Spirit of the Sloppy ’70s
Bruce and Bucky have been playing Montauk’s soundtrack for 30 years
By Russell Drumm
Frank (Bucky) Silipo was playing bass with Lonnie Palamino and the New Starlight Ramblers at the legendary ’76 kegger party at Umbrella Beach. Bite My Balls Productions, the party organizer, got in trouble for that one when people starting dancing on the roof of the I.G.A.

Klingon Opera Treks to Water Mill
By Thomas Bohlert
The unsettled, brooding weather of a damp and windy mid-November afternoon was an ideal backdrop for the enactment of parts of a work in progress by the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble at the Watermill Center on Saturday. Four segments of an incomplete opera said to be based on “the musical system, the tradition of themes . . . and the visual-theatrical interpretation” of the antagonist warrior race of the “Star Trek” series, recognized by its long manes and ridged foreheads, were presented along with narration, explanation, and discussion.

Film Festival Take Two At Bay Street
Several short films that were not selected for the Hamptons International Film Festival in October, but that have been deemed worthy of recognition, will be screened at the Hamptons Take Two Film Festival on Sunday at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor.

Opinion
Rima Mardoyan’s Wax Works
By Janet Goleas
Guild Hall awards a one-person show to the winner of its Artist Members Exhibit each year. In 2005, the work of Rima Mardoyan, a Sag Harbor artist, was named Best in Show, and an exhibit of her paintings, which was delayed by construction during museum renovations, can be seen through Saturday.

LONG ISLAND BOOKS
Capturing the Ephemeral
“Intruder”
Jill Bialosky
Review by Dan Giancola
Jill Bialosky, in her third and latest collection of poetry, “Intruder,” attempts to do what generations of poets before her have tried — to articulate the ineffable. Most of these poems succeed at capturing and concretizing the ephemeral, the fragile, the fleeting, focusing on transitory spots of time that spark or conclude passion, inspiration, or change.

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