Chik-Fil-A non-controversy controversy reveals a nation going downhill fast…but there’s hope! EDITORIAL BY DYLAN SKRILOFF A vicious backlash has ensued against Dan Cathy, the born-again Christian CEO of national fast-food chain Chik-Fil-A, after he reaffirmed his long held position that he opposes laws which redefine marriage. Mr. Cathy gives generously to the movement to […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Rehearsals are well underway for “Rent,” directed by Stacie Moye, to be presented by a cast of teens from the Hudson Valley Summer Teen Theatre at Clarkstown South High School August 10, 11 and 12. Some of the students of the crew for “Rent” have gone to New York City to help […]
MTA Updates Plan for Financial Future The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released its 2013 Preliminary Budget and July Financial Plan for 2013-16. In 2010, the MTA demonstrated the most aggressive cost cutting in its history. The plan released now builds on those same cost cutting initiatives. These efforts have generated $686 million in annual recurring […]
On July 27 at 7:45 p.m., young Kengsley Angrand of the middle-class Queens neighborhood Cambria Heights made a fateful decision. Angrand approached the clerk at Best Buy located at the Palisades Mall in West Nyack and presented a Visa gift card to pay for two Apple iPads valued at $1,119.89. Angrand left the store with […]
Dudzick provides script for Penguin Rep’s next show “Don’t Talk to the Actors” BY GEORGE J. DACRE While working Off-Broadway in New York City, Tom Dudzick was told as a playwright that you don’t talk to the actors because they’ll want you to rewrite the script. Dudzick has taken this idea to his next play […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – A special exhibit “Across The Great Divide,” photographs by Roberta Price, opens August 2 and will be at the Museum at Bethel Woods through December 31. It explores the back to the land movement of the 1960s and 1970s and captures the hopes, optimism and utopian promise that fueled that […]