They don’t make ’em like they used to — not now nor back then. I’m talking about bars with live bands, and none on the South Shore was better than Carol’s Place in Island Park during the 1980s and ’90s.
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Joseph Kellard
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9/4/09
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A former Australian Vogue cover girl, Liskula Cohen, recently sued Google, calling on the Internet search engine giant to reveal the identity of a blogger who had been anonymously badmouthing her on her blog site, “Skanks in NYC.” Cohen won.
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9/3/09
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These days, there is a decidedly anti-alcohol message streaming through mainstream music, fueled by a cadre of young, talented — if not confused, even dysfunctional at times — female songsters.
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Scott Brinton
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9/3/09
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Ted Kennedy, who died last week, was a 77-year-old grandfather, father, uncle, husband, brother, longtime senator and friend to many. His life reads like a paperback melodrama.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/3/09
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I was glad to see that many fellow Long Islanders were as outraged as I was over the decision by the Scottish government to give Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi a “compassionate release” from jail.
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Al D'Amato
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9/3/09
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This is second in a two-part series of columns about Walter Boardman. The first appeared in the Aug. 20-26 edition of The Oceanside/Island Park Herald.
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Seth J. Blau
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9/2/09
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Four hundred years ago, the Catholic Church — then the arbiter of what ideas could be expressed and promulgated — banned books by scientists who claimed the Earth revolved around the sun . . .
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By John O'Connell
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2/4/02
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