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Sound Smart at a Party It sounds like a plot to a movie, but the National Security Agency is apparently not kidding with its concern that hacker group Anonymous will use a cyber attack to shut down the nation’s electrical grid. The Wall Street Journal
reported that during meetings with the White House and other officials, the director of NSA has discussed the possibility of such an attack. Anonymous has denied any plans to attack the grid, and said that government officials “just want to make you feel afraid.” Government websites Anonymous has attacked in the past include the Department of Justice and the CIA, which it just shut down in early February… A man in Sweden is lucky to be alive after he was finally dug out from his snow-buried car last week.
The 45-year-old had been stuck without food for two months. He was emaciated and could barely speak when rescuers found him. Snowmobilers thought they had come across a car wreck until they cleared a window and noticed a man lying in the back seat in a sleeping bag. The temperature in the area was around -22F when the man was rescued. Doctors at the hospital where he is currently recovering said he appeared to have survived on melted snow and likely went into a dormantlike state like a bear in hibernation…
A new study shows that movies really do influence young teens’ behavior. Based on confidential phone
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surveys of more than 6,500 randomly selected American adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 years old, medical journal BMJ Open concluded that children who watch films that include drinking are more likely to hit the bottle themselves than those kids whose parents drink at home. The survey used 50 movies that were current or recent box office hits. After being exposed to alcohol consumption in the films, the teens who drank increased from 11 percent to 25 percent. For binge-drink— singer Rihanna during her acceptance ing kids, movies spiked alcohol conspeech for best international female sumption from 4 percent to 13 percent. artist during the Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Although many of the youngsters had The singer has been facing some criticism parents who drank, the study’s authors for her recent collaborations with believe the silver screen is more influex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who pleaded ential because “alcohol use in movies is guilty to attacking his then-girlfriend the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards. typically modeled in positive situations, (AP Photo/Jonathan Short) without negative effects, and often shown with alcohol brands.” It’s not too surprising that movies influence he posted childhood photos of him in kids more than parents. At that age, front of a Christmas tree along with everything Mom and Dad do is uncool some sassy comments. Unfortunately for Olson, he by default… lost both the case and his appeal to A Minneapolis man is very par- a higher court. The state Court of ticular about what pictures of him are Appeals explained that while the on Facebook, and he’s willing to go to uncle’s comments were “mean and discourt over it. Eric Olson sued his uncle respectful,” they did not violate Olson’s (yes, his uncle) for harassment after privacy or sense of security…
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Letters to the Press Our Feb. 9 cover story, “Mall or Nothing” by Spencer Rumsey, about the nearly two-decade-old fight between developers and Oyster Bay township over a proposed high-end mall in Syosset, generated quite a bit of comments on our website. Visit www.longislandpress.com to join the conversation. HOUSING, NOT MALLS Great. More malls with high-end anchor stores that sell expensive crap the people can’t afford. What about affordable housing? The kind of housing for the young people with degrees and skills that Long Island needs to thrive and survive. They can’t afford the housing on Long Island, so they move away and take their degrees and skills and about 40 years of tax-paying, job-holding, income-generating spending and kids and everything else with them to enrich someplace else. Why must we shoot ourselves in the foot? Affordable housing now! Stephen
MALL RATS Enough with these oversized malls. What we need is affordable housing, infrastructure, and greater balance between retail and open spaces. There is very little work or industry to create true sustainability here. Sadly this is why our population will continue to decrease. There is very little to entice people to settle here. mtime
LET’S GO SHOPPING I went to one of the neighborhood meetings the other night and learned that the proposed mall will be nothing like The Source or Broadway Mall. Taubman only builds high-end malls —the tenants would be like Americana in Manhasset or better. The market research staff at SUNY confirmed that Long Island loses a lot of sales tax from that type of shopping because customers go to Manhattan or New Jersey. Taubman wouldn’t be trying to spend millions of dollars here without any public subsidy to build the Syosset Mall if there wasn’t a market. Scott
FILL VACANCIES FIRST LI needs another mall like we need another garbage district. The Fortunoff/ Source Mall is 3/4 empty, a new retail palace is being built just down the street on the old Avis site and storefronts are vacant all over. Yes, the trades will pick up some work but, after that, the only jobs left will be retail help poached from other stores that have gone out of business. If they want to use the land for something that is needed, how about some workforce housing? Throw a small strip mall in there with the requisite deli, pizza place, dry cleaners, etc., and call it a day. Another mall, yeah, right. Polara
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The Dow—bull’s eye The Dow Jones industrial average surpasses 13,000, the first time since the worst phase of the financial crisis in 2008, but doesn’t stay there long—only 30 seconds. Damn it—we knew we should have sold high! Gas $$$—off target Gas prices soar across the nation at a record pace, leaving Long Island with average gas prices of $4.11 per gallon. Well, surely they’ll follow the lead of the Dow and fall again almost instantaneously, right? Right?
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LiLo—partial score Lindsay Lohan lands a March 3rd gig hosting Saturday Night Live, her first time back since 2006, and reportedly plans to use the opportunity to get people to view her as a serious actress once again. Oh, honey, “serious actress”? Let’s get through the entire episode with no major incidents, and then maybe people will view you as “functional”!
Bobby Brown—off target After fighting for an invite so he could support his daughter, Whitney Houston’s ex-husband reportedly arrives at her funeral with uninvited guests, fights with grieving family members and storms away—from his daughter—before the ceremony even begins. Oh, get off your high horse—like you’ve never done that at a funeral! Saks—bull’s eye Saks says strong sales of handbags, fine jewelry and clothing at its stores has boosted its fourth-quarter net income 48 percent, a jump that not only beats all expectations but also sends company stock skyrocketing. Well, it was only a matter of time until Saks clientele emerged from this ugly recession. It’s halftime in America, people!
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The number of days till the return of NBC’s Community (March 15, 2012). The popular show had been been put on indefinite hiatus by the network, causing hysteria among TV critics and fans of quality comedy nationwide. This past Tuesday, NBC announced the end of that hiatus. Community will air Thursdays at 8 p.m. (Mar. 20, 2012)
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Pink Slip Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell The national spotlight’s been on Virginia’s Gov. Bob McDonnell ever since he gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Pundits place him high on the GOP’s short list of potential vice presidential candidates, so life has been good for this handsome conservative up-and-comer. Like most folks, regardless of their politics, McDonnell thinks that a full-body pat-down at an airport security checkpoint is “probably over the line with regard to people’s, you know, concern about privacy and their civil liberties.” Apparently, he’s not as concerned about female privacy. Before all this recent attention, McDonnell was all set to sign into law a bill requiring pregnant women to undergo a “transvaginal ultrasound” probe if they’re seeking an abortion. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart says the non-consensual procedure is like a “TSA pat-down inside their vagina.” Rather intrusive, wouldn’t you say? Perhaps if McDonnell had to submit to a mandatory prostate exam every time he flew somewhere to help out Mitt Romney’s campaign, he’d understand the issue first-hand. It’s bad enough he just signed a bill letting private adoption agencies discriminate against gay couples while some 1,300 children are waiting for a home. McDonnell’s professed support of this government-mandated penetration goes too far. McDonnell, Virginia’s women deserve better. Put down your pen and leave the governor’s mansion....You’re fired! 6
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New York Yankees pitchers (from left) Phil Hughes, Boone Logan and CC Sabathia stretch during practice at baseball spring training, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. The official report date for Yankees’ pitchers and catchers was Sunday, Feb. 19. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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The Quote “We’re a hopeful people. We think, ‘Well, you know, he’ll get better.You know, he’s a nice guy. I mean, it won’t be near as bad as what we think. This will be OK.’ Oh yeah, maybe he’s not the best guy, and after a while, you found out things about this guy over in Europe, and he’s not so good of a guy after all.” —Republican presidential nominee Rick Santorum, speaking at First Redeemer Church in Cumming, Ga. Santorum compared people who disregard troubling signs about Obama to those Americans who ignored fascism in Europe before World War II. When asked if he was comparing Obama to Hitler, Santorum said, “No, of course not.”
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3. Buy tickets to meet Jodi Picoult: The bestselling local author from Nesconset with 14 million copies of her work in print worldwide will read from and sign her new book, Lone Wolf, at the Huntington High School Auditorium on March 2—but you’ll need a ticket to get in, so get one early before they’re gone.
4. Support the High Heel Race: This is definitely the strangest—and most fabulous—charity drive we’ve ever supported, and we love it. The shoe drive for the inaugural High Heel Race to kick off the 2012 Long Island Pride Parade in Huntington has begun, and the LI GLBT Services Network is requesting new or gently used high heel, wedge heel or platform shoes of various sizes, especially larger sizes, for runners in this year’s race on June 9. Call 516-3230011 or visit lipride.org for more information. 5. TiVo the Oscars, sign the Muppet petition: Let’s face it: A performance by the Muppets will probably be one of the only things worth watching on this year’s Oscars. But “the Academy” is being anti-Muppet and not allowing these Oscar nominees to perform. Join Perez Hilton and thousands of others at www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ perez-muppet-oscars. Then TiVo the show on Feb. 26.
6. Google “Boeing Logo Across the USA”: When a group of Boeing employees were faced with an 18-hour work day, they decided to spice things up a little. Flying a Boeing 787 jet, a pilot supported by a group of co-workers drew the company’s logo across several thousand miles of North America. While the lines can’t be seen from the ground, the path is marked by radar and can be seen in the flight plans. The 18-hour duration flight test didn’t just prove the plane was safe—it created a mural from Iowa to Washington State. 7. Donate Comic Books to Wounded Vets: “Superheroes for our heroes” comic book drive for wounded warriors at Bethesda hospital is collecting new or gently used comic books for hospitalized wounded U.S. veterans returning from war. Please bring items to the Suffolk office of Legis. Wayne R. Horsley, 123 North Wllwood Ave., Lindenhurst, by Feb. 29. 8. Get free dessert at Top Chef Celeb’s DoraNonnie: Bravo’s Top Chef New York Celebrity Executive Chef and Best of Long Island winner Danny Gagnon recently opened his dream restaurant DoraNonnie (www.doranonnie. com) in Glen Head, serving up delicious eats like the fluffy fried Mozzarella Pillow, Smoked Bacon Penne alla Vodka, and a variety of flatbread pizzas. Become a fan of DoraNonnie on Facebook, then tell Danny and dessert’s on the house. 9. Get Married By Fran Drescher: If you are gay, looking to get married, and can get to NYC on March 6, submit a video or essay on why your relationship shows “love is love” on the TV Land Happily Divorced Facebook Page. You could be exchanging your vows with one of the most recognizable voices in sitcom history: Flushing native and former Nanny Fran Drescher. 10. Celebrate Pancake Day at IHOP: Long Island IHOPs are giving away free short stacks of pancakes on National Pancake Day to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. For every stack served on Feb. 28 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., guests can make a voluntary donation. You can even get a celebrity phone reminder at www.ihoppancakeday.com. IHOP hopes to raise $2.7 million. That’s a lot of pancake eating. We plan to do our part, how about you? News
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2. Try Ben & Jerry’s Greek FroYo: The company that’s given the world such gifts as Half-Baked and Phish Food and Chubby Hubby is going Greek with a new line of thick frozen yogurt coming any day now to a store near you. Flavors include Banana Peanut Butter, Raspberry Fudge Chunk, Strawberry Shortcake, Blackberry Vanilla Graham Cracker, and Strawberry Shortcake.
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1. YouTube “Rockville Centre Flash Mob” by Todrick Hall: More than 70 kids from Maple Avenue Dance studio in Rockville Centre order a Domino’s pizza, and when the delivery guy rings the bell, he gets escorted through a massive flash mob, all dancing to Jesse J’s “Domino.” It’s pretty hysterical, insanely well-organized—and it’s gotten nearly 100,000 views. Check it out.
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The Book The Burning of the Piping Rock By Joseph A. Cutshall-King When Tracey Aledort of Forest Books in Locust Valley was first asked if she would carry the new mystery novel, The Burning of The Piping Rock, she was stunned by the name. The book’s author, Joseph A. Cutshall-King, quickly explained that “Piping Rock” in the title refers to the arson of Piping Rock Casino in Saratoga Springs. But, he added, the novel traces its roots—and part of its mystery—to Locust Valley here on Long Island and that very historical name of Piping Rock. The Burning of The Piping Rock is a “film noir in a book,” a history/mystery transcribed from a confession taped by a dying small-town pharmacist in upstate New York. The dying man relates a tale of blackmail, deception and death, as he tells of the night of August 16, 1954, when he drove with arsonist Harry the Torch to burn Piping Rock Casino. How did Piping Rock Casino, owned by Mafia members Joe Adonis, Frank Costello and Myer Lansky, come by a name most famously connected with Long Island’s Gold Coast? What were the connections between the racing citadel of Saratoga Springs and North Shore Long Island? What were the arsonist’s connections with Oyster Bay and the Locust Valley area? These and other questions are part of the history and the mystery detailed in The Burning of The Piping Rock. —Daphne Livingston /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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B-List B-Day Olivia “Who?” Palermo Feb. 26, 1986 We didn’t know who she was either, until she showed up on our February birthday radar. Socialite, model and The City cast member, Olivia Palermo is a Pisces. A sensitive sign, Pisceans crave acceptance and can be obsessive about fitting in. Palermo reportedly sent out a letter to other socialites listing reasons they should be friends. A sign of daydreamers, Pisceans will do anything to make their fantasy worlds into reality, and they often live a life full of contradictions, which explains why Palermo appeared in a reality series to familiarize herself with “acting.” Then again, the show was created by MTV (music television), a channel that specializes in fictional reality—and doesn’t even play music anymore.
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The following column on the US and Iran is the 4th and final installment in the exchange between Press Publisher Jed Morey and frequent contributor Dorian Dale. In it Mr. Dale continues the Hollywood theme and imagines the screenplay that might ultimately find its way to the Silver Screen. (Inspired by real and potentially real events.)
Ides of Ramadan By Dorian Dale
INT PAN: Pews in National Cathedral, Washington, DC, last Saturday in May. WIDE SHOT FROM FIFTH PEW: Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, sporting a Cee Lo Green-sized cross, presides over nuptials of handsome young couple. CUT TO SIXTH PEW, POV PARTIALLY BLOCKED: Sam Elliot, looking all Foggy Bottom in his chargé d’affaire seersucker suit, whispers to Ryan Gosling, in conventional, slim black Armani: “Here we are close enough to the wedding party to seem like we’re invited guests – Rule #43, Wedding Crashers.” CUT TO AERIAL SHOT: Congaline of stretch limos heads SE on Massachusetts Ave in the direction of DuPont Circle. It’s high noon, balmy & sunny. ZOOM TO HIGH-ANGLE: Just before the Iraqi Embassy, motorcyclist drives slowly down meridian, passenger
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appearing to touch limos as they pass and then take a quick left up 35th St. CUT TO WIDE SHOT EXT: Limos arriving at beaux arts mansion housing Cosmos Club. CUT TO SHOULDERMOUNTED POV PANS: Elliot leads Gosling on head-spinning tour of Who’s Who wedding reception, starting in the patio garden where chic geeks are hanging with DC artistes and water polo teammates from the bride’s college days. Maroon 5 is covering “99 Luftballons.” CLOSE-UP: Karl Lagerfield of the equine pony-tail, egret-white against black suit, blackout shades and SS-issue black leather gloves holds court über alle surrounded by Capitol Movement dance troupe peacocking for a runway assignment from the great fashion designer. To the side, water polo players are trolling for modeling tips from the groom’s brother, former #1 in Lagerfield’s stable back in
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the designer’s Brokeback Mountain stage. Instead, they hear of his goal to be another Donald Trump. CUT TO BIRD’S EYE: Groom, glancing furtively around, places envelope on wedding cake. The hyper-ambitious millennial groom is not quite supermodel material but has been mistaken for Jude Law’s younger brother on more than one occasion. His quant skills have persuaded his moderately wealthy, newly minted father-in-law that footing the bill for a reception at DC’s venerable Cosmos Club provides value-added for attracting Beltway investors. In actuality, it is the exotically beautiful bride with the look of Gisele Bundchen’s younger sister who has persuaded daddy, but Judebro is never loath to take credit. Judebro and Giselsis are comers in the firmament of geopolitical influence, his status affirmed by the recent publication of “Time to Attack Iran” in Foreign Affairs. In his day job, he thinks the unthinkable in terms of nuclear conflict. She focuses on nuclear forensics so that, when the unthinkable occurs, it can be sourced. It’s not a matter of whether nukes will be used, but when. Proliferation think tankers feed off this self-fulfilling prophecy. To answer how 20-something novices are positioned to weigh in on Prometheus Unbound, look to powerful patrons that make Washington the land of opportunistic oracles. Think tanking is but one driver of conflict with Iran that has not seen the light in Gosling’s Manichaean world view. The indie media mini-mogul is consumed with an octopus of global oil manipulation—Morgan Stanley—who, by his reckoning, would foment armed conflict to profit from wild upward spirals of world crude prices. ELLIOT: “Traders, as Trading Places reminds us, Gosling, are but bookies who profit whether the price goes up or down. Note that even a comprehensive command of applied chaos theory catches on the interconnections of string theory.” CUT TO UPSTAIRS BALLROOM: Older, decidedly less hip crowd. Martina McBride is countrifying “Wooden Ships.” GOSLING: “Who’s that wagging his finger at the balding, bearded guy and his bevy of boobalaheads? ELLIOT: “That’s Valerie Plame’s hubby, going all Sean Penn on the selfstyled Darth Vader of neo-cons who suckered Bush into featuring Saddam’s (non) purchase of yellow cake uranium in the 2003 State of the Union. And that blonde bombshell over there…” PAN TO: Threesome clustered around bombshell. ELLIOT: “Valerie Plame, if that really is her name.” GOSLING: “So that’s the outed CIA op? Think I’d rather go under cover
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with Naomi Watts.” CUT TO CLOSE UP: Bombshell Plame is disarming a DOE physicist, resembling Renee Zellweger with a dust-mop do, a world-weary defense analyst—picture Gary Oldman going DIA with LeCarré’s Smiley—and Jedbro’s PhD thesis advisor from UC Berkeley who could be Dr. House’s alter-ego. PLAME: “There have been at least 25 incidents of lost or stolen nuclear explosive material we know of.” ZELLWEGER: “That’s why the personal dosimeter card I designed can be so critical in an event.” PLAME: “Though Cold War arsenals have been reduced from 70,000 to 23,000, there remains enough highly enriched uranium to build more than 100,000 weapons. Counter-proliferation was my beat; there’s no graver threat than nuclear terrorism. We must go for Global Zero nukes!” HOUSE: “Well, Ms. Plame, some why nots are offered in Judebro’s thesis, ‘The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Customer,” in which he provides solid, quantified data of what incentivizes weak nuclear states to transfer nuclear technology.” OLDMAN: “From the mouth of babes. Wait till a black swan crosses his theories.” MUTED BLAST: Emanating, seemingly, from front of club. Ballroom populace rush to windows. AERIAL POV: Smoke rising from left rear panel of one of the limos. OLDMAN: “Looks like a sticky bomb.” BUMPY HAND-HELD CAM: Plame bolts downstairs and outside to smoking limo; pulls NeutronRAE II personal radiation detector from holster strapped to thigh. PLAME: “It’s reading for weaponsgrade plutonium. The area needs to be evacuated.” GISELSIS: “Ms. Plame, you should take a look at this card from atop the wedding cake.” CLOSE-UP: Card reads: “BEWARE IDES OF RAMADAN – anniversary 67 of Hiroshima.” FADE TO BLACK: Soundtrack: Tom Lehrer’s “Who’s Next?”
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The Doggy Poop Chronicles commented on how nice it made the car smell. At our parents’ feet the little puppy Panda was blissfully sleeping. We had just passed the George Washington Bridge when I got the first whiff. It overpowered the sweet smell of the Orange Blossoms. Apparently everyone had smelled what I had smelled and now everyone was talking at the same time. Sort of saying, “It’s not me.” The smell stayed with us into Westchester. The car smelled terrible. My dad opened his window, deciding he would rather be cold than sick. It was quite a few embarrassing miles before we realized that Panda, our new puppy, suffered from flatulence. The fact that it was the puppy who was the windbreaker turned the situation into an icebreaker. Everyone laughed and admitted they were terrified that they were suspect. Judy turned to me and said, “If I ever write a book about our life together, the title will be: ‘Orange Blossoms and Puppy Dog Farts.’” Soon after Panda we had Oreo, who was a one-dog farting machine. One Sunday, I decided to take Oreo for a walk on Madison Avenue. I ran into a woman I know who took one look at Oreo and said, “What a cute little dog.” She then knelt to pet her and that’s when Oreo let loose. The smell hit the woman first, and I saw a look of pain on her face. By the time it came up to me, I looked down in horror at the woman. Did she think it was me? Of course the woman was thinking I thought it was her. It’s that silent stuff that’s so deadly. I started looking at my shoe. “Did I step on something?” I asked too loudly. “Maybe it was me,” she said, looking at her heel. Oreo just stared at the two of us. Can dogs smile? I thought she had a smile on her face. Then I said, “It could be the cheese. I’ve been feeding her sliced Velveeta cheese as a treat.” “Oh,” said the woman, “I have that problem when I eat Velveeta cheese.” Now this was a very attractive dignified woman, and this was more than I wanted to know about her digestive system. Oreo let loose again. The woman looked like she was going to throw up. “I think I had better go now,” I said. The woman, holding her breath, said, “I’m late.” “So am I,” I said. After an awkward second, which seemed like an hour, we went our separate ways.
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My bad luck with dogs, doggy poop and doggy flatulence is a neverending saga. A few weeks ago I decided to take my sweet little dog Shlomo for a walk. It was the coldest day of the year and I bundled up with a hat, gloves, and a long scarf and started our walk, hoping Shlomo would conclude his “business” as soon as possible because I was freezing. Shlomo, who owns a warm, beautiful, naturally curly white fur coat, was not cooperating, and the next thing I knew we had walked for an icy mile and a half. One of the “Rain Man” things I do when I take Shlomo for a walk is count the number of times the pooch lifts his leg. We were up to 27 leg lifts (his record is 35) when Shlomo finally showed a sign of getting down to business and doing his business. Now, if you are a dog owner, you know this is a “to look or not to look” moment.” I decided not to look, but showed all the passersby that I was a good citizen by brandishing enough large paper towels to make the executives at Bounty weep with happiness. In seconds, without looking, I got a whiff, and I was painfully aware that Shlomo had delivered. “What the hell are we feeding this dog?” I whispered under my breath. I looked down and said, “Oh, my God, I have to pick that up?” As I bent down to pick up the poo with the paper towel, the end of the long gray scarf hanging from my neck fell into the poo. If it’s not doggy poo, it’s doggy flatulence. Years ago when Judy and I first started dating, she showed up one day with a gorgeous little puppy called Panda from the North Shore Animal Shelter. We were happy with Panda until one fateful week a short time later when we decided to take Judy’s mom and my parents on a get-acquainted weekend at a house we were renting in South Salem, New York. Now picture the scene: It was winter, so all the car windows were shut tight. It was a cold night. We were heading north on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Everyone in the car was really nervous. Judy was chattering nervously from the passenger side of the front seat. In the back, my parents and Judy’s mom were eyeing each other and saying very little. Judy’s mother had brought an Orange Blossom plant and everyone
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evin McAllister stands on the on the banks, on both sides, trying to get out of the dock at Forge River Marina water—because there was no oxygen,” continues in Mastic and points south, McAllister. “It was going to kill them if they stayed across the cold waters, to the 3.2-mile long tributary’s in, and for that matter, they weren’t going to survive mouth, where it empties into Moriches Bay. anyway, coming out.” The 52-year-old knows these waters well. He The scene bore the classic symptoms of chronic grew up nearby, crabbing and water-skiing here algal bloom, explains McAllister—rapid outbreaks of throughout his youth. McAllister shifts his sights, microscopic algae that deplete the host water body motioning to the Forge’s muddy banks, which of oxygen, decimate marine life, and in some species, quickly collapse into a densely packed wall of residen- produce toxins lethal to humans. According to envitial waterfront homes. A senior housing complex occupies the Yes, Suffolk County residents are opposite side, replacing land that had been used for nearly 100 years as a duck farm. For McAllister, of the Quogue-based nonprofit Peconic Baykeeper, this recent visit with two Press reporters is his equivalent of returning to the scene of a horrific crime that changed the course of his work. He recalls the discovery he made here in June 2005 while on a boat tour of the river with two other ronmental experts, such explosions are triggered by reporters. excessive nitrogen, in the form of nitrates. A major “All of a sudden I started seeing kind of a chalky source of those high levels of nitrogen, they say, color to the water,” he says. “It was chalky white, just is the human waste continuously discharged into didn’t look right. So I got deeper in and then all of a Long Island’s groundwater through septic tanks sudden you can smell some odors… We started to and cesspool systems, eventually joining the surface see the dead fish on the surface. Then up and around water. By “groundwater,” they mean the underground this area there was actually eels—you could see them, aquifers Long Island’s 2.8 million residents uniquely little juvenile eels, American eel—popping up to the live atop and shower, wash and drink from. surface, like snorkels. Yes, Suffolk County residents are drinking the “What the fish were trying to do, plus the crabs, same water they flush their toilets into. they were scurrying out—there were blue crab up The Forge River is not the only casualty. Its fate
is representative of the ongoing deterioration and demise of not only LI’s drinking water supply, but dozens of other water bodies across both Nassau and Suffolk. Most alarming to many environmentalists and scientists interviewed for this story were the findings of a more than 400-page draft of the soon-to-bereleased final Suffolk County Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan, the culmination of years of analysis by the county’s Department of Health Services, Planning DepartDepartment of Public drinking ment, Works and Water Authority, along with consultants and more than three dozen engineers and water quality specialists. Such a study had not been conducted since 1987. Among its discoveries: Nitrogen concentrations are increasing exponentially in all three LI aquifers—the Lloyd, Upper Glacial and Magothy— rising 40 percent and 200 percent, respectively, in the latter two. Volatile organic compounds, pesticides and other contaminants are also increasing their presence in our drinking water supply, and new pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), have now also been detected. Although each of these are cause for alarm and warrant immediate remedial actions and accountability in their own respect, the battle over nitrogen contamination is currently front and center in the ongoing water wars of Suffolk, where only slightly more than one-quarter of its 1.7 million population
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has the benefit of community-sewage disposal systems and thus, hundreds of thousands of residents utilize instead approximately 400,000 cesspools and septic tanks buried in their front or back yards for waste and wastewater disposal, providing a constant, daily supply of fresh contaminants for the drinking water supply. “The same contaminants that affect drinking water can adversely affect surface waters,” a Suffolk health department spokesperson tells the Press. “However, the single-biggest regional problem is nitrogen inputs to surface waters from groundwater.” EPA documents examined by the Press reveal that some privately run wastewater treatment systems in Suffolk had been repeatedly discharging nitrogen levels that exceeded the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s mandated standard for years. There currently exists no set plan to require the hundreds of thousands of antiquated cesspools and septic tanks buried throughout Suffolk to be upgraded or retrofitted to the best possible technology available. There also exists no singular, Islandwide regulatory agency charged with overseeing and actively enforcing the protection of LI’s drinking water. Thus, the pollution and consequential contamination of the regional drinking water supply and its aesthetically and economically vital waterways continue to increase.
SOUNDING THE ALARM: kevin mcallister of nonprofit peconic baykeeper (l) and its board chairman brendan mccurdy discuss the water quality crisis facing long island. high levels of nitrogen discharged into our drinking water supply and waterways threaten residents’ health and the environment.
“The Forge River is the poster child for nutrient pollution from wastewater,” says McAllister. “Ultimately, this is just an example of what our waterways can be if we’re not managing for the wastewater influences.”
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Suffolk’s wastewater dilemma has been flooding the consciousness of the county’s environmentalists, residents and elected officials in recent months. On the table is a proposal from Legis. Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) to speed up the county health department’s permit process for approving sewer and septic systems in new developments and help businesses track their applications during the process. New
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said in his campaign that the delays in the health department’s permit process are unconscionably slow, hindering the county’s economic growth and recovery. Earlier this month, the Suffolk County Legislature created a committee to study expanding sewers in the county. Lawmakers also recently created an “infrastructure bank” designed to foster private-public partnerships to help fund such sewers. At some point this fall, county officials hope to hold a public referendum on either expanding Babylon’s Southwest Sewer District—currently the only area of the county fully sewered—or creating an entire new sewer district; sewers are seen by many as key for future development in Suffolk. “The present grade of cesspools is one step better than an outhouse,” says Legis. Wayne Horsley (D-Babylon), who led the sewer committee’s formation. “If you want to have businesses that will bring in good paying jobs, you have to have the infrastructure to advance the county. And that basic infrastructure is sewering.” Kick-starting much of the recent discussion has been the aforementioned draft Suffolk County Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan, released last
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January—the final, revised version of which is due out by June, according to the health department—that paints a disturbing picture of the health and protection of LI’s drinking water supply and waterways. Levels of Tetrachloroethene (PCE) in the drinking water supply, for example—recognized by the EPA as a carcinogen—have been increasing exponentially, “detected in four times as many wells in 2005 as in 1987,” it reads. Trichloroethene (TCE), a degradation product of PCE, “was detected in more wells—and at higher average concentrations—in 2005 than in 1987.” MTBE, or Methyl tert-butyl ether, a flammable, volatile, colorless gasoline additive, has been detected in Suffolk’s groundwater since 1991. High-density development that occurred after World War II and eastern Suffolk’s long history of farming are two main culprits of nitrogen contamination, according to the report. Since many contaminants take years to travel from groundwater to surface waters, much of the destruction witnessed today began back then, though antiquated cesspool systems continue to contribute to that murky tradition. “The biggest threats to drinking water are nitrogen, volatile organic compounds and pesticides,” Bellone tells the Press. “We agree that more work needs to be done to protect our aquifer, particularly with respect to nitrogen and surface waters.” The draft plan “has got to be a wake-up call that the job is not being done to protect our drinking water and manage our waste water,” says Michael White, an environmental law attorney and the former executive director of the Long Island Regional Planning Council.
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But as comprehensive as the latest report is, it still falls short, argue environmentalists. “The data gets us to the 10-yard line, but it never kind of puts the ball in to the end zone,” says Robert DeLuca, president of Southold-based nonprofit Group for the East End and also a former employee of Suffolk’s health department. “It essentially said, ‘Wow, look at all the stuff that’s happening, and we’ll keep doing the best we can.” DeLuca, McAllister, and half a dozen others copublished their gripes in an 18-page critical response to the report last August, titled Water Worries: Suffolk Report Documents Decline Without Prescription for Remedy. Their concerns were also submitted to the county health department during its public comment period, to be factored into potential remedial plans for its final report due in June. Christopher Gobler, PhD, director of the Stony Brook-Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program, also weighed in. He has worked extensively with the algal blooms infecting Northport Harbor, commonly known as red tide, which produces toxins that can be poisonous to humans. “The levels of nitrogen have gone up and will continue to go up,” Gobler tells the Press. “The amount of nitrogen in the groundwaters is a function of the number of people living above the ground. And without a sewage treatment plant for almost all of eastern Suffolk County, every time you add another home with a septic tank and have people living in that home, you’re going to drive up the nitrogen loads. It’s all very predictable.” Besides the foul smells and effects on the aesthetics
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of the Island’s bays and rivers, Gobler stresses the impact on the local economy. “In 1980, two of three hard clams eaten east of the Mississippi River came from Great South Bay,” he writes. “Landings of hard clams and bay scallops have diminished 99 percent since this time, in part due to N[itrogen]-stimulated harmful algal blooms.” Then there’s the health threats ingesting too much nitrogen from our drinking water poses: It deprives the blood of oxygen, explains Gobler, and can cause “Blue Baby Syndrome” in infants, whereby the child’s skin literally turns blue. Casting blame on any one agency or facility for accountability, however, is tough. When it comes to exactly who is responsible for protecting Long Island’s drinking water, it gets complicated. “There’s multiple agencies at multiple levels that currently have some piece of this responsibility, and I think that’s the challenge,” says DeLuca. “The Suffolk County Health Department has a responsibility for the protection of drinking water and the sanitary waste disposal systems that are in the ground right now. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is responsible for the protection of surface waters and wetlands. They have their own sets of rules and regulations. The local towns and villages, many of them have their own ordinances, planning and zoning. So you have probably a half dozen agencies all with a foot in the pool here.” Richard Amper, executive director of Riverheadbased nonprofit Long Island Pine Barrens Society, an oft-outspoken environmental advocate, put it more bluntly:
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“If there were a single somebody in charge of groundwater quality on Long Island, you’d go to them and take them out behind the barn and shoot them in the head,” he blasts. “Surface water is the DEC. They will tell you they’re understaffed. If it’s drinking water, it’s Suffolk County Department of Health Services. And they’re understaffed and they’re not processing development applications as fast as the government wants them to. “Whatever level of government that you’re talking about, everyone’s falling down on the job—collectively, and all at the same time—and the consequences are catastrophic,” he adds. Amper is part of a growing number of local environmentalists calling for the creation of a singular agency or commission that would oversee all of the Island’s drinking water resources. Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Farmingdale-based nonprofit Citizens Campaign for the Environment, is another. And she stresses that whatever form this new body is, it’s got to have teeth. “We don’t want a paper tiger,” she says. “We want an entity that has the force of law.” One role for this theoretical commission, she says, would be monitoring and enforcing the wastewater discharge standards of sewage treatment plants and onsite wastewater treatment systems and their pollutant infusions into the drinking water supply. Currently 10 milligrams per liter of wastewater discharge for nitrogen is a standard that McAllister wants changed to 5 milligrams, since, he argues, the threshold was created to address health concerns with drinking water, not surface water quality. Long Island’s
nitrogen pollution poster child: the forge river in mastic has been the scene of chronic algal blooms, depleted dissolved oxygen levels and massive fish and crab kills for years. peconic baykeeper kevin mcallister (bottom left) attributes much of its decimation to high levels of nitrogen entering the waterway via wastewater from nearby homes’ cesspools and septic tanks.
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water bodies begin to deteriorate due to nitrogen pollution at 0.5 milligrams per liter, he says, thus the higher the requirements for nitrogen discharges, the better the health of the bays and estuaries.
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The vast majority of wastewater disposal systems in Suffolk are merely the basic cesspool system, which, in many cases, is just a ring of concrete cinder blocks forming an underground waste pit. But since 1997 another system has been used for larger, multi-family dwellings and commercial properties. Manufactured by Williamsport, Penn.-based Cromaglass Corporation, the company’s wastewater treatment systems have been installed across the globe, from Baghdad to Lake Tahoe, for nearly 50 years. They are, in essence, onsite, mini-sewage treatment facilities, also known as “package” treatment plants, that typically handle flows ranging from 1,000 to 15,000 gallons of wastewater per day, or the equivalent of three to 50 full-sized single-family residences. Cromaglass technology helped open parts of unsewered Suffolk to development, providing prospective builders with a solution for large-dwelling construction projects that could not otherwise meet the EPA’s nitrogen removal requirements and effluent standards. There are between 32 and 40 such systems now in use throughout Suffolk, according to the health department and the company, respectively. They service about 2,000 residents of senior living facilities, hotels, aprtment and condominium complexes,
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says the company. Until December 2011, Cromaglass was the only such system permitted for new developments. Now, Boston, Mass.-based Lombardo Associates’ Nitrex and Walton, Ken.-based Purestream’s BESST (Biological Engineered Single Sludge Treatment) systems can also be used. An ongoing study by the county health department that will include an assessment of operation and cost-benefit analysis, to be completed next month, may open the door to other systems as well, and in addition, will evaluate whether any approved systems are appropriate for single-family homes. The Nitrex system, touts the health department, has the capability of reducing nitrogen to the range of 2 to 3 milligrams per liter of wastewater discharged, a figure not lost on McAllister, who for years has been calling for more choices, better technology and demanding higher-grade effluent. McAllister wants lawmakers and the county health department to de-certify Cromaglass, devise protocol for it and other onsite septic-cesspool systems’ replacement—possibly as incentives or at time of property transfer—and mandate all new developments to solely use the most efficient systems. McAllister bases his demands on EPA discharge monitoring reports he obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request that shows, out of 27 Cromaglass systems installed in Suffolk, for 2008, 2009 and 2010, “Two out of every three were failing. Failing means they were not meeting the permit discharge standards, which is for drinking water protection,” he says.
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The Press verified the documents through online, publicly accessible EPA databases. “Why does Suffolk County still provide the ability to select from the list when there’s a significant disparity on performance?” he asks. “I’ll cut right to the chase: Nitrex, three parts. Cromaglass, two out of three can’t even get down to 10 parts. And some of these are through the roof—discharges of 40, 50 milligrams.” Other environmentalists are equally critical of the Cromaglass system. “They’re just not effective at all,” says Amper. “We need new technology; we need less density.” Cromaglass’ Suffolk County representatives Lou Kircher and son Jeff, both self-described environmentalists themselves, defend the system, saying it is an effective, efficient process that provides an environmentally responsible alternative to cesspools and septic systems for future development in Suffolk. Although the systems aren’t 100 percent perfect, they say, they’re pretty close—as long as they’re properly maintained and operated. “Operator neglect and owner indifference” are the biggest challenges to the system’s performance, says Jeff. “Every system is only as good as the operator.” Jeff, whose background is in biochemistry and microbiology, explains that he and his father install the systems, but it’s up to the operators and property owners to maintain them. The Suffolk health department’s Office of Wastewater Management oversees and enforces Cromaglass and other sewage treatment
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In the United States a college degree is not simply a luxury it’s a privilege, and often a necessity. By the same token, it is an expense and frequently a debt. Many college graduates who are entering the workforce amidst a suffering economy are finding that their degrees are not presenting the opportunities they expected. Doors that may have opened with less apprehension in the economic prosperity of the ’90’s have now slammed shut, leaving employers to view applicants through a small fisheye lens, in which one’s professional merit is distorted and occasionally devalued. Aware of the occupational hardships that await their undergraduate and graduate students, Long Island colleges and universities have adjusted their curricula in ways that will apply a sharper and more defined focus to a chosen area of study. Take, for example, Hofstra University’s forward-thinking “European Odyssey.” According to Ginny Greenberg, Public Relations Representative of Hofstra University, the European Odyssey gives undergraduate students the opportunity to travel to several countries while taking classes in numerous different subjects. Greenberg states that, “The European Odyssey is basically a 10-week program that allows students to travel through Europe via minivan with two faculty members and take courses in history, economics, political science and various cultural themes.”
military aviation, airports, air traffic control and other areas of the air transport and aerospace industry.” (Indeed, Dowling is one of only 36 approved colleges in the country to participate in the AT-CTI program, providing students an opportunity to become Air Traffic Controllers.) “Our graduates are intensely recruited,” notes the school, “because employers know they have a balanced liberal arts background as well as experience with the industry’s most advanced equipment.” More than just changing the focus of their degrees, the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Professional Studies is changing the way students obtain those degrees,
and Leadership program provides “a broad business education that focuses on the fundamentals of business management as well as critical skills in leadership. This perspective gives the program an immediate relevancy to today’s business challenges and prepares graduates for meeting a changing climate.” As for the brand-new Information Systems Hofstra is also giving graduate program, the school claims that its students an opportunity to develop students, “will develop the technical, skills that will improve the likelianalytic, business and contextual hood of acquiring a paying position skills to identify and analyze largefollowing graduation: a forensic linscale, data-driven solutions within guistics program that Greenberg the 21st century organizations.” describes as, “One of the first masters They point out that the Bureau of programs of its kind in the U.S.” Labor Statistics predicts a 22-percent Greenberg notes, “Forensic linguisgrowth for IT-related jobs through tics is increasingly being used 2018, while The Economist as a tool of legal professionals, estimates that information law enforcement agencies and management is growing at Long Island colleges and the intelligence community in nearly 10 percent per year. the United States and around St. Joseph’s College in universities are making it a the world.” Patchogue is also dedicated priority to not only craft In relation to the job to presenting unique oppormarket, Dr. Robert Leonard, tunities. Their Recreation fresh areas of study for Professor of Linguistics and and Leisure Studies program Director of Linguistics at their students, but also to is designed to educate Hofstra, says, “Students say to students on the therapeutic make their post-graduation benefits of recreation in conme, ‘What kind of jobs can I get?’ And the answer is, I don’t experiences less daunting junction with health care know but whatever jobs are and social service positions. and more hopeful. available, you’re going to be According to Jessica the first to get them. That’s McAleer, Director of Public how new this course is.” Relations, St. Joseph’s RecPossibly even more exciting with a growing number of completely reation and Leisure Studies program than forensic linguistics are the online degree programs. Notes the is, “the only program in Brooklyn and degrees offered by Dowling’s School school, “The rich learning environ- Long Island to receive full accreditaof Aviation. Situated at Brookhaven ment of an online course offers tion from the National Recreation Airport, the school’s graduates have students the opportunity to interact and Parks Association.” gone on to become (among many with instructors and other students in As students head into the other things): air traffic controllers, a number of ways.” workforce, the many trials and tribuaviation industry managers …and, of The school offers two online lations remain. However, Long Island course, pilots. Masters of Science degrees: one in colleges and universities are making As the school points out, “These Business Management and Leader- it a priority to not only craft fresh degree programs prepare students for ship, another in Information Systems areas of study for their students, but further research and study in man- (the latter is new for Fall 2012). also to make their post-graduation agement, technology, mathematics, According to CUNY, the Master of experiences less daunting and more and for entry into commercial and Science in Business Management hopeful.
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Dogs The Amazing Creatures We Live With! Part 2
By Nancy E. Hassel
Last week we discussed a dog’s amazing hearing capability—but let’s not leave out their fantastic eye sight and sense of smell. When it comes down to it I am a novice on dog eye sight as far as what they can see and what they can’t see. Once again I asked ‘The Caring Vet,’ Dr. Michel A. Selmer of Advanced Animal Care Center in Huntington Station, (www. AdvancedCareforPets.com), for his insight on dog eyesight capabilities. Q. We have always been told that dogs are color blind, is this true? Dr. Selmer: As compared to people, dogs cannot tell the difference between red, yellow, orange or green. They can see whites, light blues, purples and shades of grey, so dogs are not completely color blind. Humans process all colors and we can see them more vividly than our canines. Dogs see better in lower light conditions and can differentiate the tiniest movements better than we can. A4
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sniff—he most likely can smell what may be coming before he spots it. Q. We know dogs use their noses, especially when we are at the dinner table—what else can they sniff out? Dr. Selmer: Dogs are capable of sniffing everything from drugs, electricity, underground gas pipelines, ovulating animals, insects in your home and more. Recent studies suggest that dogs may even be capable of detecting human illnesses from epilepsy to cancer just with their noses. Dogs have two olfactory bulbs attached to their brains which decode every smell they encounter. A dog’s olfactory glands are about four times larger than ours. And a dog’s brain is about 10 times smaller than ours, and this means that your dog’s brain has 40 times more of their brain devoted to smell than ours do. This explains why your dog’s sense of smell is suggested to be about 100,000 times better than his human master. Q. Is this the reason we often hear that
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dog to smell fear or at least the pheromones that are released when we are afraid—dogs can’t read our minds! A dog can smell odors that are 40 feet underground, or sniff out insects like
bed bugs and termites, or smell fingerprints that are a week old, and your dog will react differently to different smells. For example, chamomile can make the dog calmer, whereas sniffing rosemary or peppermint can make the dog more excited. All these capabilities make our dogs very special creatures, man’s best friend. We are always trying to decipher how a dog may perceive the world, their human families and their surroundings. Animal communication and perception is much more complex than we ever thought. Fascinating information, I know I will be looking at my own dog in a different light! Thank you Dr. Selmer for educating us more about our dogs, the amazing creatures we live with. Have a question for Dr. Selmer? He will be at the Dix Hills Half Hollow Hills Library for a free ‘Ask the Vet’ presentation on Tuesday, May 8th at 7 p.m. Nancy E. Hassel Founder of Long Island Pet Professionals and www.LIPetPlace.com, Public Relations Professional, Dog Educator & Entrepreneur. Sign up for our Free 'Pet Events Newsletter' on LIPetPlace.com!
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10:30 AM Agility Demonstration by Doggie U K9 Academy 11:00 AM Long Island Retriever Field Trial Demonstration 11:30 AM Classic K9 Dog Show 12:00 PM Long Island Road Rage Flyball Demonstration 12:30 PM Dancing with Your Dog with Diana Frohman 1:00 PM Agility and Flyball Demostrations by Doggie U K9 Academy 1:30 PM Classic K9 Dog Show 2:00 PM Rick Caran and Team Jilli Dog 2:30 PM Long Island Road Rage Flyball Demonstration 3:00 PM Dancing with Your Dog with Diana Frohman 3:30 PM Parade of Breeds 4:30 PM Classic K9 Dog Show 5:00 PM Rick Caran and Team Jilli Dog 5:30 PM Agility Demonstrations by Doggie U K9 Academy 6:00 PM Long Island Retriever Field Trial Demonstration 6:45 PM Classic K9 Dog Show
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11:00 AM Rainforest Reptile Show 12:00 PM Coyotes in the Cityunderstanding and co-existing with urban coyetes and fox 1:00 PM Birds of Prey Program 2:00 PM Long Island Parrot SocietyParrot University, the Basics of Owing a Parrot 2:30 PM Rainforest Reptile Show – Special Rare and Endangered Species Program 3:30 PM Long Island Search and Rescue Demonstration 4:15 PM Birds of Prey Program 5:00 PM Rainforest Reptile Show 5:30 PM Long Island Search and Rescue Demonstration 7:00 PM Rainforest Reptile Show
10:30 AM Agility Demonstrations by Doggie U K9 Academy 11:00 AM Long Island Search and Rescue Demonstration 11:30 AM Long Island Road Rage Flyball Demonstration 12:00 PM Classic K9 Dog Show 12:30 PM Rick Caran and Team Jilli Dog 1:00 PM Dancing with Your Dogs with Diana Frohman 1:30 PM Agility Demonstrations by Doggie U K9 Academy 2:00 PM Classic K9 Dog Show 2:30 PM Long Island Field Retriever Field Trial Demonstration 3:00 PM Long Island Road Rage Flyball Demonstration 3:30 PM Dancing with Dogs with Diana Frohman 4:00 PM Rick Caran and Team Jilli Dog 4:30 PM Classic K9 Dog Show 5:00 PM Agility Demonstrations by Doggie U K9 Academy
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DO THIS Pet Events By jaclyn gallucci @jgallucci@longislandpress.com
Ongoing Dog Walking, Cat Sitting, Pet Portraits @ Tails of NY, Brooklyn. www. tailsofny.com Personalized pet care services using the highest quality, natural, organic and eco-friendly pet products available. Founder Audra Gullo is a certified dog walker educated in the areas of canine body language, animal behavior, and safety. She is also certified by The Red Cross™ in pet first aid. March Madness @ Save-A-Pet, 608 Route 112, Port Jefferson Station. 631-473-6333. www.saveapetli.net. Waived adoption fees for certain cats and dogs throughout March, and discounted spays and neuters. Mad Catter Tea Party (March 1-10)—free adoptions of all cats over two years old; St Catrick’s Day and Erin Go Bark (March 11-17)—adult cats are $17, free adoptions of all dogs over three years old. Lucky Black Cats (March 18-24)—free adoptions of seven lucky black cats. “A” List Weekend (March 25-31)—free adoptions of SaveA-Pet’s “A” list dogs, Murray, Brownie and Princess. All are seniors and want to be loved, too! LI Parrot Society Monthly Meeting @ American Legion Post, 22 Grove Pl., Babylon. Third Wednesday of every month, starting 6:30 p.m. Talks, seminars, education, and more. Please leave your bird at home. $5 donation requested for nonLIPS members. Visit www.liparrotsociety. org for more information.
S. Second St., Deer Park. Hosted by Suffolk Tailwaggers. For information and registration call 631-261-6554. Also 2.19. Sunday 2.19 RSVP Inc Animal Rescue Group @ Petco, 180 W. Montauk Hwy., Hampton Bays. 631-728-3524. Noon-4 p.m. Come by and you just may meet your next furry family member. Monday 2.20 LI-DOG’s President’s Day Pints & Paws @ Mary Carroll’s Pub, 1 Clinton Ave., Huntington. 631223-2088. 3-5 p.m. Raise your glasses— and your paws. Wednesday 2.22 AKC Rally Obedience Classes @ Suffolk Obedience & Training Club, 60 S. Second St., Deer Park. To register call 631-261-6554. Saturday 2.25 Black Tie for Paws Benefit @ Doggie U K9 Academy, 41 Saxon Ave., Bay Shore. 6-10 p.m. The first ever red carpet pet event on Long Island, this open house and fundraiser benefits The Shelter Connection. Black tie attire requested for guests and their pets. Live music, drinks, food, freestyle dancing dogs, dog runway show and special guest stars.
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Saturday 3.3 Long Island Pet Expo @ Suffolk Community CollegeBrentwood/Grant Campus, 1001 Crooked Hill Rd., Brentwood. 10 a.m.8 p.m.; Also 3.4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. A familyoriented pet event with educational activities, demos and seminars.
Saturday 3.17 St. Patrick’s Day Vines & Canines @ Martha Clara Vineyards, 6025 Sound Ave., Riverhead. 11 a.m. An educational walk for pets and owners through the vineyards.
Sunday 3.4 Bernese Mountain Dog Walk @ Gardiner County Park, Montauk Highway, West Bay Shore. 11 a.m. A dog walk for Bernese dogs and their owners.
Tuesday 3.20 Unleashed Pet Peeves 2012 Event @ Crest Hollow Country Club, Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury. 6 p.m. Mingle with pet lovers and business professionals. Visit www.petpeeves. org for more information.
Sunday 3.18 St. Patrick’s Day Goes to the Dogs @ Fido Fitness Club, 910 Railroad Ave., Woodmere. 516569-3647. Noon-5 p.m. An afternoon of fun, games and socializing. The event includes a St. Patrick’s Day Doggy Parade, 50/
Saturday 4.21 Spring Dog Festival @ Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Exercise and walks in designated garden areas for leashed dogs. From noon-3 p.m. dog games and demonstrations.
Read to a Dog @ Hampton Library, 2478 Main St., Bridgehampton. 2 p.m. Kids read books to certified therapy dogs. Adoption Day @ Talmage Farm Agway Garden Center, 1122 Osborne Ave., Riverhead. 631-
Saturday 2.18 CPE Agility Trial @ Suffolk Obedience & Training Club, 60
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Cool Campus Offerings: Not Just For Students BY Licia Avelar lavelar@longislandpress.com
For the student considering prospective colleges, there are many considerations: the campus, the courses, the other students. After graduation, though, those concerns don’t seem as relevant. Yet the question remains: What can the college offer you? The answer? Plenty. Here are a few things Long Island colleges have to offer to both students and non-students: If you’re a fan of the arts, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post is currently in its 31st year and hosts more than 100 performances by world-renowned artists in music, theater and dance each season. This year, Long Island audiences will be treated to the New York Philharmonic, Soweto Gospel Choir of South Africa, Golden Dragon Acrobats, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet, to name a few. Another college providing entertainment to the public is Five Towns College through the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center (DHPAC). The center presents everything from jazz and rock to Broadway musical theater and family and children’s theater, as well as magic and stand-up comedy. “Performances and workshops feature world-class, award-winning artists as well as emerging artists and student productions,” says Sandy Hinden, Executive Director of DHPAC. “DHPAC provides the opportunity to view our diverse genres of performances to satisfy the varied needs and interests of our diverse audiences.” Hofstra University in Hempstead brings to the public a chance to learn through art with the Hofstra University Museum, which offers visitors a chance to immerse themselves in culture through its collections, exhibitions, sculpture gardens and its interpretative programs. Besides a permanent collection of approximately 5,000 works of art, the museum boasts an array of exciting limited exhibits. “The Hofstra University Museum has a strong commitment to the Long Island region, and through its exhibitions and educational and public programs offered to children, families and lifelong learners the Museum serves over 24,000 individuals annually,” says Beth Levinthal, the museum’s Executive Director. “Throughout
the year, the Museum offers exhibitrelated concerts, workshops, symposia, lectures and professional development classes for the Long Island community,” she adds. Stony Brook University also provides the public with a way to enjoy learning about different cultures. The university boasts the Charles B. Wang Center, dedicated to offering a multifaceted understanding of Asian and Asian American cultures. The center includes exhibit spaces, an interdenominational chapel, Asian food court, and more than 35,000 square feet of tranquil gardens. Throughout the year, the center hosts conferences, art exhibits, film festivals, lectures and performances, as well as annual events like the Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival in the spring. Dowling College, meanwhile, provides the public with numerous health-focused programs, including one aimed at smokers trying to break the habit, called the Suffolk County Department of Health “Learn To Be...Tobacco Free” Free Smoking Cessation Class. Another popular class open to the public is ACCESS Drug and Alcohol Education, a free 12-week community Alcohol and Drug Education series. Adelphi University hosts Campus Recreation, offering the community a slew of different programs to participate in during the year. All programs, from group fitness classes to aquatics and intramural sports, are offered in the school’s new state-of-the-art Recreational Fitness Center. The center boasts 28 cardio machines, renovated swimming pool and indoor track. “Our focus at Adelphi is to serve as a central hub of knowledge and service, offering resources to improving the health and well-being of the community,” says Lori Duggan Gold, Vice President for Communications at Adelphi University. Adelphi University is also a registered member of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and offers the public an amazing Arboretum. The green campus uses only 100 percent natural, organic techniques to maintain the flora, from special berry bushes to lavish rose gardens to trees like the California Redwood dating back to the early part of the 20th century.
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Have you ever been in a situation where you just stood in front of your closet without a single clue as to what you were going to wear that day? Every morning consists of the same repetitive task of picking something out, and not knowing what to wear can be not only frustrating, but also time consuming especially when you’re on a tight schedule to get to school on time. So how do we solve this problem? It’s
with the recession our country is experiencing, everybody is willing to save money here and there. Furthermore, another rising trend in our generation is fashion bullying. Thousands of people have been victimized because of their attire. Based on personal style and economic affordability, different people have preference over certain brands or types of clothing. People of lower socioeconomic backgrounds often feel inferior when they are discriminated against because they’re not up to date with the
latest brands or fashions. Wardrobe preference contributes to the countless recorded as well as unrecorded cases of teen bullying around the world. The United States, itself, is suffering from staggering statistics that show that 1 in 4 kids in America suffer from bullying and discrimination. This number can be drastically altered if school districts throughout the country employ the use of school uniforms. The uniformity of the student body will prevent any sort of bias, thus allowing one’s true, genuine personality to shine.
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plants’ compliance to nitrogen standards, confirms a health department spokesperson—with “enhanced (quarterly) inspection and monitoring, significant fines for violations, and requirements for reserve funding for upgrades.” Jeff says the health department has historically lacked manpower, the inspectors were worn thin and overwhelmed. [According to the health department, three inspectors are responsible for all 193 sewage treatment plants, including Cromaglass, and 80 pump stations, in Suffolk.] “The county is understaffed and has not been able to be diligent enough, but they have now become much more stringent in supervision of the plants,” Jeff says. “And in addition, Cromaglass, actually, has been contracted to do additional inspections.” The Cromaglass system utilizes a complex process, and the EPA documents also show that the systems can achieve nitrogen discharges as low as 1, 2, 3 and 4 milligrams per liter. In a nutshell: Post-flush, users’ waste and wastewater flow into a well before entering the Cromaglass system, where throughout a six-hour cycle that involves both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria treatment, aerobic bacteria break down the carbon and hydrogen from the wastewater, leaving nitrogen, and anaerobic bacteria consume the nitrogen. From there, the waste travels to a digester, where any suspended solids settle out. The remaining liquid, also called grey water, then flows
into a sludge tank and is then released into leeching fields, where the treated effluent enters the ground. In addition to all this, the system has odor vacuums to combat fumes or foul smells, and features complete redundancy—meaning that if one particular aspect of the process fails, others can back it up. The Suffolk health department stands behind Cromaglass, too, telling the Press in a written statement regarding the EPA documents: “While there were some startup problems in the initial Cromaglass systems, performance of these systems in Suffolk County is now very good,” says a spokeswoman. “These systems are operating better than other full-size wastewater treatment plants in Suffolk County, and have significantly reduced nitrogen loading to groundwater and surface waters as compared with the alternative of onsite septic tanks and leaching pools.” Despite the high praises from the health department, however, some lawmakers aren’t fans. Legis. Ed Romaine (R-Center Moriches) has “grave concerns” about the Cromaglass system, and suggests the health department irreversibly damaged relations with the legislature over the issue. “I raised a ton of questions back in July, and they blew me off,” says Romaine, who suspects the health department has done an about-face and the report expected next month will show that the agency is now more critical of Cromaglass. “This is a department that gave us a great deal of difficulty in approving other systems.”
He believes that in addition to phasing out Cromaglass and the new push to sewer the county, there should also be incentives for homeowners with the worst polluting systems—pre-1972 cesspools—to replace their old systems with often cost-prohibitive, more advanced wastewater treatment alternatives. Yet it may already be too late, he says, when factoring in underground nitrogen and ammonia plumes oozing into the ground today that will not reach the bays and aquifers for 20 years or more. “It’s sobering when you think about [it],” Romaine says. “This is a problem that may defy solution. Even if we make some solutions, even band-aid solutions, they may not protect the bays or the drinking water to allow both to be enjoyed a generation from now.”
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Environmentalists direct special ire at Suffolk Legis. Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore), who after the draft report’s release, sponsored legislation that effectively stripped the county health department of implementing significant healthy policy changes without legislative approval. It passed nearly unanimously; former County Executive Steve Levy signed it into law. Many environmental advocates allege the move was done preemptively to head off any potential policy changes that may be included in the revised final report—such as, for example, McAllister’s call for the de-certification and replacement of Cromaglass and antiquated cesspool and septic systems with the most efficient technology, such as Nitrex. Or perhaps improving the water quality nitrogen
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discharge standard from 10 milligrams per liter to 5 have absolutely no background or understanding as light some very concerning facts about what’s going milligrams—mandates that would cost big money to to what 10 milligrams per liter means—to sit there on with our environment, what’s going on with our implement. Critics charge that the motivation for such and basically pass judgment on some of the technical waterways, what’s going on with our groundwater. a law was less about protecting Long Island’s drinking standards that are going to have to be put in place as But, when we’re going to make policy decisions based water and ill-fated waterways and more about pro- we move forward,” DeLuca says. “There’s a reason on those facts, that will have major impact not only on tecting deep-pocketed development interests and why people [are] on the Board of Health and there are the future of our environment and public health, but campaign contributors. technical people involved in those health standards, also on the future of our economy, then those decisions “The politicians are more concerned about pro- because you need somebody with that level of compe- are most appropriately made with counsel from all of tecting the special interests than the public health,” tence—who is also not running for office—to be able the stakeholders, but made by the legislature.’ blasts Amper. “Within a month of “I don’t want unelected administhe time that the health department’s trative officials mandating anything,” “If there were a single somebody in he continues. “There are other implicareport came out, the legislature, at the behest of developers, approved charge of groundwater quality on tions to these decisions that need to be legislation that effectively says, ‘The weighed along with everything.” Long Island, you’d go to them and health department is not allowed to Regarding the allegations of do its job or promulgate any protectake them out behind the barn and campaign contributors’ influence: tive regulations unless we say so.’ “I won’t sit here and deny that I Motivated by outside interests didn’t get phone calls from developor not, says DeLuca, the former ers,” Cilmi says. “But you know what, health department employee, the in every decision that we make, we get new protocol just doesn’t make sense. phone calls from a myriad of stake— Long Island Pine Barrens society Executive Director Richard Amper He wants it repealed in tandem with holders, and I wouldn’t want it any the implementation of real, concrete other way.” plans on how to truly deal with the situation. to say with a straight face, ‘This is what we need to do McAllister, his environmental colleagues, and “It’s absurd, and I think it’s actually dangerous,” and here’s why.’” even the crafters of the county’s draft plan, argue that he says, “because what happens with legislation like Cilmi tells the Press his legislation was “abso- if the money is not spent on fixing the problem now, that is that every public health decision becomes polit- lutely” influenced by the draft report and potentially the cost will grow exponentially. icized. You don’t need 18 legislators trying to decide expensive policy changes that could be coming from “Let’s say we’re doubling the cost, or even tripling what’s good for public health. You need public health the health department down the road, stressing that the cost,” he says. “We got to bite the bullet at some officials to decide that and, essentially, adopt rules and it’s his job, as an elected official, to have a say in those point, because we can’t continue to perpetuate the regulations that advance that. decisions. status quo because the status quo has brought us to a “I think it’s very difficult for a public policy “My bill was in an effort to say, ‘Look, this report water quality crisis. maker, who may not be a scientist and who may that was done is a very important report, it brings to “Rome is burning.”
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FASHIONISTAS @ BOLTAX GALLERY Boltax Gallery’s colorcrazed, portraiteur, Don Florence, takes on another group of icons—fashionistas. Just in time for New York Fashion Week, these oil on canvas portraits feature everyone from Karl Lagerfeld to Coco Chanel. Painted in 2011, the works are available for purchase in limited-edition, signed prints. For more information visit www.boltaxgallery.com. Ongoing.—Jaclyn Gallucci
Beer Pong @ Mulcahy’s Wednesday nights. Howardena Pindell: Paintings and Works on Paper @ Adelphi University Featuring well-known handmade punched paper collages, prints and photo collages. Through 3.6.
JOPLIN’S PEARL ROCK THE WOMEN OF ROCK @ THE PARAMOUNT Performing music by the women of rock like Heart, Pat Benatar and Stevie Nicks, Joplin’s Pearl dons ‘60s attire with lead singer and Long Island native Amber Ferrari dressed as the legendary Janis Joplin. With celebrity drummer Bobby Rondinelli formerly of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Blue Oyster Cult. The band packs in tons of classic hits in the first half of the show, but the second half is dedicated purely to Joplin. Saturday, 2.25. 8 p.m.—JG ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
HIGHER GROUND STEVIE WONDER TRIBUTE @ DIX HILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER One of the most prominent figures in the history of pop music, Stevie Wonder recorded more than 23 albums, 30 top-ten hits and won an astounding 22 Grammy awards. In honor of the living legend, tribute band Higher Ground will treat you to an endless list of hits including everything from “Superstition” to “Isn’t she lovely.” Not to be confused with Stevie impersonators, Higher Ground simply pays tribute at the highest level with its all-star lineup of world-class vocalists Kevin Keys and Eddie Garcie, acclaimed guitarist Steve Briody, saxophonist Marty Kersich, and drummer Jim Mansfield. Friday, 3.2. 7:30 p.m.—Daphne Livingston
Ongoing Drawings from Life @ South Street Gallery Featuring Figure Studies by Peggi Kroll-Roberts & Paul Kreiling. Through 3.11.
THE BRIDAL SHOW @ OHEKA CASTLE Enjoy complimentary champagne and hors d’oeuvres prepared by Oheka’s executive chef, Chris Cappello. Meet some of the most sought after professional bridal vendors on the East Coast. Tour the historic estate and gardens and view magnificently designed wedding gowns and perfectly tailored tuxedos. Win an Oheka wedding cake from the castle’s Classic Elegance Collection designed by executive pastry chef, Daniel Andreotti. Sunday, 2.26. 1-5 p.m.—DL
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Experience @ LI Aquarium & Exhibition Center Go in the shark dive cage! Through 2.29.
STYX Tribute Show @ Multiple Locations Rockin’ The Paradise Styx Tribute Band has traveled the nation extensively, performing for audience of more than 10,000 people at a time. For more info or to book them for your upcoming event email booking@ thestyxtribute.com. Displaced Persons Camps @ Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center Written and curated by survivor and historian, Lillian Gewirtzman, the exhibit highlights the renaissance of Jewish cultural life and community which took place among the more than 1 million survivors left essentially homeless after WWII. Not Just Any Body, YOUR Body – Learning to Love It! @ Oh My Girls This workshop enable you to see all the parts of you that define and shine. Visit www. ohmygirls for full schedule of events. Wednesdays. El Diablo Dozen Wing Challenge @ Continued on page 48
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Legendary @ Gallery North Celebrating the work of local sculptor Robert White. Through 2.10. thursday 2.23 Romeo @ Madison Square Garden The Del Fuegos @ Bowery Ballroom With Jarana Beat & Dead Exs. Phife Dawg (A Tribe Called Quest) @ B.B.
Lend Me a Tenor @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center Theatrical comedy. Through 2.26. Friday 2.24 Best of the Best Party @ Nutty Irishman—Bay Shore With Best Cover Band on LI, Big Shot and Best Night Club, The Nutty! The Johnny Cash 80th Birthday Bash @ Bell House Starring Alex Battles & The Whiskey and Rebellion.
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Buckwheat Zydeco @ YMCA Boulton Center With Mardi Gras in full swing, who better to get into a Crescent Mood with than Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr.? Having seen him tear it up onstage, I can attest to his potent, in-concert joie de vivre and advise any attendees venturing out to Amagansett to keep an ear open for mean covers of the Rolling Stones’ “Beast of Burden” and Derek & The Dominos’ “Why Does Have Love Got To Be So Sad?” along with newer barnburners off his last studio album, 2009’s Lay Your Burden Down. Also 2.25 @ B.B. King Blues Club—Dave Gil de Rubio ton. 631-427-9547. www. lastlickscafe.com.
Lily Flanagan’s— 528 Main St., Islip. 631-581-1550 Temple Avodah—3050 Oceanside Rd., Oceanside. Long Island Aquarium— Adelphi University—1 Main Street, Riverhead. 516-766-6809 South Ave., Garden City. www.longislandaquarium. www.adelphi.edu Tilles Center— 720 North- com ern Boulevard, Greenvale. Bethpage Public Li516-299-2752. www.tilles- Looney Tunes—31 brary—47 Powell Ave., Brookvale Ave., West Babycenter.org Bethpage lon. 631-587-7722. www. Vibe Lounge—60 N. Park looneytunescds.com Brokerage—2797 Merrick Ave., Rockville Centre. Rd, Bellmore. 516-785McGuires Comedy 516-208-6590. www. 8655. www.brokeragecom- vibeloungeli.com Club—1627 Smithtown edy.com Ave., Bohemia. 631-4675413. www.mcguirescomElmont Library—700 Suffolk Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 9 East Contemporary—9 E. edyshows.com 516-354-5280 Napper Tandy’s Miller Carver Street, Huntington Place—275 Route 25A, Family Wellness Center— Babylon Town Hall—281 Miller Place. 631-331641-B Old Country Rd., Phelps Lane, North 5454. www.nappertandys. Plainview. 516-622-8499 Babylon com Governor’s—90 Division Bay Street Theatre—The Nutty Irishman Bay Ave., Levittown. 516-731Long Wharf, Sag Harbor. Shore—60 E. Main St., Bay 3358. www.govs.com 631-725-9500. www. Shore. 631-969-9700. baystreet.org www.thenuttyirishman.com Hilton Garden Inn—1575 Round Swamp Rd., PlaBook Revue—313 New Our Lady of Consolainview York Ave., Huntington. tion—111 Beach Dr., West Islip Hofstra University—Hemp- 631-271-1442. www. bookrevue.com stead Turnpike, HempParamount—370 New York stead. www.hofstra.edu Brickhouse Brewery— 67 Ave., Huntington W. Main St., Patchogue Holocaust Memorial & Patchogue Theatre— 71 Tolerance Center—100 Brookhaven AmphitheEast Main St., Patchogue. Crescent Beach Rd., Glen ater—55 S. Bicycle Path, 631-207-1300. www.paCove. 516-571-8040. www. Farmingville. 631-732tchoguetheatre.com holocaust-nassau.org 4011. www.brookhavenamRipe Art Gallery—67A Kodiak’s—1815 Broad Hol- phitheater.com Broadway, Greenlawn. low Rd., Farmingdale Byzantine Church of the www.ripeartgal.com McFadden’s—210 Merrick Resurrection—38 MaySilk Ultra Lounge—573 NeRd., Rockville Centre. 516- flower Ave., Smithtown sconset Hwy., Hauppauge. 442-2600. www.mcfadCinema Arts Centre—423 631-807-6330. www. densrvc.com Park Ave., Huntington linights.com Mulcahy’s—3232 Railroad 631-423-FILM. www.cinSouth Street Gallery— 18 emaartscentre.org Ave., Wantagh. 516-783South Street, Greenport. 7500. www.muls.com Dix Hills Performing Arts www.thesouthstreetgallery.com Murphy’s Bar & Grill—234 Center—305 N. Service Rd., Dix Hills. 631-656Old Country Rd., Mineola. Staller Center—Stony 2148. www.dhpac.org 516-741-1776. www.murBrook University, Nicolls physbarny.com Gallery North—90 N. Road, Stony Brook. www. Country Rd., Setauket. stallercenter.sunysb.edu Nassau Coliseum—1255 631-751-2676. www.galHempstead Tpke., UnionUniversity Café—Stony dale. 631-920-1203. www. lerynorth.org Brook University, Nichols nassaucoliseum.com Huntington Public Road, Stony Brook. www. Library— 338 Main St., stonybrook.edu NYCB Theatre at WestHuntington bury—960 Brush Hollow Westhampton Beach PerRd., Westbury. 877-598Kings Park Hardware—6 forming Arts Center—76 8694. www.thetheatreatIndian Head Rd., Kings Main St., Westhampton westbury.com Park. www.kingsparkhard- Beach. 631-288-1500. ware.com www.whbpac.org OMG! Oh My Girls—140 Jericho Tpke., Syosset. Lark Pub & Grub—93 William Floyd Estate—245 516-802-5800. www.ohmy- Larkfield Rd., East NorthPark Dr., Mastic Beach girls.com port. 631-262-9700. www. thelarkpubandgrub.com Ollies Point—140 Merrick Manhattan Rd., Amityville. 516-208Last Licks Café—Unitarian B.B. Kings Blues Club 6590. www.clubloaded. Universalist Fellowship, & Grill—237 West 42nd com 109 Brown’s Rd, Hunting-
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Killcode @ Ollies Point With Borgo Pass, Midnight Mob & Breakage Rising. Teitur @ Highline Ballroom Jimmy Destri (of Blondie) @ Joe’s Pub Ben Lee & David Berkeley @ City Winery Railroad Earth @ Best Buy Theater PANZERBASTARD/ Mutilation Rites/ Nachzehrer/ Syphilic Lust/ Controlled Bleeding @ St. Vitus
Evanescent @ Last Licks Café
Workshop w/ John Mansueto @ Gallery North. Also 2.26.
24th Annual Black History Month Celebration @ Babylon Town Hall Vendors, entertainment and speakers addressing black women in American culture.
Big Shot @ Napper Tandy’s—Miller Place
General Hospital’s Jonathan Jackson AKA “Lucky” @ Governor’s
Carnevale Celebration @ Byzantine Church of the Resurrection Hot food, music, dancing and masks provided.
Fire Fighters Rescue & EMS Mega Show @ Nassau Coliseum Also 2.26. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra @ Tilles Center Acrylic Painting
Kripalu Yoga @ Family Wellness Center The Color Purple @ Bay Street Theatre
The Old Mastic Way to the Bay @ William Floyd Estate This ranger-guided three-mile walk from the Old Mastic House to the bay follows Continued on page 51
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Painters’ Wives… Lost & Found @ Elmont Library, Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont. Women artists whose careers were cast in the shadow of their superstar lovers or husbands. 12:30 p.m. March 9. Amelia @ JASA Long Beach Senior Center, 570 W. Walnut St., Long Beach. Film starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. 10 a.m.-noon. March 14. Eleanor Roosevelt: Restless Spirit @ Plainview-Old Bethpage Library, 999 Old Country Rd., Plainview. 3 p.m. Guest speaker explores the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. March 14. Women in Comedy @ JASA Long Beach Senior Center, 570 W. Walnut St., Long Beach. 10 a.m. Lecture presented by Marilyn Kaufman. March 20. Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era @ Hofstra University, Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead. Work showcasing the women of Tin Pan Alley. 8 p.m. March 24. Operas Composed by Women 16251913 @ Elmont Library, Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont.
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Readings from letters and diaries, portraits and other materials illuminate the lives of Francesca Caccini, Louise Bertin, Marie de Grandval, Maria Antonia, and more. 2 p.m. March 24. Good Lessons from Bad Women @ Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. Dorothy Leeds performs a onewoman show at 2 p.m. March 28. Aging and Saging @ Women’s Center of Huntington, 125 Main St., Huntington. Join a group of senior women as they reflect upon and even laugh about the experience of aging. Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon through March 5. Women Inspiring Women @ Women’s Center of Huntington, 125 Main St., Huntington. Join in to explore Women’s Center values and journeys.
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