“I am inspired by my fellow artists who push me to try other types of media. This diversity in media—pottery, photography, painting—allows me to see more depth in my chosen forms of …
Hammer & Stain, a hands-on DIY workshop studio in downtown Sayville, will open their second location at Station Yards in Ronkonkoma after signing a lease for a 2,463-square-foot space. …
Island Symphony Orchestra and Seatuck collab By Michaela Medeck With the end of the winter season and spring underway, the Island Symphony Orchestra and the Seatuck Environmental …
The Great South Bay Music Festival is back for their 17th anniversary. The four-day music and arts festival will return to Shorefront Park in Patchogue Village. Dates are Thursday, July 24 …
“When someone sees my art, I want them to come away with a good feeling,” said Patchogue-based artist Mireille Belajonas. “Artists create to reveal and remind us what, perhaps, has …
This spring, CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale will be summoning summer a little bit early with their Main Stage run of “Escape to Margaritaville,” from March 29 through April 12. …
The Bay Area Friends of Fine Arts (BAFFA) is hosting an exhibit of the Brightwaters Art Council at the Gillette House gallery on March 8 and 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The group showing comprises …
In evocative moments of flight or rest, Frank Giovinco’s nature photography creates an ambiance of wonder and suspended flurry around his delicate, but substantial subjects. With a Nikon …
“This is my home and I want the theater to be that for other actors and artists,” said Malika Batchie-Lockhart, a board member for the CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale who is also …
The Islip Arts Council is seeking talented artists to showcase their work at the upcoming Women’s History Month art show, “Moving Forward Together.” The showcase will be located at …
“Mythos,” the latest curation from professor John Cino, opened on Friday, Feb. 15, and will be on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Patchogue on 20 Terry Street, until April …
BY SAM DESMOND The artistic emblem of an era, “Rent” touches on the triumph of perennial passion and fleeting nature of youth against hyper-focusing on a global crisis mired in …
The Islip Arts Council held an open reception on Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. at the South Shore Mall, in Bay Shore, for artists to showcase their work in celebration of Black History Month. It was a full …
The most effervescent presence in the Long Island theater community, Kyle Petty, of “The Kyle Petty Show,” approaches his variety show and podcast with the guiding tenet of “we are …
A rare creature captured by histor- ical society President, Mary Bailey, in Blue Point features a heron on the Great South Bay. Herons are long-legged, long-necked, freshwater and coastal birds in …
A year into the opening of Sunflower Café at 825 Montauk Highway in Bayport, owner Stace Hansen has carved out a satisfyingly French experience with nuanced approaches for her clientele.
The fourteenth annual Wish Gala for the Blue Point-based charity Johnny Mac Foundation was held at the mansion at Oyster Bay on Saturday, Feb. 8. With a snowstorm en route, hundreds of attendees …
Back in the 1950s, on any given summer night in the “old neighborhood,” you’d be almost guaranteed to hear a group of teenage boys harmonizing under a street lamp on the corner, …
One of the most memorable aspects of art, whether it’s painting, sketching, singing, dancing, or anything in between, is its ability to bring people together, and that certainly held true this …
The St. Peter’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, in Bay Shore, was filled with the sounds of the Island Symphony Orchestra as the group performed at the J.S. Bach Festival on Jan. 26. The orchestra …
