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Sound Smart at a Party A new study says that even faking a smile is healthier for you than wearing a frown. Researchers
at the University of Kansas took 169 college-aged subjects and trained them to hold chopsticks with their mouth in different ways. Some were asked to hold a neutral facial expression, others held a fake smile, and the last group held a genuine smile (or Duchenne smile named after a French researcher) that used muscles in both their eyes, mouth and cheeks. While holding the chopsticks in their mouth they were told to perform tasks such as tracing with their nondominant hand while looking in the mirror. The participants believed that they were taking part in a multi-tasking study. Researchers found that those who held the chopsticks in a smile position, particularly those who had a Duchenne smile, had lower heart rates than the ones who had neutral expressions. We’ll remember that next time we’re on deadline and the coffee machine is broken… Women and children first! Yeah, it turns out that that’s a crock of crap.
A new study by economists at Uppsala University in Sweden found that the captain, crew and male passengers are
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more likely to survive a shipwreck than women and children are. They studied 18 shipwrecks, including the Titanic and Lusitania, from 1852 to 2011, which had more than 15,000 passengers and over 30 nationalities. Overall, women were half as likely to survive as men, and fared worst on British ships. They also discovered that crewmembers were 18.7 percent more likely to survive than passengers. How did we get this false notion? Titanic. It was the exception to the rule. Three times more women survived than men because the captain gave the “women and children first” command… A Michigan woman went to some eerie lengths to hold on to her relationship. Police found the
mummified Charles Zigler in the home of 72-year-old Linda Chase. While she admitted to cashing $28,000 worth of Zigler’s benefit checks, she insists that the reason she kept the body around was because she was lonely. “I didn’t want to be alone,” she told MI Live. “He was the only guy who was ever nice to me.” The cops discovered his body after a family member called and said they hadn’t heard from him in a while.
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Zigler is believed to have died of natural causes. Chase was charged with forgery and will most likely undergo a mental health evaluation… You can’t even send a kid to his room these days without him getting into trouble! A
Pennsylvania mother thought she was keeping her son out of mischief when she exiled him to his room for misbehaving. Unfortunately, the 14-year-old decided to play sniper with his BB gun, damaging a neighbor’s home and a nearby Dairy Queen. The Dairy Queen owner was able to alert the mother because he saw the boy’s gun sticking out of the window after a delivery driver’s arm was grazed with a pellet. He went over to the house to inform the mother. The teen was charged with reckless endangerment in juvenile court…
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“Reggae was calling... it’s a breath of fresh air. Rap isn’t challenging; it’s not appealing,” —Snoop Lion (formally known as Snoop Dogg) on why he is now making reggae music instead of rap. Snoop said he was “born again” during a visit to Jamaica in February, where he connected with Bob Marley’s spirit. His new reggae album, “Reincarnated,” will come out in the fall. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
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TRAMPIRE—PARTIAL SCORE Drama continues to surround 22-year-old Twilight starlet Kristen Stewart’s self-admitted love romp with 41-year-old married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders as the New n’s York Daily News brands her a “Trampire” on its front page and natha e director-turned-Stewart defender Giovanni Agnelli r trampi tweets that anyone who uses the term is “a mindless mars pathetic piece of ****.” Hmmm…because ripping the still-beating heart out of your live-in boyfriend by a cheating on him with a married father of two nearly twice your d e a al-q age makes the perfect role model for impressionable youngsters!
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JACKO—OFF TARGET A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge strips custody of the late King of Pop’s three kids from his mother Katherine following a more-than-a-week-long disappearance by jacko the 82-year-old Jackson family matriarch. Janet, Jermaine, Randy and Rebbie say they took her to a spa, though kept her whereabouts secret, while Jacko’s kids— Prince, Paris and Blanket—allege it was a ploy to gain control of their grandma. Wow! Glad to see the family’s finally come together and has ended all their zaniness after Michael’s death! PHELPS—PARTIAL SCORE Team USA Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 19th medal at the London Games, breaking the all-time record and proving to the world that athletes can still achieve their wildest dreams despite scandals. Phelps’ name was run through the mud following his 2008 Olympic rout when a photograph of him smoking marijuana out of a massive bong went global. See, Kristen, a true role model for youngsters to emulate! MARS—BULL’S EYE NASA’s nuclear-powered planet rover Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars next week, the pinnacle of the agency’s $2.5 billion mission to the Red Planet that began in November in search of proof of intelligent life. Why’d they go to Mars? Kristen Stewart, the Jacksons and Michael Phelps live right here on Earth! NATHAN’S—OFF TARGET The legendary Coney Island hotdog purveyor admits it’s temporarily been serving customers a different type of potato after public outcry from die-hard Nathan’s French Fries fans who figured out the switch. Add Nathan’s fans to that list of intelligent life!
The Pink Slip Rick Gorka If your boss is leaving a trail of bad news abroad when he’s supposed to be showing how he’s got what it takes to command the free world, the last thing he needs is a cranky press secretary losing control of his own mouth and letting some bad-tempered epithets get caught on the microphone and echo in the media chamber back home. But Rick Gorka couldn’t zip it as frustrated reporters peppered Mitt Romney with questions that the rich Republican presidential contender could afford to ignore while walking back to his limo after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Pilsudski Square in Warsaw. So, thanks to Gorka’s blowing his top with the press corps, phrases like “kiss my ass!” and “shove it!” made the headlines instead of whatever inane soundbites Romney might have said. OK, so the European road trip wasn’t a totally fun-filled holiday and Gorka surely preferred to escape from the galloping gaffes Romney’s made—from ticking off Londoners about the Olympics to dissing the Palestinians and offending the Jews—but that’s not in his job description. Fortunately for Romney, his ill-starred summer sojourn has come to an end. But he should give Gorka a permanent vacation from his 2012 campaign. Gorka, don’t unpack your bags. You’re fired!
AL-QAEDA—PARTIAL SCORE A U.S. federal judge rules that Iran, the Taliban and al-Qaeda pay $6 billion in compensation to the families of Sept. 11, 2001 attack victims. So they should expect that check in about how long? How old is Mars!?
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“I’m a populist, from a long line of Tribunes to the people. And I believe the government, to be of any value, must rest upon the people at large, and not be the preserve of any elite group or class, or anything of a hereditary nature.” -Gore Vidal, celebrated author of books, essays, plays and screenplays, telling a BBC broadcaster in 1993 that he didn’t want to be called “patrician.” Vidal, 86, died in Hollywood Tuesday from pneumonia. A die-hard liberal, he was perhaps best known for his run-ins on television against conservative William F. Buckley.
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1. BUY YOUR DOG LIPS—OR A MUSTACHE: So, you’re playing fetch, but this time when Fido comes back with the ball he’s sporting a hot pink smacker. Or maybe even a handlebar mustache. Just look at that picture, do you really need any more convincing? Make it happen at www.moodypet.com. 2. EAT A BIG KAHUNA DONUT DOG: We wouldn’t mind seeing Joey Chestnut tackle a few of these bad boys. What’s a Big Kahuna Dog, you ask? Well, it’s a hot dog wrapped in bacon with a maple-glazed doughnut around it and it can only be found at the Syracuse State Fair running from Aug. 23 to Sept. 3. If that doesn’t satisfy your appetite, then you can check out the rest of the menu, which includes many more deep-fried delicacies, such as lasagna, brownies and jelly beans. No matter what you go for, you’re guaranteed to attract some attention, not to mention some jealous stares from dieters, who would have to walk the 330 miles back to Long Island to burn off the calories.
3. DOWNLOAD THE LONDON 2012 RESULTS APP: With the Olympics underway, what better way to keep track of the medal counts, results, events, and athletes than with the official London 2012 Results App? You can search for specific athletes, and even set up favorite events, reminders and notifications so you never miss a thing. And like the name suggests, it features live updates on the results of each event as they occur! Sure, it’ll only be useful for about 10 days, but it’s an essential asset for following the Olympics, no matter where you are. 4. ATTEND THE HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: Based on the legend of Qu Yuan, an exiled court minister who wandered around writing poetry, dragon boat racing goes back centuries. When Yuan heard that his home had been invaded, he drowned himself. Fishermen raced to save him, but couldn’t. To prevent fish from devouring his body, they threw rice dumplings in the water as a spirit offering. Today, rice dumplings are eaten during this festival of dance, martial arts, street theater and racing. Before the race begins, the dragon boats are ritually blessed by a Buddhist monk and brought to life by having their eyes dotted with red paint. See it all go down at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, Aug. 4 and 5.
The number of charges alleged Colorado movie theater massacre suspect James Holmes is facing, including two counts of first-degree murder for each of the 12 people killed and two counts of attempted first-degree murder for every one of the 58 injured in the July 20 shooting. He was also charged with possession of explosives and a crime of violence.
6. PLAY WHERE’S MY PERRY?: When Major Monogram summons Agent P to the headquarters of the OWCA, he jumps into one of many transportation tubes, expecting to be taken directly to headquarters. Midway down, he gets stuck. Now it’s up to you to guide water in its different forms—ice, sludge, steam, liquid—to help Agent P on his way. It’s available for free and paid downloads for Apple and Android devices, and if you’ve already played Where’s My Water?, this is basically the same thing, with some added bonuses.
B-List B-Day Drew “Bieber, who?” Lachey July 28, 1990 Nick Lachey’s younger brother and a fellow member of boy band 98 Degrees, Drew Lachey, a Leo, has been more recently known for his Dancing with the Stars success with professional dance partner Cheryl Burke. They were crowned the champions of the show at the end of its second season in 2006; since then, Drew’s been pretty quiet, only hosting a few shows here and there. Leos tend to be devoted and faithful in their relationships, and judging by his 10-year marriage to Lea Dellecave, not to mention his two children, it’s safe to say that’s the case here. Leos also tend to have radiant energy, and that is definitely true of Lachey. It’s not exactly easy to serve as a combat medic in the U.S. Army or as a New York City EMT, both of which he’s done, and you can’t say that about many pop stars. But don’t worry—if Justin Bieber ever joins the Canadian Army, we’ll let you know.
7. GOOGLE “THE SHINING PREQUEL”: Warner Bros. is reportedly developing a prequel to Stephen King’s The Shining, which will focus on past events that took place between the horror-filled walls of the Overlook Hotel. Catch up on all the grizzly details. In the mean time, King is working on a sequel to the novel called Dr. Sleep, so be on the lookout for that, too. 8. VISIT MUSICOVERY.COM: Select songs by way of a more personal search criteria, your mood. The site offers varying shades to choose from, ranging from energetic and positive, to calm and dark, and you can specify sentiments in between and all around the four emotional staples. Musicovery also allows you to pick the era and genre, so you’re sure to hear exactly what you’re in the mood for. 9. TiVo The Next: Reality show The Next launches Aug. 16 on CW-11, with an episode taped at Huntington’s Paramount Theatre. Gloria Estefan, John Rich, Nelly and Joe Jonas mentor four up-and-coming musicians. The show will move from city to city, leading to a final competition among each city’s winners. The last vocalist standing wins a recording contract with Atlantic. 10. CELEBRATE NATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE DAY!: Tuesday, Aug. 7 is National Lighthouse Day, and LI’s beacons, from Huntington to Montauk, will be shining brightly. Check your local lighthouse for events! news
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch In this inspiring memoir Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor of computer science, delivers his last lecture, a college tradition for esteemed retiring professors asked what they’d tell the world if they knew it was their final chance to speak. What is extraordinary here is that it would actually be his last, as Pausch had found out that he was dying of pancreatic cancer and did not have much time left. He presents his talk as an ode to “really achieving your childhood dreams,” looking back as an adult now with three children of his own and trying to share the wisdom he has learned throughout his life. During the lecture, complete with slides showing the CT scans of his cancer, he touches upon what is going to happen to him. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand,” he says. “The Last Lecture” is told from hindsight, such as how people reacted to it and his thoughts as it was going on. The book, co-authored by Jeffrey Zaslow a Wall Street Journal reporter and Carnegie Mellon alum who attended the lecture and first wrote a column about it, recounts the lessons Pausch shared. The Last Lecture is an enchanting and optimistic memoir that tells the story of a man who truly loved life and learned to embrace it. –Brian Stieglitz
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5. TRY POPCORN-FLAVORED VODKA: Orville Redenbacher now has competition, and from an unlikely source, Georgi Vodka. The Popcorn Man and the Vodka Man may never share kernels with one another, but they are both making use of the flavor known to millions of movie-goers—that buttery taste of warm yellow corn. Star Industries, the Syosset-based maker of the famous Georgi brand, has just come out with Georgi Popcorn Vodka and it’s on shelves now. If we ever have to sit through another Twilight movie, this is what we’re bringing.
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Ann Pellegrino put on her work gloves and pulled the starter cord on the Rototiller and headed into the field. She’s clearing land and then planting vegetables that will be harvested and distributed to the ever-growing number of Long Islanders who need food. This job requires a farm plow, but Ann makes do with the equipment she has on hand. A lifelong resident of Centereach, Ann was a single working mom raising three children when her mother became ill and needed her help. Staying home with her mom, Ann says she saw how much heartache there was in the neighborhood: people were hungry and didn’t have enough money to feed their
families. “You don’t realize the hurt that’s out there,” Ann says. Wanting to help, she made a garden in her backyard and donated the proceeds to the needy. The yield was small, Ann says, because “our backyard was only so big.” Ann had a grander plan in mind. “There was an abandoned farm down the street,” she says. “It was a working farm when I was younger.” For more than a century the 11-acre farm had been owned by the Hobbs family but the last remaining heir had passed away leaving the land to the Bethel Church in Setauket. Ann contacted the church about making the farm productive again and was first met with skepticism, but they warmed to her idea quickly.
Ann pelligrino with her son, christopher costello
food and vegetables,” Ann says. A few months ago, Christopher underwent a rare procedure: a phrenic nerve graft and diaphragm pacemaker implant. It takes months for the graft to heal and if successful, the new nerves will be stimulated by the pacemaker to expand and contract Christopher’s diaphragm, allowing him to breathe on his own. Ann and the Rev. Gregory Leonard of Bethel Church had been making arrangements with a local veterans’ home to bring wheelchair-bound veterans to the farm. Ann was researching different types of adaptive farming, but the idea was put on hold when Christopher was hurt. Now, she sees the use of wheelchairs on the farm in a different way. “My son opened up my eyes to a whole new world,” she says. So Ann had another plan in mind. A large plot of land had previously been “hardened out” and covered with a thick black plastic, making the ground level and smooth. Ann had her son maneuver his motorized wheelchair onto the plot and move around. “He did pretty well,” she says. Ann’s adaptive garden was about to bloom. She had volunteer workers place large containers filled with tomato plants in rows wide enough apart so a person in a wheelchair could navigate between them. There is a lot of interest from organizations with clients in wheelchairs who might not have gone on prior farm excursions but would now have the opportunity to harvest food themselves, she says. “They didn’t get to have the experience before because people thought they couldn’t [farm],” Ann says. “So, I figured, why not? They can still get out and be in the fresh air.” The adaptive garden still needs some work, but there are plans for adding a variety of containers with fruit and vegetable plants. She envisions a trellis bursting with food-bearing vines that can be harvested by an adaptive gardener. By connecting her family, friends and the community, Ann has given herself to the land, so that the land will give back to them. Looking over her newest garden with pride, she says, “This is just the beginning.”
In 2007, Ann, the church, local community organizations, individuals and businesses all worked together to restore the Bethel Hobbs Community Farm. Now, it’s a 100-percent, volunteerassisted farm whose primary mission is to feed the hungry. Ninety percent of the produce grown on the farm is donated to a network of local food pantries and food programs. The remainder is sold at their farm stand, which is open to the public twice a week. The profits are used to buy seeds, water, fuel and equipment. More than a dozen varieties of fruits and vegetables are distributed to the needy. There’s also a community garden for members to tend their own plots and an education garden for schools and community groups to work on different projects such as composting. Local Boy and Girl Scouts take advantage of the many community service opportunities the farm offers. For Ann, many of the volunteers are like family. “I’ve watched some of these kids grow up,” she says. The farm’s annual yield has grown to more than 30,000 pounds, but Ann says it’s still not enough. “90,000 children on Long Island go to bed hungry every night. On the last day of school there are a lot of sad children because they know their only source of food came from the school.” Last March, Ann’s life changed dramatically when her 19-year old son, Christopher Costello, was severely injured in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down and requiring a ventilator to breathe. Ann has devoted herself to overseeing Christopher’s health and well-being with assistance from her daughters, Sarah and Jessica (she was serving in Afghanistan at the time of his accident). Since Christopher came home from rehab, his For more information call 631-648weight has increased from 121 pounds to 4511, or email ann@hobbsfarm.info. To an impressive 200 pounds. “It’s the good volunteer, email Deninepag@yahoo.com If you know a super woman who deserves good Fortune—and a profile— e-mail your nominations to Beverly at bfortune@longislandpress.com.
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Puppyus Interuptus, Or The End Of A Sexy Night It was a perfect hot July weekend and I was surrounded by my kids, grandkids and four dogs: Shlomo, Floyd, Lucy and Daisy. There is no better sound in the summer for me than the sound of little kids playing in a pool and laughing and screaming at the top of their lungs, while four dogs, wildly barking, are chasing each other in a circle around my lounge chair. I lay back, closed my eyes and drank in the chaos. My reverie was interrupted when little Maggie, age 3, my daughter Jodi’s youngest, said out loud: “Oh look! Lucy is giving Shlomo a piggy-back ride.” I jumped up and separated them. And I said to Shlomo, “Lucy is just a puppy and you, Shlomo, are a pervert.” Shlomo looked confused and disappointed. I thought back to the column I wrote three years ago when I first got him. Here’s how it went: I’m in love. We have a new dog and his name is Shlomo. He’s a tiny little ball of sweet fluff. He’s just a few weeks old and he’s a charmer. Pick him up and he will smother your face with doggy kisses. Last Friday night was his first trip to East Hampton. After a few bumper-to-bumper hours on the Long Island Expressway he snuggled in my wife’s, the beautiful Judy Licht’s, arms and, without a whimper, fell sound asleep. “I can’t wait to get to East Hampton,” I said. “First thing I’m going to make us is a couple of margaritas.” Now you must know this, and I say it in all modesty—I make the most delicious margaritas in the country ... maybe the world. The night wasn’t going to end with margaritas. No sir, there was going to be sipping margaritas sitting on lounge chairs, staring at the beach and the moon with sexy music playing in the background. My iPod has been programmed to play some of the sexiest music known to mankind. So before I put on the music and made the Lethal Margaritas, I jumped into the shower to wash the advertising business off me. When I came out, there was little Shlomo staring at me. Now if you’re eating while you’re reading this column, I urge you to put
this paper down and get on with your meal because what follows is disgusting. So I’m toweling off and I look down, and just then little Shlomo made a poop. But this wasn’t an ordinary poop. This was a poop of a dog the size of a 200-pound Saint Bernard. It was amazing that a dog as tiny as Shlomo could have done this. So I threw down my towel and grabbed some paper towels and rushed to remove the evidence. But little Shlomo was intrigued by the evidence. In fact, he approached the poop as though it was something he wanted to play with. “Shlomo, get away!” I screamed. This of course was futile because not only didn’t Shlomo know his name was Shlomo, but he didn’t understand a word I was saying. “AWAY!” I screamed. Instead Shlomo thought it was a game and he thought we were going to play hockey with his poop. He came forward; I was pushing him away. All of a sudden I was in a life-and-death struggle with a little 5-pound dog over a pile of poop. “Away!” I screamed. He advanced. I pushed it away. He pushed it back. I finally won, but it was a hollow victory. I was sick to my stomach. Judy came bouncing into the room. “Aren’t you going to make the margaritas?” she asked. “To tell you the truth,” I answered, “I’m feeling a little nauseous. By the way, Shlomo made a poop, but I cleaned it up.” “Ohhh,” she screamed, ever the mother. “My little baby made a poop,” she said, and she picked up Shlomo. “I wouldn’t kiss him if I were you—for a couple of years,” I muttered under my breath. Then I slunk away. When our dog Oreo died Judy asked me if I thought we should get another dog. “Yes,” I said. “Why?” she asked. “Because we all need something alive and dependent on us. We need something immature and annoying and needy in our lives so that we will always stay young. That’s what life is all about.”
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n the back of a small roadside cemetery under the arms of a giant maple tree in rural New Jersey she stands, her back toward the steep ravine, the sound of running water below and birds calling back and forth above. Her skirt rustles in the breeze on this warm and sunny summer day. Her T-shirt is stained and torn. Strangers stare at her, taking pictures. She doesn’t say a word. This headless mannequin dressed in red standing erect among the headstones is an eerie sight from the busy state road that borders the Cedar Ridge Cemetery in this small township of nearly 6,000. Here, in Blairstown, everyone seems to know each other—police, business owners, neighbors— everyone except for the teenage girl found barefoot, partially clothed and beaten beyond recognition the morning of July 15, 1982. “She was erased,” says retired Blairstown Police Lt. Eric Kranz, who first responded to the scene. “Her assailant erased her. There was nothing left to her. Whoever did this did it with a vengeance.” Found with her skull literally smashed into pieces, her face was so violently battered that the medical examiner couldn’t determine her eye color. Today, she is brought back to life, as detectives dress a plastic replica of her body in the original clothes she was wearing the morning a cemetery worker spotted the crucifix tangled in her hair among the dirt and rocks covering the bank, just yards away from where this still-shocked and baffled town buried her 30 years ago. Now more than 100 locals are gathered here for Princess Doe’s grim anniversary. “We pray for those who are intent on committing acts of violence— may your spirit nudge them and awaken them to realize the value of life,” says Pastor David Harvey from the Blairstown Presbyterian Church, looking down at the pile of flowers left on her headstone. “We pray for the day when her identity may be known, which as of today is known only to you…” It’s a mystery that’s intrigued law enforcement, the media and locals 14
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More than 100 people, including detectives and town residents, gather at the cedar ridge cemetery in blairstown, n.J. on July 15, 2012 for a graveside service to remember PRincess Doe, an unidentified girl found beaten to death in the cemetery 30 years ago. Displayed below is the actual clothing found on her body.
“I knew this was going to be tough, so what I did was I tried to separate her from all the other Jane and John Does and give her a personality of sorts. I got a mannequin and dressed it in her clothes.” —Ret. Blairstown Lt. Eric Kranz
alike. Her story has been the subject of books, TV specials, spurred unidentified and missing persons movements and inspired landmark legislation across the nation—she was the first unidentified crime victim to be entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database. Still, the victim detectives call “Princess Doe” remains a girl without a name. Technology has advanced rapidly throughout the decades, however, and with the anniversary of her discovery comes the renewed hope that somewhere out there is someone who knows her identity. This July detectives released an updated 3-D composite of Princess Doe and resubmitted DNA evidence for testing. Later this month her story will be featured on America’s Most Wanted.
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“There’s an old axiom in investigative work where basically the feeling is that the more the time goes on the less of an opportunity you have to identify somebody,” says Warren County Prosecutor Richard Burke. “We actually feel the opposite in this case.” And while this cemetery 117 miles from the Nassau County line may seem worlds apart, detectives believe the clues to the identity of their most famous Jane Doe very likely can be found here on Long Island.
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Her name is made up of more numbers than letters: Depending on what database you look in, Princess Doe is officially known as U-630870962, 1513, 36UFNJ or NJF820715. She is one of 8,528 documented nameless dead entered by medical examiners and coroners across the country into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) database, a similar, but not all-inclusive, version of NCIC available to the public. Those outside of New Jersey might never have heard of Princess Doe at all if it weren’t for the detective who refused to let her be another number in a pool of thousands. Instead of calling her Jane Doe, he nicknamed her Princess Doe. After all, at some point in time, she must have been someone’s little girl. “I knew this was going to be tough,” says Kranz. “So what I did was
Top: a computer-generated photo of Princess Doe From the National center for missing & exploited children. Bottom: A sketch of princess doe’s face created with the help of donna kinlaw. Right: a 3-D image from the smithsonian Institute based on a CT scan of Princess doe’s skull. This is the most recent and believed to be the most accurate. the color-enhanced version of this image is shown on the cover.
I tried to separate her from all the other Jane and John Does and give her a personality of sorts. I got a mannequin and dressed it in her clothes.” It worked. Most unidentified murder victims don’t make the news after they’re initially found, unless they are later identified, but Princess Doe’s
“One of the doctors was reading the newspaper and he said, ‘Oh, isn’t this appropriate, a body was found in the Blairstown cemetery.’ I didn’t think anything of it. I had gone out to dinner that night after work. I came home and pulled the paper out of the mailbox and right on the front page was the girl’s clothes.” —Blairstown Resident Ann Latimer, who says she saw Princess doe alive in a supermarket two days before her body was found in the cemetery.
case received nationwide coverage. Still, very little is known about her. She was white, about 5-feet, 2-inches tall and around 100 pounds at the time of her death, according to the Warren County Medical Examiner’s Office. She was between 14 and 18 years old, had blood type O and four fillings in her back molars. She still had her appendix and tonsils, and had never given birth. She was found wearing no shoes or underwear. Her ears were pierced, the left one twice, and she had red nail polish only on her right hand. She wore a gold cross, red T-shirt and a broomstick skirt with peacocks printed on the bottom. She had light brown, shoulder-length hair. No evidence could conclusively determine whether or not Princess Doe was sexually assaulted or had drugs in her system because of the condition of her body, which could have been lying in the cemetery anywhere from a few
days to a few weeks, according to the medical examiner’s report. Longtime Blairstown resident Ann Latimer still remembers the shock of hearing the news. The registered nurse was working the weekend shift at a nearby hospital at the time. “One of the doctors was reading the newspaper and he said, ‘Oh, isn’t this appropriate: a body was found in the Blairstown cemetery,’” she says. “I didn’t think anything of it. I had gone out to dinner that night after work. I came home and pulled the paper out of the mailbox and right on the front page was the girl’s clothes. I knew it was her.” On July 13, two days prior to the discovery, at around 11:30 a.m., Latimer was shopping in the local A&P supermarket, which occupied a building, now a tractor supply company, directly across from the Cedar Ridge Cemetery. “I saw her,” she says, her eyes fixed on the clothed mannequin standing at the foot of Princess Doe’s grave while she recalled the sighting from so long ago. “My daughter was with me. She was 6 years old then, and she said, ‘Oh, mommy, mommy, is that an eagle on her skirt?’ So I said, ‘No, that’s a peacock.’” Latimer went to the police and they had her hypnotized, hoping to get her to recall more details, such as whether the girl had been with anyone—but Latimer couldn’t. “I wanted to ask her where she got the skirt because it was so unique, it was pretty,” says Latimer. “But she sort of looked away, and there was a little kid walking past me with one of those little fake plastic shopping carts so that took my attention away, but that was my glimpse of her.” Kranz says after Latimer told him about the possible sighting, he went straight to the A&P. “I checked if there were any cards used, I went through that thing upsidedown and checked it,” he says. “I was in every catch basin, in every garbage pail and dumpster—didn’t miss one.” But it was another dead end. Her fingerprints were checked against millions of others and Kranz reviewed
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Det. Lt. Stephen Speirs of the Warren county prosecutor’s office (left) and Retired Police Lt. Eric Kranz of the Blairstown police department (right).
countless missing persons cases, but to no avail. In order to keep her body from winding up in an anonymous grave in a Potter’s field, residents and local businesses pitched in to provide a gravesite, hearse, casket, flowers and a headstone that reads: “Princess Doe, Missing From Home, Dead Among Strangers, Remembered By All, Born ? - Found July 15, 1982.” Her casket was escorted by patrol cars, and she was buried Jan. 22, 1983 yards away from where she’d been found six months
before. More than a decade went by with little movement on the case. Lt. Kranz retired, but stayed with it. “There hasn’t been a day—not a day—that has gone by where I don’t work on this case. This case created a lot of disconcertion in my life, a lot of issues,” says Kranz. “I went against all the norms—the norms of ‘You know this is one of a million, you always find ’em. Forget about it, let it go. There’s gonna be another one tomorrow’—you know all that thinking, and I just felt that if you applied yourself, that if you
The air is just as salty on the other side of the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx as on any of LI’s beaches, but the waterfront property lining Zerega Avenue is a stark contrast to that of its southeastern neighbor. Industrial trucks, buildings, dumpsters and gates block out the rocky slope down to the East River below. From the sidewalks the salty air is the only indication the Long Island Sound is just steps away, but this stretch has a storied and tormented past. Back in the early ’80s, longtime pimp Arthur Kinlaw—who moved between Central Islip, Greenlawn and Bellport—ran a prostitution ring here in Hunts Point, sending women he would pick up in Suffolk County to sell themselves, said his wife, Donna Kinlaw, in an Oct. 10, 1999 Newsday article. The graduate of Brentwood High School and former employee of
the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center was one of them, she told the newspaper. In addition to the Hunts Point prostitution business, the couple allegedly traveled the country as far as Alaska, committing all sorts of crimes, from burglary to welfare fraud, each of them accumulating dozens of arrests. In June 1998, Arthur and Donna were arrested in California after Donna allegedly used “Elaina,” the name of one of Arthur’s former Long Island prostitutes, to forge welfare papers, the article recounts. When detectives tracked down the real Elaina, she gave detectives their biggest lead to date in the Princess Doe investigation. According to the Newsday piece and published reports in other New York metropolitan newspapers, Elaina allegedly told detectives how Arthur, with Donna’s help, drugged, strangled and beat a woman Elaina knew only as “Linda”—a teenager he’d met in a Bay Shore reggae bar called Blackberry Jam, now a church, in April 1984. She reportedly said he’d struck Linda in the head with an aluminum baseball bat on a dark dirt road in Hunts Point when she refused to work as a prostitute for him. He then drove her body to an area near the NYC Department of Sanitation yard on Zerega Avenue, wrapped her in an old shower curtain and dumped her in the East River.
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The decomposed body of Linda— who was white, 5-feet, 4-inches tall and about 130 pounds with shoulderlength dark brown hair—washed up weeks later and remains unidentified to this day. Arthur described details of the 1984 slaying in his appearance in Bronx Supreme Court in 2000, according to Newsday, but neither he nor his wife would be connected to the murders of three other women, including Princess Doe, until Donna, in a bid to save herself from life in prison over her part in Linda’s murder, squealed to police. She reportedly told detectives that in 1983 Arthur beat to death a 300-pound disabled boarder they had taken into their Bellport home to help pay the bills—a black or Hispanic woman in her 20s or 30s who relied on crutches to walk. Donna reportedly told police Arthur dragged the woman out to the backyard of their Michigan Avenue home, where he buried her in a makeshift grave before pouring a cement patio over her. Police found the woman’s remains on Dec. 21, 2000, and she, too, remains unidentified. Donna also told detectives about Christine Kozma, a drug-addicted Bay Shore woman who turned to prostitution to support her habit, according to the article. Kozma was last seen leaving her East Main Street apartment in September 1982. Her body was later found in a wooded area of Coram with
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A recent backyard photo of Arthur and donna kinlaw’s former bellport home, where the body of a still-unidentified disabled woman—allegedly beaten to death by arthur kinlaw during an argument in 1984 and buried under a freshly poured concrete patio soon after—was excavated by police on Dec. 21, 2000.
multiple gun shots to her head. Donna reportedly told detectives Arthur had brought Kozma back to their Central Islip home, had sex with her, then killed her when she wouldn’t work the streets for him. It wasn’t the first time he’d done that, she alleged to police. Donna claimed that in July of that year, Arthur brought home a girl who was about 18 years old, left with her, then came back alone, cleaned out his car and dumped his clothing, according to the Newsday story. Weeks
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Jersey detective tells the Press. “Let’s put it this way, I can’t use the word confession,” says Speirs. “He made some admissions. I’ll put it in these terms: He claimed responsibility for her death. But I have no physical evidence to confirm that, and without the identity of Princess Doe, I have no way of connecting the dots so to speak, putting her in a place where he could have been or would have been at the same time. That’s the unfortunate thing right now. The key thing is to identify her. If we could identify her, then I can try to verify the information [Arthur Kinlaw] provided.” Arthur also told Speirs something Donna had neglected to mention— that she was in the Blairstown cemetery and witnessed Arthur allegedly beating Princess Doe to death, he tells the Press. When Speirs later confronted her with Arthur’s accusations, the detective says Donna admitted she saw the young girl murdered and helped a forensic artist create a composite sketch of Princess Doe. But was it all true? “I have no way of disputing it, but I also have no way of confirming it,” says Speirs. Donna also couldn’t provide a first name for the girl. “That’s part of the problem,” he continues. “Neither [Arthur] nor [Donna] were able to
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MEASURING UP By Spencer Rumsey
srumsey@longislandpress.com Long Island students scored a little higher on New York State’s standardized English language arts and math tests than they did a year ago but the achievement gap between the richer and poorer districts remains just as daunting as it ever was— while economic strains have only grown worse. Overall, Long Island students’ performance in grades 3 to 8 rose on the April tests—as did the statewide average. The percentage of LI students passing English hit 67.1 percent, compared to 64.2 percent in 2011, reversing a two-year decline; the math passing rate went from 74.6 percent in 2011 to 75.4 percent, according to figures recently released by the state Department of Education. Statewide, the English passing rate rose from 52.8 percent to 55.1 percent, and math scores went from 63.3 percent to 64.8 percent. “There was a slight improvement, not a great one,” says Roger Tilles, Long Island’s representative on the state’s Board of Regents. At the county level, 70.5 percent of Nassau’s students passed the English requirements compared to 64.3 percent of Suffolk’s students, and 78.8 percent of Nassau’s students passed the math tests compared to 72.7 percent of Suffolk’s. “Long Island’s elementary, middle school and high school students outperform students from every other region in New York State by every measure maintained by the state education department—and that continues to be the case despite fiscal pressures on local school districts,”
says Lorraine Deller, executive director of the Nassau Suffolk School Boards Association. “Where we do see disparity is the performance and resource gap between the wealthiest and the less wealthy school districts in both counties, and this mirrors statewide differences also.” Almost half of Suffolk County’s students are enrolled in school districts that fall below the state wealth average, Deller says, adding that 20 percent of Long Island’s students qualify for the subsidized lunch program due to their families’ low income. “Ending the achievement gap is the No. 1 challenge facing educators today,” says Carl Korn, a spokesman for the New York State United Teachers, representing 600,000 educators. This fall Long Island’s schools will follow the state education department’s lead in introducing the Common Core national curriculum as well as a new teacher evaluation system that a school district must implement by January to receive an increase in state education funding. “I’m not sure that the assessment is necessarily the best way to measure
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provide a name, which I felt was quite odd depending on the amount of time they spent with her, if this story is true.” Arthur was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder. He is currently serving 20 years to life and is eligible for parole in 2018, according to New York State Department of Corrections records. Donna eventually became a witness for the state and pleaded out to 3 to 10 years for manslaughter in Linda’s homicide instead of serving a possible life sentence on murder charges, according to Newsday. She was released in 2003, state records show, but did not respond to a request for comment for this story as of press time. Even if the Kinlaw lead comes up blank, Kranz says he still feels strongly that Princess Doe is from LI. “[The Kinlaws] are one reason. That’s not the whole reason,” he says. “You can call that ‘detective’s hunch’ or whatever the case may be, but we just seem to be always going out towards that area.” For now, the murder of Princess Doe remains a mystery but Speirs follows every tip. “There are other theories, but again, I can’t base my facts on theories, I have to base my theories on facts,” says Speirs. “And I have really no strong facts that appear to say the Kinlaws are involved or not involved. It’s an open door and there have been other persons of interest prior to that, and there have been persons of interest since then. Again, I go back to that unfortunately we have no way of substantiating any of this information because no one is providing a name or identity—we don’t know who she is. At this point, there is no physical evidence to tie any of these people in to this crime.” All of this could soon change, however.
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In 1999, Speirs had Princess Doe’s body exhumed to retrieve DNA from her remains to help in the identification process. Back then, DNA analysis was in its infancy, but the technology has come a long way over the past decade and samples taken in the past could provide new clues today. “Preliminary results from those tests suggest that we may have some trace evidence that does not belong or was not contributed by Princess Doe,” says Speirs. “Now, we can resubmit [the DNA] because we can do so many better things now. It’s more advanced so we can take the smallest amounts of trace evidence and be able to develop a DNA profile.” That means detectives might be in possession of DNA belonging to Princess Doe’s killer, or at the very least, someone who was with her before she Cars
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died who could possibly identify her. “If this evidence does prove to be contributed not from Princess Doe, but from someone other than Princess Doe, then that clearly gives us a person of interest,” says Speirs. “I’ve never been more optimistic than I am now, and I’ve been around the block on everything you can imagine, all over the place, with this case.” Speirs resubmitted the DNA in July, and the results are due back from the lab in September, along with other test results. Princess Doe’s hair is also undergoing analysis in an attempt to see what part of the country she was in prior to her death. “The scientists, hopefully through metal deposits in her hair, will be able to focus us a little bit more in the areas where she may have been or lived,” says Prosecutor Burke. “The passage of time has really helped us with regards to technology and forensic science.” And there’s a lot riding on that science. “If [the tests] show she was from the East Coast and the metropolitan area, that’s beautiful. That’s one more thing closer to matching the story with the Kinlaws,” says Speirs. “If it says she’s from the Midwest, then that kind of throws things out a little bit. But it doesn’t completely eliminate it because she could have been from the Midwest, and came here and stayed here for a period of time. Who knows?” And finally there’s the new composite released just weeks ago, created by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. using a CT scan of Princess Doe’s skull, which may be the best hope yet. “All of the other renditions prior to this were renditions by artists, and each one of them have their own personality in that,” says Kranz. “Through their experience they say this eye is lower as a rule or this nose is moved, this nostril is wider—they each had their
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included the Fighting Penguins. South kept its Rebel nickname but adopted the Minute Man of the American Revolution as its new mascot. About a decade later, quarterback and artist David Gurfein created South’s new logo: a tall, lanky, ponytailed man wearing a three-cornered hat and overalls. He’s the handsome young chap on the school website and in the student planner. Although he was South’s new official logo, he would soon be joined by another Rebel. As former athletic deparment head and current physical education teacher, Stephen Liebertz, explained, the athletic
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SLASH @ THE PARAMOUNT Slash’s greatest claim to fame may have come as one-half of the dual guitar attack that made up Guns N’Roses. But he’s also cobbled together an impressive post-G’N’R run that included loads of session work, and the band Velvet Revolver, which he conceived. And while he banged out a pair of albums with Slash’s Snakepit along the way, 2010’s self-titled Slash was his first true solo outing. Working off a slew of songs he’d stockpiled, the top-hat-wearing guitarist reached out to a wide-ranging span of musical talents, including Ian Astbury, Fergie, Kid Rock, Iggy Pop and Ozzy Osborne. The result was a surprisingly listenable batch of songs that never capsized under the weight of ego or oversized expectations. This year’s follow-up, Apocalyptic Love, finds the man born as Saul Hudson simplifying things by going with one vocalist, in this case, Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy. Saturday, 8.4. —Manny Fernandez
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CHRISETTE MICHELE @ B.B. KING BLUES CLUB Straight out of Patchogue (by way of Central Islip), Chrisette Michele went from being a Five Towns College graduate with a vocal performance degree to the latest R&B sensation with a 631 area code. Despite having a background in jazz, Michelle got her break by way of guest shots on hip-hop albums by The Game, Jay-Z and Ghostface Killah. In the four years since her 2007 debut, I Am, Michelle has released a pair of albums, appeared as herself on Girlfriends and won a 2009 Grammy for her single “Be OK.” With her forthcoming album, Better, set to drop soon, this quasi-homecoming show just might feature a few surprises. Thursday, 8.2. —MF
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success as a member of the James Gang and The Eagles, but carved out a respectable solo career for himself. While the past two decades has found him touring with the aforementioned groups, (and occasionally as part of brother-in-law Ringo Starr’s All-Star Band), solo studio work has been MIA. That all changed with last month’s release of Analog Man, a Jeff Lynne-produced project that’s also Walsh’s eleventh studio album.—MF
Summer Camp Cinema Double Feature @ Cinema Arts Centre Featuring Lee Marvin in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen and Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. Judy Collins @ YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts Age certainly must be just a number for the seemingly immortal Judy Collins who continues to write music and poetry, paint, tour and even head up own Wildflower label. Along with being the CEO of her label, the 73-year-old chanteuse is one of the imprint’s artists with her most recent release being last year’s Bohemian, a mix of heartfelt covers (Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Webb, Woody Guthrie) and new originals. All the more reason to trek out to Bay Shore to catch a glimpse of the woman who inspired then-beau Stephen Stills to pen “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” —MF Miniature Tigers @ Music Hall of Williamsburg With French Horn Rebellion & Joywave. Teddy Geiger @ Vibe Lounge Since dropping his 2006 major label debut, Underage Thinking, pop phenom Teddy Geiger was an erstwhile actor who had a minor role in the here-today, gone-tomorrow CBS sitcom Love Monkey that same year followed up by a larger part in the 2008 feature film The
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Saturday Cont. Rocker. Apparently he’s come back to his musical roots, releasing a series of independently recorded projects in recent years. With Matt Weiss, Kevin Meyer, Anson Li, Corey Balsamo, Dan Berk, Jennings & Jesse Ruben.—MF Millie Jackson @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Yemen Blues @ City Winery Bobby Darin Tribute with Lou Villano @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center
King Blues Club & Grill Family Force 5 @ Revolution With The Royal Guard, Super Prime & Off City Limits. Hull/Fight Amp/ Ladder Devils @ St. Vitus System of a Down/ Deftones @ Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater Alternative metal quartet System of a Down has kept its fanbase guessing as to its state of being thanks to an unofficial
Mortem/Crucifier/ Imprecation/Polterchrist @ St. Vitus T.D. Snoggins (I Once Met a Monster on My Way to School!) @ Book Revue Vic Dibitetto @ Governor’s Comedy Club Steve White @ Brokerage Comedy Club Unpredictability and liveliness are to be expected of any showcase headlined by Steve White. His loud voice and vibrant personality assail crowds and dare them to keep up with his up-tempo style. Listed among his numerous movie credits are roles in Coming to America, Harlem Nights, Clockers, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, and Mo-Better Blues. sunday 8.5 Pat Metheny Unity Band @ Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Gipsy Kings @ B.B.
hiatus dating back to 2006 that was seemingly lifted in 2010. Since then, the various members have been continuing to work on outside projects, reconvening to sporadically tour. While the future remains a mystery, diehards will be happy to know that, according to a recent interview, bassist Shavo Odadjian was quoted as saying, “We’ll never break up.” Make of that what you will. Peers and co-headliners Deftones are set to drop their yetuntitled seventh studio album in early October.—MF Big D & The Kids Table @ Vibe
Lounge With Liars Etc., In Limbo, The Lawn Chair Bombers & The Blazing Beaverducks. Cowboy Junkies @ City Winery It’s hard to believe that Cowboy Junkies broke big on college radio 20 years ago with their haunting, stripped-down reading of the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” off 1987’s The Trinity Session. Featuring the wispy vocals of Margo Timmins, whose brothers Michael and Peter round out the band along with bassist Alan Anton, the Junkies always remained huge in Continued on page 36
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bury—960 Brush Hollow Governor’s Comedy Rd., Westbury. 877-598Club—90 Division Ave, Levittown. 516-731-3358. 8694 www.govs.com Paramount—370 New York Ave., Huntington Gramercy Theatre—127 E. 23rd St., Manhattan. Prospect Park—Brooklyn, 212-777-6800. www.prospectpark.org Highline Ballroom—431 Revolution—140 Merrick W. 16th St., Manhattan. Rd., Amityville. www.revo212-414-5994. www. lutionli.com highlineballroom Irving Plaza—17 Irving Pl., Shinnecock Reservation—Montauk Highway, Manhattan. 212-777Southampton. www.shin6800 necocknation.com John W. Engeman TheSt. Vitus—1120 Manhatater at Northport—250 tan Ave. www.saintvitusMain St., Northport. bar.com 631-261-2900. www. johnwengementheater. Terminal 5—610 W. 56th com St., Manhattan. www. Mercury Lounge—217 E. terminal5nyc.com Houston St., Manhattan. Vibe Lounge—60 North 212-260-4700. www.mer- Park Ave., Rockville Cencuryloungenyc.com tre. 516-208-6590 Music Hall of WilWebster Hall—125 E 11th liamsburg—66 N. 6th St. St., Manhattan. www. 212-486-5400. www. websterhall.com musichallofwilliamsburg. Westhampton Beach Percom forming Arts Center—76 Nassau Coliseum—Hemp- Main St., Westhampton stead Turnpike, Uniondale Beach. 631-288-1500 Nassau County Museum YMCA Boulton Cenof Art—Roslyn Harbor. ter—37 W. Main St., Bay www.nassaumuseum.com Shore. 631-969-1101. www.boultoncenter.org NYCB Theatre at West-
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Sunday Cont. their home country of Canada while maintaining a healthy following in the States in the midst of bouncing between label deals. Since 2010, the Canadian quartet has embarked on the ambitious four-CD Nomad Series, with each disc covering a different theme from the songs of Vic Chesnutt to last year’s Sing in My Meadow being an exercise in live garage rock. The most recent, The Wilderness, dropped in March. Also playing a second night on 8.6 and appearing on 8.8 @ YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts—MF The Zombies & The Left Banke @ Highline Ballroom Also appearing on 8.6. monday 8.6 Ferraro Brothers Hockey Showcase @ Dix Hills Arena Hosted by NHL alums Peter & Chris Ferraro, showcase your skills to the college scouts, meet professional players and enjoy the festivities. For more information visit http://www. ferrarobrothershockey.com/showcase. Old Crow Medicine Show @ Summerstage, Central Park With the Lumineers & The Milk Carton Kids. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones @ Webster Hall With the Have Nots. Barrington Levy @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Doug Fine (Too High to Fail) @ Book Revue Too High to Fail covers everything from a brief history of hemp to an insider’s perspective on a growing season in Mendocino County, where cannabis drives 80 percent of the economy (to the tune of $6 billion annually). Investigative journalist Doug Fine follows one plant from seed to patient in the first American county to fully legalize and regulate cannabis farming. He profiles an issue of critical importance and it’s a wild ride. Cover Your Idols/ Trust Fall/Step Aside/Lucinda Williams @ Bowery Ballroom Light and frothy has never been Lucinda Williams’ way, so it’s no surprise that on her 10th studio outing, last year’s Blessed, dark subject matter dominates and makes for the kind of compelling material that’s been a constant from Williams throughout her career. Most recently, this ability to portray personal tribulations in song has found her touching on everything from the personal pain of toxic relationships to the passing of a parent. So it goes this time around with the inspired bliss of her 2009 marriage to Tom Overby sharing space with swaggering kiss-offs to former flames and the mourning of both her former manager Frank Callari and late friend Vic Chesnutt.
Arguably one of the few current artists able to ascend to the rare strata inhabited by modern-day Dylan, this rootsy American queen will be sharing her musical gifts during this multiple-date swing through the Big Apple. With Amy Cook. Also playing on 8.7 and appearing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on 8.9 & 8.10.—MF tuesday 8.7 M. Ward/Yo La Tengo @ Celebrate Brooklyn @ Prospect Park Bandshell With Wyatt Cenac. Prostitution/Vex/ Last Legion/Bloodseeker @ St. Vitus Cinderella @ NYCB Theatre Ryan Montbleau @ City Winery Howie Day @ City Winery Sixpence None the Richer @ Mercury Lounge George Thorogood & the Destroyers @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Also appearing on 8.8. Bloc Party @ Terminal 5 With The Drums & Them Jeans. Through 8.9. wednesday 8.8 M83 @ Central Park Summerstage With Big Black Delta. Cannibal Corpse @ Irving Plaza Summer Slaughter Tour with Between the Buried and Me, The Faceless, Periphery, Veil of Maya, Job for a Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed & Cerebral Bore.
Big Time Rush @ Nikon @ Jones Beach With Cody Simpson & Rachel Crow. Also appearing on 8.17. Joan Osborne @ City Winery Also appearing on 8.21 & 8.29) thursday 8.9 Bridget Siegel (Domestic Affairs) @ Book Revue The Great Long Island Laugh-Off @ Governor’s Comedy Club All-Star Comedy Show @ Brokerage Comedy Club BoDeans/Sarah Borges @ City Winery Gabriel the Marine @ Revolution With These People, The Red, Pindhurst Farms & Brendan Murray. Empire Road @ Gramercy Theatre With Two Cent Sam, Sol Ardour, Brand of Julez & Kaymus. Origin/MALIGNANCY/Pyrrhon @ St. Vitus Bobby “Blue” Bland @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill The B-52’s @ Irving Plaza With Love Funk. Kellie Pickler @ The Paramount Jon B and Jagged Edge @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Dave Koz w/special guest Bebe Winans @ The Paramount O.A.R. (Of A Revolution)/Rebelution @ Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater
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1. What was your favorite ridiculous thing about U.S. politics in this movie? I enjoyed making fun of the attack ads that are out there. And in terms of the character I got to play, it was really kinda fun debating and giving speeches that literally, when you walk away after listening to them, they mean nothing! But that game was so much fun. Because it’s really fun to spend as much time as you can talking about nothing. And seeing how much time you can waste. Which I think they do a lot of!
5. Have you ever been involved in politics? Yes. I was president of the Ross Perot fan club in high school. It was just a fan club, it wasn’t really helping him run for office. So, yes, I have been active! The Campaign spouts so much about freedom, eagles, Jesus, guns—all that stuff.
2. Now, about your hairdo for The Campaign, did you base your look on any particular real-life politician? Yeah, I literally wanted John Edwards’ hair. You know, that ‘I Feel Pretty’ video, where he’s combing his hair over incessantly! I mean, just the image of the politician with the perfect hair and those nine-hundred-dollar haircuts, and things like that. It was kind of inspirational to me!
4. What would your candidate have done to capture the Latino vote in South Carolina, which is now an increasing part of that population there? Cam Brady would probably have a horrible idea, like passing out sombreros to the Latino community. Something like that. Yeah.
6. What does this movie mean to you about the state of politics in America today? And, more importantly, what can be done about it? I think comedy is a great tool to kind of point things out satirically. And I think one of the things that we’re trying to point out a little is that the system is so insane. And is it attracting the best people to run for office, you know? You have to jump through so many hoops, and your life has to be exposed on such a level. And you have to participate in such tactics, so is it becoming attractive to people who could actually help us govern? You know, I think a lot of talented people probably just say, ‘That’s okay, it’s not for me. No!’
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