Volume 11, Issue 10 - October 2013 - Sandy

Artist Marina Litvinskaya helps install “Where The Beach Met The Bay,” a public art project made from 25,000 plastic caps in Long Beach inspired

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Oct. 2013 In This Issue

Plus

Off The Reservation p.12

Special Pullout Section

The Great American Disconnect Seven Fundamental Threats To Our Democracy By Jed Morey

Staff

EDIT Christopher Twarowski

Editor in Chief/Chief of Investigations

Spencer Rumsey Senior Editor

Timothy Bolger Managing Editor

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Rashed Mian

Christine Amato-Smith: The Best is Yet to Come for Founder of Beauty for a Cure By Beverly Fortune

Staff Writer

Licia Avelar Staff Writer

Contributors:

the portrait p.16

Billy Crystal: New Book, Same Big Heart By Jenna Kern-Rugile Letters p.6

INVESTIGATIONS/Cover package p.18

One Year After: Long Islanders Still Suffering from Superstorm Sandy By Rashed Mian & Christopher Twarowski Did Sandy Count as LI’s Storm of the Century? By Samuel J. Paul & Timothy Bolger

Sound Smart p.8 ExpresS p.10

Art Director

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Graphic Artist

Events p.62

Contributing Photographer

CrosswordS p.70

Just Saying p.26

Anna Dinger, Chris Mellides, Peter Tannen, Cassidy Kammerer, Carly Rome, Catherine Xavier, Jenna Kern-Rugile ART Jon Sasala

Jim Lennon

Digital Mike Conforti

Director of New Media

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A Beginner’s Guide to Global Warming By Peter Tannen

“In those moments he had to decide how to ration supplies among the injured, and who was going to live or die.”

The Portrait Billy Crystal

NEWS FEATURE p.28

Avatars of War: New and Old Techs Enlisted to Treat Returning Vets By Chris Mellides Exclusive p.44

Miracle on Maple Street: NBC’s George to the Rescue Helps Massapequa Mom By Carly Rome & Timothy Bolger REAR VIEW p.46

Imagine: John Lennon on Long Island

By Christopher Twarowski Art & Soul p.50

Sandy Art: Beauty from Devastation

By Cassidy Kammerer & Catherine Xavier

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NBC’s George to the Rescue

4 Corners p.54

Tattoos: From the Supplier to the Remover

By Timothy Bolger Hot Plate p.58

Cold Cheese Pizza Craze Heats Up

By Rashed Mian

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Octopus’ Garden

Ringo Starr’s desire to be in an octopus’ garden is closer to becoming a reality.

After years of trying, researchers believe they have finally figured out how to farm the mysterious, tentacle-clad creatures using aquaculture commonly applied to other fish to combat overfishing of these intelligent and highly advanced delicacies. Sure, it may not be exactly the shady place under the sea the Beatles drummer sang about, but oh, what a joy, for every girl and boy!

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Cheater’s Paradise

Turns out cheaters not only do so to get ahead, but also for the rush of it.

Researchers discovered a “cheater’s high” in people who act unethically without overtly harming others, according to a study published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Of course, the study only found an emotional high in those who cheated on a test. Those who get away with crimes are still likely to face guilt, fear and paranoia.

Nipple Ring

The new iPhone 5s’ fingerprint ID technology used to lock the smart phones also reportedly identifies other unique body parts, including toes, nipples and even a cat paw. Meow?

Space Oddity

Gravity, the astronaut misadventure film hitting theaters this month starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, depicts a fictional account of the real-life Kessler effect, named after the NASA scientist who proposed it 35 years ago. The theory suggests that the ever-growing amount of space junk orbiting Earth— abandoned satellites, for example— could cause cascading collisions, a domino effect of high-speed flying debris that theoretically could someday make spaceflight too risky. It’s a problem so serious that the U.S. Department of Defense catalogs some of the estimated more than half million pieces of debris it’s most worried about. As long as it doesn’t knock out the satellite feed of the NFL network, we’re good.

Twerking Ball

Three-hundred and fifty-eight New Yorkers recently set the Guinness World Record for most people simultaneously twerking for two straight minutes. They most likely did not study Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance for pointers.

Brainless in Seattle Certain shellfish, such as oysters and muscles, have no central nervous system and therefore don’t feel pain, but vegetarians still don’t eat them. Note to calamari lovers, including well-intentioned pescatarians: Octopuses do feel pain.

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Testie Fish Off Target

The Pacu, the fish that made a splash for its taste for testicles, has reportedly been found in a New Jersey pond.

That means it’s a short swim away from Long Island, which is way too close for comfort. And we were worried about the Atlantic Beach shark sighting!

Crocodile Wrestlers Partial Score

A Holtsville man is suing a Mexican golf course where a crocodile ate

two of his fingers as he took practice swings.

Apparently living on Long Island, where more than a dozen alligators have turned up in the past year, taught him how to instinctively free himself from the jaws while his golf partner wrestled the croc. Still a better story than our last trip to Cancun.

Breaking Bad On Target

Murderous meth kingpin Walter White shows what can happen to chemistry teachers who turn to the dark side when they can’t afford the

co-pay for their cancer treatments. And what a strange, seven-year trip it was. Withdrawal is hard to take for us fans.

Dina Lohan Off Target

Somehow managing to one-up her infamous actress daughter’s legal troubles, Mrs. Lohan gets arrested for DWI days before her 51st birthday and two weeks after the bank moves to foreclose on her $1.3million Merrick home.

Oh, and she recanted a claim that she was injured when Troopers took her into custody.

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by Oprah. We couldn’t make this stuff up.

Newsday Off Target

Long Island’s lone daily newspaper fails to disclose in their coverage and endorsement of Democrat Tom Suozzi in the Nassau County executive race that their parent company, Cablevision,

donates to his campaign and hired him after he was unseated in 2009.

Instead of issuing their usual comment when we call them out—“we stand behind our coverage”—a Newsday flack declines to comment. The silence is deafening.

850

The number of exotic snakes worth a total of $500,000 found in the Shirley home of a Brookhaven town animal control officer who ran a reptile sales company out of his garage.

FLASHBACK: In this November 2012 aerial shot of a Long Beach side street in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, vehicles were buried in sand. (Kevin Kane/Long Island Press)

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“Does anybody on this show not cry?”

—Nicole Amesti to George Oliphant, host of NBC’s George to the Rescue, as the home renovation show surprised her with new bedrooms for her and her twin toddlers at their house in Massapequa last month. The episode airs 10 a.m. Saturday Oct. 26 on NBC.

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BE AWARE

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There is still much to be done in the battle against this terrible disease. Awareness is key. So use this month as that added little nudge to educate yourself and your loved ones, if you haven’t already, about the value of early detection and treatment, and support those Long Islanders whose lives have been forever altered. Participate in awareness-related walks and other activities that are taking place throughout the month, or visit your local breast cancer nonprofit and volunteer to help.

Warning: Grab a few tissues. It’s two minutes of the most heart-wrenching high-def first-person video you’ll ever see. This poor kitten.

This poor, little baby kitten. God bless all firemen.

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LISTEN TO UNVARNISHED

The four horsemen of heavy metal’s new concert film is a nonstop barrage of highoctane music, animation and 3D graphics that strikes with the electricity of lightning and the impact of a freight train.

It’s breaking box office records and you should catch it before it’s out of IMAX. Wow.

POWER

BY ALFRED J. ZACHER

Everybody knows the troubles President Barack Obama has seen in his in troubled second terms. beleaguered second term— and the poor guy’s still got three years left on his White A HISTORICAL LOOK AT THE SECOND TERM House lease. But his woes aren’t unique, according to Alfred J. Zacher, supposedly the foremost expert on second-term presidents. In fact, you might say they’re part of the job description. By Zacher’s reckoning only seven of the previous 19 re-elected incumbents (Obama is now the 20th) have achieved what could be called “successful sequels.” I guess we could call them the Magnificent Seven. It’s pretty clear looking at the obstacles in Obama’s path that he won’t be the eighth. Of course, he couldn’t do worse than Richard Nixon, who left his second term in disgrace.

Obama’s problems are more mundane: He’s got a Congress run by right-wing Republican zealots and an economy that is barely growing—which is exactly what these reactionary racist clowns want, because they can blame the president for the misery they willfully inflict on the masses knowing that they’re immune from the pain. Zacher has been immersed in this subject for decades ever since he started wondering why one of our nation’s Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, failed so badly the second time around. Zacher’s prose may border on the pedantic but he’s non-partisan and patriotic, in the truest sense of the word. Assiduous students of American history (a minority if there ever was one) will get a kick out of this book, I guarantee it. —Spencer Rumsey ALFRED J. ZACHER

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Joan Jett, the Godmother of Punk hailing from Long Beach, released last month’s Unvarnished, her 14th studio effort and first new album in seven years while staying true to her simultaneously polished-yet-gritty sound. She calls it her most introspective album to date, although that may be hard to believe while we’re still rocking out to 1988’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You.”

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Indian and Pakistani cuisine offer some of the most absolutely mouth-watering dishes (literally, those spices can be hot!) that are both delicious and nutritious. Plus, you’ll probably learn a new word or two when ordering. Try the Press newsroom favorite “Chicken Tikka” and some “Naan,” and go to BestOf. LongIslandPress.com to check out some of the Island’s handsdown best purveyors. You’re welcome.

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Nassau County Museum of Art will be exhibiting many never-before-seen drawings from famed pop artist Peter Max, beginning October 26 and running through February 23. You’re not going to want to miss this, trust us.

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Music lovers will be able to recreate the 1980 near-deadly boat trip the Beatle took to Bermuda where he created much of that year’s Double Fantasy album. Due out Nov. 6, “John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes” will also enable users to retrace the musician’s path across the island and listen to demos. For more on the historic trek, check out “Rear View” on P. 46!

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Just as we got over Apple fanboys (and girls) rushing to stores last month to fetch the latest iPhone, Apple apparently is ready to send the tech world into a frenzy once again. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for a possible unveiling of the next generation iPad, which, according to rumors, will be slimmed-down, with an improved camera. Grab your tent.

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The Great American Disconnect Off the Reservation

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o other nation in history has been so adroit at acquiring and hoarding resources as the United States of America. The combination of democracy and capitalism in America has been so thoroughly successful with respect to expansion and the accumulation of wealth that we consume a quarter of the world’s resources despite having only 5 percent of the population. This unbelievable ascent to the top of the imperial heap is the result of an insatiable appetite for progress at any cost. This is further underscored by periods of fervent jingoism that rationalize horrific behavior abroad under the guise of spreading freedom and democracy.

From a purely political perspective, the New Millennium has ushered in a resounding victory for democracy and with it, the greatest placebo ever absorbed into the global body politic. Citizens of the world have bought into the hype that the American dream is now available anywhere on the globe and is as attainable as a cubic zirconia necklace on a late-night infomercial. For my money, it is the inimitable H.L. Mencken who captured the folly of American democracy as a means to prosperity nearly a century ago, saying, “Of all those ancient promises there is none more comforting than the one to the effect that the lowly shall inherit the earth. It is at the bottom of the dominant religious system of the modern world, and it is at the bottom of the dominant political system. Democracy gives it a certain appearance of objective and demonstrable truth.”

Even Mencken would be impressed by the effectiveness of today’s political hucksters who peddle faux democracy from their ideological apothecaries.

Modern-day snake oil salesmen dressed

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in suits adorned with flag pins on their lapels preach the gospel of the American dream with the zeal of born-again evangelists. Their wide-eyed followers devour their every word believing they too might someday reach the Promised Land.

Gone are the days of dreaming of savings accounts and a pension; this is the era of winning lottery tickets and salvation through instant affluence.

The most troubling phenomenon is the Gospel of Jesus Christ as capitalist that has somehow tethered itself to our new collective interpretation of democracy.

This mixing of religious and ideological

pursuit of wealth emerges triumphant in a life that has separated humans from their humanity. Community, environment and the welfare of others have been subjugated by a new dogma that places faith over reason, prosperity over compassion.

And who could argue? We credit democracy with ushering in the most technologically innovative century in recorded history. There have also been real victories along the way. America, as it was originally conceived, was a place where inalienable rights were intended exclusively for white, male property owners. But the system was intuitive

“I am an insider, an avowed critic of the hand that feeds me. I’m not writing in exile or behind a prison wall, but that is not to say we aren’t metaphorically imprisoned by the image we project of ourselves.” metaphors has seeped into the consciousness of American politics and given life to a bizarre fundamentalist ideology that has inculcated the public with the notion that financial success is the product of divine right. According to this newly adopted testament of faith, Jesus Christ is a champion of corporate rights and free markets who offers his disciples unfettered VIP access to the pearly gates of the hereafter.

“All these forms of happiness, of course, are illusory. They don’t last,” warned Mencken. “The democrat, leaping into the air to flap his wings and praise God, is forever coming down with a thump. The seeds of his disaster lie in his own stupidity; he can never get rid of the naïve delusion—so beautifully Christian!—that happiness is something to be got by taking it away from the other fellow.”

It is the idea that only the uncompromising person in the self-righteous

and flexible enough to allow its citizens to battle one another and hammer out universal suffrage and civil rights. It is also our right to freely and openly criticize the government and protest perceived injustices. No system works perfectly for all of its inhabitants but liberties such as these that we often take for granted are glorious enough to make America’s democratic system enviable by most standards.

But today we are on a path that threatens to turn back the clock in a dangerous way. Capitalism and Christianity, mutually exclusive by design, are no longer distinct from one another under the all-encompassing umbrella of democracy. In order to provide cover for ignominious policies, politicians and pundits routinely reference the Founding Fathers. They consider them omniscient and omnipresent deities, instead of the fallible and mortal beings they were. To question them is to commit heresy. They speak of the Constitution as the testament

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Excerpt from the introduction to The Great American Disconnect – Seven Fundamental Threats To Our Democracy, a new book by Long Island Press publisher Jed Morey. E-book available October 7th.

Paperback edition due out Nov. 7th.

delivered unto us from on high, never to be doubted or altered. Yet many of the provisions they hold dear are amendments, which implies that the Constitution is amorphous and was always intended as such.

This is not an unpatriotic book, though some will deride this characterization and misinterpret its intent. It is an honest critique of a system of government that allows for its very existence. It is this self-awareness that makes it decidedly hopeful as it comes from a grateful and objective perspective—albeit grateful for the freedom to objectively verbalize our hypocrisy.

I am an insider, an avowed critic of the hand that feeds me. I’m not writing in exile or behind a prison wall, but that is not to say we aren’t metaphorically imprisoned by the image we project of ourselves. Much of what we believe to be true about democracy is belied by our very real actions and circumstances.

Americans are trapped by the conviction that we live in a free society despite having the highest incarceration rate per capita of any nation in the world. We see ourselves as the purveyors of peace and democracy, having defeated the Communist menace and dethroned dictators, yet no other nation in modern times has initiated unprovoked foreign wars more than we have or dropped a nuclear bomb (twice) on its enemies. And many of the dictators we have overthrown were of our own creation yet ceased to be useful in our imperialist endeavors.

We believe in the theory of fair competition and the ability to achieve success through hard work and discipline but we exist within a system that discourages competitiveness and has consolidated 40 percent of the nation’s wealth into the hands of 1 percent of the population.

Our state of denial has caused us to drift far from the nation we believe ourselves to be while holding tightly to an image of the nation we wish to be.

For information on how to purchase The Great American Disconnect visit www.AmericanDisconnect.com

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The Best Is Yet to Come

By Beverly Fortune bfortune@longislandpress.com

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hristina Amato-Smith of Lindenhurst doesn’t back down when confronted with a challenge, and she’s been faced with a few.

It took seven years of fertility treatments before she conceived her son, Anthony, who was born in 2003.

“When we were trying to have a child, it would fail, and I would say to my husband, ‘Gerry, we’ll do it again,’” she says. “I’m not a quitter.”

Her next challenge came five years later in 2008, when Christina had just turned 40 and found a lump in her breast.

“I will never forget how I was given my diagnosis,” she recalls. “I got a call from the doctor with the news. I hung up, and I looked at my mother and said, ‘I have breast cancer.’

Christina says she got her car keys and went to pick up her son from school.

She didn’t allow the devastating news to change her routine.

“I was not going to let it beat me,” she says. “I was going to win this one.

My son is my miracle. There is no way I am going to lose this battle.”

One month later, the Smith family received more bad news when Gerry Smith, Sr., her father-in-law, passed away. As a last request, he asked to be buried with a fork in his right hand and that a poem be read at the service called “A Woman and Her Fork.”

Christina said that the poem’s message was about a woman who was told to always keep her fork when the table was being cleared because there was always something better coming along, saying, “Keep your fork, the best is yet to come.”

While at the funeral, Christina’s cousin recommended that she see Dr. Dwight DeRisi, a surgeon from Glen Cove. Even though Christina had an appointment with another doctor, she agreed to see DeRisi. The next day as she waited in his office, she picked up

a pamphlet on display about healthy eating entitled, “Beat Breast Cancer With A Fork.”

When she met the doctor, she says she felt an immediate affinity with him and thought, “This is where I need to be.

He is like an angel.”

Dr. DeRisi recommended that she begin chemotherapy immediately.

While in treatment, she received a book from her aunt as a gift. When Christina unwrapped it, on the cover was a picture of a cake with a fork. The book was called “The Best Is Yet to Come.”

“That was my turning point,” she says. “It was a sign letting me know this is where I was supposed to be.”

With the help of the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition’s Lend a Helping Hand program, Christina tried to make her life as normal as possible. Her house was cleaned and they provided transportation if needed.

“That was so important to me,” she says. “I didn’t have the energy. I wanted to make sure my son’s life was the same as much as possible.”

Besides her family, other people depended on Christina. She is a successful salon owner who employs 22 people at Top Cuts in Bethpage as well as being a beauty educator for Joico, an international beauty and hair product manufacturer.

“My staff wanted to do a fundraiser for me,” she says. So in 2009 and 2010 they held a Cut-A-Thon and donated the proceeds to the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition. In 2011, Christina founded Beauty for a Cure and now funds four Long Island coalitions.

For the Cut-A-Thon, all regular salon services are donated by her staff on the day of the event. The shop begins its transformation at the beginning of October when the hair and beauty products on display are put away to make room for dozens of raffle baskets that line the walls. Prizes include Jet Blue tickets, trips to Disney World and sporting event box seats plus hundreds of other premium items. Food is donated

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by local restaurants and a DJ provides entertainment.

The Cut-AThon brings the entire community together. “We take over the parking lot,” she says, noting that last year more than 185 services were donated, and at least 300 people came to the event.

“Strangers come in, people just stop by to say, ‘Thank you.’ The Plainedge Cheerleaders come every year to offer their support.

“We made $10,000 just on that day,” she explains. “Everything we raise gets divided among four Long Island coalitions.”

In total, more than $100,000 has been donated to Babylon, West Islip, Long Beach and Lean on Me in Great Neck.

The Cut-A-Thons have become so successful that Joico asked Christina’s assistance to create a template that other salons can replicate nationwide. Locally, Safie Salon in Massapequa and Amore Salon in West Babylon host Cut-AThons. Joico was so moved by Christina’s commitment to help other women that they produced a flat iron in her name and donated a portion of the proceeds to City of Hope.

Christina says that for her, the hardest thing was losing her hair. “It’s what I do for a living,” she says. When she knew it was the right time, she asked her son to shave her head.

To help other women get through the trauma of losing their hair, Christina opens her salon any time before or after hours to accommodate them.

“People can ask me or call me for anything, though I don’t have all the answers,” she says, but she knows that sometimes just talking to someone who has lived through it helps.

In 2010, Christina opted to have a second mastectomy and had trans-flap reconstruction surgery that took more than 12 hours. She is now cancer free.

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“It was my only option,” she says of the surgery. “It was a long recovery.”

Christina believes that she has been given a second chance at life and is not missing a minute of it.

Top Cuts was recently featured on Bravo’s reality show Tabitha Takes Over and the salon was renovated as part of the show.

To raise more money for Long Island women with breast cancer, Christina founded LAX for Hope, an all-girls lacrosse tournament which will be hosted by Farmingdale State College on Oct. 6th. Girls ranging in age from 9 years old to high school teens will be competing in the tournament, with 50 teams already signed up to play.

“They will be all pinked out,” she says proudly. Her ultimate goal is to raise enough money to donate funds to all 10 Long Island breast cancer coalitions.

“I’m a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and that I was diagnosed with breast cancer so I know what people go through so I can make a difference,” she says. “It makes it easier to do what I do.”

This year’s Cut-A-Thon is Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Top Cuts Salon, 3956 Hempstead Tpke., Bethpage. 516579-8866. Info for Lax For Hope info can be found at BeautyForACure.org or email Christina@BeautyForACure.org

In every issue of the Long Island Press and our sister publication, Milieu Magazine, the Fortune 52 column brings you stories of dynamic women who have made a significant and unique contribution to Long Island. To acknowledge their success, Beverly hosts tri-annual networking events that are attended by hundreds of LI business professionals, non-profit leaders and entrepreneurs. If you are interested in learning more about the Fortune 52, or know a super woman who deserves good Fortune—and a profile—email Beverly at bfortune@longislandpress.com.

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Billy Crystal New book, Same Big heart

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The line outside Huntington’s Book Revue wrapped around three long blocks on a mid-September Sunday morning as Long Islanders welcomed one of their own, Billy Crystal, in town to sign his new memoir Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?

One of the 1,200 people who waited for hours was Stephanie Garrison-Good, an alumna of Long Beach High School, also Crystal’s alma mater. She was a freshman to Crystal’s senior, but her older brother Larry and Crystal were buddies.

“When my brother was the star of the elementary school play, Billy came up to him and said, ‘Larry, one day, I’m gonna be a big star like you,’” she recalled. “Well, we all know Billy went way beyond that modest goal, but he’ll always be a Long Beach boy at heart.”

Indeed, although Crystal has soared to the top in TV (Soap, Saturday Night Live, and nine gigs as host of the Academy Awards, five of which won him Emmy Awards) and film (When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers, Analyze This), his most personal work was a play in which Long Beach played a central role.

The show, 700 Sundays, was a one-man Broadway tour de force that, along with his signature zingers, poignantly detailed Crystal’s childhood while taking audiences on a nostalgic stroll through the Long Island of the 50s and early 60s.

In his home on East Park Avenue, Crystal and his two brothers Rip and Joel liked nothing better than performing shtick from TV comedy skits, hamming it up for an appreciative audience that included his parents and a hodgepodge of aunts, uncles, neighbors, and the occasional jazz legend. Crystal’s father, Jack, was a jazz concert promoter, and guests at the Crystal household included Billie Holliday, who took Billy to his first movie, and Louis Armstrong.

The play, later turned into a New York Times bestseller, won a Tony, along with the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Next month, Crystal is taking the show back to Broadway for a nine-week run at the Imperial Theater.

Despite his many accolades and famous friends such as Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro, Crystal, 65, truly is still a hometown boy who personifies the city’s oft-repeated unofficial motto: “Once you get Long Beach sand in your shoes, it’s hard to get it out.”

When that sand—and sea and wind—wreaked havoc on the community during Hurricane Sandy, Crystal stepped up to the plate in big fashion, beginning with a “spirit raiser” showing of his movie Parental Guidance for Long Beach residents Dec. 10, 2012, and performance two days later at the Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden.

His efforts to help those impacted continued this July, when Crystal stood on the first section of the Long Beach boardwalk to be rebuilt and presented his hometown with a check for $1 million ($888,000 was raised at his friend Muhammad Ali’s fundraiser for Parkinson’s disease, with Crystal and his wife Janice rounding it out with their own $112,000 donation). He joked to the crowd, “Don’t spend it all in one place.”

That same day, Crystal recorded a 30-second TV spot touting the city’s surf, sand and shopping, and inviting visitors to come enjoy “just another day in paradise” in the City by the Sea. Despite the title of his new book, Crystal isn’t fooling anybody.

He’s still a nice Jewish boy from Long Island.

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One Year After Long Islanders Still Suffering From Sandy

By Rashed Mian and Christopher Twarowski rmain@longislandpress.com chris@longislandpress.com

A scrum of small business owners huddled with local officials along Freeport’s Nautical Mile one recent Thursday to triumphantly declare that the resilient village had finally risen from the ashes— literally—after Superstorm Sandy had devastated the waterfront community.

Standing alongside these local shop owners was Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, there to tout the village’s resurrection after Sandy’s record storm surge sent saltwater cascading through the streets, wreaking havoc on the dozens of shops abutting the canal.

That was a year ago this month.

“The message here today is that the Nautical Mile is open for business,” he beamed, a few feet away from where a hurricane-ignited blaze ripped through several businesses on Oct. 29, 2012—the day the superstorm hit.

The county executive—who had walked these and many other battered streets in the days and weeks following Sandy—delivered another message: a hopeful plea for people to return to the Nautical Mile to celebrate its rebirth.

“Many of these businesses got open late in the season and they need your support here,” he continued. “Come on down for dinner, the weather is still nice, the restaurants are beautiful and we all have to do our part.”

As the one-year anniversary of Sandy approaches, Long Islanders across both Nassau and Suffolk counties will look back on the hurricane’s impact on the region and how homeowners and business owners bounced back.

But those effects are still being felt, say local officials and advocacy groups— many of whom continue to have weekly recovery meetings despite all the work that has already been done. They point to the carcinogenic mold continuing to spread menacingly through walls; homes still gutted down to their skeletons because insurance money has yet to arrive; displaced families living in trailers or hotels or small apartments while also paying mortgages; the steady rise in food-pantry visits; more-and-more people seeking treatment for mental health issues related to the storm; and stalled infrastructure projects yet to be

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and sewage into their Lindenhurst home.

The entire house was gutted, forcing them to seek shelter elsewhere. The Lemaires are now living in Wantagh, where they pay $2,700 a month on top of the existing mortgage on their South 8th Street home.

“Even people in the same neighborhoods don’t see [that Sandy still exists],” she says softly. “Support your neighbor and help us cut through this red tape.

We paid the insurance premiums for 30 years. God bless the people who didn’t have insurance, they got their money, they made the repairs, they’re back.”

DISPLACED: Dozens of Superstorm Sandy survivors gathered at Babylon Town Hall Saturday, Sept. 28, for a “Stop FEMA” rally, where many homeowners explained in excruciating detail their plight since the hurricane. Many are still homeless. (Rashed Mian/ Long Island Press)

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The reality is that thousands who never thought twice about treating their families to a seafood dinner along the Nautical Mile can no longer afford to.

Some have depleted their life’s savings and live with the constant fear that things will continue to get worse.

And those on the frontlines with storm-ravaged residents are worried that Long Islanders less-affected by Sandy have already put the devastating storm behind them.

“So many people on Long Island think Sandy was a year ago, it doesn’t matter anymore,” says Richard Schneider, a Red Cross volunteer and Presidential Volunteer Service Award recipient from Merrick. “The fact is that there still are so many that need so much help.”

LIVING WITH SANDY

Pattie and Victor Calcano had just finished up Tropical Storm Irene-related repairs on their Berger Avenue home in Amityville when Sandy barreled into LI. The storm swallowed their home and forced the Calcanos to level the entire house and replace it with a twobedroom trailer that they’ve been living

in with their three children ever since.

“It’s just basically holy hell,” Pattie says with a tired laugh.

The loss of their home has been made harder by the ongoing battle with their insurance company. The Calcanos have also been forced to shell out a $30,000 rental fee for the trailer while also paying for a mortgage on a house that technically doesn’t even exist. Thus, their savings account has dried up.

After what they had gone through with Irene, Pattie was sure they’d be able to do all their repairs by June. But the miniscule amount of insurance money they received compared to what they could get didn’t even start trickling in until then, forcing them to postpone repairs.

“People say, ‘How are you doing?’ says Victor. “You’re tired of saying ‘horrible.’”

Their story is all too common in a post-Sandy Long Island.

Debbie Lemaire and her family picked up a Christmas tree last December and plopped it inside their small hotel room they had been living in since Sandy poured 46 inches of saltwater mixed with a toxic blend of oil

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WHERE’S THE MONEY?

Three months after Hurricane Sandy battered the Northeast Congress finally approved a $60 billion aid package to help pay for the storm. Yet nearly one-year later, much of that money has yet to make it into the hands of homeowners and local municipalities who need the cash the most, say local officials and residents.

“No funding has come to us yet,” blasts Mastic Beach Village Mayor Bill Biondi. “We’re still waiting for the governor to release the money that’s supposed to be coming to us.”

Mastic Beach, which still has around 75 homes deemed uninhabitable and 12 that have been lifted, was one of the hardest-hit areas in Suffolk County, thanks to a breach in Westhampton Beach and two more breaches on Fire Island, which acts as a barrier for coastal communities to its north.

Federal aid will handle the $700 million cost of a half-century-old Fire Island to Montauk Point storm mitigation project plan that is supposed to strengthen 83 miles of shoreline and would calm fears in communities such as Mastic Beach that a storm surge would torpedo through unabated like it did during Sandy. The hurricane has overcome the plan’s biggest hurdle— funding—but rebuilding barrier island dunes is not slated to start until January, with raising thousands of South Shore homes on stilts to come later.

Biondi says he walks into his office every day hoping to find a letter or a

voicemail telling him money is on its way.

“I never thought here in the United States people would still be waiting, a year later,” he adds.

But the state insists projects are in the works.

In September, 21 communities from South Valley Stream to Mastic Beach began meetings under the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program, which puts the onus on these towns and villages to come up with their own unique plans to strengthen their communities. Their plans have to be submitted by April 2014 in order to receive a slice of the $750 million Gov. Andrew Cuomo has allocated for the projects.

Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer says the town received federal aid for emergency work done during and after Sandy, but acknowledges that homeowners will have to hold on a little longer until New York Rising is completed. “[We] still have a number of people who are not home who don’t have a clear answer as to how they’re going to get home,” he says. “That’s my biggest concern. We need these programs to move quicker.”

According to state data, $266,148,756 in public assistance funding from the federal aid package has been dispersed to LI, though mostly for

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Nassau County says residents have received $323,768,556 for individual assistance.

“Nassau County continues to recover and rebuild from the damaging impact of Hurricane Sandy,” Mangano said in a statement to the Press. “We continue to fight to get residents the Federal dollars they need to rebuild their lives.”

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was not made available for comment. The county also didn’t respond to a list of questions for this story.

Several residents still struggling to get back on their feet put the blame on the federal government. They say local officials are handcuffed and can only do so much.

“It’s still not done and it’s a year,” Lindenhurst-native Joan Ensulo says of repairs to her home because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declined her application for funding. “And I’m not half as bad as half of all these people with children who are not in their homes and homes who had to be lifted.”

Bayville is the only North Shore village among the 21 communities under New York Rising. Its mayor, Doug Watson, is doing what he can to help residents in the meantime, but he

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“We are forging ahead at the speed of government,” he says, with a hint of sarcasm.

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Local government hasn’t been taken off the hook entirely.

In Nassau, residents living near the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant have derided lawmakers for delaying most of the $722 million in borrowing requested

by Mangano—$262 million of that has been approved—after the Sandy storm surge led to a catastrophic failure at the plant, spewing sewage into streets, waterways and homes.

A man who lives near the plant blasted the 19-member legislature at a recent meeting, accusing them of playing politics with residents’ lives, and admitting to “foolishly” believing lawmakers would come to a deal that would fix the plant and finally put an end to what he called “Sunday smell”—an obnoxious odor which disappeared last summer but returned after Sandy.

“For God’s sake, fix my problem,” he said, adding, “Sooner or later your going to kill this community, [and] you’re going to have a lynch mob on your hands.”

Republicans have a 10-9 majority in the county legislature, but need a supermajority of 13 votes to approve borrowing. Democrats have argued for more oversight before approving

hundreds of millions of dollars that would add to the county’s mounting debt load. FEMA is expected to pick up the tab but only after the county already borrows the money for the repairs.

“After investing $70 million in upgrades to the plants, Hurricane Sandy created further damage,” Mangano said in a statement. “The time is now for Democrat legislators to lay politics aside and partner with me in creating a state-of-the-art environmentally friendly facility that protects both our residents and local waterways.”

Bay Park isn’t the only major facility that suffered critical damage during the storm.

Long Beach Medical Center is the last remaining major hospitality yet to reopen since Sandy. The entire basement—basically the center of the hospital’s operating system—suffered major flooding and the hospital has yet to recover.

“There wasn’t anything you needed to run a hospital that probably wasn’t included in the basement,” says LBMC spokeswoman Sharon Player.

Thousands living on the barrier island have signed a petition pleading with the state to step in to get the hospital back and running, fearful of what could happen without an emergency facility on the island.

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LONG HAUL: Bill Johnson (top), of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, has been volunteering on LI since the day Sandy hit. Southern Baptist and other groups worked out of a cavernous warehouse (bottom) but were forced to relocate.

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hospital—down from 200 at its peak— was in dire straights economically even before the storm, making the medical center a good candidate to merge with another facility on the South Shore, possibly South Nassau Community Hospital.

“The medical center had been losing money, we are a hospital that serves a lot of Medicare and Medicaid patients,” Player says. “We don’t look at it as a bad eye to be serving people who are struggling.”

Player declined to go into detail regarding a potential merger, citing a non-disclosure agreement. LBMC lost $2 million in 2011, she notes. Figures for 2012 aren’t available because Sandy struck before the end of the year.

Still, the LBMC has done what it can to continue providing treatment to residents, specifically in mental health because many suffered deep, emotional scars that came to the forefront in the months after the storm. Others also joined in the effort to aid Long Islanders battling inner demons.

Inner Struggle

“The ongoing cost and the increased debt that’s coming for folks that were already struggling is really a story that’s not getting covered,” says Gwen O’Shea,

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CEO and president of Health & Welfare Council of Long Island, and who has also been leading efforts at the Long Island Volunteer Center, which just recently moved out of a cavernous warehouse in Bethpage that the furniture company Sleepy’s provided to her and dozens of other charities, for free. Mental health, she adds, is “falling under the radar…

And we have serious concerns when the anniversary does hit, what are the implications going to be for people from a physical and mental health perspective?”

“Can you imagine having three kids, working a full-time job, taking care of your elderly parent and trying to keep it all together for 10 months, 11 months?” she adds.

Mental health experts point to the stress of rebuilding and the financial struggle that befell many Sandy survivors as evidence why mental health treatment is critical in preventing people from falling into a black hole that they’ll never climb out of.

But some people may be too proud—especially former breadwinners, who never experienced a problem this devastating—to ask for help.

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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: Dozens of charities worked together after Hurricane Sandy to assist in recovery efforts. They held weekly meetings in this room inside a former former Sleepy’s warehouse to help those still struggling.

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someone to help you through it, particularly if you’re somebody whose never needed help in the past.”

Children, too, have also developed mental scars that require treatment, says Colleen Merlo, associate director of the Mental Health Association. Some are even showing signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, she says, adding that the slightest rainstorm can awaken horrific memories from last year.

“Children’s mental health was severely impacted,” by the storm, notes Merlo, adding that she expects her phones to be flooded with more calls from concerned parents.

The ongoing mental health crisis would be far more severe if it wasn’t for nonprofit organizations and other mental health treatment facilities that have gone door-to-door to check up on patients or lend a helping hand. A number of other groups, such as the Red Cross, The Health & Welfare Council, United Way of Long Island, and even charities from thousands of miles away have contributed in any way they can.

“I think so many peoples lives…are back to normal, and unless you go—if you’re out on Long Beach, you could still see destruction,” says Bill Johnson, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief North American Mission Board project coordinator and volunteer, who came all the way from Kentucky to help and has been here ever since. “But in so many of these areas, like in Island Park, or in Freeport, if you go down by the water, you’ll see a roll-off there that people are still putting stuff in, but outwardly, it doesn’t look that bad. But when you start looking inside, there’s still so many people that’s not back together.”

FIGHT ON

A camera is slung over Lance Walker’s neck as he makes his way through a crowd of people outside Babylon Town Hall on Sept. 28. He cuts through, holding signs declaring “Stop FEMA Now!” and asking, “Where is our money?”

Walker, one of the subjects of the

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Press’ Sandy coverage last year, was smiling as he walked—a hopeful glow radiating around him.

Last time we spoke, Walker was standing outside his Lindenhurst home, which just had been ravaged by Sandy’s storm surge. His eyes welled with tears as he grabbed a hold of his children, wondering if he’d ever be able to watch home videos of his kids growing up. It turned out he wouldn’t, the saltwater took care of that.

But things are improving. Walker is back in his home after living in two apartments since the storm, and his home is 80-percent recovered, he says proudly.

“It’s been a long road but we’ve come a long way,” Walker says.

As he continues to rebuild his Shore Road home, Walker admits that he’s in a better place than immediately after the storm. He has more hope because of the support of total strangers when he was at his worst.

“After the storm you realize how good people were,” he says. “I walked around for a couple of days without any shoes on, and somebody heard about it, and I had six pairs of brand new shoes…I’m actually more hopeful now.”

The year of torture that thousands on Long Island lived through has many people feeling less optimistic about the future. Things won’t get better until insurance companies unload more money and federal aid dollars start trickling down. Much of Long Island is still a broken puzzle board, with pieces strewn about. But there is hope.

Walker, who has been to hell and back, is moving forward with newfound resilience that has him more hopeful than ever. “[Sandy] does still exist,” he says.

“It’s a long process but we’re all learning from it. We’re meeting new friends. We’re finding out that there are people who really care and besides all the bureaucracy, we’ll get through it.”

“Don’t walk away,” he adds, “don’t give up, just hang in there, it’s worth it.

It’s worth it.”

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Is L.I. Still Due for

The Big One? Experts Differ on Sandy’s Status as “Storm of the Century”

By Samuel J. Paul and Timothy Bolger tbolger@longislandpress.com

Before the historic Long Island Express hurricane rolled ashore in Bellport 75 years ago September 21, one junior government meteorologist accurately predicted its path, but was overruled by his superiors, who thought it would go out to sea.

“Cloudy skies and gusty conditions” were in LI’s forecast for that fateful Wednesday afternoon when the last category 3-strength tropical cyclone surprised end-of-summer revelers with deadly 121 mph winds fueling floodwaters that reached a mile inland, according to a West Hampton Beach Historical Society exhibit on the 1938 hurricane running through October 26. The storm left 60 dead on the Island and more than 700 beyond our shores.

“On the basis of the data on hand [forecasters] could hardly have given any greater advance warning, for the tropical storm—the worst in the history of the Northeast—was a freak,” said Dr. Charles Clark, then-acting chief of the federal Weather Bureau, which relied on reports from ships at sea in those pre-radar days.

“It did not follow the usual pattern.”

The storm is now considered the region’s 100-year storm, the high-water mark for Northeast hurricanes. But consensus remains elusive on Superstorm Sandy—an 80-mph-windspeed posttropical cyclone-Nor’easter hybrid dubbed Frankenstorm before it made landfall near Atlantic City Oct. 29—and whether it was the so-called storm of the century LI has been awaiting since ‘38. For as bad as Sandy was, it was not a category 3, although the storm surge reached category 2 levels in some areas, the U.S. Geological Survey has found.

Hurricane Katrina, a category 3 that outranks Sandy as the nation’s costliest, packed 125 mph winds when it leveled New Orleans’ levies in 2005—easily making it the storm of the century for the Gulf of Mexico. But Tropical Storm Irene—a blip on the radar of LI’s stormscarred shores—caused 500-year floods in upstate New York and parts of New England two years ago.

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“We have storms of the century every two years now,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo famously declared in a post-Sandy press conference, blaming global warming while calling the increased frequency of such catastrophic natural disasters “the new normal.”

While the majority of scientists agree that climate change fuels stronger and more frequent hurricanes, predicting them is harder than ever. The concept of a 100-year storm often gets taken literally, but is actually a statistical tool meteorologists, climatologists and hydrologists use to measure the 1-in-100 annual likelihood of an intense storm or flood hitting a given area. Climate change has caused the tool’s usefulness to be questioned by some, but many agree that expecting yearly 100-year storms for New York is an exaggeration.

Alan Robock, a climatologist, professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a lead author of last month’s fifth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—which found, among other things, it’s “extremely likely” humans caused global warming—says that the term “storm of the century” can be misleading.

“Hurricanes are basically random,” he says. “The weather variability cause the storms in different places at different times of the hurricane season every year...

So you can’t say which year is going to have big storms, but you can say over the next several decades there will be strong storms hitting us that on the average are stronger than the storms in the last several decades.”

Two of Robock’s colleagues at Rutgers say Sandy was a storm of the century, anecdotally speaking.

“Storm of the century is not really a scientific term, per say,” says Steve Decker, a professor of meteorology at Rutgers.

“You can rank these terms in many different ways. But if you rank them based on damage, [Sandy’s] one of the most costly storms we’ve had.”

Kenneth Miller, a geology professor at Rutgers, says Sandy earned the term based on flooding, especially considering it hit during a blue moon when the tides were astronomically higher and the

fact the LI and New Jersey form a right angle—making it a catch basin prime for overflowing water piled up during hurricanes, especially one like Sandy that made a rare left turn into New York.

“We don’t have enough data to actually say firmly what the recurrence interval of a storm with the flooding power of Sandy is,” he says. “Yes, it was a category 1, but basically with the extent of the flood at astronomical high tide and the trajectory it took, which was the worst trajectory it could possibly have taken in perspective of flooding in New York, it’s not just the intensity of the storm, it’s when it hits, the tidal cycle and what it’s geometry is relative to.”

Experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHS) are less inclined to apply the term to Sandy.

“Was it the storm of the century?

No,” says James Brinkley, storm surge operations manager at the NHS. “It’s obviously a storm that will be long remembered. But, we’re going to continue to still see lots of storms, each of them having their own characteristics... A category 3 is never a good thing, but there are so many different variables.”

Although the assertion by Cuomo that 100-year storms are happening annually is considered an oversimplification by most interviewed for this story, his point is well taken.

“Things we used to see only once in a lifetime are happening more often,”

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PILING UP: Mounds of debris, like this one behind a South Shore Nassau County home, were a common sight after Superstorm Sandy last fall. (Kevin Kane/Long Island Press)

says Scott Mandia, a professor of science at Suffolk County Community College, noting a recent study that found Sandyscale weather events should be expected every 20 years.

Still, he cautions that predicting the weather is far from a perfect science, regardless of how many satellites or storm-tracking computer models are deployed.

“No matter how much you think you know about this, Mother Nature keeps throwing us these curve balls,” he says of Sandy. “I’ve been predicting something like this for years, and even I was surprised.”

And with the increase in coastal populations amid at a time when sea levels are projected to rise about two feet in the coming century, the human toll will unquestionably skyrocket when future storms strike.

Fortunately, forecasters have advanced beyond the days of ignoring guys like Charles Pierce, the meteorologist who predicted that the ‘38 storm would hit the Northeast.

As for Sandy’s place in history, “Storm of the Century” or not, it’s surely one Long Islanders who lost their homes and businesses would just as soon rather forget.

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J u s t S ay i n g

A Beginner’s Guide to Global Warming

By Peter Tannen

CHAPTER I: AROUND THE WORLD Here are some things everyone should know about global warming (all reports guaranteed true): In Europe, the bears are confused.

It’s too warm to hibernate at their normal time, and all the berries are gone. Where the bears will find food, and what they’ll do with their spare time if warm weather persists, is anybody’s guess.

Butterflies are moving north, from Italy all the way to Finland. If you happen to live in Helsinki and have just spent a fortune on down vests and large quantities of alcoholic beverages for a long, dark winter, butterflies can be quite disconcerting.

The flowers are also bewildered— many blooming during Europe’s increasingly warm winters (which seem like early spring to them).

Forsythia is blooming several months early in alpine valleys in Austria.

In the Rockies, ski resorts are making contingency plans to move to higher elevations, where there’s actually some dependable snow.

Some resorts have already lobbied the U.S. government for new leases on federal land at higher altitudes.

On a positive note, global warming is nothing but good news for cockroaches! They thrive in warmer weather, so we can expect them to reproduce more frequently during the year, and more of them will survive the new, shorter winters. (Same goes for fleas and ticks, by the way.)

CHAPTER II: IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Is global warming coming to your neighborhood? Look for possible clues: a. While walking your dog in January you start to sneeze and your eyes begin to itch. Is that really a field of ragweed your dog is peeing in? b. Your local NFL team has shed its hot helmets and pads and is now wearing shorts and T-shirts and playing in the brand new NTFL: the National Touch Football League.

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Their stadium has been completely air-conditioned. c. Canadian travel ads appear in your local newspaper, offering “Yukon Ice-Skating Vacations”—a tour of the last three naturally frozen ponds in North America.

CHAPTER III: TAKE ACTION! Here’s what you can do about global warming: Politically: Write a letter expressing your concerns to President Obama, your senator and your congressman. This will make you feel better, but will accomplish absolutely nothing.

Ironically, some say our only hope may be Texas, an epicenter of global warming. If Texas has six months of 110-degree heat and its low-lying cities (i.e. Galveston and Corpus Christi) vanish into the Gulf of Mexico, that may get some attention from Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Then again, maybe not.

Personally: 1. Build a large wooden boat.

Collect a male and a female of your

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favorite species.

2. Buy retirement property in the “New Sun Belt” while prices are still low. (This includes North Dakota, Montana, parts of Idaho, Alaska and northern Maine.)

3. Check out emerging investment opportunities: Roach Motel is clearly one product poised to set new sales records. And Wall Street is excited about earnings from companies that make SPF 400 sunscreen products, as well as the rumor that Warren Buffett has bought the two remaining companies in America that still make large hats.

4. Start a branch of the GWDC (Global Warming Defense Corps) on your block. You’ll learn basic survival skills, like “Xtreme grilling”—including recipes for simple meals to cook on the hood of your car or on concrete sidewalks.

Note: Experts will also teach you which strategies and weapons are effective against hordes of hungry, confused European bears.

Global warming is here. It’s time for all of us to adapt and evolve.

PeteR Tannen is a humor writer who has won multiple awards from the National Press Club (Washington, D.C.), the Press Club of Long Island and the Florida Press Association. His columns can also be heard on select Public Radio stations across the U.S. www.tannenweekly.com

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Virtual reality therapy programs recreate experiences, such as those shown here, that returning veterans suffering from PTSD endured overseas, to help them readjust to civilian life. (Courtesy of University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies)

Avatars of War New and Old Techs Enlisted to Treat Returning Vets

By Chris Mellides

Screams and the explosion of weapons fire pierce the arid desert air as a procession of armored military vehicles edging through suburban Sadr City in Baghdad come under attack by a group of insurgents.

Seated inside a Humvee within the convoy is 24-year-old U.S. Army Ranger Chris Levi. A series of thunderous detonations liquefy a stack of four, 6-inch-wide copper plates, hurling large, molten slugs toward his vehicle at speeds just under a mile per second.

The explosively formed projectiles, called EFPs by the troops, tear through his Humvee’s door, slicing its engine and radio mount before eventually splitting off the vehicle’s entire front end.

Levi’s platoon sergeant and a nearby medic rush to the aid of the downed mortar-systems expert from Holbrook.

“I heard yelling about [someone] finding something, and the medic [was] crying and saying he couldn’t find it and that it was lost,” he recalls over a recent lunch. “I kind of turned my head and looked at them—and [the medic] started yelling that ‘he found it—he found it!’ He was talking about my heartbeat.”

For Levi, now 29, narrowly cheating death in Iraq in March 2008 came at a heavy cost. The EFPs claimed his legs and permanently injured his right arm, leaving him with nerve damage and traumatic brain injury. Upon returning home that same year, the infantryman was diagnosed with depression, anxiety

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and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Of the combined 2.5 million servicemen and women who fought in Iraq and are returning home by the tens and thousands from Afghanistan, 20 percent are coping with PTSD. In addition to the classic counseling methods, to better treat this steady stream of soldiers coming home from America’s longest war, veterans hospitals are increasingly offering high- and low-tech rehabilitative options, such as virtual reality (VR) and complementary and alternative medicine, such as yoga, which experts say can help vets re-acclimate to civilian life.

The goal is to avoid delaying mental health treatment—something that happened to many veterans of past wars, and thus, made it that much more difficult for them to adjust.

“We have group therapy, individual therapy, we do evidence-based treatment with prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy,” says Dr. Robert Galak, PTSD unit manager at the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, of the options currently available at the center. “We’re also bringing in some of the alternative medicine strategies that have been very successful. We try to incorporate as many different modalities into the treatment of PTSD as we can.”

“We’re looking at virtual reality exposure therapy,” he adds.

DIGITAL WAR ZONE

Used at veterans hospitals since 2009, computer-based virtual reality exposure therapy, or VR therapy, has its origins at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).

Albert “Skip” Rizzo, associate director for medical virtual reality at ICT, tells the Press he got his inspiration for a VR therapy prototype in 2003, after watching a clip for an upcoming video game called Full Spectrum Warrior released for the Xbox gaming console.

This early precursor was originally funded by the Army as a combat tactical simulation.

Adopting game elements and art assets from the Xbox video game, Rizzo’s prototype received glowing feedback, and in 2005, his team was given government funding to create better VR simulation programs for use as treatment tools for returning soldiers.

Rizzo’s programs, dubbed “Virtual Iraq” and “Virtual Afghanistan” use “virtual scenarios specifically designed to represent relevant contexts for VR exposure therapy, including Middle Eastern-themed cities and desert road environments,” he explains.

Vets suffering from PTSD navigate these digital virtual environments and relive the experiences they endured while on the real front lines, helping them deal with the disorder’s triggers head-on, and ultimately, alleviate any related symptoms.

“What we’re doing is basically taking

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an already evidence-based treatment for PTSD exposure therapy, or prolonged exposure, and we’re delivering it with a virtual reality simulation that allows the clinician to control everything that goes on in the simulation as a way to pace the exposure in a very systematic and controlled way,” says Rizzo.

Patients who were treated with his team’s VR exposure programs in 2006 at a naval medical center at Camp Pendleton in San Diego received good results in their initial open clinical trial.

“Other groups got interested in it and we kept expanding the system and tried to make it better,” he says. “That version that we built there ended up getting distributed out to about 55 sites [across the country].”

Among those to begin using the VR software Rizzo helped pioneer is the Phobia and Trauma Clinic at Hofstra University’s Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center.

According to the clinic’s director, Dr. Mitchell Schare, research in this treatment area initially began at Hofstra in 1998 and has been used with patients struggling with phobias ranging from fear of flying to public speaking. Once implemented, Schare is confident that VR exposure treatment for use with veterans struggling with PTSD will enjoy the same success as the other VR programs already in use at the college.

“I’ve been having various people come and speak to my students, veterans

themselves [and] people who treat veterans,” says Schare. “We’ve been watching all kinds of materials, some issued by the government, documentaries on Afghanistan and Iraq, so I’ve been training students and preparing them.”

“We will be absolutely offering [VR exposure therapy] as part of treatment,” he adds.

Levi was among many wounded veterans who underwent VR exposure therapy at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., before it closed its doors in 2011 and merged with the National Naval Medical Center to form the present-day Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

He is living, breathing proof of its success in combating PTSD. “There was a person I know that was afraid for his life sitting in any vehicle,” he tells the Press. “They put this apparatus on his head and he was using it to watch himself walk up to a vehicle and then he would sit in [it] and would be able to stop if he wanted to without being in a [real] vehicle.”

Levi credits the program with helping him learn how to drive again after his injuries left him unable to operate a car without special hand controls.

“They had screens on all of the walls in the room that you’re in, and there’s the cab of this little pickup truck, and there’s no back on it and there’s no front on it,” he says, recalling his turn in the VR machine.

“It’s just the cab of the pickup truck and you have the seat and the hand control,” he continues. “You go on a highway, you go into the town, and you learn how to drive—it’s all virtual and it’s replicating reality.”

therapy two years ago.

Despite their tough and combathardened perception, Rapaport says it’s the young vets, especially the men, who do better with these physical modalities combined with elements of meditation and Tai Chi. Overall, it helps both servicemen and women “settle down, focus their brains and reduce their reactivity,” she explains.

“You can be the toughest person in the world, but yoga could still knock you out, man,” admits Levi. “It’s not the easiest thing in the world and a lot of these guys…have no range of motion at all, and then they get injured, and they have a bad back or they have a prosthetic on

one of their legs. [Their] range of motion is what’s stopping them from being able to maneuver that prosthetic properly. With yoga, you can control your body and do stretches and breathing. It’s relaxing and it’s fulfilling.”

THE WAR WITHIN

Even with this new wave of treatment options, however, experts agree that returning veterans may still find difficulty adjusting to civilian life, whether because of trouble at home or school, unemployment, or drug and alcohol abuse.

In the same high-tech vein as the VR therapy, VA officials are now also using online and texting services as a

means of connecting with soldiers who served during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

“More and more younger service members are coming home and our texting program is…becoming much more popular,” says Dr. Caitlin Thompson, deputy director of the Canandaigua VA’s Suicide Prevention Program in upstate New York. “So, the use of new technology is essential, and developing ways to both reach people and to intervene with folks with using this new technology is absolutely huge.”

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DOWNWARD DOG

There are approximately 138,000 veterans living on the Island, second only to San Diego in the percentage of vets among citizens, according to local veterans advocates. Roughly 5,000 LI residents served in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

With U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq last year, LI is now undergoing an influx of Afghanistan vets, with complete drawdown expected next year.

With such a significant sea change in LI’s veteran population, the Northport VA has not only been researching newer technology, such as VR therapy, in treating newly returning vets, but also New Age treatments, such as yoga, for both new and old.

“People are looking for this [treatment], so the veterans are very welcoming of it,” says Richelle Rapaport, a clinical nurse specialist in psych mental health and a board-certified advanced practice holistic nurse at the VA. Rapaport, who’s been with the VA since 1988, received grant funding that trained 200 VA staff members in Tai Chi, Reiki Relaxation, yoga, guided imagery, reflexology, clinical meditation and aroma L o n g I s l a n d P r e s s f o r o c t o b e r , 2 0 1 3 / / / w w w. l o n g i s l a n d p r e s s . c o m

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unfortunate reality among PTSD patients. Of the approximately 32,000 suicides per year in the United States, 20 percent are veterans, and each day 18 suicide-related deaths are committed by veterans, according to the VA National Mental Health Service.

The veterans’ crisis line is one of the last lines of defense in helping to subdue this dark trend gripping veterans.

“That’s kind of the linchpin for suicide preChristopher Levi, a 29-year-old U.S. Army Ranger from Holbrook, stands with the help of prosthetic legs in front of his Lexus SUV vention efforts with the VA,” that he re-learned how to drive with the help of virtual reality says Thompson. “In general, exposure therapy. (Chris Mellides/Long Island Press) it’s known you need to get and they were probably put in a mental people out of the immediate crisis, and then you need to follow up with institute immediately because they weren’t getting used to civilian life. And this is them over time so that they can get the what happens: you can’t get a guy that’s treatment that they need and they can get been in combat in 100-degree weather in the support that they need because [it] the jungles of Vietnam and all of a sudden works. have him go to New York City on 42nd “We get calls from people who are Street.” waking up from nightmares in the middle He suggests the same holds true of the night and just need to talk with for the younger generation of combat somebody, and that runs to people who veterans returning home from Iraq and are standing on the bridge and are ready Afghanistan. to jump.”

“When we were in the service you’d hear about constant combat, the sounds MODERN WARFARE of the jets and the sounding of war,” he PTSD is hardly a new phenomsays. “When we were there it was one year enon, but it wasn’t until 1980 that the disorder was even recognized as a medical that we were in combat duty and when we came home there was no such thing as an condition. [off] switch. These kids are coming home Older veterans had therefore and they’re confused, and don’t forget… potentially suffered for several decades they’re coming back from a war and some without getting the help they so desper[served multiple tours], there’s no such ately needed, according to John Javis, thing as an [off] switch.” chairperson of Veterans Health Alliance While the nature of conflict in of Long Island, a nonprofit that works current wars and those of years past may with veterans, their families and collabodiffer, Galak says the harsh reality of rates with other vet groups, including the modern combat still takes its toll.

Northport VA. “The changes take place with the “In World War I we called [PTSD] change in warfare in Vietnam and Iraq ‘shell shock’—some of the old black and Afghanistan,” says Galak. “There and white footage of soldiers after the are no front lines and no rear lines, so war show people walking around these you’re constantly under threat of sniper mental hospitals just shaking because of fire and improvised explosive devices. It’s being exposed to artillery and being in very difficult to tell friendlies from the trenches,” he says. “In World War Two it enemy—they’re under the constant threat was known as ‘combat fatigue.’ In other of combat 100 percent [of the time].” words, a Vietnam veteran [who], let’s say, There are endless examples of such came home in 1968 with PTSD, well, the scenarios leaving permanent, invisible field didn’t even really start to name it scars. until 1980.”

Levi, the corporal, recalls a flatbed Joe Messana understands the diftruck carrying eight pipes—each conficulties Vietnam veterans faced firsthand. taining a powerful Katyusha rocket— The Hicksville resident enlisted into exploding in Eastern Baghdad outside the military during the fall of 1967 and one of the four largest forward-operating received orders to deploy to Vietnam the bases. following year with the 90th Replacement “It was probably booby-trapped, and Battalion, stationed in Long Binh Post— when the people jumped on they initiated the U.S. Army’s headquarters. the explosives,” he says. “The amount of “These poor guys from World War damage they did in that confined area was II, Vietnam and Korea who came home, severely intense so…the 80 Iraqi soldiers they didn’t get [treatment for] PTSD,” he explains. “There was no understanding, Continued on page 32

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that were standing around watching this go on were injured by random pieces of shrapnel. Fifteen people were vaporized.”

Levi recalls the only person in the vicinity who was capable of treating the injured was an 18-year-old medic who was new to combat.

“This medic had to [decide] if certain soldiers’ injuries were severe enough where they wouldn’t make it…to the Iraqi hospital, which was about one kilometer away,” he continues.

“In those moments he had to decide how to ration supplies among the injured, and who was going to live or die,” adds Levi. “Their lives were in his hands, and afterwards he was covered in blood and we had to hose him off with water and soap.”

THE HOMEFRONT

Even with all of the outreach, medical advancements and new treatment options for patients suffering PTSD, the stigma associated with seeking mental health treatment can still dissuade veterans from getting the help that they need.

“There’s still the concern about stigma, and the VA is trying to work to eliminate the stigma of mental health,” says Joe Sledge, Northport VA spokesman.

“Everyone who goes to war comes back affected by that experience,” he says.

“They could potentially save themselves years of unhappiness by getting the treatment early. The earlier that they come in, the better off they’ll be.”

Tom Ronayne, director of Suffolk County Veterans’ Services, an organization that among other things, assists veterans with processing claims for benefits, also recognizes the challenges this stigma poses to mental health treatment. Ultimately, he says, veterans are doing themselves a disservice by not seeking help for fear of being ostracized.

“The de-stigmatization of these mental health issues is going to be a game-changer,” says Ronayne. “When we sent them away, they were okay. When they came home, they’re broken.

“We have an obligation to make sure that they’re not only well cared for, but that we support them in any way possible, so that we can ensure that their prognosis going forward is that they’ll be able to move beyond their PTSD,” he adds.

Refusing to allow his injuries to get in the way of his career goals, Levi began working at American Portfolios Financial Services less than a year ago. This past June, he enrolled at Long Island University, where he’s studying business with plans to continue his education during the fall semester.

“I’d like to be a financial advisor,” says Levi. “I’ve already learned a lot [at American Portfolios] and I’ll learn even more at LIU Post.

“Despite all I’ve been through, I know that I can make it if I just go for it.”

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Join the fun, sample fine arts and fine dining for the whole family with

ARTS ALIVE LI’s full calendar of events!

Concerts • Theater • Dance • Gourmet Food • Fine Art Exhibitions

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It’s October and you’re invited to share in the bountiful harvest of Long Island’s arts, culture and cuisine at the Arts Alive LI month-long Festival. From visual, musical and performing arts, to community festivals and epicurean delights, the Arts Alive LI Festival takes place on stages, in galleries, at film houses, and in neighborhood restaurants across Long Island. It’s all here for you and your family.

Many Long Islander’s often venture to New York City for cultural events without realizing that many great venues are in their own backyard that are family friendly and affordable. Led by the Long Island Arts Alliance, the region’s arts and culture organizations come together in October to offer more than 40 tempting opportunities for you to sample something new and wonderful throughout the month.

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This year the festival is divided into three categories of Signature Series events including: Arts Alive LI Classic: Visual and performing arts presented in venues such as performing arts centers, museums, libraries and universities.

Arts Alive LI for Families: Fun family events that introduce the arts to children through performances, festivals and hands-on experiences, many are free.

Arts Alive LI for Foodies: Events for people with a passion for the culinary arts.

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Prices range from $100 per person to absolutely free. There is something for everyone offered in this amazing array of events.

But it doesn’t end in October! ArtsAliveLI.org is your year-round source for events on Long Island. The continuing “Calendar of Events” offers a host of fun activities to do with family and friends. The “Arts Mkt” features workshops, art classes and opportunities for artists.

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Jenn Chapin Gets To The Heart Of It With Reckoning

By Jenna Kern-Rugile

Growing up in Huntington, native Long Islander Jen Chapin was surrounded by music.

As the daughter of famed folk singer/songwriter Harry Chapin and a niece of Tom Chapin, also a famous singer/songwriter, it’s not surprising that performing and writing songs is in her genes. It would be a big mistake, however, to pigeonhole this diverse singer/songwriter into a “folk chick” box.

“My Dad was touring for over 200 days a year,” says Jen, whose father died in 1981 while driving on the Long Island Expressway en route to performing a free concert at Eisenhower Park when she was just 10 years old. “Although we accompanied him on some of those tours, other than that it was a regular suburban household, where my parents’ activism influenced me more than anything.” In fact, she says, because of her wellknown musical family, “People used to joke about how crappy our stereo system was.”

Jen’s own blend of urban-folk-soul is in full bloom in her latest and most fully realized release, Reckoning. She spent her youth listening to much of the music that her older brothers loved—lots of classic Seventies rock, and everything from Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and Van Morrison to Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and Earth, Wind & Fire.

“I’m definitely drawn to artists who are in it for the long haul and have careers spanning decades,” she says, adding that a particularly strong influence was Bill Withers, best known for such hits as “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean on Me” and “Lovely Day.” “He’s a particular touchstone for me because of the honesty, economy and fine groove of his songs,” says Jen. “It’s something I find myself

referring back to when I’m working on a song.”

Jen’s expansive musical tastes and her love of that “fine groove” are in fine form on Reckoning, which came out just last month. The songs, all originals, beautifully reflect the complexities, joys and challenges of life. She’s a mother of two: Maceo, 8, and Van, 4. She’s the wife of Stephan Crump, her Grammy-nominated acoustic bassist/husband. She’s an activist as a member of the board of directors of nonprofit WhyHunger, founded in 1975 by her father. She’s a singer/ songwriter with several CDs under her belt, many featuring Crump and his Rosetta Trio. And she’s a touring artist, on her own, with Crump and the Rosetta Trio and as the opening act for everyone from Bruce Hornsby to the Neville Brothers.

In Reckoning, produced by five-time Grammy award-winner Kevin Killen (U2, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel and more), Jen gets right to the heart of the matter, whether those matters are of the heart, womb or world. In songs that display a perfect balance of poignancy, outrage and optimism, she tackles parenting, marriage and inequality, all while gracing her listeners with a voice that, although all her own, brings to mind Norah Jones, Shawn Colvin and one of her idols, Joni Mitchell.

In “Go Away,” Jen shares the not-so-secret but rarely admitted truth about parenting—that, as much as you adore your progeny, their incessant demands and often mundane routines can make you act down-right nasty: “I need you to go away/For a minute for an hour for a blessed day/Pack up your mirror/Take that ugly woman away.” But the song concludes with love prevailing, as she sings, “Do I feel guilty?/Not really/I watch your breath rise and fall in your sleep each

night/Each morning I’m reeling from any smile, any touch, any kiss any kindnesses/You are willing to bestow.”

In “Feed Your Baby,” Jen looks at our broken food system in a culture where, despite the great wealth of a few, so many hard-working people lack access to healthy, affordable, fresh food: “Worry worry work and cry/Full warm breast goes limp and dry/Wilted leaves still priced too high/Too hard feed my baby.”

Jen’s passion for social justice issues—she’s involved in many sustainable local food movements, including a new group called AmpleHarvest.org—isn’t born of pity.

“It’s not, ‘We’re going to help, you poor, suffering people;’ it’s about listening to the voice of the people in those situations and helping to build leadership in those communities from the grassroots up, not the top down,” she explains.

Her belief is that most people are working honest jobs—in shops, restaurants, factories, and yes, the arts, too—but have been denied the benefits because of the greed of those in power.

“Economic growth and greater productivity need to translate into better wages,” she says.

“Major employers can afford to do this and still be profitable, and more money in the pockets of regular people means more dignity, stronger families, a better society and a stronger economy.”

Despite her passion to overcome inequality and her frustration at social injustice, Jen chooses to keep the faith. In Reckoning’s closing song, “Gospel,” Jen celebrates social movements for economic justice and democracy around the world, singing, “Solitary voices become one/ Building of a new world has begun/Shopworn gospel brought back in the sun/Human evolution never done/It’s gonna take a long time but we’re not going away...”

Jen Chapin is one artist who’s not going anywhere...and that’s something to celebrate.

Don’t miss Jen Chapin’s performance at the stage at the Patchogue Theatre’s Live in the Lobby program on Oct. 10, as part of the Arts Alive LI Classic Signature Series. To learn about all the Arts Alive shows, visit www.artsaliveli.org.

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First Friday with Brazilian Guitarist João Luiz

Melissa Errico Long Island native Melissa Errico is back with a program of Broadway favorites and more in the intimate Cabaret at “Club T” setting at Tilles Center. She has been called everything from “divine” to “the voice of enchantment” to “one of the most valuable assets of the musical theater.”

This sizzling evening of songs is a co-production with WLIW and will be taped live at Tilles Center for broadcast on WLIW and THIRTEEN. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville (516) 299-3100 tillescenter. org $53. 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. (Two performances). Friday, Oct. 18.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Heckscher Museum presents world-renowned guitarist João Luiz of the famed Brasil Guitar Duo. João will perform a program featuring Latin American choros and dances, along with traditional Spanish classical guitar repertoire. He will be joined by flutist Kirsten Johnson for several lively Latin duets. João has appeared internationally at major concert series as well as at festivals in Europe, South America, and cities throughout the United States.

Friday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Heckscher Museum of Art 2 Prime Ave., Huntington (631) 351-3250 heckscher.org Free

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Madison Theatre at Molloy College 1000 1000 Hempstead Hempstead Ave.,Ave Rockville Centre (516) 3235th Annual 7 & 7 Painters Rockville Centre, NY 11571 4444 madisontheatreny.org $35 orchestra pit & Box Office Phone: (516) 323-4444 orchestra; $30 mezzanine 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. & Sculptors Exhibit www.MadisonTheatreNY.org This exciting exhibit showcases the works of Seven Painters and Seven Sculptors in varied mediums, styles and subjects. Artists include sculptor Alice Riordan, known for her fluid, graceful figure studies; and portraitist Nanette Fluhr, whose work is inspired by the Old Masters. Also featured: Arthur Bernstein, Leslie Barnett, Dan Fusco, Liz Jorg Masi, Donna Harlow Moraff, Howard Rose, Marie Sheehy Walker, Dan Brown, Alex Chwick, Shawn McAvoy, Kiril Tzotchev and Marcia ARTISANAL CHEESE 101 Wolfson.

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Cultural Arts Workshops: Robbi K and Bakithi Kumalo

Musician and storyteller Robbi K and Grammy-winning bassist Bakithi Kumalo (who worked on Paul Simon’s Graceland album) will lead an interactive workshop exploring music across continents. The Kumalos visit historical footprints and contributions of South African and American music using their own personal narrative, with an emphasis on humor, history and music. Through interactive movement and song, they demonstrate the musical connection that unites cultures and peoples.

Huntington Arts Council, 213 Main St., Huntington (631) 271-8423, ext. 14. huntingtonarts.org $20; Free for participating JOURNEY school district teachers 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8.

An Acoustic Night with Lou Gramm: The Voice of Foreigner

Lou Gramm, the lead singer of Foreigner, is one of the most successful vocalists in rock.

His unique sound made the band one of Billboard’s Top 100 Artists of All Time. Gramm sang lead on all of the band’s hits, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Cold as Ice” and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” which topped the charts at #1 hit 1985. Gramm was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame this year.

Landmark on Main Street 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 landmarkonmainstreet.org $67, $72, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11

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Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance

The home of Long Island’s most famous bard continues its signature poetry series for a third season with a reading by San Francisco poet Sandra Alcosser, joined by regional poet Robert Gibbons.

The event begins with a writing workshop with Gibbons at 3 p.m. and continues at 6:15 p.m. with a free reception featuring Gibbons and Alcosser. At 7 p.m., Gibbons and Alcosser will share the stage and read from their works.

Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd., Huntington Station (631) 427-5240 waltwhitman.org Writing Workshop: $15 (3 p.m. - 5 p.m.) Evening Reading: $10, 7 p.m.

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LONG ISLAND

During the seven-day festival, area residents, visitors, members of the business and film communities and more come together to celebrate the art and influence of cinema in the charming and historic towns of Long Island’s Gold Coast. The festival will feature screenings of more than 50 feature-length and short films, as well as filmmaker workshops and panels, family programs and other special events.

Venues throughout the Town of North Hempstead, goldcoastfilmfestival.org. (516) 829-2570 Many events are free, and others start at just $10 Monday, Oct. 21 through Saturday, Oct. 27.

And Then The Merry Widow Waltzed

Friends of the Sands Point Preserve presents “And Then The Merry Widow Waltzed,” performed by the DiCapo Opera Theatre. The show takes the audience on a musical journey through the history of American Musical Theater, beginning with “The Merry Widow” through Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music.” It includes selections from many favorite musicals, including “Show Boat,” “Kismet,” “The Most Happy Fella,” “West Side Story,” and more, for a song-filled evening in celebration of our musical heritage.

Great Hall at Castle Gould, Sands Point Preserve, 127 Middle Neck Rd., Sands Point (516) 571-7901 thesandspointpreserve.com $125; Includes performance, cocktails and dinner 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19.

James Hunter Six

James Hunter’s classic-yet-modern brand of rhythm and blues has captivated listeners and earned him two Billboard Blues #1s; tours with Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Etta James and Willie Nelson; and performances on Leno, Letterman and Conan. About Hunter, Van Morrison said, “He’s one of the best voices and best-kept secrets in British R&B and soul.” All guests attending this performance will have the opportunity to meet James Hunter after the event.

YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts 37 West Main St., Bay Shore 866-811-4111 boultoncenter.org $50. 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24.

Second Saturdays: Viva L’Art

Youngsters (ages 4 to 10) and their grown-up companions explore works of art every second Saturday of the month here with hands-on activities and discussions. In celebration of Spanish Heritage Month, the art of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali will be featured, with opportunities for children to create their own collages and drawings inspired by these two artists. November’s Second Saturday will feature American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn.

Hofstra University Museum, Emily Lowe Gallery 112 Hofstra University, Hempstead (516) 463-5672 hofstra.edu/ museum $5 per child; Free for adult companion 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12.

David Sedaris

With his sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers, nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. Sedaris, who is the author of many best-selling books and is known by many for his readings on NPR’s “This American Life,” will read from his work in an evening that promises to be both hilarious and original.

Staller Center for the Arts Main Stage at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook (631) 632-ARTS stallercenter.com $40, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20.

The Vixens Of Broadway!

With Betty Buckley

Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley has become the quintessential leading lady of the American musical theatre through her dazzling performances in “Cats,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “1776” and “Pippin.”

“The Vixens of Broadway!” is a fun and light-hearted evening that will include some of the best songs of both classic and contemporary Broadway, including “When You’re Good to Mama” (“Chicago”), “Another Suitcase In Another Hall” (“Evita”), “I Know Things Now” (“Into the Woods”), and “Whatever Lola Wants” (“Damn Yankees”).

Bay Street Theatre On the Long Wharf, Sag Harbor (631) 725-9500 baystreet.org $50 - $75; VIP tickets for $100 include after-party with Betty Buckley. 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12.

Arts Alive LI Festival Closing Event

DINNER THEATER with HAMPTON THEATRE AND STONE CREEK INN Dinner begins at 5 p.m. at the Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue followed by the 7 p.m. performance of “Other Desert Cities” nearby at the beautiful and historic Quogue Community Hall. All guests will enjoy an after theatre “talk back” session with the actors. All ticket holders are eligible to win a drawing for two free round-trip tickets courtesy Southwest Airlines® and must be present to win. Contest Rules and information at www.ArtsAliveLI.

org. The cost for the evening—3course dinner (including tax and

tip), show and talk back—is $53. To reserve your space at this Arts Alive LI Signature Series Event, please send your check for $53 per person to: Hampton Theatre Company, P.O. Box 734, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978. Please include your name, address, phone number and e-mail address if you have one so that we may e-mail you your tickets.

Tickets Theater ONLY: $25 Adults, $23 Seniors (except Saturday), $10 Students under 21.

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 5 p.m.

Dinner and 7 p.m. Theatre (631) 653-8955 hamptontheatre.org

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LONG ISLAND’S FINEST… Saturday, Sept. 28, 11 a.m.– 9 FINE ART, FINE FOOD, FINE p.m. Local to Global, Jazz and WINE, FINE COMPANY Blues, Roots and Folk, Pop and more! Local galleries, restaurants Wednesday, Oct. 2, 6–9 p.m. and businesses serve as the free, The Nassau County Museum intimate venues along with out- of Art, One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor (516) 484door locations, offering a wide 9338 nassaumuseum.org variety of performances during A talk by the famed artist Alex the Festival weekend.

Katz, plus the opportunity to ROOTS BISTRO GOURMAND meet and mingle with contempresents HARVEST FEAST porary artists whose works are Thursday, Oct. 24, 6 p.m. showcased in Aftermodernism, Roots Bistro Gourmand, 399 are among the highlights of Montauk Highway, West IsLong Island’s Finest, an evening lip (631) 587-2844 rootsbist- of tastings from prominent area rogourmand.com restaurants, caterers and winerRoots Bistro Gourmand pays ies. Tickets are $100 and support homage to the season by servspecific education programs ing Long Island-inspired dishes, such as Family Art Programs, featuring local ingredients from Autism & the Arts, Adults with Montauk Point to upstate New Memory Loss and Art Partners.

York. This six-course harvest JAMBOOZI FESTIVAL LIVE celebration feature dishes handMUSIC/LIVE PAINTING crafted by talented chefs and Sunday, Sept. 29, noon-6:30 matched with wines and beers. p.m. The Great Lawn at the This limited-seating event is hosted by Executive Chef Philippe Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Rd., Centerport limusicCorbet and Chef James Orlandi.

FIRST FRIDAY WITH BRAZILIAN GUITARIST JOÃO LUIZ Friday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Free Heckscher Museum of Art, 2 Prime Ave., Huntington (631) 351-3250 heckscher.org

Enjoy free extended viewing hours of Stan Brodsky: Retrospective from 4:00 - 8:30 PM and a special musical performance at 7:00 PM in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month with world-renowned guitarist João Luiz. This program features Latin American choros and dances, and a traditional Spanish classical guitar repertoire. Luiz is joined by flutist Kirsten Johnson for a few lively Latin duets. Stan Brodsky is ArtsAliveLI.org featured Artist of the Month.

FIRST ANNUAL LONG ISLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE PARADE AND FESTIVAL Saturday, Sept. 28, 11 a.m.

Free Hempstead (516) 5721999 Parade and festivities celebrating the importance of the rich heritage of African Americans on Long Island. Featured events include local artists, art vendors, fine cuisine from the African American Diaspora, a Health Pavilion and a Kiddy Corner for family friendly fun. The parade’s scenic route starts on Nassau Road, Roosevelt and ends at the festival at Washington Avenue and Front Street in Hempstead.

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Live music featuring The Electrix, Miles to Dayton, Abraxas, Ken Talve Trio and Elana Rivkin along with 40 Artists painting to the inspiration of the live music, scenic vistas, and audience interaction. Art, Sculpture & Food.

For all ages. Bring chairs & coolers. Rain or Shine. Free parking.

Fee: $15 Adults; $5 Children 12 & under; FREE for children 5 years and younger.

CULTURAL ARTS WORKSHOPS: AFRICAN ABSTRACTION & MODERN ART INTERTWINED Wednesday, Oct. 2, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Huntington Arts Council, 213 Main St., Huntington (631) 271-8423 X14 huntingtonartscouncil.org artsined@ huntingtonarts.org

A Workshop Series: Christopher Agostino, visual and performing artist and author of “Transformations! The Story Behind the Painted Faces,” will display examples of mask and makeup art traditions of different cultures in Africa. Participants will design a mask and observe Christopher’s face-painting technique. FREE for participating JOURNEY district teachers, $20 for general public and other teachers.

the pig himself and introduce his guests to the best in locally sourced “farm to table” cuisine.

Featuring live music. $55 Adults (Inclusive). $20 Children under 12.

Unlimited Wine, Beer & Sangria

songwriter and performer. Dave March is a founding member of Miles To Dayton, known for their four-part vocal harmony and clever songwriting. Tickets: $10 at the door & include a beverage at the bar; seating is limited, doors open at 7 p.m., or call (631) 2071313 to reserve. Non-perishable food item requested to help support RockCANRoll.

CHRISTIAN WHITE: NEW WORK Friday, Oct. 4, Opening Reception 5–7 p.m. Free Gallery North, 90 North Country Rd Setauket (631) 751-2676 gal- EPHEMERAL: CURATED BY CARSON FOX lerynorth.org The exhibition will feature paint- Wednesday, Oct. 2, 11 a.m.- 2 ing and sculpture, and include a p.m. Free Adelphi Universipreview of his carvings for the ty’s Ruth S. Harley University Iconic Wall, soon to be installed Center Gallery, 1 South Ave., at the Simons Center. White will Garden City adelphi.edu talk about his work as part of the ArTalk@GalleryNorth series on Oct. 20th. It runs from Oct. 4 thru Nov. 1.

WESTBURY STREET FAIR WITH STREET MOSAIC Saturday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free, Post Ave., Westbury

The Greater Westbury Council for the Arts in conjunction with the Westbury Business Improvement District Street Fair invites kids, families and professional artists to “paint a panel” in chalk, on the street, to create a pictorial mosaic of street art. The street fair includes a wonderful array of merchants, dozens of outside vendors, a delicious food court and plenty of live entertainment all day long. (Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 6,)

CHILD’S BREATH~A BUTOH DANCE COLLABORATION Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.

Free Northport Public Library, 151 Laurel Ave., Northport (631) 261-6664 Susanne Daeppen and Christoph Lauener, international Butoh Dancers from Switzerland, choreograph a dance piece based on the work of local playwright Bruce Teifer accompanied by local violinist/composer Matthew Pierce. It’s a presentation by the Northport Arts Coalition (631) 261-8590.

A TASTE OF PORT JEFFERSON Saturday, Oct. 5, Noon-4 p.m. Port Jefferson Village Center, 101-A East Broadway, Port Jefferson (631) 473-1414 atasteofportjefferson.com

Sample an abundance of food, desserts, wines & beers featuring more than 30 local restaurants and eateries at the Port Jefferson Village Center, which overlooks the Harborfront Park and Harbor. Tickets are $45 per person in advance and $50 at the door. Available for sale at the Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce-118 West Broadway, Port Jefferson. Credit cards & phone orders welcomed.

Artists, Christian Boltanski, Oscar Munoz, Mary Temple, Cal Lane, Portia Munson, Mac Premo, Ariana Page Russell, Joe Mangrum, Sarah Heinemann, and Cara Lynch employ a range of materials from paint, sand, photo, and earth in artworks that question human experience, memory and mortality. As part of its Ephemeral exhibition, the Long Island community is invited to join students, faculty and staff in “chalking up” the campus with images and text.

Multicolored chalk will be supplied to participants. All ages are welcome. (Rain date: Oct. 9, 2013) Evening reception: 5-7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome. Exhibition runs through Oct. 20.

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Edible Long Island and Brooklyn Brewery present a Celebration of Beer, Food & Stories! Try Brooklyn’s latest beer, Cuvée La Boite, pick up the first issue of Edible Long Island, and sample locally made snacks. Market Bistro’s mission is to bring farm fresh, seasonally inspired and thoughtfully procured provisions to Long Island.

A Workshop Series: David Martine, director/curator of the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center, an award-winning painter of Native Americans and natural landscapes, talks about his background and gives an overview of the new living Wikun Village at the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center as well as the museum’s collection. Participants create their own portraits using referSOL Y SOMBRA : LATIN SOUL ence and drawing tools. FREE Saturday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Van for participating JOURNEY Nostrand Theatre, Suffolk district teachers, $20 for general County Community College public and other teachers.

Michael J. Grant Campus, 1001 Crooked Hill Rd., Brentwood (631) 851-6589 SunySuffolk.edu/TheatreArts Join the Sol y Sombra Spanish Dance Company for an exciting look at the roots of Hispanic music and dance in a concert celebrating the diversity of the “Latin Soul” through its music, song and dance. The program features live Spanish Flamenco, Argentine Tango and Mexican Folklorico. General admission: $15 Seniors and SCCC Faculty: $14 SCCC students with current ID: One FREE ticket

ELSKA PLUS ARCTIC ANIMALS WORKSHOP Saturday, Oct. 19, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Ave., Garden City (516) 224-5800 LICM.org

MICHAEL PARASKEVAS Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6 – 8 p.m.

Free Memorial Gallery, Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Rd., Farmingdale (631) 794-6118 or (631) 420-2181 Farmingdale.edu The well-known artist, painter, illustrator and animator, Michael Paraskevas, will exhibit a collection of his work. Meet the artist himself at the opening reception or at a lecture from 3:05-4:15 p.m. Exhibition runs from Oct. 7 thru Nov. 1.

ART AFTER DARK Friday, Oct. 25, 7 - 9 p.m.

Free Art League of Long Island, 107 E Deer Park Rd., Dix Hills (631) 462-5400, artleagueli.org

Participate with Art League instructor David Miller as he “Hiddi! hiddi!” that’s the word as explains his work “Exquisite LONG ISLAND FALL Elska combines theatre, storytell- Corpse,” which is similar to an FESTIVAL ing, and musical performance in old parlour game called “ConFriday, Oct. 11 – Monday, Oct. order to whisk children and fami- sequences.” Visitors will take 14, Free Heckscher Park, lies away on a musical tour of her part in this fun and interactive Prime Ave., Huntington lifall- native Arctic home including Halloween-themed artistic crefestival.com her two-foot-tall best friend, the ation. Enjoy live music with wine The event offers four stages of Goobler, an Arctic fox and a vast and cheese refreshments. entertainment, a world-class colony of “Lost Socks.” Ages: 1 THE CRAIC FESTIVAL: carnival, hundreds of arts and and up. Fee: $5 with museum STOKED FEST craft, and food vendors and admission, ($4 LICM members), numerous activities designed $10 Theater Only. Arctic Animals Saturday, Oct. 19, 5 p.m.

Free Long Beach Hotel, 405 especially for young children.

Workshop: at 11 a.m. adn 2 p.m.

The Heckscher Museum of Kids can create their own Arctic E Broadway, Long Beach stokedfest.com Art invites visitors of all ages animal puppets to sing along for a FREE art activity on the with all the quirky characters on A One-Day Kids Film Festival museum terrace throughout the the Island of Elska. All ages. Free will help the revitalization of Long Beach in the aftermath of afternoon. Half-price museum with museum admission.

Hurricane Sandy. The festival admission and docent-led tours HEALTHY SNACKING WITH features a 75-minute short films of the Stan Brodsky rRtrospecprogram, arts and crafts with tive, plus recent acquisitions, and DEBBIE SUNSHINE local artists right after the films, “Picture Perfect” exhibitions. Art Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. and a reception (food & drinks) activities daily from 12 to 4 p.m. 300 Forest Drive, East Hills with free goodie bags for the during festival dates. Stan Brod- (516) 484-1545 sjjcccommerce.org Kids. FREE event with donations sky is ArtsAliveLI.org featured Learn how to make yummy, accepted at the door.

“Artist of the Month.” nutritious snacks for kids and CULTURAL ARTS CULTURAL ARTS adults with Debby Sunshine, WORKSHOPS: WORKSHOPS: INDIAN author of the blog “Vegan STORYTELLING AND BLOCK PRINTING TRENDS American Princess.” Fee $15 / FOLKTALES AND TRADITIONS members $10.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. Huntington Arts Council, 213 Main St., Huntington (631) 271-8423 X14. huntingtonartscouncil.org artsined@ huntingtonarts.org

A Workshop Series: Heather Forest Ph.D., an award-winning storyteller, educator and author of 17 children’s books and recordings, creates a workshop to explore the art of storytelling.

FREE for participating JOURNEY district teachers, $20 for general public and other teachers.

WINDS, WAVES AND SKIES Sunday, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m., Vanderbilt Planetarium, 180 Little Neck Rd., Centerport (631) 854-5555

Puneeta Mittal, painter and exhibiting ceramic artist, discusses the ancient art of Indian block JEN CHAPIN IN CONCERT printing and current trends in GUY’S PIG ROAST AT WITH SPECIAL GUEST DAVE modern fashion/textile design, RESTAURANT MIRABELLE MARCH and how these trends relate Friday, Oct. 25, 6 p.m. ResCULTURAL ARTS back to patterns Indian designtaurant Mirabelle at the Three Thursday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m.

WORKSHOPS: CREATING Patchogue Theatre for the ers have been using for centuVillage Inn, 150 Main St., PORTRAITS FROM HISTORY ries. The hands-on workshop Main St. on the Harbor, Stony Performing Arts, 71 East Main Tuesday, Oct. 22, 4:30 - 7:30 demonstrates simple ways to St., Patchogue (631) 207-1313 Brook (631) 584.5999 THE QUARTERLY CAROUSAL p.m. Huntington Arts Council, create your own stamp for block patchoguetheatre.com It’s time for Guy’s Annual Pig This intimate LIVE IN THE LOBBY Wednesday, Oct. 16, 5:30 213 Main St., Huntington printing on fabric. FREE for Roast hosted by Long Island’s show provides a rare look at Jen 7:30 p.m. Free Market Bistro, (631) 271-8423 X14 huntingparticipating JOURNEY district renowned chef Guy Reuge at 519 N. Broadway, Jericho (516) tonartscouncil.org artsined@ teachers, $20 for general public Restaurant Mirabelle in The Three Chapin, a Long Island native, 513-1487 marketbistroli.com activist, educator and amazing huntingtonarts.org and other teachers.

Village Inn. Chef Guy will roast

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Monmouth Woodwind Quintet performs the music of the Long Island Composers Alliance members in the 60-foot sky theater at the Planetarium. Tickets $20.

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. Huntington Arts Council, 213 Main St., Huntington (631) 271-8423 X14 huntingtonartscouncil.org artsined@huntingtonarts.org

Choose Your Own ART-VENTURE!

If you’re an 80’s fan, you might remember the Choose Your Own Adventure book series that began with a warning, “This book is different from other books.” You were instructed to not read the entire book. At the end of each page you were given a choice that determined how the story would continue, which put you in control of the story and its ending. For Arts Alive month we selected some great events and gave you some options to complete the experience…. So you are in control of your own experience… an ArtVenture!

Plan a Night around...

An Acoustic Night with Lou Gramm: The Voice of Foreigner

Plan a day around...

Elska Plus Arctic Animals Workshop

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Long Island Children’s Museum 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City Ages: 1 and up. Fee: $5 with museum admission, ($4 LICM members), $10 Theater Only

“Hiddi! Hiddi!” That’s how to say “hello” on the Island of Elska, an imaginary volcanic island off the coast of Iceland, home to the singer Elska. Joining her on the island are a cast of quirky characters, including her two-foot-tall best friend the Goobler, an Arctic fox and a vast colony of Lost Socks.

Her award-winning debut album, “Middle of Nowhere,” is packed with kidfriendly modern pop songs blending vibraphones, chimes, bells, twinkling analog synthesizers and one of the most endearing and lovely voices in family entertainment. Elska combines theatre, storytelling, and musical performance in order to whisk children and families away on a musical tour of her Arctic home.

Arctic Animals: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Museum guests are invited to learn about animals that live in the Artic, and then create your own Artic animal puppet to sing along with all the quirky characters on the Island of Elska. All ages. Free with museum admission. For information: LICM.org Your day should always begin with a wholesome breakfast, especially before traveling to the Arctic. Thomas’ Ham & Eggery in Carle Place was voted 2013 Bethpage Best of LI winner for Best Breakfast and serves delicious fare. You can also visit Gourmet Grill on Mineola Blvd in Mineola, nominated in the Healthy Eatery cateogry in the 2014 Bethpage Best of Long Island.

You might want to dress warm for the Icelandic weather, so pick up some cozy and colorful clothing at Denny’s Childrens’ Wear, with six locations across Long Island, they were nominated as Best Childrens Clothing Store fo 2013 and 2014.

Sundown Ski and Sports Shop with multiple locations is also a Best of nominee this year. Once Upon A Child in Seaford, nominated for Best Children’s Clothing Store in 2013 and 2014 might have some socks to help Elska and the colony of Lost Socks!

After the show, stop by Fun Stuff Toys in Seaford, voted Best Toy Store in 2013 and is nominated again this year. You can purchase a take-home puppet theatre so you can perform Elksa songs with your own puppet from the create-your-own workshop. Your play can be accompanied by chimes and bells that you can find at Fun Stuff and in Plainview, and ALL MUSIC, INC. nominated for Best Musical Instrument Store for 2014.

What could be better than ending your Elska adventure than skating at Iceland in New Hyde Park, nominated for Best Ice Skating Rink for 2014. If you prefer stargazing, one of Elska’s favorite pastimes, the Jet Blue Planetarium is located inside the Long Island Children’s Museum nominated for best museum in 2014.

As Elska says, this not-to-be-missed Artic Animal ArtVenture and Workshop is “Totally Amazing!”

Saturday, Oct. 11, 8:00 PM Landmark on Main Street, Port Washington Premium Tickets $72, standard $67, with discount for Friends of Landmark. Purchase through Landmark Box Office, call 516-7676444 or go to LandmarkOnMainStreet.org As the lead singer of Foreigner, Lou Gramm became one of the most successful rock vocalists of the late 1970s and 1980s. His unique vocals made Foreigner one of Billboard’s Top 100 Artists of All Time in hit songs history.

Gramm was the lead vocalist on all of Foreigner’s hit songs, including “Feels Like the First Time”, “Cold as Ice”, “Hot Blooded”, “Double Vision”, “Head Games”, “Urgent”, “Juke Box Hero” and “Say You Will”.

He co-wrote most of the songs for the band, which achieved two of its biggest hits with the ballads “Waiting for a Girl Like You”, which spent ten weeks at #2 on the 1981-82 American Hot 100, and “I Want to Know What Love Is”, which was a #1 hit internationally (US & UK) in 1985. Their first 8 singles cracked the Billboard Top 20, (4 went Top 10) making them the first group since the Beatles to achieve this in 1980.

“Is It Live Or Is it Memorex?” What a great time to reunite with your high school or college friends for a night of music with Lou Gramm of Foreigner.

Make the evening even more memorable by visiting LI Vinyl Exchange in East Northport, a 2014 nominee for Best Record Store, and pick up a few classic Foreigner albums to enjoy before the concert.

Then, it’s onto the Junior League of LI in Manhasset or Revival in Roslyn, both nominated this year for Best Vintage Clothing Store. Enjoy the hunt for some Zena or Sergio Valente Jeans, and don’t forget leggings!

You’ll be the envy of everyone if you check the time while sporting a Swatch Watch.

Coin Galleries, with six Long Island locations, is a multiple-year winner in the Gold Buying category and is a great source for vintage jewelry.

If you’re really adventurous, take a ride to the Rockabilly Barbers in Huntington, East Northport or Stony Brook for some business in the front and party in the back (aka a mullet). The Rockabilly Barbers are multiple year winners of Best of LI, what better way to complete your look.

Plan ahead and make reservations for dinner at Louie’s in Pt. Washington, the 2014 nominee for Best Restaurant with a Waterview, or LaCoquille in Manhasset, the 2014 Best of Nominee for Best French Restaurant. Ooh LaLa! If you’re more of a dessert fan, Sweetie’s in Pt. Washington, the 2014 Best of nominee for Best Candy Store, is a yummy choice and 16 Handles, with multiple Long Island locations and the 2014 nominee for Best Frozen Yogurt, is a scrumptious way to end your Art-Venture.

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Miracle on Maple Street NBC’s George to the Rescue Helps Massapequa Mom

By Carly Rome and Timothy Bolger tbolger@longislandpress.com

Nicole Amesti of Massapequa was starting a new chapter in life as the new mother of twins when her husband, Jim, lost his battle with colon cancer last year, months after she gave birth.

The twins, Abigail and Jack—who turn 2 in October—had been sharing a nursery in the two-bedroom, two-story Cape-Cod-style house on Maple Street since their father’s passing shelved plans to turn the unfinished upstairs into a master bedroom for the parents. But as quickly as tragedy left the 35-year-old mother widowed and her children fatherless, an angel with a TV crew answered her prayers one sunny morning in July.

“I know about the house, the twins...I’m here to rescue you,” George Oliphant, host of NBC’s hit home renovation show George to the Rescue, told Nicole when she opened a knock at the door to find the surprise news with the Long Island Press exclusively in tow.

“You have no idea what this means,” replied a beaming Amesti, who was planning to move into the basement to allow the twins to each have their own room. “He’s going to give you your own room!” she excitedly told her son as she held him in her arms and the family’s brown puggle, Fred, barked at the camera crew.

Oliphant, who’s has been rescuing people unable to afford home renovations for four seasons, similarly saved a widow in the Sept. 21 season premier whose house—the only one on the Nautical Mile in Freeport—was flooded in Superstorm Sandy a year ago.

Three weeks after Amesti and her two tots moved back in with her parents to let the crew work, she returned Sept.

13 to find her house transformed, clouds parting just in time for her close-up during the reveal. Her two downstairs bedrooms converted into idealized

childrens’ rooms—pink and doll-filled for Abby, brown and sports-themed for Jack. The upstairs “sanctuary” resembles a four-star hotel room—including an elegant full bathroom—with no signs of the rafters and bare floorboards, effectively doubling the living space of the house.

“The selling point was the space up there,” Nicole recalls. “When we bought the house, it was our dream.”

Despite much help from her mother, Rose, and Jim’s parents, Tony and Marie Amesti, the second-floor renovation required more work and money than could fit into the family’s budget.

Roslyn Heights-based interior designer Deborah Baum, who says she relished the chance to “really get creative,” estimates she and a half dozen other companies donated a combined $150,000 worth of time and materials to renovate the four rooms.

“We’re giving her a boutique hotel

space...modern, everything she needs,” adds Baum.

The remodeling team includes Rob Shapiro of Glen Cove-based Square One Construction, closet designer Jayne Hirshman of West Babylon’s A & G Designs, Jericho-based Fancy Fixtures, PR Painting of Oakdale, East Morichesbased MTS Plumbing & Heating, Workroom Creations of Port Washington, Hicksville-based Lunar Electric, Elegant Tile & Marble of Nebraska and North Carolina-based Angie’s Closets.

Broadway Gourmet Deli in Massapequa catered the crew.

Shapiro of Square One says he was glad to lend a helping hand, because Amesti is “someone who truly deserves it.”

Nicole gasps when she walks into her daughter’s girly new room, the first she lays eyes on after the renovations. The sight of her late husband’s Yankees, Jets and Broncos caps hanging on the wall of her son’s room brings her to tears.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: Nicole Amesti returns to her Massapequa home after NBC’s George to the Rescue spent about a month renovating new bedrooms for the mother and her twin toddlers.

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“It’s alright to cry,” George tells her.

She replies: “Does anybody not cry on this show?”

After the crew finishes filming and friends and relatives fill the house to celebrate the renovations with champagne, Jim’s best friend, Ernie Weber, pauses to reflect on family photos hanging in the living room showing the couple on their wedding day, at Disney World and in Rockefeller Center.

The 41-year-old Oyster Bay town worker from Massapequa recalls Jim’s last words to Nicole: “Are you going to be okay?” Jim had remained upbeat despite his diagnoses but worried about how his family would go on without him. “Now he’s smiling down ‘cause they’re gonna be alright,” Weber says.

“I’ll have a great place of my own to start a new chapter in our lives,” says Amesti. “I’m excited, shocked, thrilled.”

Oliphant adds that his show is about more than just ratings. It’s about family.

“It’s not just the job, it’s the energy, it’s the people,” he says. “You could feel the energy, the excitement—you could feel Jim’s presence over the house…It’s sad the reason we’re here, but I’m glad we were able to turn it into something positive.”

The episode featuring the Amesti family is schedule to air at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 on NBC.

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Imagine: John Lennon on Long Island

By Christopher Twarowski chris@longislandpress.com

By the time John Lennon and Yoko Ono purchased a secluded, sprawling mansion overlooking Long Island Sound in Cold Spring Harbor in November 1979, the Beatles had been broken up for nearly a decade and it’d been almost five years since John had released an album of his own.

Following his notorious two-year “lost weekend” away from Yoko with May Pang and Harry Nilsson in California, he’d spent the past four years away from the spotlight, out of the studio, and for the most part, away from his rock and roll friends. He was mostly holed up at The Dakota, rearing their son Sean, born on John’s 35th birthday in 1975. Two days before Sean’s birth, a state Supreme Court judge had reversed a deportation order, granting John legal stay in the United States and ending a vicious campaign by the Nixon administration to have him sent back to England.

He’d later describe himself during this period as a househusband, telling Playboy magazine that “I’ve been baking bread and looking after the baby.”

“But what have you been working on?” the writer persisted.

“Are you kidding? Bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job.”

The Lennons—well, Yoko—had been on a “massive real estate shopping spree” that fall, writes John’s personal assistant at the time, Fred Seaman, in a 1991 tell-all The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir, who was sent to scout out potential homesteads in, among other places, upstate New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Long Island. (He’d later plead guilty to one felony count of grand larceny in connection with the disappearance of some of John’s personal journals, sentenced to five years’ probation in 1983.)

When the then-26-year-old saw that fantastical Long Island house on the hill, tucked away on a bluff off a private road, Seaman was convinced it was the one. It just had to pass Yoko’s psychics.

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Biographers and former employees have painted myriad portraits of the Fab Four leader— paranoid acid-dope fiend, violent and tortured sexual deviant, depressed genius are but a few. The Beatle known for his humanitarianism and ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: Cannon Hill, the Cold Spring social activism was a complex man, Harbor mansion where John but by all accounts, the secluded estate Lennon and Yoko Ono spent up on that bluff was a place of refuge time with their son, Sean. for the then 39-year-old-turned-40 superstar-turned-caring father, who relished in its calm-yet-vibrant, new, seafaring environ.

Cannon Hill was a retreat, somewhere to relax, escape, collect himself, break off a splinter of peace, find inspiration.

That’s also the portrait painted by home video recordings of the family’s time there, taken by John (and Seaman), which found its way to You Tube in recent years. The footage offers rare, never-before-seen glimpses of the Lennons’ day-to-day life within its ivy-laced walls. It’s raw, uncensored, and personal.

“Welcome, my dear!” says an ebullient, scraggly bearded John, scurrying to the door to greet Yoko.

“Have a seat. Welcome to Cold Spring Harbor.”

Long Island’s North Shore,” he writes. “The Tudor-style “This is a gorgeous place,” she tells him, while John house, called Cannon Hill because of the cannon by pours her some tea. its swimming pool, nestled at the bottom of a winding “It’s nice to wake up here, isn’t it?” he asks her the driveway and from a distance looked like a gingerbread next morning as he lights a cigarette. house. From the moment I first laid eyes on the old ivy“So different than waking up in New York,” she colored wooden mansion I knew it would be ideal for says, lighting a smoke, too.

John and Yoko.

There’s footage of the two gazing out the window “It had more than a dozen rooms on three floors, across the harbor, Yoko commenting about the seagulls. including a large master bedroom with a balcony that A mop-topped Sean is lying atop Yoko on a couch as offered a spectacular view of the harbor,” he continues. they both laugh and squeal. The family is seated in lawn “There was even a small beach, as well as a private dock. chairs out on the bluff, John, his hair pulled tightly John had begun to hint that he wanted to buy a boat, back in a samurai bun, sketching diagrams for Yoko of and this looked like the perfect place for it.” a nearby house that’s “the most beautiful” one he’s ever “The rambling wooden house dated from the Eighseen. And then there’s John, acoustic guitar in hand, teenth Century whaling era and took its name from the performing two takes of “Oh, Yoko” to the camera, with antique cannon embedded beside the swimming pool,” tidbits of his trademark humor: concurs author Philip Norman in 2008’s John Lennon: “Welcome, Missus Lennon and your wonderful The Life. “With it went a private beach and dock, looking mother Baba,” he says as an intro to the first. “Welcome out on a panorama of motorboats, sailboats, and skiffs, to Cold Spring Harbor. This is a recitation, which you much like the scene Aunt Mimi saw from her bungalow might call ‘Oh, Yoko, Part Two,’ circa 1970, one, two, or in faraway Poole.” three,” he adds, striking a chord. “Maybe this time we’ll John’s “Aunt Mimi,” Mary Elizabeth Smith, was the get it.” older sister of his mother, Julia, who’d separated from “God bless you, mom, thank you, dad, peace on John’s father, Alfred, and given her guardianship of Earth, goodwill to all men, but don’t forget any women, the then-5-year-old. Mimi raised John for most of his of course,” he jokingly bows at the end of a second take. childhood, though John had grown close to his mother John would often go antiquing. He’d venture into (who’d taught him how to play the banjo and ukulele) Huntington for flowers and health food. before she was struck and killed by a drunken off-duty It’s at Cold Spring Harbor, too, that John takes up police officer when John was 17. sailing.

Following the success of the Beatles, John bought “He was interested in sailing all his life,” Tyler Mimi a bungalow in Poole on the south coast of Coneys, of Coneys Marine in Huntington, tells the Press.

England. They remained close the rest of his life. He never got over Julia’s death.

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Tyler sold him a 14-foot O’Day Javelin, which John subsequently named Isis, after the Egyptian god of fertility, and was almost immediately enlisted to take John and—“against Yoko’s wishes,” he says—Sean for sailing excursions “frequently.”

“I said, ‘Bring him, she’s not here,’” the then-25, now 59-yearold laughs. “And that was a good thing, because of the way things went down, that was a good decision.

“We were always talking about stuff,” Tyler says of their time out on the water. “He was very interested in regular people.

“He was a regular guy,” he adds.

“One of the boys.”

Little did Tyler know that he’d be one of just a handful to accompany John on a defining trip in rock history to Bermuda. Apparently, it was written in the stars.

“In June, he was told by his better half that ‘you should go on a trip now,’” Tyler recalls, quoting Yoko. “‘Because it was in the stars,’ the astrology. ‘So it’d be good for you to go on a trip.’ And he did. So it had to be all put together really quickly.”

Before long, John, Tyler and his cousins Kevin and Ellen Coneys were screened by one of Yoko’s psychics. Soon they were flying out of Republic Airport bound for Newport, R.I., where they boarded a 43-foot boat named the Megan Jaye and met its captain, a burly Beatles fan named Hank Halsted.

What would normally have been a four- or five-day trip took an extra y “because we had a big storm,” says Tyler.

“We were blown away from Bermuda for a little while, off-course.”

What happened next cements the journey into rock and roll (and boating) mythology.

John had mostly served as the cook on board, says Tyler, but when the ocean’s ferocity was at its worst and the experienced crew was overtaxed, somehow the musician from Liverpool managed to steer the ship safely through it.

“At one point, he was the only person awake on the boat, at the helm, for a couple of—for awhile, during the storm, at the peak of the storm,” Tyler says. “It was the most exciting adventure you could have, without dying.”

Once ashore, he says John was jubilant. They celebrated with a huge feast.

“It was pretty amazing,” Tyler says of the trek. “He always wanted to do that and he finally did. He was forced to do it, almost.”

It’s during that trip that John began writing music again, capitalizing on the prodding of a fierce, if imagined, rivalry between former bandmate Paul

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The last album John Lennon recorded, Double Fantasy, got its initial spark of inspiration from his time in Cold Spring Harbor.

McCartney, whose hit single at the time “Coming Up” had also motivated him.

Tyler says John had been jotting down notes throughout the journey. Once in Bermuda, his creativity was awakened, with a vengeance.

He spent two months on the island: playing guitar, singing, writing, recording, and honing the songs that would comprise the bulk of Double Fantasy—released in November 1980 and named after a species of freesia he saw while on a trip with Sean to a Bermuda botanical garden—and 1984’s posthumous Milk and Honey.

Tyler and crew’s fatefully epic journey made it onto the album, too— immortalized on the record and by John’s handwritten doodles and verses in the Megan Jaye’s logbook: “He’d write down my lick, it’s one of his album discs, and it’s in the diagram of the Megan Jaye: [Dear Megan,] ’There’s no place like nowhere, T.C., 1980,’” says Tyler. “That’s me, he put that in the log and quoted me. Yeah. That was on the Double Fantasy album, ‘When no place is the place to be.’”

“Suddenly, I got the songs,” John later said in his last interview, given just hours before his tragic demise. “Suddenly I had, if you’ll pardon the expression, diarrhea of creativity.”

On Dec. 8, 1980, after returning from the Record Plant Studio, John was entering The Dakota to say good-night to Sean when he was shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman, a fan he’d signed an autograph for earlier that day.

Tyler was at Cannon Hill when the fateful call came.

“It was very eerie,” he recalls. “It was just pretty unbelievable. I look out the windows and there were crows everywhere.

“All over, all over the yard,” Tyler says. “Until recently I never knew that that’s called a ‘murder,’ when there’s that many crows together…which kind of made my hair standup.”

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Sandy Art

Beauty from Devastation

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By Cassidy Kammerer and Catherine Xavier

battered tree sprouts from the cold tiles in the center of a brightly lit room.

Some of its branches stretch out across the ceiling, tousled in gold and silver fabric, while others lie broken and warped, littering the floor alongside a barrage of wreckage strewn beneath the distorted arch. Tangled green and red wires dangle from its lofty fingers, spilling out onto the floor, where yellow caution tape and orange cones become lost amongst the chaos. A barricade stands shattered atop the clutter, sending a warning to all who walk by of its potential danger.

Poet Steven T. Licardi stands before an anxious crowd circled around him, searching for his spot in the pages of a book. He leans into a microphone. With clenched fists and closed eyes he passionately and enthusiastically casts a spell, mesmerizing all reciting, imploring: “Apocalyptic sermons filled the spaces between kin and kinsmen, stories of survival told over dancing candlelight. The wind had aided the trees in exacting their revenge, taking men in their driveways in front of their families! But it was peacetime.”

His eyes open suddenly and shoot piercing daggers into those of the audience, while continuing his incantation.

“Splinters of barky skin and limbs peppered the crooks of our community. In spite of all the horror,” his voice gets louder, “Halloween was canceled.”

Studio 5404 sits alongside Merrick Road in Massapequa, surrounded by the South Shore town’s many local businesses and restaurants. Only feet away from its powdery blue and bright red doors is where Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc nearly a year ago, leaving homes destroyed and lives turned upside-down.

Yet it is here that artists such as Licardi unleash their own fury, bending and twisting the emotional carnage left behind by Mother Nature into something raw, something visceral, something tragically beautiful, something magical. “A Brush With Sandy,” as the exhibit is titled, is replete with powerful photographs, paintings, sculptures, and poetry borne of the disaster in an effort to not only express the human toll of the storm’s devastation through the arts, but to raise money for those affected by the tragic storm. This exhibit is just one of countless creative projects being wielded across Long Island in response to what has so severely wounded so many. From public art murals to paintings, to photographs, spoken word tributes, songs and documentaries, Sandy’s wrath is alive and well, yet transformed into positive, creative works of pure humanness.

It’s also a great way to open up the hearts and souls of those still suffering, those still reeling, though who do not yet know the healing wonders of art.

“The community understands Sandy; they understand what they went through,” says artist

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ART FROM TRAGEDY: (From top, clockwise) “When The Beach Met The Bay,“ a public art project by artist/activist Lisa Be, consisting of 25,000 plastic caps and inspired by Superstorm Sandy, floods engulfs a corner of Long Beach in color (Courtesy of Lisa Be); photographer Michael Schor’s “Rockaway on Fire” and “The Silent Walk” captures the horros of the storm in vivid detail; and Songs of Sandy, a collection of storminspired poetry by LI poets, are all examples of Long islandersusing art to transform the storm’s destruction into pure beauty.

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DEVASTATING: Photographer Michael Schor’s “Harbor Light Before” and “Harbor Light After” captures some of the fury Superstorm Sandy unleashed in Rockaway Park, Queens. (Courtesy of Michael Schor Photography)

and studio founder Lori Horowitz while greeting a steady stream of visitors. “The community doesn’t necessarily understand the arts, yet. So the idea of bringing people out and raising their consciousness about Sandy and then mixing it with the art and inspiration that come from it will hopefully help the community focus on that.”

The studio itself acted as a safe haven for some locals.

“We were just opening at the time,” she says with her hand to her heart. “We got hit pretty badly, but we got oil in here, bedding and food, and had people stay here.

We really saw the devastation firsthand.”

Nearby, landscape artist and Rockaways native, Michael Schor, is snapping photos of the guests that stop to admire his work.

“It’s beautiful and tragic,” he says, a camera in his hand while gazing at the captivating images. “I got to the head of this block, and realized this mother and her daughter were walking into my shot,” he says pointing at a photo titled “The Silent Walk,” which captures in full horror the brutal destruction that ravaged 119th Street in the Rockaways.

“Look how stunning their reflection is in the water. See, when you look at this photo, that is what you tend to focus on,” he says, pointing to the ghostly, haunting reflections of the pair walking through the warzone. “Then you realize [that] only a few feet away, a car is flipped over,” he adds, glancing at a beaten-down navy blue car turned completely upside-down in water on someone’s property.

Schors’ captivating photos of the aftermath have gone viral, and some have been picked up by news agencies all over the world.

“I tried to capture beauty of this craziness from a photo journalistic perspective,” he explains, pointing to another piece, “Rockaway on Fire,” of 116th Street and what was left of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. “There were police signs and stuff, but I needed to get closer to capture this,” he continues. “By the time I realized I was close enough, I started to feel the hair on my arms start to tingle because of the flames. I got out of there!”

A trio of striking paintings further amplify the total decimation of the tragedy from a nearby wall.

“I’m a veterinarian, I own an animal hospital in Merrick, and it was totally destroyed,” says artist Gary Selmonsky.

“We had about four feet of water in the place, but it is back now. Lighting, water, and devastation,” he says slowly, pointing

to one of his creations. His visions are superimposed atop the hellish backdrop of the aftermath left in the wake of the 2011 Japanese tsunami that literally wiped some communities there off the map. Characters in his works include those shown in the iconic Godzilla movies.

“In the 1950s, 1960s, Japan was scared of all the nuclear experiments going on in the Pacific Islands. One of the reactions of that is they made the Godzilla movies. So when you think about it, it’s sort of like 60 years later, all the horror comes to life.”

Poet John Brennan, of Garden City via Northern Ireland, awaits his chance to recite his creation “The Storm,” inspired

by Sandy. He is humbled to have only lost power for 10 days.

“Seanachie,” he says, in soft-spoken brogue. “It means, ‘We are all artists,’ in Gaelic. You see, all artists, no matter what medium, are all gifted. It’s something they are able to tap into. Van Morrison really put it the best. Someone said to him, ‘Jesus, man, how do you write them thousands of songs?’ Van says, ‘I didn’t write them, I tapped into the source.’

“It’s a gift,” Brennan says. “The thing about a gift is, it only works if you give it away, and that’s why I’m here tonight.”

He belongs to The Bards Initiative, a Long Island poetry nonprofit dedicated to using poetry to support the community.

The group of poets has done work for causes like breast cancer, autism, and now, the Island’s most recent hurtle, Sandy.

They gather here tonight to recite poems from their book, Songs of Sandy, put together by The Bards’ editor, J.P Wagner.

“Songs of Sandy came along as our attempt to have a quick and timely response from the poetry community concerning the disaster and to do our part since our greatest power is our words, and we wanted to do what little we could to raise some money quick for the relief,”

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says Wagner. “I was without power for only a day, and I spent it writing poems— plenty of which were about the storm. I figured every other writer on the Island must be doing the same thing, so the second I got my power back I called my vice president and co-editor.

“The book filled up the quickest of any book I ever worked on,” he adds.

“We were honestly expecting maybe a chapbook of like 15 to 20 poets to respond, but in two week’s time, nearly 50 poets sent in their work.”

Collaboration is something Bards poet Karen Jakubowski, of Massapequa, knows all about.

“For me it was learning how much people care for one another,” she explains.

“My neighborhood became a community.

Everyone came together. We shared resources, we helped each other.”

“Sandy was a wake-up call to me,” she adds as she awaits her chance to recite her poem “Why Sandy.” “It came to tell us that you can’t live in a place of greed.

If you don’t listen, we are going to take it from you.”

And it’s a collaboration, and an undying commitment to translating the divine inner visions which artists experience as bright as day, which fuel such passionate, dedication to bringing these creations into this realm.

Lisa Be, an artist and activist from Long Beach, had her entire apartment submerged beneath 4 feet of seawater when Sandy rammed the barrier island Oct. 29. She eventually became homeless.

“The beach met the bay in my apartment,” she says, over the telephone on a recent afternoon.

The 27-year-old is also the cofounder of nonprofit Project Vortex, an arts initiative aimed at inspiring artists, designers, architects and other creatives to use everyday plastics in their works, thus helping to eliminate their disposals in the ocean and other waterbodies, and

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protecting these invaluable resources in the process.

So, in the wake of the storm, Be petitioned all the public schools in Long Beach to collect any plastic caps or lids they came about on a daily basis, with the promise of pizza and ice cream for the kids. In one month, she collected a whopping 75,000, She and a handful of other artists drilled 25,000 of them into the walls along West Beech Street and Maryland Avenue.

The result is a sprawling, magnetic, gloriously vibrant rainbow tidal wave engulfing the entire block’s corners. She named the colorful public art installment “When The Beach Met The Bay.” “So visually speaking, as an artist, I just have this recurring vision of cells or circles coming together and attaching,” she says. “I’ve always kind of had that in my mind and seeing it over the years the connection with bottle caps really came naturally. I never had the motivation or the push to just do it. There was also an excuse in some way and the notion down here, I guess returning after Sandy was, like, I have no control over anything so why not just do it right now, just do it already?

“I really can’t explain it. I was just filled with this fire-like energy after the storm,” she adds. “There’s just no more excuses. No one is going to do anything for me. I have to do it myself, and especially, environmentally.”

Back at Studio 5404, that same burning creative fury is apparent. As the night draws to a close and visitors shuffle out, Lori Horowitz stands alongside the gigantic tree in the middle of the room.

The tree represents the devastated reality of so many communities post-Sandy.

But like it, Be’s mural, and all the evening’s creations, there’s beauty, and perhaps even some inspiration, to be had if these same communities all come together.

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In between juggling nonstop phone calls, eating breakfast at his desk and barking out orders to his assistant, Spider, tattoo tycoon Carlo Fodera, recalls how after he helped lobby New York City to legalize tattooing in 1997, he launched his tattoo supply company to help the influx of new artists.

“All the talented guys and ladies could not find equipment on their own,” says Fodera, better known as Coney Island Carlo, who also has a line of spirits of the same name.

Back when the 49-year-old started tattooing in ’77, the old timers made scoring needles, ink and other gear tricky. So once the industry went mainstream, he set up Technical Tattoo Supply 15 years ago in West Babylon. He now counts customers worldwide among his clientele, who mostly buy more than 100,000 bottles of ink a year, much of it made on Long Island. He also owns Studio Enigma, a chain of tattoo shops in New York City. “We take pride in making a quality product,” he says. “We have a lot of fun here, but we’re also a serious business.”

/// THE ARTIST Fainters. Requests for massive tattoos shrunk to the size of a quarter. Customers taking off more clothes than required. Covering up homemade tattoos gone bad. After nearly 20 years of tattooing hundreds, if not thousands of people with Brooklyn-style flash at Lone Wolf Tattoo in Bellmore, Ron Bianco, who bought the shop three years ago, has seen it all. “With what we have at our fingertips now, the amount of research you can do while riding an elevator, there’s no reason for someone to get a crappy tattoo,” Bianco says while inking a black griffin across this reporter’s chest. “They should research and know where they’re going and who they’re going to and everyone should have beautiful tattoos.” But, as Bianco puts it: “People get, like, really weird when it’s tattoo time.” There are no-shows. Reality TV fans who think big tattoos only take a half hour. And the guy who requested his then-girlfriend’s name while planning for the inevitable breakup by also bringing a sketch of a car that Bianco later covered it with. Despite his unconventional line of work, he’s living the American dream. “I got two kids, two cats, a wife and a house,” he says between dabs. “They call me ‘Regular Ron.’”

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/// THE REMOVER For someone who owns a tattoo removal shop, perhaps the most striking thing about Bethany Cirlin is how many she has of her own—including one on her arm she’s also having lightened with lasers to prep for a new cover-up tat. “I’ve always been obsessed with tattoos, and anyone who’s had a tattoo has had a bad one,” she says while sitting in the Zen-inspired waiting room of #cleancanvasmoreart at The Laser Spa, formerly a medi-spa before she switched it to tattoo removal full-time this spring. “The fact that it can be taken off is a phenomenon. It used to be permanent.” The lightening process can take up to two years, depending upon immunities, skin tone, placement and ink; blue and green, for example, are tougher. Among the most common tattoos removed are names either misspelled or of ex-lovers. There’s also the occasional regretted racist tattoo. She thinks of her work as therapeutic, but she doesn’t pry. She also offers free removal of radiation-mapping tattoos for cancer survivors—dot-sized markers sometimes required to assist therapists in aiming the radiation. Although the laser is painful, she notes the payoff is worthwhile. “Living with something on your body that you hate —that never goes away,” she says.

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/// THE AFICIONADO Shortly after she turned 20, Gigi Becker of Huntington got the itch for her first tattoo, a little red heart on her shoulder.

Twenty more tats followed two years later. And, after a lull, an all-out ink-fest broke out five years ago, with work on her legs, arms, neck, abdomen and a large tree reaching from her side to across her back. “I can’t even draw a stick figure,” she jokes.

“I pay people to be artistic for me.” A few, like a pink cupcake on her hand, match her friends’. She has a tattoo key to a tattoo heart that is painted on her husband—his only body art. While most people compliment her on her stars, rainbows, fish and owls—often getting more touchy feely than she’d prefer—the 39-year-old office manager still faces the occasional critic. “Oh my God, I can’t believe you did this to your body!” she recalls one woman yelling. “What does your mother think? What are you going to do when you get older!?” As taking thousands of electrically charged needle pricks gives tattoo aficionados thick skin, Becker brushes it off. As for the cost, she echoes signs often found hanging in tattoo shops: “Good tattoos aren’t cheap and cheap tattoos aren’t good.”

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SPENCER’S PICK NIKOLA TESLA—“THE BLUE PORTRAIT” Everybody got a postcard-sized print of the visionary inventor at a special event in Shoreham hosted by the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe last month. To spark the occasion the Republic of Serbia presented a monument where their native son had once erected a tower almost 200 feet high that he hoped would provide wireless power to the world for free. With luck and more funding, Wardenclyffe will someday soon be open to the public. Tesla dubbed this 1916 painting the “Blue Portrait” because he had the studio bathed in blue light as he posed in Manhattan for his friend, Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy, an aristocratic Hungarian artist. On Tesla’s 75th birthday in 1931, Time magazine ran a cropped version on the cover.

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A steamy, thin-crust pizza slice soaked in tongue-tingling tomato sauce blanketed with graded mozzarella cheese right out of the oven will forever reign supreme on Long Island.

There’s no argument.

But LI happens to be blessed with hundreds—if not thousands—of pizzerias littered across the island, many of which have conquered the regular slice and eventually turned pizza-making into a fine art—adding a seemingly endless amount of toppings, from onions and olives to full-on salads and buffalo and barbeque chicken, to their menus. The slice itself has become a canvas for pizza makers to enjoy creative freedom and push the limits of what they can do.

Naturally, some styles will emerge that challenges the conventional wisdom of oven-cooked pizza.

Welcome, cold cheese pizza.

The few—but smart—pizza gurus on LI that produce this odd slice, which entails sprinkling a handful of cold cheese on top of a steaming hot slice or pie, concede that it wasn’t their invention.

“I know it’s an upstate thing,” says Al Fortina, part owner of Cataffo’s Pizza in Stony Brook.

Cold cheese pizza did indeed originate north of here, but it has quickly shaken up the pizza landscape in Nassau and Suffolk counties, with latenight crowds fawning over the specialty

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slice and forcing other pizzerias to get in on the action. Visit Little Vincent’s Pizza in Huntington on a Friday or Saturday night and the pizza of choice may overwhelmingly be cold cheese.

The same goes for the crowd at Town Pizza in Ocean Beach—a wooden shack that thrives during summer months on Fire Island. “[It’s] something that got popular maybe two years ago,” says a worker picking up the phone at Town Pizza.

Little Vincent’s, however, has been churning out the popular slice for close to three decades.

Dan Rossi, who manages the Huntington location, was preparing for the busy lunch crowd on a recent morning when the topic of cold cheese came up. He chuckled at the slice’s growing popularity, especially considering Little Vincent’s history of preparing only a plain slice.

“That’s our whole menu,” Rossi jokes of the regular slice.

Rossi introduced cold cheese to Huntington in 1985 when college students returning home waxed poetic about their experience shoving down slices with a mountain of extra cheese. He decided to give them what they wanted. Soon, customers started spreading the news of the cold cheese invasion across LI. “I didn’t even know what it was,” Rossi recalls. “I thought it was extra cheese melted. And they explained what it was, and you just take a handful of cold cheese and put it on top.”

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Rossi, who says he’s only had one such slice in his life, grabs a handful of shredded cheese and dumps it over a sizzling slice as a demonstration.

“It’s the sensation of you go from the cold to a warm slice or hot slice,” he adds. “It’s like you’re getting the best of both worlds.”

And more and more people are turning to cold cheese.

A ferry ride away in Ocean Beach sits Town Pizza, a cozy spot that becomes even more intimate when young crowds pour inside as a sort of nightcap after a night of bar crawling.

“It’s mostly for the late night crowd, we get a lot of people [who] order it,” says an employee at the pizzeria, who estimates that more than 60 percent of its late-night customers order the slice.

The slice itself has been a source of confusion. People familiar with the idea of waking up and eating leftover pizza question why anyone would actually order a chilled slice.

And some of the more than dozen pizzerias contacted by the Press inquiring if they make cold cheese seemed perturbed.

Fortina, of Cataffo’s Pizza, was

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also taken aback by the question even though the pizzeria makes the slice upon request. Cataffo’s doesn’t refer to it as “cold cheese” but fixes up a slice when customers request that he sprinkle some on top.

The slice has gained a small—but sometimes fanatical—following, yet it has failed to enter the mainstream. It’s unclear if it will, but more pizzerias are jumping on the bandwagon. The slice is now available at Little Vincent’s location in Ronkonkoma, Rosa’s Pizza in Huntington and ZA Late Night Pizzeria in Rockville Centre—with no shortages of late-night pizza seekers.

“Some people will not eat the cold cheese, it’s just not for them,” says Rossi.

“But I mean the majority of people, once they have it, they’re hooked.”

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Long Island Press Event Listings for October 2013

Blondie/X

Punk/new wave rockers Blondie wrap up their No Principals Tour at New York City’s famed Roseland Ballroom.

Besides being a gig that will surely go down in the books for its high-energy level and good vibes, this performance will be remembered for the unveiling of five exclusive new tracks from the band’s upcoming album to be released later this year. That equally legendary punk rock stalwarts, special guest X, round out this bill simply elevate the gig to “mythological” status. Roseland Ballroom, 239 W. 52nd St., Manhattan. www.roselandballroom.com $49.50-$62.50. 8 p.m. October 4

An Afternoon with Jesse Ventura

Pro wrestler-turned-governor-turned conspiracy theorist Jesse Ventura is also best-selling author of “They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK.” To commemorate the approaching 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, he’ll hold a Q&A, a presentation of film clips from his TV show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura and a reception and book signing. (Ventura’s also planning to run for president in 2016, so this might be your only chance to meet him without the Secret Service present.) Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington. www. cinemaartscentre.org $15 members, $20 public; includes reception. 2 p.m. October 5

Evening of Irish Music with Ed Ryan Singer/songwriter/comedian Ed Ryan has performed in the opening ceremonies of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade and recently released a new 12-track album titled When New York Was Irish. His Irish-American brand of music and humor will surely make for a humor-onious performance! Get it? No!? Dix Hills Performing Arts Center at Five Towns College, 305 N. Service Rd., Dix Hills. www.dhpac.org $20-$30. 7:30 p.m.

October 5

Nightmare On The Midway

Families by day, teens and adults by night. All this month LI’s Adventureland will alter between amusement park and haunted horror world, complete with state-of-the-art animatronics, custom set pieces and live actors, a Zombie Asylum, Evil Express, 1313 Cemetery Way and Slappy’s Sadistic Circus. The park also transforms into a Trick-or-Treating wonderland October 26 from 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Adventureland, 2445 Broadhollow Rd., Farmingdale. www.adventureland.us Admission ($25 or $1 per ride ticket) includes unlimited access to these and all other attractions while also supporting The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and The Helping Hands Foundation. October 5 through November 2

This year marks the sixth annual Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo walk, a social photography event whereby photographers come together to explore a local area, shoot photos and get to know one another. The walk is taking place at four different locations on LI this year: Port Jeff, Northport, Islip and Long Beach. Check out worldwidephotowalk.com for start times and exact locations—and remember to say Cheese! Free.

October 5

6th Annual “A Taste of Port Jefferson”

The Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce presents this must-experience smorgasbord extravaganza, which serves up food from more than 35 local restaurants as well as mouth-melting desserts, wine and of course, beer. You must be 21 or older to attend.

Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 E. Broadway, Port Jefferson. www. atasteofportjefferson.com $45 advance; $50 at door. 12-4 p.m.

October 5

Parrot Expo

Presented by the nonprofit Long Island Parrot Society, this feathered-friend extravaganza is LI’s only major exotic bird event and will include colorful birds, demos, workshops, tons of “parrotphernalia” such as bird toys, food and cages, and featured speaker scientist/ Harvard lecturer Dr. Irene Pepperberg, parrot behavior consultant Lisa Bono, a vendor room and tons more. Bring extra crackers. Freeport Recreation Center, 130 E. Merrick Rd., Freeport. www.liparrots. com $8 adults; $3 seniors; $2 under 12; Free under 2. 9 a.m.-5p.m. October 5

Arts Alive LI Festival celebrates the arts all October long. For specific events checkout the Arts Alive LI Special Pullout section in the center of this issue, or go to ArtsAliveli.org

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Vanessa Carlton/ Patrick Sweany

Fall Garden & Harvest Festival

Hit songwriter Vanessa Carlton shares the stage with multifariously talented musical artist Patrick Sweany, who dabbles in blues, folk, soul, bluegrass and even some classic rock and punk. Carlton will likely be performing some songs from her upcoming fifth studio album (and if we’re lucky, the early 2000s hit “A Thousand Miles”? Please?)

YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 W. Main St., Bay Shore. boultoncenter.org $40 reserved; $35 VIP members. 8 p.m. October 9

Landscaping displays, Dahlia Garden and farm tours, produce and plant sales, demos, and soil testing and advice, along with pumpkin and face painting, bingo, wool spinning and weaving demos, a model train exhibit, food and live music? Sounds like the place to be, for sure! Bayard Cutting Arboretum, 440 Montauk Hwy., Great River. www.bayardcuttingarboretum.com $15 per car; $7 with valid NYS Empire Passport. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. October 5 & 6

Cinema Arts Centre 40th “Ruby” Anniversary Celebration Ticket includes cocktail hour, open bar, dinner, a short film, live music, dancing and a whole lot of reminiscing on the great, great memories that have made CAC such a Long Island institution and regional cultural treasure. North Ritz Club, 274 Jericho Tpke., Syosset. www. northritzclub.com $175; more for reserved tables. 6:30-11:30 p.m. October 10

3rd Annual Fright Fest in Mastic Beach

From the ghoulish imagination of the Cultural Arts Guild of Mastic Beach emerges this frightening festival, complete with a parade, local vendors, rides, music, food, drink, crafts, hayrides, games, costume contests and various other Halloween horrors. Neighborhood Rd., Mastic Beach. culturalartsguildmb.blogspot. com Free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. October 12

Bayville Scream Park

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One of LI’s most scariest Halloween destinations, the scream park boasts five bone-chilling haunted attractions, including Uncle Needle’s Funhouse of Fear, zombie pirates and an utterly terrifying haunted house, plus “Not So Scary” activities, such as a pumpkin patch, bouncy house, storytelling, hermit crab races and spooky gifts and treats. Bayville Scream Park, 8 Bayville Ave., Bayville. Bayvillescreampark.com $17.75-$59.75. Fridays & Saturdays, 6 p.m.2a.m.; Sundays & Weekdays 6 p.m.-11 p.m.

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Finch/Dance Gavin Dance

The musician, Grammy-nominated actor and standup funnyman brings his unique brand of comedy to LI’s newest performance venue. A must-see gig. The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury. www. thespaceatwestbury.com $25-$41.90. 7 p.m.

October 11

Celebrating What It Is To Burn’s 10-year anniversary, the California post-hardcore thrashers kick off the album’s namesake tour right here on LI. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny. com $33-$58. 8 p.m. October 13

Long Island Reptile Expo

Snakes, skinks, turtles, anoles, iguanas, bearded dragons, monitors, frogs—if they have scales, are cold-blooded, slithery or slimy and a little frightening, they’ll be here, among more than 115 vendor tables and hordes of Long Islanders who adore them.

Oh, and they’ll be tons of arachnids here, too. Yikes! Huntington Hilton Hotel, 598 Broad Hollow Rd., Melville. Reptileexpo.com $9 adults; $4 kids 7-12; Free kids under 7. 9a.m.-3 p.m. October 13

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Pearl Jam

Nineties “grunge” rockers Pearl Jam are set to destroy Brooklyn, just three days after their tenth studio album Lightning Bolt drops. Will they perform popular hits “Alive,” “Black,” Release,” Wish List” and “Daughter”? Lesser-known favorites “I Got Id” and “Footsteps”? What about crowd-pleasers “Yellow Ledbetter” and “W.M.A.”!? Only one way to find out.

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50-$91.80. 7:30 p.m. October 18 & 19

Harvest Festival

Annual Mysterious Museum Halloween Party Animal presentations, crafts,

Live music, hayrides, pumpkinpicking, produce sales, cidermaking—October is definitely here! Benner’s Farm, 56 Gnarled Hollow Rd., East Setauket. http://bennersfarm.com/, price unknown, 12- 4 p.m., October 13

30th Annual Oyster Bay Oyster Festival

The largest waterfront festival on the East Coast, it features live entertainment, ships, talented artisans, pirate shows, midway rides, an oyster eating and shucking contest and fireworks (on Saturday night at 7 p.m.)! Oyster Bay Harbor, Oyster Bay. Check out www.theoysterfestival.org for more information, including locations for free parking and shuttle service. Free. 11 a.m.-7p.m.

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games, costumes, Boo! Tackapausha Museum & Preserve, Seaford, 2225 Washington Ave., Seaford. $5. 1 p.m. October 16

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The legendary King of Blues will be here on LI. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $84.

50-$150.25. 8 p.m.

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Emerson String Quartet

The first of three appearances at the Staller Center in the 2013-2014 season, this night’s set will include the Haydn Quartet Op. 20, No. 3, the Benjamin Britten Quartet No. 2 and the Beethoven Quartet Op. 59, No. 1. Wow. Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook. www.stallercenter.com $46. 8 p.m. October 17

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Glenn Miller may have passed away in 1944, but his famed orchestra keeps his legacy alive in the world of jazz and swing. Uplifting. Not-to-miss. The Patchogue Theatre, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue. patchoguetheatre. com $25-$65. 8 p.m. October 19

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Mysterious Village Haunted Halloween This creepy village will be full of monster scavenger hunts, scary stories, jack-o-lantern carving demos, a costume parade, headless horsemen, tarot card readings, broom making, creepy recipes, the grim reaper, scarecrowmaking workshops, cider and molasses cookies. What a combo! Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Rd., Old Bethpage. www.nassaucountyny.gov $10 adults; $7 children & seniors; children under 5 are free.

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Long Island Music Festival

Three stages, too many bands to name. Here’s just a few: Gloria Gaynor, Funk Filharmonik, That 70s Band, Wonderous Stories, Southbound Band, Minute By Minute, Rattlesnake Dawn and Disco Nights DJ Rusty.

Perry Farrell, eat your heart out. “We will survive, Strong Island. We will survive. Eisenhower Park, Hempstead Tpk. and Merrick Ave., East Meadow.

Free. 2-7 p.m. October 19

Jonas Brothers

The Disney pop trio is out in support of their fifth studio album, “V,” set to drop later this year. No doubt all the teens and tweens in the audience will be swooning to their latest single “First Time.”

NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. thetheatreatwestbury.com $59.50-$79.50.

8 p.m. October 20

The Fray

The Colorado-based rockers invade Huntington with a piano-led assault sure to have those in attendance up and dancing (or at least boppin’) all night long. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny. com $63-$171. 8 p.m. October 23 & 24

Coheed and Cambria

The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. paramountny.com $47.50-$85.25. 7 p.m. October 22

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The Internet comedy sensation is the youngest comedian to record a Comedy Central hour-long special, at just 19-years old. His set combines music, standup and theatrical license in a very unique and entertaining way. Yeah, he’s funny.

The Patchogue Theatre, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue. patchoguetheatre.com $25-$30.

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Roger Hodgson”

The Academy Award-winning actor will speak and perform and also sign his new children’s picture book “Never Play Music Right Next To The Zoo.” Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington. www.bookrevue.com 7 p.m. October 25

Would You Like A Tour? Well here you go. Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. www.barclayscenter. com, http://www.barclayscenter.com/ events/detail/drake $59.75-$125.25. 7 p.m. October 28

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The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main St., Amagansett. www.stephentalkhouse.com $20. 9 p.m.

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The former Supertramp co-frontman takes his classics to Westbury. NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. $49.50. 8 p.m.

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Double Xword Pt.1 h2o ACROSS 1 Naval vessel inits.

4 Pastor’s talk: Abbr.

7 Toreador 14 Mello - (soda brand) 19 “Waltzing -” (Aussie folk song) 21 Hard to get 22 Scallion, e.g.

23 Subcompact 1980s car 25 Soft palate appendage 26 Office transcriber 27 On a scale from one 28 Spelling of TV 30 Best results obtainable 32 Rectory

39 Head cook 42 See 122-Across 43 Guy concerned with corp. image 44 Like words for people, places, and things 45 Solicitor of celebs’ signatures 48 Like some job training 49 “- old for this!”

50 Scholastic sports org.

51 - -cone (chilly treat) 52 Part of S&L: Abbr.

53 Commercial center of Venice 55 Pituitary secretion 61 Some EMT cases 62 The Little Pigs, e.g.

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65 Bamboozled 66 Special ties 67 Try to get ringers 72 Negatives 74 Have - to grind 75 “Hurry!”

76 Rd. intersectors 79 Hanukkah, for one 84 Get there by walking 86 Application filename extension 87 Follower of Sun. 88 Sleep cycle occurrences 91 100-buck bill 92 Novelist William 94 Golfers’ hangout after a round 99 Ermines with brown coats 100 Have - up one’s sleeve 101 “Nope” 102 “The Sopranos” co-star Robert 103 Hiker’s lodging place 105 “Ad astra per -” (Kansas motto) 107 French for “fires” 108 Letter after gee 110 Make up for sins 114 Awake and out of bed 117 Belize, once 122 With 42-Across, time of cavemen 123 Enter the mind of 124 Jackie’s “O” 125 MTV hiddencamera show 126 Serves, as at a diner 127 Plunk lead-in 128 Cheer for a 7-Across

DOWN 1 Baseball officials 2 Curing stuff 3 Eye affliction 4 Yacht cousin 5 Univ. URL ending 6 Playwright Terence 7 Maestro Zubin 8 Burn balm 9 Start playing for pay 10 “Just - expected” 11 Jazzman Gillespie, for short 12 Ab - (from the start) 13 Monopoly payments 14 Judge’s title 15 Green-eyed 16 Lucy of films 17 IM chuckle 18 Go - diet 20 “Don’t play me for a dummy” 24 Non-office desktop 29 Subtitle of Neil Diamond’s “I Got the Feelin’ “ 31 Road topper 33 - Darya (Asian river) 34 Fled or bled 35 Ill. neighbor 36 Harmony 37 “To save us all from - power” (carol lyric) 38 French pupil 39 Nile capital 40 Like muggy weather 41 Jazzy Jones and James 43 Rx-filling place: Abbr.

46 Mafia’s John 47 Crone 51 Old Iranian monarchs 54 Tiny morsel 56 Rowed

57 Scale stats 58 Mao - -tung 59 “For - jolly good ...”

60 Prefix with inform 63 Corporate raider Carl 64 Speed skater Apolo Anton 67 Frat letter 68 Linden of TV 69 - Magic (Clorox stain remover) 70 Klutz

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76 Pub perch 77 Book’s name 78 Turn a car 79 “Falling Skies” actress Schram 80 Stifled 81 Tokyo locale 82 Comical Johnson 83 “- -haw!” (oater cry) 85 Away for a break

89 Good guy 90 Kind of one-way fastener 93 Informer 94 “Hey Jude” syllables 95 QB’s error 96 Scot’s “no” 97 Doughnut alternatives 98 Hit - books 104 U-shaped yoke collar 105 Suffix with walk or sale

106 Doppler 109 “It - laugh!”

111 Roughly 112 Toe feature 113 Latin “to be” 114 Nile slitherer 115 R-V linkup 116 Whole lot 118 Zenith rival 119 Here, in Lyon 120 Boy king 121 Vane dir.

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Double Xword Pt.2 Factual Value ACROSS 1 Watch chain 4 Two or three 8 Narcotic drug 14 Gave rise to 18 Body of beliefs 20 Distortion 22 Do-fa links 23 Making of file cabinet inserts?

25 “Believe - Not!” 26 More than infatuated 27 Groom’s vow 28 New edition 30 Act in opposition to 33 Emerald Isle when it’s very snowy?

38 Seed case

41 Fire remnant 42 Actor Oskar 43 Vigilant 44 Let someone else have your warding off job?

48 Money in virtual retail 49 What some readings get reset to 50 Amped up 54 Thermostat component 56 Ghastly proprietor?

62 “Correct!”

64 Rod attachments 65 Film director Ephron 66 - -portrait 70 Arsonist’s alibi?

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75 Put with the luggage 76 Trendy berry 77 In - (stacked up) 78 No-goodnik 80 Cat’s playing activities?

86 Baseball’s “Georgia Peach” 91 Card game like écarté 92 Dog in Oz 94 Majestic 95 Like terrain cultivated to grow poison mushrooms?

102 2005 horror film sequel 105 Old Olds models 106 Lang. of Austria 107 Low marks 108 At a ferris wheel’s pinnacle?

110 Next to 112 With 3-Down, seems familiar 113 Suffix with krypton 115 One of the B vitamins 119 Head, in Nice 120 Wright brothers’ command?

127 Computer brand 128 What attics are used for 129 Square meter, e.g.

130 Boomers’ kids 131 Golden age 132 Itches 133 Alternative to gmail DOWN 1 Name for a poodle

2 Ingest way too much of, for short 3 See 112-Across 4 Brand of pain reliever 5 Prophesied 6 Yolked thing 7 Letter following ex 8 Outstanding 9 Many an ex-con 10 Gershwin or Aldridge 11 Liable 12 Mai 13 Big head 14 Dresses with trains 15 Film do-over 16 Gushy actor 17 Most terrible 19 Scent-free 21 Adequate, in dialect 24 Tiny peeve 29 Believe that one will 31 Golfer Aoki 32 Below, as a goal 34 Kin of “ruff!”

35 Opposite of SSW 36 Hyena’s lair 37 Munic. statute 38 “Rock of -” 39 Starchy food 40 Nobel winner Pavlov 42 “Do you know am?”

45 Skipper’s cry 46 Rocky crag 47 Aruba, e.g.: Abbr.

51 Lace snarl 52 Architect Saarinen 53 Do a sketch 55 KO counter 57 See 89-Down

58 Whammy 59 Sleuth, in slang 60 Viral malady 61 KGB’s land 63 Thick slice 66 Guarded 67 Light beige 68 Nonclerical 69 British seafood sticks 71 Cartoon storekeeper 72 Prefix with calculate 73 Horror film director Roth

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90 Mrs. Harry Truman 93 Tip jar items 96 Sallie 97 Fairy 98 Narcs’ org.

99 Fleischer or Onassis 100 Deposed dictator Manuel 101 TV’s Merv 102 Extra levy 103 Individually 104 Cold season 109 Linden and Sparks 110 Apiary insect

111 Blockheads 114 Deuce taker 116 Home to the Taj Mahal 117 “The Cosby Show” boy 118 List abbr.

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Horoscopes Scorpio

October 23 to November 21

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by Psychicdeb

Resist the temptation to spend. Love vibes urge you to develop deeper bonds with a loved one.

SAGITTARIUS

During your Mars and Neptune transit, it isn’t easy to overcome resistance. No get-rich schemes, be careful who you trust.

Capricorn

Pluto will be in your sign for quite some time, you may want to throw in the towel. Be patient. You can do it!

Aquarius

Being flexible gets attention and advancement in your career. In love, a partner gains your admiration and undying love.

November 22 to December 21

December 22 to January 19

January 20 to February 18

Pisces

February 19 to March 20

Aries

March 21 to April 19

Taurus April 20 to May 20

Gemini May 21 to June 20

Cancer June 21 to July 22

Leo

July 23 to August 22

Neptune in your sign will make you susceptible to psychic dreams. Stop sacrificing your own needs in place of others.

The strong influence of Uranus in your sign makes you a trailblazer who needs the freedom to explore new approaches to old problems. Try not to be too eccentric.

With Jupiter and Venus in your sign, it’s time to enjoy your creature comforts. Just don’t over-indulge.

Mars and Neptune are at work squaring your sign.

You may be tempted to hold a grudge. Talk to someone who will listen.

You’re living proof that hard work pays. It’s time to learn new tricks to further your goals.

In your career, pay attention to details. Knowing what your competitors are up to pays dividends.

Virgo

The strong influence e of Mars in your sign will make you bottle up your frustrations. Think before you speak.

Libra

Time to reflect on Saturn’s influence during this period. Don’t let Karma hold you back. You may feel restless, plan something behind the scenes.

August 23 to September 22

September 23 to October 22

IF YOU KNOW YOUR RISING SIGN, CONSULT THE HOROSCOPE FOR THAT SIGN AS WELL. Psychicdeb has been a professional astrologer for over 25 yrs. Self-taught, she began her studies in astrology when she was 8 yrs. old learning what she could from her mother’s astrology magazines.

As she got older and learned geometry, she searched for books on Astrology and taught herself how to construct a chart. She teaches Astrology for a nominal fee. Psychicdeb also uses the tarot to do psychic readings channeling her spirit guide Helen. Reiki is one of her obsessions. She is a Reiki Master and loves to teach others the benefits of Reiki. Namaste. You can find her at the Original Psychic Fairs on Sundays. A listing of the Fair dates can be found on her website at: www.astro-mate.org

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