Thursday, May 17, 2012
Homegrown String Band is a real-life family band from Rocky Point.
Rick and Georgianne Jackofsky of Rocky Point haven't owned a TV for about 20 years. But it's part of their family's story – a family that plays music together and tours as the Homegrown String Band. Years ago, when Rick Jackofsky owned a photography lab, he'd come home and want to spend quality time with his family without relying on TV for entertainment. "So instead I read books out loud and we played music and we played board games," Georgianne Jackofsky said. "That was the way we entertained ourselves. That’s how we got so close and stayed together all these years." Together with daughters Erica and Annalee, now 27 and 24, Rick and Georgianne started the Homegrown String Band, which has played anywhere from 30 to 60 shows a year since …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Emily Cabrera's play "The Waterwolf" will be staged this summer at a local performing arts camp.
Emily Cabrera says her favorite subject in school is reading, followed by social studies, and then science. Curious that writing or music aren't currently on that list: the 11-year-old Minnesauke sixth grader has penned a full-length musical, which will be staged at a performing arts camp this summer at Stony Brook Community Church. According to her mother Monica Cabrera, ever since she was a toddler Emily has enjoyed watching nature documentaries, reading nonfiction, and learning about animals – wolves in particular. Emily's musical, "The Waterwolf," is about a mythical clan of peaceful, colorful wolves, known as waterwolves, who clash with a dangerous pack of arctic wolves and must fight for survival. She wrote nine original songs for …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Celebration pays tribute to the cultural contributions in America made by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
"One world, many cultures." That was the theme of the 4th Annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration at Stony Brook University, which paid tribute to the cultural contributions in America made by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The multicultural event, organized by the Suffolk County Asian American Advisory Board, Suffolk County Office of Minority Affairs, Wellbrook Foundation and the Charles B. Wang Center, featured stage performances, traditional costumes, a photo exhibit on electronic waste and recycling, multicultural arts and crafts displays from ten countries, vocal and musical performances, folk dances, Chinese Calligraphy, dragon mask coloring, face painting, Vietnamese and Japanese tea ceremonies…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Cynthia Blair, a 20-year Three Village resident, writes mysteries under the name Cynthia Baxter.
Look her up in the catalog of the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library and you'll see multiple titles by local author Cynthia Blair, who writes under the name Cynthia Baxter. But it will only be a small piece of the work she's actually had published in her prolific career. The 20-year Three Village resident recently published her 54th novel, The Housesitter, a psychological thriller about a woman who takes a housesitting job – and soon begins to feel watched herself. A past writer for Newsday and the Times Beacon Record newspapers, Blair specializes in mysteries, suspense, and general fiction. Among her work is the "Reigning Cats and Dogs" series, about a veterinarian who finds herself with mysteries to solve. She's even done the paranormal teen…
Thursday, May 3, 2012
"No God No Master," by writer/director Terry Green, will be Green's third film at the Stony Brook Film Festival.
This year's Stony Brook Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of writer/director Terry Green's film No God No Master, a drama depicting social unrest in post-World War I America. Among the film's stars: David Strathairn in the role of William J. Flynn, the Anarchist expert whose job it is to find saboteurs during the summer of 1919, and Ray Wise in the role of Alexander Palmer, the anti-Communist U.S. Attorney General at the time. Festival director Alan Inkles called the film "a beautifully produced feature with an outstanding ensemble of actors." “We are delighted to open the Stony Brook Film Festival with No God No Master," Inkles said. "As Terry Green notes, ‘The disintegration of civil liberties during times of social …
Monday, April 30, 2012
Kenneth Wishnia of East Setauket contributed to "Long Island Noir."
For fans of the genre of noir fiction, a dark new anthology may hit home: Long Island Noir, a new release from Akashic Books revealing the underworld of Long Island, features many local writers including Kenneth Wishnia of East Setauket. In an interview with The New York Times, Wishnia said the job of writers is "to peel back the curtain and show that every place has stories they don’t want you to know.” Wishnia pens the story of an angry construction worker who becomes a thug for hire. Another author, Richie Narvaez, relays the story of a deadly affair between a Stony Brook University professor and a student. The stories are set in familiar locations – Amagansett, Great Neck, Huntington and more. Writers featured in the anthology have …
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Live floral arrangements created to complement works at the latest Long Island Museum exhibit.
Inspired by the "Long Island in Bloom" exhibition at the Long Island Museum, members of the Three Village and North Suffolk Garden Clubs created live floral arrangements inspired by paintings in the exhibition. Pictured: Ty Stroudsburg (left), whose painting "Summer Swirl" inspired an arrangement co-created by Roberta Day (also pictured) and Nancy Buete-Randall.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Did you catch the show? Let us know what you thought.
Esteemed jazz vocal group New York Voices sang to a sold-out crowd at the Staller Center for the Arts Sunday night, according to Julie Rulon Greene, marketing director for the theater. "Such a good mix of songs," she said in an email. "From 'Sing, Sing, Sing' to Paul Simon's 'Old Friends.'" "They got a standing ovation and sang an encore," she said. Rulon Greene said the group, know as one of the most prominent jazz vocal groups still performing today, performed both a cappella and with a backing group of drums, bass and piano. Did you catch the show? Let us know your review in the comments below.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Members of the Maasai tribe in Kenya visited Ward Melville's choir as part of a cultural exchange.
Maasai tribe members from Kenya visited the Ward Melville High School choir on April 3 as part of the Change for Change program—a program in which students donate pennies and dimes to help improve the living conditions in Kenya. Chief Joseph Ole Tipanko of the Maasai tribe visited along with Maasai Community Organizer John Kilenyi Ole Parsitau, and Parsitau’s wife, Sarah. A couple of months before the visit Chief Tipanko and his school choir of 7th and 8th grade boys video chatted and sang with Ward Melville’s Camerata Choir. “It was a conference on Skype first and now today it’s coming to be a reality as I am here,” Chief Tipanko said. Chief Tipanko taught the students traditional greetings in the Maasai culture and the meaning and honor …
Saturday, March 31, 2012
A collection of costumes from the annual sci-fi, anime and fantasy convention.
A staple of any quality convention is the multitude of guests dressing up as their favorite characters, or "cosplay." Here are some of the who characters showed up this year at I-Con at Stony Brook University.
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doreen tufano
9:09 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
that is just amazing! perhaps a famous author or play-write in the making. more ›