Louis Ghiraldi

As the weather changes and days grow longer, what better time than Spring, than to look into some of the newest books  currently on the market. First up, in a post Oscars vibe, take a look...

Nothing says the holiday season is upon us more than a slew of new releases in the world of books. And this year is no different, so snuggle up with a cup of hot cocoa...

When you think of a ‘Field of Dreams” the greenery of an Iowa cornfield comes to mind and for good reason. It’s baseball. But what if I told you that there’s another Field of Dreams...

As fall begins, time to update some of the bigger local retail stories from the summer. Sun-Vet Mall in Holbrook was recently acquired by Syosset-based Blumenfeld Development corporation. The 50-year-old mall has been in a downward...

Imagine walking through a crowded airport, rushing to catch your flight and there in the middle of the terminal is a radio studio with a guy giving financial advice live. Well you don’t have to...

In the course of interviewing people, you meet a lot of people, talk to a lot of people, hear a lot of stories and have to decipher a lot of information and make judgments on...

So many times people are quick to use the term ‘groundbreaking’ and literally over-hype the very subject as it turns out not to be the case. However, almost 50 years ago, there was a groundbreaking...

With all of Long Islands retail bounties, there remains one glaring omission from the landscape—Wegmans Supermarkets. Our local communities have one of the highest per capita incomes in the country, thus making it a magnet...

Of all the changes the pandemic has brought over the last 18 months, the one that seems to continue in a positive way is the revival of book reading. The assumption was that people stuck...