Sound Smart at a Party Tigers in Nepal know how to compromise, according to a new study. Researchers from Michigan
State University looked at video that was recorded over a two-year period with more than 70 motion-activated cameras near Chitwan National Park. They found endangered tigers that used to be active around the clock now only come out at night in areas that humans inhabit. The study found that big cats preferred to steer clear of humans, with 80 percent of tigers inside the park and 95 percent of tigers outside of it going nocturnal. Researchers now plan to look into whether the new schedule will have a negative effect on tigers in the future…
A very devoted AC/DC fan in New Hampshire was arrested four times in 26 hours for blasting “Highway to Hell” and other music from her house—and for throwing a
they first issued a warning to Joyce Coffey for playing loud music at her home in Epping last Tuesday afternoon. She didn’t listen to their requests, and was arrested after an hour. Five hours later she was arrested again for blasting music, and rearrested Wednesday morning. For her last arrest, she decided to spice it up, and flung a frying pan at her nephew when he tried to take his belongings from her house. (We don’t know why he didn’t want to stay there anymore.) A local television station reported that the judge recommended she start using headphones.
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—Bob Barker on not being invited to the 40th anniversary special of “The Price is Right.” Barker hosted the game show for 35 years before Drew Carey took over in 2007. This June 6, 2007, file photo shows Barker during the taping of his final episode of “The Price Is Right” in Los Angeles. The 40th anniversary special of the popular daytime game show aired Sept. 4, 2012, on CBS. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
An English couple found a surprise in their house after living there for almost 25 years. Colin
Steer was working on their living room floor when he noticed a sunken portion under their couch that appeared to be filled in. After further investigation of the history of his property, he found that the depression was actually the top of a 33-foot-deep medieval well. So far he has excavated about 17 feet down, and found a old sword, which he says appears to be a peasant’s fighting weapon. His wife does not dig having an historical site in her
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living room, and told the UK’s Daily Telegraph she’s afraid it’s going to affect the resale value of their home... One very lucky kitten traveled about 100 miles behind the bumper of a Jeep and only suffered a broken paw. The 6-week-old feline hitched a
ride with Stacey Pulsifer as she drove from her Plattsburgh apartment to Elizabethtown in the Adirondacks and back. She heard meowing when she stopped for coffee, and discovered the little black kitty. Pulsifer decided to keep the cat, and has since named her Pumpkin…
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LETTER FROM THE NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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“Tell me something about Elvis.” That’s how my housemate Jared answered a phone call one afternoon in early 2002. I didn’t know it at the time, but the fate of my entire journalistic career hung in the balance. On the other end was Robbie Woliver, who with Publisher Jed Morey, was about to start a new publication, the New Island Ear, which in 2003, would re-launch as the Long Island Press. Robbie had been given my phone number from my neighbor, Tanya Indiana, with whom he had worked at the Long Island Voice. He was calling to set up an interview for an entry-level spot. “Elvis is dead,” Robbie replied. Pleased, Jared took down his contact information and passed it along to me, thus leading to my eventual hiring. (I’ll save the details of my “interview” for later.) There were just five of us back then in editorial: Robbie, the editor in chief; Bill Jensen, managing editor; Arts & Listings Editor Michael Patrick Nelson; Staff Writer Lauren E. Hill; and me, the editorial assistant. Jon Sasala was our art director. Although I had written and edited at my college newspaper, I had primarily covered arts and entertainment, mostly music. That quickly changed. Don’t get me wrong, I took full advantage of meeting and interviewing all my favorite bands and requesting any album or book I ever wanted—Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols and longtime Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick come to mind—but from the first issue, I began interviewing ordinary people. People you’d never hear about. People who, unless you were friends or family, would never, ever know. People who had their own unique stories to share—some beautiful, some absolutely heart-wrenchingly tragic. All simply amazing. Robbie and Jensen let me write a few columns and taught me way too many things to list here. Source cultivation, character development and “stepping away from the story” were but a precious few. More people were brought aboard: Edith Updike, as news editor; Paul Perillie, as senior news writer; Staff Writer Kenny Herzog; Lifestyle Associate Editor Brendan Manley; Listings Editor Dave Gil de Rubio; Food Editor Ron Beigel; along with too many contributors to name. Michael Conforti, David Patrick and Keith Hopkin rounded out the production department. I eventually became an associate editor, overseeing several other columnists, but continued to take on any assignment I could and continued writing as much as I possibly could. (I eventually wrote for every single section of the New Island Ear and the Press. I also formed a vicious caffeine addiction, which persists, in full furor, today.) When we officially launched as the Long Island Press in 2003, we took the Island by storm. Us against the world was the vibe. By this time, Timothy Bolger had also joined the ranks (Jaclyn Gallucci came on as an intern in 2006), and he and I learned hard news reporting from Updike. Follow up every lead. Talk to as many people as possible. Tell both sides. Never give up. Take no prisoners. Smitten with the written and oral word
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from as early as I can remember, I became attracted to the longer-form stories, the ones that required research and revisiting sources, the ones where you had to dig. I developed an unnatural obsession with documents. Updike started calling me “Scoop.” (I’m sure she called me some other names when stories ran over word count or were held up by some minute detail; thankfully she didn’t voice those.) She became my partner in crime and opened my eyes to investigative journalism, being the voice of the voiceless, afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, shining a light on all the dark places, exposing the truth. Political malfeasance, corruption, sketchy business dealings, environmental crimes—it didn’t matter who or what. We went after everything. Exposing the truth was our only objective, besides, in the process, telling a truly, truly great story. Throughout the past decade, we’ve told a lot. And although their impact isn’t always quantifiable unless someone personally shares the effect they’ve had, some, to a degree, are. Among them: our role in helping expose the Newsday circulation scandal, perhaps the largest case of circulation fraud in publishing history; raising awareness about LI’s heroin epidemic; helping shut down and clean up covert Nassau County-run solid waste sites on a public beach and in its largest park; acting as a force for change within Nassau’s dilapidated and unsafe sewer system; giving hope to families suffering various health crises; shining a light on shady dealings within the Nassau County Police Department. And many more to come. I left the Press in 2006 for three years to study under many other great journalists and editors at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and then the amazing writers and editors at The Washington Post. Those seminal experiences may find their way into a future letter from this editor. For now, I just wanted to share this little bit of personal history with you as the beginning of a dialogue I’d like to maintain. We are here to inform you. We are here to tell your stories. We are here to expose the truth and shine a light. We are here to serve as a check on power. We are here to make this Island, and world, really, a better place. All the aforementioned people (and many more) have helped mold me and my craft and I humbly bring the knowledge, tools and values they instilled—which I continue to learn—along with a piece of them, with me to this position. Spencer Rumsey, Rashed Mian, Lindsay Christ and Licia Avelar round out our current edit lineup, Sal Calvi and Scott Kearney round out production. There’s no better team in journalism, and through our new sister publication Milieu, guided by Publisher Beverly Fortune, we hope to positively affect even more Long Islanders. In an industry that is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval, the Press remains, in my opinion, the absolute best vehicle for the truth on Long Island, and it will continue to remain so as long as I have anything to do about it. —Christopher Twarowski P r e s s P l ay
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The Target
Energy Drinks—OFF TARGET NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman begins investigating the multibillion-dollar energydrink industry, which he believes is deceiving consumers by peddling caffeine under the guise of exotic-sounding ingredients and exaggerating their capabilities. You mean Red Bull et sweli doesn’t really give you wings? Bummer. ne
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Jersey Shore—PARTIAL SCORE The reality show and pop culture phenomenon is canceled by MTV after six seasons and record-breaking network viewership in the wake of the Situation getting sober and Snooki giving birth. Looks like New Jersey’s unemployment rate just got a little higher!
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Sweet Caroline—BULL’S EYE The traditional fan sing-a-long song at Penn State football home games with the lyrics, “touching me, touching you,” is deemed inappropriate and cut from the set list in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal. First Neil Diamond is killed by the Internet and now this. Eastwooding—BULL’S EYE Following in the footsteps of planking, Te-bowing and Angelina’s leg, Clint Eastwood’s now famous GOP convention address when he spoke to an empty chair spawns a viral “Eastwooding” movement—a frenzy of empty chair photos—on Twitter and Facebook. And they say young people don’t take an interest in politics… The DuggArs—OFF TARGET The Duggar brood pals around with bornagain Christian Evangelist and actor Kirk Cameron during an episode of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting. We didn’t know Kirk and Jim Bob were friends, but we do know they have at least one thing in common: neither of them believes in birth control. Cocaine Queen—PARTIAL SCORE Notorious drug trafficker 69-year-old Griselda Blanco, who is believed to be connected to more than 240 murders—is shot to death in Colombia in the kind of motorcycle drive-by she utilized on others just as she was leaving a butcher shop in Medellin. We hate to say it but, karma… well, you know.
Vito lopez New York has such a long, colorful history of public servants who’ve earned a reputation not for their legislative achievements but how they served their own needs at the expense of their constituents that it’s hard to keep track of them all. Joining the dishonor roll is Assemb. Vito Lopez. Few will remember what bills Lopez has sponsored in Albany, but the cost of keeping the Brooklyn Democrat in power is now widely known because Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has admitted he spent $103,080 in taxpayer “hush” money to settle sexual harassment claims filed against the 71-year-old Lopez by two high-ranking women who’d worked on his staff. To sweeten the offer, Lopez coughed up $32,000 of his own. Two weeks ago a bipartisan Assembly ethics committee reportedly found credible evidence that the “dirty old man”—as the New York Daily News dubbed the political pervert—had groped, kissed and harassed them. Since then, Silver stripped Lopez of his Assembly committee chairmanship and asked him to resign. Lopez gave up his local party post but the sexist septuagenarian says he’ll run again “to serve the people in the 53rd Assembly district.” Brooklyn can do better. Lopez has stuck his sleazy hands up his staffers’ skirts far enough. Lopez… you’re fired!
The Quote
129 The number of people authorities say were arrested on Long Island for driving while intoxicated over Labor Day weekend, not including four alleged drunken boaters, despite warnings of checkpoints amid an island-wide crackdown.
The Pink Slip
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by factcheckers.”
The Photo
−Neil Newhouse, a pollster for Mitt Romney’s campaign
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth stands at the podium as she addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The Equation
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1. ATTEND RED BULL’S FLUGTAG: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a school bus with electric-guitar-shaped wings piloted by a bunch of ’80s hair metal rock band impersonators? Sept. 15 marks the latest stop for Red Bull Flugtag, the international human-powered, homemade flying contraption competition that judges challengers on flight distance, creativity and showmanship. Participants will descend upon Philadelphia as they fly (and we use that word generously) their rickety craft off a 30-foot pier into the Delaware River. One team from Long Island—School of Rock—will be vying to break the U.S. record of 155 feet set by a flying banjo in Nashville, Tenn., in 2007. 2. PREORDER THE IPHONE 5: It’s true…hold on to your undies. Apple will begin taking preorders for the next-generation iPhone on Sept. 12—the same day it will unveil the new phone to the public. The phone is expected to hit the market the following week. 3. MAKE TOAST ON THE INTERNET: At first we visited the Bread Art Project website and saw these amazing portraits and landscapes that appear to be toasted on slices of bread. Pretty amazing—and intimidating for people with absolutely no artistic ability. The site was created by the Grain Foods Foundation in an effort to help end hunger in America. One piece of bread designed by you equals a $1 donation to Feeding America from them. The Foundation is donating $50,000 plus money raised from bread you submit—online and created by their Web Toaster. So whether you have the talent to draw freehand or just want to upload some photos, visit www. breadartproject.com. 4. RESERVE J.K. ROWLING’S NEW BOOK: Book Revue in Huntington is taking orders for the Harry Potter author’s much-anticipated first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy. The book officially goes on sale September 27th but if you preorder now, Book Revue will give you 20 percent off. 5. MEET CYNDI LAUPER: Cyndi Lauper is the best. And if you don’t remember, here’s why. While the singer was at a Buenos Aires airport back in March 2011 and flights were getting canceled and no one was happy, she took to the AP system to sing “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” Airport staff and stranded passengers sang along spontaneously. Nearby travelers and airport workers sang along. And thanks to flip cams and the Internet, so could the entire world. So, children of the ’80s, rejoice, Cyndi comes to Barnes & Noble Warren Street in Manhattan Sept. 18 for a meet and greet—and be prepared to sing.
6. LISTEN TO CANDY COATED FURY: Ska punk ’90s staple Reel Big Fish recently released their 7th studio album, Candy Coated Fury, an inspired and infectiously catchy return to the hyperkinetic ska and biting wit of the band’s beloved early albums. Check it out. 7. CELEBRATE PHIL: With his musical genius, his irascible wit, and his boundless love, local musician Phil Antonucci has touched the hearts of Long Islanders throughout most of his 59 years. A professional musician since his school days at both St. Ignatius and Holy Trinity in Hicksville, Phil has worked alongside Ll’s most noted musicians. Phil, best known as the guitarist and front man of Beginnings, the Chicago Tribute Band, recently passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer and lymphoma. On Sept. 12, local musicians will come together at the Huntington Elks Club to celebrate Phil’s life. Admission is $20 and will feature the rock, funk and horns of Uppercut, Mike DelGuidice and Big Shot and many other special guests. 8. TIVO THE VMA’S: The last proof that MTV was once a music station—the Video Music Awards—airs Sept. 6 at 8 p.m. Kevin Hart hosts and performers include The Wanted, Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Pink and Green Day. Obviously, most of this show will be crap, so set your TiVo so you can fast forward through the four hours in 20 minutes so you don’t miss the highlights, like the staged inevitable drama. 9. COMPETE ON CHOPPED: Can you create a $10,000 meal out of a mystery basket? Food Network’s hit cooking competition show is seeking skilled, creative, competitive professional chefs in the New York tri-state area (as well as Los Angeles and Seattle) to compete on new episodes! Men and women of any culinary specialty are invited to apply online at www.choppedcasting.com. This season, Chopped is also looking for amateur cooks, former military chefs, moms, weight-loss stories, unsung heroes, families and teens for special upcoming episodes. 10. CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR! Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins sundown Sunday, Sept. 16. For local events and services, visit www.longislandpress.com. news
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I’D LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERY TEACHER I EVER HAD My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High By Tony Danza Hearing that Tony Danza wrote a book about his experiences as a school teacher, you’d probably think that was before his days on Who’s the Boss? But it wasn’t and that’s what makes this book so great. In this brutally honest memoir, Danza gives readers a backstage pass to his year teaching high school English in inner-city Philadelphia, a gig he took after being inspired by a documentary made by Teach for America and decided he wanted to give back. So, three years ago, he did just that: he became a teacher. Entering Philadelphia’s Northeast High School’s crowded halls in September 2009, Tony found his way to a tenth-grade classroom filled with 26 students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about his showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the hot seat, asking questions like, “Does anyone else think it’s weird that you’re teaching English?” and “Are you nervous—because, your shirt is totally soaked?” In this book, Tony shares experiences that ranged from the infuriating to the deeply rewarding as he relives his days at the head of the class.—Jaclyn Gallucci
B-List B-Day Ben “No, I’m not related to Dan” Savage September 13, 1993 Ben Savage, a Virgo, is best known for playing Cory Matthews on the early ’90s sitcom Boy Meets World and is the younger brother of The Wonder Years’ Fred Savage. Aside from a few appearances here and there, you probably haven’t heard of either of them much, since both of these child stars beat the odds and turned out—gasp— normal. Virgos are known for doing the right thing and making good life decisions. Ben went from chasing after Topanga to interning for a senator and graduating from Stanford University, just like his big brother, with a degree in political science. What can we say? It looks like all those over-the-fence talks with Mr. Feeny paid off.
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Suffolk County Launches Volunteer Recruitment Campaign Under SAFER Grant Funding Press release
The Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services announces the launch of a marketing campaign targeted at attracting new recruits to the county’s 109 volunteer fire departments and 27 volunteer EMS agencies. A 30-month program that will run through July 2014, this comprehensive, multi-media campaign will receive $1.3 million in grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA under the SAFER (Staffing For Adequate Fire & Emergency Response) Program. Overall, the grant provides a total of $2.6 million for improving overall recruitment and retention of volunteers throughout the county, and includes a tuition reimbursement program for active fire/EMS volunteers at Suffolk County Community College. Structured along the lines of similar, successful programs undertaken by the department in the past, the new campaign features cable television, radio and print advertising, along with such out-of-home advertising venues as Suffolk Transit buses, malls, movie theaters and LI Ducks baseball games. The focus for response will be the department’s redesigned recruitment website (www.suffolksbravest.com), where prospective recruits will be able to learn more about the requirements and benefits of becoming a volunteer, and complete a preliminary, online application. An automated referral system will automatically route these applications to the appropriate department or agency for follow up, based on the
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candidate’s home address. A new element being introduced to the 2012 campaign is an active social media program employing Facebook (www. facebook.com/Suffolk’s Bravest), Twitter (@ suffolksbravest) and YouTube. Social media will be integral to both the recruitment and retention objectives of the grant by creating online venues for fire and EMS volunteers to network and share experiences, photos and videos. In addition to bringing the volunteer community closer together, it will provide potential recruits with an opportunity to “look behind the scenes” and develop an appreciation for the fellowship, camaraderie and social benefits of becoming a volunteer. Other elements to be added later in the campaign include geo-targeted online advertising and a comprehensive training program for volunteer recruitment officers at fire departments and EMS agencies across the county. These training sessions will focus on helping the departments and agencies to use advertising, promotion and public relations more effectively in developing their local recruitment campaigns. “The goal of the SAFER Grant is to recruit 2,200 new volunteers while helping to retain our existing base of more than 12,000 individuals,” says Commissioner Joseph F. Williams. “Recruitment and retention are the keys to offsetting the natural process of attrition, and maintaining the necessary staffing for our county’s first line of defense against disaster.”
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Off the Reservation BY Jed Morey, Publisher, Long Island press Facebook.com/JedMorey
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Where Was I? My goodness, the presidential election is almost upon us and my notepad has gathered a thin layer of dust over the past few months. Now that my self-induced writing coma is over, it’s high time to get on with the business at hand: participating in the armchair media punditry battle where I make believe the things I say will have an actual impact on who will be elected President of the United States. As my home state of New York is all but a foregone conclusion—a place where candidates troll for funds but take electoral votes for granted—I can only hope my words fly across the social networking transom and into the eyes and ears of undecided swing state Rumpelstiltskins. Therefore, if you have a cousin in Ohio or an aunt in Florida, by all means, please feel free to share. Over the next several weeks I am dedicating this space exclusively to the big issues of the election. One at a time. The goal is to put each issue into its own proper context, devoid of ideology. Nothing I write will be worthy of a meme
or ironic block text quote on Facebook. (Although if a particular quote inspires you, I insist that the accompanying image be one of a tearful clown.) The ideas herein and heretofore will not fit on a bumper sticker or even a tweet. But hopefully, at the end of the series, I will have provided enough factual information to assist one in making an informed
hopefully become obvious by the end of this series. For those impatient souls who are inclined to write these missives off in advance, having already read the last line of the story, I bid you farewell. For those willing to join me in this informational pilgrimage, this first column will serve as base camp—the place from which we begin our summit quest. Base camp is where climbers find addition to these tax cuts, he depleted oxygen and sustenance. In our virtual the surplus by waging full-scale tradijourney the air we breathe will be logic tional war against two nations that had and our nourishment will be the facts NOTHING to do with the terrorist we consume. Even Sir Edmund Hillary attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. would find the air quite thin in a place as bizarre as Washington, D.C., where nothing is as it seems and politicians suck • The financial system is in complete and utter disarray due to the irresponsible the oxygen out of any room. It’s what deregulatory frenzy that occurred over the past three decades. Regulations and capitalism are not mutually exclusive; in fact, a well-regulated economic system with proper regulatory checks and balances ensures financial freedom. This is not a counter-intuitive proposition. Only Wall Street tycoons, lobbyists and conservative think tanks want you to believe this. makes our baseline discussion here so important. There you go. These are the baseline Here are the key facts for us to facts by which we shall guide our discusconsider as we begin our ascent: sion going forward. And I mean discus• The net worth of the 400 wealthi- sion. It’s no fun writing in a vacuum. So est Americans as measured by Forbes let’s talk. The reason these points are few and magazine exceeds that of more than 150 million Americans. (That’s half of all of focused is that the president has very little us.) Net worth is measured by assets to do with things outside of the economy such as one’s home, retirement invest- and military strategy. True, the POTUS ments and cash in the bank compared sets the tone and establishes priorities to related debts such as your mortgage, outside the scope of defense spending student loans and car payments. This and taxes, but these are the areas over figure has been vetted numerous times which he has the greatest direct influence. and it is agreed that this statistic is The wild card regarding social issues is not only accurate but, in all likeliness, the potential death or resignation of a Supreme Court Justice as the implicaslightly conservative. tions of a presidential nomination have • When Barack Obama was the president- far-reaching and enduring consequences. elect, the economy was shedding jobs at But choosing a president based upon a rate of 100,000 per week. When he whom he might select for the highest was sworn in as POTUS in January of court in the land is tricky and implies that 2009 that number had ballooned to one’s ideology is so fixed on a particular issue or issues that policy discussions are 200,000 per week. distracting sideshows to a larger social • Seventy percent of the federal budget agenda. Oh, I almost forgot my most is mandated by law. Of the remaining 30 percent, or $1.1 trillion, half is important disclaimer. It is my firm belief allocated toward military spending. To that our nation is sick and our notion of put things further into perspective, the democracy—having to choose from a field of two—is a caricaEnvironmental Proture of its intended self. tection Agency is less An illusion. But there are than 1 percent of the discretionary budget, facebook.com/jedmorey nevertheless important and immediate consemaking it a fraction of 1 percent of the total. So let’s not spend quences inherent in the choice before us, much time talking about how the EPA no matter how much of a mockery and diversion it represents from whence we is strangling our competitiveness. came. With that, let our quest for the • During his tenure as president, George summit begin. Next week: John Maynard Keynes. W. Bush gave back more refunds to the top 1 percent of taxpayers than To spend, or not to spend. See you on the the bottom 80 percent combined. In mountain.
Even Sir Edmund Hillary would find the air quite thin in a place as bizarre as Washington D.C., where nothing is as it seems and politicians suck the oxygen out of any room. decision. As I have a good idea of where it is all going, I can tell you that I have already made up my mind. (Spoiler alert) I am voting for Barack Obama. Again. The answer as to why a privileged white guy from the suburbs who once ran for a local office as a Republican would cast not one, but now two votes for this man shall
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Kathy Scarpinella has never shied away from a challenge. Her work ethic is exemplary—and legendary. She showed her resolve early in her career when she was hired to be the director of operations at the newly formed Oxford Resource Corporation, an auto lease company that eventually became the largest independent auto lease financing business in the nation. Kathy worked her way up the ladder reaching the rank of senior vice president, and was devoted to the two young entrepreneurs who founded the company, Michael Pascucci and John Danzi. Today, many Long Islanders would recognize
Pascucci as the owner of TV-55 (which was recently acquired by CBS) and the builder of Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton and Danzi as principal of Long Island Hotels LLC. When Oxford was sold to a bank in California, Kathy was out of a job but she wasn’t idle for very long. Wanting to try the entrepreneurial side of business, she invested in seven combo franchises of Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robbins and Taco Bell. Before she sold her businesses in 2007, not only were the retail operations profitable, Kathy had also become one of Dunkin Donuts most successful wholesale distributors. Officially “retired,” she immersed herself in planning and building her award-winning Victorian dream home nestled on the Connetquot River in Oakdale.
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Fifteen years had passed since she had worked with Pascucci and Danzi, but they had never forgotten Kathy and her extraordinary work ethic. When she received a call from Danzi about a new challenge, she listened to what her friend had to say. Danzi is a close friend of Father Tom Hartman and chairman of the Thomas Hartman Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Father Tom, known throughout Long Island for his grace and charm has touched the lives of countless people through his many endeavors connecting businesses, charities and the Church. In 2001, Father Tom was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, an incurable degenerative neurological disease that affects more than 1.5 million Americans with 60,000 new cases diagnosed each year. More research scientists were needed but there wasn’t enough funding to recruit them. Father Tom’s physician said, “This disease can be cured with money.” It was a call to action and the Thomas Hartman Foundation for Parkinson’s Research was founded in 2004. Initially, Father Tom did the outreach to donors and received generous multi-year commitments from this “inner circle” of friends. In 2007, when it was time to begin renewing the original pledges, Father Tom was too ill to meet with the donors so the foundation’s board of directors began searching for someone who could. Danzi knew that Kathy would be the right person to handle renewing the pledges. Her business sense and entrepreneurial spirit were exactly the qualities that he admired. “In any job I’ve done, people think I’m the owner,” Kathy says,. In September 2007 she accepted the position. “If I had to go back to work, this is what I want to do,” she says. “I have the skill set they needed.” With only a few months to prepare a presentation for the donors, she had a lot to learn about Parkinson’s disease. “I had to research, understand, compile and then present,” Kathy says. “Thankfully, I’m a sponge.” Facts and statistics she knew she could handle, her biggest challenge was to find a way to engage the donors who had previously given so generously to Father Tom. She needed to gain their trust. She assembled an advisory board of world-renowned scientists and medical doctors and invited the donors to meet them personally. “By involving the donors I showed them that their dollars make a difference,” Kathy says. Her presentation was very successful. She managed to humanize the fight against the disease and encouraged donors and researchers to feel like they were sharing in any progress that was
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made through their collaboration. “We made a unique model and it worked,” she says proudly. Last December, Stony Brook University received a $150 million gift from the Simons Foundation, established by James and Marilyn Simons of Long Island. This gift is the largest in Stony Brook University’s history and among the top 10 gifts to any public college or university in the United States. Part of the gift is earmarked for research in neuroscience and because Parkinson’s is a neurological disease, the foundation was eligible for an endowment. In order to qualify, Kathy’s mission was to raise a minimum of $1 million in donations for the foundation that would be matched dollar for dollar by the Simons gift. She had to conceive of a fitting tribute to raise a very large amount of money to fulfill her commitment to Father Tom, the donors and the foundation. She began to organize a Legacy Gala, an event that would signify the end of the foundation and her position as president once that minimum mark of $1 million was realized, but it would be the beginning of the Thomas Hartman Center for Parkinson’s Research at Stony Brook University. The Legacy Gala will be held on Oct. 16th, with hundreds of Father Tom’s donors, supporters and friends paying tribute to his life and his legacy. Through their generosity, the Center will become a reality and a cure for Parkinson’s will be that much closer, raising other hopes. “A Parkinson’s cure will open the door to finding a cure for ALS and Multiple Sclerosis,” Kathy says. Kathy is prepared for the daunting task, knowing that her challenge is amplified by the responsibility that comes with a foundation that is associated with one of our most beloved denizens. She still must secure the balance of the $1+ million, but she’s confident about the outcome of the Legacy Gala. “I’m someone who just gets the job done,” she explains, but she also credits Father Tom for his ongoing inspiration. “Even in his illness, Father Tom is working miracles.” For more information, call Kathy at 631-277-9655. The Legacy Gala will be held at the Crest Hollow Country Club on October 16 at 6 p.m. For tickets or sponsorship information email aa@hartmanfoundation.org
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surf rider: jess stallone dons her wetsuit before
climbing on her surfboard and paddling out into he water is choppy and rough the atlantic ocean off long beach to catch a few at Lido Beach this Tuesday waves on a recent august afternoon. (Photo by Jon Sasala/Long Island Press) evening in August, but that isn’t stopping Jess Stallone from trying to catch a few waves. This particular lifestyle, unbeknownst She makes her way onto the sand to many Long Islanders, got put in the with her 7S—a light, 5-foot-long fishtail spotlight last summer when the popular surfboard personalized with a myriad of brand Quiksilver brought its international stickers. She analyzes the ocean once she Pro surf competition to Long Beach—not gets onto the vacant beach, scanning the Long Beach, Calif., but Long Beach the shoreline for a window of opportunity. barrier island south of LI. For two weeks, “It’s kinda hard to find an entry point,” the seaside city was the buzz of all things she says, her eyes fixed on the water. surfing as pros like Kelly Slater and Owen Still optimistic, Stallone settles on the Wright ripped and shredded waves at one bench of a dismantled yellow lifeguard of Nassau County’s busiest beaches. stand and sets her board down in front of Now Quiksilver is back this week preher. She digs out a bar of Sticky Bumps surf senting Unsound Surf Shop’s Right Coast wax from her pink-and-black checkered Cup, an annual competition held in Long backpack and begins to rub it over the Beach specifically for East Coast surfers— surface of the 7S. The wax will keep her feet and just in time for contestants to catch from slipping when she stands, she says. swells from Tropical Storm Leslie. With The 21-year-old patiently waits for the more than 60 competitors and a $20,000 water to calm before she plunges in. There purse, Unsound owner and Long Beach are a lot of waves, but none that are really resident Dave Juan says Quiksilver’s name surfable. is sure to bring more light to surfing in this “There’s really nothing out there,” she region. says. “The waves are breaking late.” “It shows continued support for East But persistence prevails—she tries Coast surfing,” he says. anyway. LI’s surfing culture is one that has to As the sun begins to descend, creating be sought out, and when people do find it, streaks of pink and orange across the sky, Stallone slips on her dark gray Body they will see members of the 9-to-5 workforce, dozens of great surf spots, a city Glove wetsuit over a sports bra. She doesn’t wear a bikini when she surfs. that looks like it belongs on the West Coast, and a surfer who shapes and sells (“Guys will literally fall off their boards because they’re staring at your ass,” boards for his company that boasts an international presence. she says.) She doesn’t make use of the thin black hair tie on her For the people who still find it hard to believe that the wrist and instead keeps her wavy, sun-kissed locks down. Island is a hot spot for surfing, those who live the lifestyle prove Stallone paddles out. She is a lone surfer at Lido this otherwise. evening, her only company being a small group of seagulls and “There still are the people that say there are no waves on piping plovers, along with the occasional passersby walking on Long Island,” says Mike Becker, the local surfboard shaper. the beach. Tonight, just 10 minutes away from her home in “There’re more people that surf now than you think.” East Meadow, the vast open sea belongs to her. Whether it’s at Lido in Long Beach or Ditch Plains in Beach Boys and Girls Montauk, Long Island is a haven for surfers. Those who surf They are teachers, college professors, businesspeople, jourmake up a tight-knit community of about 1,000 people that nalists, students. They live in modest homes on narrow streets is only a few generations old; and almost everyone knows each in Long Beach and drive orange Honda Elements. They’re in other. They live their lives just like all surfers do—multiple trips their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and even 60s. They’re not all buff or to the beach every week, immersing themselves in every aspect have ripped abs, although tremendous upper and lower body ON THE COVER of the sport—but circumstances that come with living in this strength is required for what they do. a Barrel off the coast of Long Beach, NY. part of New York make for an unusual subculture defined by They’re regular people. No dreadlocks, no exclamations (Photo by Matthew Clark LI’s odd geography and suburban atmosphere. of “Gnarly dude!” when something excites them. Long Island www.clarkography.com)
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surfers blend in with the rest of the population here. After decades of overcoming stereotypes and lack of acceptance, the only thing that might make them stand out now is a surf T-shirt or a bumper sticker on a car. “It’s just a bunch of happygo-lucky guys going surfing,” says 41-year-old Charlie Bunger of the family-owned Bunger Surf shops. “It’s a pretty pleasant vibe. It’s a neat lifestyle.” In a broad sense, LI possesses the characteristics of many well-known surf regions: oceanfront cities and miles of beaches, surf shops and competitions, scorching hot summers. But what sets it apart from, say, California, is that surfers here do not have the luxury of those on the Pacific Coast. They can’t go out surfing every morning before work, or dedicate each weekend to it. Instead, they have to plan ahead. “You’ll make your schedule based around surfing,” Becker says. “It’s really hard to have a structured life here,” adds East Coast Surfing Hall of Famer Ed Fawess. But “like anything you love, you find
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a way to do it.” They’ll miss family gatherings. They’ll call in sick to work. They’ll cut vacations short. They’ll do pretty much anything to get out of something just so they can surf LI’s waves. Surfers here have felt this way for years. After legendary Hawaiian
“It’s more commercialized now,” Fawess says. But “it really started as a soulful sport. It’s nice to see that maintained.” Fawess, a retired businessman, has surfed off LI for decades. He’s seen all the changes, good and bad, and is known as a local legend. In 1998 he earned a spot in the East
“It’s an itch you need to scratch.” —Mike Becker, owner of Natures Shapes, a Sayville-based custom built surfboard shop
surfer Duke Kahanamoku introduced surfing to the East Coast in 1913, it took a few decades before a culture began to form on LI. The sport came here permanently in the 1940s, but it didn’t become popular until the ’60s with the opening of the Island’s first surf shops: Bunger in Babylon and Sundown in Levittown. Since then, it has grown and made its way into the mainstream.
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Coast Surfing Hall of Fame for his craft, charity and handiwork involving the sport. The 62 (“and a half”)-year-old is also credited with keeping the longboard alive during a time when use of that particular piece of equipment almost disappeared, thanks to the short board. One thing that hasn’t seen much change is the lack of access to the Atlantic. Back in the ’50s and early
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’60s, every LI beach allowed surfing until a surfer broke his leg at Jones Beach, causing the sport to be prohibited on state land until the ’70s. Many beaches still have strict surfing rules because it is a safety hazard for swimmers, so surfers usually must go out early in the mornings or in the evenings when the waves are good. “Forever we’ve been fighting for access to our ocean,” Fawess says, with a hint of frustration in his voice. “It’s been a 40-year process.” In the past, some elected officials have even gone as far as banning surfing altogether. The sport’s popularity here comes in waves. Many surfers say there will be spurts of growth here and there, but since Quiksilver Pro put Long Beach surfing on the map, they predict the growth to be permanent this time around. And part of the growth within the past 10 years can be credited to more women like Stallone taking up the sport. Throughout the years, popular or not, the spirit of surfing hasn’t changed. It’s a sport many describe as a calling, something that, after the first time, sucks a person in. When
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surfers talk about it, it’s as if they’re describing an addiction. “It’s such a passionate thing,” Becker says. “It’s an itch you need to scratch.” Even after taking a few years off, Stallone found herself drawn back to the sea. When she was 14, she went out surfing during extremely rough conditions churned up by Hurricane Katrina. Nothing bad happened, but when she got out of the water she realized the danger she put herself in. Panicked, Stallone stopped surfing and took up other hobbies. Many LI surfers are able to do that, because there aren’t always opportunities to ride waves. Although many are surf-related, surfers take up other activities in order to fill the gaps and keep their minds busy between surf outings. Richard Quinn photographs surfers for his website surfli. com when he’s not surfing himself or working in the IT department at Touro Law Center. Mike Nelson owns Unsound Surf with Juan and fishes when he’s not surfing. He’s also a well-respected surf photographer and videographer. Frank Buonaiuto teaches oceanography and coastal
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bustin’ surfboards: from the rockaways to montauk point, long island is home to more surf spots than it is credited with, as this surf spot map shows. (Map by Chelsea The Cartographer www.ChelseaTheCartographer.com)
engineering at Hunter College, but also works small jobs with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Then there are some who live for the sport, but won’t let it get in the way of other parts of their lives. “I prefer it to be something I do rather than who I am,” Stallone says. The Stony Brook University journalism student says she believes that in the past, surfing has affected the way
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potential employers view her. “I try to keep it a little more low-key.” The surfers out in Montauk try to keep it low-key too—so much, in fact, that a few avoided talking to the Press about the culture from their perspective. Many surfers laugh and say that those in Montauk are known for ignoring anyone who isn’t a local. Quinn says this is because of the drastic changes brought to
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LI’s easternmost point by seasonal residents and tourists. During any other season besides summer, Montauk resembles a ghost town—with just more than 3,000 permanent residents. It wasn’t always as popular a surf spot as it is today, but wealthy beachgoers eventually came and overcrowded the community during the summer. Most, if not all of them, didn’t know proper surf rules or etiquette, and it made for unpleasant surf outings for locals. Quinn says
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they’re still sensitive about it, but that they have a reason to be. “I was just like, ‘What happened to this place?’” he says about the first time he went out to Montauk after several years. In the Hamptons, too, it helps to be a local, or at least know one. That part of the Island is plentiful with good surf spots, but also a little territorial, as there are not as many surfers out there. In the Hamptons and any other part of LI, surfers don’t tell others where the good spots are. Surfers have to earn their rights to a spot because the less bodies in the water, the better. And revealing those secret spots to other people can earn a surfer rocks through one’s window, which once happened to an East Hampton surf shop owner. Surf shops here are also different depending on where they are and who runs them. Some sell skateboards and snowboards, others just stick to surf apparel and equipment. But there’s one in the heart of Sayville that puts a whole new spin on selling surfboards.
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“Handmade on Long Island”
“I would say that’s pretty dead-on,” Becker says to Fawess as he compares the color of the surfboard he just painted to a palette a customer gave him. He mixed some colors— navy, white, a little bit of black— to create a light blue, and then he applied it to the blank surfboard. It now looks like a piece of the sky on a cloudless day. Becker, 35, knows surfboards. Not only does he surf, he began shaping boards in a shack in his mother’s Blue Point backyard when he was 16, and since then he’s developed his own brand and opened a shop with the same name. Natures Shapes is on the corner of Hiddink Street and Montauk Highway in Sayville. It’s a small store that stands out from the rest of the buildings on the block with its pebble-infused parking lot and colorful surfboard décor. But that’s not where the magic happens. A few miles down the highway in Oakdale is the whitewalled, narrow factory where Becker and his team build and shape custom surfboards.
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“We don’t import anything,” he says. “People seem to like that. Handmade on Long Island.” Becker shapes boards from foam. After the shaping a board is layered with sheets of fiberglass, a strong-smelling varnish called resin is painted over the fiberglass to harden it. That whole process takes about two days. Next, the board is sanded and polished, and then the artwork comes in. Becker and his team can create anything from flowers to tie-dye to children’s doodles right off the refrigerator. Once the designing is done, a gloss coat is applied to finish it up. It takes about two to three weeks and a total of eight hours to complete a board, and prices start at $475 but go up with customization. “It’s a lot of labor,” Becker says. “It’s kind of a labor of love.” The factory shows just that: a combination of hard handiwork and a love for surfboards and surfing. The rooms reek of resin. Paint splatters cover the walls and foam shavings dust the floor. The voices of iconic Hawaiian musicians Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and Jack Johnson croon from speakers resting atop a
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cluttered shelf (“We don’t always listen to Hawaiian music,” Becker jokes). At any given time Becker is shaving a block of foam, Fawess is pulling sheets of fiberglass over a young board, and other factory workers are glossing and sanding. If someone didn’t know of LI’s surfing culture, they might think Natures Shapes is based out of a Southern California surf town. Not that Becker doesn’t have any clientele there—he sells boards to surfers all over the country and even abroad. The waters off the coasts of France and Germany have little pieces of LI in them, too, thanks to Natures Shapes. Becker says he hopes that with time, people will begin to realize how prominent surfing really is here. “There are waves,” he says. “You just have to be there at the right time.”
Wave Science
There are many reasons why Long Island’s surf culture is so hidden. Part of it is that the waves are not consistent, and they don’t break the right way at every beach, so surfers
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aren’t out much. Henry Bokuniewicz, an oceanography professor at Stony Brook University, says the Island’s geography makes for unusual wave regularity and not-always-great surfing conditions. “Long Island does have a unique combination” of waves, Bokuniewicz says. Four factors generate LI’s waves. Wind waves, which are determined by how long the wind blows over the water, come from the Jersey Shore and meet with big ocean waves that travel west from Montauk. Swells, or waves that take longer periods of time to break and meet the shore, come from the Caribbean and combine with the wind and ocean waves. The swell directions are what surfers pay close attention to. Last, the bathymetry, or the shape of the shore, also plays a factor in wave formation. Many inlets, such as the Shinnecock Inlet, consist of sand bumps that change wave height. And unlike the majority of the East Coast, LI’s shoreline faces south. Bokuniewicz says this geographic difference is responsible for the unique swelling effect.
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An example of an unusual phenomenon on the East End that makes one particular spot very popular to surf is called Threes. Throughout the world, beaches such as Jaws in Maui and Pipeline in O’ahu are named for their waves. At Jaws, the waves can reach up to 120 feet and move as fast as 30 miles per hour. Pipeline is notorious for waves that break in
the phenomenon, says Threes occurs only a few times a year and only lasts about an hour. But when it happens, it’s worth the wait. “We have some of the best small waves in the world,” says Fawess, who has surfed the whole East and West coasts, Hawaii, Texas, the Caribbean, Barbados, and parts of Europe.
“We have some of the best small waves in the world.” —East Coast Surfing Hall of Famer Ed Fawess
shallow water and curl so that surfers can tube ride. Threes is named for the third rideable wave in a rare combination surf. The first wave from the Atlantic Ocean comes from an eastern jetty, and the second wave bounces off it. A wave from a western jetty then breaks as the third wave that surfers ride. Buonaiuto, who wrote an essay on
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It takes a religious following of the weather and an impressive understanding of swells and winds to know which days are good to surf. In the past, surfers had to just gamble their time and head to the beach in hopes of good waves, but now advances in technology, specifically the Internet, have made it easier for them to plan their outings rather
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than take a chance. Many websites provide daily surf reports for specific spots and beaches. When conditions at one part of the Island are better than another, surfers will go out of their way to get there, even if that means driving from Long Beach to Montauk. “It’s kind of like, wherever the conditions are, that’s where you surf,” Quinn says. But contrary to all the surf movies that wash up during the summer, this season does not yield the best surfing conditions. Hurricane swells bring pretty decent surf, but starting in October and into the winter, Nor’easters are accountable for the best waves. “Some of the days where you have Nor’easters, you’re shoveling out your car,” Buonaiuto says. Shoveling out their cars, and then lugging extra gear and equipment onto the beach. Most surfers throughout the world have the advantage of warm, sunny weather to surf in all year long. But LI winters, although very mild this past year, often bring frigid temperatures and sometimes feet of
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snow. Wetsuits are crucial for surfers during this season. Regardless, all of this doesn’t hold them back from feeding their hunger for rideable waves. “You pull into Gilgo on a Saturday” in the winter, Bunger says, “you’ll see 100 guys in the water.” The lack of great surf throughout most of the summer, however, did not stop Quicksilver Pro—one of the biggest surf competitions in the world—from coming to LI and practically transforming a city overnight last year. The name speaks for itself: Long Beach is a city alongside two miles of white sand on the Island’s South Shore. It is characterized by three-lane boulevards and narrow sidestreets, delis and surf shops, not to mention a large population of surfers among its 34,000-plus residents. Some surfers describe Long Beach as the closest thing to California in the Northeast. “We have this image of Surf City,” says Billy Kupferman, a Long Beach resident and Spanish teacher at the Stratford School in Garden City.
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Kupferman grew up in Long Beach and surfed for most of his life. Although the sport is very accepted among the community now, the 33-year-old recalls a time when surfers there had very bad reputations, specifically when he was a teenager attending Long Beach High School. As he sits on his living room couch, one leg tucked under him as the other dangles off the seat, he reminisces about being seen as a troublemaker despite graduating salutatorian of his class. He says that back in the ’90s, most of Long Beach had still not grasped the magnitude of the sport’s popularity. The community saw it as a delinquent’s hobby. Some residents still viewed the sport in a negative light as recently as this winter. Knowing Quiksilver would bring in more surfers to the city, and to get organized beach access for surfing, Kupferman and a few other surfers formed the Long Beach Surfers’ Association (LBSA). The group worked with city officials to create a pilot schedule of designated times for surfing at specific
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beaches that summer. Because of its success, the LBSA sought out more space earlier this year. It wasn’t without backlash from some, yet the LBSA was successful again. Quiksilver left its mark, too— creating a whole new persona for the city. The brand even opened a shop in Oceanside that Mike Nelson and Dave Juan own in addition to Unsound. “Quiksilver did a good job engaging the general public about surfing here,” Nelson says. “Hopefully the city will try to capitalize on that,” Kupferman says. “If they think of New York and surfing, they think of Long Beach,” he adds. “It definitely left its mark.”
Sundown Surf
After about 15 minutes of paddling, paddling, paddling, Stallone treads out of the water covered in dark green seaweed. Laughing, she brushes it off her board and picks it out of her hair. She glances back at the dark-blue water kissing the shore. She shrugs; it’s not the first time she’s had an unproductive surf outing.
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The sun is down and the mosquitoes are now out. Stallone, stripped of her wetsuit and board, sits on the trunk of her dark green Pontiac Firebird in Lido’s parking lot. Even though it’s been days since she surfed, she’s still as happy and optimistic as ever. She reminisces about Quiksilver Pro last year and the first and only time she saw Kelly Slater, one of her idols, in person. She recalls watching him tread out of the water, making eye contact with her, and her jaw dropping before they engaged in a decently long stare-off. “I was shocked at how short he was,” she laughs. Stallone is just one of the many, many Long Islanders who make up this unique surf culture defined by inconsistent waves and that hustling, bustling, New York attitude. Although it consists of people with varying personalities, occupations, ages, and mindsets, all of the surfers, including Stallone, can agree on one thing: how they feel when they’re out on their boards. “There’s just, like, that feeling of happiness,” Stallone says.
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by Nancy E. Hassel
Back to School What To Do With Your Pets It’s back-to-school time, meaning busy schedules and cooler, shorter days as summer winds down—yet this is actually the hottest time of year for pet events across Long Island. Every weekend for the next eight to 10 weeks is packed with pet events already scheduled, and many other places scrambling to get their events up and running. In the past three and a half years of sending out the weekly Pet Events
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Newsletter, I can personally tell you that pet events are thriving beyond the local pet store. Businesses that have nothing to do with the pet industry are throwing their hats into the ring and hosting their own pet events to draw in business to their locations. Several unique pet events coming up include Kent Animal Shelter’s (www.KentAnimalShelter. com) annual Wines & Canines at Martha Clara Vineyards. Helping the animal shelter, having a blast with your dog and drinking some wine afterwards? I am in! Another event, and very different than the rest, is A Journey Four Paws, in which Irene Rabinowitz and her dog Sydney will walk 70 miles over four days (Columbus Day weekend) to raise awareness and funds for a muchneeded dog park in Selden and the Long Island chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. The journey will end in Montauk with a pet celebration and luncheon Monday, October 8, starting at 12:30 p.m. as Irene walks into town. Go to www.BarksnBubblesli.com and click on A Journey Four Paws to get involved! Fall also brings us new pet businesses and new services from our local Long Island pet professionals. One of those professionals, Dr. Michel A. Selmer of Advanced Animal Care Center (www.AdvancedCareForPets. com), is now offering supplementary holistic
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services, such as canine massage therapy, acupressure, exercise and canine rehabilitation. Deana Cappucci, a licensed veterinary technician (LVT) and new addition to the hospital staff, is a certified canine massage and rehabilitation practitioner. Says Dr. Selmer: “Deana will be providing these wonderful services in our newly designed 700-square foot addition to our hospital. Equipped with its own private entrance, our patients will be walking into a feng shui space designed for relaxation and tranquility for both the pet and their owner. We are thrilled to bring another holistic pet service, in addition to our many existing services, to our clients.” In Home Pet Services, Inc. (IHPS), has a new location in Merrick to help families who might have gotten new pets this summer and need to get everyone back into a routine, including the family pet. IHPS of Merrick just opened their location September 3 and are already scheduling clients for dog walking, pet sitting and in-home pet boarding clients for the fall months. There are eight IHPS
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Sublime With Rome/Beer Fields Craft Beer & Music Festival @ Pennysaver Amphitheater at Bald Hill The venue formerly known as the Brookhaven Amphitheater hosts a double whammy this Saturday, a craft beer festival with free beer sampling of more than 150 beers from more than 30 breweries and a live performance by ska punkers Sublime. In case you need an update... More than a decade after frontman Bradley Nowell’s death, Sublime reunited, bringing in vocalist Rome Ramirez. A judge later banned the foursome from using the name Sublime. In 2010, Sublime With Rome was born and this weekend they bring their familiar sound to LI. Saturday, 9.8.—Daphne Livingston
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Women’s Writings: Genocide & War, Healing & Redemption @ Holocaust Museum & TOLERANCE CENTER Dr. Bettina Aptheker (author of Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel) addresses the links between racism, antisemitism, patriarchy and mass murder during the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide and the Bosnian genocide. Learn how women overcame extraordinary challenges and healed themselves through social justice and compassion. Bettina will use the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) to re-vision the deeper spiritual meaning of women’s stories. Sunday, 9.9.—Jaclyn Gallucci
Florence + the Machine @ Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater The British indie rock group fronted by Florence Welch, the only constant member, will be joined by opener The Maccabees, who released their third full-length album, entitled Given to the Wild, in January. Florence + the Machine released their second studio album, Ceremonials, on Oct. 28, 2011, to critical acclaim. Five singles from the album have been released—most notably, the commercially successful lead single “Shake it Out.” This will be the halfway point for the Ceremonials Tour, which began last October and is scheduled to end this December. Saturday, 9.15. —Mark Gallucci
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Riot Fest @ Williamsburg Park The rock, punk, indie and underground music festival heads to Brooklyn for the first time ever with a lineup that includes Gogol Bordello, The Bronx, Descendents, Hot Water Music, Screaming Females, The Menzingers and Larry And His Flask. Saturday, 9.8—DL
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Permanent Exhibit @ Holocaust Museum & Tolerance Center of Nassau County, This contextualized history explains the 1920s increase of intolerance, the reduction of human rights, and the lack of intervention that enabled the persecution and mass murder of millions of Jews, the disabled, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gays & Polish intelligentsia. See The Light @ Huntington Lighthouse, An exhibit of Lighthouse artifacts and memorabilia to celebrate the centennial. Marc Chagall @ Nassau County Museum of Art, Chagall’s 1957 series of hand-colored etchings of Bible stories, never before seen on LI. Through 11.4. Prostate Cancer Support Group @ Winthrop Wellness Pavilion, Second Wednesday of every
month. Registration: 516-663-2601, prostatecancersupport!@ winthrop.org.
thursday 9.6 Madonna @ Yankee Stadium, The Material Girl brings her dog-and-pony show to the Bronx following tabloid-worthy exploits that found former BFF Elton John saying La Cicconne came off looking like an (expletive-deleted) fairground stripper. Also 9.8.— Manny Fernandez The Rapture @ Music Hall of Williamsburg With Midnight Magic. Through 9.7. Flying Colors/Jolly @ Best Buy Theater The Yardbirds @ City Winery Designer Drugs @ Ollies Point/Revolution High Holiday Prep Class @ The Community Synagogue, Prep class about the Jewish high holy days for women of other religious backgrounds raising Jewish children. Pre-High Holiday Family Fun @ Chai Center Dix Hills, BBQ, live bee & honey show, moon bounce, edible Sukkahs, Challah baking, Shofar making, & more. Southbound/Six Gun/The Joe Bayer Continued on page 28
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thursday Cont. Band/Country Music Night @ The Emporium Mike Lupica (True Legend) @ Book Revue Dralion Cirque Du Soleil @ Nassau Coliseum, Through 9.9. Carol Miller (Rock Satellite Radio) @ Barnes & Noble Broadway, Manhattan friday 9.7 Merrick Fall Festival & Carnival @ Merrick LIRR, Through 9.9. Fieston 2012 w/ Daddy Yankee @ Pennysaver Theater Guys’ Night @ The Nutty Irishman Bay Shore, Guys drink free from 9-11:30 p.m.
Marc Unger @ Brokerage Comedy Club saturday 9.8 2012 Old Fashioned Charity Drill @ Centre Island Beach, Bayville Fire companies from all over LI compete to raise funds for kids with cancer. Drills in the afternoon, battling bands in evening, 50/50 fundraiser, food and much more. Please bring a new toy for the toy drive. For info contact Joe Noto @ 516-6552814 or Ann Fetzer @ 516-695-5137. LI’s First-Ever Music Conference feat. DJ Pauly D @ The Sands at Atlantic Beach, Also 9.9. 50 DJs spin. Carl Labove @ Governor’s Comedy Club
The Mystic Band @ Maliblue Oyster Bar & Restaurant, Also 9.8.
Co-op OccuFest @ B.J. Spoke Gallery An experimental collective art exhibit and exchange organized by Occupy With Art (www.occupywithart. com). Because art is protest. Opening: 6 to 9 p.m. Through 9.30.
The Benjamins @ The Emporium, With That 70’s Band, WBLI & DJ.
Saturday Night Dance Party @ The Emporium, Celebrity DJ’s spinning.
Steve Forbert @ City Winery
Nine Deez Night @ Nutty Irishman Bay Shore
Il Volo @ Beacon Theatre, Also 9.5 & 9.7 @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury.
Kreator/Accept @ Best Buy Theater Dying Fetus @ Revolution Big Laughs in Bay Shore @ YMCA Boulton Center Andy Pitz @ Governor’s Comedy Club Jeb Ladouceur & Walt Fifer (Mark of the Zodiac) @ Book Revue
Charlie Daniels Band/Commander Cody Band @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury, How Charlie Daniels went from being a respected session musician on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and a leading light in the ‘70s southern rock movement to a right-wingspouting conservative is anyone’s guess. But his Volunteer Jams have kept the move-
ment alive dating back decades (it was the first appearance for Lynyrd Skynyrd following the band’s horrendous plane crash) and now with fellow country-rock vets the Commander Cody Band, it looks like the South is going to rise again in Westbury. —MF Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) @ Mercury Lounge
Creed @ The Paramount Primordial/While Heaven Wept/Cormorant @ St. Vitus monday
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In Other Words @ Vibe Oktoberfest @ Martha Clara Vineyards, Also 9.9.
Lila Downs @ City Winery, Also 9.11.
Chris Monty @ McGuire’s Comedy Club
The Vaccines @ Bowery Ballroom, Also 9.11 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Kelly Sullivan & Jen Lilley (General Hospital) @ Brokerage Comedy Club
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Broken Hope Carnival of Death Tour 2012 @ Gramercy Theatre Tasty Tuesday @ Tap & Barrel Owl City @ Irving Plaza
Bully Prevention Author Scott Starkey @ Green Acres Mall WWF Star Johnny Valiant Comedy-toGo Event @ Great Neck Arts Center Two Tenors & a Lady @ Dix Hills PAC Sunday 9.9 Sharon Pesenti (Basic Elements of Vocal Artistry) @ Book Revue Ella Fitzgerald & Lionel Hampton Tribute @ Dix Hills PAC Gemini Club/Neon Legion @ Bell House Momma Pit Memorial Show @ Revolution The Legendary Murphy’s @ Maliblue Oyster Bar & Restaurant
Steve Vai @ Best Buy Theater, Carle Place native son Vai returns for one of his many visits. This time around, he’s touring behind The Story of Light, a loose concept album steeped in Eastern spirituality and featuring contributions from fellow Berkley alum Amiee Mann. If for no other reason than to witness one of the most innovative guitarists on the scene, cross your fingers that if you go to the show guest vocalist Beverly McClennan reprises her role as lead vocalist on Vai’s hellacious take on Blind Willie Johnson’s blues standard, “John, the Revelator.”—MF Hugh Laurie @ The Paramount Acoustic Strawbs @ B.B. King Blues Club
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wednesday 9.12 Great Bridal Extravaganza Showcase @ Melville Marriott, 1350 Walt Whitman Rd., Melville, 6:309:30 p.m. Friends of Phil Benefit Concert @ Huntington Elks Club, A benefit concert for Phil Antonucci (www. facebook.com/phil. antonucci.92) featuring Uppercut, Mike DelGuidice, Big Shot & more. Beer Pong @ Mulcahy’s Free Guitar Clinic @ Dix Hills PAC J. Geils Band @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury, One of New England’s most beloved groups, the J. Geils Band made its name as a raucous bar-band with a repertoire that mixed originals with obscure R&B and blues covers. Fronted by motormouthed frontman Peter Wolf and driven by the band’s guitarplaying namesake and wildly coiffed harp player Magic Dick, the quintet also delved into reggae and doo-wop. Before blowing up in 1981 via the MTV staples “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame,” the band was dabbling with a stronger sound that had plenty of new wave nuances as evidenced by the power-pop soaked
gem “Just Can’t Wait.” In an odd stroke of fate, the current line-up is touring without its namesake, who is suing his ex-bandmates for copyright infringement. —MF ZZ Top @ Beacon Theatre
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lugging a piano around when guitars where the instrument of choice during the grunge and post-punk eras of the ‘90s. After a stint as a judge on The Sing Off and a successful solo career, he’s reunited with Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee to reform Ben Folds Five. The trio will be releasing The Sound Of the Life of the Mind, its first studio effort in 13 years, later this month.—MF
Tony Danza @ Book Revue
Kevin Downey, Jr. @ Governor’s Comedy
Russell Brand @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury
Neil Diamond Tribute @ Dix Hills PAC
Jesus and Mary Chain @ Irving Plaza, Also 9.14. Trivia Night @ Nag’s Head Ale House Out at the Movies: Your Sister’s Sister @ Cinema Arts Centre
Azure Ray @ City Winery Dog Days of Summer Pet Peeves BowWow Beach Bash @ Beach Arena @ Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, Beach volleyball, tropical cocktails, buffet from 6-9 p.m. to help LI’s homeless and abused dogs and cats. PlanEat @ Cinema Arts Centre thursday 9.13 Annual Clam Bake @ Crescent Beach Club Rosh Hashanah Specialties @ Deer Park Library, Make your own chocolatetoffee matzo candy to take home.
Richie Byrne @ Brokerage, Also 9.15. Gordon Lightfoot @ B.B. King Blues Club Sinbad @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury Howie Day @ YMCA Boulton Center
Mike Gallagher (50 Things Liberals Love to Hate) @ Book Revue Alberta Cross @ Bowery Ballroom Rhino Bucket featuring Brian “Damage” Forsythe of KIX @ Revolution
Ben Folds Five Reunion @ Rumsey Playfield, It’s easy to try and boil Ben Folds down to the composite of his heroes: the North Carolina native has Billy Joel’s chops, Joe Jackson’s attitude, Randy Newman’s cynicism and Todd Rundgren’s pop sense. But Folds has always been one of these guys who zigged when people expected him to zag. No one else was
saturday 9.15 Dave Attell @ Governor’s Comedy Club Old School Mega Jam @ Pennysaver Theater Music of Doris Day @ Dix Hills PAC 5th Annual Oktoberfest @ TJ Finley’s Deceased/Prime Evil/Derketa @ St. Vitus Darius Rucker @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury Ronnie Spector @ City Winery Street Dogs @ Highline Ballroom Continued on page 30
KINGS & IDOLS Following the release of their new album, Dead End Kings, Swedish prog-rockers Katatonia join the Devin Townsend Project for a co-headline run dubbed the Epic Kings & Idols Tour. Katatonia’s releases of the ’90s are considered by many folks as desert island stuff, and one album in particular, Brave Murder Day, is a seminal doom record, with Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt handling lead vocals. After giving up alcohol and cigarettes, renowned Canadian multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend wrote more than 60 songs over two years which he divided into four themed albums, a series he calls the Devin Townsend Project. Both headliners take the stage with Paradise Lost & Stolen Babies at Irving Plaza on Sunday, 9.23.—Daphne Livingston
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Saturday Cont. Rare Earth @ B.B. King Blues Club Florence + The Machine/The Maccabees @ Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater, Heartbreak is always a reliable accelerant for sparking the creative fires and it’s never been more evident than when Florence & the Machine hit the studio to record its 2009 debut Lungs after singer Florence Welch temporarily broke up with boyfriend Stuart Hammond. Hints that something special was awaiting the unsuspecting musical masses came when the punk stomper “Kiss with a Fist” and its mention of burning beds and physical tit-for-tat hit the U.K. airwaves back in the summer of 2008. Since then, Welch and her crew have been tearing up the tour circuit, stopping to release Ceremonials, her sophomore bow, last year. With the Maccabees.—MF Nightwish @ Beacon Theatre
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monday 9.17 Ann & Nancy Wilson @ Barnes & Noble Union Square
Wyclef Jean @ Barnes & Noble, Fifth Ave., Manhattan
The Cowsills @ B.B. King Blues Club
Cyndi Lauper @ Barnes & Noble, Warren St., Manhattan
Deerhoof @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, World Party @ City Winery, After emerging from The Waterboys and helping Sinead O’Connor kick off her career, World Party’s Karl Wallinger enjoyed a good run deep into the ‘90s with a sound that melded the Beatles, Beach Boys and Dylan into a string of hits that included “Ship of Fools,” “Way Down Now” and “Put the Message in the Box.” After suffering an aneurysm in 2001 that left him unable to speak, Wallinger endured five years of grueling rehab. He’s since collaborated with Peter Gabriel on the Big Blue Ball project and most recently released Arkeology, a 5-CD collection of new material, live cuts and cover songs.—MF Patterson Hood
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Martha Clara Vineyards—6025 Sound Ave., Riverhead. www.marthaclaravineyards.com McGuire’s Comedy Club—1627 Smithtown Ave., Bohemia. www.mcguirescomedyshows.com Mercury Lounge—217 E. Houston St., Manhattan. www.mercuryloungenyc. com
Mulcahy’s—3232 Railroad Ave., Wantagh. www.muls. Green Acres Mall—Sunrise com Highway, Valley Stream Music Hall of Williamsburg—66 N. 6th St., BrookHammerstein Balllyn. www.musichallofwilroom—311 W. 34th St., liamsburg.com Manhattan Highline Ballroom—431 W. Nag’s Head—Main Street, 16th St., Manhattan. www. Huntington Village highlineballroom. Nassau Coliseum—1255 Hempstead Tpke., UnionHolocaust Memorial & dale. www.nassaucoliTolerance Center—100 seum.com Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. www.holocaustNassau County Museum nassau.org of Art—1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. www.nasHorace & Sylvia’s— 100 saumuseum.com Deer Park Ave., Babylon Nikon @ Jones Beach Huntington Elks Club— Theater—1000 Ocean 195 Main St., Huntington Pkwy., Wantagh. www. Irving Plaza—17 Irving Pl., jonesbeach.com Manhattan Nutty Irishman—60 E. Joe’s Pub—425 Lafayette Main St., Bay Shore; 323 St., Manhattan. www. Main St., Farmingdale. joespub.com www.thenuttyirishman.com
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Umberto’s Pizzeria & Restaurant of Bellmore
Just hearing the name “Umberto’s” brings a smile to my face. I know the Original Umberto’s of New Hyde Park well, as do generations of Long Islanders. You can imagine my excitement, then, upon hearing Umberto’s had opened a new location on Bellmore’s popular Bedford Avenue. Umberto’s of Bellmore’s rustic open kitchen décor makes the interior comfortable and inviting. Its simple-yet-decorative table settings, large flat-screen television and outdoor patio were nothing short of impressive. Its service was extremely prompt. I wasted no time ordering a slice of their legendary Grandma Pizza ($2.50), along with two glasses of wine at the friendly waiter’s suggestion. The crisp slice came cut in half and tasted exactly as my wife and I imagined; one of the best. We couldn’t resist the complimentary basket of fresh bread and garlic knots, despite knowing a large meal was on the menu for the night. The fresh garden house salad accompanying the meal came with red wine vinegar and Italian olive oil dressing. It featured large, crunchy cucumbers reminiscent of freshly picked produce straight out of Dad’s garden. On nights such as this, I truly enjoy the wait staff menu suggestions. We were enticed by two wait staff appetizer suggestions: the hot antipasto for one ($9.45) and the fried calamari ($9.95). The calamari featured two delicious styles: one lightly breaded and fried; the other a “must try” Ariabiata sauce. The calamari dish arrived with a wonderful, but 32
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1999 Acura Integra LS
2002 Honda Civic EX
$5,995
106,794 mi Milano Red
2009 Honda Civic LX
2002 Suzuki XL7
$6,758
$7,295
$14,739
Satin Silver Metallic
Cats Eye Blue Metallic
Polished Metal Metallic
82,620 mi
127,888 mi
STOCK#
STOCK#
U9339T
44,806 mi
STOCK#
O9056T
STOCK#
U9273T
U9181O
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
2009 Honda Accord LX-P
2011 Honda Civic LX
2010 Honda Civic LX
2011 Honda Insight Base
$15,377
$15,659
Tan
Polished Metal Metallic
16,483 mi Red
U9149O
U91570
36,757 mi
$15,744
18,222 mi
STOCK#
STOCK#
U9194O
$17,497 16,595 mi Polished Metal Metallic
STOCK#
STOCK#
U8997T
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
2011 Suzuki Grand Vitara Premium
2008 Honda Odyssey EX-L
2009 Honda Accord EX-L
2011 Honda Accord SE
$17,589
$17,893
$20,477
$20,477
Azure Gray Metallic
Atomic Blue Metallic
Polished Metal Metallic
Polished Metal Metallic
28,396 mi
79,221 mi
STOCK#
29,864 mi
STOCK#
U9169T
24,180 mi
STOCK#
U8971T
STOCK#
U9182O
U8995T
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
2010 Honda Odyssey EX
2010 Honda Odyssey EX
2010 Honda Odyssey EX-L
2011 Honda Odyssey LX
$21,577
$22,877
$23,133
$23,439
Polished Metal Metallic
Tan
Crystal Black Pearl
Polished Metal Metallic
22,426 mi
30,838 mi
STOCK#
48,987 mi
STOCK#
U9164O
22,254 mi
STOCK#
U9172O
STOCK#
U89270
U8999O
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
2010 Honda Odyssey EX
2010 Acura TSX 3.5
2011 Honda Accord EX-L
2011 Honda Odyssey EX-L
$23,739
$23,897
$24,739
$31,277
Polished Metal Metallic
Polished Metal Metallic
Polished Metal Metallic
Crystal Black Pearl
39,000 mi
25,453 mi
STOCK#
STOCK#
U9010O Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
17,826 mi STOCK#
U9175O Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
14,757 mi STOCK#
U9023O Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
U8967O Atlantic Honda 1-888-359-8397
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