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One-Season-Wonders
I have commitment issues, I’ll admit it. This is because once I am committed to something, my brain will not let me think of anything else other than seeing my commitment through. Thus, I’ve...
Unpacking “Rich Men North of Richmond”
In the current political era of hot-button issues and diametrically opposed forms of culture, it’s inevitable that those points of contention make their ways into our entertainment and leisure.
This has always been the case,...
Gettysburg – A Time and Place for Reflection
Perhaps no other battle in the history of the U.S. has been discussed and analyzed more than the battle of Gettysburg. Over the years of visiting this historic place, I have come to see...
With Hurricane-Set ‘No Sleep Till,’ Omnes Films Keen On Confronting the Virtue of Apocalyptic Angst
Onto the Next One
The boys are back in town, and they need your help.
To cinematically manifest the feature debut of the first female director in the Omnes Films director’s chair into the reality it...
‘Operation: Barbenheimer’ – the Cinematic Event of the Century?
Last Friday, two movies hit theaters that would forever change the history of Cinema: Oppenheimer, by Christopher Nolan, and Barbie, by Greta Gerwig.
The release of these two movies back-to-back has sparked a phenomenon called...
DINING WITH DEANA: ‘Mangiamo’ – Centereach’s Brooklyn-Style Italian Market & Deli
I didn’t know too much about Mangiamo in Centereach. What I used to think was that it was an Italian pork store of some sort, that sold a few imported Italian pastries and pastas,...
DINING WITH DEANA: Chocolate Works of Plainview – Serving Chocolate, Candy, and its Community
Chocolate Works in Plainview knows that people who wish to “keep it simple” are not speaking for their sweet tooth. We want flavor, we want options, and we want experience; Chocolate Works heard, and...
The Dark Knight of Long Island: From ‘Play Like a Pro’ to ‘Gotham’ Hero
In a season 5 episode of the 1990s sitcom staple Boy Meets World, protagonist Cory Matthews is forced to embrace change. As he prepares to graduate from high school, he hyper-fixates on he and...
Tiedin Media: Tied into Everything Long Island and Beyond
Staff field trip, anyone?
The Messenger was recently invited to tour the exciting things happening beneath the Chocolate Works storefront located on Oyster Bay Road in Plainview— yes, you read that right.
The not-so-underground production company...
DINING WITH DEANA: It’s the Small Neighborhood Coffee Shop for Me
There’s just something about it. Walking through a small town, its main road lined with boutique shops, little restaurants, maybe an ice-cream parlor— and then boom, there it is. A cozy little coffee shop...
National Treasure Preservation: The John and Alice Coltrane Home in Dix Hills
Over a year ago, while going for a winter walk in my hometown of Huntington, I came across a historic marker in front of the house at 73 West Shore Road that announced that...
Party at the Arthouse: Tyler Taormina’s ‘Happer’s Comet’ Coming to Cinema Arts Centre
Fresh off wrapping his third feature, the locally-filmed Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, the Smithtown West 2008 graduate-turned-rising voice in independent cinema plugs a more minimalistic enterprise that’s already scored major stamps of certified...
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