Beware of the Media Leeches

Beware of the Media Leeches

BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA “If it bleeds, it leads.” That’s one quote that I’m sure many people can use to describe today’s news culture. Viewers’ appetite for stories involving death have disturbing implications as to where their interests are in the scope of current events. Whether the story is focusing on a horrific car accident or […]

What’s Happening 11/6/14

By George J. Dacre  “Camelot,” “West Side Story,” “Godspell,” “Backwards In High Heels,the Ginger Rogers Story and “Showboat” all lined up for 2015 at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford. “South Pacific” running now and then their Christmas show, followed by “South Pacific” again in January 2015. Tickets at broadwaytheatre.com or 914-592-2222. ArtsRock celebrating the music of Paul Simon,Friday […]

Poem of the Week: Glazing

By Susan Gewirtz We look up through branches We’re drunk on heat, The leaves in perfect clusters Distill the yellow light, The noon sun hangs fiercely, The forest’s strobe-lit islands Float in shadows; Here we separate from negative time, The brown clay of our bodies Thrown from the earth, We stretch like wire, We soak […]

What’s on Your Shirt?

HUMOR BY THE SPECTATOR, JOHN MALONEY Some time ago we read in all the newspapers and saw on TV, the story about the teenage girl who got in trouble with her teachers and her school because she wore a shirt that said, “Barbie is a Lesbian.” I always looked upon Barbie as a doll and […]

PUDDIN’ DON’T

PUDDIN’ DON’T

Puddin’ Don’t is a creation of Jake Barlow, inspired by all manner of silliness, like Berkeley Breathed’s Bill the Cat, Chuck Norris Facts, The movie Machete, and the great Marty Feldman. Puddin’ Don’t can be found daily online at www.puddindont.com.

Learn how to be the life of the party

Learn how to be the life of the party

MC Petey Pete will teach all comers how to be “the life of the party” as a master of ceremonies at Cuppa Pulp Creative Space, 119 Main St., Second Floor, Nanuet, NY. Petey Pete asks, “Ever wondered how cool it would be to learn how to be an event master of ceremonies? Basically get paid […]