It’s a Wednesday afternoon at Patchogue-Medford High School and students are in the school auditorium rehearsing the pair of one-act plays they’ll be performing on April 5. The …
For fans of movies from the ‘80s and ‘90s, nostalgia seems to be where it’s at with conventions to reboots, and fan group pages across social media… and now the Patchogue …
Local author Amy Nicole has recently released her children’s book “An Apple a Day,” published by Pegasus. The book is her third published book. It can be found in paperback for …
Deborah Brown-Volkman wants people unhappy in their jobs to successfully make a career jump and succeed. Especially after experiencing childhood trauma, like she did. The East Moriches career …
An immigrant from El Salvador who needs a job, a sponsor and whose visa is running out, is the premise of filmmaker, comic, and actor Julio Torres’s movie “Problemista.” Torres, who …
If you’ve ever scanned grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ photos, chances are scenes of front stoops, fire escapes, small-business storefronts, a subway entrance, and a distant …
If moviegoers find Sean Penn a convincing New York City EMT in the new film “Asphalt City,” Bellport native Eric Cardamone had a lot to do with it. Cardamone, who is EMS director at Wyckoff …
Two Canaan Elementary School fifth graders have been selected to showcase their work at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages’ prestigious student art exhibition. Keira …
Aspiring young immigrants, community, and gentrification infuse the themes of the Broadway musical “In the Heights,” about a mostly Dominican American Washington Heights neighborhood, …
Ice boats aren’t a common occurrence anymore on Bellport Bay. But you have this weekend to catch the end of Tyler Healy’s exhibit, “Scooters 2024,” in the window of Marquee …
The Rotary Club of Patchogue will be hosting their annual Irish Wake fundraiser on March 21 at the Bellport Country Club. Members of the Rotary Club and community members are to join in recognition …
The Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Family Fun Events committee held its second annual Art Dash on Sunday and an estimated 100 to 150 youngsters and their parents participated in the event held …
Patchogue-Medford graduate (2009) Monika Felice Smith, now living in Los Angeles, Calif., recently worked with Marvel’s Jeremy Renner, Hawkeye, to choreograph the Silk almond milk commercial …
In the play “Better Late” by Larry Gelbart, the characters are reluctant roommates: Julian (played by John Torres) is forced to move in with his ex-wife, Nora (played by Lisa Meckes), and …
From a recording studio in a tiny house on Detroit’s West Grand Boulevard, Berry Gordy’s Motown record label churned out, assembly line-style, an amazing list of iconic songs like …
The Promenade to the Arts archway was officially installed in the Roe Walkway, between Stanley’s and Toast and behind Main Street in Patchogue Village this past December. “The arch is aptly …
Students, council members, friends and family alike gathered at the Brookhaven Town Hall to enjoy a sense of community and celebrate Black History Month, which runs through February. Despite the cold …
Gateway’s musical, “Fiddler on the Roof,” opened in Bellport on Friday, buoyed by a radiance that poured forth from every actor, with Bruce Winant as Tevye at the helm, spinning the …
There’s a lot to be said about a musical, namely “Fiddler on the Roof,” that lit up Broadway like a blazing comet in 1964, becoming the first longest-running Broadway show for …
Aspects of loneliness can be unexpectedly transformative. So says Congregational Church of Patchogue pastor Dwight Lee Wolter. Besides his recent book about the subject, “The Gospel of …
