Volume 11, Issue 06 - June 2013 - Summer Guide by Long Island Press

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June 2013 In ThIs Issue

“[The bill is] using the Iran bogeyman to advance an extreme agenda on another issue.”

The PorTraIT p.16

Eternally Electric: Anything Is Possible for Debbie Gibson By Spencer Rumsey

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Big Oil’s Iranian Scare Tactic By Jed Morey

sTaff edIT christopher Twarowski Editor in ChiEf/ ChiEf of invEstigations

spencer rumsey sEnior Editor

Timothy Bolger nEws/wEb Editor

Jaclyn gallucci Managing Editor

rashed mian staff writEr

Licia avelar staff writEr Contributors

angela datre, shelly feuer domash, Peter Tannen

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Catherine O’Connor: Holistically Inspired By Life By Beverly Fortune

arT Jon sasala art dirECtor

scott Kearney graphiC dEsignEr

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“Now they know when they do something they’re going to have to pay the price.”

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Jon moreno Contributing illustrator

Jim Lennon Contributing photographEr

dIgITaL mike conforti dirECtor of nEw MEdia

news feaTure EXCLUSIVE p.18

Law & Order: Nassau’s Top Cop Talks Crime, Scandals, and Cleaning Up The Embattled Department By Shelly Feuer Domash InvesTIgaTIons p.22

Suffolk’s Foley Nursing Home Closure Incites Anger, Sadness and Suspicion By Spencer Rumsey JusT sayIng p.26

The Organic Chicken’s Story By Peter Tannen

hoT PLaTe p.64

Breakfasts of Champions: L.I.’s Go-To Morning Stops Serve Sunrise Delights, With Twists By Rashed Mian

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I Can See For Miles: Exploring the Indian Ladder Trail By Jaclyn Gallucci rear vIew p.56

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s L.I. Journey: From Great Neck to Great Gatsby By Spencer Rumsey arT & souL p.60

Northport’s John W. Engeman Theater: Where Broadway Hits Main Street By Spencer Rumsey

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World War II: From veterans to curators By Rashed Mian enTerPrIse ParTners

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Well, now you know why people continuously drink and drive... because like this monster, you get a slap on the wrist and go do it again [“Bethpage Man Gets 1 Year in jail for Fatal DWI Hit and Run,” May 16]. Very, very sad. Will they finally figure out that they need tougher laws for animals like this!!! Edna Clary Garcia

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room and “Monday morning quarterback.” Direct your anger at the judge who let the criminal out. Direct your anger at the social programs that don’t work and the funds that are just thrown at them. Direct your anger at the animal and his family for not raising him right. Paul Carpentieri “What are they expecting” is the real ?? RT @LongIslandPress: u.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into effect. not Good. @MakingMyPoint

In bypassing the hype, ignorance and prejudice, etc., I am letting you know some of what I know, though not all that I think [“Letters to the editor,” May]. Marijuana has been Let us know around a long time; the what you think legislative history is well known and it impels the cartels. Colorado and Washington have their Letters@LongIslandPress.com foot in the door so that those who wish may now have their pot and smoke it too, and also Facebook.com/LongIslandPress make brownies if they wish. The future of this situation for all depends on how it @LongIslandPress plays out in those two states. Hopefully, it will be for the good and be an aid in finding a solution to the war on drugs. Charles Samek, www.LongIslandPress.com Mineola Do not second guess unless you can walk in the shoes of an officer [“Hofstra Student Killed by Officer’s Bullet During Robbery,” May 18]. It is easy for all of you to sit in your living

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jaclyn Gallucci’s article “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” [“Out There,” May] did an excellent job describing what rowing is all about. Her description of torrential downpours and waterspouts reminded me of a similar situation long ago with SRA’s Learn to Row program. Instead of waterspouts we saw lightning strikes bouncing off the water while my wife was sitting in a metal coach boat. One thing to always remember: rowing is, and always will be a water sport. William Ober, Head Coach, Huntington High Crew Team Love that my hometown paper, @LongIslandPress, made national headlines with their #WarPowers scoop @sparrowmedia

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Most people flock to Hawaii to bask in its natural beauty as one of the world’s top tourist destinations, but some couples are archipelago-bound for a fishy fad: dolphin-assisted birth. While the sea-dwelling mammals have been somewhat mercurial in their human interactions, The Sirius Institute has touted the benefits of giving birth in the ocean with Flipper in attendance. “Children born in the water with the dolphins develop six months faster over their first six months, have perhaps 150 grams more brain weight and are ambidextrous,” according to the group that describes itself as “dedicated to the creation of human/dolphin co-creative habitats.” But parents might be pushing their luck if they expect dolphins to hold their hand during the delivery.

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Just in case Baz Luhrman’s cinematic depiction of The Great Gatsby didn’t ruin this 1925 American classic for literary purists, Princeton University has posted online F. Scott Fitzgerald’s handwritten manuscript and corrected galley pages for all to see how the Gold Coast classic was made.

A marketing study has found that adult smartphone users spend an average of 58 minutes per day on their devices—a figure that seems way too low, judging by our own bad cell phone habits. Researchers broke that time down to: nearly one hour wasted squinting at a screen; more than a quarter actually talking on the phone; 20 percent texting; 16 percent on social networks and 14 percent surfing the Web. The rest was split nearly evenly between email, games and “other.” Of course, those averages vary depending upon whether the user has an iPhone or an Android, the former spending an average of 26 seconds more daily making their phone companies rich.

Love Is In The aIr

Much media attention has been dedicated to those loud, bug-eyed, veiny-winged Brood II cicadas emerging from a 17-year hibernation beneath the soil and letting loose their obnoxious mating calls this summer across the Northeast— everywhere, it seems, except Long Island. But, for those who prefer their End Times with a meaty helping of locusts (one of the signs of the Apocalypse), fear not: A chef a Miya’s Sushi in New Haven, Conn. is rounding up as many of the buggers as he can, locking them in a freezer and using them as ingredients. Some chefs in West Virginia have termed the insects “shrimp of the dirt.” And for the adventurous-tongued who prefer to cook at home, there’s Cidaca-Licious, a locust cookbook. Mmm… Yummy.

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“[The Great Gatsby] has hit the bestseller list— something it never did while Fitzgerald was alive.” rear vIew p.56

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off TargeT A vacationing teen defaces an ancient temple in egypt by carving “Ding jinhao visited here” in Chinese characters—in other words, China’s version of “I wuz here.” The incident goes viral when another tourist posts a photo of it online, where all hell breaks loose. Before he is identified, Internet users begin a cyber manhunt for the perpetrator, accusing dozens of other guys named Ding jinhao, who take to the Interwebs to state their innocence, in other words, the Chinese version of “It wasn’t me.”

daIry Queen

BuLL’s eye The Illinoisbased ice cream and

fast food chain whose TV commercials of Brownie Batter Blizzards have teased LI residents for years is finally set to open a franchise location in Massapequa. The new Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, or DQ as it is known for short, is listed on the chain’s corporate website as coming soon to 5366 Sunrise Hwy., near the corner of unqua Road and across the street from Westfield Sunrise Mall— ironically dethroning the “Home of the Whopper” that previously sat at the same location.

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ParTIaL score The Maroon 5 front man and The Voice judge mutters “I hate this country,” after two of his best singers—judith

Hill and Sarah Simmons— are eliminated from the singing competition. Levine apologizes after public outcry, saying he didn’t mean it and he doesn’t always think before he speaks. Then everything is peachy keen again, except for the fact that we continue to be offended on a daily basis every time “She Will Be Loved” and “One More night” come on the radio. no one seems to care about that.

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off TargeT A new CDC reveals that more than half of public pools tested positive for e. coli, which is a marker for fecal matter contamination. The CDC says this means people are either relieving themselves

The TargeT T in pools or not cleaning themselves well. either way, don’t drink the water.

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BuLL’s eye Following the european union advising its member states to test certain wheat shipments from the u.S. and South Korea joining japan in suspending some u.S. wheat imports, after unapproved genetically modified strains developed by the GM giant are discovered in a field in Oregon, millions of people all over the world, from Long

Island to Australia, take to the streets for a global March Against Monsanto. It’s about friggin’ time.

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BuLL’s eye After attending the nY premiere of After Earth, the astronaut says the space scenes aren’t realistic because they’re noisy and there isn’t much noise in space, because noise doesn’t propagate in a vacuum. next thing he’s going to tell us, the spiky Boglodite things in Men in Black aren’t real either. Pshh.

Morale is horrible. We’re like walking zombies.”

–Frustrated Suffolk County john j. Foley Skilled nursing Facility employee, who, along with dozens of debilitated patients, are being forced out due to its closure by Suffolk County executive Steve Bellone. InvesTIgaTIons p. 22

$25,000 The new nassau County Crime Stoppers reward, up from $5,000, for information leading to the arrest of the killer of Chaim Weiss, a 15-year-old rabbinical student, in 1986. Weiss was found bludgeoned to death in his Long Beach dormitory. The increased reward was announced at a news conference on May 28 intended to renew interest in the unsolved case.

PInK sLIP James dolan toru hashimoto denny grijalva ryan C. fogle roger davis ariel Castro & Michael Mcgrath andrea rebello’s twin sister, Jessica, center, is consoled while walking out of the church after her funeral service in sleepy hollow, n.Y. after andrea was shot by a police officer responding to a home invasion. (photo: rashed Mian/long island press)

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1. wear the GReat GatsBy

Anyone can see the movie or read the book, but draping themselves in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald takes fandom to a whole new level. Every inch of this T-shirt from Litographs is covered in text from this classic Long Island novel. Designed by artist Danny Fein, 75,000 words were manually screen-printed onto the garment. While every page could not be squeezed onto the shirt, there’s enough there to keep yourself entertained for at least a few hours.

6. googLe “aTarI BreaKouT” Google’s latest “Easter Egg” game celebrates the 37th birthday of the classic 1970s brick game, Breakout, right in your browser. Just do a Google Image search for “Atari Breakout” and the tiled image results form layers of bricks and a bouncing ball appears on the bottom of your screen that can be controlled with your mouse or arrow keys.

2. TraveL wITh GeoGuessR 1. Go to www.geoguessr.com. 2. Get virtually tossed onto the streets of a random area around the world via Google Maps street view. 3. Click your mouse to walk around, zoom in on signs, look at the area and figure out where in the world you are. Sound hard? It is.

3. youTuBe “dog crIes whILe waTchIng the Lion kinG”

The caption says it all: “It’s OK dog, that scene gets everyone.” Watch this adorable puppy get choked up while watching a sad scene from The Lion King in this viral video. Then watch it again.

8. downLoad tetRis BLitZ

What’s old is new again! Children of the ’80s you can now race against the clock in a two-minute sprint to clear lines and rack up points right on your smart phone or play on Facebook. Prepare to be addicted.

9. aTTend FRienDLy’s BuRGeR Bash

On Sunday, June 9, Friendly’s will host a Burger Bash at its Massapequa Park restaurant where the top three contestants of its “Build Your Own Burger” Contest will make their original burger creations for a panel of local celebrity judges.

10. PLay BeJeweLeD iRL

In this real-world version of Bejeweled, swap and match gems and earn coins by matching three or more. The set includes 84 regular gems, seven power gems, 70 scoring coins, a bag and game base.

4. geT coffee aT GeoRGio’s

Starbucks. Dunkin’. 7-Eleven. Those are the go-to coffee places for most of Long Island. But tucked away just off Route 110 on New Highway in Farmingdale is a coffee wonderland stocked with fresh-made brews from around the world. Sacks of beans line the walls and all sorts of insane coffeebrewing gadgets that look like they sprung out of Willy Wonka’s factory stand behind the counter ready to make you the best cup of Joe you’ve ever had in your life. It’s beautiful. And addictive.

7. vIsIT red, yeLLow & BLue

Orly Genger’s installation transforms Madison Square Park with 1.4 million feet of layered, painted, and handknotted rope that turns the New York City park’s lush lawns into colorfullylined chambers. It’s on display through Sept. 8.

iGGy the tRain Cat By mary mac iGG

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Long Island is full of stray cats, but it’s unlikely any of them are as personable as this guy. Iggy is an adorable little cinnamon-colored cat who calls the Long Island Rail Road his home. This train cat has emerald eyes and a heart-shaped birthmark on his rump and is wellknown by commuters who frequent the Kew Gardens station. Written by Babylon Village native and St. John the Baptist High School alum Mary Mac, this is the first in a new children’s book series published on Kindle in honor of National Pet Adoption Weekend. An independent cat, Iggy makes friends with everyone and he is taken care of by commuters on their way to work. But then Iggy goes missing. This heartwarming tale shows just how much the community cares for Iggy. This is the first book of its kind for Mac, who lived the majority of her life in New York City and on LI. She has spent her career assisting children and adults who have experienced the death of a loved one and, until now, has primarily written for that audience. Part of the proceeds of this and future Iggy books will be donated to the organization she created—The Foundation for Grieving Children, Inc. Iggy’s illustrator, Thomas Barnett, is a cartoon cartoonist and illustrator who was influenced by Charles Schultz and the Peanuts comic strip. His comic strip “The Lil Miesters” appears daily online at GoComics.com For more information, visit www.IggyTheTrainCat.com. —Jaclyn Gallucci

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Big Oil’s Iranian Scare Tactic By Jed morey Publisher, Long Island Press www.jedmorey.com facebook.com/jedmorey

couple of weeks ago, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) put forward a bill (S.965) with the title “Iran Sanctions Implementation Act of 2013.” It’s a ridiculously worded and speciously reasoned piece of legislation that calls for the expansion of domestic oil production in an effort to overtake and choke off Iran’s remaining crude oil supply. According to the bill, “by expanding oil production in the United States by 1,250,000 barrels per day” (the amount Inhofe estimates to be the current level of Iranian crude oil exports), “the United States will displace all oil exports from Iran on the world market.” Inhofe accomplishes this in the bill by granting the president of the United States authority to “designate any area of Federal land that the President determines appropriate as an ‘Iranian Oil Replacement Zone,’” and that “Each Zone shall include any area of Federal land necessary for the transportation… of the oil produced in that Zone.” Moreover, Inhofe’s legislation would grant exclusive management of these zones to the individual states, thereby circumventing the federal agencies designated to protect and manage these territories. Finally, as a kicker, he exempts the entire act from both judicial review and environmental oversight under the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969. On nearly every level, this is a terrible bill. And the senator and his cosponsors likely understand this fact. But before we delve into the rationale behind floating a bill with almost no chance of succeeding, let me explain why it is so off-target. First off, it’s important to know that this is not how the global crude oil market operates. By making the assumption that increased U.S. oil production can displace another country’s production ignores market fundamentals. As Gene Guilford, an expert in the field of energy policy, explains, “The Saudis, Libya and Iraq have already increased their output to some extent for this purpose. The excess crude oil production capacity that exists in the Middle East to take the place of Iranian production for export is already available.” To most of us, the crude oil and gas market is a complex world. From drilling and transporting and buying and selling, it’s a murky realm of oil barons and commodities traders that speak a different language. But election cycles provide

enough of a window inside to inform most Americans of this basic fact: The oil business is booming. “We’re basically bursting at the seams with supply,” says Michael Masters, president of Masters Capital Management, an Atlanta-based hedge fund that specializes in the commodities sector. When oil prices spiked in 2008 and the derivatives market began to unravel, Masters provided important congressional testimony that gave U.S. lawmakers insight in to the inner workings of the commodities business. U.S. production has been so robust in recent years that Masters says, “I imagine in the second half of this year we won’t import any oil.” This is a sentiment shared by Guilford, who talked about the remarkable turn of events in the U.S. fossil fuel industry. “In 2007 we were talking about peak oil,” says Guilford; “today we speak of the very real potential of the U.S. being

is traded globally it is obviously most responsive to price. According to Guilford, “Iran’s customers may well not care about alternative sources that are more expensive than Iran and that is one very likely reason Iran still has customers.” Knowing that Iran’s customers include nations such as China and South Africa, Guilford naturally questions our ability to drive the final nail in Iran’s coffin through sanctions asking, “Does the U.S. have the diplomatic ability to convince Iran’s buyers to pay more in order to isolate Iran?” Nevertheless, this opens an important dialogue about the nature of sanctions themselves. There is no question that U.S.-lead sanction policy has been extremely effective in isolating Iran and wreaking havoc on its economy. Kate Gould, a lobbyist for Middle East Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, believes that sanctions sometimes

Why go through the machinations of compiling the language and amassing support for a bill that is practically dead on arrival? the world’s leading crude oil producer by 2015 and U.S. energy independence.” When I asked Masters specifically about Inhofe’s notion of displacing Iranian oil, he said, “It’s sort of a ridiculous theory because you’re not going to take it out of the market.” In fairness, sanctions on Iran have lead to a serious decrease in Iranian crude oil exports. It’s estimated that Iran exported nearly 4 million barrels per day when President Obama took office. Today that figure is estimated to be anywhere between Inhofe’s proposed 1.25 million and 2 million per day. Either way, it’s a precipitous decline. But the decline has less to do with the supply of oil and more to do with pressure the U.S. brought to bear on those who purchase Iranian oil. So the question of whether or not the U.S. has the strength to convince the few remaining Iranian oil customers has less to do with availability and more to do with diplomatic ability. To the extent that this is possible, the United States doesn’t necessarily hold all of the cards. Because oil is a commodity that

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have the opposite of the desired effect by serving to “punish civilians, embolden hardliners and foreclose diplomatic options.” She explains her economic position saying, “We’ve seen huge growth in the black market, which is controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, so Iranians become dependent on going through these channels instead of legal channels.” Gould is quick to point out that despite decades of crippling sanctions against Iraq, “Saddam Hussein never missed a meal.” Despite the backward logic inherent in Inhofe’s rationale, the bill currently has 11 other cosponsors, all Republican. Most hail from states with large swaths of federal land such as Arizona, Utah, North Dakota, North Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky and Missouri. Not surprisingly, Inhofe’s top campaign contributors between 2007 and 2012 are from the oil and gas industry, with Koch Industries being his single-largest donor. The idea of manipulating federal regulations regarding drilling rights and ceding these rights to individual states is dangerous territory for the

environmental community. “Senator Inhofe would auction off America’s national parks and public lands to big polluters just so we could mimic Iran’s all-oil energy policy,” blasts Athan Manuel, director of the Sierra Club’s Lands Protection Program. “We’d be better off embracing job-creating clean energy projects that protect our wild legacy and our future rather than selling off our nation’s crown jewels to the highest bidder.” Legislative affairs specialists for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which controls the largest amount of federally protected land, did not respond to my request for an interview as of press time. But Gould believes Inhofe’s bill is little more than a Trojan horse for U.S. oil and gas companies to gain access to land that is currently difficult to obtain. “I think it’s a political stunt to try to disguise getting around environmental laws with sanctions,” she says, adding that sanctioning Iran, “generally has broad bipartisan support.” Guilford sees it this way as well, but takes more of an academic approach to Inhofe’s proposal. He calls the “goal of increased domestic production a sound idea,” but says the “removal of judicial review and NEPA” would have “opposition that is only exceeded by those trying to stop the Keystone pipeline.” The chances of Inhofe’s bill making it out of committee and eventually becoming law are slim. To put it into perspective, of the 3,716 Senate bills proposed between 2011 and 2013, only 449 (12 percent) made it to the floor. Of those, only 71 were enacted, or less than 2 percent. The fact that this particular bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), means it will almost assuredly die in committee. So why go through the machinations of compiling the language and amassing support for a bill that is practically dead on arrival? The best way to view Inhofe’s bill is as a trial balloon—a way to test the effectiveness of certain angles and particular language. “Perhaps for some the theory would be that U.S. domestic energy security isn’t reason enough to increase current production,” muses Guilford, “so the issue needs to be recast into a foreign policy and security debate about shutting down the remainder of Iranian production.” Gould puts it more bluntly, saying it’s, “using the Iran bogeyman to advance an extreme agenda on another issue.” No matter how you slice it, all roads lead back to Big Oil.

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Holistically Inspired By Life By BeverLy forTune bfortune@longislandpress.com

atherine and Kevin O’Connor were high school sweethearts, who got married and settled in Middle Island to raise their four children, Hailey, Anna, Kevin and Logan. Kevin was a patrolman with the New York Police Department and Catherine was a stay-at-home mom. When the World Trade Center was attacked on 9-11, Kevin was dispatched to the scene and, like many first responders, he eventually developed respiratory problems. He left the NYPD to become a Suffolk County Parks Officer, but while on duty in Setauket Woods Park, Kevin was struck by an illegally operated ATV, and suffered extensive back and leg injuries. For the second time in his career, Kevin, only 30 years old at the time, was injured in the line of duty. His medical condition worsened when he developed Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) syndrome, a chronic and systemic neurological condition with severe pain, swelling, sweating and other changes to the skin. Catherine says that Kevin was prescribed a huge amount of medication, mostly to help ease his constant pain, but the numerous side effects severely impacted his quality of life. “The pain was unbearable for him,” she says. Unable to walk on his own, Kevin had to use a wheelchair. When the O’Connors were advised that the next course of treatment to alleviate Kevin’s pain was a procedure to embed a permanent catheter in his back for morphine, they were devastated. Then a friend recommended that they see Dr. Christie Harrington, an acupuncturist in Port Jefferson. “We were going the wrong way with treatment,” Catherine says. “Dr.

Harrington was a big turning point for us.” Almost instinctively, Catherine made radical changes to Kevin’s diet to start the healing process. “We began eating vegan and Kevin started to get healthier,” she says.

“I was raising my kids in a different way than everybody else.” As Kevin’s health improved, Catherine made more changes to her family’s lifestyle, which meant social changes as well. “We used to eat at McDonald’s, but we realized it wasn’t for us,” she says. “I was raising my kids in a different way than everybody else.” To meet more like-minded people, her pediatrician suggested that Catherine contact the Holistic Moms Network (HMN), a national community of more than 10,000 members who raise awareness and support for holistic parenting.

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Catherine immediately embraced their philosophy and mission. But the nearest HMN chapter was almost two hours away. Catherine started a chapter in Lake Grove in January 2012, bringing the network to families on eastern Long Island.

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The Lake Grove chapter has grown to more than 40 members and meets once a month at the Panera Bread restaurant in Port Jeff Station. The first meeting is free for those who want to see what the network is about. Membership costs $45 per year and includes access to the HMN’s co-op that purchase products in bulk or at a discount. “People come with their kids and they learn together,” she says of their meetings. “It’s a group effort led by example.” For the O’Connor family, holistic

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parenting has opened up an entirely new world where they embrace a lifestyle of green living, non-violent communication, natural health and a respect for the connection between all living things. To complete the transformation, Catherine went back to school and became certified as a holistic health care practitioner. She also studied Iridology, the study of the human iris. “It’s fascinating and another tool to be healthy,” she says. Now prepared to help others, Catherine has opened her own practice, Inspired by Life, in Port Jefferson, where she counsels her clients on diet and nutrition, and teaches yoga for children and adults. Choosing to live an alternative lifestyle has reaped numerous rewards for Catherine and her family. “Kevin is no longer on medication and has gone from being bedridden to now walking with a cane,” she says. At home, the O’Connors raise their own chickens and have an organic garden and a small greenhouse. They sleep on organic bedding and their children play with “green” toys. By living simply, they have fully embraced their alternative lifestyle. “It’s a personal choice that you have to decide for yourself,” Catherine says. “For me, there’s no room for discussion.” For more information, go to Inspired-By-Life. net or email Catherine@Inspired-By-Life.net.

In every issue of the Long Island Press and our sister publication, Milieu Magazine, the Fortune 52 column brings you stories of dynamic women who have made a significant and unique contribution to Long Island. To acknowledge their success, Beverly hosts tri-annual networking events that are attended by hundreds of LI business professionals, non-profit leaders and entrepreneurs. If you are interested in learning more about the Fortune 52, or know a super woman who deserves good Fortune—and a profile—email Beverly at bfortune@longislandpress.com.

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Talk about an “Electric Youth”! Deborah “Debbie” Gibson burst “Out of the Blue” when she was barely 17 with a string of hits on the Billboard charts such as “Foolish Beat,” “Only in My Dreams” and “Shake Your Love” that made this extraordinarily talented Long Island teenager the favorite of music fans everywhere and established her forever in America’s pop pantheon. Gibson scored nine Top 40 Hot 100 hits between 1987 and 1991 and remains the youngest female artist to write, produce and perform a number-one single, according to Billboard. Though born in Brooklyn, she grew up in Merrick, and Gibson credits her early experiences performing in musicals at churches and temples and the Long Island Teen Repertory Theater, as well as the WINGS program at Camp Avenue Elementary School and her teachers at Sanford Calhoun High School as helping propel her career. “Long Island has always been great for the arts,” she says. “There was always somewhere to go perform.” On June 8, Gibson will be performing at the Long Island Pride 2013 festival in Huntington’s Heckscher Park. For her, it was a no-brainer. “I could not say no!” she says. “It is a smaller Pride in relation to, let’s say, Chicago or Denver or many others I have done, but come on! It is Long Island! I fully expect my hometown peeps to out-Pride and be louder than anywhere I have previously performed!” She remembers winning contests on WPLJ when she was a teen and listening to Z100 and especially Hot 97, which broke her first hit, “Only in My Dreams.” “They were all faves,” she says fondly. “I was influenced by everyone from Mozart to Madonna, Elton John and Billy Joel, as well as Broadway performers.” Indeed, it was her wanting to be cast as “Annie” that brought her and her family regularly into Manhattan for auditions. In 1992, she played Eponine in Les Miserables on Broadway—the first of many theatrical performances on and off The Great White Way. Though she now makes her home in L.A., she still has close ties to the Island, referring to her aunt, uncle and cousins, such as Buddy, her choreographer, and her hometown friends Dee Snider, Ron Luparello and Mike Provenz. She also still regards Galleria Pizza on Merrick Avenue as “the best!” Who would dare to argue with that? Back in the day, she supposedly had a rivalry with another young pop phenom, Tiffany, but that was just media high jinx. “There was no divide—ever!” she says. And to prove it, the pair did do a “crazy” Syfy original movie together later in their careers called “Mega Python vs. Gatoroid,” and have toured together. “I would do it again in a heartbeat,” she insists. Gibson competed in last year’s season of The Celebrity Apprentice, is about to become a judge on ABC TV’s upcoming Sing Your Face Off, and has begun working on a new album. Now 42 years old, the former teen sensation is in a good place these days, she says. “I am super-private, having grown up in the spotlight,” she admits, “But let’s just say at long last I have found balance!” debbie gibson will be performing at the Long Island Pride 2013 festival on saturday, June 8 at 2 p.m. in huntington village’s heckscher Park. for more information visit www.LIPride.org.

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LAW & ORDER nassau’s Top cop Talks crime, scandals, and cleaning up the embattled department By sheLLy feuer domash shellyfdomash@verizon.net view from the top: nassau County police Commissioner thomas dale opens up to the Press about his first 18 months leading the nation’s 15th largest police department. (angela datre/long island press)

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Thomas daLe stumbled blindly with his hands

outstretched in front of him through the engulfing thick white cloud of dust, debris and human remains rolling through Lower Manhattan in the moments following the World Trade Center’s collapse. Walking slowly, desperately hoping to reach a nearby school, the New York City Police Department veteran with 43 years on the job did his best not to fall down. Out of the darkness someone had handed him a moist towel to help him breathe. During a lengthy and exceptionally candid recent interview with the Press, Dale admitted to being scared, even “petrified,” yet like so many other brave first responders on the scene that day, he stuck it out, both accepting and giving orders—orders that undoubtedly helped save lives. Sept. 11, 2001 was a defining and life-changing moment for the now-63-year-old, he says, and has forever shaped his outlook on life and the way in which he handles his job— which since his December 2011 appointment by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, has been heading the Nassau County Police Department, an agency that for the past several years has been the subject of not only an unprecedented downsizing, but several high-profile scandals. Dale has been charged with cleaning up the mess. “I almost died that day and I felt a lot different toward people after that day,” he confides, following a pause. “I saw tragedy that day and I saw people working with one another that I had never seen in my lifetime. The entire city, the entire Island, the entire United States—we worked together,” he recalls. As much as a team player the former NYPD chief of personnel is, Dale’s not afraid to go it alone, something he’s had to do since nearly his first day at the helm—whether in front of the county legislature defending Mangano’s controversial plan to shutter half its precincts (to jeers from even “people who worked for me,” he says), or taking it upon himself last month to travel upstate to personally inform 21-year-old Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello’s parents that their daughter was accidentally killed by one of his officers May 17. “It was the right thing to do,” he says of his visit to Tarrytown. “I’m the head guy. I thought that’s what a man should do.” “The investigation is going on as we speak,” he continues, “we’re not finished with it. Every time there is a shooting we want to go through the procedure: Can we do something not to shoot? Can we make it better? This one is more exaggerated because of the seriousness of it and you always try to find if there is something we can do better.” “Doing better” could be the mission statement of Dale’s administration thus far. Almost immediately upon his appointment he’d been thrust into the hot seat.

Dale was tapped shortly after New York State Inspector General Ellen Biben issued a report on the department’s troubled crime lab, which in 2010 became the only such laboratory in the nation to be put on probation following a scathing accreditation agency inspection report that November highlighting 26 areas of noncompliance with universally accepted standards. (It’s still closed and officials at the time had put the cost for outside testing and analysis of narcotics, blood and ballistics at $100,000 per month.) “When I got here I found a lot of problems that I don’t think people thought about when they said, ‘Just close the lab,’” he says. “We are the people that bring the product in. We bring the evidence in here every day, the fingerprints, the blood sample, DNA. These are the other things. What are we going to do with it if we don’t have a lab to deal with it? Who do we give it to? There was no one to give it to.” Dale appointed his new deputy commissioner to deal with “this very complicated issue.” His goal is to have the lab completely outside the purview of the police department. “It just doesn’t make sense anymore,” he says, “why have officers in there? You can have civilians who went to school for that. Put a sergeant in there and the sergeant gets promoted. I have an evidence management team that has set up a report every month on every piece of evidence.” Dale hopes to stop sending out their evidence to numerous different places including Pennsylvania, Westchester and Texas, and to set up a complete lab in the county medical examiner’s office. Three months on the job, Dale had to handle a different type of scandal. A March 31, 2011 Press investigation into the department and nonprofit Nassau County Police Department Foundation had resulted in a probe by the Nassau District Attorney’s Office and the indictment of three of the county’s top former cops a year later for their roles in covering up a burglary committed by a wealthy foundation donor’s son. Former Nassau Police Second Deputy Commissioner William Flanagan was convicted of conspiracy and official misconduct this February. Ex-Deputy Chief of Patrol John Hunter pleaded guilty last month to the same charges. Retired Det. Sgt. Alan Sharpe’s next court date is June 26. After reading our series and subsequent agency reports, Dale was swift with his response. “I realized I could do some things right away,” he says. “So one thing was they [foundation members and donors] all have these special ID cards. I asked them and they agreed from now on everybody has the same ID card. We do have a lot of civilians with ID cards. We have an Explorer board that have ID cards, we

have a foundation board, we have some honorary surgeons that we deal with. A lot of people who have ID cards, but I want everybody’s to be the same so there’s no one special.” In addition to the police IDs the members had police shields, though putting the kibosh on those wasn’t going to be that easy. “I can’t tell them not to buy a shield,” he explains. “I don’t give them a shield, they buy it themselves. I can’t stop it. I said, ‘Guys, you should not be showing them, that’s not appropriate.’” Dale did “immediately” cancel a

department-wide order requesting officers verify foundation membership, however. “We revoked that order immediately,” he says, adding that the group’s members no longer have free access into police headquarters, nor an office there, as was the situation under his predecessor former Nassau Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey (who retired the following day of our series’ first installment). Dale closed that down, too. After researching other foundations, Dale says he told members that there had to be a separation between him and the organization. Regarding the larger issue

of monetary donations often coming with strings attached, Dale says: “There are two ways that we are approaching it. One way is basically what has happened, which scared the pants off of most everybody here. The other way is internally. What I do now is every day I read every complaint that comes in. If someone makes a complaint anywhere— Internet, any government office, or through us—I get it and I read it. I get briefed from our internal affairs on a lot of the cases that were always handled out there. Now they are not handled by them, Continued on page 20

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they are handled by me.” As a result of his changes, Dale believes that “the guys out there on the street know that I mean business. These were very serious cases that I have been dealing with since I got here. Can I ever prevent somebody not to call up somebody? I told them, I met them in person and spoke to them—man to man, woman to woman—‘If you do this, you’re going to get in trouble.’” “I have to do everything in my power to prevent that, but it’s a very difficult thing to prevent, very difficult. It would be naïve to say it would never happen again.”

Dale says one of his goals was to reinforce the authority of supervisors. Prior to his taking office, he said the route was a cop would go to the union, who would go to the government and do an end-run around their supervisors, leaving those supervisors without any authority. He was able, he says, to get a “bill passed where I am in charge of discipline.” Now, when a cop is put on disciplinary probation, a supervisor can write them up and they may be terminated. “I have empowered the sergeants and lieutenants. They had no power before—I needed to empower my bosses.”

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“They weren’t being supported so I’ve supported them,” he continues. “Now they know when they do something they’re going to have to pay the price. I’m not looking to fire anybody. I’m looking to just maintain discipline. We don’t have enough people to go around firing everybody, that’s just crazy. Everybody is saying, ‘He is firing everybody.’ I’m not firing everybody that comes before me. You don’t have to agree to with what I said. You can go to trial. You can do this you can do that. They don’t want to go to trial.” The department, according to

numerous sources, had become lax when it came to discipline. Dale said his job was to turn that around. He said while he couldn’t discuss specific cases, “I have been strict.” He added that “A couple of people have been terminated.” Some of the cases he has dealt with, he says, include an officer shoplifting, officers using internal records to run plates for friends, officers involved in the Jo’Anna Bird domestic violence murder case and several “Romeo” cases, whereby officers were involved with women while on the job. “There was some pretty serious stuff,” he says. Dale’s been spearheading the internal housecleaning while also keeping his eye on what he says is his main priority: crime. That is no easy task with a depleted department and a shortage of cops. “Crime is our number-one issue and I think the best way to attack it is to be smart, as we don’t have the personnel,” he says. Doing more with less has become a major challenge for Dale. He believes the biggest difference between Nassau County and New York City police departments is “we don’t have enough people.” The city can direct personnel to problem areas, whereas Nassau doesn’t have the manpower to do so, he explains. “We don’t have that luxury,” he says. “We have to do it with intelligence policing that we developed to try to be smarter with what we got.” “Omnipresence is our goal but we are so short right now,” he adds. “I am hoping as time goes by and things get better and we start hiring a little bit more, I think it will get better. I know it will get better. I know it’s getting better.” The grandfather of four doesn’t know how long he will keep working, but one thing he is sure of: “In 1970 my first day on the police department I got up and I had like a fire in my belly and now at 63 years old I still feel the same thing when I go to work.” When that feeling stops, he stops, he says. “Now I’m in a position where I can do something some really good things,” he says. “I’ve seen so much, I could use all that experience, and I really try to do that in Nassau County. I have family here, I pay taxes like everybody else and I want to make sure that we get a good product.” Dale thinks back to that tragic day in September 2001 for inspiration and guidance. “There was no crime, we were working for a purpose, together, and I’ve accepted that into my own life,” he says. “That is the way we should be all the time.” He has the towel the stranger handed him during those darkest of hours to prove it.

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Suffolk’s Foley Nursing Home Closure Incites Anger, Sadness and Suspicion

By sPencer rumsey srumsey@longislandpress.com

• BeLLone BacKTracKIng on camPaIgn PLedge, charge crITIcs • PaTIenTs forced ouT • new QuesTIons arIse over sQuashed saLe Rich Phillips didn’t let his cerebral palsy keep him confined to the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility in Yaphank; he’d often roll his wheelchair to a nearby 7-Eleven, or even Suffolk County police headquarters down the road. But when he was discharged to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in March, under an edict by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s administration to vacate the county’s nursing home, it was the last straw for the 51-year-old former electronics salesman. Phillips died in April. “He was told by one of the staff at John J. that he wasn’t coming back to the only place he’s known as his home for the last 20 years,” says Legis. John M. Kennedy Jr., the Republican minority leader of the Suffolk Legislature. “You don’t have to be Marie Curie to figure out that if you give somebody no reason to live, he’s not going to live.” Over the years Kennedy has clashed with two county executives to keep Foley open: Bellone, a Democrat, and his predecessor Steve Levy, a Democratturned-Republican. But the 264-bed public facility is now on track to be empty by June 30. According to the county, as of May 28, 126 patients have been discharged to other facilities and 66 patients remain. As for the staff, about 160 are left from the peak of 310 workers a few years ago. “The only thing worse than the closure of this facility would be to continue to ask taxpayers to subsidize this facility to the tune of millions of dollars, at a time when we have no money,” said Bellone in a statement. Suffolk is facing an estimated $250 million budget gap in 2014. He has said the facility loses more than $1 million a month. During a recent unauthorized visit to Foley, I met with staff and patients who were fearfully counting their last days. A cart loaded with boxes—presumably representing a patient’s sole personal possessions—waited forlornly in the lobby by the front door. A frazzled nurse getting onto an elevator told visitors, with a sigh, he was “still hanging in

time has run out for the foley skilled nursing facility in Yaphank, which suffolk County Executive steve bellone will close by the end of June. he won’t have to worry about what happens to residents like rich phillips, shown above in 2011, who died in april. richard smith, left, remains there for now. (spencer rumsey/long island press)

there.” That man was from a contracting agency, so his job was safe for now at least, but county employees are being laid off in violation of the collective bargaining agreement, according to Legis. Kate Browning (WF-Shirley), one of the few legislators outspokenly opposing the closure. Another harried worker who was afraid of retribution told me resignedly, “Morale is horrible. We’re like walking zombies. Then 20 minutes before your shift ends, they give you a termination letter: ‘Goodbye!’” Some patients complained to Browning that they were being shown private nursing homes that smelled of urine. Others were being hustled off

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in taxis to destinations unknown or unwelcome; one was reportedly told that “you should go there because nobody else wants you.” All because the New York State health department is coming in June 18 with a mandate to expedite the closure on Bellone’s behalf. “I’m a moderate Republican,” says Kennedy, who spoke with a mixture of sadness and outrage about how Bellone has handled this facility. “There’s nothing there as far as a core set of values, a core set of beliefs, and at the end of the day, everything’s for sale.” Bellone begged to differ. “I would not support the sale of this facility nor, I am confident, would a majority of this legislature, if it was

providing a service to people who could not be served in the private sector,” he said. “I believe that is what government is here to do: those things which the private sector is unable or unwilling to do. That was not the case here. The private sector is not only fully capable of providing this service, they can do it better than we can.” Paul Sabatino, Levy’s former deputy and the former counsel for the Suffolk Legislature, doesn’t buy it. “A government service is not run to generate a surplus or a so-called profit,” he counters. Now in private practice, he filed a lawsuit on behalf of Browning, Kennedy and the nursing home’s union to block the sale. Sabatino cited the Suffolk Legislature’s independent Budget Review Office’s finding in 2012 that the county’s annual subsidy for the nursing home when occupancy is 95 percent would be between $3 million and $5 million. “All county departments and functions are subsidized by county tax dollars,” Sabatino says. “For example, the Suffolk County Police District has received $662 million from the county over the past decade but nobody seriously suggests that we’re now going to privatize and sell off that police department!” Last year Bellone announced an agreement to sell the Foley facility for $23 million to Sam and Israel Sherman, who own 13 nursing homes in New York State, including SunHarbor Manor in Roslyn. But the union objected to the sale and later rejected a compromise leasing arrangement that would have guaranteed their jobs for 18 months. So Bellone commenced the closure. On June 7, the Shermans are supposed to produce documents in court showing that the contract has been cancelled. Levy, Bellone’s predecessor, had tried to sell the facility for $36 million to private nursing home operator Kenneth Rozenberg. Before Bellone launched his campaign in 2011, he had sent Foley residents a letter expressing his “commitment to your care and well-being.” Tellingly, he added, “I have been troubled to watch as your home has been made into a political football for the advancement of political interests, while you are left in the dark about what the next COnTInueD On PAGe 24

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weeks, months and years will bring.”

a cure worse Than The dIsease

“He was going to be our savior!” says Richard R. Smith with a sardonic chuckle, waving Bellone’s letter in one hand and clutching his wheelchair with the other. The 6-foot-1 former carpenter from Shelter Island, who has severe emphysema, came to the facility in an ambulance four years ago when he weighed 98 pounds. “When I arrived here, they didn’t think I was going to last a week,” says

Smith, now 62 and 150 pounds. “This place saved my life—that’s why I’m so vehement about what’s going on.” Recently he had suffered an episode when he couldn’t breathe and his temperature was running high, but he resisted going to another hospital’s emergency room because “I know that I ain’t coming back!” The so-called “transfer trauma” that shortened Rich Phillips’ life remains a constant concern for Foley’s remaining residents. As for Bellone’s previous promise, Smith handed me a statement he’d drafted, which read, in part: “We have gone beyond [Bellone] being troubled by us

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being used as a political football and have been punted right out of the stadium.” Bellone’s Foley letter shows how far his policy has evolved. “If I am fortunate enough to be elected County Executive,” Bellone had written, “I am committed to working closely with your representatives, such as my good friend Kate Browning in the County Legislature and the Foley staff to ensure that your care is the foremost concern as we determine what actions need to be taken regarding the facility’s management.” Browning scoffs at that today. “There’s been no desire since day

“[We] have been punted right out of the stadium.” —richard r. smith, one of dozens of John J. foley skilled nursing facility patients who are being forced out.

one to work with me and John Kennedy to save the nursing home,” she says. “It cost $42 million to build and now you’re selling it for $23 million? Would you do that with your own house?!” Sabatino saw something worse than bad arithmetic in Bellone’s attempt to sell the county building to the Shermans. “There’s no element of this transaction that could withstand legal scrutiny,” he says. “It was the most corrupt I’ve seen in county government since the carleasing scandals in 1994.... Quite frankly, the Bellone administration owes a debt of gratitude to Kennedy, Browning and the union for stopping this transaction from going forward, because had it actually been consummated, my belief is that people would have wound up in jail.” Sabatino mentioned how the county had signed a contract with the Shermans on July 30 last year to sell Foley “as is,” yet got the legislature to pass a resolution on Aug. 21 that would have given the buyers $1,013,886 to “correct” any heating, plumbing or electric problems. Kennedy referred to the administration’s pledge to pay the Shermans’ costs in getting a variance from the Brookhaven Zoning Board—a favor that the county wasn’t going to extend to another bidder, according to Browning. She referred to the administration’s pressuring the legislature to change the two-thirds voting requirement so a simple majority could approve the sale of a public asset—a precedent that other counties upstate are citing to dump their nursing homes, she said. Perhaps the oddest of all, Browning said, was seeing videotape of Bellone’s top people “opening doors and sneaking” the Shermans into the H. Lee Dennison Building after the security guard at the front desk had gone for the night, presumably to meet with the county executive on the top floor. “This was a sweetheart deal,” she says, adamantly. Bellone says he’s just doing his duty to lift the burden off Suffolk taxpayers. “How do we tell working families who have lost child-care subsidies because of cuts we have made in this fiscal crisis that we will continue to spend their tax dollars to subsidize this facility?” he asks. That’s a question that Rich Phillips will never have to answer.

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The Organic Chicken’s Story By Peter Tannen

ummer is right around the corner. Time for cold beer, burgers on the grill, SPF 30 on the beach, and weekend escapes with the convertible top down. Farmers’ markets have bloomed everywhere, filled with organic foods by the bushel. But have you noticed that organic foods seem a little different this year? Suddenly, it’s no longer enough just to be labeled “organic.” Now everything organic has to come with a little story. From leaf lettuce “carefully tended by dedicated gourmet vegetarian monks,” to beef cattle “pampered by sensitive cowboys on isolated ranches in Wyoming,” the stories get more and more creative. Organic foods now compete with other organic foods for the best “back story,” to use Hollywood screenwriters’ favorite word. And even writing a menu for an organic restaurant is now an officially sanctioned academic course at some schools. Example: Do you only want a “Cobb Salad”? Or would you rather have “Fourme d’Ambert, preservative-free Applewood Smoked Bacon, Buttermilk ‘Panna Cotta’ from specially-bred Guernsey Cows, organic-certified Romaine Lettuce, Free-Range Hard Boiled Egg and Scallion Salad” on your plate? Same thing, my friends. So here’s the story of an organic chicken. We’ll call her Melinda. Melinda was hatched into a wonderful, loving family, as you might expect. And she was raised properly on a farm in Utopia, Vermont. That is, she grew up pecking away at organic corn and nine other natural grains, and she greatly enjoyed listening to Mozart’s beautiful “Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453,” which was piped into her coop. The occasional yoga class kept her flexible, fit and helped her achieve a harmonious relationship with her barnyard world.

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A good-natured, sociable chicken, Melinda learned the art of meditation from her mother, one of the first Buddhist chickens in the coop. She learned that if she led a good life, she might eventually attain chicken nirvana. But also being a down-to-Earth bird, so to speak, Melinda knew that she would probably come back to Earth several times in various incarnations. In her next life, she hoped to return as a golden retriever, after enviously watching several on the farm who seemed to be eternally happy and filled with joy at the sight of something as simple as a small yellow ball. Melinda was, of course, a freerange chicken, which gave her the comforting illusion that she could wander around without care for the rest of her natural life. She loved the wholesome grain, the gentle breeze, the sun on her beak, the stars at night and the 15,000 other young chickens with whom she shared

her cozy home. All in all, Melinda was the ideal organic chicken—with the perfect credentials to wind up in our local farmers’ market the other day: free-range, grain-fed, hormone-free, antibioticfree, relaxed, at peace with herself, and looking forward to a happy afterlife. Melinda was priced at 10.50 a pound. (Hey, good “back stories” don’t come cheap. Also note that, following the advice of marketing gurus, I didn’t use the $ sign. Research tells us that would make Melinda look too expensive.) It’s a big, organic world out there—more than $30 billion worth of organic food is now sold every year in our country. So whether you buy chemicallyfree, or non-GMO, or naturally-sedated or whatever, as the Cockneys say in London, “you pays your money and you takes your choice.” It all comes down to whose story you believe.

PeTe 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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ou can feel the steady increase of elevation on the drive up to John Boyd Thacher State Park. At the entrance, you are rewarded with a view from the top of the world—or at least New York. It’s like looking at a scenic landscape puzzle of the Hudson and Mohawk River valleys. Nothing seems real. Somewhere below is the Indian Ladder Trail, an old Native American shortcut from the top of these steep cliffs to a limestone-lined path 60 feet below. The path was used by the Schoharie Indians as a trading route, so they built actual ladders to scale the cliffs. In the 1700s, travelers from the western hills of the Schoharie Valley to the Hudson River Valley cut tall trees and leaned them against these cliffs. They trimmed back the branches and used them to climb. Early settlers called these trees Indian ladders. But these days, you won’t have to scale a 60-foot Indian Ladder, just a modern metal staircase. “Let me show you something,” says a woman behind the front desk of the information center. We go into a separate office and she points to a picture of a frozen waterfall. “This is why we can’t open the trail till May.” The picture is of a still and silent Minelot Falls, along the half-mile trail. During the winter, the waterfall freezes, creating a column of ice from top to bottom. It takes until May for it to melt down to a safe enough level for hikers to walk under. Today is opening day. It’s an easy descent down the metal staircase and soon I am surrounded by a forest, caves and a rocky landscape full of history. The limestone cliffs are the only remnants of the ancient sea that covered a good portion of New York State hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossils of the shells of sea animals can still be seen today in the limestone walls. Eventually the sea drained away and the landscape changed. Streams eroded the limestone layers, leaving behind a Tetris-like, almost pixelated surface lining one side of the dirt trail, a 700-foot deep valley filled with trees on the other.

“The limestone cliffs are the only remnants of the ancient sea that covered a good portion of New York State hundreds of millions of years ago.”

indian ladder trail, John boyd thacher state park, upstate nY

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On one corner, you actually have to crawl under jutting limestone and just around the bend narrow passageways, more like giant cracks, that lead to dark caves within the limestone. During the American Revolution a British loyalist, or Tory, hid in one of these caves and led raids on patriot farms in the valley below. The smoke from his campfire streaming through cracks in the limestone gave his hiding spot away and he was soon captured in what later was named the Tory Cave. A little farther is the cascading Minelot Falls. And even today on an 86-degree day, there are chunks of snow and ice at its bottom. A bridge crosses an underground stream flowing from the base of the cliffs. The entire trail, there and back, is only one mile so for those of us who aren’t exactly outdoorsy hikers, this is an easy foray into another world that shouldn’t take you more than an hour to complete. But as all things that go down have to come up, you will have to climb back up another metal staircase at the end of the trail. From Long Island it’s about a 3.5-hour trip to Voorheesville, just outside of Albany. Today there are only about 15 people scattered throughout the trail. Along the way there’s a group of college-age guys posing in front Minelot’s chunk of ice. They’re wearing Commack High School T-shirts.

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Summer 2013

By JacLyn gaLLuccI jgallucci@longislandpress.com

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Tanger Outlets at the Arches Deer Park saturday, June 8

Guide

summer is 93 days this year. That’s roughly 1,116 hours of daylight, 14 weekends and 28 Friday and Saturday nights. That’s a lot of time, but it goes quickly and soon, we’re already halfway to winter. But we won’t talk about that now. What we will talk about are all the things you can do for the next 93 days of summer. Splish Splash is debuting Bootlegger’s Run, a new magnetically driven water coaster, in Calverton. The flying swings at Adventureland are soaring again in Farmingdale. The patio bar is open at Miller’s Ale House in Levittown, Deer Park, and by September, in Commack. Marvel in Lido Beach is serving strawberry and pistachio swirl cones dipped in freshly melted chocolate and all of Long Island is putting Sandy in the past and rebuilding for the future. Like every summer, Long Island is the place to be, whether it’s on the North Shore, South Shore, East End or walking down Sunrise Highway in flip flops. So, without further ado, we present to you our annual summer to-do list. From outdoor concerts to farmers’ markets to celebrity meet-and-greets, we’ve got it all here in easy-to-peruse form for your planning pleasure. But, we can’t do it all. Now it’s up to you to decide what you’re going to say when someone asks, “Hey, what did you do this summer?”

Sounds Of Summer ConCert Calendar

June 1

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digifest @ Terminal 5 Kenny wayne shepard @ The Paramount aaron neville @ Westhampton Beach PAC nKoTB/98 degrees/Boyz II men @ nassau Coliseum

June 4

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June 7

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eddie money @ The Paramount governor’s Ball @ Randall’s Island Lionel richie @ Rockefeller Plaza Little mix/emblem3 @ Central Park edwin mccain @ YMCA Boulton Center ny Philharmonic @ Tilles Center rattlesnake attlesnake dawn @ Revolution

flatbush Zombies/The underachievers @ Red Hook Park

Tom Keifer @ The emporium

nYCB Theatre on June 7; Surf Lodge on June 9

Sat

erykah Badu @ Brooklyn Academy of Music Paul mccartney @ Barclays Center Big country @ The Paramount The o’Jays/morris day @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury

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woodstock revival @ Sands Point Preserve

June 10

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June 14

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June 15

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June 16

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Paul mccartney @ Barclays Center ryan cabrera/Jason castro @ The Studio at Webster Hall Less Than Jake/hostage calm/ Pentimento @ The emporium The Postelles @ Webster Hall dropkick murphys/The mahones/ old man markley @ The Paramount everclear/Live/filter/sponge @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury The heavy @ Webster Hall Big daddy Kane @ Herbert Von King Park aaron Lewis (staind) @ The emporium The noise Tour feat. marianas Trench @ Irving Plaza The casualties @ The Grand Victory northside festival @ McCarren Park Peter & Paul @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury carly rae Jepsen @ Rumsey Playfield counting crows/The wallflowers @ Pennysaver Amphitheater Black flag/good for you @ Warsaw maroon 5 @ Rockefeller Plaza northside festival @ McCarren Park

The national @ Barclays Center rakim @ Red Hook Park Patti smith @ Bowery Ballroom

willie nelson

June 8

June 9

Pitbull with Ke$ha nikon at jones Beach Theater saturday, June 1

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Black flag/good for you @ Warsaw rahat fateh ali Khan @ nassau Coliseum Tribute to Johnny cash w/Tom cavanagh @ Dix Hills PAC northside festival @ McCarren Park nKoTB/98 degrees/Boyz II men @ Barclays Center northside festival @ McCarren Park

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Joan Baez/Indigo girls @ Central Park dan croll @ Mercury Lounge The airborne Toxic event @ Central Park The B52s/The go-gos @ Roseland Ballroom wyclef Jean @ B.B. King Blues Club alesana @ Webster Hall my country 96.1 fm summer Kickoff @ Pennysaver Amphitheater LL cool J/Ice cube/Public enemy @ Roseland Ballroom rancid @ Terminal 5 say anything @ Irving Plaza mobb deep @ Best Buy Theater

Demi Lovato

Central Park friday, June 28

June 25

Bruno Mars

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dave matthews Band @ nikon at jones Beach Theater steve martin & The steep canyon rangers/edie Brickell @ Town Hall drowning Pool @ The Paramount

June 26

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June 27

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dave matthews Band @ nikon at jones Beach Theater courtney Love/starred @ Warsaw darren criss: Listen up Tour 2013 @ The Paramount

Barclays Center saturday, June 29

Tesla @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury counting crows/wallflowers @ Hammerstein Ballroom heart w/Jason Bonham @ nikon at jones Beach Theater frampton’s guitar circus w/robert cray @ Beacon Theatre Buddy guy @ B.B King Blues Club Ballyhoo!/authority Zero @ The Gramercy Theatre

June 28

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everlast @ Revolution Phillip Phillips @ Rockefeller Plaza Barrington Levy @ The Paramount drum wars @ YMCA Boulton Center

June 29

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courtney Love @ The Paramount one direction @ nikon at jones Beach Theater 4Knots music festival @ South Street Seaport Beer fields craft Beer & music festival @ Pennysaver Amphitheater garland Jeffreys @ Highline Ballroom Killcode @ Revolution Judy collins @ Stephen Talkhouse victor manuelle @ Radio City

July 2

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July 4

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Boz scaggs @ The Paramount Jenny o. @ Mercury Lounge suzanne vega @ City Winery xavier rudd @ Stephen Talkhouse

one direction @ nikon at jones Beach Theater

alesana @ Revolution high Bluff/The shipwrecks/space pace camp dropout @ The Local

June 21

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vanilla fudge @ B.B. King Blues Club John Legend @ Central Park rancid @ Terminal 5 say anything @ Irving Plaza hunter hayes @ Rockefeller Plaza The Psychedelic furs @ The Paramount Brother Joscephus & the Love revolution @ YMCA Boulton Center happy appy Together Tour w/The Turtles @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury

June 22

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June 23

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Blues Traveler @ eisenhower isenhower Park vanilla fudge @ B.B. King Blues Club fleetwood mac @ nikon at jones ones Beach Theater ra ra riot @ The Surf Lodge Patent Pending @ Revolution frampton’s guitar circus w/robert obert cray Band @ The Paramount social distortion @ Warsaw rush @ nikon at jones ones Beach Theater

Meet & Greet Celebrity appearanCeS

Tom clavin lavin (journalist) @ Westhampton Library – june 1 Bill o’reilly eilly & dennis miller m @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury – june 1 chris stewart tewart (nY Yankees) @ DaVinci Gourmet, Franklin Square – june 1 david wilson ilson (new York Giants) @ Cow Over the Moon – june 2 dolph olph Ziggler & aJ Lee (WWe) (WW @ Steiner Sports – june 2 steve shirripa hirripa (The Sopranos) Sopranos @ Book Revue – june 3 Il volo v @ Barnes & noble 18th St., Manhattan – june 4 ralph nader ader @ Barnes & noble e. 17th St., Manhattan – june 5 matthew atthew morrison (Glee) (Glee @ Barnes & noble Warren Street, Manhattan – june 5 dwight wight gooden (MLB) @ Book Revue – june 6; Bryant Park Reading Room – july 17 craig carton (Boomer & Carton) Carton @ Book Revue – june 7 vanessa marcil & Ingo rademacher (General Hospital) @ Brokerage – june 8 vanessa stephane tephane matteau (nY Rangers) @ Cow Over the Moon – june 9 earl arl “The Pearl” monroe (nBA) @ Barnes & noble 5th Avenue, Manhattan – june 12 robert obert hansen (Psychic Medium) @ McGuire’s – june 12 darlene arlene Love (Singer/Actress) @ Barnes & noble Warren St., Manhattan – june 17 ed hardy (Tattoo Artist) @ Barnes & noble Tribeca – june 18 e ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (The Roots) @ Barnes & noble union Square – june 19 a Lisa g. (Howard Stern Show) Show @ Book Revue – june 26 aisha a Tyler (The Talk) Talk @ Bryant Park Reading Room – july 10 r.L. r stine (Author) @ Barnes & noble union Square – july 10 ron r hunt (former nY Mets) @ Barnes & noble, Bell Blvd., Bayside – july 14 corey c Taylor (Slipknot) @ Book Revue – july 17 Linda fairstein f (Author) @ Barnes & noble 86th St – july 30 Kennedy (former MTV Vj) V @ Bryant Park Reading Room – August 14

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July 5

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my country 96.1 fm freedom fest @ Pennysaver Amphitheater John mayer @ Rockefeller Plaza Imagine dragons @ Rumsey Playfield marc Broussard @ Stephen Talkhouse 10,000 maniacs @ City Winery Bennie & The Jets: a Tribute to elton John @ Dix Hills PAC

July 6

She & Him Central Park

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saturday, July 6

Sat

freestyle explosion 2013 w/ expose @ Pennysaver Amphitheater deana martin @ Dix Hills PAC frankie avalon @ eisenhower Park oldies Boat cruise dance Party @ Starstreamer VIII, Freeport 10,000 maniacs @ City Winery shawn colvin @ Stephen Talkhouse Liza minnelli @ Westhampton Beach PAC

July 10

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July 11

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July 12

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cyndi Lauper @ Beacon Theatre suzanne vega @ City Winery Belle & sebastian @ Prospect Park further @ Barclays Center fuel/LIT/hoobastank/alien ant farm @ The Paramount dave mason @ Stephen Talkhouse

Polo at the Park @ Bethpage state Park, every Sunday. Through Oct. 13

ed sheeran Rockefeller Plaza streetlight manifesto @ The Paramount The offseason @ Vibe Lounge one republic @ Rumsey Playfield adler @ Revolution Phish @ nikon at jones Beach Theater melissa etheridge @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury Buckwheat Zydeco @ YMCA Boulton Center war @ Crotona Park

July 13

Sat

vans warped Tour @ nassau Coliseum hot chelle rae @ Tanger Outlets at the Arches Deer Park hippiefest @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury don mcLean & Judy collins @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury gin wigmore @ nassau Coliseum Lorrie morgan @ eisenhower Park rick springfield @ The Paramount Ian hunter & The rant Band @ Stephen Talkhouse Lyle Lovett & his acoustic group @ Tilles Center unity Tour feat. cypress hill/311/ special sauce @ nikon at jones Beach Theater

July 14

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July 17

wed

sublime/rome @ nikon at jones Beach Theater good rats @ Hoyt Farm Park Preserve The specials @ Hudson River Park daughtry/3 doors down @ nikon at jones Beach Theater

Special Events

The Peony Path @ sagtikos manor, A private tour of the Manor’s walled garden filled with history, art and horticulture. June 2 marathon reading of song of myself @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, Marathon reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” led by nYu Professor Karen Karbiener in full view of Whitman’s beloved Mannahatta. June 2 wwe smackdown @ nassau coliseum, Shut off your TV and head over to uniondale where your favorite wrestling stars go head to head in the ring live with no commercials! June 4 LI native Plant sale @ suffolk county community college eastern campus, All plants are produced from seed collected from native plant populations across Long Island like new england Aster and LI’s only native cactus. June 7, 8, 14 & 15 united Ink: summer vibe Tattoo festival @ nassau coliseum, A unique trip into the tattoo and body art lifestyle, music and culture with artists all over the world, piercing and body modification, art, clothing, jewelry, pole dancing and contests. June 7-9 LI Pride Parade & Pridefest @ huntington village, Marchers and floats, tens of thousands of people, and all-star entertainment with Debbie Gibson and others all day long. This year’s theme is Super Pride, celebrating the super heroes of equality. June 8 Belmont stakes @ Belmont Park racetrack, There’s plenty to do at Belmont aside from watching the races—tram rides through the stables, breakfast and kids festivals. But

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X Factor Live @ nassau coliseum join Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland, and Paulina Rubio in the studio audience for a live, free taping of X Factor hosted by Mario Lopez. You will be the very first to see the new season and the new celebrity judges. June 19-21

it all comes down to this 1.5-mile thoroughbred race. June 8 nassau helping nassau concert @ eisenhower Park, A concert for Hurricane Sandy victims with Big Shot, Michael DelGuidice, That ’70s Band and more. August 25-Sept. 1 3rd annual Burger Battle @ smokey Bones Bar & fire grill, nassau County Sheriff’s Department vs. Farmingville Fire Department. A timed relay eating contest for a chance to be crowned Burger Battle Champion. Winners compete for national title. June 19 sousa festival @ Patchogue Theatre, The Atlantic Community Band performs a free concert of Sousa Marches, parade favorites, and Broadway showtunes in front of the theatre before, during, and after the july 4th parade where john Philip Sousa played live in 1923 and 1924. July 4 Bark In The Park @ Bethpage Ballpark, Bring your pooch out to the Duck Pond for the first time. Purchase a “Pooch Pass” which includes a game ticket in special seating at the ballpark and admission for your dog. July 5 grillhampton @ sayre Park, east end chefs battle against nYC chefs

in a contest with a panel of celebrity judges including editor Kate Krader and restaurateur jeffrey Chodorow. July 12 LI International film fest @ Bellmore movies, Screenings, panel discussions and events which hosts filmmakers and an arsenal of short and feature-length independent films. July 17-25 around LI regatta race @ rockaway Point, 190-mile race to Montauk ending at Hempstead Harbor. July 25-28 hong Kong dragon Boat festival @ flushing meadows Park, More than 100 colorful boats race through the waters with activities throughout the park. August 10 & 11 artists & writers game @ herrick Park, Celebs play softball for charity in east Hampton. August 25-Sept. 1 Pay-To-get-out horror marathon @ cinema arts centre, A showing of five hardcore classic horror films with vintage horror trailers until dawn. It’s $25 if you survive the night—and $35 to escape before the end. August 24 The hampton classic @ hampton classic grounds, One of the largest outdoor horse show in the u.S. hits the Hamptons. August 25-Sept. 1

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July 18

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July 19

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summer Break Tour w/Big Time rush & victoria Justice @ nikon at jones Beach Theater alice cooper @ Beacon Theatre The specials @ The Paramount cody simpson @ Best Buy Theater Lil wayne/T.I./2 chainz @ nikon at jones Beach Theater great south Bay music festival @ ShoreFront Park america’s most wanted festival w/Lil wayne @ nikon at jones Beach Theater Justin Timberlake/Jay-Z @ Yankee Stadium fall out Boy @ Rockefeller Plaza Jennifer Lopez @ Central Park The monkees @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury all stars Tour feat. every Time I die/ IwrestledaBearonce/chelsea grin & more @ The Paramount

July 20

Sat

great south Bay music festival @ ShoreFront Park Jonas Brothers @ nikon at jones Beach Theater Justin Timberlake/Jay-Z @ Yankee Stadium martin sexton @ Stephen Talkhouse emmylou harris/rodney crowell @ Westhampton Beach PAC neil sedaka @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury

July 21

Sun

great south Bay music festival @ ShoreFront Park Blake shelton @ nikon at jones Beach Theater dave wakeling/The english Beat @ Stephen Talkhouse

July 22

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fun./Tegan & sara @ Hudson River Park

July 23

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fun./Tegan & sara @ Hudson River Park Train/The script/gavin degraw @ nikon at jones Beach Theater

July 24

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new order @ Williamsburg Park Pod/flyleaf @ Highline Ballroom The Lemonheads @ Knitting Factory

July 25

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Keyshia cole & friends @ Paradise Theater Imagine dragons @ nikon at jones Beach Theater Paul weller @ Apollo Theater

July 26

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The gaslight anthem @ Hudson River Park Train @ Rockefeller Plaza selena gomez @ Rumsey Playfield Paul weller @ Webster Hall dr. K’s motown revue & disco unlimited @ eisenhower Park

July 27

Sat

mary chapin carpenter & the marc cohn Trio @ Tilles Center rock the Blues summer Jam @ The Paramount Paul weller @ Music Hall of Williamsburg sinead o’connor @ Alice Tully Hall Buster Poindexter @ Stephen Talkhouse

Love The Nightlife

weekly partieS all Summer lonG everyone else 9 p.m.-midnight. invites you for Friday Corporate Happy Sundays Hour from 5-7 p.m., featuring passed open mic night @ The nutty Irishman sunday funday @ Tropix, Food, drinks and fun on the nautical Mile. Cabana rentals available. sIn (service Industry night) @ vibe Lounge, enjoy 50 percent off all drinks between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. steel Brunch Beach Party @ dublin deck sandbox sundays @ Pop’s seafood shack & grill Live music starts at 3 p.m. sunday funday @ flynn’s fire island The party starts at 3 p.m. with happy hour and drink specials. sundays @ The Boardy Barn, All day and night weekend summer party. sunday night funnies @ governor’s, Brokerage & mcguire’s comedy clubs, The best in stand-up comedy. Live music/free curry Buffet @ velvet Lounge, 9 p.m. no cover.

mondays cruel summer @ The Leaky Lifeboat Inn, ’80s theme night and drink specials, no cover. Karaoke mondays @ napper Tandy’s northport martini mondays @ changing Times Pub farmingdale, Half-price martinis, cosmos included wing night @ mccann’s, dozen wings for $5, $9 pitchers of Coors, drink specials. out of the weeds @ mulcahy’s, LI’s biggest Monday night summer party with VIP bottle service area and worldrenowned Djs. open mic @ vibe Lounge, 2fers between 9 & 10 p.m. mystery mondays @ changing Times Bay shore, Spin the wheel from 7 p.m. till close for different food and drink specials. employee night @ dublin deck Live acoustic music @ velvet Lounge, 9 p.m., no cover. Industry night @ four food studio, Bottle service reservations required. Special guest Dj in the lounge.

tuesdays country night @ The nutty Irishman farmingdale, $4 Pickleback shots, $3 jack Daniels shots, Coors Banquet Cans & PBR cans; live music. $4 Tapps & apps @ napper Tandy’s smithtown, $4 special on draft beer. reggae Beach Party @ dublin deck mexican night @ Lily flanagan’s Karaoke Tuesdays @ napper Tandy’s Miller Place, 2-fers at the bar. Beer club night @ The Lark, $1 off all beers for Beer Club Members, 25 percent off all beers for all Gold Club members, $1 off all pizzas and apps for

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Bay shore, $3 pints, hosted by Steve from That ’70s Band.

wednesdays hump day hoedown @ dublin deck half Price wine night @ honu country night @ The nutty Irishman Bay shore, With My Country 96.1 FM. Trivia night @ The nutty Irishman farmingdale, 8-10 p.m. $1 Bud mugs. Win cash prizes. all the wings u can handle @ napper Tandy’s northport, smithtown & miller Place Live music wednesdays @ Lily flanagan’s, 6-9 p.m. open mic @ velvet Lounge, Brooklyn Brewery taps on special all night. no cover 8-10 p.m. for $13.

thursdays Tropical Thursdays @ view, Live reggae with a waterfront view; Heineken & Bacardi specials, outdoor dining & docking. Ladies night dance Thursdays @ Tropix, Classics from the ’70s- ’90s and half-priced drinks for ladies from 6-9 p.m. on the nautical Mile.

hors d’oeuvres and $5 drinks. Call ahead and register eight or more people and the first round of drinks is free. $3 for all fridays @ The nutty Irishman Bay shore, 3fers on Miller Lites, 9 p.m.-midnight; $3 Captain Morgan or Malibu drinks; $3 jameson shots. Bang the Buds @ The nutty Irishman Bay shore, $1 Bud bottles & $1 shots 9 p.m.-midnight. girls night out @ napper Tandy’s northport, Free admission for ladies. $4 bomb shots, Stoli drinks for everyone; $5 Coors Light for everyone. Ladies night @ napper Tandy’s miller Place, $1 drinks for ladies, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; 2 for $5 Miller Lite bottles, 10 p.m.-midnight for everyone; $3 Pinnacle bombs all night; half-price apps, midnight till close. Dj dance party 10 p.m.-4 a.m. dueling Pianos @ mulcahy’s, 6 p.m.; 2 for 1 bottled beer and drinks 3-8 p.m. girls night out @ middle country Beer garden, Ladies drink free from 9 p.m.-midnight. ½ Price fridays @ mcfadden’s, Got $5? Get a wristband before 11 p.m. for half-price drinks all night long.

rock, Paper, scissors Tourney @ The cortland

on the rocks @ vibe Lounge, Drink special $10; $4 imports, $5 mixed drinks, reduced top shelf.

open mic night @ mr. Beery’s

ultimate happy hour @ dublin deck

Ladies night @ The nutty Irishman Bay shore, Ladies drink free. $2 Bud Light Bottles, 9 p.m.-midnight. With Dj Chris Kenny.

happy hour @ Lily flanagan’s, 3-7 pm., free buffet.

gQ Thursdays @ wall street, Dj dance party.

Saturdays

Ladies night @ mcfadden’s, Ladies drink free every Thursday. 2fers Thursdays @ The nutty Irishman Farmingdale, 2fers on everything from 9 p.m.-midnight. $4 Taps & apps @ napper Tandy’s Miller Place, $4 special on draft beer. Ladies night rock house @ vibe Lounge, Between 10 p.m. & 11 p.m.; no cover before midnight. Ladies night/dJ/drink specials @ velvet Lounge Ladies night/happy hour @ honu, Half-price small plates from 8-10 p.m.; $6 signature cocktails from 8 p.m.midnight. $5 drinks from 5-7 p.m. for all.

fridays happy hour & Beach Party @ Pop’s seafood shack & grill friday night dance Party @ wall street corporate happy hour @ four food studio, LI’s biggest indoor and outdoor happy hour with half-price drinks from 4-8 p.m. Top 40 Dj mix spun live. corporate happy hour @ honu, Honu

friday nights @ Tropix, With live Djs on the nautical Mile.

Karma @ vibe Lounge, You and five friends enjoy Top 40 dance party. no cover before 1 a.m. with VIP print. saturday night dance Party @ The emporium Tropical saturdays @ Havana Central saturday night dance Party @ The nutty Irishman Bay shore & farmingdale absolutely saturdays @ napper Tandy’s northport, $4 Absolut drinks; $4 Heineken Lights. southbar saturdays @ mulcahy’s, Dj, $3 Bud light bottles and Rail drinks. Party rock saturdays @ middle country Beer garden, 2-fers all night for ladies. all night Long saturdays @ mcfadden’s, $3 u-Call-It shots all night long. Free shots for the bar every time they play a Lionel Richie song. I heart Latin saturdays @ wall street heineken concert series @ dublin deck

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Beer & Wine

family friendly food & Live music @ Corey Creek Vineyards Mondays & Tuesdays wine, cheese, Trivia @ Bella Vino Wine Bar Thursdays saturday Jazz/cabaret & wine @ Castello di Borghese Saturdays Live music @ Sherwood House Vineyards Tasting House Saturdays Live music @ jason’s Vineyard & Clovis Point Saturdays & Sundays winery & Barrel cellar Tour @ Shinn estate Vineyards Saturdays & Sundays vIP vine to wine Tours @ Sannino Bella Vita Saturdays & Sundays a Taste of summer @ Old Bethpage Village Fairgrounds Barn June 2 merlot confidential: a Tasting of as-yet unreleased east end reds @ Raphael June 7 winemaker Tasting series: one woman winery @ empire State Cellars June 8 great wine & hilarious comedy @ Osprey’s Dominion Vineyards June 8 5th annual LI Beer, wine & food Tasting @ The Bellport Country Club June 13 LI wine country adventure @ Multiple Locations (Call 866-946-3268 to sign up) June 15 summertime in the vineyard & crafters @ Palmer Vineyards June 22 east end uncorked @ Parrish Art Museum June 22 Jazz summer concert series @ Raphael Vineyard June 23, July 28, August 18 & Sept. 8 winemaker for a day @ Sannino Bella Vita Vineyard June 23 Local Beer dinner @ Roots Bistro Gourmand June 25 Peconic star wine cruise @ Multiple Locations (Call 631-734-7537 to sign up) June 28 mostly merlot @ Sherwood House Vineyard Tasting Room July 12 Taste of Two forks @ Sayre’s Park July 13 Taste LI wine cruise & Lobster Bake @ LI Aquarium July 25 & August 8 vine university @ Waters Crest Winery August 7 & 8 north fork craft Beer, BBQ & wine festival @ Martha Clara Vineyards August 10 meteor showers & wine @ Sherwood House Vineyard Tasting Room August 12 winemakers’ smackdown @ Roanoke Vineyards August 17 vineyard walk @ Bedell Cellars August 18 Bellport rotary’s Beer & wine Tasting @ The Bellport Country Club August 22 harvest east end @ McCall Vineyard & yoga in the vineyard @ Clovis Point August 24 Taste LI wine cruise & Lobster Bake @ LI Aquarium August 29

ronnie earl @ YMCA Boulton Center americanarama festival feat. Bob dylan/wilco/Beck @ nikon at jones Beach Theater a disco night to remember w/ disco unlimited @ Dix Hills PAC

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michael Buble @ Rockefeller Plaza Loudon wainwright III @ Stephen Talkhouse Kenny chesney @ Rumsey Playfield The Blues Brothers feat. dan akroyd & Jim Belushi @ The Paramount Ladies of disco w/maxine nightingale & Bonnie Pointer @ eisenhower Park female artists of motown w/ reflections @ Dix Hills PAC nick Lowe @ YMCA Boulton Center Ted nugent @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury

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Jimmy Buffett @ nikon at jones Beach Theater Bobby mcferrin @ Rumsey Playfield regeneration Tour 2013: andy Bell @ The Paramount Jimmy Buffett @ nikon at jones Beach Theater rita rudner @ Westhampton Beach PAC The cult @ Roseland Ballroom one direction @ Rockefeller Plaza The wanted @ Central Park glenn Tilbrook @ Stephen Talkhouse fred Parris/The five satins @ eisenhower Park amy grant @ Roseland Ballroom freestyle Blast Boat cruise @ Starstreamer VIII, Freeport cheap Trick @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury

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Lewis Black @ Westhampton Beach PAC Toni Braxton @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury

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grand central Terminal: 100 years of a new york Landmark @ Quogue Library June 2

Talk & guided hike of nassausuffolk greenbelt Trail @ Cold Spring Harbor Library June 15

Living, out Loud: writers riff on gatsby’s Long Island @ Connetquot Love, sweat & fears @ nassau County Public Library June 19 Museum of Art June 2 how Jews came to southampton @ It doesn’t have to be This way! Rogers Mansion June 20 discussion w/occupy huntington @ Kings Park Psych center: history & Huntington Senior Citizen Center June 4 Legacy @ Cinema Arts Centre June 23 Looking Through a glass onion: deconstructing the Beatles’ white album @ Cinema Arts Centre June 6

untangling dementia: Latest research & Treatments @ Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory June 25

we steal secrets: The story of aviation on Long Island @ Mattituckwikileaks @ Cinema Arts Centre Opens Laurel Historical Society & Museum June 7 June 25 rockefeller & moses & The Bridge The reality of alien Life @ eyes of That never was @ LIu Hutton House Learning July 12 June 7 george washington’s ny @ LIu Hutton alternative medicine: sense & House July 17 nonsense @ Cold Spring Harbor Laborasupreme court: year in review @ LIu tory June 8 Hutton House July 23 growing farmers: film screening & conversation @ Cutchogue new Suffolk The montauk Project & the hidden secrets of the romanian sphinx @ Free Library June 8 eyes of Learning July 26 carl fisher & the development of running for congress in nassau montauk @ Rogers Mansion June 13 county @ LIu Hutton House August 8 Picasso & his women @ Art League of free speech & The constitution @ Long Island June 14 LIu Hutton House August 14 The worldwide rise of Political The current condition of the religion: where will It end? @ LIu carmans river @ Bellport-Brookhaven Hutton House June 14 Historical Society Sept. 22

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Jay mohr (Fox Sports) @ Governor’s June 5 & 6 @ Westhampton Beach PAC June 9 Joey Kola (Martha Stewart Show) @ Governor’s June 7 steve rannazzisi (The League) @ McGuire’s June 7 @ Governor’s June 8 carl Labove @ McGuire’s June 8 Jim Breuer @ Governor’s June 13-15 Ted alexandro (Comedy Central) @ McGuire’s June 14 & 15 Long Island comedy fest @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury June 15 road rage comedy Tour @ The emporium June 16 3rd annual all-star comedy showcase @ Bay Street Theatre June 17 don rickles/regis Philbin @ nYCB Theatre at Westbury June 22 Kathy griffin @ Westhampton Beach PAC June 22 steve rannazzisi (The League) @ Governor’s June 8 all-female comedienne show @ Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center June 23 The Italian chicks! @ Landmark on Main Street June 28 nick diPaolo @ Brokerage June 29 upright citizens Brigade Touring company @ Guild Hall June 29 ron white: a Little unprofessional Tour @ Westhampton Beach PAC June 30 fully committed: Beck mode’s one-Person comedy @ Guild Hall July 2 Long Island comedy fest @ Theatre Three July 5 & 6 chris monty @ Governor’s July 5 & 6 The magic & comedy of Jim mcclenahan @ Seamans neck Park, Seaford July 12 Tom cotter (Last Comic Standing) @ Governor’s July 12 & 13 steve white (Def Comedy Jam) @ McGuire’s July 12 & 13 Jackie “The Joke man” martling @ Brokerage July 13 The magic & comedy of Jim mcclenahan @ Rath Park, Franklin Square July 15 Jessica Kirson (Last Comic Standing) @ Governor’s July 17 gilbert gottfried @ McGuire’s July 20 Bob saget @ Music Hall of Williamsburg July 20 John valby “doctor dirty” @ McGuire’s July 27 The hilarious comedy of uncle floyd @ Dix Hills PAC August 10 fully committed: Beck mode’s one-Person comedy @ Guild Hall August 13 custer comedy series: harry freedman @ Custer Observatory August 17 Paula Poundstone @ Bay Street Theatre August 19 comedy: The whisper feat. Jennifer Tilly @ Guild Hall August 22 rita rudner: The Queen of clever one-Liners @ Westhampton Beach PAC August 22 Long Island comedy fest @ Theatre Three August 23 & 24

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Family Events

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Westhampton Beach PAC, using the human body as a medium for expression, these superhuman artist/athletes draw influence from vaudeville and acrobatics to create an ever-expanding body of work, keeping with its biological namesake—a sun-loving fungus. August 24 family sundays @ nassau County Museum of Art, Supervised art activities for kids and the adults in their lives—family gallery talks, guides and hands-on art making. Every Sunday during exhibitions

Independence day celebration @ Old Bethpage Village Restoration July 4

Breakfast at Belmont @ Belmont Racetrack, Ongoing (Weekends only)

Independence week state fair! @ Belmont Racetrack, Tubs of Fun Ride; State Fair Bounce Inflatable; Face Painters; Temporary Tattooists; Carnival Games July 7

ssssserpent symphonies @ jungle Bob’s Reptile World, June 2 father’s day craft fair @ Hallockville Museum Farm June 8 Junior angler catch & release Tournament @ Caleb Smith State Park Preserve June 15 father’s day celebration @ Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery June 16 happy father’s day! @ Belmont Racetrack, extreme Rock Wall; Pony Scavenger Hunt; Inflatable Sports Obstacle Course June 16 family adventures: moonlight hike @ Bayard Cutting Arboretum June 21 acrobats of cirque-Tacular @ Staller Center, Heart-stopping, mind-boggling displays of artistry and athleticism by aerialists, contortionists, illusionists and world record holders. June 23 nyra meets nasa! @ Belmont Racetrack, Inflatable Alien Laser Tag; Galaxy explorer Inflatable; Petting Zoo; Strolling Magician June 23 catch a Kite @ LICM June 26 27th annual Jell-o slide @ Huntington Hilton, Slide into 1,500 gallons of gelatin and get hosed off by the fire department. June 28 crayon Tour @ Old Westbury Gardens June 29 Join the circus! @ Belmont Racetrack, A 3-Ring Circus obstacle course, petting zoo, strolling performers, carnival games, instant win candy, karaoke and family fun all day. June 30

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Jackson Pollock family workshops @ Pollock Krasner House July 5 gator feeding @ jungle Bob’s July 5

Puppets Take Long Island festival @ Cradle of Aviation, July 8-August 31 sleep over with the sharks @ LI Aquarium July 9 midsummer Party @ Parrish Art Museum, Watermill July 13 Light Keepers Behind the scenes Tour @ Fire Island Lighthouse, Follow one of the present day Lighthouse Keepers on his rounds. July 13 family fun day @ Brookhaven national Laboratory Building July 14 summer family yoga @ Sands Point Preserve July 14 Ice cream social @ Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium July 20 Kids meet Kids @ Catapano Dairy Farm, Peconic July 20 Brilliant Light, dazzling discoveries @ Brookhaven Lab, Tour the national synchrotron light source. July 21

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Zoppe: an Italian family circus @ Westhampton Beach PAC, Starring nino the clown and featuring acrobatic feats, equestrian showmanship, canine capers, and plenty of audience participation, this enchanting one ring circus is a sight right out of the picture books! July 25-28 41st annual Kite fly @ Sagg Main Beach, Sagaponack August 4 atom-smashing fun @ Brookhaven Lab, Visit the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. August 4 grease singalong @ Boulton Center, Sing along to the great movie musical, complete with on-screen lyrics and costume contest. August 15

fireworks by Grucci Brookhaven annual fair at Bald hill @ Bald Hill, Farmingville June 1 Brookhaven annual fair at Bald hill @ Bald Hill, Farmingville June 8 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by nyIT @ Bethpage Ballpark June 8 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by nycB @ Bethpage Ballpark June 22 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by The rinx @ Bethpage Ballpark July 2 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by atlantic hyundai @ Bethpage Ballpark July 3 stars over montauk July 4th fireworks @ umbrella Beach, Montauk July 4 city of glen cove 2013 Independence day celebration @ Morgan Park July 4 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by atlantic honda @ Bethpage Ballpark July 4 star spangled Blast at Bald hill @ Pennysaver Amphitheater July 4 southampton fresh air home 26th annual american Picnic @ Southampton July 5 sea faire festival @ Captain’s Coveat Sunset Park July 6 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by Bethpage federal credit union @ Bethpage Ballpark July 20 Terryville fire department festival @ Terryville July 27 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by uncle giuseppe’s marketplace @ Bethpage Ballpark, July 30 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by northrop grumman @ Bethpage Ballpark August 3 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by atlantic nissan @ Bethpage Ballpark August 17 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by huntington honda @ Bethpage Ballpark August 23 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by flushing Bank @ Bethpage Ballpark September 7 Long Island ducks fireworks presented by north shore LIJ Imaging @ Bethpage Ballpark, September 9 a fuLL dIrecTory of aLL venue addresses and InformaTIon can Be found on Page 56

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Fairs & Festivals seafood festival @ Sunken Meadow Boardwalk, every Wednesday evening. Through August greek festival @ Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Hempstead Through June 2 Babylon village arts & music festival & sidewalk sale @ Babylon Village June 1 & 2 spring fling arts & music festival @ Babylon Village June 1 & 2 art in the Park @ Heckscher Park, Huntington June 1 & 2 gottscheer festival @ Plattduetsche Park Restaurant June 2 smithtown festival day @ Main Street, Smithtown June 2 sheep shearing festival @ Sherwood jayne Farm June 2 hicksville health fair & spring festival @ Kennedy Memorial Park June 2 harborfest dock day @ Port Washington Dock June 2 Indian-american night @ eisenhower Park June 2 st. gertrudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parish feast @ Center Island Beach, Bayville June 5-9 garden city Belmont festival @ Seventh Street, Garden City June 7 mineola Portuguese center annual feast @ Wilson Park June 7 & 8 greek village festival @ Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Resurrection, Brookville June 7-9

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americana fair @ Islip Grange, Sayville June 8

heritage fair @ Amityville Historical Society, Amityville June 8 country fair @ Caroline Church, Setauket June 8 huckleberry frolic @ Woods & Atlantic Avenues, east Rockaway June 8 street fair @ Main Street, east Rockaway June 9 LI Kosher BBQ competition & food festival @ Temple Beth Torah, Westbury June 9 arts festival by the Bay @ Bay Shore June 9 floral Park Belmont festival @ Floral Park Village June 9 russian-american night @ eisenhower Park June 13 eisenhower Park family festival @ eisenhower Park June 13-16 Kings Park day street fair @ Main Street, Kings Park June 15 Port Jeff green fest @ Port jeff Village June 15

Strawberry Festivals

nassau county strawberry festival @ newbridge Road, north Bellmore Through June 2 strawberry festival @ Our Lady of Grace Church, West Babylon June 2 strawberry festival @ Trinity Lutheran Church, Rocky Point June 8 strawberry trawberry festival @ Our Lady of Consolation, West Islip June 8 strawberry trawberry fair weekend @ Bennerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm, east ast Setauket June 8 & 9 mattituck attituck Lions club strawberry festival @ Strawberry Fields, Mattituck June 13-16 strawberry trawberry festival @ Historical Society of the Massapequas, Massapequa June 15 strawberry trawberry festival @ Yaphank Presbyterian Church, Yaphank June 15 strawberry trawberry festival & yard sale @ St. Thomas of Canterbury, Smithtown June 15

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caribbean festival night @ eisenhower Park, east Meadow June 15

Pet fest @ Bridgehampton Historical Society Museum Grounds June 29

sweet corn festival @ Harbes Farm & Vineyard July 13 & 14

sayville summerfest @ Main Street, Sayville August 2-4

Pirate festival @ Long Island Maritime Museum June 15 & 16

celebrate america fireworks & show @ eisenhower Park June 29

Latino-american night @ eisenhower Park July 14

street fair @ Park Boulevard and Front Street, Massapequa Park August 3 & 4

father’s day farm fest @ Harbes Farm & Vineyard June 15 & 16

street fair @ Atlantic Avenue, Lynbrook June 30

fireman’s fair @ Stimson School, Huntington Station July 16-20

summer fair @ Briarcliffe College, Bethpage August 8-10

family festival @ Saints Philip & james Parish June 20-23

african-american night @ eisenhower Park June 30

family festival @ St. Rose of Lima, Massapequa July 18-27

rockville centre chamber of commerce car show & street fair @ Village Avenue, Rockville Centre June 23

LI sound & art festival @ Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium June 30

great south Bay music festival @ Shorefront Park, Patchogue July 19-21

north fork craft Beer, BBQ & wine festival @ Martha Clara Vineyards August 10

Italian-american night @ eisenhower Park June 24

family festival @ St. William the Abbot, Seaford July 10-14 mattituck chamber of commerce street fair @ Mattituck July 13

deepwells farm festival @ Deepwells Farm County Park, St. james July 20 & 21

Lobsterpalooza @ LI Maritime Museum June 25 family festival @ Trinity Regional School, east northport June 26-30

Plattduetsche volksfest @ Plattduetsche Park Restaurant July 13 & 14

southampton Kiwanis club carnival @ Sayre Park, Bridgehampton July 24-28 children’s day of fun & music @ eisenhower Park July 28

watermelon festival @ Harbes Farm & Vineyard August 10 & 11 eisenhower Park summer festival @ eisenhower Park, east Meadow August 10 & 11 Parish festival @ Holy Family Church, Hicksville August 14-17 holbrook carnival @ Seneca Middle School, Holbrook August 15-18 Long Island Bluegrass festival @ Tanner Park August 17 Polish Town street fair & Polka festival @ Pulaski Street, Riverhead August 17 & 18 greek festival @ Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption, Port jefferson August 22-25 LI scottish festival & highland games @ Old Westbury Gardens August 24 seafood festival @ Long Island Maritime Museum August 24 & 25 riverhead railroad festival @ Railroad Museum of LI August 24 & 25 Blue claw crab festival @ Mastic Beach Marina August 25 shinnecock Powwow @ Shinnecock Reservation August 30–Sept. 2 street fair @ Hawkins Avenue, Ronkonkoma September 1 east northport festival @ john Walsh Park, east northport September 6-8 nesconset day street fair @ nesconset Plaza, nesconset September 8 american music festival @ Port jeff Village September 13-15 Long Island family festival @ Tanner Park, Copiague September 13-15 Bayville waterside festival @ Charles e. Ransom Beach, Bayville September 14 & 15 Italian experience festival @ Hofstra university, Hempstead September 15 family street festival @ Bellmore LIRR September 19-22 harvest & seafood festival @ Captree State Park, West Islip September 21 & 22 street fair @ nassau Boulevard, Garden City South September 22 Long Island fair @ Old Bethpage Village Restoration September 20-29 Kite festival @ Long Island Maritime Museum September 21 Long Island garlic festival @ Garden of eve September 21 & 22 family festival by the sea @ Lido Beach September 28 & 29 street fair @ Merrick Avenue, Merrick September 28 & 29

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Farmers’ Markets amityville village: 9/11 Memorial Park, Route 110. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Opens july 6

new hyde Park: 1441 jericho Tpke. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Opens in june

Baldwin: American Legion Hall, 2754 Grand Ave. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Oct. 26

northport: St. Paul’s, 27 Main St. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Aug. 31

deer Park: Tanger Outlets at the Arches. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through nov. 23

oyster Bay: 54 Audrey Ave. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through nov. 16.

east hampton: nick & Toni’s lot, 136 n. Main St. Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Sept. 27 elmont: Belmont Park, 2150 Hempstead Tpke. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. garden city: 101 County Seat Dr., Supreme Court Building Lot. Tuesdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. june 4-nov. 26

Patchogue: 7-11 Lot, 225 e. Main St. Fridays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. july 5 –nov. 15 Port Jefferson: Corner of Route 25A & Route 112, Steam Room Parking Lot. Thursdays, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. july 4-Oct. 17 Port washington: Town Dock, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon. Through October

glen cove: 18 Village Square. Fridays, 9 a.m.-noon. june 14–nov. 22

riverhead: Town lot next to Aquarium at Peconic River. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. july 11-Oct. 24

greenport: 1st St Lot of united Methodist Church. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Oct. 12

rockville centre: Sunrise Highway & Long Beach Road. Sundays, 7 a.m.noon. june 2-nov. 24

hauppauge: TFCu Parking Lot, 102 Motor Pkwy. Thursdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. june 6-Aug. 29

roslyn-north hills: Christopher Morley Park, Searingtown Road. Wednesdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. june 5-nov. 27

hewlett: Grant Park, Fridays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Through nov. 15 holtsville: 700 Furrows Rd. Fridays & Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Oct. 31 huntington: Route 25A, east of Route 110. Sundays, 7 a.m.-noon. june 2-nov. 24 huntington: jack Abrams School, 155 Lowndes Ave. Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Oct. 27 Islip: Town Hall Lot, Montauk Highway. Saturdays, 7 a.m.-noon. Through nov. 23 Kings Park: Main Street, across from Fire Department. Sundays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Through november. Locust valley: 115 Forest Ave. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Through nov. 16 Long Beach: Kennedy Plaza, Park Avenue. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Through nov. 16

sag harbor: Breakwater Yacht Club lot, Bay & Burke streets. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Oct. 26 sayville: Broadway & Main Street. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. seaford: Railroad Street, LIRR Lot @ Washington Avenue. Saturdays, 7 a.m.noon. Through nov. 23 stony Brook: Ward Melville Heritage Org., Main Street. WednesdaysSaturdays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Through Oct. 31 southampton: 25 jobs Lane. Sundays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 26-Oct. 13 valley stream: Franklin Hospital, 900 Franklin Ave. Thursdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Oct. 31 westhampton Beach: 85 Mill Rd., next to Historical Society. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through nov. 16

Long Beach: Parking lot of the Alamitos Bay Marina on east Marina Dr. Sundays, 9 a.m. Through Oct. 31 massapequa: West Field Mall, Sunrise Highway. Saturdays. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Oct. 31

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On Exhibit Punk: chaos to couture @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Punk garments from the mid-1970s juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and readyto-wear have borrowed punk’s visual symbols, with paillettes being replaced with safety pins, feathers with razor blades. Through August 14

All The World’s A Stage… theater liStinGS If you give a mouse a cookie @ john W. engeman Theater at northport, Through June 14 Thoroughly modern millie @ Merrick Theatre, Through June 23 Bloody Bloody andrew Jackson @ Smithtown Theatre, Through June 23 carousel @ north Fork Community Theatre, Through June 2 sinners @ elmont Library Theatre, Through June 2 completely hollywood @ BACCA, June 6-8 rocky horror shadowcast @ Cinema Arts Centre, June 8

outside the Jam: roller derby by rick o’dell @ Ripe Art Gallery, A new series of shots from the nY Roller Derby scene. There may even be girls on skates! Through June 15 Living color @ Art-trium Gallery, Works by four artists focusing on the unique and varied ways that color lives in our lives. Through June 17 Peep show by Jessica Lichtenstein @ Vered Contemporary Gallery, Animeinspired, doll-filled tableaux in wildly imaginative thought-provoking scenes and miniature dioramas, in various states of undress. Through June 17 alex Katz: selections from the whitney museum of american art @ nassau County Museum of Art, Landscapes and collages from early in Katz’s career and continues through the 1960s and beyond with his hallmark paintings—enormous, brilliantly-colored portraits of his family and friends. June 29 through Oct. 13 wet Paint festival @ Gallery north/ Setauket Village, Outdoor event showcasing the vibrant creativity of artists and craftspeople from Long Island and nearby areas. July 12-19 alice aycock drawings: some stories are worth repeating @ Parrish Art Musuem, 55 works covering 1984 to the present, when Aycock developed an increasingly elaborate visual vocabulary, drawing upon a multitude of sources and facilitated in part by the use of computer programs. Through July 13 we hold These Truths... @ emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra university, Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the emancipation Proclamation through artist responses to the powerful issues of slavery, middle passage, the abolition movement, emancipation and American freedom. Through July 26 car culture: art and the automobile @ Heckscher Museum of Art, While some artists focus on images of the car itself, inspired by its alluring modernity or its status as an icon or expression of personal identity, others create art work from car parts such as scrap metal and tires. Through August 11 Portraits of our Past: greek Jews and the holocaust @ Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center, Through powerful photographs and centuries-old artifacts this exhibit documents jewish life in Greece before, during and after the Holocaust. Through August 15

country scenes for city Patrons: works by william sidney mount @ Long Island Museum, Of the 8 paintings in this exhibit, six were commissioned by Mount’s city patrons. none of them were commissioned or purchased by his Long Island neighbors. Painted between 1831 and 1862, these works typify the subject matter for which Mount became famous. Perhaps his audience was drawn to these country scenes because they shared with him nostalgia for a familiar past unalterably slipping away. Ongoing The Lyon, the which, and the warhol: The sequel @ David Filderman Gallery, Hofstra university, This sequel to the Museum’s early spring 2013 exhibition focuses on themes of gender and identity while highlighting photography from the Museum’s permanent collection by artists Danny Lyons and Andy Warhol. Through September 15 what do we do about guns? @ Bj Spoke Gallery, Themed exhibit by members on this issue fill the gallery. Sept 4–29 artmrKT hamptons @ Bridgehampton Historical Society, A contemporary and modern art fair featuring 40 leading galleries from across the u.S. who will present painting, sculpture, drawings, photography, video and installation. Showcasing a tightly focused selection of work by important artists in a boutique setting, artMRKT Hamptons allows for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of art. July 11 6th annual arthamptons @ nova’s Ark, ArtHamptons has not only become the quintessential Hamptons art + social event (as depicted in an episode of Bravo’s TV show, Royal Pains), but has blossomed into the nation’s premiere summer contemporary art fair. Last summer, a record 12,000 Hamptonites meandered through the aisles, exploring the art work from 78 respected national and international galleries. July 11 scooters, cranberry Pickers & whirling dervishes: hal B. fullerton’s Long Island @ Heckscher Museum Photographs documenting life on Long Island in the early years of the 20th century. Through August 4 en Plein air @ Sagtikos Manor, Artists paint outdoors the first two days with an art show on the Great Lawn the final day. August 16-18

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grease @ Gateway Playhouse, Through June 8 snow white @ Smithtown Theatre, June 8-23 how the other half Loves @ Hampton Theatre Company, Through June 9 a night in the Theater @ Vanderbilt Mansion, Through June 9 young frankenstein @ Gateway Playhouse, June 12-29 Peanuts @ Merrick Theatre, Through June 15 south Pacific @ john W. engeman Theater at northport, Through July 14 Lend me a Tenor @ Bay Street Theatre, Through June 23 Into the woods @ CM PAC, Through June 16 spelling Bee @ Theatre Three, Through June 22 Jack/Beanstalk @ Gateway, June 28 Tomorrow, the sun will come out @ Dix Hills PAC, June 28-30 42nd st @ CM PAC, June 28-July 28 Legends in concert @ Gateway, July 2-20 The mystery of Irma vep @ Bay Street Theatre, July 2-28 rumpelstiltskin @ Theatre Three, July 5-August 3 winnie the Pooh @ Gateway, July 5-20 grease @ Smithtown Theatre, July 6-28 Picasso at the Lapin agile @ BACCA, July 11-13 singin’ in the rain @ Patchogue Theatre, July 24-August 10 seussical, Jr. @ Patchogue Theatre, July 26-August 10 spank! 50 shades Parody @ nYCB Theatre August 4 a funny Thing happened... @ Bay Street Theatre, August 6-Sept. 1 Jesus christ superstar @ BACCA, August 9 & 10 The frog Prince @ Theatre Three, August 9-17 Ballroom with a Twist @ Gateway, August 13-18 annie, Jr. @ Patchogue Theatre, August 16-18 The Buddy holly story @ Gateway, August 28-Sept. 14

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alice Tully hall, Lincoln center—10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan, www.lincolncenter.org amityville historical society—170 Broadway, Amityville, www.amityvillehistoricalsociety.net apollo Theater—253 W. 125th St., Manhattan, www.apollotheater.org art-trium—25 Melville Park Rd., Melville. www. huntingtonarts.org B.B. King Blues club—237 W. 42nd St., Manhattan. www.bbkingblues.com Bald hill—Farmingville Bacca—149 n. Wellwood Ave., Lindenhurst. www. babylonarts.com Baiting hollow farm—2114 Sound Ave., Calverton, www.baitinghollowfarmvineyard.com Barclays center—620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. www.barclayscenter.com Barnes & noble—2289 Broadway, 33 e. 17th St., 97 Warren St. (TriBeCa), 105 Fifth Ave., 6 e. 18th St., 86th Street & Lexington Avenue, Manhattan; 23-80 Bell Blvd., Bayside; www.bn.com Bay street Thea—The Long Wharf, Sag Harbor. www.baystreet.org Bayway arts center—265 e. Main St., east Islip. www.broadhollow.org Beacon Theatre—2124 Broadway, Manhattan. www.beacontheatre.com Bedell cellars—36225 Route 25, Cutchogue. www.bedellcellars.com Bell house—149 Seventh St., Brooklyn. www. thebellhouseny.com Bella vino wine Bar—23 S. Ocean Ave., east Patchogue. 631-569-2397 Bellmore LIrr—Sunrise Highway, Bellmore Bellmore movies—222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. 516-783-7200 Bellport-Brookhaven historical society—31 Bellport Lane, Bellport. www.bbhsmuseum.org Bellport country club—40 S. Country Rd., Bellport Village. www.bellportcc.com Belmont Park race Track—2150 Hempstead Tpke., elmont. www.belmontstakes.com Benner’s farm—56 Gnarled Hollow Rd., east Setauket. www.bennersfarm.com Best Buy Theater—1515 Broadway, Manhattan. www.bestbuytheater.com Bethpage Ballpark—3 Court House Dr., Central Islip. www.liducks.com BJ spoke gallery—299 Main St., Huntington. www.bjspokegallery.com Boardy Barn— 270 W. Montauk Hwy, Hampton Bays. www.boardybarn.comve., Huntington. www. bookrevue.com Bowery Ballroom—6 Delancey St., Manhattan. www.boweryballroom.com Briarcliffe college—225 W. Main St., Patchogue, www.briarcliffe.edu Brokerage—2797 Merrick Rd, Bellmore. www. brokeragecomedy.com Brookhaven national Lab—2 Center St., upton. www.bnl.gov Brooklyn academy of music—30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. www.bam.org Brooklyn Bowl—61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn. www. brooklynbowl.com Brooklyn Bridge Park—334 Furman St., Brooklyn. www.brooklynbridgepark.org Bryant Park reading room—40th Street, Manhattan. www.bryantpark.org captree—Robert Moses Causeway, Captree Island caroline church—1 Dyke Rd., Setauket. www. carolinechurch.net castello di Borghese— 17150 CR 48, Cutchogue. www.castellodiborghese.com central Park—east Drive, Manhattan. www. cityparksfoundation.org

changing Times—29 e. Main St., Bay Shore; 1247 Melville Rd., Farmingdale; www. thechangingtimespub.com charles e. ransom Beach—Bayville Road, Bayville cinema arts centre—423 Park Ave., Huntington. www.cinemaartscentre.org city winery—155 Varick St., Manhattan. www. citywinery.com clovis Point—1935 Main Rd., jamesport. www.clovispointwines.com cm Performing arts center—931 Montauk Hwy., Oakdale. www.cmpac.com cold spring harbor Lab—Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor, www.cshl.edu connetquot Public Library—760 Ocean Ave., Bohemia. www.connetquotlibrary.org corey creek vineyards—45470 Route 25, Southold. www.bedellcellars.com The cortland—27 W. Main St., Bay Shore, www.thecortland.com cow over the moon—282 Main St., Huntington. 631-424-1796 crotona Park—Crotona Avenue, Bronx custer observatory—1115 Main Bayview Rd., Southold. www.custerobservatory.org dark horse Tavern—12 S. Park Ave., Rockville Centre, www.darkhorservc.com davinci gourmet—960 Willis Ave., Albertson, www.davincigourmetmarket.com deepwells farm—542 n. Country Rd., St. james dix hills Performing arts center—305 n. Service Rd., Dix Hills. www.dhpac.org dublin deck—325 River Ave., Patchogue, www. dublindeck.com eisenhower Park—Hempstead Turnpike, east Meadow elmont Theater—700 Hempstead Tpke., elmont. www.broadhollow.org empire state cellars—308 Tanger Mall Dr., Riverhead. www.empirestatecellars.com emporium—Railroad Avenue, Patchogue. www. theemporiumny.com eyes of Learning—Hicksville, www. eyesoflearning.org fire Island Lighthouse—4640 Captree Island. www.fireislandlighthouse.com

flynn’s—Ocean Bay Park, Fire Island, www. flynnsfireislandny.com founder’s Landing—Terry Lane, Southold four food studio—515 Broadhollow Rd., Melville. www.fourfoodstudio.com gallery north—90 n. Country Rd., Setauket. www.gallerynorth.org garden of eve—Sound Avenue, Riverhead. www.gardenofevefarm.com gateway Playhouse—215 S. Country Rd., Bellport. www.gatewayplayhouse.com governor’s comedy club—90 Division Ave, Levittown. www.govs.com gramercy Theatre—127 e. 23rd St., Manhattan. www.thegramercytheatre.com greek orthodox cathedral of st. Paul— 110 Cathedral Ave,. Hempstead, www. stpaulhempstead.org greek orthodox church of the assumption—430 Sheep Pasture Rd., Port jefferson. www.kimisis.org greek orthodox church of the holy resurrection—1400 Cedar Swamp Rd., Glen Head, www.resurrectiongoc.org The grand victory—245 Grand St., Brooklyn. www.thegrandvictory.com guild hall—158 Main St., east Hampton. www. guildhall.org hallockville museum farm—6038 Sound Ave., Riverhead. www.hallockville.com hammerstein Ballroom—311 W. 34th St., Manhattan. www.mcstudios.com hampton Theatre company—jesup Avenue, Quogue. www.hamptontheatre.org hamptons hills golf & country club—CR 31, Westhampton Beach. 631-727-6862 harbes farm & vineyard—715 Sound Ave., Mattituck, www.harbesfamilyfarm.com harborfront Park—101 e. Broadway, Port jeff havana central—630 Old Country Rd., Garden City. www.havanacentral.com heckscher museum of art—2 Prime Ave., Huntington. www.heckscher.org heckscher Park—Main Street, Huntington Village. www.heckscher.org. herbert von King Park—Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn highline Ballroom—431 W. 16th St.,

Manhattan. www.highlineballroom.com historical society of the massapequas—4755 Merrick Rd., Massapequa. www. massapequahistoricalsociety.org hofstra university—Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead. www.hofstra.edu holocaust memorial & Tolerance center—100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. www.holocaust-nassau.org holy family church —17 Fordham Ave., Hicksville, www.holyfamilyparishny.org honu—363 new York Ave., Huntington. www. honukitchen.com hudson river Park—Battery Place, Manhattan huntington senior citizen center—423 Park Ave., Huntington huntington ymca— 60 Main St., Huntington. 631-421-4243 Irving Plaza—17 Irving Pl., Manhattan. www. irvingplaza.com Islip grange—1 Broadway Ave., Sayville Jason’s vineyard—1785 Main Rd., jamesport. www.jasonsvineyard.com John f. Kennedy middle school—200 jayne Ave., Port jefferson Station John w. engeman Theater at northport—250 Main St., northport. www. johnwengemantheater.com John walsh Park–Larkfield Road, east northport Knitting factory—361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn. bk.knittingfactory.com Landmark on main—232 Main St., Port Washington. www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Lark—93 Larkfield Rd., east northport. www. thelarkpubandgrub.com Leaky Lifeboat—3603 Merrick Rd., Seaford Levittown Library—1 Bluegrass Lane, Levittown. 516-731-5728 LI aquarium—431 e. Main St., Riverhead, www.longislandaquarium.com LIcm—11 Davis Ave., Garden City. www.licm. org Lily flanagan’s—345 Deer Park Ave., Babylon; 528 Main St., Islip. www.lilyflanaganspub.com LIu hutton house—720 northern Blvd., Greenvale, www.liu.edu

Long Island maritime museum—86 West Ave., West Sayville. www.limaritime.org Long Island museum—1200 n. Country Rd., Stony Brook. www.longislandmuseum.org martha clara vineyards—6025 Sound Ave., Riverhead. www.marthaclaravineyards.com mattituck-Laurel historical society—Main Road, Mattituck, www.mlhistoricalsociety.org mccall vineyard & ranch—22600 Route 25, Cutchogue, www.mccallwines.com mccanns—5590 Merrick Rd., Massapequa, www.mccannspubnyc.com mccarren Park—776 Lorimer St., Brooklyn mcfadden’s—210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre. www.mcfaddensrvc.com mcguire’s—1627 Smithtown Ave., Bohemia. www.mcguirescomedy.com memorare—2182A jackson Ave., Seaford. www.memorarecaterers.com mercury Lounge—217 e. Houston St., Manhattan. www.mercuryloungenyc.com merrick Theatre—2222 Hewlett Ave., Merrick. www.merricktheatreandcenterforthearts.com metropolitan museum of art—1000 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. www.metmuseum.org middle country Beer garden—1702 Middle Country Rd., Centereach. www.muls.com minstrel Players—130 Main St., northport. www.minstrelplayers.org mr. Beery’s—4019 Hempstead Tpke., Bethpage. www.mrbeerys.com mulcahy’s—3232 Railroad Ave., Wantagh. www.muls.com munsey Park elementary school—1 Hunt Lane, Manhasset, 516-267-7405 music hall of williamsburg—66 n. 6th St. www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com napper Tandy’s—275 Route 25A, Miller Place; 229 Laurel Ave., northport; 15 e. Main St., Smithtown; www.nappertandys.com nassau coliseum—1255 Hempstead Tpke., uniondale. www.nassaucoliseum.com nassau county museum of art—1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. www.nassaumuseum.com nesconset Plaza—Smithtown Boulevard, nesconset The Local—2955 Merrick Rd., Bellmore. 516-

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WHErE it’S at 221-0800 newbridge road Park—newbridge Road, Bellmore new suffolk free Library—27550 Main Rd., Cutchogue. www.cutchoguelibrary.org nikon at Jones Beach Theater—Ocean Parkway, Wantagh. www.jonesbeach.com north fork community Theatre—12700 Sound Ave., Mattituck, www.nfct.com nova’s ark—30-60 Millstone Rd., Water Mill, www.thearkproject.com nutty Irishman Bay shore—60 e. Main St., Bay Shore; 323 Main St., Farmingdale; www. thenuttyirishman.com nycB Theatre at westbury—960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. 877-598-8694 oceanside Park—Greentree Dr., Oceanside old Bethpage village restoration—1303 Round Swamp Rd., Old Bethpage. 516-5728401 old westbury gardens—71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. www.oldwestburygardens. org osprey’s dominion vineyards—44075 Main Rd., Peconic, www.ospreysdominion.com our Lady of consolation—111 Beach Dr., West Islip, 631-587-1600 our Lady of grace—666 Albin Ave., West Babylon, www.ourladyofgrace.net Palmer vineyards—5120 Sound Ave., Riverhead, www.palmervineyards.com Paradise Theater—2403 Grand Concourse, Bronx, www.paradisetheater.net The Paramount—370 new York Ave., Huntington, www.paramountny.com Parrish art museum—279 Montauk Hwy., Water Mill. www.parrishart.org Patchogue Theatre—71 e. Main St., Patchogue. www.patchoguetheatre.com Pennysaver amphitheater—55 S. Bicycle Path, Selden. www.brookhaven.org Plattdeutsche Park restaurant—1132 Hempstead Tpke., Franklin Square. www. parkrestaurant.com Plaza cinema & media arts center—20 Terry St., Patchogue. www.plazamac.org Pollock-Krasner house—830 Springs Fireplace Rd., east Hampton. www.pkhouse. org Pop’s seafood shack—15 Railroad Pl., Island Park. www.popsseafoodshack.com Prospect Park—ninth Street, Brooklyn, www. prospectpark.org Quogue Library—90 Quogue St., Quogue. www.quoguelibrary.org randall’s Island—Manhattan, www. randallsisland.org raphael vineyard—39390 Route 25, Peconic. www.raphaelwine.com rath Park—849 Fenworth Blvd., Franklin Square red hook Park—155 Bay St., Brooklyn revolution—140 Merrick Rd., Amityville. www.revolutionli.com ripe art gallery—67A Broadway, Greenlawn. www.ripeartgal.com roanoke vineyards—3543 Sound Ave. Riverhead; 165 Love Lane, Mattituck; www. roanokevineyards.com rockefeller Plaza—1230 6th Ave., Manhattan roger’s mansion—17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton roots Bistro gourmand—399 Montauk Hwy., West Islip. www.rootsbistrogourmand.com roseland Ballroom—239 W. 52nd St., Manhattan. www.roselandballroom.com rumsey Playfield, central Park—east Drive, Manhattan sagtikos manor—Route 27A, Bay Shore. www.sagtikosmanor.com sannino Bella vita—1375 Peconic Lane, Peconic. www.sanninovineyard.com sayre Park—154 Snake Hollow Rd., Bridgehampton schafer’s—111 W. Broadway, Port jefferson, www.schafersportjeff.com seamans neck Park—Marina Park Drive, Seaford seneca middle school—850 Main St., Holbrook sherwood house vineyards Tasting

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house—1291 Main Rd., jamesport. www. sherwoodhousevineyards.com shinn estate vineyards—2000 Oregon Rd., Mattituck. www.shinnestatevineyards.com shinnecock reservation—Montauk Highway, Southampton. www.shinnecocknation.com shorefront Park—Smith Street, Patchogue smithtown Theatre—2 e. Main Street, Smithtown. www.smithtowntheatre.com smokey Bones Bar & fire grill—5012 express Drive South, Ronkonkoma. www. smokeybones.com south street seaport—12 Fulton St., Manhattan. www.southstreetseaport.com splish splash—2549 Splish Splash Dr., Calverton. www.splishsplashlongisland.com st. nicholas shrine—196-10 northern Blvd., Flushing, Queens st. rose of Lima—Merrick Road, Massapequa. www.stroseoflimaparish.org st. Thomas of canterbury—90 edgewater Ave., Smithtown. 631-265-4520 st. william the abbot—2001 jackson Ave., Seaford. www.stwilliamtheabbot.net staller center—nicolls Road, Stony Brook, www.stallercenter.com stephen Talkhouse—61 Main St., Amagansett. www.stephentalkhouse.com stimson school—401 Oakwood Rd., Huntington Station. 631-812-3700 stony Brook university—nicolls Road, Stony Brook. www.stonybrook.edu strawberry fields—1175 Route 48, Mattituck. www.mattituckstrawberryfestival.org studio Theatre—141 S. Wellwood Ave., Lindenhurst. www.studiotheatreli.com suffolk county community college, eastern campus—533 College Rd., Selden. www.sunysuffolk.edu The surf Lodge—183 edgemere St., Montauk. www.thesurflodge.com sunken meadow state Park—north end of Sunken Meadow Parkway, Kings Park sweetbriar nature center—62 eckernkamp Dr., Smithtown. www.sweetbriarnc.org Tanger outlets at the arches—152 The Arches Circle, Deer Park. www.tangeroutlet. com/deerpark Tanner Park—Kerrigan Rd., Copiague Terminal 5—610 W. 56th St., Manhattan. www.terminal5nyc.com Theatre Three—412 Main St., Port jefferson. www.theatrethree.com Tilles center—720 northern Blvd., Greenvale. www.tillescenter.org Town hall—123 W. 43rd St., Manhattan, www.the-townhall-nyc.org Trinity evangelical Lutheran church —716 Rte. 25A, Rocky Point. 631-744-9355 Trinity regional school—1025 Fifth Ave., east northport. 631-261-5130 Tropix—395 Woodcleft Ave., Freeport. www. tropixonthemile.com vanderbilt—180 Little neck Rd., Centerport. www.vanderbiltmuseum.org velvet lounge—10 Woods Corner Rd., east Setauket, www.velvetloungeny.com vered contemporary—68 Park Place, east Hampton. www.veredcontemporary.com vibe—60 n. Park Ave., Rockville Centre. 516208-6590 view—3 Consuelo Pl.,Oakdale. www.lessings. com wall street—575 nesconset Hwy., Hauppauge. www.wallstli.com warsaw—Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn. www. warsawconcerts.com waters crest winery—22355 County Rd. 48, Cutchogue. www.waterscrestwinery.com webster hall—125 e. 11th St., Manhattan. www.websterhall.com westhampton Beach Performing arts center—76 Main St., Westhampton Beach. 631-288-1500 westhampton Library—7 Library Ave., Westhampton Beach. www.whbpac.org williamsburg Park—50 Kent Ave., Brooklyn yankee stadium—east 161st Street, Bronx yaphank Presbyterian church—65 Main St., Yaphank. www.yaphankpc.org ymca Boulton center—37 W. Main St., Bay Shore. www.boultoncenter.org

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

From Great Neck to Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s L.I. Journey

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could recall his Great Neck address, drunk or sober. But these days he might need a second or two to recognize the place his wife Zelda once called their “nifty little Babbitt-house,” back when Sinclair Lewis’ biting satire about American conformity was all the rage among the cognoscenti. Today the two-story cream-colored stucco mansion has a terra cotta roof and a small balcony with a white colonnade above the front door, exuding an elegance that the place probably didn’t have when the young Fitzgerald family rented it in 1922 while their daughter Scottie was still a baby. The landscaping is likely more lush and well-manicured than when he and his wife passed out on the front lawn after somehow driving home in their second-hand Rolls from a long night of partying at The Plaza only to be awakened by their housekeeper in the cold morning light. These days nobody could navigate 20 miles of Northern Boulevard with a blood-alcohol level like theirs without running into the police or worse. Perhaps the biggest change is that the studio above the garage where Fitzgerald cranked out his lucrative short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and began a first draft of what would become The Great Gatsby is now connected seamlessly to the main building. It can no longer offer the kind of solitude he used to find there when he had to get away from what Zelda later described as the “disorder and quarrels.” This Gatsby connection was a surprise to the high school sophomore now residing with his family on Gateway Drive. “Wow, I didn’t know that!” he tells me, preferring that his name not appear in print. He’d just been watching SportsCenter on ESPN when this reporter recently showed up at his door. He admitted that, like most adolescent American boys, he hadn’t yet read the classic novel because it hadn’t been assigned in school. “Maybe I’ll see the movie,” he says, unconvincingly. He wouldn’t have to go very far to catch it, if he was so inclined. A new Gatsby film has just come out—marking the fourth time since 1926 that someone has tried to capture cinematically Fitzgerald’s lyrical prose that retells the tragic tale of one self-made man’s obsession with the American Dream. The book has hit the bestseller list—something it never did while Fitzgerald was alive. The movie reviews, so far, have been mixed at best. “You don’t realize just how much misguided damage can be done to a great novel until it is vaporized by a pretentious hack like boneheaded Australian director Baz Luhrmann,” wrote Rex Reed in The New York Observer. Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet) spent more than a $100 million to try what has never succeeded before: turn this literary masterpiece into a compelling movie. But he gave it his best shot, this time in 3-D with a contemporary soundtrack produced by Jay-Z. Days before The Great Gatsby opened nationwide in

May, Luhrmann, a soft-spoken, slender figure with silver hair, was on hand at the refurbished Soundview Cinemas in Port Washington where Warner Brothers was hosting a special screening. With earnestness he told me that he regards Gatsby as “America’s Hamlet.” Asked whether his latest cinematic creation was “The Greatest Gatsby” yet made, the director demurred but he defended his version. “It’s actually an incredible reflection of this time we’re in!” he says, standing on the red carpet rolled out in the lobby. After the film, presented by the Gold Coast Arts Center and the Town of North Hempstead on May 8th, invited guests were going to an exclusive “Gatsbythemed” party at Sands Point Preserve. Luhrmann’s lead, Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Jay Gatsby with magnetic fervor, did not attend the screening. His Oscar-worthy performance is arguably the only bright spot in an otherwise “mediocre” film, according to Hofstra English professor Ruth Prigozy, co-founder of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. “It was all the parties—you didn’t really get character development,” she says. Prigozy was particularly disappointed with how Long Island fared in the movie, in contrast to its seminal importance in the novel (West Egg was representative of Great Neck/Kings Point; East Egg symbolized Manhasset/Sands Point). In preparing for the production, a studio researcher had consulted her and she emphasized the waters of Manhasset Bay that separated Gatsby from Daisy Buchanan, his obsession. In the final film, Luhrmann didn’t shoot anywhere on the Gold Coast. For Fitzgerald, “Long Island was the start,” says Prigozy. “Long Island gave him the basic idea.” But inspiration for Gatsby did not come in 1918 when Fitzgerald was stationed at Camp Mills, an encampment near Garden City. He was hoping to be sent to France but the war ended before he could go overseas. Fitzgerald made a name for himself a

“Kings Point was a very elegant place but it looked across to Sands Point, and Sands Point was the place for society.” —ruth Prigozy, hofstra English professor and co-founder of the f. scott fitzgerald society

few years later in New York as the author of This Side of Paradise, which evoked the restlessness of his generation as the Jazz Age dawned. He was a successful writer, married and a father. The suburbs beckoned. Back then, Great Neck was a precursor to Hollywood, in part because the Astoria studios were in their glory and the bright lights of Broadway were nearby. The newly minted millionaires mingled with the celebrities from show business such as Sam Goldwyn, Eddie Cantor, Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, George M. Cohan, Groucho Marx, and Ed Wynn. Herbert Swope, the editor of the New York World, hosted many parties at his Kings Point estate, which Fitzgerald attended with his neighborhood pal, Ring Lardner, a wellknown sportswriter, who lived on East Shore Road with his wife Ellis. In 1925, when The Great Gatsby was published, Lardner had notably written that “Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty.” “Kings Point was a very elegant place but it looked across to Sands Point,” says Prigozy, “and Sands Point was the place for society.”

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a page from ruth prigozy’s photo book on f. scott fitzgerald shows how much his great neck home has changed. (rashed Mian/long island press)

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So if Kings Point was for the social climbers, the palatial estates across the bay were for the top rungs of America’s landed aristocracy, where the Pratts, Whitneys, Roosevelts, Fricks, DuPonts, and the Vanderbilts gave the Gold Coast its name. Fitzgerald and Lardner gazed across the bay and “that’s where they got it,” Prigozy says, “where Fitzgerald got that inspiration.” At one of Swope’s parties Fitzgerald met Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler who had fixed the 1919 World Series (the infamous “Black Sox” scandal). Rothstein, who became a model for Meyer Wolfsheim in the novel, was linked to a Great Neck neighbor of Fitzgerald’s named Edward M. Fuller. With his crooked brokerage firm partner William McGee, Fuller had been convicted of gambling away millions of dollars of their customers’ money. For his portrait of Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s super-rich husband, Fitzgerald drew upon his friendship with the patrician polo star Tommy Hitchcock, whom Fitzgerald saw play championship matches at the Meadow Brook Club in Nassau. These early influences may explain why Fitzgerald’s first working title for Gatsby was: Among the Ash-Heaps and Millionaires. His astute editor at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins, gently persuaded him to think again. After Fitzgerald sent Perkins the manuscript from Paris, he still wanted to tinker around with the title, suggesting Trimalchio in West Egg. Perkins read the finished manuscript in one sitting and told Fitzgerald he thought the novel “splendid.” But that title didn’t cut it, he cabled the author, explaining that nobody would recognize Great Neck nor remember that Trimalchio was the decadent Roman parvenu encouraging debauchery at his banquet in Petronius’ Satyricon. As for “egg,” a family friend, Arnold Turnbull, later wrote that while Fitzgerald was living in Great Neck, his “magic word was ‘egg.’ People he liked were ‘good eggs’…and people he didn’t like were ‘bad eggs’ or ‘unspeakable eggs.’” Although The Great Gatsby was a critical success but a commercial failure, Fitzgerald remained forever proud of it. In 1930, he wrote Zelda, who was then hospitalized after having a mental breakdown,

the flapper with the sultry figures in her eyes evokes the provocative mood of the times on the cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby.

that he had dragged the novel “out of the pit of my stomach in a time of misery.” More importantly, he had stuck to his vision, refusing to focus on “hauntedness... rejecting in advance...all of the ordinary material for Long Island, big crooks, adultery theme & always starting from the small focal point that impressed me—my own meeting with Arnold Rothstein for instance…” Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck from 1922 to 1924, but it made an indelible impression. He began The Great Gatsby there and finished it in Paris when he was only 28 years old. Despite his relative youthfulness, he managed to speak for the ages. “I think it’s a book that’s always going to be relevant because it’s really about our vision of our country as we want it,” says Prigozy. “And we do want to be the country that Fitzgerald also wanted— and that the characters wanted—that somebody could go from nowhere to become somebody.” But in the end, Gatsby’s true roots lie exposed and he never does escape his past, let alone live in the future he had dreamed of, with the love of his life. And so, using Long Island’s unforgiving but inviting geography—so close yet so far—to depict the great divides of wealth and class, Fitzgerald instills yet one more lesson that the American Dream can only go so far.

“here’s to you, old sport!” leonardo diCaprio plays Jay gatsby as the perfect host with the imperfect past. (photo Courtesy warner bros.)

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Northport’s Engeman Theater where Broadway hITs maIn sTreeT

these five happy hoofers are stepping out on the stage of the Engeman theater, which showcases top talent from the bright lights of broadway like andre deshields, below, who had a devil of a role in “damn Yankees.”

By sPencer rumsey srumsey@longislandpress.com

ince the curtain first went up at the John W. Engeman Theater in June 2007, the storyline has been the same: convincing a skeptical Long Island audience that they can see a Broadway-quality show on Main Street in Northport. As time goes by, the narrative seems more and more believable. Last year the Engeman drew more than 100,000 people (114,946 to be exact). They came to the Island’s only full-year Actors Equity theater, which means that its performers and stage managers are in the same union as those in Manhattan—and explains why its stellar performers may often be winners and nominees of the prestigious Tony Awards and the Drama Desk prizes. The venue’s odds-defying success—surviving the unforgiving Great Recession as well as Superstorm Sandy—is a tribute to two unlikely partners: managing director Kevin O’Neill, 50, and artistic director Richard Dolce, 44, who share an office in the theater’s refurbished basement. They came together almost by chance one day in 2006 when running a theater in Northport was literally the last thing on both their minds. But their business model seems to be working in a community that formerly couldn’t keep even a 99-cent movie house going. The ticket prices had risen to $1.25 by the time the place closed its doors for good in the 1990s, but that’s not the reason it finally shut down.

“There were 700 seats but you couldn’t see from 500 of them!” laughs O’Neill. The Engeman features stadium seating for 400 people, with beverage holders at each seat so people can drink during the show, valet parking at the entrance, a dark-wood-paneled piano bar inside

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where the popcorn used to be, and, especially for women, impeccable lavatories that would put a four-star restaurant to shame. “People thought I was Felix Unger about that when we were building the place!” says O’Neill with a grin. But he was making a point: This place treats its patrons like adults. They also want to appeal to mature theaterlovers and newcomers alike. “Every season has an arc to it, a feel to it,” says Dolce. “Part of it is purely artistic, part of it is purely financial. We can’t—because we tried and it almost killed us—do a big old musical every single show.” By design, their mix of Broadway musicals, comedies and dramas is aimed at the mainstream, not at the experimental margins. “I try to select shows that I think are going to appeal to the largest amount of people as possible,” says Dolce. “Once we make that choice, I try to find an artistic twist to it, something that’s going to keep myself and my fellow artists—the creative team I work with—engaged.” Adding to the challenge is that the stage itself—especially the narrow wings—is relatively small by Broadway standards. For “South Pacific,” which opened May 23, the director couldn’t choreograph dance numbers with dozens of sailors. “We have 11!” Dolce says, and then adds with a grin, “For ‘Twelve Angry Men,’ I might cut it down to, like, seven to save money.”

kevin o’neill, left, and richard dolce, right, have combined their business acumen and creative skills to make northport the place for affordable and accessible entertainment that would fly on broadway.

To which O’Neill responds with a smirk that they might in turn call their production: “Seven Really Annoyed Guys!” But because the theater space is intimate, the audience tends to feel like they’re almost onstage themselves and they have a part in each performance. So far it’s been a winning formula. “We’ve had people say to us over and over again [that] the quality of the shows we’re doing here are better than the Broadway productions,” says O’Neill. “We did ‘Rent’ and some people said it was better than on Broadway or in London. And that’s Rich. My job is to fill the place. Rich’s job is to get people to come back because the shows are good.” O’Neill had been a bonds trader on Wall Street, one of those guys living in the suburbs (Huntington in his case) who regarded going back into the city with his wife to see the theater on a Friday or Saturday night about as favorably as a root canal. Dolce, his future partner, was an entertainment lawyer who had at first rebelled against the family business, the nonprofit BroadHollow Theater Company— where he had done everything from take tickets to run the lights to perform onstage—by going to law school. They met seven years ago when O’Neill was making the rounds of local theater companies on behalf of Theatermania.com, an online service that he’d invested in, and one of those he was making his pitch to was Dolce. “I thought he was a sharp guy and knew what he was doing,” O’Neill recalls. That same day he met Dennis Tannenbaum, who’d bought the Northport venue in 2005 to turn it into a performing arts center. A little while later he

told O’Neill that he wanted to get out of the drama business altogether but ensure that the property be preserved for the community’s sake. That’s when O’Neill and Dolce stepped in. “Rich and I had a couple of lunches at the Commack Diner with a legal pad,” O’Neill recalls, “and before you knew it, we started hatching a plan that if we did something at the right level, it would work.” Northport’s first theater had opened at that location in 1912 but burned down in 1930. It was rebuilt in 1932 with state-of-the-art fire protection, which meant walls and a roof so thick with cement and steel that they were practically impervious. O’Neill said the renovation, which cost more than $2.5 million, required some very innovative engineering feats to achieve. O’Neill and his wife Patti bought the theater in 2006. The name on the marquee honors her brother, John W. Engeman, an Army chief warrant officer from East Northport who’d done community theater while stationed in Europe. Weeks before they closed the sale, Engeman was killed in Iraq when a bomb exploded near his Humvee. In the theater’s first couple of years about 85 percent of their audience came from within 10 miles. “If you go to the top marketing companies in the world and say, ‘Give me the top ten theater demographics on the planet,’ I’d say that Long Island’s North Shore would be in the top five,” explains O’Neill. It helps their cause that Northport is “a charming, ambient, cool little village,” he adds. They decided that big musicals, though costly to produce, could broaden the Engeman’s exposure to COnTInueD On PAGe 66 L o n g I s L a n d P r e s s f o r j u n e , 2 0 1 3 / / / w w w. L o n g I s L a n d P r e s s . c o m

the rodgers and hammerstein classic “south pacific” reaches its “bali hai” moment above, as the villagers of anatevka raise a toast in “fiddler on the roof” below.

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those living further away. “If someone heard of ‘Run for Your Wife,’ they may not come from Ronkonkoma,” O’Neill says, “but if a grandmother sees a billboard that says ‘My Fair Lady,’ there’s a good probability that she might say, ‘I’ve heard about this Northport place, I hear it’s pretty good, let me take my daughter and my granddaughter there.’” Sometimes the audience’s expectations defy explanation. “We did a musical interpretation of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’...and we had people calling in,” says O’Neill. “I think they wanted it to be a black and white movie with Jimmy Stewart!” The Engeman’s living cast is worth the price of admission, thanks to longtime casting director Stephen DeAngelis, who draws from the acting community in Manhattan where auditions and rehearsals are held. Among the perks for the actors, Engeman arranges to pick up the cast at the Huntington train station before each performance and shuttle them back to the city after the show. “I think the biggest complement is that there are a lot of actors who reach out to me and say, ‘Hey, I want to go back!’” says DeAngelis. “If someone

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books a guest spot on Law and Order, the theater will let them go do it and put an understudy on. That’s how you attract good people.” Among the notables are Jackie Burns, who was in the Engeman’s production of “Smokey Joe’s Café” and just played the witch Elphaba in “Wicked” on Broadway, and Andre DeShields, a well-known actor who got to do his dream role at the Engeman: playing the Devil in “Damn Yankees.” “Actors always want a good opportunity,” says DeAngelis. The Engeman is there to provide it—and the theatergoer gets the benefit. “We’re just trying to create a complete night out for a theater lover,” say Dolce. “Someone’s going to come and see our fantastic show and just have a great experience from curb to curtain!” The John w. engeman Theater is located at 250 main street in northport. For information call 631261-2900 or go to engemantheater. com. performances run wednesday through saturday at 8 p.m., saturdays at 3 p.m., and sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. “nunsense” opens the 2013-2014 season July 25.

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Breakfasts Of Champions L.I.’s go-To mornIng sToPs serve sunrIse deLIghTs, wITh unIQue TwIsTs

By rashed mIan rmian@longislandpress.com

Thomas Koukoulas has been scrambling around his restaurant since 5 a.m. with the same youthful enthusiasm he had 40 years ago as a child when his father bought the place. His burnt-orange shirt transforms into a rusty blur as he bursts from the kitchen with his own steaming cup of coffee on a recent Friday afternoon. Speed is of the essence and he has no intention of slowing down. “I have to keep moving,” says the affable 47-year-old owner of Thomas’s Ham ‘N’ Eggery, a Carle Place staple, which boasts hearty breakfasts served on sizzling skillets instead of traditional plates—a legacy adopted from its original owners, who first opened the diner in 1936. The area was more grassland back then; big-box retailers were non-existent. A palatial mall with a sprawling food court now sits atop a former airfield and smaller shopping centers occupy the opposite side of the street. There’s also stiff neighborhood competition: Thomas’ fights for empty bellies with two hulking diners with shiny steel exteriors nearby and a Denny’s, which promises an ungodly “Grand Slam” breakfast at cheap prices. Yet, Koukoulas remains unfazed. Thomas’ offers more than just quality eggs-and-ham. The mom-and-pops diner exudes an all-American vibe that reflects a much simpler time. Its breakfast-heavy menu is replete with a wide range of dishes, from zesty Huevos Rancheros to gratifyingly sweet stuffed French toast, all served deliciously day and night. Koukoulas’ brother and partner George, who passed away two years ago, developed strong ties to the neighborhood. The outpouring of support—“It was like an hour to get into his wake,” he says—made Koukoulas realize just how beloved the restaurant is. “It’s not a kind of diner that most people are accustomed to nowadays,” he says, a mix of rock and pop blaring through the speakers. “Those big, huge, metallic factory-type places want to be able to offer you everything from pancakes to Chinese roast pork, but that’s not who we are, that’s not what we do.” Thomas’s stands out by serving unique dishes such as French toast stuffed with lemon cream cheese, ricotta cheese filling with a blueberry sauce, and another breakfast delight consisting of grilled biscuits layered with homemade chicken sausage, grilled tomato, poached egg and hollandaise sauce.

a grilled biscuit with chicken sausage and poached eggs (above) is a favorite at thomas’s ham ‘n’ Eggery, owned by thomas koukoulas (left). second generation owners, Christine fortier and kevin dernbach (below) of Maureen’s kitchen in smithtown, have continued their parents’ business. Chris lawrence (bottom left) owns CJ’s Coffee shop in rockville Centre, an old school eatery. (rashed Mian/long island press)

“I still enjoy doing it, and for me it’s about satisfying the people and giving them a quality product,” beams Koukoulas. Classic breakfast joints like Thomas’ are few and far between on an island blessed with no shortage of well-regarded modern restaurants. And breakfast mainstays specializing in omelets, pancakes and the like—such as CJ’s Coffee Shop in Rockville Centre,

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Maureen’s Kitchen in Smithtown, Munday’s in Huntington, Glen’s Dinette in Babylon and Eckhart’s Luncheonette in Westhampton. The aroma of fried eggs and freshly brewed coffee are simply too hard to pass up. The dining room at popular breakfast spot Maureen’s Kitchen in Smithtown bustles with activity on weekdays nearly as much as it does on weekends, when the line of would-be eaters wind out the door. Besides the mouth-watering dishes, patrons flock here for another reason that sets this place apart: The cows. Two life-size black-and-white cows graze on the grass in front of the restaurant. Another peeks its head and

white snout out from the roof, as a father and daughter gaze upward. Inside, other cows—of all shapes, sizes and colors— play trumpets, juggle and dance ballet. There are cow-spotted cushions, cow table linens and cow mugs. “Look,” says co-owner Christine Fortier on a recent Wednesday, pointing to the window. “There’s a cow bowling ball!” “You gotta go with it,” she laughs, explaining that about half the cow trinkets adorning the interior are gifts from customers, purchased all over the world. The 45-year-old has worked at the bovine-themed restaurant for 28 years, and has owned it with her brother Kevin Dernbach for the past nine when their parents retired. Her sister Doreen Migliore is also on-staff. “We take pride in what we do,” Fortier says proudly, taking a brief break from the kitchen. “And we’re glad people appreciate the good things that we do.” Some go-to menu options include her grandmother’s baked oatmeal and the croissant French toast, which vary daily. “It’s a huge attraction,” Dernbach says of the baked oatmeal. “People try to copy it; they just can’t nail it.” At CJ’s Coffee Shop in Rockville Centre one recent morning, 56-year-old Chris Lawrence works the register as his brother John mans the grill, preparing egg sandwiches, omelets, home fries and pancakes, among other favorites. Lawrence, a retired NYPD officer, and his wife Lori, have owned the cozy shop for 24 years. “It feels like 124 years,” laughs Lawrence, who opens the doors at 5:30 a.m. daily and occasionally finds customers knocking on the window before he gets in. Undoubtedly, the breakfast business can be grueling. Lawrence is embarrassed to say what time he went to bed the previous night—“I fell asleep in the middle of the [Miami] Heat game,” he admits—but he has no problem finding energy once he gets to CJ’s. Breakfast is “something we love to do,” he says, adding, “I think it’s an oldschool neighborhood-type of eatery.” Lawrence, like Koukoulas and Fortier, has developed a loyal customer base—younger clientele admittedly picking up a bite to eat at on their way back from college before even stopping home. “I gotta find out where they [go to school] so I can open there,” he jokes. But his hometown has treated him just right. A steady stream of customers pours into the diminutive shop all day long, picking up CJ’s top-notch coffee and sandwiches to go. The Blue Plate Special, “a throwback,” says Lawrence— which consists of potatoes, vegetables, meat, soup and comes with a drink—is a crowd-pleaser. He also offers French toast, oatmeal, cereal and a variety of specialty omelets. He sums up CJ’s success in simple terms: “People just like a neighborhood family spot where they know they can get a good breakfast.”

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The sky above Islandia turns gray one recent Tuesday afternoon as 91-year-old Julius Cobb saunters over to an umbrella-covered table that will protect him from the oncoming barrage of rain. Seventy years ago, Cobb, a World War II veteran with the then-U.S. Army Air Corps, was darting across the skies above Europe, dropping bombs on the Axis powers with remarkable precision. “I never missed,” Cobb laughs during a Memorial Day barbeque at The Arbors Assisted Living, the smell of hot dogs and burgers wafting through the air. Cobb is outfitted in a tan military uniform with his Air Corps wings pinned proudly above his heart and a U.S. Air Force cap resting snugly upon his head. Cobb, who had a love for planes ever since he was a child in Massapequa, enlisted in 1942 and served for three years, completing 37 missions. As a youngster, he would visit Republic Airport in Farmingdale and volunteer to clean the planes if the pilots would take him into the sky. He says his favorite memory is meeting and marrying his wife, who passed away two years ago, his eyes brightening with every mention of her. He loves the old days. “We got a bang out of it,” he says of the war.

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Margaret “Peg” Kramer was disappointed. She had enlisted in the Air Corps in 1943, hoping to learn to fly and serve her country. But while training in Massachusetts, her captain called her over and told her she would be the new Catholic Chaplain Assistant, instead. “I said, ‘Oh, no!’” recalls Kramer after a rendition of “God Bless America” at The Arbors. She was first smitten with the metallic birds while living in Throgs Neck, she says, watching as they hummed brilliantly across the sky. Yet Kramer, sporting a straw hat with red, white and blue bands during this interview, learned to love her new gig, too, and after learning of it, hopped a train and zig-zagged across the country on a five-day trip ending in Pueblo, Colo. The first thing she did was “take a bath,” she remembers with a laugh. Kramer quickly became best friends with a woman named Susie Lawrence, who one of her sons is named after. The group on the base then cozied up to the Chaplain, who once a grump later learned to lighten up following days and nights filled with laughter and hijinks. Kramer, whose father served in World War I, has another reason for signing up during such a tumultuous time: “I think it was the movies,” she laughs.

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/// The dream caTcher The unquenching desire to aid aging World War II veterans is burned into Chris Cosich’s very soul. The 46-year-old Amagansett man with a Hamptons-based personal training business, New Image Fitness, comes from a proud bloodline of war veterans replete with battle tales. “I grew up amongst all these stories,” he says. In 2007, Cosich decided to reach out to Honor Flight, the group that gives free flights to the World War II memorial in Washington D.C. to veterans who haven’t made the trip, hoping to startup a local chapter. Six years later Honor Flight Long Island is thriving—but the organization is facing a shortage—not in cash, but in vets. It’s also difficult at times to get the word out, so Cosich is relying on the children of these aging heroes to spread the message. “There’s going to be a big hole in my life,” when the WWII vets’ trips end, he says. “It’s the most important thing I’ve ever done.” Cosich has been on all 32 flights since he started the group. Soon, the 1,000th vet will buckle up for the flight to D.C. “The tears start the moment you get off the plane,” he says.

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Going into any baseball season, it’s a tradition for many Yankees fans—including myself—to drop by the stadium and pick up a copy of the upcoming season’s yearbook. Sure, it’s june, but the thing is filled with need-to-know information and well-reported feature stories on the legendary ballclub. Player profiles are must-haves for any season, though it’s inevitable that the roster will change, especially on this injury-ridden team.

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until someone bottles a clam-based beer, Long Island Potato Stout, made from locally grown organic spuds—one of the region’s original cash crops—may be the most hometown-y brew on the market. But, since more than 1,000 hopsheads voted this creation by Centerportbased Blind Bat Brewery the Long Island Beer of the Year 2013 at last month’s Gold Tap Awards—the third-annual local craft brew contest—only the thirstiest can find beer stores that still have 16-oz. bottles of this sweet, dry stout in stock. This one’s mine.

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If jack Bauer were real, he’d be wearing this japanese limited-edition watch, that doesn’t look like a watch at all. Inspired by cryptography, the Kisai X watch displays time, date and animation through sharp lines of LeD light—blue, red or green— and a dark four-faceted pyramid crystal lens read from top to bottom (hours) and left to right (minutes). It can be set to 12- or 24-hour mode and charges by uSB. just take it off if you’re heading to the airport. Tokyoflash.com

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Recently discovered master tapes from Sony’s vaults resurrect this unbelievably gorgeous performance by two of jazz’s masters just in time for summer. Released May 28, this long-lost impromptu session captures Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck at the Aug. 28, 1962 White House Seminar American jazz Concert, an end-of-thesummer event thrown by the Kennedy administration for college student interns. Raw, immediate, cool-yetsizzling—it is Bennett and Brubeck at their finest, tight rhythm, loose delivery, on-fire, experimental time signatures and all, rolling through such classics as “Take Five,” “(I Left My Heart In) San Francisco” and “That Old Black Magic,” among many others. Perfect. Legacyrecordings.com

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Double Xword Pt.1 reachIng The fresh hoLd across 1 rand Mcnally book 6 deli cheese 11 Easy - be 16 gremlin 19 - apso (dog breed) 20 proofreading symbol 21 donald’s first ex 22 shootist’s org. 23 brand-new scientific discovery? 26 sackable nfl players 27 attack 28 with 30-across, attire for the slopes 29 filmdom’s spike 30 see 28-across 31 roth - (savings plan) 32 let baby oinkers out

of their cages? 36 klee pieces 39 Mystery writer Marsh 41 lives, as in a house 42 powerful quartet? 47 naturist’s practice 50 Yothers of “family ties” 51 asap part 52 Mauna - (volcano) 54 great plains tribe 55 geared for the garage? 58 water, lime, and rust 60 prior to, poetically 61 Cousin of a regular Joe? 65 hidden part of a guitar neck?

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67 lube anew 68 act segment 69 Yellowbelly’s cry of disgust? 74 in a shark costume? 79 actor lash 80 shortage 82 “- nacht” (german “silent night”) 83 “pity, pity” 84 fraternal patriotic org. 85 “... - just me?” 89 regretful person 90 Continued 92 had a vocal altercation? 95 large artery 98 rockies’ - Mountains 99 Motel units: abbr. 100 study of deep ruts? 105 skeleton lead-in 107 gung-ho 108 little, to a 6-down 109 triptik org. 110 prioritized, as wounded people 114 frat letters 115 ruffle that wins a blue ribbon? 119 “Y”-sporting collegian 120 odor detectors 121 on - firma 122 Cliff nest 123 govt. prosecutors 124 food box abbr. 125 “there’s no such thing - publicity” 126 poodle, e.g.

down 1 - romeo (sporty car) 2 “- is a test” 3 phyllis’ tv husband 4 very, to vivaldi 5 u.s. rocket launched in 1961 6 dundee dweller 7 1812 event 8 tee off 9 hearing, e.g. 10 incite 11 not feel well 12 gracefully slender 13 plebes and doolies, e.g. 14 lara Croft player Jolie 15 no, to a 6-down 16 harsh interrogator 17 top banana 18 people’s histories 24 actress/writer fannie 25 actor/humorist shriner 30 drove away quickly 32 is the right size 33 orbison and Clark 34 like the verb “be”: abbr. 35 College url ender 36 top web site? 37 titanic tusker 38 2200 hours 40 “that’s it!” 43 sir’s partner 44 nourishment 45 losing tic-tac-toe row 46 pt. of nYu 48 spot to salve 49 get together 52 vivitar rival

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53 knighted physician william 56 “i dream of Jeannie” actor hayden 57 karate weapon 59 not those, in brooklynese 60 Make - in (start working on) 62 “klute” star Jane 63 More plentiful 64 hollywood’s kazan 66 1990s nfl running

back Curtis 69 Cat weapon 70 robust 71 1979-81 hostage situation 72 Eggy dessert 73 switch or smack suffix 74 tory’s rival 75 Missy 76 prefix for element #9 77 intestinal division 78 geeky types

81 Mr. Capote, informally 84 arctic footwear 86 feng 87 inflammation suffix 88 large load 91 roman gold 92 Med banner 93 Embryo enclosers 94 hack’s car 96 least spicy 97 “not just yet” 100 well-known

101 throat dangler 102 Chou En- 103 ukraine port 104 Mall draws 106 western film 110 tube spot 111 author vidal 112 sandusky’s county 113 like batik 115 tv’s spike, formerly 116 Q-u divider 117 ball in space 118 Monkly title

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Double Xword Pt.2 sTar who never TumBLed across 1 palm sunday shout 8 spots on the boob tube 13 father of isaac 20 actor Carroll 21 official helpers 22 oozing liquid 23 start of a riddle 25 grew tired 26 test-driven car 27 “here, pigs!” 28 wood smoother 29 Circular rubber gasket 31 riddle, part 2 37 sprinter bolt of the 2008 olympics

40 imam’s religion 41 grenoble’s river 42 fleet head 46 award for an ad 47 turkish capital 48 riddle, part 3 53 novello of old films 54 former capital of Yemen 55 Capital of Yemen 56 haughty type 58 lamb’s mother 59 Entertainer o’donnell 61 double curves 64 Je ne sais 65 defunct russ. state 66 riddle, part 4

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71 bit of a circle 74 Joker Jay 75 impelled 76 atelier stand 80 prizm maker, once 81 “what -!” (“how hilarious!”) 83 Mae and adam 86 axis-vs.-allies conflict 87 architect Jacobsen 89 riddle, part 5 93 nicely warm 95 “well, old chap!” 96 son of agamemnon 97 Equine 98 Caesar’s robes 100 hourglass, e.g. 102 End of the riddle 105 rupture 110 Jailbird 111 green patch in a desert 114 lecher 115 like Mussolini 117 riddle’s answer 121 friendly pact 122 newswoman Zahn 123 gave fizz to 124 spy’s file 125 awards for soap operas 126 steady hum producers down 1 “- you spell relief?” 2 Earthy tone 3 “ditto” 4 author Chekhov 5 Mobile-to-Memphis dir.

6 rejections 7 guitar-toting guthrie 8 hoodwink 9 lp plastic 10 busyness 11 lawn moisture 12 1040 info 13 teeming 14 designer geoffrey 15 Enters, as computer data 16 relaxing time on the slopes 17 Coverers of some bald spots 18 get long in the tooth 19 pre- - (undergrad study) 24 like sound recordings that aren’t sharp, for short 28 rr bldg. 30 wise mentor 32 leon uris’ “- 18” 33 s - “sam” 34 blocks up 35 “this way” signs 36 one charring something 38 impertinence 39 sporty italian car, for short 42 a long way off 43 Carpentry groove 44 Married fr. women 45 old aegean sea region 46 went in pursuit of 47 put in - word for 49 12 inches

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skin eruption Judicial hearing verb go-with lose steam “Enchanted” girl of film 62 do wrong 63 largo 67 “bad” brown 68 getting - years 69 subcompact from Chevy 70 sailboat varieties 71 Christie of

mysteries 72 put a new top on, as a building 73 super dupers 77 “M*a*s*h” actress loretta 78 berlin article 79 tells a falsehood 82 leg part 84 - Mcan (shoe brand) 85 parched 88 hearts 90 Morales of

hollywood 91 french city 92 belgrade citizen 94 Ends of railroad lines 98 rip to bits 99 suffix of sugar names 100 sparkly crowns 101 - -bitsy 103 detritus 104 pious 106 from the city 107 highway, e.g.

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More positive gravitates “if - my way ...” fortuneteller grazed (on) portuguese for “year” 117 orangutan, for one 118 “- the walrus” 119 pirate’s drink 120 play-for-pay athlete

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Horoscopes gemInI May 21 to june 20

cancer june 21 to july 22

Leo

july 23 to August 22

vIrgo

August 23 to September 22

LIBra

September 23 to October 22

scorPIo October 23 to november 21

sagITTarIus november 22 to December 21

caPrIcorn December 22 to january 19

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january 20 to February 18

PIsces

February 19 to March 20

arIes

March 21 to April 19

Taurus April 20 to May 20

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Neptune transiting your 10th house will allow you to realize your hopes and wishes through your career. The only drawback of this transit could be that a romantic relationship might distract you. As Neptune transits through your solar 9th house your natural intuitive abilities are enhanced. You can develop a level of mental awareness that allows you to experience the depths of less earth-bound planes. Neptune influences your solar 8th house giving you the drive to seek a better understanding of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeper mysteries. You may experience some unusually strange dreams. Neptune moving through your 7th house may seem to cast a veil of illusion over your personal relationships, clouding your dealings with partners and intimate associates. Neptune focuses on your solar 6th house which could indicate a chronic but prevailing dormant illness or personal problem. However, during this transit, you could make great progress in natural healing. Neptune will be transiting your solar 5th house while it moves through Pisces allowing your innate creative abilities to rise from the subconscious to your conscious level. This could lead to an artistic period. You will be enticed to remake your home into a place of beauty while Neptune moves through your solar 4th house. Knowledge of your roots can provide you with insights into your own personality and behavior. Neptune stimulates your solar 3rd house inspiring your practical mind to greater achievements and enhancing your thinking and logic. Your writing and speaking talents can be enhanced. Neptune urges you to pay attention to money matters while it transits your solar 2nd house. Beware of get-rich-quick schemes which could cost you your hard-earned savings. Neptune transiting your solar 1st house and Sun sign brings you magnetic charm, attractiveness, and charisma. Your artistic abilities will allow you to express yourself creatively through music or dance. Neptune stimulates your solar 12th house as it inches its way through Pisces. You are likely to embark on a mystical quest. Your desire to be part of the powerful forces that sustain life may be overwhelming. Neptune influences your solar 11th house enticing you to become involved in social movements which reflect your spiritual values. Keep the quality of your relationships high. This will help you stay grounded.

IF YOU KNOW YOUR RISING SIGN, CONSULT THE HOROSCOPE FOR THAT SIGN AS WELL. PsychIcdeB has been a professional astrologer for more than 25 years. Self-taught, she began her studies in astrology when she was 8 years old learning what she could from her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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