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Sound Smart at a Party Baseball crowds will be even more amped up next season now that Cracker Jacks has announced its Cracker Jack’D Power Bites line.

A two-bite serving contains 70 milligrams of caffeine, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, is about the same amount in a cup of espresso. Of course, there is already some resistance to the new snack. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit nutrition activist group, warns that kids may eat more than one serving at a time and suffer a caffeine overdose. We have to agree that children and caffeine are not usually the best combination for anyone involved… When making counterfeit money, it’s usually a good idea to know which president goes on what bill. Dana

Leland of Rhode Island learned this the hard way. Police say the 29-year-old man used fake $100 bills three days in a row at a local Target store. If it wasn’t strange enough that he used $100 bills

“I didn’t look at him as an icon because when you’re in it, you don’t know you’re an icon. You don’t know you’re an icon until other people say you’re an icon. So I had to take it as a person, you know what I mean? And I just tried to say, ‘Well, what would Jimi want people to know that they can’t get off of YouTube?’ And that’s how I approached it.”

to buy items under $25, Leland’s cheese had President Abraham Lincoln on them, instead of Benjamin Franklin, who graces the real $100 bill. Lincoln is on the $5 bill. Leland pleaded not guilty to charges of uttering a counterfeit note and possession of a counterfeit note… An alarming number of tweens and teens have turned to anabolic steroids, according to a new study.

Researchers surveyed 2,800 kids at 20 different middle and high schools in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, asking them about food and weight-related behaviors. About 5 percent of middle and high school students admitted they used steroids to put on muscle, more than one-third of boys and one-fifth of girls said they used protein powder or shakes to gain muscle, and between 5 and 10 percent used non-steroid muscle-enhancing substances. Experts say the trend can be attributed to a more muscular body ideal promoted in the

—Andre Benjamin, better known as Outkast’s Andre 3000, on playing Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic All Is by My Side. This Nov. 13, 2012 file photo shows him during a promotional event for Gillette in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Letters to the Press 4 More Years Dear Mr. Della Femina: It is now a few days after the election, and all I can think is, “Thank God.” I’m sure by now you’ve seen the numbers and realize that the majority of Americans voted for President Barack Obama. To write off such a large segment of the population, saying that they just “drink the Kool-Aid,” is not only insulting but naïve. If the only thing Obama had going for him was a pretty face and an inspiring speaking voice, he would not have been reelected. Perhaps, instead of dismissing all the “many smart Democrats” who supported the president, you should consider the idea that maybe, just maybe, they looked at the numbers, looked at the facts, and without the aid of any metaphorical refreshments, decided that this was a president worth supporting. As a woman, I take exception to your assertion that the “war on women” is “bull crap.” Women are not feeling threatened simply because the media is declaring that there is a “war on women.” There are efforts to intimate, belittle and dismiss women just on account of their second X chromosome. Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke

was called a “slut” for wanting to speak her mind at a Congressional hearing. Rape is suddenly being redefined so that “forcible rape” is somehow not redundant. Planned Parenthood, which saves lives, is being threatened under the guise of the Pro-Life movement. The point is that you don’t get to claim that there is no war on women. I have no idea what it is like to have to “hold it in” on a family road trip while you drive through a particularly racist county. Just like you cannot possibly know what it is like to walk around with breasts, knowing that they can apparently cancel out a degree in mathematics and political science, six years on the House Budget Committee and an Election Night win, when it comes to your ability to understand the federal budget. I don’t agree with each and every move the president has made. I admit I’ve been disappointed by some of his decisions. But when the smoke cleared and we got ready for 2012, I was never prouder to campaign on behalf of a president whom history will remember as both a great man and a great politician. He’s our president for the next four years, and after I jump for joy, all you will hear me say is, “Thank God!” Dana Kroplick Bye Bye Islanders Dear Editor: The NY Islanders had to make a decision whether to stay on Long Island either in Nassau or Suffolk [“Islanders Skating to Brooklyn in 2015,” Oct. 25]. Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray was a large part of the problem. Newsday did not help the Islanders by publishing numbers demonstrating how much taxes would go up. But whether your children are in school or not, school taxes increase every year! Either building a new coliseum or expanding the old one would have created jobs. I served at the polls for the referendum last year and saw that it was defeated by the seniors who had a limited amount of knowledge regarding the Coliseum issue. The younger people who came to my school to vote were all for it and obviously big hockey fans. I’ve attended 15-20 games a year for the past 10 years. I will go to Brooklyn but probably for about five games a year. It is not that it is inconvenient but the train fare is already expensive and it will go up in January. Brooklyn is a better choice for the team than moving it to Canada or Kansas City. I wish the Islanders well in their new home! Norman Kaufman

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IKEA—OFF TARGET IKEA execs, responding to long-standing accusations, admit the company used political prisoners in former East Germany for forced labor in the ’80s to manufacture some of its products. It took decades for IKEA to be publicly accused of exploiting forced labor? Obviously the powers that be have never tried to assemble an IKEA Pax Wardrobe or Komplement Shoe im kate/k rack. Just sayin’.

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HOSTESS—PARTIAL SCORE After yet again announcing the end of the Twinkie and the shutting of Hostess’ doors for good— LiLo causing mass hysteria among fans flocking to eBay to purchase the classic treats for jacked-up prices while the company blames the whole s s e t hos mess on a labor strike—Hostess makes a second announcement days later that both parties have agreed to private mediation, which could put an end to the entire drama. A word of advice to the NHL: Look to the Twinkie!

WALMART WALKOUT—BULL’S EYE Disgruntled Wal-Mart employees across the country seeking better pay, health coverage and work hours plan a mass walkout on Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. You mean a store where you can buy dinner, motor oil and a pet fish within feet of each other doesn’t care about its employees? No way! FB ARRESTS—OFF TARGET Mumbai police arrest a 21-year-old college student after she “Likes” her friend’s Facebook status criticizing recently deceased controversial Indian leader Bal Thackeray. Both women are charged with “creating or promoting enmity, hatred or ill-will between classes.” We agree that many realities don’t transition accurately on Facebook—profile pictures, especially—but freedom of speech isn’t one of them. KATE/KIM—BULL’S EYE The Duchess of Cambridge royally snubs the reality/sex tape star by sending back unsolicited dresses that Kim Kardashian had sent from her clothing line, which features low-cut dresses, skin-tight leopard print skirts and gold sequins in various varieties. Hey, Kate might not want them, but we’re sure Snooki would be more than happy to take that stuff off Kim’s hands! LiLo—PARTIAL SCORE Although the news was viral on the Internet at the time and reportedly had plagued her family for years, Lindsay Lohan acts clueless during a Good Morning America interview when asked about her half-sister—whom Michael Lohan allegedly fathered while married to ex-wife Dina in the mid-’90s. On a positive note, this was some of the best acting Lindsay’s ever done!

“I prefer a diplomatic solution. I hope that we can get one, but if not, we have every right to defend ourselves.”

Superstorm Sandy caused three breaches in two of Long Island’s four barrier islands, including two on Fire Island and one at Cupsogue park in Westhampton. This one, at a place called Old Inlet in an 8-mile stretch of federally protected wilderness, has sparked a debate over whether to let it close naturally or to dredge sand and fill it in. (Photo courtesy of Fire Island National Seashore)

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Gas Station Gougers As if it wasn’t bad enough that Superstorm Sandy ripped through Long Island three weeks ago, knocking out power to more than a million LIPA customers, swallowing an untold number of homes and leading to the deaths of at least a dozen people on Long Island, residents also had to put up with five gas stations in the area that allegedly screwed their customers by price gouging amid a fuel crisis that contributed to the hysteria spawned by the disaster. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he received hundreds of complaints post-Sandy related to gouging. What’s more, one station advertised $3.89 per gallon but actually raised the price by a dollar while hundreds of drivers waited on brutal lines just to fill up their tanks. While many Long Islanders turned to volunteering to assist their neighbors, these merciless scumbags were tasting blood when Sandy hit and taking advantage of the devastation. It’s embarrassing. Sickening. Disturbing. Callous bastards, take your gas and shove it... You’re fired!

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2. ORDER SELTZER GOODS GREETING CARDS: Forget the stodgy, glitter-laden, run-of-the-mill cards from the convenience store. The fun, amusing and witty holiday greeting cards from Seltzer Goods (SeltzerGoods.com) are much, much better. This Brooklyn-based design company creates one-of-a-kind cards from 100-percent post-consumer recycled paper using veggie-based inks and featuring all your—or someone’s—holiday favorites, including the Hipsterbread Couple, complete with a tattooed gingerbread chick and her ’stache-tacular boyfriend. 3. BID ON AUTOGRAPHED MERCH: WhyHunger hosts their 2012 Hungerthon auction with a goal of raising more than $850,000 this year for hunger and poverty relief. Items include guitars autographed by Pink, Willie Nelson, Mumford & Sons, and a piano bench signed by Tori Amos. View the entire auction at CharityBuzz.com/Hungerthon. 4. GOOGLE “STEPHEN WILKES DAY TO NIGHT”: Photographer Stephen Wilkes regularly spends up to 15 hours hovering above the world as we know it on a cherry picker, snapping away with his camera, and even more hours intricately digitally piecing his photos together to create Day to Night, a breathtaking project which merges the day and night scenes of various iconic New York locations into one. Check out his gorgeous work, where light and dark merge seamlessly.

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1. BUY A STRONG ISLAND TEE: Yes, that is Dave Ellefson from Megadeth wearing his Strong Island shirt! You should do the same this week, because for every shirt or hoodie you purchase at Looney Tunes (LooneyTunesCDs.com) in Babylon, all profits will go to the American Red Cross Sandy Relief Fund. Stay strong, Long Island.

5. EAT TWINKIES: It seems like every few years we hear that Twinkies have met their maker. Once again, the time has come. Hostess Brands, the maker of Twinkies, HoHos and Wonder Bread, announced it was going out of business this week. A few days later they were “negotiating” with labor unions. We’re pretty sure all of this will blow over by next week, but since Mrs. Rogan in second grade always told us to be prepared, and because boxes of Twinkies are already popping up on eBay for hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, you’re probably going to want to grab them while you can. And while you’re at it…

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The volume of carbon dioxide—the greenhouse gas blamed for climate change—in the atmosphere in 2011, a new record, and 40 percent above the pre-industrial level, according to a survey released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday.

7. VISIT BEERCOLORS.NET: This new website shows unique decorative giclee prints made with beer—yes, beer. The site also spins mini-fables to illustrate several of its more light-hearted prints, such as its fish with lipstick, senior geese (“Geesers”), party animals, gull friends and its Cool Birds sections. Check it out. 8. VISIT BLACKFRIDAY.COM & BFADS.NET: We don’t recommend even leaving the house on Black Friday, for obvious reasons. Unless you have the ability to brave 5 o’clock traffic on the LIE with a smile on your face on a regular basis, this isn’t the best time to be on the roads. But if you do venture out for a deal you just can’t miss, at least check out these sites first and be prepared. 9. USE “OMNISHAMBLES” & “GIFFED” IN CONVERSATION: Oxford Dictionaries has chosen “omnishambles,” defined as a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged and characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations, as its top British term of 2012 and Gif, short for graphics interchange format, as the top American term of 2012 for making the crucial transition from noun to verb.

10. HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! For those of you heading out to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan, flip to page 34 for details. column

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BRUCE BY PETER AMES CARLIN Seeing Bruce Springsteen in concert for the first time stunned Clive Davis, Columbia Records president. “He was the best live performer I’d ever seen in my life,” Davis said. A book about Bruce is never going to be as good as a concert, and that’s the only problem with this high-voltage biography: Its lively prose just can’t match the vitality of the Boss’ musical genius when he’s in full throttle on stage and channeling energy from dimensions that haven’t been discovered yet. But give credit to Peter Ames Carlin, a senior writer for People and a best-selling author of books about the Beach Boys and Paul McCartney, for trying his hardest. After all, as Springsteen’s manager, Mike Appel, once crowed some 40 years ago, “Bruce Springsteen isn’t a rock ’n’ roll act, he’s a religion!” Carlin’s Bruce isn’t just preaching to the converted. He will make a believer of the most jaded skeptic. He’s tracked down Springsteen’s aunts, his first bandmates, even his English teacher. Carlin turns the creative torture that Springsteen went through to get his first record produced into a nail-biter (even though everyone with an FM radio knows that it all worked out). Along the way, the author breathes new life into songs we’ve heard a gazillion times by now, so they sound as fresh as a new summer day on the Jersey shore. And he sheds some much neededinsight into Springsteen’s roots, as reflected by his dad’s darkness and his mom’s light. Bruce may not be as wild as Keith Richards’ recent memoir, but it can really take you for a great ride. —Spencer Rumsey

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6. BUY A TURKEY CAKE: Forget the stuffing, the pie, the wine—bring something unique to your Thanksgiving Day dinner hosts this year—a turkey cake. You have multiple options. Carvel’s turkey cake—aka Tom the Turkey—is made with layers of vanilla and chocolate ice cream separated by chocolate crunchies and covered with a chocolate mousse decorated with red, yellow and orange icing. If you really want to get authentic, stop by Baskin Robbins for their molded ice-cream turkey, made with chocolate chip ice cream and glazed in caramel.

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B-List B-Day Nicole “Snooki, Snickers, Schnook” Polizzi Nov . 23, 1987 Snooki, a Sagittarius, is somehow only 24. Her birthday fell on Thanksgiving Eve last year, which couldn’t have been more appropriate. Sagittarians love the good life. But this new mama’s drunken nights, and mornings, are on hold for now. This year Snooki’s birthday falls on Black Friday. So instead of celebrating her birthday with a shot in each hand and her Jersey Turnpike in the air, this newly tamed guidette will probably be spending her day at the nearest Black Friday sale, with arms full of leopard print baby gear—and this Thanksgiving, eating meatballs instead of acting like one. Yes, we’re crying, too. Lo n g I sl a n d Pr e s s for n ov e m b e r 21 - n ov e m b e r 2 8 , 2 01 2

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Long Island came face-to-face with an uncomfortable reality during Hurricane Sandy. Our utility infrastructure is outmoded and unsustainable. Beyond the political posturing and the finger-pointing, the situation remains unchanged from the days prior to Sandy to now. Blaming the current administration of the Long Island Power Authority for its inability to respond to a storm of this magnitude amounts to nothing more than scapegoating. Newsday’s recent editorial tirades against LIPA, the politicians calling for heads to roll at the authority and the public’s roiling anger are easy and obvious. Fixing the problem is much more complicated and expensive. In a crisis like this one, everyone becomes an expert. WFAN’s Mike Francesa suspended his coverage of

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even these important responsibilities are ancillary functions to the main purpose behind LIPA: managing debt. LIPA was formed from the ashes of LILCO and the abandoned Shoreham nuclear plant, an all-too-familiar story to Long Islanders. It was created as an energy management company hybrid that was dead on arrival due to the overwhelming debt that the defunct during Sandy if Nikola Tesla was the Shoreham project carried along. Any CEO of LIPA and Roger Ailes was the attempts to chip away at the debt communications director. through aggressive power purchase LIPA is broken because Long agreements or renewable technology Island is broke. investments amounted to rearrangAs a result, Michael Hervey has ing deck chairs on the tendered his resignation from LIPA. Titanic. Even though He’s the fall guy and I get it. But this only about half of the is not something to cheer. Hervey outstanding $7 billion has three things going for him that in LIPA debt can still all other leaders before him did not: be attributed to the experience, the admiration of his team albatross that was and an engineering degree. I’m not Shoreham, the total saying he should remain as head of the outstanding obligation authority, but losing him is a setback. hasn’t budged because Please don’t mistake me for a LIPA borrowing without apologist. There is no question LIPA increased revenue was overwhelmed by the storm and begets more borrowing. therefore ineffective in its response. Still the cries for change at LIPA Furthermore, its communication with come from every direction. Why the public was awful. Better commucan’t we bury the lines? Because this nication would have eased tensions in isn’t Texas. We have neither the land the same way a sign on the Long Island nor the money to start digging new Expressway that tells you how long it trenches and burying wires. Not to will take you to get to the Midtown mention there are other things hanging Tunnel does; it doesn’t make the trip from those poles (ahem, Cablevision), faster, it just manages your expectawhich further complicates the impos- tions in the hopes of reducing road sible. Why didn’t they upgrade the rage. system like other places? Because it With that said, there is a simple costs money to replace poles and wires and extraordinarily unpopular answer that can withstand downed trees and to what ails us: We have no choice but high winds, and money equals rate to pay down LIPA’s debt. increases. We can talk about wind farms and Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be solar arrays on top of parking lots until lauded on the one hand for his swift we’re blue in the face, but nothing and tireless efforts in the wake of the will mitigate our financial mess until storm. On the other hand, it must be this debt is eradicated. Either we pay said that his initial critinow, or our kids pay cisms of LIPA sound later. (Assuming they’re somewhat hollow. For still here.) Any talk of 22 months, the standard facebook.com/jedmorey funds to upgrade the answer to questions system or of nationregarding the vacant leadership post wide executive searches is meaningless at LIPA and the vacant board seats has unless and until we get serious about been: “We’re waiting to hear from the putting Shoreham behind us once and second floor.” for all. This is government-speak for Any plan moving forward must “It’s up to the governor.” LIPA wasn’t seek to sunset LIPA altogether by even authorized to fund vacancies in combining federal money and local the communications department. So rate increases to aggressively pay for the governor to criticize LIPA for down a significant portion of the its lack of leadership and communi- debt and sell Long Island’s power cation during the crisis is disingenu- infrastructure and remaining debt to ous at best. This doesn’t alter the fact a public utility. Anything less is just that LIPA would have failed miserably shouting at the rain.

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

Sex on the Couch

We have four more years of Obama … taxes and unemployment are going up … sadly, some people are still suffering the ravages of Sandy … I just know there must be something to be thankful for. How about if you’re reading this it means you’re still alive, and that’s something to be thankful for. Plus you’re still living in a great country no matter who is running or ruining it. If you’re one of the 58,167,260 Republicans who voted for Romney, you need something more to cheer you up. I searched my files and found this old sweet column from when this story was all over the news. It should make everyone feel warm and wonderful. HappyThanksgiving: Admit it. Even before you saw this silly column you rushed to read all about Diane DeMartini-Scully, the East Hampton middle school psychologist and her alleged seduction of a 16-year-old boy.

I don’t blame you. Frankly, I’m obsessed with this story, too. Why? Because it’s still shocking to read about older women lusting after 16-year-old boys. And when the older woman in question turns out to be a shrink, let me tell you that makes for one “hot” story. It’s the kind of story people read and then tell everyone about, but usually start by saying, “Isn’t it disgusting ...” Not so fast. First of all, the boy was not her patient, he was her daughter’s boyfriend. She’s 45 and she stole her 16-year-old daughter’s boyfriend? Doesn’t it make you wonder what the Thanksgiving Day meal is going to be like in the DeMartini-Scully household? “Pass the cranberries please.” “Mommy, you sick bitch, you stole my boyfriend.” “And just how does that make you feel?” “Diane, our daughter is right, you are a sick bitch.” “So, John, perhaps you can tell us all how this is making you feel?” “I hate you. You’re disgusting.” “And so you both feel that the best way to describe how you feel about me is to hold back on the cranberry sauce?” “This is not about cranberry sauce. You don’t seem to understand you have ruined our lives. You have ruined this boy’s life. We hate you. We hate you. Now what have you got to say about that?” “Interesting. Now how would you both feel if I asked you to pass the mashed potatoes?” I’m not defending the sex shrink, but I will make this point. Just about every man who has gone to see an attractive female shrink has, at one point in the process, fantasized about having sex with his shrink. The same is true with women who have spent any time with an attractive male shrink. I’m sure that shrinks, when they go to shrink conventions, talk about this stuff all the time. There is a shrink joke that I can’t for the life of me remember, but I remember the punch line where the shrink says: “Don’t be silly. I shouldn’t even be lying next to you on this couch.” The fancy phrase that is used

to describe this process is “erotic transference.” Let me translate “erotic transference” for you. It means, “Gosh, I’ve told this person more intimate things about myself than anyone else in the world, so wouldn’t it be nifty if we went to bed.” I can’t speak for shrinks, but I would guess they suffer from erotic transference, too. Wouldn’t you think that sooner or later they’d sit there and say, “Gosh, this person has told me more intimate things about themselves than they’ve told anyone else in the world. I wonder what it would be like to go to bed with him (or her).” I know there are many people who will read this column and say to themselves, “What a sick puppy this Della Femina guy is.” All I can tell you is that if enough of you write me about this, I will have to seek professional help to cure myself of these warped opinions. Perhaps I will have to consult a shrink. I would bet Diane DeMartiniScully will have plenty of openings in her schedule. I know ... I know ... She’s too young for me. Hmmmmm.

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Turning the tide After Superstorm Sandy

Fixing Fire Island

By Timothy Bolger tbolger@longislandpress.com

Mary Parker weathered Superstorm Sandy’s bungalow-rocking winds and storm-of-the-century floodwaters surrounding her remote Davis Park home, a short stroll up a busted boardwalk from where seven of a dozen Fire Island houses were swallowed by the sea. The Davis Park Association president was without power three weeks later, yet still her usual upbeat self. Big questions loom about rebuilding 150 storm-damaged houses and leveled dunes on the 32-mile-long barrier island, Long Island’s main defense against erosion. Hampering recovery is a new breach linking the Atlantic Ocean to Bellport Bay in a nearby preserve, erasing part of the beach that’s a key off-road route to mainland LI used by residents, contractors and first responders. “I wouldn’t wanna do that again,” Parker tells the Press, describing one of the few certainties for her and 119 others who ignored the island’s evacuation order. “It was one of the most frightening experiences I’ve ever been through.” Now, she and countless others fear more floods caused by the breach—one of two on FI among three Sandy formed when the ocean washed over the four barrier islands. Compounding the crisis is an ideological showdown between two federal agencies over whether to repair the westernmost breach, never mind next summer. The controversy is just the latest of many kicked up by the devastating Oct. 29 hurricane that left nearly 200 dead nationwide, displaced 40,000 New Yorkers and ranks second costliest to Katrina. “We have to get them off their asses,” Ocean Beach Village Mayor James Mallott said at a Manhattan meeting earlier this month, urging a crowd of about 1,000 Fire Islanders to lobby for beach sand replenishment. “Fire Island is the natural levy for Long Island.” The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is closing the breaches at Cupsogue and Smith Point county parks in Westhampton and Shirley, respectively, on either side of Moriches Inlet. The $7.25-million job is mostly federally funded with New York State and Suffolk County splitting 30 percent of 16

the tab, 70 to 30. The National Park Service (NPS), which oversees the Fire Island National Seashore (FINS), has yet to okay filling in the third breach at Old Inlet—named for its status as a former Colonial-era waterway—in the Otis Pike High Dune Wilderness Area, an 8-mile stretch of all-natural, undeveloped beach between Watch Hill and Smith Point. It’s one of the thinnest stretches of the island. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens last week toured Cupsogue, where he viewed dredging equipment maneuvering into place offshore and declared successful the first use of the Breach Contingency Plan, which was enacted after a December 1992 nor’easter ripped Westhampton Beach in half. “This is not history repeating itself,” he said of the ’92 breach, which grew wider and costlier after months of inaction. “We actually think we can do this quicker in the future.” Col. Paul Owen, New York District commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, toured the site with Martens, adding, “I think we were fortunate that the breach hasn’t widened.” A previous breach on FI came the following year in Water Island—a reclusive community between Fire Island Pines and Davis Park. The feds fixed that one because it was near a residential community. The current disputed FI breach prompted lawmakers to call on NPS to expedite its closure. “The National Parks Service needs to drop any objections and allow for the final breach in Fire Island to be closed to protect homeowners in Sayville, Patchogue, Bellport, Mastic and all along the South Shore of Long Island,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said at a news conference while flanked by local lawmakers and homeowners. Parks officials declined to respond to the criticism but say they are equally concerned with the safety of LI’s bay-front communities and will act if the breach doesn’t close naturally. “It appears to be closing on its

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shattered remains of homes lay scattered through hard-hit ocean bay park (top). sand poured into the living room of this obp home (left). the outer wall of one obp house was mostly ripped off (bottom). (Timothy Bolger/Long Island Press)

own,” FINS Superintendent Chris Soller says, noting that Old Inlet had done the same following past breaches. “Sand is moving into the breach.” LINE IN THE SAND Much has been said about the therapeutic effects of spending time at the beach—a study exploring that theme for FI’s master plan was released just last summer. But even once the breaches are closed, a stroll along the shoreline these days can be more of a traumatic experience for beachgoers who’ve seen the mostly flattened protective dunes. “Welcome to Iraq,” says Nicole Rejnie, who tries to reason why her

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summer home in Ocean Bay Park—one of the hardest-hit sections of FI—was spared the destruction her neighbors’ were dealt, including three homes smashed together. “It’s just insanity.” Scott Hirsch, owner of The Island Mermaid in Ocean Beach, took it in stride as he surveyed the damage, such as warped floorboards in a well-worn dance floor. “I think she held up pretty well as far as The Mermaid is concerned,” he said. “It really looked like a lava flow came through there,” Saltaire Village Mayor Robert Cox said of walkways buried in three feet of sand that are being cleaned up and used to build berms until more permanent beachfront repairs can be made. Such artificial dune building is a makeshift version of plans to dredge sand-clogged Fire Island Inlet and use the spoils to renourish FI beaches and parts of Jones Beach Island in 2014. Sandy is widely considered to have thrown a wrench in that approach. FI leaders are now hoping to expedite a backup plan before the next big storm hits while they’re left vulnerable. “We’re not asking for anything anyone else doesn’t get,” says Suzy Continued on page 18 P r e s s P l ay

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Turning the tide After Superstorm Sandy Goldhirsch, president of the Fire Island Association, who’s fighting the perception of such projects as welfare for rich oceanfront-property owners. Since most of the 17 communities have contracted beach re-nourishment projects about twice per decade since the early ‘90s, they are considered engineered beaches that qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursement—once local officials can navigate the lengthy permitting process. But some experts maintain it’s unwise to allow private property owners to rebuild destroyed beach homes—especially those in dune zones of dynamic barrier islands during a period of rising sea levels and increasingly frequent and strong Atlantic storms. “We’ve clearly known better than to develop the coast as we have,” said Steven Resler, a retired DEC coastal manager who advocates a strategic retreat and selective fortification policy—not rebuilding lost beach homes, but building a sea wall for lower Manhattan. Like the slow northward march of the barrier islands themselves, political discussions over how to repair them will likely inch forward one grain of sand at a time.

the army corps of engineers is dredging sand to fill this breach at cupsogue park in westhampton, one of three that formed after sandy. the other two are on fire island.

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By Lindsay Christ, Jaclyn Gallucci, Rashed Mian, Dan O’Regan and Christopher Twarowski

Robert Suarez stood at the back of a Goya canned food truck in the parking lot of Bethpage Federal Credit Union Nov. 16 and unloaded crates of beans and water. The father of three stacked them alongside piles of other donated food, supplies and non-perishables organized into bins to be reloaded onto a fleet of Island Harvest trucks and delivered to food pantries and soup kitchens across Nassau and Suffolk counties. The haul ran the gamut—diapers, cereal, toiletries, paper towels, canned goods, turkeys—and grew throughout the day, fueled by a constant stream of residents driving up and dropping off the muchneeded supplies. Volunteers, such as Suarez, helped donors unpack the trunks of their vehicles, directed traffic, organized the contributions and sorted the flow. Each year around Thanksgiving, food banks and pantries across the Island host turkey drives and free turkey dinners with all the trimmings to feed families and residents who are homeless or have no where else to go and nothing to eat. Post-Hurricane Sandy, these missions have taken on an added importance, as more Long Islanders join the ranks of the displaced, the homeless, and those in need. Traditionally solely a turkey drive, Bethpage’s effort this year shifted to hurricane disaster relief, dubbed the Bethpage Turkey, Emergency Food & Relief Drive. In all, more than 2,500 turkeys were collected and more than 25,000 pounds of emergency relief items and non-perishables donated. This was just one of dozens of similar food-andsupply drives that have sprung up across the Island in the three weeks since Superstorm Sandy’s wrath. “A young couple came here earlier with 50 turkeys—they emptied out an entire Pathmark,” Mineola-based Island

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Harvest President and CEO Randi Shubin Dresner said above the oldies playing from the table WHLI set up next to the donation drop-off. “Another couple from Locust Valley brought 20 turkeys. When you think about it, that’s a lot of money for people to spend.” From hospitals, churches and synagogues to local fire departments, business owners and community leaders—some efforts are more organized than others; many are sparked merely from the generosity of a single Long Islander’s heart and snowball from there. Countless other random acts of kindness taking place throughout various communities between Long Islanders may never receive recognition. Suarez, like so many others, could justifiably wait on the receiving end of his day’s work instead of unloading goods for others. He had just completed repairing the damages dealt to his Freeport home by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 when a 5-foot-high wall of water, compliments of Hurricane Sandy, erased them all, decimating his entire first floor. “I lost everything,” he told the Press, sharing photos of his capsized refrigerator lying on its side after Sandy’s storm surge hurled it across his kitchen. “I’m in the process of rebuilding again.” Despite his loss, Suarez was there helping others while he and his family

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currently stay at a hotel, remaining upbeat considering the circumstances and downplaying his own plight several times in comparison with the tragedies still facing so many. The 44-year-old worked feverishly to make sure that others were able to celebrate Thanksgiving, yet he and his family still didn’t know what they were going to do for the holiday. “I want to be thankful for what I do have, and give others positive reinforcement, that we can do this, we just have to take one day at a time,” he said. Suarez’ selflessness is not the rarity in this post-Sandy Long Island, but the norm. Stories such as his are legion—a time of immense tragedy slowly unraveling as a period of tremendous strength and tenacity among residents. And it’s this kind of selflessness that has defined so many local communities. Comfort Food Three weeks of pent-up hurricanesized emotions spilled out of Martha Aguinaga as she sat for an early Thanksgiving dinner Saturday in Long Beach Continued on page 20 P r e s s P l ay

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Turning the tide After Superstorm Sandy with her family. The 34-year-old mother of two choked up as she recalled the devastation suffered by inhabitants of the barrier island, her eyes filling with tears—then, like a single ray of sunlight peeking through the darkened clouds of a gloomy storm, an ear-to-ear smile. “Just even driving here was just so wonderful because two weeks ago it was a nightmare that you could not wake up from,” she says, one child playing under the table and the other enjoying a hot meal along with hundreds of other Long Beach residents, volunteers and first responders. A welcome reprieve from Sandy’s merciless destruction, the pre-Thanksgiving event was the brainchild of St. Francis Hospital President and CEO Alan Guerci, who decided to give out free meals by tri-state caterer Sterling Affair instead of hosting the hospital’s annual fundraising gala that night. “When we saw the devastation, we said it’s just not right to have a party while people 10 miles away don’t have heat, electricity or drinkable water,” he told the Press in a hallway at Long Beach Regional Catholic School. More than 200 turkeys, 400 pounds of stuffing and 500 pounds mashed potatoes were trucked in and handed out by volunteers, who greeted visitors with smiles as they sauntered in. Leftovers were donated to Island Harvest and other local charities. For some, it was the first hot meal they had in weeks. “After all the chaos we had, this is a very nice respite after cleaning up all the property and getting our house back in order,” said Steven, 59, who declined to give his last name. The lifelong Long Beach resident has yet to toss away the wreckage from inside his home, instead, focusing on his elderly parents who lost their entire first floor and were stuck without heat and electricity. “I think it’s beautiful,” said Julio Castillo, 37, a construction worker from Brentwood, of the free turkey and sides. “It’s a blessing to see the community come out, and for someone to dedicate their time out here, I think it’s really cool.” Kerry Grober, 51, of Michigan, was one of those people. Armed with golf clubs for his annual pilgrimage to visit friends, he arrived one week before Sandy hit and has been hammering away with his friend Anthony, helping storm victims in Long Beach get back on their feet, ever since. “The relationships that I’ve developed with the families that I helped will last a lifetime,” he said. “People need the help.” St. Mark the Evangelist Church in North Bellmore, which offers outreach all-year round, morphed into a satellite 20

donation center for the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island following Sandy, and on Monday was giving away Thanksgiving baskets filled with food to local families. “It’s anonymously done,” said Ann McPartlin, head of the vestry and one of the organizers of the church’s charitable programs, of the donations, adding that some of the donors are storm victims themselves. “A woman came with a lot of food to donate and we asked how she was doing,” says McPartlin. “She lost the first floor of her house, but she said she has a second floor and a lot of people don’t have anything so she wanted to help them.” McPartlin says the church has not only received donations from locals, but from thousands of miles away. Much-needed help is exactly what 10 U.S. Marines in camouflage fatigues and a half-dozen men and women dressed in purple Stop & Shop windbreakers provided as they stood huddled together in front of the loading docks of the Harry Chapin Food Bank in Hauppauge the morning of Nov. 15. Wearing white Stop & Shop oven mitts, they formed a two-row human chain stretching from the back of a cargo truck, unpacking frozen turkeys and passing them from soldier to grocer into a large metal collection basket. “We have 2,400 turkeys that will be divided evenly between Long Island Cares and Island Harvest,” said Arlene Putterman, manager of public and community relations for Stop & Shop. “That’s an increase of 500 turkeys from last year.” “Overall, we distribute 5,000 to 7,000 turkeys and chickens,” added Robin Amato, director of development at Long Island Cares, explaining that post-Sandy, there’s an even greater need for donations of cleaning supplies and clothes. For traditional food pantries and soup kitchens, such as Hauppauge’s Long Island Cares, the Lighthouse Mission in Bellport, Long Island Food Not Bombs and the Interfaith Nutrition Network (INN), the latest scramble to aid the destitute is nothing new. Business As Usual More than a dozen volunteers packed the lounge at The Inn in

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Hempstead Nov. 16, as Cynthia Sucich gave newcomers the rundown. The group huddled close as Sucich, the group’s director of communications, fired away: Volunteers get in at 8:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, meals are served three hours later, guests are welcome to shower at The Inn, and always wear a hat, apron and gloves while handling food. It was a message delivered by others like her hundreds of times throughout its 29-year history feeding the needy. Yet with Superstorm Sandy just two weeks old, the message was even more poignant. “Everybody on one side of the counter can be on the other side,” she told them. “Everyone’s got a taste of what it’s like.” Dozens of guests have already arrived for their afternoon meal at the soup kitchen. Bagels and salad are laid out. A cook prepares chicken soup in an oversized pot requiring an equally large spoon. Also on the lunch menu is chicken stuffed with Brie and cranberry—the cook offering a proud smile as he lifted the cover off the tray. Sucich continued her speech in another room where bags of Thanksgiving goodies that have been prepared for their annual turkey drive were stored. More than 2,000 birds were expected to be handed out over the weekend. Rookie volunteers teared up recalling one guest whose house recently went up in flames. “Of course now you have someone who is now homeless,” she explained, “The storm is never-ending for many

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of our guests. For us, a lot of people will recover but our guests live in storms, their whole life is a storm.” Sucich and the scores of veteran INN volunteers treated this day like any other. “It’s a shelter every day for people,” she told the Press moments after her speech. “People ask about ‘Are we doing anything different for Sandy because of the hurricane?’ But what we do every day is exactly what people are in need of right now. We do this every day, we feed people every day, we house people every day, we clothe people every day, we give showers for people every day, so we’re not doing anything different than we normally do. “But the need of course is greater because you have more and more people that never needed our services before and they’re coming and needing them now for the basic necessities.” The Inn is also picking itself up from the devastation: Its usual donors are now the ones in need of help, and Sandy claimed two temporary housing units in Long Beach and Freeport that assist families looking to get out of the cycle of poverty. Two families living in Long Beach are now homeless again, said Sucich. Additionally, the storm forced two fundraising events to be cancelled, leaving the group to ponder how they’ll recoup those funds. “Right now we’re in a place where we’re scrambling to meet the need because of the lack of donations,” added Sucich. Despite the challenges ahead, just like Robert Suarez, she remained upbeat, expressing appreciation for all the people who have called to volunteer their time for the holidays. Sucich only hopes that those same people will pick up the telephone again when the winter blows in and the destruction from the storm has faded from people’s minds. “It’s always a season of giving for us, it never stops,” she said. “Why is it just around this time? People have to eat every day. People have to have clothing every day. This is not anything different.” P r e s s P l ay

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LIPA Under Fire

Turning the tide After Superstorm Sandy

By Spencer Rumsey srumsey@longislandpress.com

Two days after Mike Hervey announced his resignation as head of the Long Island Power Authority the Daily News lampooned him in a cartoon on their op-ed page, putting him in a dark suit, wires wrapped around his head, and leaving a tangled trail of utility poles behind him. That same Thursday, seated in a conference room at National Grid’s Hicksville headquarters, Hervey was jovial in a zippered green fleece, without a tie, and without a suit. For a man who hadn’t gotten much sleep in the past two weeks, the 54-yearold electrical engineer looked relaxed, perhaps because making his resignation official—something LIPA trustees told the Press had been in the works for months—was a relief. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose father Mario had helped create LIPA in 1989 after the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant decommissioning saddled the Long Island Lighting Company with billions of dollars in debt, made Hervey a target for blistering criticism. Hervey took it in stride. “I’ve never met the governor,” he says, calmly. Two years ago, the then-LIPA chief operating officer who’d been there a decade, had the support of the LIPA board of trustees to become the next chief executive officer. But he did not have the governor’s backing. LIPA couldn’t appoint Hervey without state Senate confirmation, and so he became the interim CEO. In August, Hervey says, “It became obvious to even me that I wasn’t going to be selected for that spot.” Previous CEOs have included Richie Kessel, famous for stopping Shoreham, and Kevin Law, a former Suffolk County deputy supervisor and now head of the Long Island Association, the business lobbying group which recently hosted Vice President Dick Cheney. “I tried to be as apolitical as possible, which was a shift from the past,” says Hervey. His attitude may have cost him, but now that the spotlight is pointing at Cuomo it no longer matters. “The governor’s been very critical of LIPA as far as its preparations go, but when you think about it, he has neglected the agency for three years,”

says Matt Cordaro, a utility executive with four decades of experience (22 years at LILCO alone) who co-chairs the Suffolk County Legislature’s LIPA oversight committee. Besides the CEO vacancy, Cuomo still has to appoint a new board chairman to replace Howard Steinberg, whose term expired months ago, and fill the seven trustee openings, rendering the 15-member board at half strength during the most critical period in its history. Cordaro scoffed at Cuomo’s recent announcement that he’ll invoke the Moreland Commission, which has subpoena powers but can’t prosecute or punish, to examine how LIPA, Consolidated Edison and other New York public utilities have dealt with Tropical Storm Irene last year and Superstorm Sandy this fall. One of its members will

“The governor’s been very critical of LIPA as far as its preparations go, but...he has neglected the agency for three years.”

—Suffolk Legislature LIPA oversight Committee Co-chair Matt Cordaro

be Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice. This commission will join an investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, an audit by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a state Senate investigation by Sen. Carl Marcellino (R-Syosset) as well as other studies—the governor still hasn’t released the inspector general report completed months ago—and a proposal by Assemb. Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) to establish a LIPA ratepayers’ bill of rights. “They just drag things out,” says Cordaro, “It’s the old political ploy of kicking the can down the road.” The governor declined to comment for this story, despite repeated calls to his press office. Hervey was used to being a

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lightning rod for criticism, not so the unpaid LIPA Board of Trustees, who got no credit for their thankless work to fix LIPA—from choosing New Jersey’s PSEG utility to replace the UK-based National Grid in 2014 to changing from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources as well as speeding up the implementation of a new communications system that will finally replace the decades-old COBOL computer language that LIPA was contractually forced to rely on at its substations. All their efforts—that won’t bear fruit for another year at least—seemed to come crashing down Oct 29, along with countless venerable old oak trees knocked over by Sandy’s fury. For John Bruckner, National Grid’s top executive in charge of electric transmission and distribution on Long Island, it was his “Douglas MacArthur moment,” says one local union official at Nat Grid with admiration. Tellingly, Bruckner just got a promotion to head the company’s U.S. operations. After Sandy left 90 percent of LIPA’s 1.1 million customers without power, some 14,000 workers came from 45 states and Canada to help out. “The crews who restored power in my neighborhood were from Wisconsin,” Hervey says. As more crews came to help, Hervey tells the Press, “the management string” got stretched pretty thin. In almost every neighborhood across the Island, residents watched tree crews that came and went—if they showed up at all—while they waited for the line crews to get the juice flowing again. Information was always in short supply. The workers only knew their next assignment. The LIPA website, when it was up, repeated the annoying mantra that

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outgoing lipa chief michael hervey assesses some of hurricane sandy’s devastation with a lipa crew member shortly after the superstorm tore through long island and knocked out more than 1.1 million customers. (Rashed Mian/Long Island Press)

they were “assessing the situation.” “I was infuriated by the lack of information,” says Neal Lewis, one of the LIPA trustees. “We all went through the same things that all Long Islanders went through.” [Except the recriminations, the investigations and the accusations, of course.] As for Melville attorney Kenneth Mollins’ class-action lawsuit, filed Nov. 13 in State Supreme Court on behalf of the ratepayers for “well into the multimillions of dollars,” as the attorney said at a press conference, Lewis would only comment that, in the unlikely event the suit won, “it would just be money from Long Island ratepayers to a bunch of lawyers.” Hervey says what LIPA just did was “probably the largest magnitude restoration that any East Coast utility has ever done—and we got to an end point, but we didn’t get to the end point unscathed for either me personally or us as the utility, and we have things to work on.” He says he leaves LIPA feeling “very good” about the changes he’s initiated but “very sad about the customers who had to wait so long.” Hervey tells the Press he’ll soon be announcing his new gig, which he declined to name except that it’s within the power industry. At home in the cold and dark, LIPA’s top executive had a “little Coleman generator that essentially died the second day. But,” he grinned, “I had a nice flashlight.” P r e s s P l ay

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Holiday Shopping

By Licia Avelar lavelar@longislandpress.com

Black Friday Cheat Sheet

Black Friday is just days away and, while many are concerned with where to buy stretchy pants that will fit after Thanksgiving, smart shoppers are mapping out Black Friday shopping lists. This year, while deals and steals are mainly focused on Friday, Long Island boutiques, national chains and malls are opening earlier every year, so savvy shoppers should first download the Black Friday Survival Guide App, which helps shoppers devise a fail-proof plan by comparing sales, searching deals and creating digital shopping lists. The Press has also devised this cheat sheet to help you navigate the madness... Early bird specials can be found at Kohl’s, which will be offering deals during Operation Black Friday starting at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday with online bargains through 3 p.m., with Friday and in-store deals becoming available Thursday. More than 500 early-bird specials start at 12 a.m. Friday, including up to 55 percent off all watches, up to half off all toys, electronics and Christmas décor plus the St. Nicholas Square Trim-A-Tree, which is 60 percent off. Shopping for a tech nerd? Opt for the Polaroid 8-inch Android Tablet that’s only $89.99 after a $30 mail-in rebate. In addition, for every $50 spent, shoppers Kohl’s will receive $15 cash off. Tanger Outlets at The Arches Deer Park kicks off the Holiday shopping season at 10 p.m. Thursday with its annual Moonlight Madness Sale event, where shoppers can find exclusive deals throughout the

weekend. Sales can be found at Last Call by Neiman Marcus, where most items are 40 percent off until noon, the Ann Taylor Factory Store, where everything will be an additional 50 percent off, and BCBGMAXAZRIA, where buying three or more items gets shoppers 50 percent off. Tanger will also offer Deals After Dark—Visit TangerOutlet.com/savingspass to download passes—with which you can save 20 percent off at participating stores from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Thursday and Friday and 30 percent off with Deals at Dawn from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. Friday. Sales continue throughout the weekend at the outlet with Tanger’s BIG Sale, where shoppers will find bonus outlet savings like 40 percent off at American Eagle Outfitters and an additional 10 percent off Calvin Klein items. Riverhead’s Tanger Outlets will be offering similar deals. Other sales offered at the outlet center include 20 percent off the entire Disney Store until 10 a.m., 40 percent off a purchase at Movado Company Store and 30 percent off everything at Restoration Hardware until 8 a.m. Friday and 25 percent off everything from 8 a.m. Friday to noon Sunday. Sears and Toys ‘R’ Us will be opening at 8 p.m. Thursday. Sears is offering deals including a 32-inch HDTV for $97. One of the most popular Black Friday destinations is Target, which is offering a slew of steals later this week—preview bargains in their 32-page Black Friday ad. Target is opening at 9 p.m. Thursday. More specials arrive when the clock strikes 4 a.m.

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Friday, when Target will offer deals such as including half off a NIKON L310 Digital Camera ($99.99), and Westinghouse 50-inch LCD TV 1080p for $349. Target will also offer a gift card to shoppers who purchase an iPad from 4 a.m. till noon Friday. Also starting early is KMART, where doors open at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving and stay open through 3 a.m. and reopen at 6 a.m. on Black Friday. A 50-inch Proscan LCD television goes for just $288, or a Nintendo DSi for $79.99. Looking for footwear? Buy one pair and get the second free. KMART is offering its fantastic layaway program on Black Friday, so everyone can get what they want this season. Wal-Mart’s Black Friday is divided into three events, starting kicking off at 8 p.m. Thursday. Family specials are first with toys, electronics and bikes for the family. Pre-Black Friday deals include Apple products like the Apple iPod Nano 16GB with an Accessory Kit for $139.99. The second event kicks off at 10 p.m. Friday and is for the electronic junkies—a one-hour in-stock in-store guarantee of specials through 11 p.m. Deals include iPad 2 with 16GB & Wi-Fi for $399 plus a $75 Wal-Mart gift card, and $38 for a LG Blu-ray player. The third event starts at 5 a.m. on Black Friday with more deals on everything from electronics to clothes and jewelry. Those not up for the mad dash can fire up the computer and order online. Walt Whitman Mall opens at midnight Friday as well. The new Microsoft Store will be offering a $399 Acer Aspire V5 Notebook, 10 perfect off BEATS by Dr. Dre products, an XBOX 360 with Kindle Bundle for just Continued on page 28

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$199, or a 3-month XBOX Live membership for $12.99. Planning a winter vacation? Head to LensCrafters for 50 perfect off prescription sunglasses. Roosevelt Field Mall opens at 1 a.m. on Black Friday. Stores offering tempting deals include Steve Madden, where shoppers will receive a scratchcard promotion upon entry that may lead to a discount of up to 40 percent, or a free pair of shoes. Another store with steals is New York & Company, where everything is 50 percent to 70 percent off, like a pink peacoat that’s on sale for $39.99 and glove and scarf sets for $5.99. The first 100 customers to make a purchase will get a free watch. Fox’s in Mineola and Huntington is also getting in on Black Friday, hosting their annual Holiday Party Friday starting at 10 a.m. The store will showcase special collections and designers as well as a selection of cashmeres, sheerings, furs, accessories and shoes. Guests can shop till they drop as they are treated to music, food and drinks. Broadway Mall opens at 12 a.m. Friday with a $20 gift certificate to the mall for the first 100 shoppers that donate four non-perishable food items. Smith Haven Mall will also be opening its doors at midnight on Black Friday. One place to bring your purse is Aeropostale. The store is offering a 60 percent off everything deal, and even better: Those who spend $99 receive a $20 gift card. Best Buy will be chock full of steals when its doors open at 12 a.m. Friday. Shoppers can save on everything from a Toshiba 40-inch Class LCD HDTV more than half off the original price at $179.99, to the new iPhone 4S 8G for

only $1 with a 2-Year Activation. But get in line early, as Best Buy will be handing out tickets two hours before midnight. Macy’s opens at midnight on Black Friday, too. Shoppers will want to make a beeline for women’s sportswear, which is 20 to 25 percent off, half off women’s coats, and 40 percent off purses. Prada Candy is launching a limited edition fragrance for their 1 year anniversary, the Collector’s Eau de Parfum, priced at $108 also comes with a hot pink “Give Me Candy” bracelet. P.C. Richard & Son opens at 4 a.m. Friday and is touting every TV and appliance on sale with special financing for Black Friday. Save $200 each on 7.2 Cu. washer and dryer. Sharp’s 70-inch Class LED 1080p 120Hz HDTV, which normally retails for $2,799.97 is a steal at $1,999.99. Staples will be offering steals on computers like Asus K55A-BI5093B 15.6-inch Laptop for $200 off at $449.99,. Lowe’s, offering up to $1,300 on select appliances, will follow at 5 a.m. Home Depot also opens at 5 a.m. and is offering major price cuts on appliances like LG Electronics 3.6 cu.ft High Efficiency Front Load Steam Washer and Electric Dryer for $1,498 and an LG Electronics French Door Refrigerator for $1,598. Westfield Sunrise Mall opens at 5 a.m. as well. The Children’s Place is offering up to 50 percent off everything while Yankee Candle is offering a Fragrance Lover’s Tote with every $50 purchase and free jar to those who buy two. RenaMarie Jewelers is offering up to 60 percent off 14K gold, diamonds and sterling silver jewelry along with a free holiday teddy bear with a purchase of more than $100. J.C. Penney opens at 6 a.m. Friday and is offering

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awesome deals on jewelry including colorful enamel bracelets from Liz Clairborne that will all be under $25, Liz Clairborne hoop earrings for $14 and $100 off select Invicta watches. Marshall’s and TJ Maxx open at 7 a.m. Friday, offering cuts on their already discounted designer merchandise. Head to TJ Maxx to pick up smartphone and tablet accessories for 60 percent to 80 percent off. With their everyday low prices combined with this deal, select accessories will drop your jaw at under $15. And at 9 a.m. Friday, new store Second Time Around in Huntington which boasts consignment and vintage items is offering customers 20 percent off everything and great deals on handbags. Here, you’ll find a Kate Spade pink quilted bag for $269 and a Rebecca Minkoff Mini Mac Clutch for $109. At the same time, in Sayville, Paper Doll Vintage Boutique will open its doors and offer vintage-loving shoppers 25 percent off dresses, gloves, belts, bags furs, 20 percent off coats, 15 percent off shoes and boots, and 10 percent off everything else. Owner Dominique Maciejka says makeup is buy one get one half off. Deals will be offered through Small Business Saturday. An hour later, Maximus Spa & Salon in Carle Place is offering a spa steal with a three month Spa Pass for just $265. Talk about a great Christmas gift for mom! Not in the mood to leave the house after stuffing your face with Turkey the night before? Find endless steals for movies, music, video games and more at Amazon.com. Blu-ray titles start at $3.99 while other deals include Gold’s Gym Sleeveless Reflective Running Vest for $9.99 and ViewSonic PRO8200 1080p DLP Home Theater Projector for $699.99 with free shipping. Additional reporting by Laura Cerrone

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Long Island’s Blameshift plays Middle Country Beer GardeN on Friday, 11.23 as part of their first headlining tour.

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ongoing Hurricane Sandy Fundraising @ McFadden’s, Every Friday in November, McFadden’s will be donating a portion of their proceeds to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Happy Hour: $20 open bar, 5-9 p.m.; $30 open bar, 9 p.m.-12 a.m. A Christmas Carol @ John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, Through 1.6. Artists in America @ Nassau County Museum of Art, Artists in America surveys 300 years of great American paintings rarely seen on Long Island. Major artists from every era of American art are on view. Through 2.24.

BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS/ Eric Buron & THE ANIMALS/Dave Mason

Blood Sweat & Tears has left an indelible mark on the American music scene by fusing jazz, rock and pop with horn arrangements on hits like “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” and “Spinning Wheel.” Known for their bluesy sound, The Animals found fame in mid-’60s London and settled in California. As lead singer of the Animals, Eric Burdon became one of rock music’s most recognizable voices with his classic hit, “The House of the Rising Sun,” while Dave Mason has a string of hits including “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” They all take the stage together on Friday, 11.23 at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury. —Kate Kincaid

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We love The Gaslight Anthem. Not only is their latest release, Handwritten, yet another amazing album from these Jersey boys, combing rock, grunge, hardcore and soul all into one, but the band is selling benefit posters and special T-shirts designed by El Jefe Design and Bryan Kienlen from the Bouncing Souls, which will go toward providing relief to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The guys play two nights at Terminal 5 on Wednesday, 11.28 & Thursday, 11.29. —Daphne Livingston

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Fueled by the dissonant sonic anvil that was 1992’s Meantime and its hit single “Unsung,” NYC metal stalwarts Helmet exploded on the grunge-soaked musical landscape of the early ’90s, offering aspiring acts such as Korn and System of a Down a crushing, distorted mallet upon which to forge while providing a generation of jaded youth a heavier and darker anthem than “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” They play Revolution with Wiretap Crash, Village of the Branch, Fight of the Century and SarGasm on Saturday, 11.24. —Sheldon Pharumph

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The New Nude @ Hampton Hang Gallery, The exhibit features Stephanie Farr, Jerome Lucani, Carlos Macias, Stephen Mannino, Raphael Mazzucco, Jeff Muhs, and Darius Yektai. Through 12.17. By appointment only.

thursday 11.22 Thanksgiving Day Run @ Halesite American Legion Hall

Free Comedy Show @ Kazan Restaurant 5K Run/Walk/1K Turkey Trot @ Nissequogue State Park, Kings Park Turkey Bowl @ All Star Bowl Turkey Trot @ Mattituck High School Turkey Trot/Run @ Montauk Circle, Montauk Thanksgiving Day Foot Races @ Miller Avenue School Garden City Turkey Trot @ St. Paul’s Campus Field House Thanksgiving Day 5-Mile Run @ Manorhaven Beach Park, Manorhaven Thanksgiving Day Race @ Huntington Station American Legion Post 360 Friday 11.23 Scotty McCreery @ Beacon Theatre

Ronnie Valerio, “Hybrid ReMix” @ Ripe Art Gallery, Paintings, wall reliefs, and hand-made robots.

Neighborhood Kids/ The Drive @ Vibe

Excerpts in Encaustic @ Nassau County Museum of Art, Encaustic, or pigmented wax, art by Martin Kline. Through 2.24.

Film: Miracle on 34th Street @ Elmont Memorial Library

Dark Star Orchestra @ Best Buy Theater

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Macy’s THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE Contrary to what some may say, this event

isn’t just for tourists who don’t know any better. There really is nothing quite like freezing your butt off with a crowd of millions in the greatest city in the world. The 86th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off the 2012 holiday season with two miles of balloons, floats, falloons and celebrity-carrying balloonicles on Thursday morning. The route is begins at 77th Street & Central Park West, Heads to Columbus Circle at 59th Street, Turns east along Central Park South, Turns south onto 6th Avenue and finishes in front of Macy’s Herald Square at 34th Street. New floats for this year include the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish float, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sprout, Domino Sugar and Gibson Guitars. Three new balloons will also debut this year: Hello Kitty, Papa Smurf and Elf on the Shelf. Performers include Carly Rae Jepsen, Flo Rida, Karmin, Don McLean and Jimmy Fallon and the Roots. Good luck, have a happy Thanksgiving—and now excuse us while we go squeeze our jellied cranberry sauce out of the can. —Jaclyn Gallucci friday Cont. Funk Filharmonik @ Deco 1600

Highline Ballroom Black Friday Bash @ Mr. Beery’s

Girls & Boys @ Walk It Off Walk @ Webster Hall Round Pond Lane, Sag Harbor Anthony Rapp: Unplugged @ 54 Black Friday Below Movie Marathon @ Patchogue-Medford Offline Party w/Q-Tip Library @ Irving Plaza Christmas Craft Fair @ Centereach Fire Department, Through 11.25

Candlelight Tour & Tree Lighting @ Southold Historical Society

Smashing Pumpkins Drop @ Cradle of Aviation

saturday 11.24 Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling @ McGuire’s

Taking Back Sunday @ Terminal 5 The World/Inferno Friendship Society @ Revolution The Musical Box: Recreation of Genesis @ Bowery Ballroom

Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers @ Webster Hall The Cheaters/ My Lost Remedy, Long Island Traffic, Hollywood @ Vibe Prairie Home Companion @ Town Hall Commander Cody @ YMCA Boulton Center The Cheaters @ Vibe Crime in Stereo/I Am the Avalanche @ Gramercy Theatre

Tauk Hurricane Sandy Hoodie Allen @ Irving Benefit Concert @ Plaza Spike Hill

Tracy Morgan @ Carolines on Broadway R. Kelly @ Madison Square Garden Boy Band Sing-Along @ Union Hall Andrew Schulz (MTV)/Rachel Feinstein (Last Comic Standing) @ EastVille Comedy Bonjourney @ Vibe Big Laughs in Bay Shore Hurricane Sandy Relief Fundraiser @ YMCA Boulton Center

Dark Star Orchestra @ Best Buy Theater Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) @ B.B. King Blues Club Taking Back Sunday @ Terminal 5 Tracy Morgan @ Carolines on Broadway The Nutcracker @ Landmark on Main Street Vision of Disorder @ Music Hall of Williamsburg A Thanksgiving Celebration w/Faith Evans and Tank @ Apollo Theater Citizen Cope @ Beacon Theatre Juan Luis Guerra & Juanes @ Barclays Center Manowar @ The Paramount

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Long Island’s microbrewers are joining forces to help save one of their own, Oceanside-based Barrier Brewing Company, which was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy and will be closed for the foreseeable future. “We thought our name would provide enough protection,” they joked on their Facebook page, trying to keep spirits high. What better way to give back than raising a pint glass at the all-you-can-drink fundraiser benefitting Barrier’s comeback? LI brewers are also collaborating on a special one-time-only brew just for the occasion. Sunday, 11.25. 1-5 p.m. Tap and Barrel, 558 Smithtown Bypass. $50 for all you can drink. —Timothy Bolger

Moody Blues @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury Eric Prydz @ Roseland Ballroom Ruldoph the Red Nose Reindeer @ John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, Through 1.6. Flying Karamazov Brothers @ Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center sunday 11.25 Sebastian Bach @ The Emporium The Outrageous @ Vibe Continued on page 36

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Sunday Cont. CoMedium/Psychic Medium Kim Russo/ Comedian Goumba Johnny @ Patchogue Theatre

wednesday 11.28 Cypress Hill @ Best Buy Theater Jane Seymour @ Barnes & Noble, Richmond Avenue, Staten Island

Jimi Hendrix 70th Birthday Tribute feat. Randy Hansen @ B.B. Justin Bieber @ King Blues Club Madison Square Garden Moody Blues @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury Aaron Neville: My True Story @ Brooklyn Socratic @ Revolution Bowl, A special live concert taping for PBS. Benefit for Barrier @ Tap & Barrel Billy Ray Cyrus @ Barnes & Noble, Warren Streetlight Street, Manhattan Manifesto @ Best Buy Theater Other Lives @ Bowery Ballroom Brian Setzer Orchestra @ NYCB School of Seven Bells/ Theatre at Westbury Twin Sister @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Manowar @ The Paramount Gary Hoey @ The Iridium That’s Outrageous thursday 11.29 @ Vibe Set It Off @ Vibe Hurricane Relief Benefit @ Bell House Music of the Night @ Tilles Center The Nutcracker @ Landmark on Main Jim Brickman @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury Hurricane Sandy Benefit Car Show @ Tanlines @ Webster Grill 454 Hall monday 11.26 Mcalister Drive @ Mercury Lounge Scott Weiland Greatest Hits @ Highline Ballroom

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Denis Leary (Rescue Me) @ Barnes & Noble, Union Square, Manhattan Public Enemy @ Irving Plaza Justin Bieber @ Madison Square Garden Title Fight @ Bowery Ballroom Hellogoodbye @ Webster Hall B.B. King @ B.B. King Blues Club Nick Kroll @ Gramercy Theatre Jim Brickman @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury Other Lives @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Travis Tritt @ The Paramount Music of the Night @ Tilles Center A-Trak @ Best Buy Theater

GUITAR HERO Award-winning blues rock star, singer-songwriter and upstate New York native Joe Bonamassa opened for blues legend B.B. King at Westbury Music Fair when he was only 12 years old. Since then he’s debuted eight albums at the number one spot on the Billboard Blues Chart and played with legendary guitar greats from Buddy Guy to Eric Clapton. “I had no back-up plan,” Bonamassa tells the Press, laughing. “My dad still owns a guitar shop, he played and that’s how it all kind of started.” His father, who owns Bonamassa Guitars in New Hartford, put a guitar in his son’s hands when he was four years old, Bonamassa says. By the age of seven he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan solos. “I was self-taught, I took some lessons, did some classical lessons and stuff like that,” he says. Bonamassa’s recording career began in the early ’90s with Bloodline, a rock-blues group also featuring Robby Krieger’s son Waylon and Miles Davis’ son Erin. His solo debut was in 2000 with the Tom Dowdproduced A New Day Yesterday. Besides his solo work, Bonamassa has kept himself busy with the formation of the band Black Country Communion with Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner) and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Billy Idol). Just in the past year, Bonamassa has put out two records and a DVD, and started a world tour. “I never get tired of it,” Bonamassa tells the Press. “I enjoy it, I’ve been doing this for 20 years at this point. It’s been a blessing and a real privilege.” In 2009, Bonamassa played London’s Royal Albert Hall and the show sold out in less than a week. During it, Bonamassa played the first song he ever learned on guitar, “Further on up the Road,” with one of his heroes, Eric Clapton. “It was a really big moment in my career,” he says. “That gig alone was responsible for a lot of doors opening up.” During his 2011 tour, Bonamassa played two sold-out shows at the Beacon Theatre. Now, he returns to Long Island. “It’s great that we’ve been able to find an audience everywhere we go,” says Bonamassa, who adds that he’s even found a female audience—not very common in the world of blues. “I think it’s starting to go in that direction. Out of 2,500 people on average it’s 2,000 dudes and 500 girls, I’ll take those odds.” —Jaclyn Gallucci Tilles Center, Friday, 11.23.

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