02.11.2024 Columns Gimme Shelter: Stupid Bowl? One autumn Sunday my brother tuned in to watch the game. When a “Law and Order” rerun came on instead of cheerleaders, pickup truck commercials and mayhem, he turned to...
02.14.2023 Columns Gimme Shelter: Love’s labor’s found Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...
01.15.2023 News To the Manor born: Slavery on Shelter Island, a story that’s not hidden away In honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday tomorrow, the Reporter brings back a story from 2018. As the hot August night wore on in the attic of...
01.13.2023 Columns Gimme Shelter: Are you superstitious? This column appeared in a slightly different form on January 13, 2017. Looking at the calendar today, it’s important to remember some old common sense: Being superstitious brings bad...
10.30.2022 Columns An October gift This story fist appeared in 2016. It had been a few years since I’d seen Simon. When we worked it out and discovered it was almost a decade, we...