Category Archives: News

Bellport Parade

One of the funnest parades is taking place this Saturday in Bellport on Main Street when the @bellport_chamber, #BellportVillage and #BellportFireDepartment kicks off the Easter Bonnet Crazy Hat Parade, led by the Bellport Antique Fire Truck and Easter Bunny at noon. Everyone marches over to the gazebo for prizes and the hats are as good […]

Clue Review

Uh oh! The Body mansion is rife with sinister doings. Warning. Pay attention. To who might do it, who will do it and, well, who did it. The fast-paced murder mystery, “Clue,” which debuted last Friday at @TheGateway, pushes out the laughs nonstop between people getting knocked off or about to be. Six guests invited […]

Clue Preview

Hey theater fans! Catch the incomparable two-time Emmy award and Golden Globe winning actress #SallyStruthers and the ebullient @jamestaylorodom of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” debuting “Clue” at @the_gateway in #Bellport starting this Friday, March 17 to April 15. This comedy murder mystery that takes place in an elegant, but creepy mansion has […]

Book Talk Video

Joseph Varsalona’s video of my book talk with Isabella Rossellini (#MyYearWiththeItalianGirl) at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society is now up on my website and is also a #YouTube video. Isabella did a wonderful, thoughtful interview, which I am grateful for, that encompasses the writing process, character development, how the book evolved and some of the locals […]

Bianchi

Applause for Legislator Dominick Thorne and Post-Morrow vice president Tom Williams for collaborating on the 14-acre Bianchi/Weiss Superfund Site in #EastPatchogue that is now preserved and will be maintained with a trail and native plantings by the Post-Morrow Foundation. This site will not be developed and improvements like a clean up, a new fence, a […]

Books & Bites

Join book lovers and lovers of great food as #Brookhaven Free Library Director Jamie Papandrea interviews me about my book, “My Year With the Italian Girl,” at Butera’s Restaurant of #Sayville. #LindaLeuzzi #MyYearWithTheItalianGirl Available on @amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Year-Italian-Girl-Linda-Leuzzi/dp/B0B7XHN93Z

Grace Church Women

Ella B. McLean’s father, Noah Brown, was not a slave. He owned land. But her grandfather, Charles Brown, who had purchased property, first in southern #Augusta, Virginia, then over the mountain in 1896 in #Staunton, Virginia, was a former slave who had gained his freedom. Noah Brown drove Black students to school and laid the […]

Of Colors Black History Event

It was an artists’ night. It was an honorees’ night. It was a night for everyone. The Of Colors A Creative Collaboration, co-founded in 2011 by Tracy Todd Hunter and Courtney Pure, blasted out a jubilant annual celebration showcasing gorgeous Black art from the Long Island Black Artist Association as well as spirited song and […]