The local Gateway Community Garden sale, started in 2010, raises funds to support the garden of 127 beds tended to by adults, children and people with physical limitations. The nonprofit’s mission is to maintain a source of healthy, organic food for the town, while raising awareness for the environment and developing farming skills.

The Skytypers team consists of a dozen pilots. They do air shows across the country, from New York to Virginia to Georgia, but Long Island is their home - and I was recently able to fly with them and see the world from up above, in one of their World War II training planes!

Read on for more details and photos of my incredible aerial adventure!

Singer-songwriter Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin connected with her family’s history in her latest music video, shot at the Vanderbilt Mansion.

Costin’s husband, Rafael Feldman, who produced the video, said his wife knew she wanted to do something big from the moment they started talking about the video.

Read on to learn about the music video and how it honored the history of the Vanderbilts! 

Members of the Walt Whitman High School Band had an opportunity to do something far from elementary on Monday. Twenty members of the group appeared in a shooting for CBS’s Sherlock Holmes reinvention “Elementary"!

Read on for the full scoop, including what role the band will be playing and which episode they will be in!

Lía Miller is a model, a designer, a New York Fashion Week veteran – and an 8-year-old Dickinson Avenue Elementary School student.

Read on to learn about Lía's incredible accomplishments, see pictures of her modeling her own designs, and to learn more about what goes into the many unique dresses she creates and wears!

Our Lady of Mercy Academy senior Bronwyn Kelly, of Huntington, won a Juror’s Award for her mixed media tunnel book piece titled “Layered Progression,” a piece in the Advanced Visions 11 High School Artists of Excellence Exhibit at C.W. Post.

Read on to learn more about her highly unique piece and what critiques were given of it!

The big screen at a local arts house will celebrate Black History Month in a big way with five events from Feb. 10-24.

All films are $15 for the public and $10 for Cinema Arts Centre members. The Cinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave. in Huntington. Call 631-423-7610 or visit www.cinemaartscentre.org. 

Read on for the full scoop, including background on each event that will be occurring, when each event will be occurring, and more details about what is sure to be an amazing series of events!

A Huntington village hair salon has earned its spot in NBC Universal film “Sisters,” starring “Saturday Night Live” alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Filming for “Sisters,” known in an earlier incarnation as “The Nest,” is set to take place today, Jan. 22, at 245 Main St. - the address of Jon Megaris and Son Hair & Beauty Salon.

Read on to learn about the shoot, how the Huntington village was chosen, and what the owner of the lucky hair salon has to say about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

On Friday, Students and faculty walking the halls of Half Hollow Hills High School East noticed a new hallway component: mirrors.

There are mirrored cubes and mirrored rectangles hanging alongside empty frames on school windows. Passersby have no choice but to notice themselves.

Read on to learn more about this project, the purpose behind it, and how it has inspired both students and faculty alike!

Dix Hills resident Helen Proimos will play Eddie Money’s mother in Madison Theatre’s production of “Two Tickets to Paradise” – an autobiographical musical written by American rocker Eddie Money – in a four-show run this month at Molloy College.

Read on to learn more about Proimos, her interactions with Eddie Money, and what this show will mean to both her and the famous rocker!

The son of a part-time home economics teacher and a prison warden, Huntington-based artist Andreas Rentsch grew up on a prison compound in Switzerland.

His most recent work explores questions of justice – a callback, he said, to his first 18 years.

“That obviously has shaped not only my life but also my work,” he said. “I was in close contact with many prisoners and that's also where a lot of empathy grew for the human conditions.”

Read on to learn more about his both incredible story and works!

Steve Israel, the Congressman from Huntington, has in the past credited a vociferous reading habit to help him keep his sanity in the often-dysfunctional surroundings of Washington D.C. Turns out, putting pen to paper has played a role, too.

Those efforts have produced Israel’s first novel, “The Global War On Morris,” a political satire on the Simon & Schuster imprint which, in many cases, is not ripped from the headlines per se, but a bird’s eye view of a Congressman, formed into a novel that’s due out Jan. 6.

Read on to learn more about this intriguing book and the upcoming book signing at Book Revue for it!

Your kids can become artists and filmmakers in four weeks! 

Huntington animator Timothy Peterson will be teaching the Stop Motion Claymation Workshop for Kids for students 10 years of age and up on four consecutive Saturdays this January.

Read on to learn more about Peterson's craft, along with how your kids can create their own characters and short animated films this winter! 

Arranged on white walls at the Heckscher Museum of Art, photographs that look like paintings and etchings and drawings live next to frames displaying splashes of light and objects abstract and concrete. The exhibition is one of experimental photography – an art form within the photography field that is represented by the sect of photographers who practice “non-traditional” methods.

The Heckscher opened its “Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography” exhibition on Dec. 6. The two-gallery show begins with 20th-century works and travels up to present-day digital work, with the most recent works on display being images captured on the iPhone, Curator Lisa Chalif said.

Read on to learn the full story on this incredible display, including information on how you can see it before it ends!

Holiday stress got you down? Do you want to fall in love with this special season all over again?

If so, head over to the John W. Engeman Theater to catch a performance of “A Christmas Story: The Musical.” It will make you feel good about the holidays again.

Based on the popular l983 film of the same name – which was based on the hilarious, heart-felt stories of legendary radio personality, Jean Shepherd – the theatrical production is perfect for audiences of all ages.

Read on for our full review!