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MARCH In This Issue
Staff
Off the reservation p.12
EDIT Christopher Twarowski
Distributing Wealth (Part II of last month’s A Renewed Discourse on Inequality) By Jed Morey
Editor in Chief/Chief of Investigations
Spencer Rumsey
“He was a glamorized S.O.B.”
Senior Editor
Timothy Bolger Managing Editor
Rashed Mian Staff Writer
Jaime Franchi Staff Writer
Contributors:
Peter Chin, Matt Furman, Peter Tannen
Investigations p.14
Skinning the Wolf of Wall Street: Victims Speak Out, Seek Justice By Rashed Mian
“One thing’s for sure: Someone wants Gary Melius dead.”
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ART Jon Sasala Art Director
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NEWS FEATURE p.20
Gunfire at the Castle: Who Shot Oheka’s Owner? And why? By L.I. Press News Staff
Art + Soul
NEWS FEATURE p.22
Power Plant Closures Generate Taxing Troubles By Spencer Rumsey THE Portrait p.24
Jim Breuer: L.I.’s Native Bad Boy Jokester Gets Deep By Jaime Franchi Just sayin’ p.26
Nano-News: All the News in 50 Characters or Less By Peter Tannen 4 Corners p.30
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Jim Breuer Photos by Matt Furman Matt grew up in a small town called Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, best known as 'The Birthplace of the Slinky'. He went to art school in Greece, and then moved to New York in 2001 to start his photography career. He currently resides in Rockville Centre with his wife and three daughters. He has worked on a wide range of advertising and editorial projects both on location and in studio. Some recent clients include: American Airlines, Fast Company, Cigar Aficionado, Billboard, Forbes, and Chase Bank. furmanfoto.com
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Dogs: From Shelter to Groomer By Timothy Bolger REAR VIEW p.32
Fanny Brice: Huntington’s Hollywood Star By Spencer Rumsey Art & Soul p.36
“Women of the World” Unite To Capture “Feminine Mystique” By Spencer Rumsey
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“Hop-Crazy” & Growing: L.I.’s Craft Beer Boom Pours On By Rashed Mian
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Readers React Here’s what you had to say...
The potential Peter King for President campaign is pure fantasy.
Like the cowardly lion from the Land of Oz, Long Island’s last Republican Congress member lacked the courage to challenge Democratic Senators Charles Schumer in 2004 and 2010, Hillary Clinton in 2006 and Kristen Gillibrand in 2010 and 2012. If King could not summon the courage to run statewide, what makes anyone believe he could possibly be a credible nationwide candidate for President in 2016? During his term in Congress from 1993 to today, federal debt increased from $4.3 billion to $17 plus billion. This is nothing to be proud of. President Peter King only exists in his dreams. Larry Penner And he still keeps his BIG pension [“Ex-Nassau Police Commander Pleads Guilty to Misconduct,” Feb. 24]! Michael Carpenter So proud of Ryan and all he is doing by spreading love & acceptance through music [“The Portrait: Ryan Cassata,” February issue]!! He will help so many others! I hope he can teach just one person acceptance and tolerance! I remember Ryan & his family from so long ago when I worked at St Peters and the camp there also. What a nice family and he sounds like a beautiful young man. Susan Kavanagh
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It’s about money, that’s all [“Cuomo Proposes Speeding Cameras Near Schools,” Feb. 22]. They figure if they start by saying “it’s about the children,” then it stands a better chance of being passed. Then Let us know eventually they can what you think put them everywhere (including the LIE). Johnathan Cartelli
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Can someone please explain how Comcast’s purchase of Time Warner is not a violation of antitrust laws? I would be grateful for that explanation as Comcast is the largest revenued media company in the world with purchases of ATT Broadband, NBC Universal, MGM, United Artists, just to name a few. Dr. Robin Wieder Time to give Mother Nature a Pink Slip! @LIOver40Females
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n. An instrument used to measure testicles; something women (and some men) might want to invest in when choosing romantic partners. According to Thomas Hickman, a sociological researcher and author of God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, “Testicular research of a more sociological kind has deduced that men with large testicles are likely to be more unfaithful, the converse being true of men with small testicles.” Translation: be careful what you ask for.
“Bushusuru” Lasting legacy: The Japanese were compelled to invent a new word when George Bush Senior vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister in 1992. “Bushusuru” means to publicly vomit.
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VORTEX FACTOIDS
The Polar Vortex has brought about some interesting observations and vexing questions about weather. Like this one: What happens when you pee outside in 17 degrees below zero? A teenager in Minnesota decided to find out. It makes yellow steam! Additionally, the temperatures reached such low levels this January that in some parts of the United States, it was too cold for even polar bears. They had to be kept indoors at zoos.
DOUGH-BIRDS The Glazed Donut Bistro in L.A.
has invented the donut to end all donuts, quite possibly the world’s most amazing culinary concoction—especially if one has partaken of, um, “medicinal” smoke or maybe even “horny goat weed”—the Fried Chicken Beignet: fried chicken enveloped inside of a doughnut. This is everything. Yum. Now who’s going to open one of these shops on LI? “Hot Plate,” anyone?
What a way to go! In 1814, a giant beer vat dumped 323,000 gallons of beer into the streets prompting the “London Beer Flood.” Nine people drowned.
Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert Lincoln was saved from a nasty railroad accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of Honest Abe’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
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PARTIAL SCORE The short-tempered, outburst-prone actor from Massapequa pens a nearly 6,000-word tirade in New York magazine, unloading on everyone from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to CNN’s Anderson Cooper and musing that he’ll “probably” move out of New York for L.A., where he’d live in a gated community with little interaction with the public. There’s no annoying paparazzi to allegedly punch there, right?
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Sharpe pleads guilty to official misconduct for his role helping to quash the school burglary arrest of a wealthy police benefactor’s son in a case exposed by the Press. There is no evidence Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper were involved.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
BULL’S EYE In the fallout from her controversial straw-sucking SodaStream Super Bowl commercial, the seductive actress resigns as an anti-poverty Oxfam ambassador and buys a $2.2 million, four-bedroom, 1.4-acre summerhouse in
Amagansett. See, Sean and Alec? No need to flee the state after doing bozo things; re-invest in the Hamptons!
SEAN HANNITY
PARTIAL SCORE The conservative radio and talk show host reportedly puts one of his LI homes up for sale, leading to speculation he’s heeding Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s warning that “extreme conservatives…have no place in New York,” to which he stated, “I can’t wait to get out of here. I really can’t.” Don’t let the door hit you on the ass!
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BULL’S EYE The popular TV crime drama films scenes outside Nassau Police headquarters and the county’s legislative building. Huh. Who would have guessed the NCPD would make a great setting for crime and drama? Any chance the plot involves a quashed investigation into a wealthy police benefactor’s son?
RAT CAKE
OFF-TARGET A 96-year-old man bites into his birthday cake—a German apple ring from King Kullen in Commack—and allegedly takes a chomp out of a dead rat that had been baked inside. Sean, Alec, you reading this? Yet another reason why you should stay here in New York. Extra protein!
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—Robert Shearin, a victim of Jordan Belfort aka “The Wolf of Wall Street,” regarding the blockbuster film of the same name. InVESTIGATIONS p.14
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ARCTIC RAINBOW: This thermal satellite image from NASA shows the extent of the blistering cold air from the Arctic—otherwise known by its meteorological name, the infamous “Polar Vortex” (and colored in purple)—as it plunged southward recently, engulfing parts of the continental United States in its frigid grip and breaking U.S. temperature records from Colorado to Alabama to New York. (Courtesy of NASA)
Johnny Quinn + Bob Costas + Cool + Canada spanks + Russia tops = At least LI’s Devin gets stuck gets pinkeye Runnings! US in hockey US medal count Logan won Silver in Slopestyle! L o n g I s l a n d P r e s s f o r M A R C H , 2 0 1 4 / / / w w w. l o n g i s l a n d p r e s s . c o m
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CELEBRATE
March is Women’s History Month, a national and global celebration recognizing the countless contributions women have made throughout history and contemporary society. The annual tribute coincides with International Women’s Day, March 8, and this year’s theme is “Celebrating Women of Character, Courage & Commitment,” according to the National Women’s History Project. In commemoration, there’ll be countless events and services taking place in communities across the country throughout the month; to find out more, go to womenshistorymonth.gov or nwhp.org.
GOOGLE “I CRASHED A WALL STREET SECRET SOCIETY”
In 2012, then-New York Times reporter Kevin Roose rented a tuxedo and infiltrated one of Wall Street’s most secretive societies, Kappa Beta Phi, crashing its annual induction ceremony at the St. Regis Hotel. Inside, he found a who’s-who list of capitalism, wearing drag, singing songs mocking the global financial meltdown—the crisis they created. Now a writer at New York magazine, he’s documented all the antics in a new book called Young Money; you’ll find a must-read excerpt by Googling the above.
DOWNLOAD TWERK METER From the imaginative minds at LI-based tech services and consulting startup Krucraft.com is this fun, innovative app helping anyone with a smartphone to wiggle and gyrate and thrust better than Miley at the AMAs. Twerk Meter guides your tuckus on its way to twerkmastery, offering easy-to-follow steps, competitive twerking with others across the globe, speed challenges and even twerk-interconnectivity with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and YouTube to compare scores and watch videos of other twerkers. Free at twerkmeter.com.
ENJOY A LATTE
Not just any latte, a soul-healing caffeine smoothie at Coffee Fest, perhaps the most revered coffee and tea tradeshow in the world—brewing top pots, hosting classes and workshops, competitions (including the “Latte Art World Championship,” “America’s Best Espresso Competition” and “America’s Best Coffeehouse Competition”) and otherwise just expounding upon the supreme divinity of this holy elixir—from March 7-9 at the Jacob Javits Center. Check out coffeefest. com for more details and tweet a pic of your latteler to #LIPCoffeeFiends.
DO THE IRISH JIG
Where? At Old Bethpage Village Restoration. When? Saturday, March 8, from 12-5 p.m. There will be Irish food, Irish beverages, live Irish music and traditional Irish dancing. Best part? It’s free. For more information, check out nassaucountyny.gov/parks, and “May the Luck o’ the Irish be upon thee.”
READ “THE SQUAWK BOX” TV BLOG
Do you watch #TheFollowing? Think that the dwarf in #GameOfThrones is hot? Then this is for you. The Press’ new TV (and film) blog includes previews, reviews, picks, gossip, rants (called “Squawkler Scrambles”) and so much more. It’s unapologetic commentary that always entertains, may offend, and never ceases to amaze. Check it out at LongIslandPress.com.
BY VIVEK J. TIWARY & ANDREW C. ROBINSON Somewhere, along the mad and transcendental road of rock and roll, the tale of one of its greatest architects, masters and casualties has been lost. Somewhere, between the gyrating hips and rebel snarl of Elvis and the shallow, uninspired gushiness of emo, music history has forgotten one of its first antiheroes. Somewhere, somehow, the man responsible for turning popular culture, music and several generations, worldwide, upsidedown—and influencing every band since—has been left for dead and buried, destined for obscurity but for a growing legion of fans-turned-archeologists. The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, by award-winning Broadway theater producer Vivek J. Tiwary and artist Andrew C. Robinson, resurrects the seminal Beatles manager, breathing life, color, validity, and resounding beauty, into his short, intense, often-overlooked life and his contributions shaping and molding four then-20-somethings from Liverpool. The Beatles’ immortality, as documented in this meticulously researched, masterfully written and gorgeously illustrated graphic novel, is Epstein’s legacy, as are the boundless torrents of love, hope and optimism shared through their songs. It was Epstein who shed their leather jackets for matching tailored suits. It was Epstein who got them a record contract. Epstein who landed them in America and on The Ed Sullivan Show. Epstein who invented their synchronized bow, comforted and cared for them, transported them from The Cavern Club’s basement to the center of the world’s stage. Through The Fifth Beatle, we hear his thoughts, see his struggles, feel his jubilation and his pain—Jewish and gay, yearning for acceptance and self-worth. Visionary, businessman, family man, son, friend, tortured soul, matador—we see Epstein’s genius, his passion, his struggles and his flaws. This must-read work of art—a “labor of love” for Tiwary, which took 20 years to realize—is a worthy tribute, historical account, comic, biography, love letter and song to a man who shaped and molded music, and life itself. —Christopher Twarowski
YOUTUBE “KITTEN MEETS HEDGEHOG” This vid never stops attracting views (more than 14 million now) or melting hearts with its absolute abundance of cuteness and adorability, as the curious tiny baby cat Loki discovers the shy prickly Harley, to a fun smooth cover song by singer/songwriter Alanna Matty. Worth watching again and again.
READ THE GREAT AMERICAN DISCONNECT Why? Too many reasons. Among them: 1) Press Publisher Jed Morey wrote it. 2) Press Editor in Chief Christopher Twarowski edited it. 3) Mainstream media won’t supply you with this knowledge. 4) You deserve to know the truth. 5) It’s available on iTunes, amazon. com/Kindle and americandisconnect.com.
SAMPLE CRAFT BEER Admission includes a 5 oz. souvenir tasting glass and the freedom to taste more than 100 craft beers from more than 75 microbreweries. Nassau Coliseum, March 22; more at springcraftbeerfestival.com.
HAVE A HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
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O f f t h e R e s e rvat i o n
Distributing Wealth
BY Jed Morey Publisher, Long Island Press www.jedmorey.com @jedmorey
Last month’s column, “A Renewed Discourse on Inequality,” commenced with a discussion of how this issue, suddenly in vogue among certain political circles, has its intellectual roots in the Enlightenment but it must now reach a much more damning conclusion: A society that stifles social mobility is neither civil, nor moral.
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icking up on Part 1 of “A Renewed Discourse on Inequality”—an attempt to examine Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s original publication in 1755 through a modern lens—it is logical to extend our view to the theories offered by Karl Marx, another controversial Enlightenment theorist. (There are those who would take issue with this characterization.) At the outset, however, one should distinguish between equality as a measurement of how a society rewards individual behavior and accomplishment from the concept of egalitarianism. An egalitarian society is entirely too utopian (or dystopian depending upon the measurement) of a concept because it fails to recognize inherent differences in human beings. To strive toward an egalitarian society is to presume that every person enjoys a similar level of wants and needs. Unfortunately, our concept of equality is too often reduced to “redistribution of wealth,” a familiar refrain uttered by talking heads in the media. This is a poisoned narrative lazily ascribed to Marx whose philosophy is an anathema in Western circles. Mind you, this impression is not entirely without support. The ideological expressions of Marxist economic theory have failed in practice due in large part to the corrupt legacy of the 20th century communist states. But there are aspects of Marxism still relevant today with respect to inequality, particularly as they relate to war and capitalism. Marx viewed both nation states and capitalism as destructive forces that require the suppression of labor and forcible acquisition of land and natural resources. Marx tended to steer away from discussions of morality and justice, preferring a clinical analysis of the clash between market forces under capitalism and the natural tendencies of human behavior. Nevertheless, Marx is viewed as the antihero of capitalism and is therefore considered an affront to those who cannot discern the difference between capitalism and democracy. (Another subject entirely.) That’s not to say Marx had no natural predispositions—he made his feelings more evident to his close associates and in
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“The phrase ‘redistribution of wealth,’ has been purposely bastardized and cheapened by conservative propaganda.” moments of unscripted candor. But Marx should be viewed first and foremost as a social scientist who sought to prove that capitalism, by design, would inevitably advance communism once capitalism reached the maximum exploitive potential of both labor and natural resources. Marx was correct in predicting that unfettered capitalism advances inequality and suppresses the working classes. But he was wrong that communism was the logical evolution of capitalism. To this, it was Mao Tse-Tung, who offered a more insightful prognostication on the decay of capitalism, saying, “Humanity left to its own does not necessarily re-establish capitalism, but it does re-establish inequality.” Regarding the aggression of capitalist nation states, Marx speculates that once a capitalist nation had reached the inevitable limits of human and environmental capacity it would be forced to seek these means of production elsewhere, and attain them by force when necessary. This is the part of Marxist theory that has been born out conclusively by the United States. To this end, Marx believed that ending war was possible if workers of the world were united beyond the artificial boundaries and political constructs of nationhood. In theory, workers who controlled the means of production would naturally supersede the economic interests of the bourgeoisie and imperial proclivities of governments. Marxist theory holds that the animus of nations does not exist in the fraternity of the working class, and that any act of aggression would be considered a form of cannibalism and therefore antagonistic to
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our humanity. Likewise, our humanity is only tenable when the working class is closely linked with production. When one considers the age during which Marx was most prolific, his logic is more enticing than it is today. Science and reason had shattered the intellectual prism that confined mankind during the middle ages. Empires had crumbled and the church was losing its grip on politics. And while technology had advanced enough for Marx to envisage the terrible consequences of an industrial society, the industrial revolution was in its nascent stages. What was evident to Marx were the conditions created by capitalism. For the destitute and working classes, the boom-and-bust cycles of the economy were apocalyptic. Even those who briefly climbed into the middle class would be frequently thrust back into penury due to the need of the bourgeoisie to maintain wealth during the bust cycles. Ultimately, Marx’s theories would be perverted by communism and the boom-and-bust cycles under capitalism would eventually be mitigated. Typically, however, these cycles were tamed by policies more associated with socialism than capitalism, particularly in the United States, during the first half of the 20th century. This nuance has been lost to time as the American conservative movement today seeks to destroy the last vestiges of the temperate regulations instituted with fairly strict accordance to capitalist theory. Which is to say, capitalism is not mutually exclusive of regulation. Lastly, Marx couldn’t have foreseen
the rise of nationalism at the turn of the 20th century, which would render the concept of a unified global proletariat virtually impossible. Militant Jingoism and xenophobia, manufactured tools of the ruling class, would supplant the possibility of universal solidarity among workers. Continuity can be found, however, in Marx’s theory of alienation. The underlying precept of Marx’s theory suggests that mechanization and industry would alienate the worker from the process and therefore strip any meaning from his work. As a consequence, labor would become despondent and therefore further detached from its own humanity. The capitalist, forced to pursue greater profits, would continue to degrade working conditions through increased mechanization, thereby contributing to the downward spiral of human existence. Examining this subtext adds layers to the phrase “redistribution of wealth,” a phrase that has been purposely bastardized and cheapened by conservative propaganda. It’s time to embark on a new discussion that takes into account the shortcomings of Marxist theory but includes the best part of its intent. It begins with the reclamation of this battered phrase in a way that tunes our collective ear to the sound of justice. An economic system that functions properly while preserving our morality does not rely on redistributing wealth; rather, it relies on creating equitable access to wealth. An economic system based upon increasing alienation is doomed to failure, particularly when the political system supports such a divide. A system that rewards work and industriousness with participation in both the political and economic process is sustainable. When food is used for fuel while children are “food insecure,” it is not simply immoral, it’s bad economic planning. When rampant speculation causes spikes in the price of food and fuel, it punishes the lower economic classes disproportionately. “There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciating,” writes Steinbeck at the end of his Depressionera novel, The Grapes of Wrath. “There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.” Jed Morey is the author of The Great American Disconnect: Seven Fundamental Threats to our Democracy. www.AmericanDisconnect.com
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Skinning the Wolf of Wall street Victims Speak Out By Rashed Mian RMian@longislandpress.com
Tom Pokorny was purging old documents inside his Illinois home last summer when he came across twodecades old files from his case with Stratton Oakmont. They were a reminder of a miserable time in his life, which he was glad to finally put behind him. Pokorny hadn’t thought about Jordan Belfort, Daniel Porush and their penny stock-pushing band of misfits in a long time, and for good reason. It “brings back bad memories,” he tells me. He eventually decided to toss the documents. “I try to block this out,” he admits. Not long after trashing the files did Pokorny learn that legendary director Martin Scorsese was releasing a $100million film called The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, the founder of now-defunct Lake Success “pump-and-dump” brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont, which one prosecutor at the time dubbed “the most famous boiler-room brokerage firm in recent memory,” according to The New York Times. The film, it turns out, was inspired by Belfort’s memoir of the same name, which he penned after serving 22 months in a federal prison for securities fraud and money laundering. (As legend
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Not Buying It: Stratton Oakmont victim Robert Shearin of Manhattan Beach, Calif. used to get in screaming matches with the firm’s brokers over their reckless use of his money. He doesn’t believe the “Wolf” is a changed man.
has it, Belfort’s cellmate Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong fame who’d been busted for dealing mail-order bongs, convinced the penny stock fraudster to write a book.) Pokorny can’t recall the name of the broker who first made contact with him in November 1992 with a phone call that sent his financials plunging downward, fast. But he clearly remembers him having a distinct voice, which continues to irk him. “I can’t stand to talk to anybody with a New Jersey accent anymore. It’s bad to say that,” he says, managing a laugh. “It was just bad memories.” Pokorny was living in Naperville, Ill., when the obnoxious Stratton Oakmont broker first contacted him out of the blue. He was in his 30s and was running a commercial general contracting
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company he purchased from his father. The firm hounded him for a while before Pokorny was finally convinced to invest in an irresistible blue chip stock, Stratton Oakmont’s modus operandi. His first investment with the firm doubled its return right out of the gate. “The next thing I know, I kept on giving them more, and I was making money,” he recalls. Everything spiraled out of control in January 1993 when the firm, unbeknownst to Pokorny, used his money to buy other stocks without his permission, he says. His calls for them to stop recklessly using his money went unheeded. Finally, he had to get his lawyer involved, a counterstrike that led to the firm mailing him a check for about $200,000. But at that point, Pokorny was already in an $800,000 hole. Then came
another crushing blow: “I ended up getting divorced over all this, too,” he says. “That was even worse.” His is not the only story of heartbreak and financial distress caused by Belfort. The former Wall Street charlatan—partly fueled by an insatiable drug habit, he professes in the book; mostly fueled by greed and reckless criminality, counter prosecutors—tricked then bilked countless victims out of millions, according to court documents, interviews with attorneys on the case, short-changed investors and his own book. In other words, the shyster not only lied, cheated and robbed unsuspecting people, but destroyed their lives. Louis E. Dequine, Jr., a former Golden Gloves boxing champion, got burned by Stratton Oakmont, according Continued on page 16
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Convict: Jordan Belfort, founder of now-defunct Lake Success brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont, went to prison for securities fraud and money laundering. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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to his Northport-based attorney Timothy Dennin, and suffered a stroke years later under extraordinary stress. Both he and his wife have since died. “He had been persuaded to take his money out of the brokerage firm where he’d had a very long-term relationship and put it with Stratton Oakmont,” his son Dr. Louis E. Dequine III told the Times. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh gosh, he’s finally getting old enough where people are taking advantage of him.’ ” When Hollywood’s elite gathered for the 86th Academy Awards on March 2 to recognize the top films of 2013, among the nominees for Best Motion Picture of the Year was Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. It also secured nominations in several other prestigious categories, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for DiCaprio’s depiction of Belfort, who had received close to $1 million for the rights to his memoirs. The film, which grossed $113 million domestically as of Feb. 25, grabbed a total of five Oscar nominations. The film focused much of its attention on the drug-addled debauchery and testosterone-fueled romps and lavish parties, which almost always involved prostitutes and insane amounts of cocaine and other drugs, like Quaaludes, Belfort’s favorite. It failed, critics say, to portray the rotten way in which Belfort and his hooligans (“Strattonites,” as they’re called in his book) scammed people into throwing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for their own benefit. And by deciding not to offer a glimpse into the real-life implications of their fraud, they are glamorizing the serious crimes that led to some investors losing considerable portions, if not all, of their life savings, victims of the scam and those close to the original case charge. What’s playing out in real life at this very moment, however, could have far greater implications for the 1,513 victims recognized by the government. Nearly eight years since the self-professed “Wolf ” was released from prison on April 28, 2006, only $11,629,143.64 has been repaid toward a court-imposed restitution totaling $110,362,993.87. The bulk, prosecutors and court documents say, has come from the liquidation of some of Belfort’s and Porush’s properties that the conniving duo forfeited as part of a plea deal. Many victims who have tried to put Belfort behind them, like Pokorny has attempted to do, may be shocked to learn that prosecutors are currently involved in ongoing discussions regarding Belfort’s restitution. Last October the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York moved to declare Belfort in default. Then they withdrew the motion following a sharp rebuke from the disgraced ex-con’s attorneys—who criticized the government’s letter for mischaracterizing
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“The reality is the losses were real, the criminality was real, and I don’t think his compunction is real.” the facts in the case. They’ve also argued that the former head of Stratton Oakmont was only obligated to pay 50 percent of his gross income until his period of supervised release ended in 2009. Belfort, for his part, has offered to turn over 100percent of the proceeds from both books and the film, according to his lawyers and public comments he has made. The government, Belfort’s attorneys say, rejected that offer. In layman’s terms, Belfort is manipulating the legal system to stall, in an attempt to get out of repaying the people he ripped off so severely. “They’re in talks to find a resolution and seek a way for the victims in this case to get the restitution that they were granted by the court,” Robert Nardoza, the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, tells the Press. He declined to explain why negotiations are necessary despite the court-imposed restitution, and he didn’t comment on
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Belfort’s attorneys’ claims regarding his client’s obligations. Victims have no problem calling it as it is, however. Robert Shearin, a Stratton Oakmont victim who lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif., which borders Hermosa Beach, the waterfront community where Belfort now lives, isn’t optimistic that he and other victims will ever be fully compensated. “The reality is the losses were real, the criminality was real, and I don’t think his compunction is real,” he tells the Press. “Or else he wouldn’t have been fighting this whole restitution order and have so little come into the fund.”
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Joel Cohen was the assistant United States attorney who prosecuted the case against Belfort and Porush, which led to a grand jury indicting the pair in September 1998, according to court records.
For years federal prosecutors had been investigating Stratton Oakmont, which ran its high-intensity boiler room operation out of a large office building on Marcus Avenue in Lake Success, but the investigation that eventually led to the charges of securities fraud and money laundering really began in earnest around 1997, Cohen tells the Press. Investigators had previously attempted to go after lower-level Stratton workers by charging them with a crime and hoping that they’d turn on their bosses. But the firm was tight-knit, and brokers on the floor weren’t members of Stratton’s close inner circle. So, they pushed on. Their probe led them to Switzerland, where investigators were able to convince Swiss authorities to hand over documents naming both Belfort and Porush. “That was the moment we knew we really had it,” Cohen recalls. Belfort and Porush were both arrested on the same day, but at the time, neither of them was aware that the other was in custody. Prosecutors used that to their advantage. They interviewed Belfort while he was out on $10 million bail and sat down separately with Porush, who remained behind bars for several months following his arrest. “We always felt like we needed to confirm everything [Belfort] said because he’s a salesman,” Cohen explains. “There’s never a moment when you can be sure whether he’s being genuine or not; you’d have to confirm it all.” The tight-lipped Belfort that moviegoers were introduced to in Scorsese’s film isn’t at all the same man who wilted under pressure when the feds had him pinned. Never did he attempt to save Porush—or anyone for that matter—by revealing he was wearing a wire—which is depicted in the film and makes Belfort out to be a loyal protector of their collective sins. “[Belfort] flipped on him within 36 hours,” Cohen says. (Translation: Belfort was more of a rat than a wolf.) The probe culminated with the greedy duo both copping pleas for reduced sentences. There was also the fiery scene that played out in the Stratton Oakmont broker room floor when the filmmakers, apparently trying to bolster their mythical depiction of the Quaalude-popping philanderer, made it seem as if Belfort refused to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “That never happened,” Cohen says, bluntly. In the real world, Belfort has claimed that Stratton Oakmont targeted wealthy investors, but Cohen says the firm’s victims “ran the gamut.” Continued on page 18
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“Some of them were wealthy, some of them were not,” he says. “Obviously you have to have enough disposable money to be able to take calls from a broker and invest it, but there were people that invested fifty or a hundred thousand dollars and a considerable portion of their life savings or their children’s college fund or their pension money. So there were many people who lost a sizable amount of their income. Belfort would like you to think that this is just rich people who were throwing money away and don’t feel sorry for them, but they weren’t.” Diane Nygaard, a Kansas City, Miss.-based attorney, represented or spoke to more than two-dozen Stratton Oakmont victims who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars. The first call from Stratton Oakmont broker was fairly polite and serious, Nygaard tells the Press. “You’d invest in the stock and you’d get your statement and it would’ve tripled in a month and you’d get your next statement and it’s up more,” she says. Before investors knew what was going on, “The guy’s calling you and tells you, ‘You better buy more, it’s going to go public pretty soon,’ ” she continues. “Once the money walked in the door, it’s like the No-Tel Motel, it’s not going to come back out,” she says, adding: “None of my clients have received any
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“Belfort would like you to think that this is just rich people who were throwing money away and don’t feel sorry for them, but they weren’t.” money from any voluntary restitution payment made by Belfort or Porush. Nothing.” Dennin, the Northport attorney, represented about 20 victims himself—he estimates to have recovered money for half his clients—and said the culture depicted in the film closely resembled life in the Stratton Oakmont broker room floor. Young brokers, some who Belfort
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claimed in his book didn’t even graduate high school, were instructed to never take no for an answer, and used “scripts” to dodge all types of objections, Dennin says. In one of the scripts Dennin obtained during his work on the case, titled “Straight Line Philosophy” (inspected by the Press; which happens to also be the name of Belfort’s current product in his motivational speaking business), brokers were told: “The introduction is the hook to catch the prospect’s interest and his attention. The first attempt might not always work, nor the second or the third, but before moving on make sure he bites.” “Remember,” the next line screams, “the bigger the fish, the harder the fight.” Brokers would “make representations about ‘I’m not pressuring you now but down the road if I have an opportunity there’s a stock that we may be bringing to market that’s only available to certain select investors,’ ” Dennin says. “And get them to bite. If they agree to buy, then they get all enthusiastic, then they got the room screaming.” Eventually, scores of investors were burned for hundreds of millions of dollars. Publicly, Belfort has stated that he’s a changed man after his prison stint. He’s now a motivational speaker and his greatest priority is “to settle his fines,” according to a letter sent from his
now-fiancé to U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson, who’s been overseeing the case since its inception. “Jordan has turned his life around,” she wrote. “Our business and our family rely on his reputation of being an honest and honorable man.” Neither Belfort nor his attorney Robert Begleiter, with Manhattan-based Schlam Stone & Dolan, returned a request for comment for this story. In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan shortly after the movie’s debut, Belfort told the host: “I try daily to right the wrongs I committed.” How does he feel toward his victims? “I feel terrible about what happened,” he told the host, adding that he lives not with shame, but with remorse. His victims aren’t buying any of it.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Dr. A.E. Vitt, 81, a retired dentist who lives in Heath, Texas, was practicing in tiny Seneca, Kan., two decades ago when Stratton Oakmont got him on the line. At the time, they were pushing Nestle stock. He was caught in the same trap as hundreds of others. “They were very persistent,” he tells the Press. “They wouldn’t take no for an answer.” The firm wanted more money, so Vitt ended up taking out close to $100,000 in loans from the bank just to
continue his investments. He also blames himself. “I’m sort of a dumbass,” he says, his voice getting lower, “so it took a couple trips thinking it was good and then after that, it didn’t take long for me to figure out that I was going nowhere fast.” Two years had gone by before he realized the firm was playing him. Vitt, who has only been able to reclaim less than $8,000 of the quartermillion dollars that Stratton Oakmont stole from him, still decided to buy a ticket to see Belfort’s purported real life story. “I thought it was the most vulgar and sex[ual] thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he says from Texas. “Plus, the way he treated everybody…I thought he was a glamorized S.O.B.” “I can’t understand why he can still get away with it,” he adds. Shearin, the Manhattan Beach, Calif., victim, is also retired. He lost several hundred thousand dollars with Stratton Oakmont, but worked hard to make the money back—though he estimates he’s only recovered 17 percent of what he lost. Things got heated between Shearin and his broker once he realized they were trying to pull a fast one on him. “I would end up in screaming matches when I finally kind of figured out that I’m just getting screwed here,” he tells the Press.
“Somebody else would get on the phone and just be screaming back at me, calling me a fucking asshole and an idiot and too stupid to make money,” Shearin recalls. “Just screaming at me. So we would have these screaming matches in the middle of my work day when I’m trying to run my business… They don’t show that [in the film].” Shearin has spotted Belfort cheering on his kid at the local soccer field. But he’s resisted the urge to approach him. “What’s the point?” he asks. “What am I going to do? Walk up to him and ask him to please write me a check? I don’t need to be around him. He’s not in my circle of friends and I don’t want him to be.” The Harvard Business School graduate, now 66, says his brother once told him that he serves as a cautionary tale because he should’ve had the educational background to notice someone was hustling him. And Shearin, too, opened up his wallet to see the movie but he never intended to walk out of the theater with a better understanding of Belfort’s life. “Going to a movie to see truth would be like going to Oliver Stone’s JFK to learn about the Kennedy assassination,” he says. “So I didn’t walk out thinking , ‘Oh, that didn’t tell the truth.’ ” “[It was a] one-sided rollicking frolic through hedonism,” he says, “but it sure left out a lot of the story.”
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Gunfire At The Castle Who Shot Oheka’s Owner? And Why? By Christopher Twarowski, Spencer Rumsey, Timothy Bolger and Rashed Mian chris@longislandpress.com
Gary Melius exited a side door of his palatial mansion estate and entered his Mercedes-Benz parked in its back courtyard. It was about 12:30 p.m., a Monday, and the developer-turned-owner of Oheka Castle—a historic 127-room French-style chateau tucked behind rolling hills and residential homes in Huntington—was reportedly about to meet his pal, former U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato, for lunch. Then, gunfire. A lone masked shooter blasted through the car window and struck the 69-year-old in the head before speeding away, reportedly in a Jeep Cherokee. Bleeding profusely, Melius stumbled back toward the castle. His daughter rushed him to Syosset Hospital. Later he was transferred to North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Manhasset, where Melius underwent surgery for what police described as a “penetrating head wound.” Once Melius was in stable condition, a who’s-who of local politics have been visiting him in the hospital in a show of support—D’Amato, of course, plus former Freeport Mayor Andrew Hardwick, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, among others. Who shot Melius and why? The power-broker castle owner is a politically connected developer who frequently hosts lavish luncheons, formal dinners, cigar-filled poker games and a variety of other galas at Oheka, the former opulent residence of financier Otto Kahn. Officials from both sides of the political aisle have often been his guests. D’Amato told reporters gathered at the hospital that the shooting was an “assassination” attempt. Was it related to politics, as one source with close ties to Melius who did not want his name used adamantly tells the Press? Was the hit related to the castle’s multilayered financing? Melius’ myriad business dealings? Or was the gunman simply a disgruntled employee of the Gold Coast castle? One thing’s for sure: Someone wants Gary Melius dead.
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dogs and a police helicopter descended on the estate. Authorities set up “informational checkpoints,” interviewing passing motorists and anyone else who might have seen something useful. They have reviewed the castle’s video surveillance footage, but it reportedly did not catch the face of the would-be killer. They’ve vowed to investigate “every aspect” of Melius’ life. The 69-year-old went into shock immediately after he was shot and his recollection of the shooting are hazy, police say. To enter from the castle’s main entrance, visitors must follow a long winding road and through gated driveway equipped with surveillance cameras. The employees’ entrance at the rear of the property, however, has no such security— and provides a quicker exit. The FBI has also offered assistance, an blue jeans. At the “power lunches” he’d host years on its upkeep and restoration. agency spokesperson tells the Press. in the mahogany-paneled dining room with Melius remains concerned for his Melius once was nearly $6 million an assortment of Long Island luminaries welfare and that of his family, telling in debt, according to the Daily News, and and wanna-bes—like New York Giants owed the Trump Taj Mahal some $100,000 investigators he has no idea who is behind football stars showing off their heavy Super in 1992. He had also faced three criminal the hit. Bowl rings to enterprising businesswomen Politicians from both parties have sent convictions as a younger man, according to showing off their décolletage—Melius well-wishes to the wounded power broker, the paper. would not put on airs or adopt an attitude. including those who’ve clashed with him, Melius has clearly gambled his life on He’d take a seat at the polished table, hang like Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Oheka Castle. He reportedly renegotiated out and listen, and if the topic could include its $27.9-million mortgage last August and Jacobs. his pet politics, the Independence Party, “The whole thing is awful,” Jacobs told had defaulted on the loan in 2012. he’d be grateful and never preach. He’d the Press shortly after the shooting. “I’ve But at Mangano’s second inauguramake his case that the two major parties tion, Melius was basking on stage as one of had my differences with Gary politically but had failed the republic and then move this is really just a tremendously awful act... the honored guests seated in rows behind on. And if there were a pressing problem I hope that he does well and pulls through the podium, where he chatted with Conrequiring immediate attention, he’d be the gressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington). Not this. My thoughts and prayers are with him first one to be hands-on, as you’d expect and his family. bad for a guy who’d bankrolled the entire from a guy who once was a plumber, long “This is shocking and sickening,” he losing campaign of Mangano’s supposed before he became the king of the castle. added. opponent, Freeport Mayor Andrew But even Oheka—which borrows Independence Party Chairman Frank Hardwick, for $23,000. from the name of its originator, Otto Throughout the years Melius has been Mackay, a close confidante of Melius, Herman Kahn—has had some interestwas in Louisiana with his family when impartial in his campaign contributions, ing reincarnations, too. The financier had doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars the shooting occurred and was almost created the 109,000-square-foot manor overcome with worry. “I think he’s going to politicians without party preference, in 1919. Orson Welles used its exterior to to make it!” he told the Press when he was according to state finance records. shoot some scenes there in 1940 for his reached. “Thank God!” Melius’ political dealings have also American classic Citizen Kane. A day after the attack, Melius posted resulted in some controversy. Melius, who’d worked as a bowling a statement on Oheka’s Facebook page, It was Melius’ call to former Nassau alley pin setter and a plumber’s helper thanking those who have offered prayers County Police Commissioner Thomas before striking it rich in real estate, acquired Dale requesting Randy White, a Roosevelt and expressing his desire to return to the the property in 1984 for $1.5 million and castle and to get back to work. resident, be charged with perjury in an reportedly contemplated tearing it down “If this near- death experience has election lawsuit that made headlines last because vandals had had the run of the done anything it is a reminder to live each December—resulting in White’s arrest and place for several years. He stuck with it but Dale’s resignation following a Nassau County day, celebrate life and embrace your family. the costs of renovation were steep, and so in District Attorney probe that ultimately I happen to be blessed with a very very 1988 he sold Oheka to a Japanese business- cleared the developer, Dale and Mangano of large extended family who rallied to my man for $22 million. But something about side during the past 24 hours. God bless criminality, but infuriated Nassau Demothe castle must have had a deep hold on you all.” cratic Chairman Jay Jacobs for giving the him because he could not walk away from As of press time, there had been no Mangano administration a pass. it. By 2003 he was its rightful owner again, suspects named nor arrests made in the WHODUNNIT? having bought it back for $30 million and case. What is known, is that the king and Following a 911 call to police, officers, his castle will never be the same. spending almost an equal amount over the
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Power Plant Closures Generate Taxing Troubles By spencer rumsey SRumsey@longislandpress.com
Several Long Island communities have long feared that their property taxes will rise starkly when the power plants in their districts are either shut down or reassessed at a lower value due to their declining efficiency. As recent developments in Nassau and Suffolk have shown, that day of reckoning may have finally come. The details vary depending on the power plants’ locations, but the dynamic is the same. Long Islanders pay some of the highest utility bills in the nation as well as some of the highest property taxes in the region. The effort to reduce one cost seems to come at the expense of the other. But Long Island’s utilities have grown tired of footing the bill so public officials, from school superintendents to village mayors to county leaders, have to make some very tough decisions. Now that National Grid has begun to demolish its nearly century-old Glenwood Landing power plant, which hasn’t generated a significant amount of electricity in decades, Sea Cliff Mayor Bruce Kennedy has had to assure homeowners in his village that their school taxes will not suddenly rise 25 percent next year—as some have feared. “We are going to see increases,” he tells the Press, “but they’re going to be spread over a 15- to 30-year period so it’s going to be completely manageable.” The utility paid $21.4 million in taxes in 2011-2012, $22.6 million in the 2012-2013, and $23.6 million in 2013. Last January, the property’s assessed value was cut in half, according to National Grid, which reduced its tax burden $11 million. In 1999, tax revenue from the old plant contributed about 30 percent of the North Shore Central School District’s $45 million budget; now, according to Superintendent Ed Melnick, it’s 20 percent of the district’s nearly $94 million budget. “We do not yet know what percentage that would be lowered by for next year but the maximum we anticipate would be 10 percent,” Melnick tells the Press in an email. State Sen. Carl Marcellino (R-Syosset) and Assemb. Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) were able to get an additional $2.5 million in the state budget
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ICONIC: The nearly century-old Glenwood Landing plant may no longer produce power, but it may still have value, contend community activists, which could help the North Shore school district plug a multi-million-dollar tax hole that would result from its demolition. (WikiMedia Commons)
no secret that the North Shore School District has benefitted from the placement of that plant within the confines of its geographical district,” says Lavine. “And for many years we’ve known that that day was going to come to an end.” But he says it’s too soon to predict what the final tax bite will be until the county’s re-assessment is completed “after the demolition occurs—if it occurs.” And he hopes it won’t. “I’ve been in the building,” Lavine says. “It is a piece of architecture the likes of which we unfortunately won’t see again....It would be really, really great for the community if we could figure out some way to keep that structure and make it productive.” Sen. Marcellino views the Glenwood property differently. “That building is full of asbestos,” he says, adding that to make the waterfront viable “would require major dredging... The silt is backed up right to the bulkhead; you can’t even bring a barge in there.”
Cursing the Darkness to soften the blow to the North Shore district, but it’s a one-shot deal. “The homeowner shouldn’t see that much [increase],” the state senator says. But “there’s no doubt that the citizenry, the homeowner, will see an increase in their taxes.” Watching this process unfold has been taxing indeed. “Everybody has been wringing their hands—just wringing their hands—for 30 years!” exclaims Karin Barnaby, a longtime Sea Cliff resident, who has been circulating a petition to save the Glenwood Landing power plant from pending demolition, slated to be completed by December. “I’ve always said to everybody, ‘Look, this is a fool’s errand,’” Barnaby tells the Press. “I have no illusions about the futility of this project in the face of National Grid’s power and influence,
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but it has to be said, anyway.” Barnaby would like to see Glenwood Landing resemble a place like the Chelsea Piers Connecticut sports complex, which opened across the Sound in Stamford in 2012, transforming Clairol’s former warehouse into skating rinks and other recreational outlets. “All I’m asking is for time so the notion can be explored,” she says. “It’s a fabulous building.” Barnaby recently presented almost a 1,000 signatures on her petition to Judi Bosworth, the supervisor of the Town of North Hempstead, who said through a spokesman that she “will look at all opportunities for waterfront revitalization.” Assemb. Lavine supports Barnaby’s “quite creative” idea to repurpose the old brick facility. “For many, many years it’s been
“It’s very unfortunate how the community chose to handle this issue,” says former LIPA trustee Neal Lewis. “They got a good tax return for many, many years, but rather than plan for the change that was coming, they’ve been in denial, seeking elected officials to keep the LIPA contract going for an old plant that LIPA had no need for. They should have set up a process years ago so maybe by now they’d have the zoning in place and have found community agreement on potential uses [for the site].” Until January, Lewis had served four years on the board of LIPA trustees, an unpaid position. He said that the board commissioned an outside auditor to assess the taxes that LIPA was paying for its big power plants in Glenwood, Northport and Port Jefferson. The 2010 report “said that we were as much as 90-percent overtaxed at these various plants. Then I had to say, ‘What is my duty as a fiduciary? I’m on the board
The 1936 first edition of the Long Island Lighting Company’s first newsletter The Main Line, featuring the Glenwood Landing plant in its heyday. (Courtesy of The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
acting in trust for the people of Long Island...If we’re overpaying in taxes what the current law would require, then you have to challenge it.’” And so began the tax certiorari cases—the property tax challenges—that are giving Long Island’s body politic so much agita today. LIPA wants to reduce the assessment of the Northport power plant by 80 to 90 percent, which could raise taxes in the Northport-East Northport school district by 60 percent, according to the town. Last summer a proposal had been worked out in Albany with LIPA and the state Legislature at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would have softened the blow locally by spreading the increase in 10-percent increments over many years but the town and the school district balked. Huntington Town Councilman Mark Cuthbertson is rather blunt when he assesses what that deal could mean for the district and the town. “Accepting that agreement is basically accepting the bankruptcy of the Northport-East Northport school district,” says Cuthbertson. “Our position is that we would be better off and would get a better result by going to court than accepting their offer.” They’ve retained Lou Lewis, an attorney at Lewis & Greer, a Poughkeepsie law firm, who had represented the Shoreham-Wading River school district during the controversial closure of the Shoreham nuclear power plant—a long, drawn-out process. “Everyone was very concerned [at the time] but you know the school district is still there, and they’re getting more state aid now,” the he tells the Press. “A lot of state aid is based on formulas that take income from taxes into consideration; if those taxes go down, then your state aid will go up.” Now the Northport tax certiorari case is in the pre-trial phase, the attorney says, while he tries to get LIPA and National Grid to supply information his appraiser needs to counter their claim. It’s been “like pulling teeth,” Lewis says. Known for its iconic four
red-and-white striped smoke stacks, the Northport plant produces 40 percent of Long Island’s electricity but it is also 70 years old, according to Sen. Marcellino, whose district also stretches into Huntington Town. “They’re looking to cut their losses,” says Marcellino, explaining the motives of the utility, PSEG Long Island, which is being represented by LIPA in the court case. Marcellino said that he and Sen. John Flanagan (R-Smithtown) thought that the town and the school district should have accepted the governor’s compromise with LIPA because that would have eliminated about $200 million in back taxes, while implementing future tax increases “over a 10-year slide,” as he put it, to cover the “50-percent drop” in the power plant’s assessed value. “If you can wipe out $200 million of potential debt, I think that’s pretty good,” Marcellino tells the Press. But Huntington and the NorthportEast Northport school district have said the increases are too onerous and they dispute the drastic reduction in the plant’s assessment. “I’m not happy with the proposal that New York made for settling these things,” says Lewis, the town’s attorney. “I think it was based on a misunderstanding of where the data was coming from.” He says the Northport power plant’s reduced value was determined by LIPA, which “is the main party of interest in these lawsuits because...they’re going to be paying the taxes on the property!” Basically, Lewis explains, the utilities are “under pressure to reduce their costs to their customers, and one way they feel they can do that is pay less in taxes.... But it’s very deceptive because their customers are the same people who are also the taxpayers... You’re taking money out of one pocket and putting it in another.” “Power plants pay a significant portion of school taxes in the communities they are located in,” observes Matt Cordaro, a former utility CEO who is now a LIPA trustee but was not speaking as a representative for the board. He remembers working for the Long Island Lighting Co., LIPA’s precursor, when it was trying to get a tax reduction for the Glenwood Landing plant in the 1980s. “We took out two units [from the original brick building] and they wouldn’t reduce our taxes,” he says. “The only time we got a concession we actually had to clip the wires that were there and demonstrate that it wasn’t a power plant.” On the other hand, Cordaro fondly recalls, “The brickwork is just tremendous.” L o n g I s l a n d P r e s s f o r M arch , 2 0 1 4 / / / w w w. l o n g i s l a n d p r e s s . c o m
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By Jaime Franchi jfranchi@longislandpress.com
JIM BREuER
L.I.’s Former Bad Boy Jokester Opens Up About Life, God And Heavy Metal Jim Breuer has perfected a masterful trick: He performs a “clean show” where the audience is too busy roaring with laughter to notice his lack of profanity. The Valley Stream-raised comedian made his name on Saturday Night Live as “Goat Boy,” a half-human, half-goat character who would break into Tourette’slike brays (an act originally used to unnerve bartenders into giving him free drinks, he says), and doing spot-on impersonations of Joe Pesci. He parlayed his potsmoking, hard-drinking comedic persona into a starring role in the film Half-Baked with Dave Chappelle and later filmed the documentary More Than Me with his aged father, showcasing the intimacy, hilarity, and difficulty of caring for an elderly parent— while on the road doing stand-up. He credits that sense of commitment to his father with LI itself. “I feel like it’s a Long Island thing,” the 46-year-old father of three tells me over a cup of coffee at Maria’s coffee shop near his home in Chester, N.J. “How we were all raised together in the neighborhood with aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents.” “He sounds like the guys we all grew up with,” a fellow Long Islander confirms following a recent packed show at the Tarrytown Music Hall, where Breuer received a thunderous standing ovation. “My cheeks hurt from laughing.” A Long Islander at heart, Breuer’s the guy you knew in high school: the one with the Metallica T-shirt and the chain hanging from his acid-washed jeans.
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“I don’t miss living there,” he says of LI, “but I miss that feeling. I miss that feeling of home. Of looking after each other.” He’s the guy whose raucous laughter lit up the cafeteria with fun and electricity; the guy who held your hand when your heart was broken and talked you through your parents’ divorce. “I hate broken families,” he says, his eyes red, welling up. Breuer’s kept his own family together—his wife Dee and three daughters—supported by their 20-year marriage. But it wasn’t easy. The details of his life conspire in this picturesque coffee shop, a relic straight out of a storybook, its wood-shuttered picture window looking out onto an oldfashioned Main Street; a place where locals convene for casual conversation over steamy cups of fresh brewed coffee, where everyone (“barista” is too snooty a name for these down-home coffee-slingers) addresses each other by name, a familiarity that can only be born in a small town. A woman stirring sugar into her mug spies Breuer. “I think I live behind you,” she tells him. “You live in the green house!” he booms over the place’s four intimate tables. “I love that house. You have a basement,” he declares with playful envy. They discuss a possible bear sighting, their conversation descending into the neighborly ease that this coffee shop inspires. “Oh yeah, I had a moment,” he says when asked if he’d made a deal with God when his wife was
diagnosed with stage-one breast cancer two years ago. “Right here in this coffee shop.” It was here that major changes took root in Breuer’s life, and though they occurred long before his wife’s diagnosis, they undoubtedly helped the family get through it. The first was when his oldest daughter developed a curiosity about her father and the ability to discover his old comedy acts through Google and YouTube. Seeing himself through his daughter’s eyes, he felt a sense of revulsion at the careless profanity in his early stand-up. “I used to end my shows with ‘What the fuck?’” he remarked. “That’s not me.” In 2008, he was approached in his local bar. He’s used to being recognized in Chester, and the requests for Goat Boy or Pesci impressions that inevitably follow. This was different. “You’re on Saturday Night Live. You’re blue,” a woman accused, meaning dirty and profane. “That’s not who I am,” he tells me. Devastated, he made a vow to write family-friendly stand-up no one would feel embarrassed to watch with their children—or their grandmothers. Keeping his biting, edgy humor is where the real difficulty lies. But Breuer’s a top-notch performer who need not rely on the shock-laughter quality that comes with lazy profanity. His is a form of intense observation that reveals a truth in its universality, where we nod, even as we choke with laughter. It’s a hard-won
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genius that resonates with the audience who recognizes truth. Consider his “marriage warrior” bit on his current stand-up tour and the subject of an upcoming podcast. He likens marriage to war, spouses to enemy combatants, using his 20-year experience as the wisdom of an old army lieutenant, speaking from the trenches
entirety of his heart for laughs. He puts it all out there. And though God plays a profound role in his life, don’t expect it to be part of the act. Religion—yes. God—no. God worked his way into Breuer’s life from that very coffee shop where we met, from where he drove at a low point in his marriage and in his life, and had an argument with God. His relationship with his wife was running on fumes, a separation already decided upon. Although he and Dee had lived in stormy silence lasting several months, he found the idea of breaking up his family heart-wrenching. So he threw a challenge out into the ethers. A demand. A threat. “Show me a sign, God!” he said he shouted from the interior of his car—professing to me that he’d always been a faithful husband, solid provider and a loving father. “I’ve always tried to live a moral life,” he says. He is a good guy—just ask the people of Chester, like the girl in the camera shop, a star-struck 20-something who’d come onto him when he’d gone to get his camera repaired. Breuer saw not the sex kitten some of his
“I feel like it’s a Long Island thing... I miss that feeling of home. Of looking after each other.” whence he came. It’s funny stuff, but it goes deep. Breuer encourages couples to look between the lines to get to the heart of their squabbles. It’s exemplified when he reads aloud an actual text fight he’d gotten into with his wife, seemingly over a toothbrush. (I won’t give away the ending except to assure you that it was never really about a toothbrush.) That’s his unique brand of comedy: to draw you in with a funny metaphor you can relate to, and then slap you upside the head with truth. He doesn’t play down the sharpness of his mind or the
contemporaries might have, but a girl not much older than his daughters. He asked to meet her for coffee. There, they talked long and hard about life and her plans, until the spectacle of his fame wore down to reveal the human being he was. Just a guy. She ended her lunch break with a new focus. Not long after, Breuer went for coffee at that same shop, and interrupted a conversation he overheard behind the counter. An older woman was complaining about the soft tissue around her eyes, confessed that she’d made an appointment with a surgeon.
“You don’t need surgery,” Breuer told her. “You’re beautiful.” She turned those eyes to take a hard look at Breuer. “I know you,” she told him. “You’re the one who helped my daughter,” she said. “I prayed that someone would get through to her. It was you.” Breuer was taken aback. He thought she’d recognized Goat Boy. The coincidence was further cemented when his wife approached him soon after. She’d gone to the house of “a woman from the coffee shop,” at her insistence. Once there, the woman and her husband, having no knowledge of Dee or her connection to Breuer, prayed for her to open her heart to love and to rebuild her family. From there, they began to reconcile. His faith is something he’s hard-pressed to define—and doesn’t want to. Breuer doesn’t identify under the umbrella of what he calls the “dark stuff ” that masquerades as religion. “You’re just messing it up for anyone who has an inkling of wanting to be faithful in any way, shape, or form,” he explains. To that end, he has an unlikely compatriot: James Hetfield, the lead vocalist of Metallica. Anyone familiar with Breuer wouldn’t be surprised by his metal band friendships. He built his career opening for local bands across LI, inventing heavy metal comedy, an act he rocked from the Vanderbilt in Plainview to what was then Westbury Music Fair. It makes sense that his next project combines his love for music and comedy. Breuer is working on a family-friendly ‘80s rock/metal album to come out in the fall, based on his character “Heavy Metal Man,” an over-40 dad who rocks out in his garage when life with the family gets too intense. It’s the essence of Breuer: family, music and laughter. It’s exemplified in all that he does, from caring for his father (“Johnny Cash and Hank Williams get us through showers”) to life on the road: cheek-hurting comedy set to loud rock ’n’ roll—and if you listen carefully, something much deeper. Bravo, Breuer. You got us.
COMEDIC VORTEX: Comedian Jim Breuer, who grew up in Valley Stream, horses around outside Maria’s coffee shop in Chester, NJ during a break from an interview with the Press. Photo by Matt Furman www.furmanfoto.com
Jim Breuer will be performing at the Paramount in Huntington March 8. For more information, check out paramountny.com on P. 44.
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“nano-news” aLL The news In 50 characTers or Less By Peter Tannen
You knew it was coming. After all, we’ve already made the leap from The New York Times (long, long articles) to USA Today (short, short articles) to Twitter (140 characters or less). But why stop there? Why use 140 characters when just 50 will do? So we did. Just look at these concise, easy-toread, “Nano-News” stories, coming your way soon from the Long Island Press: senator caught with hooker; says still loves wife li man reaches 108th b’day; credits old age to gin cubs win World series; three fans have coronaries kkk gives up robes, citing high cleaning costs new exercise plan takes only 20 seconds a day texas says daylight savings time unconstitutional Baby panda makes debut at local zoo; looks cute scientists err; ‘killer’ asteroid is 6-inches long tribe returns to jungle; says modern world ‘nuts’
Honestly—what more do you need to know about those stories? (And why put up with those long, complicated Times words, many of which have several syllables?) We’re doing this because Americans have lost their patience. Totally. All of us are way too frantic these days—we’re so busy that nobody seems to have time for anything, not even reading the news. But I think “Nano-News” is just the start. Just watch what happens when our total lack of patience catches the attention of America’s “Job Creators” and they spring into action.
Music is one easy target. Any day now, I predict we’ll hear about a new music company called “Music-In-AHurry.com.” “At last,” their ads will say, “you can enjoy the major themes from Beethoven’s famous ‘Ninth Symphony,’ with all the boring, repetitive parts left out.” “You can sing along with the chorus for a full two minutes of Ludwig’s ‘Ode To Joy’ in the final movement! Or download only the best parts of Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelung’—running time: under four minutes!” “Into popular music? You can listen to the entire Beatles White Album in just three minutes on Music-In-AHurry.com. Or hum along with those great tunes from every one of Norah Jones’s platinum albums in a minuteand-a-half flat!” Then there’s art. How many of us can stand quietly in front of a Picasso, say, or a Van Gogh, and let our eyes slowly wander over every detail? We simply don’t have the time—and we have to be polite to the dozen people behind us who are impatiently waiting for the same fleeting glimpse. So another new company—undoubtedly named “Important-PartsOf-Important-Art.com”—will help us appreciate art. A graphics file with a square inch or two of a major work of art will be emailed to you weekly—allowing you to savor a single water lily by Monet, a few square inches of a Jackson Pollock, or an area of pure black from an Ad Reinhardt canvas. Not to mention a square inch of a shark scale preserved in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst. So there you have it: Today’s news, music and art updated and condensed for today’s impatient, always-in-ahurry audience. Personally, I can’t wait to see what else our entrepreneurs come up with. You have to admit that this is either remarkable progress, or yet another sign of the ultimate decline of Western Civilization, depending on your point of view. Justsayin@longislandPress.com
Bronze PeTer Tannen is a humor writer who has won multiple awards from the National Press Club (Washington, D.C.), the Press Club of Long Island and the Florida Press Association. His columns can also be heard on select Public Radio stations across the U.S. WWW.tannEnWEEklY.CoM
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/// The Groomer If doing what one loves for a living were a contest, Olimpia Anzalone would be a top contender. For the past 13 years, she’s trimmed, styled, washed and dried, on average, more than a dozen doggies, daily, at her Northport shop Olimpia’s Dog Grooming Parlor. “These guys are my other family of animals that I’ve known through the years since they were puppies,” Anzalone—who has dogs, cats and birds at home—says, while drying a fluffy, freshly groomed, white Samoyed. “I’m happy to come to work every day.” She also grooms cats and sells pet clothing, costumes, supplies and even freshly baked food for animals. Anzalone prides herself on helping clients understand why sometimes their dogs need a “smoothie”—having their coat shaved to get rid of badly knotted fur—and explaining how to keep their pets well-coifed between monthly appointments, which run from 90 minutes to three hours. “It’s basically like a child going to the dentist for the first time sometimes with dogs, so you got to put on good face and make sure that it’s a happy atmosphere,” she says. “After they get to know us, they love us. The dogs come running in!”
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For pet sitters such as Tiffany Elliot, the dog days are every day. After her last job cut her hours two years ago, she founded Tiffany’s Pet Sitting & Dog Walking, serving her hometown of Massapequa and surrounding areas—and business is howling. “I’ll take care of ’em like my own,” says Elliot, jingling a janitor-esque keychain of clients’ house keys while walking Blueberry, her sweater-wearing Beagle. “It’s a lot of fun, I’ve always liked dogs.” Unlike city dog walkers who juggle 10 leashes, Elliot visits one pup at a time, and sometimes a cat, rabbit or lizard, too. Most clients are commuters who work in the city and can’t take Fido for a walk during the day, but she sees a spike during summer and school vacations when families go away. Conscious of canine loneliness, well-behaved client-dogs spend time in Elliot’s home, as long as they pass the personality test. It’s not all petting, treats and fetch, either. She’s pet-sitter insured, trained in canine CPR and has references to vouch for her trustworthiness. The fresh air, exercise and generally easygoing company proved unplanned perks. “This is the type of job where even if I’m sick…they don’t care what you look like.”
--By Timothy Bolger tbolger@longislandpress.com
///The Investigator After responding to countless cases throughout the past 30 years, Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA says that dogs are the most frequent subjects of abuse, neglect and abandonment investigations, followed by cats and horses. The worst of the roughly 3,000 cases annually was a dog so emaciated it couldn’t stand when officers found the pup in a foreclosed home. “This dog stood up and fell right over it was so weak,” he recalls. Once the animal was nursed back to health, an officer adopted him and named him Justin, “Because he was found just in time,” Gross adds. Justin’s Law, a Suffolk law that established the nation’s first animal abuse registry four years ago—it still hasn’t been set up, however—was named after the mutt. Gross, who spent two months at Ground Zero with his therapy dog, Cody, assisting search-and-rescue canines, notes that his officers can’t simply seize animals from homes on a whim—unless blatant abuse is caught in the act. He also reminds people that the nonprofit agency is funded by private donations and relies on anonymous tips via 631-382-SPCA. “An animal cannot pick up a phone and call us,” he says. “We are the voice of the animals that can’t speak for themselves.”
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/// The Rescuer Matching families with a new four-legged furry friend is all in a day’s work for Lisa LaValle, a volunteer with Last Chance Animal Rescue, a Southampton-based nonprofit animal adoption agency. When she’s not fostering dogs that need to be socialized or coordinating child volunteers as heads of the group’s Rescue Rangers Program, LaValle is shuttling between PetSmart and Petco stores that host adoption events each weekend on eastern Long Island. “We’re just a small group of dedicated volunteers trying to make a difference,” says LaValle, whose daughter also works with the group. Since it was established in 2008, Last Chance has found homes for more than 6,000 dogs and cats rescued from being euthanized in rural shelters. Each animal is vaccinated and spayed or neutered before adoption. Applicants are also screened first. It can be heart-wrenching work at times. “Some come to us broken and scared and some come happy and healthy,” LaValle says, recalling a Puggle—a beagle-pug crossbreed—named BossMan, that she wrapped in an Islanders shirt because he was shaking “like a leaf” before finding a new home. But the good days outweigh the bad. “I feel like we put families together,” she says.
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Fanny Brice
Huntington’s Hollywood Star By Spencer Rumsey srumsey@longislandpress.com
“Hello, Gorgeous!”
Those were the first words spoken by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, a sanitized Hollywood musical about the vaudeville star and Broadway comedienne Fanny Brice. The lavish greeting could equally apply to the big summer house overlooking Huntington Bay that Brice owned from 1919 until 1946. One of the most famous performers in Ziegfeld Follies’ talented roster—along with W.C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Billie Burke and Will Rogers, to name a few—Brice had a flare for the dramatic, on stage and off. At her Bay Avenue place in Halesite, she remodeled the front stairs, widening the bottom landing a few feet in the
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foyer so she could make a dramatic entrance to welcome her many guests and admirers. As Brice herself said, possibly in jest, “I’m a bad woman but I’m damn good company!” A posthumous winner of a Grammy, Brice never won an Oscar, although she did do movies as well as theatre and radio shows. For her many accomplishments, her star shines on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame. Funny Girl was Streisand’s first film and it won her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1968—although she had to share the prize with Katherine Hepburn, who’d starred in The Lion in Winter. The 86th Academy Awards ceremony is broadcast on March 2 this year. Although no musical is up for an Oscar—nor is Streisand a nominee— it is a fitting time to pay tribute to an entertainer born Fania Borach in New York’s Lower East Side, whose life links Huntington to Hollywood. Today Brice’s Bay Avenue property is lovingly preserved by Lynn and George Pezold. They bought it in 1982, not because the home had belonged to Brice but because they had been to a party there, and when the house came on the market a year later, they knew they wanted it. In fact, they didn’t know about Brice’s connection until afterwards. “We’ve learned so much!” says Lynn Pezold with a laugh, as she leans forward conspiratorially at the kitchen table, sharing anecdotes and coffee recently with visitors. Upon occasion, they put Brice’s portrait on their piano in the living room along with sheet music from one of her popular songs, like “Second Hand Rose,” on the music stand. The Pezolds had to replace the main beam because the first floor had buckled under the weight of the expanded staircase—not to mention the toll the termites had taken. The original owner, John L. Doughty, had built the main house in 1897 and added a kitchen in 1902. The Allard family bought it in 1911 and sold it to a fellow named Jules W. Arnold in 1919. That name was one of the aliases used by Nick Arnstein, Fanny Brice’s notorious gangster husband, who was a far shadier character than the way he’s played in Funny Girl by the suave Omar Sharif, who’d starred on the big screen in Lawrence of
Fanny Brice, the quintessential Ziegfeld Follies vaudeville star, was immortalized by Barbra Streisand’s Oscar-winning portrayal in Funny Girl. For many summers after World War I Brice relaxed with her gangster hubby, Nicky Arnstein, and their young family in Huntington.
Arabia and Dr. Zhivago. “That house was the only thing Nick ever bought,” said Brice much later. “He made some money gambling and paid $14,000 for it. I paid $25,000 to have it remodeled.” “She added all sorts of ‘modern things’ to the house,” says Pezold. Brice added a wrap-around porch, expanded the back of the house with a big family room with a view of the harbor, as well as installing French doors throughout the downstairs to make it brighter, and enlarging the living room and the parlor space so they flow together better— perfect for big parties. But what Brice didn’t do was insulate her summer house, admitted Pezold with a feigned shiver. After Brice had sold the place and permanently moved to Los Angeles, where she died in 1951, a steam riser from the boiler in the basement was added to supply heat to the radiators upstairs, but unfortunately it thrusts right up through the vestibule by the front staircase that Brice loved so much. The house in Funny Girl got the Hollywood treatment—portraying her Huntington digs as more of an opulent mansion than it really is. “To tell you the honest truth, I don’t think anything would have made Fanny happier [than seeing it that way],” says Lynn Pezold. “She was not afraid to get a nose job after she’d been a star of the Follies.”
Love is blind
As for the passionate relationship at the center of Funny Girl, both the film and the original Broadway musical that had also starred Streisand deviated significantly from the real story—no doubt due to the fact that Arnstein was still alive during its development and itching
to sue. When Brice first met Arnstein, he was still married—she found out later. His divorce only came through two months before their daughter Frances was born at their new Huntington home in 1919, according to Brice biographer, Herbert G. Goldman. Arnstein was part of a gang of swindlers that stole $5 million worth of Wall Street bonds in 1920 and he was wanted by the police. He’d already done time in Sing Sing for wiretapping fraud and so he went on the lam, forcing Brice to give birth to their son William without him around. Their son later became a successful painter and art professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, and was never mentioned in the movie by mutual consent with the film’s producer Ray Stark, his older sister’s husband. Brice worked feverishly and shelled out money constantly to pay for her husband’s mounting legal bills, but the law finally caught up with him. Arnstein spent almost two years in federal prison at Leavenworth, still claiming his innocence. In her revealing rendition of the song, “My Man,” which was a show-stopper both for Fanny Brice at the Follies in 1921 and Barbra Streisand on the silver screen decades later, she would sing, “But whatever my man is, I am his—forever.” One story that Pezold has heard since they’ve owned the Halesite home was about the time Brice decided to throw a surprise party for her husband. Through the French doors leading from the kitchen, Arnstein saw the guests arriving before they could see him. He took off down the hill, grabbed a cab on East Shore Road and took a train from Huntington into Manhattan. At another occasion, Brice was entertaining when a fire broke out in the attic—Pezold says the burnt embers can still be seen up there—but the hostess didn’t want the party to break up. She pretended that she had also invited the men from the Halesite Fire Department to attend, and made sure they stayed for food and drinks—after they’d put out the fire. Continued on page 34
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Her husband’s relationship with the department, however, was reportedly much rockier. Arnstein had set up a casino for the firemen’s fair one summer and, Pezold says, “Nicky bilked them out of $500,” so a wealthy neighbor had to chip in to cover the shortfall. She learned that story from the benefactor’s grandson. Recently Pezold heard from a local woman about an encounter her great aunt had had with Brice when she was working as a maid next door, where a school stands today. The maid and her friend had ventured into Brice’s apple orchard. “They didn’t think anybody was home and suddenly the light came on, and Fanny came out on the porch, and said, ‘Who’s there?’ The girl said, ‘It’s just us and we’re stealing your apples!’ They had stuffed the apples in their bloomers—that’s how old the story is!” says Pezold. “And so Fanny just started laughing, and said, ‘There are more apples than I could ever eat. Enjoy!’” What finally caused Fanny Brice to run out of patience after 15 years with Arnstein was when she found out he was having an affair with an older, wealthier woman. As she told Marjorie Dorman, a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle in 1928, a year after her divorce, “I’m done with a home and I’m done with men.” But there
Keeping Fanny Brice’s spirit alive in her former living room is Lynn Pezold, above, who with her husband George have owned the entertainer’s vintage Halesite house since 1982. (Rashed Mian/Long Island Press)
were rumors to the contrary, the reporter persisted, mentioning Arnstein and the Broadway impresario Billy Rose. “Talk about my being reconciled with Nicky is just bunk,” said Fanny Brice at the time. “No, I’m not going to marry Billy Rose or any other man. I’ll tell you what—if I ever saw a romance coming in my direction that looked dangerous, I’d run the other way.” And then she elaborated, Dorman wrote, “that showed her a bitter woman than one would have quite anticipated in view of her rattling line of comment, her devil-may-care attitude.” Brice told the reporter, “I don’t think any man can be happy with a woman who has a career.” Unfortunately, Brice may have been right about the men she was with— although she held onto the house in Huntington and bought bigger ones in L.A., and she did, indeed marry Billy Rose in 1929, only to divorce him in 1938. But had she been born in a different time, she may have been proven wrong. Funny, how it all works out sometimes—and how sometimes it doesn’t come close.
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“Women of the World” Unite To Capture “Feminine Mystique” In Varying Shades of Color and Form
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iven the broad spectrum of styles and imagery on display, this group show, appropriately called the “Women of the World” art and photography exhibition, could be the most eclectic collection of women artists ever assembled on Long Island. And just as fitting as its ambitious title, one singular museum or art gallery could not contain this exhibit. So for its opening night, it began with a gala award ceremony on Feb. 26 at the offices of the Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos in the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola—an untraditional venue to say the least—before moving to the Hutchins Gallery at C.W. Post College in Brookville, where the show will run in an expanded form through March 29 in conjunction with Women’s History Month. Seen as a celebration of women’s diverse experiences and backgrounds—through the eyes of more than 50 contemporary artists—the show has everything from abstract expressionism to photo realism. Just to sample a few, there’s a colorful photo of a Peruvian grandmother cradling a child in the Andes, a drawing of an AfricanAmerican slave in the 19th century, and a painting of a young woman standing under a mountain stream in a yoga pose. Tying it all together is its curator, an artist in her own right, Jill Rader Levine, who has a master of visual arts degree, and is an accomplished photojournalist and interior designer. An acquaintance of Maragos, she came up with the theme: artworks that show the “feminine mystique” in the medium of the artist’s choosing.
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She told the artists she selected that their work didn’t necessarily have to be representational but it had to be relatively recent. “I said it doesn’t have to be a real woman,” Levine says she told them. “It could be something feminine. But when people look at it, they must see ‘feminine.’ ” The results run the gamut. “We have motherhood. We have death. We have joy,” says Levine. “We have every mood expressed. Every style.” Levine said that some of the creations on display are dedicated to the special people in the lives of these artists. “One woman did a pencil drawing of her grandmother on her wedding day,” Levine says. Last fall Levine started reaching out to artists and photographers. Then she lined up the judges—a combination of industry experts, prominent members of the art community and academic professionals—for the opening gala ceremony, with winners in fine arts and photography awarded prizes from local business sponsors, including a free tattoo. Comptroller Maragos said he was eager to host this exhibit in order to promote local artists and contribute to the growing arts industry in Nassau County. “Nassau County is home to some of the most talented artists in the country,” said Maragos in a statement. “The comptroller’s office is always ready to support our local businesses, artists and entrepreneurs.” Serving as judges for the opening night event were Donna Tuman, chair of the C.W. Post art department; Joan Powers, director of photography at C.W. Post; Professor Marc Kopman of the Hutton House Lecture Series at C.W. Post; Professor Thomas Germano of Farmingdale State College; Tom Sammon, an accomplished Long Island artist; Ken Sawchuk, Newsday’s photo editor; Fatima
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Above, Michele Dragonetti took this lively photo of a festive woman in Cuba; below, Anu Annam tore up her portrait of a woman to represent “Independence;” and Katherine Criss shot the multi-layered photo of the “No War” graffiti she saw in Manhattan, bottom.
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Nadine Heyman saw this grandmother tending her granddaughter in a Peruvian village in the Andes, above; Jill Rader Lavine calls her photo, right, “Five Points Fashion;” and Sabine Jean-Bart painted this warmly evocative beach scene, below.
White, art education director at the African American Museum of Nassau County; and Regina Gil, director of the Great Neck Arts Center. Levine invited women she’d shown with and whose work she’d admired, as well as women she’d taken classes with, and who belong to organizations she’s also member of. Then it grew from there. “And they started saying, ‘I have a wonderful friend! Would you like to consider adding her to the show?’ ” So Levine would look at the woman’s work, and if she felt it was compatible with her theme, she would invite the artist to participate in this group show. Serendipity also happily played a role in the process, Levine says, recalling how she came across the work of Maya Trimner, “a great portrait artist,” whom she encountered at an artists’ workshop. “We were working on a model,” says Levine. “I turned around to wash my hands. Her easel was behind me... This is how I would find people. She sent me a pencil drawing of a slave. She found this woman in the national records, and wrote how this woman jumped out of the pages of history and spoke to her.” In Trimner’s evocative drawing, the elderly slave woman, whose white curly hair forms almost a halo around her, is
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against a lively background of smooth curves, bold lines and sharp edges. “The three figures in my painting emerged as a contemporary celebration of strength, feminism and creativity,” she explained in an email. Alecia Rey, an award-winning tattoo artist, was inspired by the World War II poster of “Rosie the Riveter” to create her self-portrait she dubbed: “Alecia the Riveter.” Her version shows her with her sleeve rolled up to show off her tattooed arm, a triumphant smile on her face, her hair in a polka dot bandana and an ink gun in her hand. A story from the Hindu epic The Mahabharata prompted Anu Annam to create her provocative painting, “Blind Wife,” that depicts a young blindfolded woman facing forward. In the tale, Gandhari ties her eyes shut for life out of respect for her new husband, Dhritarashtra “so that she would not have any more benefits in life than him,” Annam explained in an email. At first glance the image conveys a host of ambivalent meanings, either blind justice or someone condemned to a firing squad. But a direct political message was not Annam’s intention. “I often see nobility in sacrifice,” Annam said, “but I see this action as excessive, and only shows that she is willing to ‘blindly follow’ social mores, and in turn, her husband. She could have kindly aided him if she was sighted.” For her multi-layered photograph “No War,” Katherine Criss explained that she saw an anti-war graffiti sprayed in blue on a concrete wall along Riverside Drive in Manhattan and then took another image moments later of a young woman jogging past her. The superimposed words seem to float out of the plane of the photograph and hover in the mind of the curly-haired runner.
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Above is a meditative painting from Linda S. Ruden’s “Yogi’s Series,” inspired by her trip to the Grand Tetons, top; Maya Trimner rendered her moving portrait of this “Slave Woman” after encountering her in an historical archive.
“The resulting photograph transcends both layers,” Criss said in an email. “A successful image for me is created in meditation reflecting on the irony in life.” Levine said she was thrilled by how the show came together so smoothly and the final offerings exceeded her expectations. Her hope was “for each one of the artists to express themselves because I knew that they would all have something amazing,” she says, glowingly. “It just worked out perfectly.” Asked to name her favorite piece of art in the exhibit, she wisely demurred. “I love them all—that’s true!” she declared. The “Women of the World” Long Island art & photography exhibition will be on display at the Hutchins Gallery in the main library at the C.W. Post campus beginning March 4 and will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 2 to 5 p.m., until March 29. For more information, contact WomenWorldArt14@aol.com.
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Lauri Spitz and her husband expect to open Moustache Brewing Co. in April (Rashed Mian/Long Island Press)
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Still reeling from losing her job as a florist when the economy tanked in 2007, Lauri Spitz decided to pursue a different career path. She went back to school to 11/25/13 11:12 AM become a teacher—a respectable job, of course—but after graduating, she realized educating America’s future generation wasn’t for her. Neither was healthcare; a brief stint at Stony Brook University Hospital was just as unfulfilling. So Spitz sought the advice of a life coach, who posed a simple question: If you could do anything in the world, what would it be? Without hesitation, she replied, “Open a brewery.” That seemingly audacious statement—to open a brewery without the capital to invest in machinery— wasn’t at all surprising, coming from her. Spitz and her moustached husband Matthew had been home-brewing since 2005, even before India Pale Ale (IPA), hops and porter became common beer slang. They loved it. Better yet, they were damn good at it. Nearly 10 years later, the affable Spitz couple is about to do just that. In April, Moustache Brewing Co. will open the doors to its Riverhead brewery and a cozy tasting room. Spitz is expecting a sizeable crowd, made up of friends, family and a burgeoning fan base from the Riverhead Farmers’ Market, where they’ve been
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doing growler fills on weekends. “This was totally before the craft beer revolution,” Spitz says of their home brewing origins. “We’ve never been ones to just go with the flow. We were just like, ‘Oh shit, we can make our own beer, great!’” Moustache Brewing Co. will become the 15th brewery on LI—the Island’s craft beer market has tripled since 2011—and other hopeful beer entrepreneurs are rumored to be joining the “revolution,” as Spitz and many others call the local craft beer boom. Riverhead alone will have three breweries within walking distance: Moustache, Crooked Ladder Brewing Co. and Long Ireland Beer Co. Oyster Bay Brewing Co. is the newest in Nassau. And surprisingly, several brewers tell the Press, they want more brewers to join their battle against America’s beer giants. Remember folks: this is a revolution. “I think they’re a little worried,” Duffy Griffiths, one of three founders and head brewer at Crooked Ladder Brewing Co., tells the Press. “The biggest market increase has been craft beer.” Indeed, during the first half of 2013, sales of American craft beer jumped 15 percent and volume increased 13 percent compared to the year prior, according to The Brewers Association, a nonprofit trade group. Meanwhile, American beer giants suffered a 1.7-percent drop in volume during that time, according to Bloomberg News Service. These mighty conglomerates are fighting back, however, either by creating their own
“craft beers” or by gobbling up successful craft breweries—just as AnheuserBusch InBev did recently by poaching Pathcogue-based Blue Point Brewing Co., LI’s oldest craft brewery, for a reported $24 million. On a recent Saturday inside the Riverhead Farmers’ Market, Spitz, sporting a Moustache Brewing Co. hoodie, was filling a growler when the tap went dry. About three hours into the day all three kegs of Moustache’s flagship beer, Everyman’s Porter—a delightfully dark beer with hints of chocolate and coffee—were kicked. The journey from turning their home brewing passion into a business wasn’t as smooth as the porter, though. With money tight, the Spitz’s sought donations through a Kickstarter campaign online, which netted more than $31,000 in 30 days. A deal to open a brewery in Bellmore also fell through. But things are rounding into shape. This month, Moustache will add its second pale ale to the menu—One Stop Pale Ale—to join Maiden Voyage, the very fist beer brewed at the brewery. Their winter seasonal, You’ll Shoot Yo’ Rye Out, a scotch ale, is also in the works. “We don’t want to ever lose our home-brew spirit,” Spitz says. Crooked Ladder has drawn rave reviews since opening for business last July. Its intimate tasting room, which offers a full view of the brewery, was packed recently with families and a new generation of beer drinkers. Griffiths, the head brewer, says eight beers—ranging from IPAs and brown ales to red ales and porters—are always on tap. Crooked Ladder also has at least 11 other beers, many of which can be found at local bars and restaurants from Wantagh to Greenport. Its top-seller, Gypsy Red, a medium-bodied red ale, is a variation of a recipe Griffiths imagined on his own. When Griffiths was the head brewer at John Harvards in the late ‘90s, “You couldn’t sell an IPA to save your life,” he
recalls. Still to this day, some IPAs can be considered annoying and obnoxious from the moment the pale ale hits the lips until its rocky trip down. But Crooked Ladder now brews at least four IPAs. “Now,” Griffiths says, “America is hop-crazy.” Steve Pominski, founder of Barrage Brewing Co. in Farmingdale, which opened Jan. 20, grimaces while recalling some overly hoppy beers he’s tasted. Yet, he describes himself as a “hophead.” One of Barrage’s first brews— Second Avenue IPA—isn’t overly bitter, an accomplishment Pominski strives for. The full-time Long Island Rail Road employee used his garage as his personal brewery before he converted it into a bar—thus the name, Barrage. Barrage boasts a list of brews with eye-catching titles: Red Riding Hood Ale, One Ryed Monkey (our personal favorite), and Honey Buzz, among others. Pominski has had so much early success that it’s been hard to keep up with the orders. The brewery does not have a tasting room, but beer lovers are welcome to visit the space to fill growlers on the weekends. He’s a jack-of-all-trades, handling orders and distribution, though he does get help from his son, who ironically, is a teetotaler. “It’s very daunting,” Pominski says of the microbrewery business. “We’ve already had a couple of trips and stumbles here and there; we can’t keep up, we don’t have enough beer.” The good news is people love his concoctions. Barrage won an online vote for best beer in advance of the Winter Wings and Beer Festival in Rockville Centre in late February, a certificate prominently displayed in Pominski’s office. If it was up to local brewers, there’d be more Pominskis and Spitzes, says Griffiths. “I don’t know one brewer that just wants to drink his beer,” he says. “He wants to go out and try other things, too.”
Duffy Griffiths, co-founder and head brewer of Crooked Ladder Brewing Co., has been brewing beer for years. The brewery always has eight beers on taps, including its top-seller, Gypsy Red, a medium-bodied red ale. (Rashed Mian/Long Island Press)
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SPENCER’S PICK WFUV’S NEW MUSIC SAMPLER Do I like every track on this CD? Of course not. Nor do I like every song WFUV plays on the radio. But nowhere else can I hear such a great mix of music—from Beth Orton to Etta James, Arcade Fire to Death Cab for Cutie, the Beatles, Beck and even Bo Diddley. It’s all part of the repertoire of 90.7 FM, one of the best non-commercial stations in the New York area thanks to its firm foundation at Fordham University. I enjoy streaming it online, too, and when I’m in the mood, I dip into its “Alternate Side” for something slightly different. I got this sampler for renewing my membership—it’s listener-supported, you know. Unfortunately they fell $50,000 short during this winter’s fund drive. But I trust I’m not alone when I say how much WFUV supports me.
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#TOMOTHY”S PICK CAFÉ BUSTELO As you might have heard (from some Press intern Tweets, perhaps?) one of the newsroom’s floater mottos is that “All we really do here is translate caffeine into words.” I suppose that’s the case at newsrooms across the country, since we journalists tend to be caffeine fiends, among having other vices (Did somebody say “Greek for lunch!?”). This brown beauty is the real deal: Old World, Cuban-style espresso. It’s cheap (on sale, this can cost $2), high-octane-yet-smooth, flavorful and I don’t know, seems to have a personality, if that makes sense to other coffee freaks reading this. We bury cinnamon sticks in ours (reportedly an old Cuban trick), which adds even more jazz to the good stuff, and (supposedly) is healthy for you. Apparently vodka tastes great with Bustelo, too—and makes coffee-vodka cocktails called “Dirty Bustelos.” Yum. Just can’t beat Sweet Bustelo.
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AVIVA DRESCHER
This no-holds-barred memoir by perhaps the boldest member of The Real Housewives of New York City, tackles everything from relationships, reality TV and the amputation of her leg to her mother’s alcoholism and how to overcome such personal challenges. Besides signing copies of Leggy Blonde, she’ll also be answering questions—about her life, her legs, and even whether or not she has sex with her prosthetic on or off. Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington. bookrevue.com 7 p.m. March 4
Led by acclaimed Beatles scholar, composer and producer Scott Freiman, this “Expanded Edition” transports Fab Four fans young and old on a three-hour multimedia escapade back into the studio as the band forge their rock masterpiece, including rare audio and video clips, behind-the-scene stories about the tunes and the groundbreaking innovative production techniques used to create what’s considered by many to be not just the best Beatles album, but the best album of all time, period. He’ll also be deconstructing “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.” Not-to-be missed. Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington. cinemaartscentre.org $14 members/$19 public. 7 p.m. March 5
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LOS LOBOS
Chicano rock at its most infectious. With The Mastersons. The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury. thespaceatwestbury.com $40, $50, $65. 8 p.m. March 5
The 21-year-old pop singer, actress and philanthropist will be blowing the doors off The Old Barn in support of her Neon VERTICAL HORIZON, TONIC & DISHWALLA Lights Tour. Nassau Veterans Memorial Nineties alt radio-singles superstars. Expect Vertical Horizon’s Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke., moody “Everything You Want,” Tonic’s addictive “Lemon Parade” Uniondale. nassaucoliseum.com and “If You Could Only See” from Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars.” $24.50, $44.50, $64.50, $74.50. 7 Also expect a whole lotta flannel worn by audience members. The p.m. March 11 Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $24.50, $29.50, $32.50, $44.50. 8 p.m. March 7
JIM BREUER
Until you’ve experienced Breuer’s comedy live, until your gut has writhed in such uncontrollable, euphoric swells as deep and as vast as the rippling waves of the ocean and you’ve lost all context of time and space, any worries and pain, laughing so damn hard that somehow, everything— life, love and existence—all makes sense, well, you’ve just never actually lived. Let the former Valley Stream Central High School grad (formerly SNL’s “Goat Boy” and this month’s “Portrait” on P. 24) take you there. Not-to-be missed. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com 8 p.m. & 11 p.m. March 8
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These Scottish indie rockers have been converting fans across the globe ever since their 2009 debut These Four Walls, which was followed up with 2011’s stellar In the Pit of the Stomach and last month’s E Ray – Live in Philadelphia, recorded in Philly’s Union Transfer. If you dig label mates Frightened Rabbit (which, if you’ve ever heard, you must, since their draw is that infectious), then you will love WWPJ. With Honeyblood. Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., Manhattan. Websterhall.com $20. 8 p.m. March 8
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DROPKICK MURPHYS
Boston punk rock-Irish folkhardcore chaos that’s always fun and never fails to inspire mosh pits. In support of their St. Patrick’s Day Tour. With Lucero and Skinny Lister. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $30.50, $39.50, $50. 8 p.m. March 11
Solo; chameleon-esque collages that bloom amid a field full of vibrant and dying flowers rooted across a spectrometer of musical genres. Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn. $40 ADV/$45 DOS. 7 &10 p.m. March 11
BILL COSBY
The legendary funnyman headlines Gala 2014, a great night of comedy, and his bit will undoubtedly include hilarious observations he’s gleaned from years of making the world laugh—whether through cartoons (Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), sitcoms (The Cosby Show), albums, or any of his bestselling books (Fatherhood, I Didn’t Ask To Be Born, But I’m Glad I Was, among others). Not-to-be missed. Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook. stallercenter.com $75. (Tickets for Gala Supporters start at $500 for two and include preferred seating and an after-party.) 8 p.m. March 8
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The name says it all. The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury. thespaceatwestbury.com $30, $40, $50. 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. March 15
The acclaimed country singer/ songwriter and guitarist will be performing gems plucked from his nearly 40-year career dazzling fans across the globe in this intimate, personal setting. With Ed Travers and Tommy Maxwell. Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue. patchoguetheatre.com $25, $35, $45, $55, $65. 8 p.m. March 14
ROB SCHNEIDER
The Grammy Award-winning singer, actress and two-time New York Times bestselling cookbook author is known for many things, among them, her emotional, heartfelt ballads. Expect multiple hits, a lot of passion, and a performance you’ll surely remember for a long, long time. With Karyn Rochelle. NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. thetheatreatwestbury. com $39.50, $49.50, $69.50. 8 p.m. March 14
The former SNL writer and cast member-turned-Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo cult star, among other films, will be sure to leave you in stitches. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $24.50, $29, $32, $35, $55. 9 p.m. March 15
WOMEN WHO ROCK Loaded to the gills with rare concert footage, rarely seen ROSEANNE CASH
HOW I GOT LEFT AT THE OPERA: A BOY’S JOURNEY INTO POLITICS WITH MOZART, WAGNER & VERDI
Off to the side, Sex Pistols, Ramones and Clash! Fred Plotkin, one of the world’s leading opera experts, leads this multimedia discussion about opera’s antiestablishment, rebellious ways, and how it can be a source of inspiration and imagination for those looking to “fight the good fight,” too. Proceeds will benefit Camp Kinderland, a sleep-away camp for children which helps foster ideals of social justice and peace among guests. Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington. cinemaartscentre.org $20 members/$30 public. 4 p.m. March 16
The Man In Black’s daughter continues his musical legacy of transforming darkness into light through song, touring in support of her latest, and perhaps most visceral, “The River and The Thread,” born from a trek through the Deep South that not only brought her closer to her family’s roots (maybe the closest she’s ever been, she confesses), but on a spiritual and musical journey as well, which successfully resulted in the preservation of her father’s childhood home. Yeah. Wow. Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., Manhattan. The-townhall-nyc. org $35, $50, $75. 8 p.m. March 18
promo films and TV performances, CAC Rock Legends Live host Bill Shelley highlights the music and significance of the women who’ve turned rock and roll upside-down and begging for mercy, including (but not limited to) The Runaways, Suzi Quatro, Heart and many more—the archival footage transforming CAC into a rock concert of its own. Loud clapping, singing and shouting are always encouraged, since it will be nearly impossible to contain, anyway. Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington. cinemaartscentre. org $10 members/$15 public. 7:30 p.m. March 18
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The journalist and Real Housewives of New York City star will be signing copies of her debut novel The Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating. Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington. bookrevue. com 7 p.m. March 19
Donald Trump, Charlie Sheen and Roseanne Barr on Comedy Central, starred in his own Offensive and the mastermind behind comedy album Shakespeare. And yes, he’s absolutely hilarious. The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury. thespaceatwestbury.com $29, $35. 8 p.m. March 20
THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND
The Southern rock/blues stalwarts have been touring the world and creating new music for more than 40 years, inspiring legions of fans that span several generations and continuously recruiting even more with each city or town they roll into and absolutely crush. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $25, $35, $39.50, $49.50, $59.50. 8 p.m. March 21
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Stoner hip-hop at its trippiest. With King Chip. Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. barclayscenter.com $49.50, $75. 8 p.m. March 22
Not-to-be missed gig, period. Folk songstresses Suzanne Vega, Amy Helm and Bridgehampton’s own Caroline Doctorow will be performing numbers spanning their collective careers, including, surely, Vega’s “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner.” And possibly a few Pete Seeger numbers, in tribute of his recent passing? Only one way to find out. Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue. patchoguetheatre.com $18, $28, $38, $48, $68. 8 p.m. (With a Free concert featuring various local singer/ songwriters at 2 p.m. in the lobby.) March 22
COE HALL AT PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM STATE HISTORIC PARK
Fabulous INTERIORS
BY ELSIE DE WOLFE & CHARLES DUVEEN, 1915-1945 FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014
OPENING NIGHT & PREVIEW PARTY 5:30PM – 7:30PM AT COE HALL
Fabulous Interiors by Elsie de Wolfe & Charles Duveen, 1915-1945 is the new spring 2014 exhibition at Coe Hall. Enjoy sounds of the American Songbook on our newly restored 1913 Steinway grand piano played by Jack Kohl. Dress is fashionably festive with the color blue (Elsie de Wolfe’s favorite hair color) or red (Charles Duveen’s trademark velvet color) encouraged. Wine and cheese will be served. Tickets $20: Non-Members/ $10 members, for more information or reservations call Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or email jlavella@plantingfields.org
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th, 2014 EXHIBITION OPENS AT COE HALL and remains open daily March through September, weekends only in October. 11:30am – 3:30pm daily / $4 entrance fee for non-members and FREE for members. $8 parking fee for entrance to the park.
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Jazz-R&B-funk-brass band explosions led by trombone and trumpet prodigy Troy Andrews, aka Trombone Shorty. Wow. With London Souls. The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury. thespaceatwestbury. com $35, $40. 8 p.m. March 21
ENNIO MORRICONE
The recent Grammy Trustee Award winner, aka “The Maestro,” will be conducting this one-night-only, ultra-rare performance accompanied by the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Choir, revisiting the revered composer’s timeless repertoire in Morricone’s first East Coast appearance since his 2007 debut. Bellissimo! Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. barclayscenter.com $80, $255, $355. $75. 7 p.m. March 22
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM CLASSICAL BALLET PERFORMANCE Eighteen racially diverse dance artists from the Dance Theatre of Harlem perform a diverse and demanding classical ballet repertoire that is as graceful as it is moving, as stunning and mesmerizing as it is breathtakingly graceful and gorgeous. Not-to-be missed. Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook. stallercenter.com $40. 8 p.m. March 22
KINGS PARK: STORIES FROM AN AMERICAN MENTAL INSTITUTION
Award-winning filmmaker and former patient Lucy Winer takes audience members on a powerful, moving, cinematic journey through the history and legacy of the Kings Park Mental Hospital and will be on-hand to answer questions about the film’s creation and her time there, along with other members of the cast and crew. Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington. cinemaartscentre.org $10 members/$15 public. 1 p.m. March 23
THE ROBERT CRAY BAND Cray is a living blues legend whose guitar work not only remains true to
all those who’ve laid the foundation before him but pushes the genre to new possibilities, fans and heights. The multi-Grammy Award winner— who’s been intoxicating audiences around the world with his cascading, ever-inspiring and always-evolving fusion of blues, soul, rock and jazz for 40 years—will undoubtedly be performing hits spanning his 16-album canon, including timeless numbers off 1986 breakthrough Strong Persuader, as well as gems from his latest masterpiece, Nothin’ But Love. With The Blind Boys. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $32.50, $42.50, $49.50, $65. 8 p.m. March 25
SPANK! HARDER: THE SEQUEL The second chapter of the hilariously naughty Fifty Shades of Grey parody is sure to keep audience members writhing in their seats with excitement and laughs—and eagerly anticipating the next. NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. thetheatreatwestbury.com $39.50. 7 p.m. March 23
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A must-not-miss gig, regardless of whether mesmerizing, mind-blowing prog-metal is your cup of tea or not. Hell, forget labels—any music fan will appreciate and be floored by this band. Dream Theater has been pushing the very boundaries of sound going on 30 years, and each performance is a kaleidoscopic, sonic realm of tone and colors, light and darkness, passion and emotion oft-described as transcendental (and amplified by the guitar virtuosity of Kings Park’s legendary shredder John Petrucci, considered by many to be one of the best guitarists in the world). The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $39.50, $49.50, $59.50, $69.50, $89.50. 8 p.m. March 30
LI’s own multi-platinum diva, in all her gorgeous, heart-bending glory. Expect hits “Tell It to My Heart,” “Prove Your Love” and “Every Beat of My Heart.” With Amber Ferrari. Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue. patchoguetheatre.com $35, $45, $55, $65. 7 p.m. March 29
“WOMEN OF THE WORLD”
A continuation of the art and photography exhibition profiled in this month’s “Art & Soul” on P. 36, this includes artwork from more than 50 awardwinning LI female artists and photographers asked to express the feminine mystique theme of a moment in the life of a woman—past, present and future—in the medium of their choice. Wow. Hutchins Gallery, CW Post/LIU campus library, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville. Liu.edu Free. Tues.-Sat., 2-5 p.m. March 4 through 29
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Do you enjoy extra-extra-extra spicy wings? Taste-testing Jalapeño and Ghost Peppers just for fun? Boasting dozens of hot stuff purveyors, unlimited sampling, spicy pizza-, chicken wing- and knish-eating contests and Bloody Mary Mix Down Championship, among many other taste-budscorching events, this scalding, fiery-foodie inferno has it all. And as an added sizzler this year, LI’s own firebrand wrestler/actor/ author/food critic/comic book hero Brimstone will be setting the CaJohns Fiery Foods booth ablaze signing autographs—so turn it up and sauce it up, flamethrower-style! Penn Plaza Pavilion, 401 Seventh Ave., Manhattan. nychotsauceexpo. com $35, $75, $100. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. March 29 & 30
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brand 40 UV part 44 See 17-Down 47 Fawn, e.g. 48 “On Golden Pond”; “Klute” 56 Tarnish 57 Adam named her 58 Noted period 59 Sci-fi vehicles 60 Active sort 61 Conniving 62 Egoist’s love 64 Prepare for publication 65 Muppet frog 67 “Hot Shots!”; “The Fabulous Baker Boys” 74 Corporate shake-ups, briefly
75 Runtish 76 False god 78 Cpl. outranker 81 French for “mine” 82 Where dawn arises 83 Gave nutrients to 86 Prefix meaning “equal” 87 College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa 88 “Love Story”; “Little Darlings” 92 Ladder unit 94 Actress Mazar 95 Weed-B-Gon maker 96 Repetitive response to “Who wants ice cream?” 99 Othello’s lieutenant 103 “... corn, - don’t care” 107 “Badlands”; “Platoon” 113 Smart- (wise guys) 114 Sort 115 Stop on a bus rte. 116 Tax return pro 117 “Chinatown”; “Prizzi’s Honor” 124 Very disorderly 125 Fighting - (Big Ten team) 126 Drill directive 127 Glittery tree decoration 128 Latino corner store 129 Easier to see DOWN 1 Develop a liking for 2 One-sharp musical key 3 Spill catchers 4 Black-and-white
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55 Parched 63 All - naught 64 Turbine, e.g. 65 Kinte of “Roots” 66 - Friday’s 68 2012, e.g. 69 “I’ll - best!” 70 On - to nowhere 71 Vienna loc. 72 Sedgwick of Warhol films 73 Sammy of baseball 77 Texter’s titter
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jeans 97 Grow wider 98 Common soccer score 100 Sword go-with 101 - Mae (loan company) 102 Miffing 104 It lures bees 105 Unthrone 106 More asinine 108 Electrically adaptable
109 Hush-hush govt. org. 110 “This - stickup!” 111 “- Frome” 112 Fry quickly 117 RR crossing 118 “- get it now!” 119 Solo of “Star Wars” 120 Point on a pen 121 “I’m Real” singer, for short 122 Espionage gp. 123 Salty body
Double Xword Pt.2 Chief soda products ACROSS 1 Umpire’s face wear 5 Consumer’s antifraud gp. 8 Massive 15 Dating from 19 One of the Galápagos Islands 21 Kind of cable that conducts electrical signals 22 - monster (lizard) 23 Start of a riddle 25 Pol. middle-ofthe-roaders 26 Powerball, for example 27 “Evil Woman” rock gp. 28 Miss.-to-Mich. dir.
29 Dull-edged 30 Previous to 31 Riddle, part 2 36 Remove sodium chloride from 39 Villa d’40 Erie and Tahoe 41 Gold, in Spain 42 Keep attached 44 Most trifling 45 Prefix for “the same” 46 Riddle, part 3 49 Comedian Foxx 50 Swapped 52 With 6-Down, what a sad person sings 53 Robbins or Rice 54 Elongated fish 55 Thickhead 57 Inuit homes
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59 Riddle, part 4 65 Hat fabric 66 “Gilligan’s Island” star 67 Villain in 113-Across 68 Riddle, part 5 71 - frisé (small dog) 73 “Buy - regular price, get ...” 74 Mined matter 75 Give relief to 76 Past 77 Family name of old rulers of Florence 80 Bonny girl 82 Riddle, part 6 85 Suffix with percent 86 Rub with holy oil 88 Attaches with a pop 89 “Hold on a -!” 90 Put in a new cage 91 Contender 92 AOL notes 96 End of the riddle 100 Frat “T” 101 “- a break!” 102 Prone (to) 103 “- -hoo!” (“Hey!”) 104 Pick - (draw from the deck) 106 Lariat, e.g. 107 Riddle’s answer 112 Greek strife goddess 113 Shakespeare play 114 Drive while car shopping 115 Part of YTD 116 Curly-coated dogs 117 “Gotcha!” 118 It borders Vietnam DOWN 1 Whimpered like a baby
2 On the beach 3 Floods 4 “Boston Public” actor Nicky 5 Ghost’s cry 6 See 52-Across 7 Part of some hammers 8 Polar 9 Unification Church member 10 Hawaii’s - Loa 11 Did very well 12 Vardalos of films 13 “I’ve got a mule, her name is -” 14 Right-angled annex 15 Nimble 16 Small blood cavity in organ tissue 17 Language of medieval Scandinavia 18 Fare from McDonald’s or Wendy’s 20 Sgt., say 24 Makes out all right 29 Eateries 31 Old video game systems 32 Pkg. for a dozen eggs 33 Tightly packed fish 34 - out (barely earn) 35 Mix again 37 Hgt. 38 Caused 43 Verve 44 Hodgepodge 46 Rigid 47 “Gosh golly!” 48 Guy, informally 49 Splits anew 51 Top-floor
storage area 54 Farthest from the start 56 Actor James Van - Beek 58 German king, 936-73 59 Higher-priced 60 Kabuki sash 61 “- seen enough” 62 Responses to groaners 63 Disco-era term meaning “galore”
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March by Psychicdeb
You have a special way with words but make sure people are really hearing what you’re trying to say. If comments or commitments are blown out of proportion, confusion will reign and you will be the king or queen of chaos, like it or not. Keep your wits about you at all times during this uncertain Uranus transit. As Uranus moves through your 1st house, don’t become a victim of runaway fantasies. The messages you’re getting from your inner voice are not reliable and you may be reshaping memories to fit a current situation, seeing it more the way you want to see it rather than the way it really is.
Monetary matters could be a tender spot as Uranus moves through your 12th house. Poor communications continue to throw ice water on hot ideas. Tie up loose ends on the career front but keep a low profile rather than coming on strong or you could run the risk of alienating allies at work. Uranus moving through your 11th house of friends could mean a meeting with acquaintances and friends during this transit. Celebrate the arrival of Spring and put the final touches on a creative group project. You may want to do something out of the ordinary for you, like retreat to a mountain to get away from group obligations. Rationally thought out decisions can benefit you more than vague feelings and hunches during your Uranus transit. You’re inclined to be conservative and don’t often take chances on gut instincts, but this is one time to make sure you base decisions on facts. As Uranus moves through your 9th house, you will understand why times are not great for handling errands and business chores, but it will be important to do what you can for the time being. In time, duties increase and demand your time. You’re a social person, but it might be easier to work on your own. Demonstrations of love and affection are on your mind during your Uranus transit. You are on the giving as well as the receiving end. Your usual charm takes on a livelier glow and loved ones gravitate towards you at the raise of an eye brow. Take this opportunity to cement love relationships. Uranus moves through your 7th house ruler so now is the time to be decisive with partners. You like to ride the fence, but to keep your equilibrium, you’ll have to make and stick with choices. Pressures at work won’t help, but you can maintain your poise by taking action. You may get conflicting signals about the needs of those you share your home with. Family concerns are important and should be handled quickly. This may not be easy with shaky partner communications. There will be some exciting and/or upsetting happenings in your domestic life during your Uranus transit. Uranus moving through your 5th house means spending time in quiet pursuits or silent contemplation, rather than in sports or exercises where you might chance a strained muscle. Consider writing to direct your thoughts and use the lift you get from great works of art as your inspiration.
During your Uranus transit, health and diet are important to you for the next few months. Look at your routine to see what habits need to be changed. If you ignore the initial warning signs of illness, a dormant situation could become chronic. Your career or avocations are emphasized now. Being friendly with people on your career front or in your local community can garner you support in your endeavors, plus add to everyone’s self-worth. Your versatility is one of your choicest gifts; if one door closes to you, find another one.
IF YOU KNOW YOUR RISING SIGN, CONSULT THE HOROSCOPE FOR THAT SIGN AS WELL. Psychicdeb has been a professional astrologer for over 25 yrs. Self-taught, she began her studies in astrology when she was 8 yrs. old learning what she could from her mother’s astrology magazines. As she got older and learned geometry, she searched for books on Astrology and taught herself how to construct a chart. She teaches Astrology for a nominal fee. Psychicdeb also uses the tarot to do psychic readings channeling her spirit guide Helen. Reiki is one of her obsessions. She is a Reiki Master and loves to teach others the benefits of Reiki. Namaste. You can find her at the Original Psychic Fairs on Sundays. A listing of the Fair dates can be found on her website at: www.astro-mate.org
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