Nassau County

You Guys Wanna See the World's Weirdest John Denver Concert?

John Denver is coming to town, and he's bringing his old bandmates with him. Together, they're kicking off the "Rocky Mountain High Concert" U.S. tour in Westbury on Friday (at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury), and then looping back around to Best Buy Theatre on Tuesday, February 12. And they'll be pla ... More >>

New York Olympians In London 2012 Summer Games: Women's Basketball

It's no question that both of today's featured New York Olympians got game. Heralded in the height of their high school careers as ones-to-watch, these two ladies have earned some of the highest honors in women's basketball. While one is a two-time gold medal Olympian already, the other, who was the ... More >>

Live: Squeeze Turn Lemons Into Lemonade At The NYCB Theater

Squeeze / The B-52's NYCB Theater at Westbury Sunday, July 15 Better than: Writing in a diary. Last night the British pop band Squeeze took the slowly rotating stage at Long Island's NYCB Theater at Westbury (a.k.a. Westbury Music Fair) to their debut single "Take Me I'm Yours," a grand proclamat ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Can Long Beach Keep Lighting Up?

Last 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 >>

Are the Islanders Moving to Brooklyn Now or What?

​So Nassau County held its vote on the $400 million New York Islanders arena plan yesterday, and for team owner Charles Wang things went about as well as ... it's tempting to say "as well as a typical Islanders game," but that'd be cruel. In any case, the final vote was 57-43% against funding ... More >>

Daniel Bobis, Long Beach High Math Teacher, Goes Missing While Surfing in Indonesia

Facebook​Daniel 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 >>

Perky 'Islanders' Have Own Sport, Arena Controversy

An Islanders arena campaign ad tries to warn of the consequences of a "no" vote, by using actual footage of the team's defense dissolving.​Today's Daily News features an editorial on next Monday's New York Islanders arena vote, which is notable for a couple of reasons: One, it's a rare acknowl ... More >>

The Six Worst Types Of Theatergoers

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​If there was a Tony category for most annoying patrons, the nominees would be... (6) The ones who ruffle through their Playbills during a quiet moment, suddenly determined to find an actor's name or see how many songs are left. These people would probably tapdance ... More >>

Probers Lucky That Nassau County's Scandal-Ridden Crime Lab Already Shut Down

​When the grisly coastal search for victims of a possible Long Island serial killer moved westward from Suffolk County to Nassau County, law enforcement and the public finally caught a break: It looks as if the scandal-ridden, corrupt Nassau County Police crime lab will not be involved in the case ... More >>

Possible 'Great Gatsby' Mansion to Be Razed to Build Houses for Rich People

​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

Sixpoint Launches Berserker Bock, Made with Stumptown Beans

​Sixpoint, the city's favorite hipster beer, has come out with a new beer called Berserker Bock, made with beans from Stumptown, the city's favorite hipster coffee. The beer, which is the second in the company's line of "Mad Scientist" beers, references the time when the Berserkers (Norse war ... More >>

tUnE-yArDs Announces New Album, Plays MHOW In May

​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

Goose Murderers: We Know What You Did Last Summer

​You may have put it out of your mind temporarily, in an effort to heal, but you should never forget. We're talking about those hundreds of geese (and baby geese!) brutally murdered over the summer because they might "accidentally" fly into planes. According to the Brooklyn Paper, they "were o ... More >>

Veritas and The Twentieth-Century Way Look Back at the Gay Past

Police entrapment and Harvard harassment in two FringeNYC shows

Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

Photo 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 >>

Police Release Video of Supects in Murder of Flushing Gas Station Attendant

The NYPD is looking for two suspects in the homicide of Nadeem Khan, 39, of Valley Stream, New York. On Sunday, July 25, 2010, at 1:39 a.m., police responded to a call about an unconscious person at 133-11 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, Queens. Upon arrival, Khan -- the gas station attendant at the loc ... More >>

Heat for Meat: Conservation Aside, Among Carnivores, Some Animals Are Less Edible Than Others

Could you eat this face?​ Last week, the food world went wabbit cwazy, as both the Times and the website Food Curated featured items on raising rabbit for food. The Times argued that this locavoric effort was the ultimate in shrinking and controlling the food chain, while Food Curated took a ... More >>

Have You Seen... Queens Mostly-Masked Robbers

This crew had a December armed robbery spree in Queens, hitting a mini-mart in Ozone Park on the 9th, a car care center in Bellerose on the 10th, a 7-11 in Kew Garden Hills on the 19th, an a grocery in Forest Hills on the 21st. In this last instance, one of the robbers forgot to pull his mask dow ... More >>

Incredibly Cheap Eats: Bulgogi Sandwich at Sukarak

​Salted away in a U-shaped strip mall in the eastern area of Flushing known as Murray Hill, Sukarak is a Korean snack shop and lunch counter that isn't afraid to fuse Korean and American food, with a little Japanese thrown in for good measure...

TransAlt: Cars Run Wild in NYC; Police, Citizen Surveillance Needed (Updated)

The bike and pedestrian advocates at Transportation Alternatives have released a study which suggests that New York drivers are lawless and a menace to us all. TransAlt stationed teams of observers at four intersections -- 96th and Broadway in Manhattan, 73rd and Roosevelt in Queens, and Prospect Pl ... More >>

We Are All Mary Jo Buttafuoco!

Rob Roth Here's a candid shot of me reading Mary Jo Buttafuoco's new book, Getting It Through My Thick Skull, which I devoured like sour candy! I even adored the subtitle, "Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need To Know."

Dead Toddler Appears Free of Swine Flu, But PANIC Persists

New York officials are saying that the 18-month-old whose death triggered a new round of swine flu PANIC, Jonathan Zamora of Queens, did not have swine flu, at least as determined by analysis of nasal swabs. To be extra sure they are sending tissue samples to the CDC. amNY reports that this announc ... More >>

Letters

Clip Job: Beatnik, Stay Home!

On the Taco Trail

Our restaurant critic goes hunting on Roosevelt Avenue

Friday 8/4

Levitt or Leave It

Little boxes on Long Island and they all look just the same

Hunting and Gathering

Fashion for field and stream—or Manhattan

The Prada Chronicles

Swimming

Wet Dreams

An Albany Whitewash

Pataki's Top Investigator Protects Everybody but Herself

Listings

Now Hear Disc

A Blizzard of CDs Puts Some New Spins on Show Music Style

Forward, March!

Kensington Marchers Head Toward Tightly Guarded Convention Center

Converging on the GOP

A Daily Planner for Philly Protesters

They're Just Wild About Harry

The Very Best Christmas Gift

A Song for Each Kid in Great Pain

The Numbers Racket

Sodalite

Thanksgivers

Living a Full Life

EMERGENCY

Let the games begin

Back in time to Williston Park

X-press Magazine

Patchogue Before the Flood

The Darkies

Death Valley

The Great Depression

Absentee Al

D'Amato Missed 966 Votes When He First Ran for Senate