Column: What kind of reunion do you dream about?
A fine word, I think. Reunion. Suggesting joy, comfort, harmony. And I’ve Greenport High School to thank for my thoughts. Graduates of the school are planning an all-class reunion for just a few weeks...
View ArticleColumn: The East End’s obsession with hating 7-Eleven
Petitions. Picket signs. Whistles and horns. Your local Democratic party leader comparing it to Walmart, which has “destroyed America.” Petitions. Picket signs. Whistles and horns. Your local...
View ArticleParpan Column: So that’s where baby caps come from
Jen Becker making hats for newborns and preemies at her home in Southold this week. At 4 a.m. the morning after my son was born, a nurse ducked into the room as my wife and I were falling asleep and...
View ArticleSuffolk Closeup: DiNapoli draws a crowd on East End
Kimogener Point on the Bay off New Suffolk Avenue. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) The only Long Islander running statewide on a major party ticket this year, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat,...
View ArticleGazarian Column: Buried beneath an avalanche of books
Books can tend to pile up over time. (Credit: Corbis Images) They always tell you, ”Write about what you know.” Fine and dandy. But I know so much that I forget what I know. Write about what’s on your...
View ArticleGustavson Column: Saying goodbye to a 35-year tradition
Chris Ujkic won his eighth straight men’s singles title in the Bob Wall Memorial Tennis Tournament this summer. (Credit: Garret Meade) All things must pass All things must pass away. — George Harrison...
View ArticleColumn: That’s a great column idea! Wait, no it’s not
A yard in the making. (Credit: Joseph Pinciaro) When I started with the News-Review about a year ago, one of the newer concepts I had to get used to was writing a regular column. “Nice!” I thought....
View ArticleColumn: A place where life doesn’t move so fast
Credit: Joseph Pinciaro Since my wife and I moved to Long Island five years ago, we’ve been saying to one another that we would make a trip upstate. The open space, the mountain views, the slow pace —...
View ArticleLombardi Column: October, a time for popcorn, seafood and cookies
I used to think the year’s best eating came at November’s Thanksgiving dinner or in July with a couple of North Fork ears of corn. But no, it seems I’m wrong again. Listen to this. The month of...
View ArticleColumn: Ebola, shme-bola — don’t buy the hype. Still.
An Ebola education session was held on Oct.21 in New York City. (Credit: Flickr/GovernorAndrewCuomo) You know what they say about Ebola, right? Yeah, me neither. Probably because — despite way too much...
View ArticleColumn: Hearing feedback in Riverside, en Español
Riverside Rediscovered’s Siris Barios talks to Riverside resident Adonis Estrada of Pine Street Friday afternoon. (Credit: Tim Gannon) It’s Halloween afternoon on Vail Avenue in Riverside, and the only...
View ArticleColumn: How the ‘nephew effect’ works for white people
You wouldn’t want to see your teenage nephew’s life derailed. You’ve watched him grow up. You know he’s a smart kid with a ton of potential; he’s just run into some trouble at home lately. At this...
View ArticleGustavson Column: You called that a blizzard, young’uns?
A car is buried in snow in Orient Tuesday. (Credit: Troy Gustavson) You kids today have no idea how easy you have it. That, in a nugget, is the first thought that comes to mind as I contemplate “The...
View ArticleGazarian Column: ‘We shop, therefore we are’
“I think, therefore I am.” French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) said so. In 2015 no doubt he’d have to say, “I shop, therefore I am.” What’s life without shopping malls and special deals and...
View ArticleColumn: A late columnist’s pen will be dearly missed
New York Times columnist David Carr at last year’s WebSummit in Dublin. (Credit: Flickr/WebSummit. http://ow.ly/J17Xg) The impact a person can have on someone, even someone that person never met, is...
View ArticleGustavson Column: Ah, the synergy of food and wine
George and John Giannaris at the renovated bar last year. (Credit: Carrie Miller, file) Friday, Jan. 30, was an important date in the life of the North Fork. No, it wasn’t Groundhog Day, and it wasn’t...
View ArticlePinciaro Column: What’s in a name? It turns out, a lot
A 1920 census record from Pennsylvania. (Credit: Ancestry.com) Say it with me: Cesidio Joseph Pinciaro III. Having difficulty pronouncing my name? Join the club. It’s OK. I’ve learned to live with it...
View ArticleColumn: Tuesdays (and Wednesdays) with Jim
Jim Stark pictured in 2007. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) Jim Stark used to call me a lot. Not every day, but once every few weeks, sometimes months. And that was a lot for a guy so long out of...
View ArticleColumn: They’re not just caretakers at this cemetery
(Credit: Jo Ann Kirkland) One morning last week, Glenn Addario left his home in Coram and got to work about 7:45 a.m. His first task of the morning was digging a grave. At Long Island National Cemetery...
View ArticleColumn: When a dinner party takes a turn for the worse
My husband and I rarely go to dinner parties. Most Saturday nights, I cook something, my husband does the dishes, we read a little and, if we’re feeling really frisky, we might stay up to watch the...
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