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Immigrants Heading to Washington to Push Reforms


Immigrants marching from Long Island to rally Sunday in Washington D.C.

Laura Wagner, the Critic’s Critic


The Suffolk film buff just calls ’em like she sees ’em (and she’s seen ’em all)

Graco Recalls 1.2 Million High Chairs


464 malfunctions, 24 injuries reported

Patchogue Teen on Trial in Hate Crime Stabbing Death


19-year-old accused of fatally stabbing immigrant

Levy to Announce GOP Gov Bid Friday


Suffolk Exec hopes to win Conservative Party endorsement Saturday over Lazio

Long Island News

Cops: Deer Park Baby Critical After Aunt Shook Her

Cops: Deer Park Baby Critical After Aunt Shook Her »

A 22-year-old Deer Park woman was arrested Wednesday for critically injuring her 11-month-old niece by shaking her, Suffolk County police said. Officers were called to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip when a baby was brought to the hospital in an unresponsive state with suspicious injuries. Paola Baez and her husband, Jose, told the [...]...

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Immigrants Heading to Washington to Push Reforms

Immigrants Heading to Washington to Push Reforms »

Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday with tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them undocumented Hispanics, in Washington, D.C., to dramatize their pleas for immigration reform. The laborers, walking more than 250 miles from Hempstead hope to join [...]...

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Woman Arrested for DWI in Closed Construction Zone

Woman Arrested for DWI in Closed Construction Zone »

A 23-year-old drunken driving Inwood woman was arrested after she drove through a closed construction zone near the draw bridge on  Loop Parkway on Wednesday night, New York State police said. Romina Lucero was stopped by police at 11:20 p.m., police said. Troopers noticed that she had bloodshot, watery eyes, slurred speech, and a strong odor [...]...

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Cops: Mt. Sinai Dad Was DWI With 2 Kids

Cops: Mt. Sinai Dad Was DWI With 2 Kids »

Suffolk County police arrested a Mount Sinai man for allegedly driving drunk with his two daughters in the vehicle in Oakdale on Wednesday evening. Officers on patrol on Sunrise Highway spotted an eastbound Chevrolet Astro Van driving erratically near Oakdale-Bohemia Road at approximately 9:29 p.m. After stopping the vehicle, the officer interviewed the driver, John R. [...]...

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3 Killed in Separate Nassau Crashes

3 Killed in Separate Nassau Crashes »

Three separate vehicle crashes claimed the lives of three Long Islanders, including a motorcyclist and a pedestrian on Wednesday night followed by a driver who died after his car struck a house early Thursday morning, Nassau County police said. In the first case, 21-year-old Mark Dejak of Long Beach was riding his Honda motorcycle northbound [...]...

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Man Shot, Injured in Huntington Station

Man Shot, Injured in Huntington Station »

A 21-year-old Huntington Station man has been hospitalized after he was shot near his home on Wednesday night, Suffolk County police said. Shaka Butler was walking along Broadway when two men approached him and shot him in the neck at 9:15 p.m., police said. Butler was taken to Huntington Hospital via where he was admitted [...]...

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Nothing But Net: Faceboogle It »

Nothing But Net: Faceboogle It

We use Google to locate the capital of Ecuador. We use it to find recipes for leftover meatloaf. We use it to learn how to tie a Windsor knot, get a list of pharmacies in a 20-mile radius open past 9 p.m. and settle arguments...

Mar 18 2010 / No comments yet / Columns, Nothing But Net / Read more »

Jobs and Careers: It Might Be Time to Learn Some New Tricks »

Jobs and Careers: It Might Be Time to Learn Some New Tricks

According to George Bernard Shaw, “Youth is wasted on the young.” That may be true, but some observers have put a new twist on this statement and are now saying that “The job market is wasted on the young.” That’s because one-third (32 percent) of...

Mar 18 2010 / No comments yet / Columns, Jobs and Careers / Read more »

Jerry’s Ink: If We Should Meet And I Ignore You »

Jerry’s Ink: If We Should Meet And I Ignore You

I have a great memory for the most trivial of facts and a horrible memory for names and faces. This is usually solved when I’m with my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, who, aware of my problem, compensates for my shortcoming by digging her nails into...

Mar 18 2010 / No comments yet / Columns, Jerry's Ink / Read more »

The Conversation: Tiger Woods and the Masters »

The Conversation: Tiger Woods and the Masters

Tiger Woods announced this week that he plans to return to golf to play in the Masters, which begins on April 8. It will be the first tournament he has teed off for since his infamous Thanksgiving Day car crash, which was followed by the...

Mar 18 2010 / No comments yet / Columns, The Conversation / Read more »

Letter to the Press: For the Week of March 18 – March 24 »

Letter to the <i>Press</i>: For the Week of March 18 – March 24

Thanks to Jed Morey and the Long Island Press for a fair, even brave probe of reservation sales of cigarettes untaxed by New York [“Low Man on the Totem Pole,” March 11]. He covered well many of the issues and personalities that concern New York...

Mar 18 2010 / No comments yet / Columns, Letters To The Press / Read more »

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Music

Sonic Boom: Reviews: Shearwater, Les Discrets, Titus Andronicus, Frightened Rabbit, Marina & The Diamonds

Sonic Boom: Reviews: Shearwater, Les Discrets, Titus Andronicus, Frightened Rabbit, Marina & The Diamonds

Last week in this space, I brought to you the March edition of this “Pirate Guide”—the “Sonic Boom” feature wherein I offer brief reviews of a host of new records—and promised that I would return post haste with a second installment, because my words had gotten away from me, and my space had too soon run out....

Mar 18, 2010 / More »

Movies

Movie Review: <i>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo</i>

Movie Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

While The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow has spent decades pursuing obsessions linked to warped macho attitudes from a female point of view, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in a playful yet scary gender subversion, imagines male behavioral conventions instead enacted by a female....

Mar 18, 2010 / More »

Food

Eaters Digest: From Better to Wurst

Eaters Digest: From Better to Wurst

Reststar, the same restaurant group that made French food friendly (Bistro’s Cassis/Citron, etc.), Argentinean accessible (Café Buenos Aires) and breakfast funky (Toast and Co.) now presents “Belgian Alsatian” at Moules et Frites in Syosset. Labeling it as a “biergarten bistro” attempts to say it all....

Mar 12, 2010 / More »

Gossip: Loose Lips

Blah Blah Blah: March 2010 in Celebrity Quotes

Blah Blah Blah: March 2010 in Celebrity Quotes

“I want you to know, Mrs Obama, that I’m your husband’s No 1 fan. And not just because he’s a black man. He’s mixed. And I wouldn’t really know what that looks like anyway.” —Stevie Wonder to Michelle Obama “One wig will be put into a museum and one will [...]...

Mar 18, 2010 / More »

Interviews

Interview: Robert Pattinson

Interview: Robert Pattinson

While Remember Me is not exactly Fight Club, there are enough fists flying in Robert Pattinson’s direction in his latest movie to make the intimidating neck nibbler Cullen in Twilight seem more like a girly guy vampire in comparison. Stopping by for this casual conversation with surprisingly cheerful, unassuming and down to earth appeal for [...]...

Mar 13, 2010 / More »

Nothing But Net

Nothing But Net: Faceboogle It

Nothing But Net: Faceboogle It

We use Google to locate the capital of Ecuador. We use it to find recipes for leftover meatloaf. We use it to learn how to tie a Windsor knot, get a list of pharmacies in a 20-mile radius open past 9 p.m. and settle arguments over the exact unfolding of the legendary 1972 AFC Divisional [...]...

Mar 18, 2010 / More »

Fortune 52

Fortune 52: Nancy Hassel

Fortune 52: Nancy Hassel

Long Islanders are great networkers. On any given day there are networking events that help unite business people, entrepreneurs, chambers of commerce and many other groups that are industry-specific. Nancy Hassel of Southampton felt there was a need for a networking group exclusively for pet professionals and wanted to join them together. A pet lover [...]...

Mar 17, 2010 / More »

Green Living

Long Island Green News Updates

Long Island Green News Updates

So with our fresh new hour of daylight we did some spring cleaning this week and put together a little bit of this, a little bit of that—because sometimes we get distracted by eco dumpster art in Brooklyn, Lady Gaga, and panda cams. And we want to make sure we keep you in the know. [...]...

Mar 17, 2010 / More »
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