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The Cinema Arts Centre will host its Bizarre Bazaar Sept. 30, featuring oddities, art, vintage works and more. The Bizarre Bazaar will feature work from makers, pickers, and artists to get the Halloween season underway.The event is free, and all ages are welcome. The bazaar Read More …
A Huntington artist has brought her late father’s work to life with her self-published collection of his drawings. Deborah Porretto said her father, Frank Porretto, had always been an artist, but didn’t get a lot of public attention until he was about 86 years old Read More …
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum will continue its multidisciplinary lecture series later this month. The series features scholars in the humanities and the natural sciences. Participating speakers include recipients of several professional prizes, such as the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Prize, and others who have since received Read More …
The Whaling Museum has received a collection of 19 ships in a bottle, which will soon go on display. When Jeff Kappel’s father, Lester, died in May at age 99, he said of his father’s collection, “I want it seen. My father collected for years and Read More …
The Huntington Town Board has approved the following expenditures: Up to $50,000 for tactile signs at Heckscher Museum and the historic Centerport home of painters Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, to provide accessible maps for the visually impaired, at the request of the museum director. Read More …
A huge student-produced mural was unveiled Sunday as part of the Spirit of Summer Art Festival. The festival, at the Spirit of Huntington Art Center, drew participants from numerous Long Island organizations, as well as families and residents to view, and occasionally purchase, artwork and Read More …
The Huntington Public Library will host the launch of author Reed Farrel Coleman’s 32nd novel, “Sleepless City,” the first novel in his new series. Coleman has written six in the late Robert Parker’s Jesse Stone. The author grew up in Brooklyn but lives in Long Read More …
The Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor is drawing on Long Islanders’ love of beaches for its second sea glass festival this weekend. Many on Long Island go to the beach to collect physically and chemically weathered glass found on beaches along bodies of salt Read More …
Thirty years ago, Michael Ien Cohen walked into the Cinema Arts Center and was greeted by directors and co-founders of the establishment, Vic Skolnick and Charlotte Sky. Cohen had always wanted to be a film maker. Cohen was ecstatic to meet the directors and co-founders. Read More …
The Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce will be raising funds July 25 to support a Hecksher Museum multimedia project. The chamber social, called Huntington Nights, will offer raffles, dancing, food, drinks and more. It is designed to help fund “Illuminations 2023: The Many Faces of Read More …