Archive for July, 2008
Fish Store-ies
Nothing says summer on Long Island like fish on a paper plate, fresh off the boat, served from the ice-filled counter of a fish market. It’s fast, cheap-and, in most cases, you even bring your own bottle. Check out what’s in store.
Better Get On Board
Job hunting is so different now than it was several years ago, when many relied heavily on classified ads in the Help Wanted section of daily and weekly newspapers. Today, the Internet is the visible medium for getting resumés to recruiters and for alerting candidates about employment openings and potential opportunities.
Love is a Nose, But You Better Not Pick It
It was my first year at college, and I was having the time of my life. I had made many, many friends-but that was never my problem. Romantically, I was failing out.
Heroin Claims Another
Natalie Ciappa was a pretty 18-year-old cheerleader from Massapequa with an honor roll GPA and a voice so beautiful that she was asked again and again to perform at her school, Plainedge High School. She was, according to her mother Doreen, “everybody’s kid, not the kid they would have to worry about.”
Where It’s At
A few years ago, I got into an ugly e-mail confrontation with a group of Scientologists — the result of some unkind words I’d written about their 2004 Freedom Medal of Valor winner, Tom Cruise. At the time, I knew little about Scientology, but after being berated by a handful of the religion’s practitioners, I decided to read up on it, and over the next few months, I consumed a large amount of literature on the subject.
Tantalizing Thai
From the nice folks who brought you Simply Thai in Rockville Centre and Tiny Thai in Farmingdale comes Sri Thai in Huntington. It’s another restaurant added to the growing collection on this stretch of New Street, which is quietly becoming another restaurant row in a town full of them.
