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April 10, 2013If yesterday's weather was any amazing indication, it's April. It's also the month when the first wave of Sandy relief dollars - $1.77 billion in total - will filter into New York City from the federal relief package passed by Congress in February. So, yes, it is a wonderful time of the year for all ... More >>
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February 26, 2013The coffee set-up at this year's TED conference includes eight roasters and 38 baristas, and the coffee geeks at Sprudge say it might well be "the best multi-roaster pop-up in the world." The conference kicked off yesterday in Long Beach with a day of presentations from TED fellows (including one by ... More >>
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July 5, 2012In Oregon, some medical marijuana users can deduct the cost of prescription pot from their income to qualify for food stamps, according to The Associated Press.
How does this work?
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July 2, 2012Last week, the Voice brought you news that Long Beach was weighing more restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries.
The city's move is in keeping with many California municipalities, which have cracked down on prescription pot because of continued federal flak.
Now, however, comes word that ... More >>
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June 20, 2012Some new developments worth noting in the world of weed policy: San Leandro, Calif., has banned medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities for a year, according to multiple media reports.
The San Leandro decision stems from disagreement between city council members, largely because o ... More >>
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June 4, 2012Remember when it was announced that Queen Latifah was going to play a gay event in Long Beach and everyone started shrieking that this meant the woman had come out?
I seized the opportunity to weigh in with the sense that this might be a teeny tiny act of inching out a wittle bit--or it might just ... More >>
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May 2, 2012I'm tired of being the only queen who's out.
So come on, Queen Latifah, why don't you join me out here in the grassy expanse, where it's fun and freeing and we can throw LGBT frisbees at each other?
True, for a while, Latifah has done some mildly semi-out-ish things like playing lesbian roles and. ... More >>
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January 19, 2012After months of intense internal debate, the TSA decided that mistakes were made when two elderly women -- who claim they were subject to strip searches (!) -- were examined at Kennedy Airport in November, The Associated Press reports (via USA Today).
Homeland Security Officials, prompted by the wo ... More >>
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January 4, 2012Voice Choices
August 24, 2011Pro surfers compete for a cool million
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July 25, 2011FacebookDaniel Bobis, a 32-year-old math teacher and surf team coach at Long Beach High, has gone missing while surfing in West Lampung, Indonesia, on Sunday morning. Rachel, Bobis' wife of five years, remains in Indonesia, and says that the U.S. Consulate has "been no help thus far." His boa ... More >>
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April 29, 2011As his country was trying to get some shut-eye last night before its big gay wedding in the morning, Jon Beeby had left London and was arriving in New York City for a very different kind of commitment.
The tall, strapping young man, all six-foot-four of him, plans to start walking Sunday fro ... More >>
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January 31, 2011How great would it be to win the lottery? How crappy would it be to have to share those lotto winnings with the d-bag who left you? Patricia Eisel, 40, an Irishwoman who was just barely making ends meet as a waitress in Long Beach, is battling with that conundrum after winning $8 million (aft ... More >>
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December 21, 2010Kleiner, via CBS/law firm Leeds, Morelli & Brown, PCThree former employees of Dr. Edward Kleiner, a doctor who runs Beach and Surf Medical in Long Beach, Long Island, have filed complaints against him with the New York State Division of Human Rights for allegedly pervy actions that put the P ... More >>
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September 8, 2010Police entrapment and Harvard harassment in two FringeNYC shows
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September 3, 2010Photo courtesy The Old FieldOld Field Vineyard is worth visiting for the grounds alone In honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we devote our top 10 list this week to food-centric day trips.
Our list contains a lot of good eating, most accessible by train or bus, all within range for low- ... More >>
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September 2, 2010Bigelow's Clams near Long Beach are worth a tripTomorrow, in honor of summer's last hurrah, we'll round up our favorite food-centric day trips. Whether it's grabbing the train into Jersey to eat your weight in Indian food, or heading out to Long Island's quiet North Fork to taste wine and buy ... More >>
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July 27, 2010melaniehamlett.comImpersonating a strip of bacon in the World's Largest Frying Pan, Long Beach, WAYou'd think it'd be a simple thing to identify the world's largest frying pan, but there are six in the United States alone that make that audacious claim.
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May 26, 2010On this hellishly hot of suddenly hot days, some lucky folks got to take off for Long Beach where, not so luckily, one swimmer may have drowned and a sunbather was run over by a police officer rushing to the scene of another rescue. Sadly, the swimmer is still missing and presumed dead, and t ... More >>
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May 25, 2010For those of you work-from-homers who every so often wax nostalgic of your old commute (or for those of you who, like us, just enjoy time elapsed things), here's a rather cool MTA video of the Long Island Railroad journey from Penn Station to Long Beach -- which normally takes 54 minutes -- in a min ... More >>
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November 9, 2009Whole Foods shares recently fell 8.6 percent after more than tripling over the past year. CEO John Mackey said he expects no "positive change in the economy over the short term," adding that 2010 sales should improve slightly.
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Kraft is expected to make its hostile takeover offer ... More >>
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October 10, 2009
For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg.
It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>
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