Shirley

Jim Lee creates artwork out of his imagination. Lee, who teaches printmaking at Hartford Art School, has been making prints to expand on a personal mythology he has created on the subject of soothsaying and fortunetelling. "There's a teacup on an iron...

Two years ago Stephen Sachs began working on a play about the philosophy and practice of flamenco. He figured he had all the material he needed, having spent years in close proximity to flamenco dancers as the co-artistic director of the Fountain Theatre,...

"A PREREQUISITE, you might say!" So opined Mick Jagger on how he agreed to go on tour with The Rolling Stones again, provided Keith Richards would apologize for claiming in his memoir that Jagger had a tiny p---s! I went downtown near Katz's Deli to a...

Former Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley taped six fellow Democratic senators from three different boroughs last year at the FBI's behest, according to an unsealed sentencing memo that named names and immediately shook Albany with a new round of questions...

Lost works, home movies, industrial films, abandoned technologies and other assorted cinematic ephemera all fall under the umbrella of miscellany known as "orphan film." The strange mix of the odd and slightly sad gets its own festival at the Linwood Dunn...

Three alligators, two tortoises, a snapping turtle and a boa constrictor were surrendered Saturday at what was billed as the first ever Illegal Reptile and Amphibian Amnesty in New York State, at Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown. The event was...

A confidential peer-to-peer program credited with helping Suffolk County's military veterans grapple with war-related emotional trauma will be duplicated in Nassau beginning this fall. The program will help veterans having difficulty transitioning...

Officials and leaders from 15 civic and environmental groups Monday protested Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's axing of $1.9 million from the proposed capital budget to design a new sewer district they said is crucial to boosting Shirley's...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will showcase rarely seen, previously overlooked films with a two-day screening series "The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films" May 10 and 11 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The series,...

Hollywood star Ben Stiller is the top attraction at this year's fundraiser for the Highland Park/Highwood Rotary Scholarship program. As part of the organization's Giving Gala Auction, the top item is the chance to attend the December red carpet...

George T. Frush Jr., 71, of Warfordsburg, Pa., died Saturday, April 13, 2013, at his home. Born June 18, 1941, in New York, he was the son of the late George T. Frush Sr. and Norma Bosch Frush. He retired from Mack Trucks Inc., Hagerstown, Md. He...

Robert W. Pavlosky, 81, Davidsville, died Jan. 10, 2013 at Conemaugh Memorial Hospital. Born Nov. 25, 1931, the son of Charles S. and Anna A. (Surganic) Pavlosky. Preceded in death by parents and brother Stephen J. Pavlosky. Survived by wife of 57 years...