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Sound Smart at a Party British birds prefer to poop on red cars. No really, there was actually a

study. Researchers analyzed more than 1,100 cars in five British cities over a two-day period, and found that 18 percent of pooped-on cars were red. Blue cars came in number two (get it?) at 14 percent, followed by black at 11 percent and white at 7 percent. Grey and silver cars made out mostly doody free with 3 percent and only 1 percent of vehicular bird toilets were green. Unfortunately, none of the birds would comment to give us insight into why red and blue makes them want to relieve themselves…

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Apparently, Frederick

Douglass didn’t realize just how right he would someday be. In an effort to alleviate its overcrowded prisons, Brazil has decided to offer inmates four days off their sentence for every book they read. Prisoners will be able to read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to get a maximum of 48 days off their sentence each year. The inmates have four weeks to read each book and then are required to write an essay that must “make correct use of paragraphs, be free of

corrections, use margins and legible joined-up writing,” the notice said. No word yet on whether 50 Shades of Grey is on the list of approved books… A fire caused by an obese woman’s fat destroyed a crematorium in southern Austria. The 440-lb.

woman was being cremated when her excessive body fat blocked an air filter, which led to an overheating of the system and the fire. Firefighters had trouble putting out the blaze because of the thick layer of insulation lining the walls, and the crematorium was ultimately gutted…

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FROM THE EDITOR UNFRIENDLY SKIES Dear Editor: Bias against women has reared its ugly head in Islip [“Islip Fires Long Island MacArthur Airport Chief Teresa Rizzuto,” June 20]. In an unwarranted move by Islip Supervisor Tom Croci and the current Republican Islip Town Board to fire MacArthur Airport Commissioner Teresa Rizzuto due to the falling off of airline passengers and commercial traffic is unjustified. The prime airline at MacArthur, Southwest Airlines, has changed the amount of flights in and out of the airport and has changed many of the destination routes forcing many passengers to seek other carriers at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International airports to fly with. Commercial flights have fallen off due to the economy. Rail and ground transportation is cheaper then air freight. Hawthorne/ExcelAire, (aircraft service providers), have proposed plans to expand it’s facility based at MacArthur to accommodate some of the world’s largest corporate jets, including the new Boeing Business Jet, the Gulfstream g650, the Falcon 7X and the Bombardier Global series. Lengthening of two runways to accommodate these aircraft is on the planning board. Sheltair, another aircraft service provider has already signed a new long-term lease with the town and plans an upgrade. Rizzuto has faced the hard times at MacArthur airport, and made the tough decisions to advance the commercial and passenger flights. Never once has she turned a blind eye to new ideas or supportive suggestions. Her resume and credentials match and supersede many of her male

counterparts in the airline industry and she has earned the right to be on the same platform with every airport manager nationwide. To say she will be missed by the companies and airlines utilizing MacArthur airport, is too little for her stature. Islip Taxpayers will be the victims with her gone. Albert Luppo, Brentwood PUNISH RAPIST TEACHERS EQUALLY Dear Editor: That was a great Jerry’s Ink by Jerry Della Femina on the teacher sex scandals [“This Column is Only for Men Over 50,” June 7]. It makes me sick to think that these women will probably get away with it. These were clearly cases of statutory rape. They’ll claim it was consensual sex, say a tearful “I’m sorry!”, and get off with a few years. A male teacher caught having sex with a female student would be convicted of rape and be jailed for at least 10 years. What a double standard! Nick Ziino, Ridge 3 CHEERS FOR LI PIONEERS Dear Editor: I applaud the Long Island Press Power List of 50 Most Influential Long Islanders [June 7]. This powerhouse of people led the way on a path less taken. All of Long Island benefit by their contribution making Long Island a better place because they lived here. They have made a difference. Essentially, Long Island Press Power List of Influential Long Islanders put Long Island on the map. There’s no place like home. Susan & Robert Davniero, Lindenhurst

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MTV—PARTIAL SCORE The music network announces they are going back to their roots by airing three-hour blocks of old school favorites like Daria for the next six weeks as part of “Retro Mania.” Hey, you know what would be really retro? If MTV started playing music! But that’s just crazy talk…

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ARIZONA—OFF TARGET After Supreme Court ruling, Arizona begins implementing part of its anti-illegal immigration law that requires police to check immigration mtv status during routine traffic stops if they have a reasonable e suspicion the driver may be in the country illegally. But googl Gov. Jan Brewer says officers have been trained not to racially profile drivers but to instead look for signals like difficulty na speaking English. Spoken like a true politician! arizo BOOKS—PARTIAL SCORE E-book sales surpass hardcover sales for the first time ever, according to the Association of American Publishers, who say this is due to the increased availability of E-readers, tablets and smart phones. And because it’s a lot less embarrassing reading Fifty Shades of Grey on the LIRR behind the anonymity of a Kindle. RAINBOW OREOS—BULL’s eye Anti-gay Oreo lovers boycott the cookie after the company posts a picture of a rainbow-stuffed Oreo on their Facebook page in honor of Pride Week. In the words of the great Jerry Seinfeld, “Look to the cookie!” You’re only punishing yourselves, guys. GOOGLE—PARTIAL SCORE It takes 16,000 computers working as a brain to identify a cat, according to a study conducted by Google researchers at the company’s secret X laboratory, which focuses on creating futuristic technologies like self-driving cars and space elevators. Um, we understand the need for space elevators but why do we need a computer to identify cats? Zombies, on the other hand… ELMO—OFF TARGET Just when you thought you’d seen it all in Central Park, a man dressed up like Elmo is hauled off in handcuffs by the NYPD after yelling racial slurs and anti-Semitic nonsense to tourists and pedestrians, landing himself exactly where he should be—in the psych ward. Obviously this Elmo wasn’t tickled enough as a child.

Dean Skelos

New York State Senate Majority Leader (R-Rockville Centre)

Oh, Deano. Where to start. Sure, we had some good times. You got a lot of credit for allowing the Marriage Equality Act to come up for a vote last year. And with your buddy across the aisle, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the infamous Albany gridlock seemed to be a thing of the past—like that monthlong 2009 coup you fostered. But god forbid we ask for your support in making public display of small amounts of marijuana a violation instead of a misdemeanor. You’d rather continue the cycle of incarceration and poverty for New York City minority youths snared in the NYPD’s stop-andfrisk tactics. Even NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly supported the decriminalization of pot! Polls also found 59 percent of New Yorkers supported the idea, so your assertion that the state Senate GOP represents the majority is simply out of touch with reality. But hey, at least you were able to make a few cheap weed jokes for the cameras before the session ended “with a bang, not a bong.” While you’re off for the summer, campaigning and gerrymandering the redistricting process to keep your slim majority, don’t forget to clean out your desk. You now have something in common with the ganja: You’re fired!

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“I have worked tirelessly for the last few years to bring these charges to light, to bring this case to court and to see the day that this defendant, a serial child predator who committed horrific acts upon his victims causing lifelong and life changing consequences for all of them, has been held accountable for his crimes.” — Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly told the media after the verdict was announced that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of 48 counts of sexual abuse. Sandusky’s lawyers say they plan to appeal the verdict.

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An ironworker holds a furled American flag as officials autograph the ceremonial last beam before it is hoisted to the top of Four World Trade Center, Monday, June 25, 2012. The 72-floor, 977foot tower is scheduled to open late next year. It’s expected to be the first tower completed on the 16acre site since the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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1. YOUTUBE “WHALE SHOOTS RAINBOW OUT OF BLOWHOLE”: This video posted by rsean9000 and taken during a whale-watching tour in Nova Scotia shows just that. And, yes, we’re aware of the laws of science, but we don’t care.

2. RELIVE THE ’90S WITH SCREECH: Saved by the Bell’s Dustin Diamond—and star of Screeched: Saved by the Smell—returns to the Nutty Irishman in Farmingdale for ’90s Night with Nine Deez cover band, DJ Cory P, food and drink specials. So get out your stone-washed, high-waisted Jordache jeans, your Keds and your Day-Glo hair scrunchies, and remember the good ol’ days when Screech was that loveable nerd with a ’fro, before he was soliciting prostitutes for his porno flick. 3. LISTEN TO THE ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR: If you think you’ve never heard of this Danish acid jazz band, you probably have and just don’t realize it. Their music has been featured on everything from Gossip Girl, Mad Men and Suits to the current Heineken Pilsener commercial and they’ve opened for Amy Winehouse and Katy Perry. Download “The Golden Age” and “Around the Bend” on iTunes. 4. USE THE BLABLAMETER: Simply put, this is a bullshit detection tool. So, if you’re wondering how full of it you are, just cut and paste your text—anything from an apology letter to a school term paper to your opinions—at www.blablameter.com and in mere seconds you’ll find out whether you sound believable and sincere—or like Vince Shlomi trying to sell the ShamWow. 5. MEET ANDY COHEN: Now presiding over Bravo’s reality TV empire, the man behind all those crazy TV housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television show, Watch What Happens Live in his new book Most Talkative. On June 28, he stops by Book Revue in Huntington at 7 p.m. to dish on the absurd mishaps he’s witnessed during his 10 years at CBS News, and the real stories behind The Real Housewives.

6. PLAY BUBBLE MANIA: If you remember playing the game Bubbles back in the day, this is the modernized iPhone-compatible version. Shoot your way through 60+ levels by matching colored bubbles. Groups of three or more disappear and get you closer to the poor little baby critters held hostage by evil wizards at the top. It’s an app that’s classic-simple enough to be fun, but challenging enough to be addictive—and it’s free…

The amount of money raised, as of press time, for Karen Huff Klein, the upstate New York bus monitor who was callously bullied by a group of middle schoolers in a video that went viral on the Internet. The online campaign, which ends on July 20, was intended to raise $5,000 so Klein could take a vacation.

8. TIVO TNT’S THE GREAT ESCAPE: As if there weren’t enough reality shows on the air already, here’s another to add to the mix, only this one just might have legs. Created by the producers of CBS’ The Amazing Race—now heading into its 20th season—The Great Escape follows teams competing in real-life action scenes where they must escape from places like Alcatraz and the USS Hornet. So don’t just dismiss this one as yet another reality show. Each episode gives you an inside look at some of the most unusual, historic and notorious places around the globe. The show airs every Sunday at 10 p.m.

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Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino July 4, 1982 The Situation, the Iago of the Jersey Shore house, was born on the Fourth of July and is a Cancer, ruled by the fickle moon and symbolized by the moody crab. Cancers are known for their jealous tendencies. Born in Staten Island, Mike is a former underwear model known for causing drama and flashing his abs. Sorrentino made $5 million in 2010, the second highest income in reality TV after Kim Kardashian, partly due to his vodka and tuxedo lines, but mostly due to his diminished mental capacity from excessive alcohol—and slamming his own head into a concrete wall. Now that’s a situation.

9. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR TAKEN 2: If the first installment of Taken in 2008 didn’t scare the living hell out of you and make you burn your passport, here comes part two. Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA operative who decimated an Albanian slave-trading ring to rescue his kidnapped daughter. A year later, on a trip to Istanbul, Mills’ ex-wife is taken in a revenge plot and his daughter ends up on the run, while Mills once again uses his lethal skills to track them down and get them back. The film hits theaters this October. Hold on to your panties. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH For fireworks displays near you, flip to page 31. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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IMAGES OF AMERICA SERIES: OHEKA CASTLE, GOLD COAST, FIRE ISLAND Arcadia Publishing Some of Long Island’s ritziest and most photogenic regions recently got close-ups in the Images of America series, which compiles historical images from communities nationwide. In addition to two of the latest LI villages chronicled in separate books—Freeport and Locust Valley—three other new releases this spring each focus on Fire Island, the Gold Coast and Oheka Castle. Oheka Castle by Joan Cergol and Ellen Schaffer, draws out the history of the Castle from its Gilded Era heyday, its abandonment, military occupation and eventual restoration. Long Island’s Gold Coast by Paul J. Mateyunas takes readers on a trip to the North Shore in the early 1900s when the area was a breeding ground for architectural innovation—some of which remains preserved today. Fire Island: Beach and National Seashore by Shoshanna McCollum starts its journey back in the 1800s, when the barrier island was the scene of heroic lifesaving efforts, infamous shipwrecks and public protests against quarantining immigrants there during an 1892 cholera scare. It traces the beach’s history to 1964, when the Fire Island National Seashore was established. The five books should be considered required reading for local history buffs or anyone researching their hometown’s roots. —Anna Dinger

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resign for “health reasons” from the ticket and Hillary Clinton will (after a loud family fight at the Clinton household) be our next Vice President. Once elected, Obama will go wild. He will, by decree, turn the United States green. He will destroy the oil industry the same way he has destroyed the coal industry. Pipelines? He don’t need no stinking pipelines. Every cockamamie green project will get the green light and plenty of green dollars. Obama will make a stirring speech about our clean air debt to our children’s children every time a billion-dollar green project fails. We will have cars that run 60 miles on a gallon of gas. Unfortunately, many of us won’t be able to afford a gallon of gas. We will pray for the day when our unemployment numbers will go down to 10 percent. The unemployment numbers will flirt with 20 percent. Small business is doomed. Obama will blame our country’s four-year depression on Bush, Congress, Republicans, Europe and the greedy 1 percent who won’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. And the next greedy 50 percent who won’t pay their

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“fair share” of taxes. What he means by “fair” is socialism. We will become a second-rate country in the next four years. Egypt will be for Obama what Iran was for Jimmy Carter. When Obama went to Cairo in 2009 and talked about relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world, he said he regretted decades-old U.S. actions. He turned his back on Israel. That told the Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood the Middle East was theirs to take. Want to worry? In the next four years at least five nations will have their own drones and a president who likes to play “who shall live and who shall die?” And now that the Obama administration took credit for cyber warfare against Iran, you can bet that there’s some little pimply-faced 16-year-old technological whiz in Russia, China, Pakistan or Iran who, using his computer, has the ability to turn off half the computer-run lights or planes or factories in the United States in one day. The truth is when we re-elect Obama after the past hapless four years we deserve what we get. I’m so, so depressed.

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John Caruso points to an orange pushpin on a poster-size map propped up against a wall inside Massapequa Water District’s conference room. Unlike the charts one might expect to find in the headquarters of a water district—perhaps delineating the mileage of its distribution system or the locations of its pumping stations— this map and several others bear massive, multi-colored splotches smeared across their tops. Some also have dates. “1987 Plume” marks a yellow knife-shaped stain on one, spanning about a mile just north of Hempstead Turnpike in Bethpage. “1994 Plume” shows a green blob, more than double in size. Six years later it’s shaded red and has become even more gigantic. The “2003 Plume,” a blue spot that’s tripled in girth, blots out the turnpike and a long stretch of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. By 2012, the purple mass encompasses about four and a half miles, overrunning the Southern State Parkway and spilling into North Wantagh. Caruso’s orange pin marks its southern-most edge, where he says, chemicals associated with the evercreeping ooze, such as Trichloroethylene, or TCE—classified as a human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—were detected in the groundwater earlier this year. “We had the Navy install a monitoring well here, and that monitoring well now shows that at 150 feet, the Grumman plume is there,” he tells the Press. “That’s within eight-tenths of a mile of our wells.” By “Grumman Plume,” Caruso is referring to a roughly 4.5-mile long by 3.5-mile wide underground pool of toxic chemicals emanating from the former Grumman Aerospace Corporation and Naval Weapons Industrial 14

—MASSAPEQUA WATER DISTRICT COMMISSIONER John CARUSO

Reserve Plant (NWIRP) sites in Bethpage, which for the past several decades, has been bleeding southsoutheast and contaminating public drinking water wells in its path. Caruso, a commissioner of the Massapequa Water District (MWD) and a former Nassau County Department of Public Works deputy commissioner for water supply and sewers, is one of the plume’s most vocal and passionate critics. He’s been trying, in vain he says, for years

to get regulators, namely the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), to stop its southward migration dead in its tracks. Lately he’s been encouraging residents to contact Gov. Andrew Cuomo. As the latest boring is proof, Caruso says, the plume is traveling much faster than the agency states, and he estimates Massapequa’s public water supply wells will become polluted within approximately four

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years. He wants the plume cleaned up once and for all, starting immediately, and the parties responsible for the caustic mess— Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. Department of Navy; both named in state documents as Potentially Responsible Parties, or PRPs—to pay for it. Most importantly, Caruso can’t stress enough, is the need for the cleanup to take place now, before the toxic mess contaminates the drinking water wells supplying his district’s 46,000 customers. The water commissioner holds especial disdain for the DEC’s current plan regarding water supply wells that may be hit in the future, which he says, is to allow the public water supply wells to first become contaminated, and then for the Navy or Grumman to pick up the construction and implementation costs of what’s called “wellhead treatment,” afterward. Caruso slams the strategy— known as the Wellhead Treatment Contingency Plan—as nonsensical, overly costly and dangerous to public health and safety. The approach is a requirement of the DEC’s final 2001 Record of Decision on how to handle the bulk of the groundwater contamination plume, dubbed Operable Unit 2 (OU2). “We do not want wellhead treatment!” he blasts. “What we want is the Navy and Grumman to stop the plume, by what is known as hydraulic containment… Why are we letting a perfectly good water supply get contaminated when it can be stopped?” Massapequa Water District’s plan, which cost about $500,000 to devise and is still evolving, says Caruso, includes up to 12 extraction wells along the plume’s southern-most edge forming a hydraulic defense to suck up chemicals, pump them to a treatment f e at u r e s

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facility and re-inject it back into the ground, post-decontamination. The estimated cost is $400 million over 30 years—cheaper, he says, than what it would be to perform wellhead treatment at all 25 wells that are in the plume’s path. Jim Harrington, of the DEC’s Division of Environmental Remediation, defends the agency’s strategy, saying Massapequa’s proposal is too costly and too difficult to implement. He also disputes its effectiveness, and questions whether the chemicals discovered at the Southern State Parkway well are the Navy-Grumman plume. “We don’t want their wells to become contaminated,” he tells the Press. “We’ve done what we think is the best selection to prevent that. There is some potential that eventually one or more of the Massapequa wells will be impacted slightly. There is no certainty that it will be impacted by any great degree.” Caruso isn’t alone in his demands, his frustration or criticism. Officials from several other water districts within the plume’s path have also been sounding the alarm about the oncoming disaster set to pollute their consumers’ drinking water— which could ultimately affect more than 200,000 residents, according to Caruso.

OUTRAGE: HUNDREDS OF CONCERNED RESIDENTS AND HOMEOWNERS PACKED BETHPAGE HIGH SCHOOL JUNE 12 TO WEIGH IN ON THE NYS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION’S LATEST PROPOSAL REGARDING HOW TO HANDLE CONTAMINATION AT BETHPAGE COMMUNITY PARK AND PARTS OF A TOXIC PLUME SPREADING SOUTH. (r) JIM HARRINGTON OF THE DEC ADDESSES THE CROWD.

“Let’s stop it where it is. Let’s not let it continue to migrate further south impacting more wells, and possibly the Great South Bay,” says Len Constantinopoli, business manager and 23-veteran of the South Farmingdale Water District, the next Nassau municipal public drinking water supply in the plume’s crosshairs. He tells the Press South Farmingdale is ready, at least for Round One. With the help of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), who’s been actively involved in the issue, says Constantinopoli, the district successfully negotiated $14.5 million from the Navy to

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pay for a wellhead treatment facility at one of its plants, which opened last year. “We will be impacted in the very near future,” he says, ominously. “It could be today.” Constantinopoli and Caruso are not the only ones up in arms. “They’re saying they can get 90 percent capture of the plume,” Bill Varley, president of New York American Water, says of the DEC’s latest Proposed Remedial Action Plan (PRAP), which was presented to several hundred residents for public comment at a heated, near-standing

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room only session at Bethpage High School June 12. (The public comment period on efforts to clean up what’s called OU3, ends July 30.) His company operates wells in Levittown and parts of Massapequa, among other municipalities, and presently has one temporary treatment facility in place that the Navy paid for. “Ninety percent’s not acceptable,” he says. “You got to get 100 percent.” That PRAP primarily addresses cleanup efforts at Bethpage Community Park—a 12-acre parcel donated to the Town of Oyster Bay

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in 1962 that presently includes an ice rink, swimming pools and tennis courts. The plan includes the excavation and off-site disposal of park soils, including the removal of hazardous waste levels of PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyl-impacted soils, soil remediation, excavation of the nearby Grumman Access Road, onsite groundwater containment and excavation of impacted adjacent residential yards, as well as addressing soil vapor issues. For the migrating offsite plume, the agency proposes “at least one groundwater extraction well with necessary treatment.” The plan costs an estimated $81 million. Additional critics, such as Anthony Sabino, an attorney representing Bethpage Water District and navigating the murky world of the plume since 1980, counter it’s not aggressive enough and that instead of one new well at least six are required. Perhaps no one knows the plume’s costly ramifications or the issue’s overall complexities more intimately than he. “That’s the wrong approach, certainly for South Farmingdale and Massapequa,” he says of the DEC’s contaminate-first, then-treat wellhead contingency strategy. “Not all of their wells are contaminated. All of our

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wells down gradient from Grumman are contaminated, so we don’t have that option. We’ve been treating here since 1988.” Sabino, whose fiery comments at the public input session sparked several moments of resounding applause, tells the Press that to add insult to injury, Bethpage taxpayers have had to foot $21 million in upgrades and treatment processes necessary to remove the toxic contaminants from its drinking water wells, and that the water district will soon be filing a lawsuit against Grumman to force reimbursement. “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore,” he says.

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Few can argue the historical, societal and geopolitical significance of Grumman, now NorthropGrumman, and the role the defense manufacturer has played in not only shaping the future of the United States, but in sculpting the future of the entire world. Grumman was instrumental in helping the Allies win World War II through its development of cuttingedge technology and aeronautical designs in military aircraft

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and weapons systems. That legacy continued throughout the decades. It developed and manufactured the F4F Wildcat, the F6F Hellcat and the F-14 Tomcat, among other fighter planes. It manufactured satellites for NASA. Grumman helped put man on the moon as the chief contractor for the Apollo Lunar Module. In its heyday, the company was the largest employer on Long Island, thus helping found the nation’s first suburb by creating jobs for tens of thousands of Long Islanders after WWII, when many returning veterans decided to call the Island home. According to DEC documents, the 600-acre Grumman Aerospace complex included both Grummanowned and operated plants and government-owned and contractoroperated plants. Grumman’s operations began in 1930 and the NWIRP started operations in 1933. All manufacturing ceased at both facilities in 1996, they state, and the complex was listed in the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in New York in 1983. In the eyes of the agency, the complex is divided into three operable units, or as the DEC defines them: “a portion of a remedial program for a site that for technical or administrative reasons can be addressed

separately to investigate, eliminate or mitigate a release, threat of release or exposure pathway resulting from the site contamination.” The site’s former manufacturing plant area is designated Operable Unit 1 (OU1). Operable Unit 2 (OU2), DEC records show, consists of the groundwater contamination plume and is designated as a joint operable unit for both the Grumman and NWIRP sites. Operable Unit 3 (OU3)—whose Proposed Remedial Action Plan, or PRAP, was the subject of the June 12 public meeting at Bethpage High School—consists of the former Grumman settling ponds, the Grumman Access Road, some adjacent property and impacted groundwater not addressed by OU2. It’s tough to pin down exactly when the first red flags were raised regarding practices at the facilities that would eventually contribute to the current environmental dilemma now threatening so many communities’ drinking water wells—after all, the EPA didn’t come into existence until 1970, the Clean Water Act 1972 and Safe Drinking Water Act, which sets public drinking water supply quality standards, wasn’t until 1974—but voluminous state DEC records indicate a long history of environmental unfriendliness at

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the complex. “From 1943 to 1949, Grumman disposed of chromic acid wastes directly on the ground or in open seepage basins,” reads OU2’s 2001 report. “From the early 1950s to 1978, drums containing liquid wastes were stored on a cinder covered area over a cesspool leach field,” it continues. “This leach field may have been used to discharge process wastewater.” “Prior to 1984, some Plant 3 production-line rinse waters were discharged in the three on-site recharge basins. These waters were directly exposed to chemicals used in the industrial processes (rinsing of manufactured parts),” it adds. “The primary groundwater contaminants are chlorinated VOCs [Volatile Organic Compounds], which were either used and disposed of at the sites or are breakdown products of these chemicals,” it concludes. “These compounds are: perchloroethene (PCE); trichloroethene (TCE); dichloroethenes (DCE); vinyl chloride; 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane. Inorganic analytes (metals), specifically arsenic, cadmium and chromium were detected in groundwater samples that were collected at the sites.” Increased PCE, TCE and DCE

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Those ponds, currently buried beneath baseball fields at Bethpage Community Park, contain chromium and PCB-impacted fill materials. exposure can have detrimental effects on the central nervous system, blood, brain, bladder, kidney, liver and reproductive organs, according to the NYS Department of Health. There were “settling ponds” located on the site, which from 1949 till 1962 states the OU3 PRAP, was used for “the dewatering of sludge, including neutralized chromic acid waste.” Those ponds, currently buried beneath baseball fields at Bethpage Community Park, contain

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BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE DEC’S LATEST PROPOSAL OUTLINES REMEDIAL EFFORTS FOR WHAT’S CALLED OU3, WHICH INCLUDES PARTS OF THE FORMER 600-ACRE GRUMMAN AEROSPACE COMPLEX IN BETHPAGE THAT IS NOW BETHPAGE COMMUNITY PARK. AN INVESTIGATION DISCOVERED THAT PRIOR TO 1984, CHEMICALS WERE DISCHARGED INTO THE FORMER COMPLEX’S RECHARGE BASINS. (Scott Kearney/Long Island Press)

chromium and PCB-impacted fill materials. A former “Rag Pit Disposal Area” contains chlorinated and nonchlorinated VOCs, it reads. The Grumman Access Road, within earshot of children frolicking in the park’s swimming pools and abutting residential homes, is “impacted with PCBs, chromium, and to a lesser extent, cadmium,” the report continues. “The OU 3 investigation found significant soil, soil vapor, and

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groundwater contamination at the site,” it states. “Contaminants of concern”—hazardous wastes sufficiently present in frequency and concentration in the environment to require evaluation for remedial action—include: Trichloroethylene; 1,1,1 Trichloroethane; aviation engine oil; chrome etchant; machine oil; paint; paint solvents, Polychlorinated Biphenyl oil; Tetrachloroethene; Toluene; Chlorodifluoromethane; Dichlorodifluoromethane;

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Chromium; Cadmium; Arsenic; and Freon 113. Yet despite the ever-expanding toxic cocktail headed their way, the importance of Grumman and the Navy’s work is not lost on any of the plume’s critics, nor the hundreds who packed Bethpage High School to hear the DEC’s latest plans on dealing with their mess. They just want it cleaned up, now. “They built 330 F6 Hellcats per month,” boomed Bill Ellinger, a

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lifelong Bethpage resident and commissioner at its water district, at the public meeting. “They used to go right over my house when they tested them.” “They had equipment that you couldn’t fit in this room that was being lubricated by all the stuff that they dumped overboard by the ton,” he said. “Now it formed this tremendous plume that the DEC knew about in 1969, when the waters all went bad and they called us, the Bethpage Water District… That’s 35 years ago! And they’re still doing studies!? Are you guys kidding me or what? Caruso, the Massapequa water commissioner, tries to stay positive. “Let’s face it, without Grumman and the Navy doing what they did in World War Two, we might be speaking a different language today,” he says. “Now let’s use all of that technical horsepower and clean this up, which shouldn’t be much of a challenge.” A Northrop-Grumman spokeswoman tells the Press in an emailed statement the company “has been actively engaged in environmental and remediation activities at the complex for over 20 years, during which time the company has invested over $105 million.” “The Navy is in the process

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of compiling and updating the costs of the extensive investigation and cleanup work that it has undertaken for NWIRP OU-1 and OU-2 and it is therefore not in a position to provide a cost figure at this time,” writes a Navy spokesman in an emailed response to questions for this story. Massapequa residents need look no further than the dead-end block of Sophia Street in Bethpage to see the future, because Caruso’s worst fear is Bethpage’s reality.

PUMP AND TREAT

Sandwiched between a strip of trees and high-power electrical lines at the end of a residential street, Bethpage Water District’s Plant Four site sits a bit out of place. Two near-identical, three-story metallic gray silos tower above the neighborhood, attached to two near-identical red brick buildings. There’s a constant humming noise that explodes into a deafening roar once inside, where large computerized consoles flash and blink, packed with gauges and switches. One door leads to a chamber housing what look like six gigantic barbeque gas tanks. Another leads to a basement

interwoven with intricate pipes work and valves. Outside, massive pipes jutting from the ground outside shoot intermittent gushes of water. “This plant was necessary because the water coming out of the ground didn’t meet state or federal standards for drinking water,” explains Sabino, who lead several Press reporters on a tour of the site with Michael Boufis, the water district’s superintendent. “So without this plant, this facility would be shut down and we would not have enough water pumping from all of our wells to serve the Bethpage public in the summertime. So, either we would have to buy water from a neighboring district or do what we did, which is remediate the water to a perfectly clean level so we could continue to use our existing sites.” Pumps and blowers push air and water through the silos, which are filled with tiny plastic spheres, and break down contaminants, he explains, which are released as gas. The process, called air stripping, removes approximately 99 percent of the pollutants; the final 1 percent, they explain, is removed through the giant tanks through a process called carbon polishing. The 100-percent clean water then travels to a storage tank, into the district’s distribution system and into residents’ homes. It’s

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also very expensive. “There’s no chemicals in it [the finished product], zero, none whatsoever,” stresses Sabino. “That’s why we spent $10 million at this site and another $6 to $8 million at another site a few blocks away, so that people could get water that they were confident in. That’s very important to us. “Plus, I live three blocks away,” he continues. “I drink this water. My grandchildren drink this water. So I’m not going to drink—nor would I expect you or my kids to drink— water that’s tainted with Grumman

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plume chemicals.” As efficient as the process is, however, Boufis explains they really had no choice. “Since we’re dealing with contaminate levels that are so high, we don’t have an option to make a mistake,” he says. “We built this plant to protect our public.” Plant Four treats 4 million gallons of water here per day and is designed to handle contaminant levels of more than 11,000 parts per billion total VOCs; the state and federal legal limit for drinking water is currently 5 parts per billion. Lately, they’ve been

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MAD AS HELL: (L-R) ANTHONY SABINO, AN ATTORNEY WHO’S BEEN REPRESENTING BETHPAGE WATER DISTRICT SINCE 1980, AND BETHPAGE WATER DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT MICHAEL BOUFIS, WANT GRUMMAN TO PAY FOR $21 MILLION IN NECESSARY UPGRADES MADE TO PROTECT CUSTOMERS AND REMOVE HARMFUL CONTAMINANTS FROM ITS DRINKING WATER SUPPLY WELLS. THE IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH INCLUDE AIR STIPPING TOWERS AND CARBON POLISHING TANKS AT ITS PLANT FOUR FACILITY (PICTURED IN BACKGROUND), CLEAN BETHPAGE’S WATER TO “NON-DETECT” LEVELS. (Scott Kearney/Long Island Press)

getting levels of 150 parts per billion. Sabino says Grumman has been critical of the plant as overly cautious, yet he counters, just 700 feet north a monitoring well picked up readings of 5,000 parts and roughly 2,100 feet further north a test well shows 10,000 parts. “That means everything you see here was absolutely necessary and it means if we get 10,000 parts, we might have to abandon this site,” he says, pointing out among the trees. “Hopefully it’s not going to get that high. Hopefully the state will do something further and in time to

protect this site.” It’s not the first time Grumman, the Navy or the state’s been wrong regarding the plume, either, blasts Sabino. In fact, he charges, they’ve not only been wrong, but slow and even reluctant to act, since Day One. They denied the plume was even related to Grumman in the mid-1980s, he says. In the early 1990s, they professed it was contained. They didn’t even test the nearby residential neighborhood for soil and vapor contamination, he adds, until they were pressured. Additionally, the entire model they were basing efforts off was completely

disproven, he says. Boufis, who came to Bethpage in 2009 when he was 42 after 21 years at the Suffolk County Water District, where he ran operations, says a Grumman representative told him at his first meeting with the company that he’d be 60 before contamination hit the district’s Plant Six. “I went into a meeting like a year after,” he recalls.” “I said, ‘By the way, you all need to wish me a happy birthday…I’m 60 years old…’ We were up to 1,600 parts of TCE at Plant 6.” Sabino faults lax regulation.

“The state has not protected the public in Bethpage, has not done its job, they should be ashamed of themselves,” stresses Sabino. “I can’t say it enough. We protect the public in Bethpage by default.” “Not only do we have to do the regulator’s job, we have to do the enforcement job now, by going to court to get our money back from Grumman,” he continues. “The state should be directing that, not us… They’re doing nothing but window dressing to make it look like they’re trying to protect the environment and they’re not! The facts show they are not!” “This is a travesty,” he adds. “They’ve done everything they could possibly do to minimize the remediation of this plume to the detriment of the Bethpage public, South Farmingdale public and Massapequa public. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.” Regarding Bethpage’s $21million gripe, a Northrop-Grumman spokeswoman tells the Press in an emailed statement: “We are aware of their claim and we are engaged in discussions with the Bethpage Water District.” But it’s not just the water districts that are livid about the plume’s trek to the South

The Time Has Come for Alternate Development The Taubman Company’s attempts to take the environmental review process (SEQRA) away from the Town of Oyster Bay and turn it over to NY State, concerning the proposed mega-mall on the former Cerro Wire property in Syosset, is being met with strong opposition across Long Island. A recent LI Business News poll showed 79% of the respondents think authority on SEQRA matters should remain with local government. Alternate development of the Cerro Wire property is the answer.

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Wearing a long-brimmed blue sunhat and dark sunglasses, a 63-yearold woman who requested her name not be used for this story but who we’ll call Stella, spent a recent sunny afternoon watering her front lawn on Sycamore Avenue. Stella moved to this side of Bethpage about 15 years ago with her husband, purchasing the house once lived in by her brother and his wife, who both passed away from cancer. Her house lies just two doors down from 11th Street, where the Navy went door-to-door testing homes for vapor intrusions of VOCs several years ago and picked up the initial costs for installing air purifying units and sub-slab depressurization systems in nearly a dozen homes. Stella and her husband, who we’ll call John, say someone, maybe from the DEC, told them theirs was “clear” and that they’d be back to re-test it in November.

“Whether it’s true or not, who knows,” she says. “They told me ‘No.’” Sycamore runs parallel to the old Grumman Access Road, which the DEC has proposed to excavate in order to remove PCB and chromium fill. Some neighbors on her block have filed a lawsuit, she says. Others have died of cancer, she adds, though she can’t be sure it has anything to do with the current situation with Grumman and the Navy. Stella says she’s been to every meeting she’s heard about regarding Grumman, the Navy and the plume, including the DEC’s public comment session June 12, but she didn’t know anything about the situation until shortly after moving in, when the nearby Bethpage Community Park she went for walks through was boarded up. “I would have never bought the house,” Stella says, had she known about the neighborhood’s dirty secret. The couple wants the plume cleaned up, they say, and they want Grumman or the Navy to pay for it. So do some of LI’s top elected officials. Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, who’s been involved in the

Navy-Grumman plume issue since the mid-1980s as a civic advocate, then a legislator, tells the Press he stands “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the water districts. U.S. Rep. Peter King says he, too, wants a more aggressive cleanup and the responsible parties to pay for it, not taxpayers. Local environmentalists share the frustration. “The bottom line is, it’s a very serious plume that needs to be cleaned up aggressively, and they’re not doing that,” says Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment. Esposito attended a recent information session with the DEC about the plume and found them having “a way too casual attitude” about cleaning it up, she says. “This plume should have never got this far!” Esposito is also angry that Bethpage Water District has yet to be reimbursed for its protective efforts and like the water districts, oppose the DEC’s wellhead contingency plan in favor of a more aggressive approach of additional extraction wells. “That is obscene, that is negligent and it’s criminal,” she says of the DEC’s current strategy. “Because what they’re saying is it’s cheaper

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WITH THE PUNCHES @ LOONEY TUNES Long Island favorites With the Punches comes to Babylon to celebrate the release of their new album Seams & Stitches. The band will play a full electric set and then hang around to meet fans and sign some autographs. Cameras are allowed during the show and the autograph signing. Pre-order the band’s new CD online or in-store to get a wristband for event entry. No orders ship. It all begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday, 7.3.—Daphne Livingston PHISH @ NIKON @ JONES BEACH THEATER Ever since the grand-daddy of the jamband scene and heir apparent to musical forefathers The Grateful Dead followed up a four-year break-up by releasing 2009’s Steve Lillywhite-produced Joy, Phish has resumed its road warrior ways. Always known for having an idiosyncratic streak a mile wide, the foursome most recently headlined Bonnaroo alongside the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Radiohead, taking enough time out to invite Kenny Rogers on stage to play a straightforward version of “The Gambler.” But this week the masters of live performance stop at the beach and they’ll probably bring a small city in tow. Tuesday, 7.3.—Manny Fernandez

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La Cage Aux Folles @ CM Performing Arts Center, 6.30-7.22. Men’s Lives @ Bay Street Theatre, 7.37.29. SIN @ Vibe Lounge Service Industry Night: 50 percent off all drinks from 10-midnight, Sundays.

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EHM ROCK ART SHOW @ JEDEDIAH HAWKINS INN WEHM rocks the art world—and Long Island—with an amazing collection of works featuring classic artists like Paul McCartney, Jerry Garcia, John Entwistle, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, U2 and more, plus rock photographs of everyone from Bon Jovi to Johnny Cash. Handwritten song lyrics, album cover artwork, gold records, concert tour posters, Beatles cartoon drawings and more will be available for purchase. For the opening weekend Gary Sohmers, the King of Pop Culture, who appeared as a flamboyant collectibles and memorabilia appraiser on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow for 13 seasons will appraise pop culture and music items for customers beginning Friday. A donation of a non-perishable canned food item is requested for all appraisals for Rock CAN Roll. Friday, 6.29-Sunday, 7.8—Jaclyn Gallucci Venue addresses and information can be found on Page 32

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Something Fresh Sundaze @ Dublin Deck $3 Coors Light. DJ, live music, happy hour from 4-9 p.m., Sundays.

Hump Day Hoe Down @ Dublin Deck Country night with line dancing and mechanical bull, $4 Corona Lite. Wednesdays.

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Tijuana Thursdays @ Napper Tandy’s Northport Corona buckets, margarita pitchers, taco buffet. Thursdays.

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Ladies Night @ McFadden’s Ladies drink free, DJ music. Thursdays. Bluesy Jam @ Wicker’s Live jazz. Thursdays. Tower Thursdays @ Mulcahy’s $10 you call it towers, excluding Guinness, $5 pizzas. Thursdays. Continued on page 28

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Love Shack @ Dublin Deck Free ladies night, DJ & dancing, Thursdays. Middle Country Club Thursdays @ Middle Country Beer Garden With My Country 96.1 live. Thursdays. Midnight Madness @ Lily Flanagan’s $20 open bar from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. Fridays. Shafer’s Fridays @ Schafer’s Party on two floors under the retractable roof. Fridays. Live Music @ Jackie Reilly’s Never a cover charge. Fridays. X-Treme Bowling @ Woodmere Lanes/ Backstage Nite Club Music is poppin’, pins are hoppin’! Fridays. GSB happy Hour @ TJ Finley’s 2-fer Great South Bay Beers, $5 bar menu from noon-8 p.m. Fridays. Heineken Concert Series @ Dublin Deck Performance and $4 Heineken. Saturdays. Beach Bar Saturdays @ Beach Bar Hamptons beach party. Saturdays. Karma Saturdays @ Vibe Lounge Top 40 dance party, no cover

before 1 a.m. with VIP print. Saturdays. Ladies Night @ Blue No cover, open bar from 9-10 p.m. for ladies, DJ and dancing. Saturdays. Epic Saturdays @ Middle Country Beer Garden DJ dancing. Saturdays. Midnight Happy Hour @ The Loyal Dog Drink specials from midnight-3 a.m. Saturdays. Saturdays Give you Wings @ McFadden’s $3 Coors lights, $5 Jager Bombs, $5 Red Bull Vodkas till midnight. Saturdays. Absolutely Saturdays @ Napper Tandy’s Smithtown & Miller Place $4 Heineken Lights, $4 Absolut drinks. Saturdays. Beer Garden Saturdays @ Middle Country Beer Garden Weekly party at the Garden. Saturdays. Southbar Saturdays @ Mulcahy’s DJ dance party. Saturdays. Long Island in Bloom @ Long Island Museum, A major exhibition on the art of flowers. Through 7.8.

Geometry of Color/ New Work @ art sites, Colorful abstract artworks using geometry. 5.26-7.8. Facebook Formatted @ Nassau County Museum of Art Social networking is mashed up with the world of contemporary art. Through 7.8. The Outdoor Museum (Not Your Usual Images Of NY) @ Guild Hall New York City photographs. Through 7.29. Escape: Video Art From Long Island @ Guild Hall From the single-screen to immersive installations, playing off the idea of LI as a beachy getaway. 6.30–7.29. David Hicks’ Specimens and Artifacts @ Boltax Gallery Objects that reference botanical structures. 6.29-7.30. thursday 6.28 Islanders Blue & White Scrimmage @ Nassau Coliseum To Benefit Islanders Children’s Foundation. Meshell Ndegeocello @ Highline Ballroom Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers @ City Winery Wake the Machines/ Radiation Blackbody/Grudges @ St. Vitus Welcome to Lawn

Guyland w/Stevie GB @ Brokerage Fire Island Summer Kickoff Party & Red Wagon Giveaway @ The Lark The Producers @ Planting Fields Arboretum Toryn Green @ Mulcahy’s, With Christina Larscha, Echo Hill, Fear of None & Night Screams. Andy Cohen (Most Talkative) @ Book Revue The Jacksons @ Apollo Theater Sierra Leone’s Reefugee All-Stars @ Highline Ballroom For Locals by Locals @ Gramercy Theatre With The Shop, Satellite Hearts, Toy Soldiers, Atomic Bomb Jesus Culture Conference @ Nassau Coliseum, Through 6.30. friday 6.29 Veteran’s Fundraiser @ Memorare Caterers An evening of dinner, dancing, open bar and raffles for NYVAG. For more information visit www.nyvag.org or call 516-398-4120. Once Upon a Time: Music of Charles Strouse @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center Continued on page 30

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album review Go - Motion City Soundtrack

Pop punk veterans Motion City Soundtrack have returned for their fifth full-length release, Go. The result is an album that walks the tight wire between growth, progression, and familiarity. Though it has been under scrutiny and speculation since its mid-June release, the album still commands listeners to revisit the 11 tracks over and over again. While many feel this record does not reflect exactly what they were expecting, it does deliver on a number of levels. With a more relaxed approach, Go is a record in which its crafters demonstrate how to grow up. With songs like “Timelines” and “Happy Anniversary,” the band shows their knack at deftly creating catchy anthems grounded in sentiment. It’s through this approach to songwriting in which MCS shows their strength and growth. Granted their youthfulness is still inherent in their synth and lyrics (check “True Romance” and “Box Elder”), but the levity found in previous works has taken on considerable weight. And though this may sound like a negative effect, instead it creates a more intimate relationship between the artists and each listener. The Minneapolis quintet has managed to finely tune their form, as well as expand upon it. With crisp vocals, catchy synth, melodic guitars, and precise drums all on display, MCS shows their fans how much they’ve grown both individually and as a unit. In a genre where bands come and go overnight, Motion City Soundtrack has firmly staked their claim in the epochs of pop punk. Go has a dynamic that is both refreshing yet familiar, and ultimately serves as a testament to this band’s originality and presence. Love them or hate them, love Go, or hate Go. The quintet delivers another strong entry into their canon, which is sure to win its listeners over. The band plays Gramercy Theater Friday, 6.29.—Michael Ventimiglia 28

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Gatsby and Beyond: The Fabled Gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast @ LIU Hutton House

Shawn Colvin @ Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, With the recent release of All Fall Down, the Austin resident returned to the studio for the first time in six years after spending much of her time off the road crafting new material and enjoying single motherhood in Texas. As part of that early ’80s wave of Greenwich Village new folk artists

that included Suzanne Vega, Lucy Kaplansky and Cliff Eberhardt, Colvin has reaped her fair share of success including a few Grammy wins. Of course, wielding the ability to blend country, folk and soft-rock into agreeable story-songs like the hit “Sunny Came Home” or quirky covers of The Police and Tom Waits goes a long towards cementing critical and popular acclaim even if her last studio album was 2006’s These Four Walls.—Manny Fernandez Black Witchery/

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The play’s tagline is “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.” Broken up into vignettes that address the “I Love You” dating stage, the “You’re Perfect” marry me stage and the “Now Change!” married with kids stage, Joe Pietro’s award-winning musical comedy about love in the suburbs hilariously explores the trials and tribulations of relationships, from bad first dates to family trips. The live performance contains mature subject matter, so for those of you in the “Now Change!” stage, you’re probably going to want to leave the kids at home. John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, Thursday, 7.5-Sunday, 8.19.—Jaclyn Gallucci

Burial Ritual/ Agrath/Winter Nights @ St. Vitus Classic Rock Weekend @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury With Hot Tuna on 6.29 & Zappa Plays Zappa 6.30. Bruce Vilanch & Judy Gold @ Bay Street Theatre Chris Robinson Brotherhood @ Music Hall of Williamsburg It’s no secret that in Chris Robinson’s most recent solo incarnation, he’s been heavily involved with the recently-resurrected Laurel Canyon cosmic roots rock movement that counts Dawes, Conor Oberst and Johnathan Rice among its proponents. With the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, the Black Crowes frontman has gone further down this musical path and come out of the other side of it with Big Moon Ritual, the debut album for the CRB. This immersion into psychedelia stirs rock, country, boogie and blues into a potent stew begging to be sampled out in the hinterlands of Brooklyn.—MF Electric Hot Tuna @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury Glen Hansard @ Beacon Theatre Stevie Nicks @ Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater Codeine plus Steven Brodsky @ Bell House, If you blinked in the early 1990s, you missed Codeine, a New York City-based trio that was the Big Apple’s answer to Low. Drummer Chris Brokaw did double-duty with both Codeine and Thalia Zedek’s band Come, before he broke

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GO FOURTH! Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday this year which means you could easily extend the usual three-day holiday weekend into a five-day mini vacation—if you play your cards right—with plenty of down time to juggle BBQs, graduation parties, beach time, fireworks, sleeping on the hammock with a cooler by your side and anything else that happens to come up. Allow us to fill in the blanks… TD Bank Celebrates America Fireworks @ Eisenhower Park —June 30, Also July 2 LI Ducks Fireworks @ Bethpage Ballpark—July 2-4 Outdoor Sousa Concert @ Patchogue Theatre—July 4 Go 4th on the Bay Fireworks @ South Bay off Fire Island & Middle Bay off Connetquot River—July 3 Country Freedom Fest Concert 2012 @ Brookhaven Amphitheater— July 3 Star Spangled Blast Fireworks/LI Philharmonic @ Brookhaven Amphitheater— July 4 Stars Over Montauk Fireworks @ Umbrella Beach, Montauk—July 4 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest @ Coney Island—July 4 Independence Day Fireworks @ Peconic Waterfront, Downtown Riverhead—July 4 away from Codeine after three albums, effectively amicably ending the band. With the reissue of the band’s canon and a request by fans Mogwai to play I’ll Be Your Mirror, last month’s All Tomorrow’s Parties sister event, the threesome are carrying this reunion forth. But with the future so unsure, now is the time to catch Codeine before they break up

Go 4th on the Bay Fireworks @ Mid-Bay off Ocean Park— July 4 The Captree Fleet offers the best seat in the house to view the show. Make reservations at captreefleet.com to come aboard one of the many party boats and enjoy a spectacular night of fireworks under the stars. Independence Day Celebration w/Teddy Roosevelt @ Sagamore Hill— July 4 Old-Fashioned Independence Day @ Old Bethpage Village Restoration—July 4 Parade of American Flags @ North Shore Heritage Park, Mount Sinai—July 4 Children’s Fourth of July Bicycle Parade @ Finley Middle School, Glen Cove— July 4 Fourth of July Celebration/ Concert @ Peconic Waterfront, Riverhead—July 4 Declaration of Independence Reading @ North of LIRR, Merrick—July 4 —Jaclyn Gallucci

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per Tandy’s Miller Place Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Morrison Edley (DJ Set)/ White Ring/Night Vision @ St. Vitus Sam Prekop & Archer Prewitt (of the Sea and Cake) @ Mercury Lounge With Helado Negro. R.C. Smith @ Brokerage Comedy Club Women Rock the Ribbon @ Napper Tandy’s Smithtown Benefiting the Fortunato Breast Health Center. Watch Hill Sunset Marsh Walk @ Watch Hill Visitor Center on Fire Island Strong Island Roller Derby: Home vs. Harford Area Roller Derby @ Sports Arena, After party at Katie’s of Smithtown! Zappa Plays Zappa @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury, I admit to having a soft-spot for Frank Zappa, having registered to vote at his 1987 Nassau Coliseum tour stop for the You Can’t Do That On Stage Tour. One of my most vivid recollections was son Dweezil coming out to jam on a totally unironic reading of The Allman Brothers Band’s “Whipping Post” while his pop proudly beamed on the side, stopping only to occasionally wave a conductor’s baton or sip on a mug of coffee. In recent years, the younger Zappa has paid tribute to his late Dad with help from a crack crew that’s dipped deeply into the canon of the elder Zappa, often making for quite a numbers of memorable evenings. —MF This Is All Now EP

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Wayne Shorter Quartet @ Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Considered by many to be the greatest living jazz composer, Wayne Shorter has made a major mark in the

worlds of post-bop, fusion and modal jazz, thanks to his work with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Weather Report, of which he was a founding member. Shorter has had this current quartet together since 2000 and it has been his first permanent acoustic foursome under his leadership. Mostly a road outfit now, the

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Schafer’s—111 W. Broadway, Port Jefferson The Sports Arena— 620 Middle Country Rd., Smithtown

Suffolk Community College, Ammerman Campus— 533 College Rd., Selden T.J. Finley’s—42 E. Main St., Bay Shore. 631-6474856. www.tjfinleys.com Velvet Lounge—10 Woods Corner Rd., East Setauket Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center—76 Main St., Westhampton Beach. 631-288-1500. www. whbpac.org YMCA Boulton Center—37 W. Main St., Bay Shore. 631-969-1101. www.boultoncenter.org

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Apollo Theater—253 W. 125th St. B.B. Kings Blues Club & Grill—237 West 42nd St. 212-997-4144. www. bbkingblues.com Beacon Theatre—2124 Broadway. 212-4656500. www.beacontheatre.com City Winery—155 Varick St. 212-608-0555. www. citywinery.com Gramercy Theatre—127 E. 23rd St. 212-7776800. www.thegramercytheatre.com Highline Ballroom—431 W. 16th St. 212-4145994. www.highlineballroom Mercury Lounge—217 E. Houston St. 212-2604700. www.mercuryloungenyc.com Rockefeller Plaza— Between West 48th Street and West 51st Street and 5th and 6th Avenues. SummerStage—Central Park Town Hall— 123 West 43rd St. 212-840-2824. www.the-townhall-nyc.org Webster Hall—125 E 11th St. 212-353-1600. www.websterhall.com

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Bell House—149 Seventh St. 718-643-6510. www.thebellhouseny.com Music Hall of Williamsburg—66 N. Sixth St. 212-486-5400. www. musichallofwilliamsburg. com St. Vitus—1120 Manhattan Ave. www.saintvitusbar.com

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Hardcore Legends AgnostIc Front Celebrate 30th Anniversary in NYC By Mark Gallucci Agnostic Front’s brand of socially and politically charged hardcore has undergone some changes over the years, but 1984’s Victim in Pain stands the test of time as one of the landmarks of hardcore punk. As the years passed, the band’s sound became more metallic, and eventually drifted into crossover, a mixture of thrash metal and hardcore punk. If you’re looking for a crash course in New York hardcore, or even the hardcore punk genre at all, you owe it to yourself to see the NYHC legends Thursday at Webster Hall, where the band will play the same exact set from their album Live at CBGB’s, recorded in 1989 at the famous music club. The set list includes songs from the aforementioned Victim in Pain, their original 1983 EP United Blood, their 1986 album Cause for Alarm, and finally, Liberty and Justice for..., their 1987 crossover album. You’ll also see Madball, fronted by Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret’s younger half-brother, Freddy Cricien. Madball is known for their ridiculous song and album titles—1992’s Droppin’ Many Suckers and 1996’s Demonstrating My Style say hello. Well, that’s not entirely fair. They also have a very influential album of their own—their 1994 hit, Set it Off. Not to mention the fact that they, too, have a massive following of dedicated fans. If you’re a fan of one of these bands, it’s likely you’re a fan of the other. Murphy’s Law and Maximum Penalty will also perform at the event. Murphy’s Law goes all the way back to 1982, and they’re from—you guessed it—New York City. The band plays hardcore punk, but with a comedic, party-focused twist. Throughout their 30 years as a band, they’ve experimented with funk, reggae, ska, and skate punk, and the only thing that has remained constant is their vocalist, Jimmy Gestapo. Maximum Penalty debuted on the scene with a demo CD in 1989, and are still active today. Taking the NYHC sound and fusing it with metal and hip-hop is possibly the least original thing you could do today, but back in the day, these guys were doing it before anyone else. Chances are, if you’re into Madball, you’ll at least 34

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