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Podcast focused on Islanders keeps growing The Hockey News, of fer insights from both the professional’s and the sports fan’s perspectives. Sean Cuthbert, a native of “I’ve always been writing, East Rockaway, has turned his lifelong passion for the New but I knew that it was definitely York Islanders into something something I wanted to do and try,” Rosner said of podcasting. more meaningful. He started a podcast, which “It has been awesome. I mean, has been improving season getting to talk about hockey. That’s my job. I get to do it after season. full time during the Cuthbert, 41, day, so why not be said he started able to do it by talkrecording “Hockey Night in New York” ing to the audi from the basement ence?” o f h i s b ro t h e r ’s Filmed weekly at house in East RockFloored Media, in away in 2014, along Rockville Centre, with his brother, a the show is unlike cousin and a buddy others in its categoSEAN CuThBERT named Tony. ry. “This was going Founder and co-host, What sets it to be kind of a pas- ‘Hockey Night in New apart is not only its sion thing,” Cuth- York’ longevity, but the bert said. “Just to fact that it is the see where it went. only sports podcast Then, wouldn’t you know it, all in the region that gives fans an of a sudden, people started lis- interactive platform to discuss tening to it. their favorite players, ask speThe audience started grow- cial guests questions and hear ing, and we made something them answer live on the air. out of it, and we just kept Cuthbert grew up in East going, and ever since then it’s Rockaway, and played hockey grown.” for Chaminade High School. Cuthbert and his co-host, Despite having mastered the Stefen Rosner, 26, a Bellmore fundamentals of the sport, hownative and a journalist with
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Courtesy Joan Lazarus
Joan Lazarus’ painting of herself as a 30-year-old, working on a self-portrait. Lazarus is an art teacher for the Town of Hempstead.
From pupil to mentor, she mastered art Joan Lazarus learned to paint under three teachers By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com
Joan Lazarus spent half of her life learning how to artistically express herself. Now, at 77, Lazarus took up the mantle of being a teacher and showing others what she has learned. Lazarus’ art career began in her early 20s when her husband bought her an art kit. She started painting on her own until she decided she needed an art teacher to improve her skills. With the encouragement of her watercolor teacher, Lazarus studied at C.W. Post, now Long Island University, and learned the basics of what she now teaches to seniors at the Town of Hempstead’s senior enrichment
program. “I can paint in all mediums,” Lazarus said. “I didn’t really go to art school. I found teachers who could teach me what I wanted to learn.” Starting with oil painting, Lazarus then learned acrylic and watercolor. At college, Lazarus became more of a conceptual artist. After graduating in 1968, Lazarus attended various art workshops in Garden City. “A gentleman came around behind me at the workshop and asked me to come to his adult classes,” Lazarus said. “It was at Uniondale High School, and he said he will help me with my art.” Lazarus went to Frank Zizzo’s class weekConTinued on page 5
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