Mike Barry

It has been 30 years since North Hempstead’s voters elected a Republican town supervisor. Meanwhile, in Hempstead, Republican town supervisors have presided since the dawn of time. Steve Nasta of Great Neck, the GOP nominee for...

"Buck Off the Island” sounds like an insult, but is the appropriate catch phrase behind the Professional Bull Riders’ (PBR) visit to Nassau County on Sept. 23-24 as part of its Built Ford Tough Series...

Nelson DeMille’s upcoming novel is set largely in Cuba and has a good chance at landing at the top of The New York Times’ bestseller list when it is published on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The Cuban...

Nassau will have in 2018 a new county executive, a different county comptroller, and three new faces in its 19-seat legislature, making 2017 one of the more compelling county election campaign cycles in years. Two storylines...

Baldwin native Chris Weidman was twice an All-American wrestler at Hofstra University so his Saturday, July 22, main event match at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, will be a homecoming. Yet Weidman’s...

Adriana Trigiani’s Kiss Carlo (Harper Books) is being published on Tuesday, June 20, and later that same day Trigiani will be appearing at the Manhasset Public Library’s Community Room, 30 Onderdonk Ave., Manhasset. Trigiani’s upcoming Nassau...

One of the takeaways from Marty Appel’s fascinating Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character (Doubleday) is how closely Stengel’s career trajectory resembles Joe Torre’s. Stengel and Torre played in the major leagues and then launched relatively undistinguished...

AJ Mendez Brooks’ memoir has got my vote for one of 2017’s best book titles. It is called Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules (Crown...

Jeffrey MacDonald, who grew up in Patchogue, was on the cover of People magazine’s Jan. 30, 2017, print edition, but MacDonald might have preferred a more affirmative headline atop his photo rather than the one...