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• Four Corners: Surfing on Long Island

  The board shaper, the shop owner, the surf instructor and the pro surfer.

  • Posted 4 days ago
• U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect

  Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’

  • Posted 5 days ago
• Propaganda Versus Journalism

  Manufactured consent: backward logic and nonsensical ideas sold as pragmatic solutions to social ills and economic misfortune

  • Posted 5 days ago
• The Number: May, 2013

  16,000 The number of people, and the largest turnout in the show’s history, who showed up for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor auditions at Nassau Coliseum on April 25...

  • Posted 14 days ago
• The Target: May, 2013

  The hits, and misses, for May, 2013

  • Posted 15 days ago
• The Quote: May, 2013

  “Don’t allow the terror to prevail.” –Sister Sanaa Nadim, chaplain of Stony Brook University’s Musilm Student Association. (Read: MUSLIM AMERICANS)

  • Posted 16 days ago
• Off-Color & On-Target: Ripe Art Gallery Sheds the Skin of Conformity

  The Ripe Art Gallery has a fresh aura reminiscent of the East Village art scene in the ‘80s and it’s surprising to find that ambiance in Greenlawn.

  • Posted 17 days ago
• Charles Lindbergh: Long Island’s Lucky Loner

  A look back at Lindbergh, his famous flight and Long Island as the cradle of aviation.

  • Posted 17 days ago
• Lost Not Found: How Some Missing Mentally Ill Never Return

  “With each passing day the possibility that he would return unharmed diminishes exponentially”

  • Posted 18 days ago
• Book Review: A Dual Inheritance – By Joanna Hershon

  Brooklyn author Joanna Hershon’s father attended Harvard in the late 1950s. She was in middle school when she saw what’s known as Harvard’s Red Book, in which graduates write...

  • Posted 18 days ago