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In Mr. McCallister’s ninth period English class, 17-year-old Frank Irvine sleeps.  Of course, mostly everyone else does, especially in the eleventh hour of the 1994-1995 school year at Rollingtown High School on Long Island. But...

On July 4, 1939, New York Yankee legend Lou Gehrig considered himself “the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” Eighty-three years later, he won’t soon be forgotten.  Diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS),...

Because of course Wendy’s would have the audacity to attempt a strawberry-flavored coup to catastrophize our summer-set health surges. But I bet the fast-food establishment didn’t count on me not enjoying it.  Does a Frosty...

Spoilers: in case you were wondering, the rumors are true – Tom Hanks plays The Penguin, Alfred the Butler and Commissioner Gordon all-in-one in this one.  From the subversive visionary behind Romeo + Juliet (1996)...

If so, we're not complaining. What a timely, and necessary movie, indeed.  This week, Film Twitter has positively erupted over behind the scenes stills of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling roller-skating their way through filmmaking...

Smithtown Library’s Nesconset Branch has been under fire over the past few weeks over their LGBTQ+ display being voted out and removed from their children’s section. But like many other political issues making headlines...

A few years back, during late summer, I was kayaking around the shoreline of Lake Ronkonkoma. The day couldn’t be nicer with full sun and dry air. While heading east along the northern shoreline, just...

For decades, the Latino community was reliably Democratic. However, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Battleground Survey Project’s recent poll, Democrats only hold a small advantage over Republicans with Hispanic voters -- at...

Pizzerias are a local staple in the neighborhood. On Friday, June 17, the Ronkonkoma Chamber of Commerce and Town Legislatures celebrated the grand opening of Poppop’s Pizzeria on Hawkins Avenue in Ronkonkoma. Sal Presti lives...

After a week-plus of offering fans and press the chance to screen films ahead of release and even acquisition, the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival announced its Jury Award and Audience Award winners on Thursday,...

Through the vantage point of the equally two-and-a-half decades-old New York Liberty, the WNBA earns the school of ‘Hard Knocks’ documentary treatment – with (most) name-assignment in the bottom corner of talking head testimonials...

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney (R-Commack) presented his case for bringing back shot spotter technology to the county before the Suffolk County Legislature’s Public Safety Committee on June 16. As the name suggests,...