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Get Off Of My Cloud
When I told people I would be spending the afternoon with an emergency chute glued to my back, while strapped into the front seat of a plane the size of a Smart car, they looked at me like I was not...
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Marilyn Monroe’s Long Island Affair
Marilyn Monroe was already one of the most famous women in America when she posed for Eve Arnold, herself a pioneering photographer, at a Mt. Sinai playground and in a nearby marsh in 1955.(Eve...
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Four Corners: Long Island Barbers
THE BLESSED BARBER The voices of SportsCenter mix with the whirring of buzzers at Rockabilly Barbers North in Huntington where, for eight years, Katie Pope, 30, has used children, teens and...
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Former Hicksville Nuclear Site Leaves Sick Employees Seeking Justice
There’s a stretch of Cantiague Rock Road in Hicksville, just north of Hicksville High School, its middle school and Lee Avenue Elementary, where pedestrians aren’t permitted to stand on the sidewalk....
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Brooklyn Found to Be Part of Long Island; Flatbush Home Values Plummet!
Illustration by Jon Moreno From DUMBO to Coney Island, shock and disbelief gripped residents of Brooklyn when surveyors confirmed that Brooklyn was actually part of a very long island known as, well,...
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Looking to Katrina for Perspective on Sandy Recovery Timeline
This Oct. 30 aerial photo shows 126 burned-out homes in Breezy Point. (AP) With tons of Sandy debris at Nickerson Beach shipped away, Long Island downtowns bustling again and conversations turned from...
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An Oral History of LI Music Scene’s Class of ’02-’03
TAKING BACK SUNDAY: (Left to right) drummer Mark O’Connell, vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist Eddie Reyes, guitarist/vocalist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper Early in the millennium, around 2002-03,...
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Long Island Restaurants’ Standout Single Dish Selections
Any good restaurant can make quesadillas or sushi, but if you add a twist like a quesadilla with gyro meat or a bagel-and-lox sushi roll, then you’re part of the latest trend in Long Island...
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Grand Old Pogrom
Illustration by Jon Moreno The Republican Convention was going rather poorly. The crowd was homogeneous the speakers were flat and the enthusiasm in the room was manufactured at best. And Clint...
View Article1 Dead in St. James Crash Involving Garbage Truck
A man driving in St. James was killed when his car collided with a garbage truck early Wednesday morning, Suffolk County police said. According to police, the garbage truck was driving westbound on...
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New Revelations in Nassau County Police Department Conspiracy Case
THE ACCUSED: (L-R) Retired Nassau County Police Det. Sgt. Alan Sharpe, former Second Deputy Commissioner William Flanagan and former Deputy Chief of Patrol John Hunter are charged with covering up a...
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Arnold Saltzman: A Man of War and Peace
On a rainy day in Sands Point, Arnold Saltzman—the 96-year-old former roving ambassador, esteemed art collector, successful businessman and generous benefactor— was discussing the weakness of American...
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Marianne Russo: Founder, The Coffee Klatch
Marianne Russo is a household name to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The Bayville resident is known for her tireless work as an advocate who empowers the parents of special needs...
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Tom Schaudel: LI’s Restaurateur and his Influence on Local Dining
Tom Schaudel at Jewel in Melville. (Photo by Jim Lennon) A red electric guitar is slung over Tom Schaudel’s shoulder and his faded jeans tremble as he taps his feet to the beat of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s...
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Gun Nuts and Chilled Speech
Illustration by Jon Moreno Okay, so now we’re all armed. Present company included. Great job, America. Now what? The debate over gun control would be uproarious if it wasn’t so pitiful. In typical...
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Letters to the Press – February, 2013
We already have some of the toughest gun laws on the books, the only people it affects are those who follow the laws. The only thing I see this doing is turning the law-abiding people into criminals....
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Sound Smart at a February Party
Prisoners NPR United Kingdom jails apparently have their own radio station called National Prison Radio, commonly referred to as NPR. That alone, should be a magnificent Sound Smart factoid. But it...
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The Target – Feb. 2013
NY GUN LAW BULL’S EYE In response to the Sandy Hook school massacre, New York becomes the first state to approve a new gun control law, the toughest in the nation, which expands the state’s existing...
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The Photo – Feb. 2013
THE LONG BEACH BOARDWALK is demolished at the Laurelton & Broadway streets section on Jan. 21, 2013. (Joe Abate)
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