Fyre alarm: How criminal failure can fuel huge success
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // With only 11 days until Election Day and the exhausting, omnipresent punditry aiming to push voters to the polls, it’s important to remember that politics…
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Ohio Islander seeks good bread, next great story
By GREGORY ZELLER // Podcast and documentary producer Chris Aiola, a Commack product transplanted to Ohio, is knee-deep in brutal crime, Alaskan aliens and deadly global pandemics. So, what scares…
It’s all fun and Netflix, until the con artists take over
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Prestige television series, podcasts and documentaries about con artists are everywhere. On Netflix, which seems to be making these stories into a cottage industry, you…
In Rogan controversy, social media’s darker evolution
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // On the surface, it’s easy to paint the latest controversy for Spotify flagship enterprise “The Joe Rogan Experience” with broad strokes: another example of COVID-19…
PILOT lands lights, cameras, action in Port Washington
By GREGORY ZELLER // Spoiler alert: Hollywood is coming soon to a Long Island county near you. Actually, pandemics notwithstanding, television and movie production is already thriving on the Island…
No. 531: In which GM gets rolling, Channel 13 goes live and the pandemic silences sports, once again
So hard to keep this smile from our face: Inventors to the left of us, investors to the right – happy to be stuck in the middle with you,…
No. 439: On iron thrones, pepperoni pizzas, pool parties – and best efforts, wasted
No kidding: You’ve done it again, dear reader – another five-day gauntlet run, another well-earned weekend reached. Well played. It’s Friday, Sept. 20, a good one for the young…
No. 354: Journalists’ lives matter, the wisdom of Confucius and all kinds of LI-based heart-valve news
November? Really? Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the end of a kinda spooky, strangely warm workweek here on Long Island. It’s Nov. 2 out there, Day 3 of the…
No. 256: Historic places, earning potential, winning students and will.i.am doing customer service
Good day, comrades: Take a bow this Nov. 8, dear readers, if you were around 100 years ago today, when Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took over following Russia’s October Revolution…