When 20-year-old Kiera Stella, of Oyster Bay, began learning how to play the guitar in fourth grade, she would sing to the wall in her basement, she said. Fast-forward 10 years later, she is now the …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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9/13/18
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Still Partners owner Dan Roth admits he’s fully enjoying the last few days of summer. But he would be lying, he said, if he wasn’t ready for fall, blue jeans, flannels, and a crowded bar …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen and Alyssa Seidman
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9/13/18
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Concealed behind the guise of a green fence and a pale-yellow cabin, is the studio of Glen Head sculptor Thomas Malloy. Just steps away from the train station, Malloy’s salvage yard is a maze of …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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8/3/18
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She spent the early part of last Friday afternoon meeting with Freeport Memorial Library patrons looking for new ways to spruce up their resumes and offer career counseling advice. Wrapping up for …
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By Nadya Nataly
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7/26/18
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For the next three months, the North Shore Historical Museum in Glen Cove will be home to a series of works from the Coast Guard Art Program, a national project that utilizes fine art as a tool to …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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6/14/18
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It’s hard to miss the entrance to North Shore High School’s art gallery, a space visible through paned glass windows that looks somewhat like a fishbowl. Its subjects, posed on white walls, hang …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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5/17/18
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I’m writing about books because my mother is dying and I can’t write about that. I know that my sense of myself, my personal latitude and longitude, are about to change in the coming weeks.
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4/20/18
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The wooden picnic table in the middle of K. DiResta Collective, painted an enchanting turquoise blue, boasted bins full of pipe cleaners, beads, markers, and fabric scraps.
Among this collection …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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1/25/18
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East Meadow artist Karen L. Kirshner was chosen as a finalist in the Long Island Museum’s juried art competition “Animal Kingdom: From Tame to Wild” recently.
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9/14/17
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Down the stairs and around a corner in Rockville Centre resident Neil Leinwohl’s basement, a 4-by-6-foot painting hangs prominently on the left-side wall.
“That’s called Last Laughs,” he said, eyeing the piece, which depicts oddly shaped creatures — weapons in hand — ready to fight. “It’s basically about the world today,” Leinwohl, 71, added softly. “People facing off against each other.”
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By Ben Strack
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9/7/17
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