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Sound Smart at a Party A Swedish man got out of serving time in the slammer by smuggling in his friend to impersonate him for most of his year-long sentence. Ironically, the

and was allegedly attacked by a 50-pound, 6-year-old first grader. Webster says that he was trying to escort students to the cafeteria when

convict was charged for a series of smuggling offenses in the first place. The switch-up was discovered when the friend was released on probation after serving two-thirds of his buddy’s sentence. When he pulled out a fake ID, authorities put two and two together and realized they’d been duped. An international arrest warrant was issued for the real criminal, after local media reported that he fled to Asia. Now the real question: Why would someone serve time willingly for a crime he didn’t commit? The answer, of course, is money, as it’s reported that the convict paid his friend for his prison impersonation. We wonder how much money is worth a year behind bars…

Rodrigo Carpio started biting him and then kicked him in the ankle, fracturing it and hurting his knee. This may sound far-fetched, but Webster is apparently not Carpio’s only victim. He also allegedly kicked

the school principal and pinched several other people, including a school security officer. His parents called the lawsuit “totally absurd”… Good news for worried parents: a new Centers for Disease Control report says that half as many teens are driving drunk as compared to 20 years ago. According to the CDC,

from 1990 to 2011 the number of U.S. high school students 16 and over who said they drove after drinking went from 22.3 percent to 10.3 percent. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teens between 16 and 19 in both the U.S. and Canada…

Speaking of drinking and driving, a 31-year-old Delaware man blamed his seventh DUI charge on an elephant. Samuel

“I had one costume that I particularly remember that was some kind of Superman leotard with a cape. It makes me sick when I see it.”

A gym teacher in Queens is suing after one of his students physically assaulted him and broke his ankle. What makes the story really

former ABBA member Bjoern Ulvaeus on some of the outfits that will be displayed in “ABBA The Museum,” a traveling exhibit dedicated to the Swedish Quartet which is set to get a permanent home as part of a Swedish music hall of fame. In this picture Ulvaeus poses in front of the ABBA museum construction site in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Henrik Montgomery)

interesting is that John Webster is 5-feet, 10-inches tall, 220 pounds,

Phipps said that the reason his Land Rover veered off the road and hit a guardrail wasn’t because of alcohol, but because he was swerving to avoid an elephant that ran out in front of his vehicle. There were no other reports of runaway elephants that night, so the cops arrested Phipps, who they said was visibly impaired. The elephant probably isn’t going to help his case…

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Letters to the Press Clean Up Political Litter Dear Editor: A sure indication that Election Season has begun is the proliferation of political signs planted as far as the eye can see. It is understandable that candidates want to increase name recognition with the voting public but unfortunately pole and ground signs are not legal on public property within the Town of Islip, and with good reason. These signs are “visual litter” that become ground litter with time. Judging by the number of complaints received at my office, I can assure you that the voting public is not in favor of these signs because of the blight they cause. Therefore, I call for a bipartisan effort on behalf of a clean community: Please remove all signs immediately after Election Day. Nancy Cochran Executive Director, Keep Islip Clean End Political Careerism Dear Editor: Serving in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators who would serve their term and go home. The following is submitted for reform. Term limits: One six-year Senate term and three two-year House terms. No tenure/pension: A Congressperson collects a salaray while in office and receives no pay when out of office. The present and future Congress shall participate in the Social Security program. Congresspersons can purchase

their own retirement and health care just like citizens. Congresspersons will not vote themselves pay raises. Pay will rise by the CPI or 3 percent. Congresspersons must equally abide by the laws they impose. All contracts with past and present Congressional representatives are void effective Jan. 1, 2012. The American people did not make these contracts with Congress. Congress made all these contracts with themselves. This is how we can fix Congress. Richard Andujar Franklin Square Where’s the Justice? First, I almost misread your “Covert Ops” [Sept. 20] headline as “Cover Ups.” Then I laughed when I read Nassau County Police Det. Sgt. Patrick Ryder claiming that “if the commissioner calls up and says do me a favor, he goes in the system. I don’t care who is asking, it goes in the system.” This is the same police department of Crime Lab infamy whose past two commissioners have never had even their wrists slapped for all the “crimes” that were committed inside their Crime Lab on their watches. As for cover-ups, Zachary Parker—the burglar in an alleged police cover-up—may have finally been sentenced to prison time, but the three police commanders who allegedly covered up his school burglary with their misconduct and conspiracy still remain unpunished. Richard Siegelman Plainview

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IKEA—OFF TARGET Following in the footsteps of Starbucks execs who removed the woman from the coffee giant’s logo to leave only her crown when they opened new locations in the Middle East, the Swedish homefurnishing company airbrushes women from the Saudi version of its catalog and later apologizes. And we thought s d gra selling an entire bedroom set in a 4-foot flat box was IKEA’s only crime. s n e li a

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Nicki/Mariah—PARTIAL SCORE Nicki Minaj reportedly curses out fellow judge Mariah Carey during American Idol auditions, telling Mariah “I’m gonna knock you out” and adding, “I told them I’m not f**kin’ putting up with her f**king highness over there. Figure it the f**k out. Figure it out.” Looks like we may be tuning in this season after all!

Grads—BULL’S EYE Hundreds of public colleges pledge to add 3.8 million more graduates combined by 2025, through both increasing student enrollment and improving completion rates. Whether or not there will be an additional 3.8 million jobs for those grads...well, that’s another story. Diapers—OFF TARGET A Japanese chemical plant explosion cripples Nippon Shokubai Co., the company controlling the largest share of water-absorbent polymers used to create diapers, meaning a possible worldwide diaper shortage could be looming. First bacon, now this. Aliens—BULL’S EYE They do exist! Scientists conclude that water once flowed on Mars, based on images from the Curiosity rover. And where there is water—there is usually some form of life. Escobar T-Shirts—OFF TARGET T-shirts featuring the face of late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar are being sold in Mexico and the United States. The shirts, designed by the son of the “King of Cocaine,” have taken off in Mexico, selling for $60 to $95, which just happens to be about the price you’d pay for a kilo of cocaine.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger He’s back. The only man in the world who thinks his “Mr. Universe” title doesn’t go far enough, Arnold Schwarzenegger is peddling a memoir that gives bad taste a bad name. This Austrian the Barbarian also has movies to promote, and even a think tank to publicize. A think tank! What was this testosterone-prone barrel-chested blowhard thinking when he was screwing his housekeeper right under the eyes of his wife, Maria Shriver, and fathering a love child under the same roof without telling her the truth for almost a decade? He says he made “a mistake” that “hurt” his family. So how can he protect their privacy while airing his private parts in public? Back in 2003 when he was running for governor and the headlines were sizzling with sex harassment allegations from the women he’d groped, Shriver defended him—and given her Kennedy pedigree and his celebrity, Californians elected their second movie star to the governor’s mansion. Apparently he was living Technicolor compared to the incumbent Gray Davis. So how did Arnold govern? The sexual “Predator” left the Golden State with a huge deficit. The action hero was a big zero. Arnold Schwarzenegger, travel to the future and stay there… You’re fired!

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“I had wanted to do this for years.” —Magician and modern-day Houdini David Blaine, while giving the media a sneak peak at his latest stunt, Electrified, in New York City Tuesday. Blaine will begin his shocking performance on Friday, when he will stand on a 20-foot-high platform for 72 hours without food, while wearing a chainmail suit and being surrounded by seven Tesla coils that will shoot a million volts of electricity at him in the form of lightening bolts.

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1. GOOGLE “REAL LIFE ANIME GIRL”: Anastasiya Shpagina, a 19-year-old Ukrainian girl, has transformed herself into a living Japanese anime character, big eyes and all. She now goes by the name Fukkacumi to represent her cartoon, doll-like look, but says, “I am not like a doll, a doll is like me.” It’s kind of creepy, yet kind of cool. And no, that picture isn’t Photoshopped. 2. READ FORBES’ “10 HIPPEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN AMERICA”: Hipsters, get excited because Forbes doesn’t just compile financial statistics. This week Forbes.com brings you a list of neighborhoods across America, from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to Silver Lake, Los Angeles where organic vegan eats, indie bands, fair trade coffee and bicycles rule the land. 3. YOUTUBE “LEGO GREAT BALL CONTRAPTION”: …and be amazed. While we impress ourselves by making Lego trees and houses, some people are setting their sights a lot higher and throwing around terms like “modules” and making their Legos move. This thing kept us mesmerized for all seven minutes and four seconds.

4. DOWNLOAD THE “NMHMC HARVEY” APP: When Albert Einstein died in 1955, Princeton Hospital pathologist Thomas Harvey removed the genius’ brain, sliced it into more than 100 pieces, preserved them in formaldehyde and mounted them on slides. The slides have since been digitized and compiled into an app released last week. A little gross but, once again, kind of cool.

5. LISTEN TO “CAKE LIKE LADY GAGA”: Responding to everything from criticism over her recent weight gain to feuds with fashionistas, Lady Gaga unveiled a new hip hop song during Mugler’s Spring/Summer 2013 runway show at Paris Fashion Week. In the song Gaga raps, “You chew beef, I wear meat” and “Getting fat and so is my bank/With a sold-out world tour, bitch.” 6. TIVO HOMELAND: Back in the day, Claire Danes was just an insecure red-head trying to hook up with Jared Leto on the short-lived series My So-Called Life. These days she plays bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, who believes a U.S. Marine Corps hero is planning a terrorist attack, on Showtime’s Homeland. For those of you still mourning the loss of Jack Bauer, this may do the trick. 7. WATCH “GORILLAS WHO WERE VERY CURIOUS ABOUT A CATERPILLAR”: Is it an alien? A furry worm? An evil beast!?! This YouTube video features two gorillas at Canada’s Calgary Zoo intensely watching a tiny little caterpillar as it invades their personal space—and it is hilarious.

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THE BIG BOOK OF GHOST STORIES by Otto Penzler Halloween, a time when the veil between the words is at its thinnest, is just around the corner and if we did our math right, this book is jam packed with enough classic horror and otherworldly stories to keep you having nightmares through the month of October. First of all, we have to say that The Big Book of Ghost Stories isn’t your standard B-grade cheese. This book contains more than 1,000 pages of haunting tales from a century’s worth of amazing authors including Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Will Cather and Joyce Carol Oates, all chosen by Edgar Award-winning editor and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, Otto Penzler. If you’ve ever owned a Norton Anthology, consider this the spirited version. From the mindbending to the chilling, this collection of short stories coupled with eerie vintage illustrations is a must-have for the nightstand. The only thing that can make it better is a flashlight under the covers. —Jaclyn Gallucci

$1.3M The amount of money raised by a six-week Internet crowdfunding effort to save Wardenclyffe, the abandoned Shoreham laboratory once used by visionary scientist Nikola Tesla. The site was listed for sale for $1.6 million and was facing development and possible demolition.

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Mario “Hey Mama, Wanna Have A Burger With A Real Man?” Lopez Oct. 10, 1973 Actor, TV host and Saved by the Bell alum Mario Lopez is a Libra, a masculine sign that embodies strength and is represented by the scales. No stranger to weighins, Lopez’ alter ego A.C. Slater was the macho star wrestler at Bayside High. In real life, he’s also quite the fitness diva. Lopez is a health and fitness author who has published quite a few titles, including a cookbook of lean recipes. Libras are romantics and spend a lot of time bouncing from one love interest to another, in search of “the one.” They are a sign embodied by air, an element Lopez likes to leap through at whim while wearing spandex, whether it be on Dancing with the Stars or courting one Jesse Spano at The Max.

8. FIND OUT WHAT YOUR BEER SAYS ABOUT YOUR POLITICS: Drink Sierra Nevada? You’re probably a Democrat who votes. Amstel Light? Republican who never misses an election. Blue Moon? You could go either way but you’ll probably be showing up at the polls on Election Day. Bud Light? You’re too drunk to care. Find out where you stand on NationalJournal’s “What Your Beer Says About Your Politics chart.”

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as tense budget negotiations get underway before the Halloween deadline. Mangano will set a special election for Schmitt’s replacement within 30 to 60 days. “I had the privilege of serving closely with Peter in the Legislature since its creation in 1996, where he distinguished himself as an outspoken advocate for the residents,” Mangano said in a statement, ordering flags half-staff through Oct. 9. Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs called Schmitt a gentleman and devoted family man. “While we disagreed on most issues and our politics differed, I respected his leadership and his commitment to his principles and values,” Jacobs said in a statement. “Peter was a strong advocate, and a formidable political opponent.” Nassau County Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) called Schmitt “an iconic leader” who left an “indelible mark” on the county. Legis. Dave Denenberg (D-Merrick) tells the Press that despite their frequent

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Shocked. That was the most widely used word uttered in response to the sudden passing Wednesday of nine-term Nassau County Legis. Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa), the legislature’s presiding officer who led the 10-9 Republican majority. Even political rivals with whom he bitterly argued reflected on the lesser-seen side of the outspoken lawmaker as a husband and grandfather. He was 62. Schmitt collapsed as he joined a meeting with County Executive Ed Mangano and County Comptroller George Maragos. Details of what was being discussed at the time were not released. “He was coming into the meeting with the county executive and myself as he collapsed,” Maragos tells the Press, adding that he was “shaken up” by the experience. “I held him in my arms until help arrived. It was terrible.” Schmitt’s death leaves a 9-9 tie between Republicans and Democrats just

feuding in the chamber, he and Schmitt got along. “Peter and I were worthy opponents who spent much of the time being combative with each other but on a personal level I know we shared a mutual respect,” he says. Union leaders who have battled with Schmitt—among other lawmakers— over layoffs, wage freezes and other recent concessions also offered condolences. “There is a man beside the political side,” Nassau County Police Benevolent Association President James Carver said. “Away from the political scene… it’s a tremendous loss for his family.” Jerry Laricchiuta, president of the

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Wall Street Regulation The Banking Act of 1933, commonly known as Glass-Steagall, was established to tame the harmful speculative behavior of an industry run amok in the early part of the 20th century; behavior many observers at the time credited for the market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. For some, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, was the deathblow to financial prudence on Wall Street. In reality it was simply the formal recognition of careless financial practices that were largely in place already. Since the near-collapse of the banking industry in 2008, Glass-Steagall has made somewhat of a comeback with help from the Occupy movement and rising political stars like Elizabeth Warren, the former federal consumer protection advocate now running for Senate in Massachusetts. The only two political insiders you won’t catch talking about reinstating Glass-Steagall both

happen to be running for president. Wall Street reform is as important as it was in 2008 but both President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney have taken great pains to avoid talking about it too much. For his part, President Obama seems content to rest on the laurels of the DoddFrank Act, Congress’s attempt to rein in Wall Street excess, which had enough support to pass but not enough to be properly funded or enforced. According to Romney’s platform, he would “Repeal Dodd-Frank and replace with streamlined, modern regulatory framework.” That’s the extent of his vision for the future of Wall Street according his platform. Ten words. So while the rest of the country is suddenly talking about a law enacted almost 80 years ago, these guys aren’t going anywhere near it. The truth is, Wall Street reform and, more

specifically Glass-Steagall, is more complicated, making it easy for Obama and Romney to be evasive. So let’s answer two questions. What would actual Wall Street reform look like and what exactly was Glass-Steagall? The purpose of the original act was to establish a barrier between traditional banks and the risk-taking investment firms, denying investment banks access to consumer deposits and secure, interest-bearing loans. The unwritten effect of Glass-Steagall, however, was to establish a culture of prudency in the consumer and business banking realm, leaving sophisticated profes-

new activity. The government would go on to loosen restrictions governing the competition for consumer deposits and allowing bank holding companies to treat money markets like checking accounts. In his book End This Depression Now, economist Paul Krugman argues that perhaps the most influential step with respect to the banking sector came with Carter’s passage of the “Monetary Control Act of 1980, which ended regulations that had prevented banks from paying interest on many kinds of deposits. Unfortunately, banking is not like trucking, and the effect of deregulation was not so much to encourage

“It’s a fair, but oversimplified assertion that overlooks the fact that Glass-Steagall was on a ventilator in 1978 and dead by 1980.” sional investments to more savvy financiers who had the ability to calculate the inherent risk of a financial instrument. For decades to follow, the merits of Glass-Steagall would continue to be debated, but it nevertheless drew a marked distinction between the function of a consumer bank and an investment bank. Today reinstating Glass-Steagall is a common rallying cry among those who decry the bad behavior of Wall Street. Its repeal has become the fulcrum of nearly every debate surrounding deregulation. Actually accomplishing this, of course, is easier said than done. The best way to reconcile the debate over whether to reinstate GlassSteagall is to appreciate that the culture of Glass-Steagall was more important than the act itself. Over time the restrictions placed on bankers under the act were chipped away, but the culture that governed the banking industry endured beyond its measures. Eventually, savvy bankers and politicians found ways to loosen its screws and interpret the act to their own benefit.

efficiency as to encourage risk taking.” By 1987 the bank holding companies, including foreign companies allowed to operate within the U.S. banking system, were granted access to mortgages to create a package of investments called mortgage-backed securities; the threshold for the amount of investing activity in instruments such as these was also increased, paving the way for the growth of investments backed by the strength (or weakness) of the consumer market. During that same year, members of the Federal Reserve began calling for the repeal of Glass-Steagall as thenchairman Paul Volcker was providing the tie-breaking resistance. But this was a mere formality because by this time, Glass-Steagall was effectively over. Yet even though most of the threads of regulation had been pulled from the overcoat that protected consumers from risky banking practices, the culture of prudent banking still existed to an extent; maintaining the Glass-Steagall Act on the books was an indication of this sentiment. Throughout the decades when regulations were steadily eroding, Don’t Just Blame Republicans powerful national figures such as Paul In 1978, President Jimmy Carter Volcker under Carter and Reagan, and oversaw the passage of the International Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady Banking Act, a bill that should probably under George H.W. Bush managed receive as much, if not more attention to temper the enthusiasm of the than Gramm-Leachmovement. Bliley. Essentially, the That George Bush act allowed foreign Senior heeded their banks or entities that admonitions was an engaged in “banking- facebook.com/jedmorey admission that the like activities” to parpublic’s appetite for ticipate in domestic financial markets. deregulation was actually beginning For the first time, foreign investment to wane in the post-Reagan hangover. firms were able to make competitive Richard Berke’s New York Times article loans so long as they didn’t compete for of Dec. 11, 1988, on the eve of the consumer deposits; initially individual Bush presidency, encapsulated this states could determine whether their feeling. Berke wrote, “Lawmakers and regulatory structure could support this analysts say the pressure is fed by a

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heightened public uneasiness about deregulatory shortcomings that touch the daily lives of millions of Americans: from delays at airports and strains on the air traffic control system to the presence of hazardous chemicals in the workplace to worries about the safety of money deposited in savings institutions.” Alas, these four years would prove to be a momentary hiccup in the deregulation movement. During the Clinton years, the nation’s leadership was largely comprised of proponents of deregulation. In fact, by his second term, Clinton was almost entirely surrounded by rabid free market enthusiasts. A former chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, was Secretary of the Treasury, Alan Greenspan was still at the helm of the Federal Reserve and Phil Gramm was the head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee. All of these men had close ties to Wall Street and made no secret of their intention to release bankers from the burdensome shackles of regulation and oversight. Reforming Reform In 2008, economist Joseph Stiglitz warned of the enduring negative consequences of deregulation. At a hearing held in front of the House Committee on Financial Services, Stiglitz invoked Adam Smith saying, “Even he recognized that unregulated markets will try to restrict competition, and without strong competition markets will not be efficient.” One of Stiglitz’s solutions was to restore transparency to investments and the markets themselves by restricting “banks’ dealing with criminals, unregulated and nontransparent hedge funds, and off-shore banks that do not conform to regulatory and accounting standards of our highly regulated financial entities.” For emphasis he noted, “We have shown that we can do this when we want, when terrorism is the issue.” Still, the nagging question remains as to what reform might look like. After all, not all deregulation is irresponsible. Most of the discussion in the media surrounding deregulation revolves around the concept that our banking institutions are “too big to fail.” Thus the rallying cry for reinstating Glass-Steagall and separating banks from investment banks. I’m in tepid agreement with the underlying principle, but the reality of the situation is far more complicated. The fact is banking has gone global and the deregulation genie is out of the bottle. As I said earlier, Glass-Steagall was as much about instilling a culture of prudency to the banking world as it was about erecting a barrier between commercial banks and investment

banks. Advocates like Elizabeth Warren like to say that prior to 1999 and the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the economy functioned through periods of both prosperity and recession since 1934 without the banking sector once collapsing. It’s a fair, but oversimplified assertion that overlooks the fact that Glass-Steagall was on a ventilator in 1978 and dead by 1980. A 30-year run of prosperity from 1978 to 2008, with a few brief recessions in between, is nothing to sneeze at. Restoring balance to the banking sector does not necessarily require separating the banks. Not yet at least. It begins with transparency and re-establishing the culture of prudency that has been conspicuously absent over the past decade. After all, you cannot value what you cannot see; nor can you mitigate risk unless you first manage reward. What this really boils down to is accountability, which is ultimately a behavioral issue. Allowing investors to actually see how a bank behaves by viewing the size and scope of their transactions would theoretically assuage their appetite for risk. Given these conclusions, it’s easier to make the case that our current president would provide more accountability and inspire behavioral changes on Wall Street, particularly given Romney’s intransigence when it comes to considering financial reform. But tough talk against Wall Street has all but disappeared from Obama’s rhetoric, leaving little hope that a second term will elicit any further positive change. So this week, while neither man seems serious about financial reform, the status quo is better than further deregulation and letting bankers rule the roost. Tie goes to the incumbent.

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Jerry’s Ink BY JERRY DELLA FEMINA, Publisher, the Independent

Barack Obama Easily Defeats Mitt Romney In The Debates A totally comfortable and confident Barack Obama easily defeated a fumbling, ill-at-ease Mitt Romney in all three of the 2012 debates. President Obama made all the telling points and outlined his plan to bring back the economy by imposing a “fair tax” on all American families earning over $250,000 a year. The president promised a return to 5-percent unemployment by 2016 as a result of his soon-to-be-successful “shovel ready” hiring program that he has been talking about since 2008. Mitt Romney’s “Make the United States Energy Independent” plan was successfully dismissed by President Obama when he said that the Romney plan would pollute the atmosphere and lose us all our good friends in the Middle East. Obama then scored considerable points when he outlined his “Greener Than Green” plan to finance start-up green energy companies by funding them with oil companies’ profits. He added that giving up all their profits was the “fair and patriotic” thing for the oil companies to do. He also promised that by 2015 every car on the road will be getting 85 mpg. Wait a second, you may be saying, the debates haven’t taken place yet. How can Jerry Della Femina know how they are going to turn out? Simple. I have a crystal ball and I looked into the present and saw all the “Who won the debate” stories that are being written now, before the first debate, by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC. It’s the same reason you’re still reading about Romney’s 47-percent gaffe in The New York Times, but you are not reading about Obama’s gaffe trying to minimize the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the popular uprisings in Syria that have resulted in over 20,000 deaths and the election in Egypt of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as “bumps in the road.” Bumps in the road? Just imagine if Mitt Romney had said that. Think of all the trees that would have been cut down to make enough paper so The New York Times could repeatedly say how outraged they were that Romney called a terror attack a “bump in the road.” Think of the hours of network time that would have been

devoted to news anchors like Brian Williams solemnly looking out at America and pretend-examine for the umpteenth time why an “out-of-touch Romney chose to call murder a bump in the road.” Barack Obama, with the help of the media he has in his pocket, tried to pin the murder of an American ambassador (on the day of anniversary of September 11) on a protest over a stupid movie, instead of what it was, an act of terrorism. Just go back and re-read Brave New World or 1984 and you will understand how this works: If you don’t say it is terrorism, then it isn’t terrorism. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week that there can be no doubt that terrorists had planned and carried out the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. The New York Times did not print a single word about Mr. Panetta’s statement. Apparently it was not “All the News That Was Fit to Print.” So how can Mitt Romney win? He can’t. Not as long as the media thinks the record of his very successful stint as the leader of Bain Capital or his last income tax filings are so, so much more important to the American people than Obama’s record with the economy for the last four years. Or the fact that we have 9.2-percent unemployment and things are not getting better, as Obama insists, but they are getting worse. The media doesn’t care that Obama is throwing Israel under the bus. Did you read that Henry Kissinger predicts that there won’t be an Israel in ten years? No, you probably didn’t. It wasn’t seen as important to the media as Obama’s clowning appearance on The View. So enjoy the first debate. And when it’s over and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the media tell you it looks like Obama won the debate, then you can be sure it was a draw. But if they tell you that it was a draw, that means that Romney won big. They will never, ever tell you Romney won. Then, of course, read The New York Times on Thursday so they can tell you what your lying eyes wouldn’t admit that you saw. Whichever the media outlet you watch, don’t get nervous if you feel something soft on your face. It’s just the wool being pulled over your eyes.

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by flooding the colonies with it, a scheme reportedly uncovered by a member of George Washington’s secret Long Island “Culper Spy Ring.” Yet one of the nation’s oldest crimes has now evolved into more sophisticated schemes that include forging products—from jeans to Gibson guitars—to identity theft, a high-tech ploy called skimming, and a slew of other sinister financial crimes. “We have a lot of opportunity out here [for counterfeiting],” Michael Seremetis, resident agent-in-charge of Long Island’s Secret Service office in Melville, tells the Press. “Long Island has a thriving shopping community. Anywhere where you have a lot of shopping malls, you have an opportunity to pass counterfeit currency.”

PASSING THE BUCK

It’s a brisk autumn morning in a quaint village on Long Island’s North Shore and dozens of children scurry into a local day camp for several hours of fun. Inside, employees prepare for the long day ahead. There’s face-painting, arts and crafts time, and lunch to prepare. There’s sports, music and dance routines to organize. The camp provides a safe environment for the kids to play and build friendships; each day ending when their parents pick them up on their way home from work. Unbeknownst to the parents and the majority of the camp’s staff, however, there’s another activity—one that’s illegal—taking place here amid the giggling toddlers and children. Two male staffers are making a transaction that, if discovered, could land them each up to 15 years in a federal penitentiary. A freshly made stack of $1,000 in bogus United States bills, all 20s, is handed over from one day camp employee to another in exchange for $200 in genuine U.S. cash. It takes seconds. Afterward, the two coworkers go 16

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along with their duties at the camp as if nothing had happened. The pair repeats their phony cash deal several months later—again at the camp, amid the unsuspecting children. Only difference is, it’s a little bit colder outside. The purchaser is confident he can freely pass off the Andrew Jackson-emblazoned fake 20s—the most common counterfeit note in the country—without any resistance from retailers, just as he did his previous stack. He inquires about a third transaction to help out a friend; in broad daylight, his supplier obliges once again, gladly handing him another fat stack of fake cash and accepting real money in return. Clandestine deals such as this are being conducted across Long Island and the New York metropolitan area, according to the U.S. Secret Service— the federal agency created in the 19th century specifically to investigate and thwart this crime. It estimates that $40,000 in bad bills a week—more than $2 million annually—is being

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circulated on Long Island. In New York City, that figure is estimated at up to $150,000 a week, says the agency— just a fraction of the tens of millions being circulated globally each year. The not-so-funny money is being passed at banks, mom-and-pop stores and even more technologically advanced retailers with budgets that include security and employee education training to curtail such trickery. Criminals spread it across the Island’s bustling shopping centers and malls, where untrained or naïve cashiers accept what they think is legitimate cash without even attempting to scrutinize the bills, sometimes in fear of insulting their customers. While the approaching holiday shopping season provides a muchappreciated boost to the local economy, retailers are advised to be more vigilant, because busy stores and overwhelmed employees make for easy prey. The scam is nothing new. Faking U.S. currency dates back to the birth of this nation, when the British plotted to devalue then-Continental Currency

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Jack’s first attempt at passing phony money failed, miserably. Soon after he purchased his first stack of counterfeits in 2008, Jack (the name we’ve chosen for the man who requested anonymity for this story) decided to try his luck at a Checkers fast food restaurant in Hempstead. A bit nervous, but convinced he was “smarter than most,” Jack decided to bring just a few of the bills with him for the test, that way, “If I ever did get caught, I could be like, ‘I just got change for a $50,’” he says. So, doing his best to exude an air of confidence—while also trying to act naturally—the 20-something pulled his car up to the drive-through menu and calmly placed his order with the female voice emanating from the speaker system: a Value Meal—burger, fries and a soft drink. He then rolled around to the drive-through window, reached into his pocket, nonchalantly pulled out a pristine $20 bill and handed it to the cashier. Without uttering a word, she handed it right back. “The lady knew!” he tells the Press. A few moments passed. “‘I just got that from an ATM,’” he blurted, reaching into his pocket and giving her a real one. Luckily, “she just blew it off,” recalls Jack, also remembering breathing a huge sigh of relief as he sped away with his food: No cops. No criminal investigation. “I was dumb about it the first time,” he admits. That initial fear of getting caught was short-lived, however, and didn’t deter him—never sinking in deep enough where he was going to toss the fakes away and move on. “From then on,” he tells the Press, “I knew to crumple it up to make it look it was worn, like real bills.” Those subtle changes could have P r e s s P l ay

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been what saved Jack from getting thrown behind bars. Or it could have been his selections of where he circulated the money. Jack decided not to try to pass the bills on Long Island. Instead, he chose to spread them around during road trips to upstate New York. He traveled 250 miles to SUNY Cortland one weekend, 100 miles on another trip to Quinnipiac University. College bars’ young bartenders were no match for his fake bills, he says, especially in dimly lit pubs and taverns teeming with patrons. The newfound wealth was new to Jack, who says his job at the day camp paid little. “This was like taking my salary and making it a little better,” he says. The cash also brought him popularity: Big tips for bartenders and plenty of drinks for him and his friends. The fake cash made those nights out at bars stress-free, says Jack. The beer flowed non-stop. Frequently he’d make the trek—$4 pitcher in one hand, fake bucks in another. “Once it works it’s like, ‘Why the hell not?’” he says. “After time, you almost forget that it can’t work and [that] you can get in trouble.” Besides getting drunk, technically for free, there was another benefit to passing phony bucks at small bars. Jack

confiding that his printing operation was based in New York City. He’s also out of business, according to Jack. Some of that phony money, however, may currently be marked as evidence inside dusty bags at a Secret Service office somewhere in the United States.

MEN IN BLACK

The Secret Service’s mission— even before it was tasked with protecting the president of the United States—was to suppress counterfeit currency. The job hasn’t gotten any easier, though redesigns of the bills and security enhancements in the 1990s and 2000s has forced counterfeiters to adjust with the changes. In 2011, the Secret Service collected $154 million in counterfeit U.S. currency worldwide, arresting 2,471 people in the United States and 386 more suspects internationally. Between 2006 and 2010 the total dollar value of foreign and domestic U.S. counterfeit currency seized before it was circulated grew every year except one, and ballooned to $270 million in 2010, according to Secret Service statistics. The total dollar value of fake bills passed on to the public also increased during that time, from $64 million in 2006 and 2007 to $85 million in 2010, according to the data. Counterfeit currency is only .02 percent of the total circulation currently in the United States. But that hasn’t stopped Agent Seremetis from protecting innocent shop owners from counterfeiters. “Although that’s a very, very small number,” he says, “a $100 bill being passed to a mom-and-pop shop or Macy’s could affect them financially. We take it very seriously.” The problem for small businesses and other retailers is that cashiers rarely do a double-take when they’re handed notes with lesser denominations, says one small business advocate who assists hundreds of businesses a year. Counterfeiting hurts —U.S. SECRET SERVICE LI OFFICE RESIDENT the little people, who AGENT-IN-CHARGE MICHAEL SEREMETIS are already struggling to would start the night with $60 in fake stay afloat during this tumultuous money in his pocket and stumble out economic time because any bogus bills with up to $100 of the Real McCoy that are discovered eventually become from the change leftover after pur- the property of the Secret Service and chasing drinks. the amounts shown are not refunded Jack’s spree lasted a total of about to those unlucky enough to be stuck eight months, he says, ending in 2009. holding them. Jack says he knew little details “When it comes to small businesses about his supplier, other than once Continued on page 18

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and sometimes the margins they work at, especially in these economic times, any kind of loss of revenues affect the business,” says Lucille Wesnofske, director of the Farmingdale Small Business Development Center. “They should be aware, and just like if somebody walked in their store and they started noticing something being stolen all the time, they would start taking action…they’ll be more alert. They’ll put up something to prevent theft. It’s the same thing. It’s theft, it’s affecting their bottom line.” While the Secret Service continues its core mission of suppressing counterfeiting, other agencies, such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), also play a crucial role in suppressing the deceptive and costly fraud. On May 8, 2012, Katherine Velez took a flight from Bogota, Colombia, landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport at 6 a.m. Lining the inside of her two suitcases were allegedly 1,412 $100 bills, which totaled more than $140,000, according to the agency. Just two days earlier CBP officers had discovered $68,000 in counterfeit $100 bills at the JFK mail facility. According to the criminal complaint against Velez, she told authorities she “borrowed the black Explora suitcase from her aunt and that she didn’t know there was counterfeit

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currency inside.” A month earlier, CBP officers had arrested Marco Chavez, who arrived at JFK from Lima, Peru, with $599,400 in counterfeit bills allegedly hidden in packages inside picture frames, books and purses. He told officers that a friend asked him to sneak the packages into the country in exchange for $1,500.

“If you can name it, we’ve seen it counterfeit.” —U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION SPOKESMAN ANTHONY BUCCI

He also claimed that he had no idea he was traveling with thousands of dollars in artificial U.S. currency, according to court documents. “We’re on the front lines,” says Anthony Bucci, a CBP spokesman. “We’re the first line of defense.” It’s no surprise to authorities that such large sums of money are emanating from Peru and Colombia, two hotbeds for counterfeit production—the Secret Service and CBP have been disrupting its flow there for years. “It affects what happens

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internationally and also domestically,” Milien says of counterfeit money production. And it’s not just counterfeit money that’s the problem. Every week, CBP officers discover treasure troves of counterfeit items that read like an inventory list for a massive flea market: laundry detergent, water guns, designer handbags, Timberland boots, Spider Man lunch bags, Lee jeans, and a number of other seemingly random products fraudsters aggressively attempt to sell at a discounted price. “If you can name it, we’ve seen it counterfeit,” says Bucci. “And that’s not an exaggeration.” “We’ve been combating this problem since 1865,” says Milien of the Secret Service. “It’s always been a problem.” In August, a Freeport man was busted at Pet Supplies Plus in Oceanside when he tried to return items he paid for with counterfeit money in order to get real money, according to police. The store caught on to his plan, and he was arrested when he returned. Seven months earlier a Hempstead man was arrested after using 16 counterfeit $100 bills to make a purchase at the Adidas store in Roosevelt. Another man tried to pull off the same crime in June, this time at Target in Westbury. Similar counterfeiting crimes have popped up at retailers all over Long Island.

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While the technology that counterfeiters utilize may be state-of-theart, the practice dates back to Colonial times, when Patriots and Redcoats were bloodying fields with muskets and bayonets. Counterfeiting originated as a war tactic by the British over our country’s birth.

ANCIENT ART The rusty blue sign lodged into the freshly manicured grass outside Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay gives subtle clues to counterfeiting’s revolutionary birth. “Raynham Hall. Built 1740; Used by British As Col. Simcoe’s HDQTS; Information from here lead to Major Andre’s capture after his visits,” it reads. “Home of Robert Townsend Washington’s Spy.” The former home of Robert Townsend—who was revealed by Long Island historian Morton Pennypacker in the 1930s through handwriting analysis as George Washington’s loyal spy, Samuel Culper Jr.—has been through many changes since the Revolutionary War. Remodeled and decorated with Victorian features by Solomon Townsend in the 1850s, then converted back into a Colonial dwelling when it was deeded to the Town of Oyster Bay in the 1940s, the white two-story with a white

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FAKE-OUT: U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER Protection OFFICERS AT JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT DISRUPT THE GLOBAL COUNTERFEIT TRADE ON A DAILY BASIS, THWARTING VARIED DECEPTions of SMUGGLERS, SUCH AS THESE. (Courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

picket fence in front breathes colonial wartime stories. During the revolution, Lt. Col John Graves Simcoe and his Queen’s Rangers occupied the house, and they lived in close quarters with the Townsends for many months. During the war, Townsend used his access as a merchant and position as a writer for a British newspaper to rub elbows with the loyalists in order to gather information for the Setauketbased Culper Spy Ring, which he did under the constant threat of capture— and death. “Robert [Townsend] was a good

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candidate for several reasons,” Claire Bellerjeau of Raynham Hall tells the Press during a tour of the museum. “He was very well-educated, he was smart, he could write well, he could go down to the docks and observe ships, and he knew the names of the ships, he knew the captains, he knew what kind of boat was doing what, he had been involved and surrounded by ships and merchant vessels in that business his entire life.” Among his many finds as a spy was a plot to destroy U.S. currency through counterfeiting. “Townsend hit gold and revived

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the Ring’s spirits,” writes Alexander Rose in his book Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring. “What Townsend had stumbled upon, most likely in his conversation with various officers and officials in Rivington’s coffeehouse, was the British campaign to undermine the American war effort by destroying the Continental Currency. “New York was the nexus of this counterfeiting trade,” he adds. The British weren’t the first to use counterfeiting as a weapon of war, but they were well-versed in the craft. When the colonies began printing their own paper money—Massachusetts

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was the first to do so in 1690 to pay for military expeditions—counterfeiting grew rapidly, according to Karl Rhodes’ piece, The Counterfeiting Weapon, in Region Focus, a magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. “It was the proliferation of paper money that begat a new breed of counterfeiters in the New World,” he writes, calling it a “serious problem” by the 1730s. “On the eve of the Revolution, American counterfeiting had surpassed British imperialism as the No. 1 threat to Colonial Currency.” In 1775, the Continental Congress issued paper currency to help finance the war but it was so easily counterfeited that the money lost value. People would refer to the bills as “not worth a Continental.” In 1861, the first general circulation of official federal government notes began. Four years later, the Secret Service was created to control counterfeiting because it was “destroying the public’s confidence in the nation’s currency,” according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Continued on page 20

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back to the future: oyster bay’s raynham hall was occupied by the british during the revolutionary war and was also the home of robert townsend, aka sam culper jr., one of gen. george washington’s most trusted spies. (Rashed Mian/Long Island Press)

Printing website. Over the years, the government has been successful in deterring counterfeiting by changing security features and making the process more strenuous. But criminals evolve, too. And they’re still after money.

INSUFFICIENT FUNDS “With the advent of cyber crimes…those have become more popular for criminals then going through the labor of trying to create counterfeit money,” says Doug Johnson, vice president of Risk Management Policy at the American Bankers Association (ABA). “Even though the United States has been criticized...for not having as difficult a currency to counterfeit as

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some other countries,” he adds, “its still not the easiest thing in the world to do.” Tech-savvy criminals are now utilizing modern technology to their advantage, stealing people’s information on the Internet with one click of a finger, or installing “skimming” devices at ATMs—gadgets that steal users’ debit or credit card information when they make a transaction, sometimes involving the use of a hidden camera. Skimming is a relatively quick crime to commit, making it far more fruitful than, say, committing a robbery, which nets an average of $3,000 to $4,000, while skimming device crimes can suck in between $30,000 to $50,000, says Johnson. Banks are instrumental in the fight against counterfeiting. They check bills

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“We’ve been combating this problem since 1865.” —U.S. SECRET SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. SPOKESMAN MAX MILIEN

daily, either when they enter through shipments or in the form of customer deposits or when they’re handed over by customers—playing a critical role in curtailing the flow of bogus bills. Banks know when they’re being robbed. But with skimming, a victim may have no clue until they read their bank statement, or find out when a

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check doesn’t clear. Nassau County has seen “a tremendous amount of skimming cases,” says Diane Peress, of the district attorney’s Economic Crimes bureau. With middle-income households dotting the Island from west to east, criminals see Long Island as an appetizing region for bank account numbers, she continues. “Historically, you follow the money,” says Peress. “There’s a tremendous amount of middle-class and upper-class in these counties and also high-level stores.” “Nassau County, and to a lesser Suffolk County, provide very attractive persons with credit and with good identity that a credit card theft or an identity theft would want to use,” she adds. Skimming cases have “exploded” in Nassau, says Peress, adding that there’s one or two such cases a week this year, compared to just two a month last year. Family members of law enforcement personnel are not safe, either. Suffolk County police Deputy

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Inspector Kevin Fallon, the department’s chief spokesman, tells the Press that his own wife was victim of a skimming scheme when $500 was removed from her account at an ATM in Manhattan. There was one problem: “We’re never in Manhattan,” says Fallon. The fraudsters got her PIN and credit card number from an ATM in Nassau County through a skimming device and then used a fake card with her credit card number at a machine in the city. During the investigation, police caught the perpetrator on video but “it was somebody who knew what he was doing because he was covered up,” says Fallon. “He had a baseball cap on pulled low over his face so you couldn’t identify him. That’s one of the problems with the whole skimming devices, that people often don’t know they’re victims of it, no idea until you see a bank statement.” “And that’s assuming you’re sharp enough to pay attention to bank statements,” he adds. “It’s done very quickly and they usually do it when the bank is closed because most banks have the vestibules and slide any card with a magnetic strip and you can get in it,” Det. Sgt. Dan Molloy of Suffolk’s Identity Theft unit tells the Press. “And it takes seconds to put up these cameras because the

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REALITY CHECK Although Jack stopped buying phony money four years ago when he landed a better job—ironically enough, doing security—he remembers those days very clearly. When he was first contemplating buying the funny money, he was nudged by the prospects of great nights out with his buddies, similar to the epic times he says his counterfeit supplier enjoyed. “They were doing it big-time— bottle service at the club, paid in full,” remembers Jack. “The girl counts it up, happy she got a $200 to $300 tip. “You had some good nights,” he says. “There’s nights that me and [my friend] just bought out the bar. “Pitchers,” he adds, “keep the pitchers coming.” Now, he says, it wasn’t worth the risk. “I’d be locked up,” he says. “We would be doing this [interview] through a glass window.”

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If you’ve never seen Tori banging those piano keys with one stiletto-clad foot practically over her head and gnawing on the mic, well, like a person whose never dipped their toes in the ocean, consider yourself deprived. This week NPR Music presents a live show at Le Poisson Rouge commemorating Amos’ 20-year career. She’ll perform songs from her latest, Gold Dust, re-imagining a personally handpicked collection of songs from her catalogue in an orchestral setting. This exclusive live performance is not a ticketed event. Fans can gain entry through ToriAmos.com, but the entire show will be livestreamed on NPR beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 10.5. —Jaclyn Gallucci

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The band will be at Looney Tunes to celebrate the release of their new album, Don’t Panic, playing a live show and also hanging around for autographs on Thursday, 10.11 at 6 p.m. In order to get into this event you must pre-order the bands new album at LooneyTunesCDs.com and get a wristband. And if you can’t make it down to Babylon, the guys will also be playing Webster Hall on Tuesday, 10.9. —Kate Kincaid

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on Thursday, 11.11.

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thursday Cont. Great Lake Swimmers/Snowblink @ Bell House Sixpence None the Richer @ City Winery States and Kingdombs/Tyburn Saints @ St. Vitus Afro Brick @ Revolution friday 10.5 Festival @ Christopher Morley Park, Carnival, food and vendors. Through 10.8.

LI Fall Festival @ Heckscher Park, Four stages of entertainment, carnival, arts and craft vendors, international food courts, beer and wine tent. Through 10.8. Dom Irrera @ Brokerage, Stand up comedy with the “prop comic” from Seinfeld. Vinny Vella “Who’s Better Than You?” @ Governor’s Comedy Club, In story after story, Vella regales the audience with the deeds and misdeeds of his life.

Classic Albums Live: The Beatles @ Tilles Center, Also on Saturday, 10.6. How Absurd… @ Post Theatre Company, An evening of shorts by Samuel Beckett. Through 10.11. Impaler/Anvil Bitch/ Brohammer/Sacrificial Blood @ St. Vitus

Webster Hall, With Melody’s Echo & Chamber. The Afghan Whigs @ Terminal 5, With Eagles of Death Metal. Also Saturday, 10.6 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Los Straitjackets @ Bell House

Clannad @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury

James Iha (former Smashing Pumpkins) @ Mercury Lounge, With Milagres.

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Leftover Salmon @ Bowery Ballroom

Dispatch @ Radio City Music Hall, With Good Old War.

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Internationally acclaimed film and faerie artists Brian and Wendy Froud share their collection of original artwork from their latest book, Trolls. Brian is an award-winning artist, author and concept designer, who also imagined and designed Jim Henson’s cult classic film, Labyrinth. With more than 30 books in publication and more than 8 million books sold to date, Brian Froud’s best sellers include Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book (Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is), The Faeries’ Oracle and Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album. Wendy is the fabricator of “Yoda” from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. She sculpted and fabricated “Kira” and “Jen” from The Dark Crystal, and sculpted and fabricated several Labyrinth goblins. The Trolls exhibition at AFA NYC in SoHo will include Wendy’s 3-D sculptural interpretations of select characters from the book and the Frouds will appear in person to sign books from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, 10.11. The exhibit opens Sunday, 10.7 and runs through Sunday, 12.30. —Kate Kincaid

Susan Werner & Vance Gilbert @ YMCA Boulton Center Wonderous Stories @ Revolution, With The Six. saturday 10.6 Oktoberfest @ Eisenhower Park, East Meadow, A weekend of great culture, food, drink and family activities. Also 10.7. Robert Kelly @ Brokerage Comedy Montauk Fall Festival @ Downtown Montauk, Chowder contest on Saturday. Free carousel rides for kids, LI wine, farmers market, live music and more. Also 10.7.

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Fall Flower & Harvest Festival @ Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Hay rides, pumpkin painting, food, flowers and classes. Through 10.8. Gilbert Gottfried @ Governor’s Comedy Country Fest @ LI Maritime Museum, Live country music, vendors, crafts, BBQ, kids events, dancing and more. Also 10.7. Craig Ferguson @ Radio City Music Hall Fall Harvest Festival @ Mill Neck Manor, Apples, country crafts, seasonable produce, grilled bratwurst, cheese, games and activities. Also 10.7.

August Burns Red @ The Paramount Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad & the Lovely Posse @ Best Buy Theater, With Brothers of Brazil. Leo Kottke @ YMCA Boulton Center The Fab Faux @ Beacon Theatre Lotion @ Mercury Lounge, With Edsel. sunday 10.7 Machine Gun Kelly @ Looney Tunes, Autographs and pictures to celebrate the release of Lace Up.

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Fall Festival @ Sagtikos Manor, Children’s crafts, old-fashioned games & prizes, petting zoo, pony cart rides, pumpkin painting, historic presentations & demonstrations, cemetery and house tours. Riverhead Country Fair @ Downtown Riverhead, Artists, agricultural and homemaking displays and competitions, authors, entertainers,

local merchants, food, amusement rides, pony rides, and more food. Early Fall Stroll @ Norman J. Levy Park, With naturalist Peter Martin. Family Day @ Suffolk County Correctional Facility Parking Lot, Route 24, Riverhead. Featuring K-9 demonstrations, jail tours, obstacle course, law enforcement vehicles, Amber Alert child ID cards, demonstrations,

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Dix Hills Performing Arts Center—305 N. Service Rd., Dix Hills. DHPAC.org

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Carnegie Hall —881 7th Ave., Manhattan. CarnegieHall.org

Governor’s Comedy Club—90 Division Ave, Levittown. Govs.com

Christopher Morley Park—Searingtown Road, Roslyn

Gramercy Theatre—127 E. 23rd St. TheGramercyTheatre. com

Cinema Arts Centre—423 Park Ave., Huntington. CinemaArtsCentre.org

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Kodiak’s—1815 Broad Hollow Rd., Farmingdale. KodiaksRestaurant.net Le Poisson Rouge—158 Bleecker St., Manhattan. LePoissonRouge.com LI Maritime Museum—86 West Avenue, West Sayville Looney Tunes—31 Brookvale Ave., West Babylon. LooneyTunesCDs.com Mercury Lounge—217 E. Houston St., Manhattan. MercuryLoungeNYC.co Mill Neck Manor—40 Frost Mill Rd., Mill Neck Music Hall of Williamsburg—66 N. 6th St. MusicHallOfWilliamsburg.com Nassau County Museum of Art—1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 516-484-9337. NassauMuseum.com

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An Evening with Public Image Ltd. @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Betty Buckley @ Barnes & Noble, E. 86th St., Manhattan

An Acoustic Evening w/ Ben Harper @ Carnegie Hall

tuesday 10.9 Coheed & Cambria @ Revolution, An exclusive show for Looney Tunes customers! Visit LooneyTunesCds.com for details. Also @ Webster Hall on Thursday, 10.11.

Pete Townshend (The Who) @ Barnes & Noble Union Square, Manhattan Sushi: The Global Catch @ Cinema Arts Centre

The Early November @ Gramercy Theatre, With Cartel.

wednesday 10.10 Mindful Living w/ Dr. Steven Lurie @ Dix Hills PAC, Apply the new psychology of success and happiness to feeling more alive.

Suzanne Vega @ City Winery The Script @ Radio City Music Hall Blue October @

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NYCB Theatre at Westbury—960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. TheTheatreAtWestbury.com

Tilles Center—720 Northern Boulevard, Greenvale. 516299-2752. TillesCenter.org

Paramount—370 New York Ave., Huntington. ParamountNY.com

Town Hall—123 W. 43rd St., Manhattan. The-TownHall-NYC.org

Police Headquarters—30 Yaphank Ave., Yaphank

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau—223 Stewart Ave., Garden City

Radio City Music Hall—1260 6th Ave., Manhattan. RadioCity. com Revolution—140 Merrick Rd., Amityville. RevolutionLI.com Sagtikos Manor—Montauk Highway, West Bay Shore Shag—1370 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn. ShagNewYork.com Smith Haven Mall— Route 347, Lake Grove St. Vitus—1120 Manhattan Ave. SaintVitusBar.com

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Vibe Lounge—60 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre. VibeLoungeLI. com Walt Whitman Shops— Route 110, Huntington Webster Hall—125 E 11th St., Manhattan. WebsterHall.com Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center—76 Main St., Westhampton Beach. WHBPAC.org YMCA Boulton Center—37 W. Main St., Bay Shore. 631-9691101. BoultonCenter. org

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WEdnesday Cont. D.L. Hughley (The Hughleys) @ Barnes & Noble, Warren Street, Manhattan Richard Belzer (Law & Order: SVU) @ Cinema Arts Centre.

@ Dix Hills PAC, Through 10.14.

Kirk Hammett (Metallica) @ Barnes & Noble, Warren St., Manhattan

Morrissey @ Radio City, With Kristeen Young.

A Night of Laughter @ Cinema Arts Centre, Comedy, music and silent auction to benefit the Harry Chapin Foundation.

Heart @ The Paramount

The Jonas Brothers @ Radio City

Eric Gales + Voodoo Chile: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix @ B.B. King Blues Club

The Go-Go’s @ Best Buy Theater

Living With Advanced MS @ Winthrop Hospital, 259 First St., Mineola. 7 p.m. Lung Conditions 101: How to Breathe Easier @ Mineola Village Hall, 155 Washington Ave., Mineola. 1:15 p.m. thursday 10.11 The Children’s Hour

Kris Roe (Ataris) @ Revolution, With Koji, Giants at Large, The Sweetest Intentions & Kevin Meyer.

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