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My husband and I were just in New York City at Socarrat Paella Bar on 19th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. When we walked in, we both looked at each other. The place was so tiny and had one long table that stretched from the front of the restaurant...

Say what you want about Perez Hilton, but I did hear the MJ story from him first, referencing TMZ ‘s homepage, that had the headlines “Michael Jackson is Dead” at 5:20pm. Certainly some controversy of his initial tweets, those that I actually did not see until this posting on Mashable…...

Colleen Plunkett is a Facebook friend who I met through my very dear friend, Angela Melledy who owns ABLE Newspaper. Colleen recently reached out to me because a friend of hers, Ryan Stockdale has eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder. She writes that "Ryan has has four young children that have the same...

In the song "Say Goodbye to Hollywood," Billy Joel sings: So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will just be now and then Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again How true is this? I remember...

Yesterday I went to Tanger Outlet in Deer Park with my parents. Tanger recently opened outlets there and I've been three times. All three times, no one seems to be there. Walking around the beautiful shopping mall, I often feel as though I'm walking around a ghost town! I went...

I think most businesses were closed on Friday, July 3. At HJMT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, we're closed today. Why? I'm not really sure but when I took a consensus of the staff, they wanted Monday off. So, we closed. (Of course, I did the right thing and closed early on Friday...

We met my good friends, Madeline and Steve for breakfast along with their son, David, and his three children. We were talking about Great Adventure and how for some extra cash, anyone can get a "fast pass" which enables them to go on rides quicker then the average patron. "That's...

Yesterday, the Entrepreneurs Organization NYC (EO NYC) chapter organized a golf outing for members of the golf "peer" group. There were eight of us, eager to compete against each other. I was a little intimidated because the guys I was playing with seemed to be decent golfers but after the...

It's amazing how someone like Bernard Madoff stole all that money from people and non-profit organizations without federal regulators seeing what was going on. Isn't this stuff regulated? Yesterday, he received 150 years in jail. The guy is 71 years old. What is 150 years? Death in prison? According to...

Every year around this time, Lido Beach hosts a free concert and fireworks. When the fireworks started, my son and his cousin, Jeffrey decided to walk over to Lido Blvd to get a good view. When they got to the middle school, the heard someone say, "get the dog, get...