dining rooms at Gurney's and the Harvest in Montauk some weeknights this summer came as a pleasant surprise to visitors.

Feiffer, Thomas Speak
Southampton College's Writers Talk series continues today with a talk by the screenwriter and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, creator of the cartoon strip "Sick, Sick, Sick," and on Wednesday with Michael Thomas, a writer and columnist for The New York Observer.

Film Festival Comes To Town
Some 100 films will be screened at the sixth installment of the Hamptons International Film Festival, which will take center stage in East Hampton Oct. 14 to Oct. 18.

Critics

From The Studio
It is Joan Mitchell's "To the Harbormaster," a masterpiece of oceanic force, that first comes to mind in thinking about the Parrish Art Museum's "Sea Change" exhibit. This group of 32 works, focusing on the relationship of artists to the Atlantic, spans some 125 years to the present, reminding us of the East End's unique heritage of art history.

Opinion: A Faux-Pas De Deux
What better way to escape Monica-mania? An evening of dance performed by members of the prestigious Joffrey Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre! A worthy cause was bringing it to the East Hampton High School auditorium, and there was already a touch of controversy about it - posters had been yanked down, and, if rumor was true, threats bandied about.