The Saturday Stroll

A new religion, based on one of the oldest, is arising in the Five Towns. You could call it Suburbodox Judaism. Drive down Central Avenue in Lawrence on a Saturday afternoon...

A Couple of Startling Facts

My parents brought up the grandchild thing during our last major blowout about my being gay. "You would have been such a wonderful mother," they said, looking alternately down...

A Couple of Startling Facts

My parents brought up the grandchild thing during our last major blowout about my being gay. "You would have been such a wonderful mother," they said, looking alternately down...

Driven To Not Drink

The local music scene took another hit last week with the closing of My Room Lounge in Massapequa on Jan. 1. The little stucco Spanish-styled bar on the south side of Merrick...

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Supersuckers Evil Powers Of Rock 'N' Roll Koch You've got to hand it to the Supersuckers. After four proper rock albums, the music of Eddie Spaghetti and his cohorts has...

Three Cheers For The Red, White And Blue Cheese

WHAT I WAS THINKING The year 2000 was almost upon us. It was time to leave angst-ridden contemporary America behind and return to a simpler time, the Colonial era....

No Meltdown-JustT Letdown

If club attendance on Long Island was any indication, then partying like it was 1999 meant staying home on New Year's Eve. Folks in the nightclub biz asked the same question...

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Molester likes Newsday Regarding Bill Jensen's cover story about me [A man among boys, Dec. 9, about Long Island man Steve Simmons' sexual relationship with New Jersey teen...

Fantasia 2000

A bundle of animated shorts set to famous classical music pieces, Fantasia hitched a supposedly lowborn art form to a high-hat soundtrack; Mickey Mouse shaking hands with...

Straight Out of the Everglades

Julian L. Goldberger's debut feature is a haunting portrait of a teenage boy busted out of reform school with nowhere to run. Buried in the experimental "Frontier" section at...

Neil Hannon Loads Up HIS Library Card

The Divine Comedy is Neil Hannon, a 29-year-old Londonderry Irishman whose chutzpah in naming himself after an immortal literary masterpiece written by an Italian poet from...

Searching in the Dark

Strange things happen when you seek drug policy information using filters meant to protect kids from the evils of the Net. Try reaching the drug law reform think tank the...

See Tom run

You'd have thought Tom Suozzi was running for higher office when he called reporters to a press conference two days before New Year's Eve. The recently re-elected mayor of...

Smiling Assassins

At the phony lovefest that passed for the installation of the new Nassau County Legislature, County Executive Tom Gulotta gets exactly 2.4 seconds of applause from the crowd....

The Future Has Found Me

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