Authors Man Bookstore Registers on Small Business Saturday

If you're lucky, you might get rung up by your favorite author at the local indie bookstore on Small Business Saturday, November 30.

The event is called Indies First, a Small Business Saturday feature started by Sherman Alexie, one of my favorite authors.

Indies First allows authors to show their love for their favorite indie bookstore
by volunteering to work the store register on

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Gov. Cuomo Ups State Emergency Food Assistance

To address the shortfall created by the reduction this year in
federal SNAP benefits, which impacts 3.1 million New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced $4.5 million in emergency food assistance grants for distribution to the 46 not-for-profit organizations that between them fund 2,600 emergency food providers statewide.

Among the 46 recipients of the state emergency food assistance

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Spaceship for Sale, St. Mark's Place

Contact RICK

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Flegging Or Culture?

Here is a thing I have noticed. It is this - if something good happens about which I am pleased and excited then, soon afterwards, I start to feel the opposite. For example - yesterday I received my SmartPass which means I now travel free on all bus and train networks within Northern Ireland. I put the paperwork in six days ago and was told it would take three weeks. It was six days. So I was feeling pretty good. Now I had the freedom to go wherever I chose. It certainly fitted in with my intentions of Getting Out A Bit More.

Then, the very next day, this thought entered my head. "You are sixty years old and what have you achieved? You're never going to amount to much now. Thought you were going to write something decent. That's never going to happen now! You haven't even made a start on that patchwork quilt you were saving fabric for!"  Of course I put this negativity far from my mind. Sort of.

Ach well. What is the point of beating up on myself? I had a lovely day with my girls today and I made some wine and cleaned out a couple of cupboards. I created a good dinner. Tomorrow I shall make plans to use my SmartPass. I'm thinking of maybe going to Belfast to observe the protest. Or perhaps I could go visit the City of Culture. I wonder which would make me feel more positive about life?

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Super Sunday Spaghetti Dinner

At 1 PM on Sunday, December 15, the Committee to save Mt. Manresa will host a Super Sunday Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser at Labetti Post, at 390 Hylan Blvd. in Staten Island, featuring food, family, raffles, live entertainment, and a sing-along with Frank James.

The ticket is $30.00.

In a Thanksgiving email blast, the Committee thanked State Sen. Diane Savino, Assembly Member Nicole

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Gentile: Congestion Pricing II Just So Much Grinchery

In a media release, local City Council Member Vinnie Gentile dismissed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's parting re-introduction of a wildly-unpopular 2008 congestion pricing plan as so much Grinchery, calling the "fanciful" proposal "dead on arrival" in South Brooklyn.

The city has to commit to faster, more reliable commuter transport for the outer boroughs before the mayor can talk about charging

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The Christmas Show at the St. George Theatre

The traditional Christmas Show at the St. George Theatre, at 35 Hyatt
Street in Staten Island, is a two-hour song and dance extravaganza
featuring both popular and sacred Christmas favorites like "Silver
Bells" and "O Holy Night", set in scenes from the North Pole to Central
Park.



The cast will be in the grand lobby for a meet and greet with the audience after the performance.

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