Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin Shoots Music Video at Mansion

Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin Shoots Music Video at Mansion

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! 

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Local Students’ Artwork Hits The Big Apple

Local Students’ Artwork Hits The Big Apple

It’s not every student who is afforded the opportunity to have his or her artwork on display in Manhattan - but a handful who study at a Wheatley Heights arts camp are getting their shot!

Read on to learn the exciting story behind how the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts will be presenting three different student art exhibits in Manhattan this spring!

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Bands Compete For Chance To Play Atop Lighthouse

Bands Compete For Chance To Play Atop Lighthouse

The annual Huntington Lighthouse Music Fest just became a bit more interesting. 

This year, bands will compete in the inaugural “Fight for the Light” competition, to be held next month at the Nautical Flea , in hopes to chosen to perform at the 2015 music festival at the end of the summer.

Read on to learn about the competition and the role it will play in this year's Huntington Lighthouse Music Fest!

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Paramount And TD In Perfect Harmony

Paramount And TD In Perfect Harmony

A new duet is set to debut on the streets of Huntington village.

On Wednesday, the directors of The Paramount in Huntington village announced a multi-year marketing partnership with TD Bank, the sixth-largest bank in North America. In sealing the deal, the Paramount’s directors are hoping to put their mark on the live entertainment industry as a major theater with influence across the nation.

Read on now to learn the full story behind this exciting development!

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Paramount Partners To Construct Radio Studio

Paramount Partners To Construct Radio Studio

No stranger to making noise in downtown Huntington, the people behind The Paramount announced on Friday they will be adding another weapon to their musical arsenal: a radio studio.

Through a partnership with Connoisseur Media Long Island, operators of six Long Island radio stations, The Paramount is set to begin building its “state-of-the-art” studio at its location in Huntington village.

Read on to learn more about the studio and how The Paramount hopes to use it offer a “killer experience” for both fans and artists alike!

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Meet the Sponsors of the St. Patrick’s Parade

Meet the Sponsors of the St. Patrick’s Parade

Learn all about Long Island’s oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Parade in a special section published in this week’s edition of The Long Islander and The Record newspapers!

The parade journal is actually the fundraiser for the Ancient Order of Hibernians Irish-American fraternal organization which organizes, runs and pays for the parade.

Get your copy inside the March 5, 2015 editions of The Long Islander and The Record, on newsstands now!

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Son’s High School CPR Training Saves Life

Son’s High School CPR Training Saves Life

On March 3, 2014, Cynthia Assemi and her 23-year-old son, Bijan, were watching TV, when the 47-year-old Northport hair stylist went into sudden cardiac arrest. They had just finished eating pancakes.

“I made a bad joke; I looked over and saw her head was back,” Bijan said.

Read on to learn how Bijan's knowledge of CPR was able to save his mother's life before it was too late, and how you too can be trained in CPR as well!

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Keeping Up With Caumsett In The Cold

Keeping Up With Caumsett In The Cold

In this bitter cold, a surprising number of Long Islanders have been keeping busy at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve. While a visit to the Lloyd Harbor park might not be the first activity you think of as you claw your way through piles of snow between the outdoor sports and weekend activity calendar, the winter is a busy time at Caumsett.

Read on to learn more about exciting wintertime activities that will be taking place at Caumsett this season!

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Big Screen Celebrates Black History Month

Big Screen Celebrates Black History Month

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!

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Salon Gets Cinema Close-Up In Upcoming Film

Salon Gets Cinema Close-Up In Upcoming Film

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!

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Exhibit Puts Viewer In The Spotlight

Exhibit Puts Viewer In The Spotlight

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!

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Dix Hills Resident To Play Rock Star’s Mom In Musical

Dix Hills Resident To Play Rock Star’s Mom In Musical

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!

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Huntington Artist Explores Questions of Justice

Huntington Artist Explores Questions of Justice

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!

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Art Imitates Life In Congressman’s Novel

Art Imitates Life In Congressman’s Novel

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!

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Turning Kids Into Animators In Four Weeks

Turning Kids Into Animators In Four Weeks

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! 

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