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Hollywood All-Stars Headline At The Suffolk Theater

Steve Gaspár is the Grammy-nominated songwriter, former Epic/CBS recording artist, and keyboardist for James Brown, B.B. King, Gene Cornish (the Rascals) and Peter Criss (KISS). Gaspár is also the founder of the Hollywood All-Stars, a supergroup...

The Great Anton Media Group Fish Adventure

The journey from tank to pond  By Jennifer Corr and Julia Prisco    Often when people think of goldfish, they think of round fish bowls, carnivals and a low maintenance pet. And that’s what Jennifer Corr, an editor here...

A New Corpse Flower Has Bloomed—And Released Its Infamous Stench— At The New York Botanical Garden

An Amorphophallus titanum, or “corpse flower,” bloomed at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory this past week. The spectacular blooming flower gets its macabre nickname from the distinct odor,...

Art League’s ‘Cynthia Pascal: A Retrospective’ Opens April 15

The Art League of Long Island announces the retrospective exhibit of Cynthia Pascal in the Jeanne Tengelsen Gallery. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, April 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. A celebratory remembrance...

Godfather Of Harlem: Special Screening And Forest Whitaker In Conversation With Whoopi Goldberg

Join Forest Whitaker, Academy Award-winning actor and executive producer, for a special finale screening of the third season of his hit series, Godfather of Harlem, followed by a conversation with the legendary Whoopi Goldberg, who has...

Sands Youth Empowerment Initiative Hosts Carli Lloyd and David Beckham

On March 11, Las Vegas Sands hosted inspiring and legendary soccer stars Carli Lloyd and David Beckham as they met with Long Island soccer clubs and over 400 students aged 9-12 at Mitchel Field in...

Letters to the Editor: No On Nassau Sands

No To Casino At Coliseum Site! The proposed construction of a casino at the site of Nassau Veterans Coliseum in the predominantly Black and Brown community of Uniondale, New York, would be a destructive decision that...

A Celtic Carousal Comes To Long Island: Behind the scenes with Flogging Molly

By Cory Olsen editors@antonnews.com Flogging Molly, formed in Los Angeles by native Irishman Dave King in the mid 1990s, took its name from an Irish pub called Molly Malone’s, where they spent their early days as the...

An Open Opportunity: African American Whalers Found Freedom At Sea

While it’s hard to imagine now, hunting whales has been practiced for millennia. Native Americans on Long Island utilized stranded whales to feed whole communities. The Basque region of Spain was the first to establish...

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Don Was And Company Recreates The Last Waltz 40 Years Later

When the 1978 concert documentary The Last Waltz was released, a then-unknown Don Was and his nine-months pregnant wife watched the film in a...

Dropkick Murphys Deliver 20 Years Of Hits At Ford Amphitheatre In Coney Island

One can truly spot a Dropkick Murphys concert from a mile away. In celebration of the American punk band’s first Coney Island performance, fans...

Great College Professors: How To Find The Best Professors At School

Heavy reading or light? Discussion or lecture? You’ve worked really hard to get into a college or university, so how do you find the...

Prescription Meds: Ending The Cycle

Alternative treatments offer surprising results It seems basic enough: when a problem arises, the doctor is called, medicine is prescribed and symptoms subside. Sometimes, the...

Hudson Valley Distillery Pioneers Whiskey Movement

As a pioneer of the American craft whiskey movement, Hudson Whiskey started out like many New York stories, with a daring proposition. In this...
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