05.11.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: The Suffolk Theater, it’s baaaaaack! So I suppose this is a review. After all, it’s an assessment of an event and a place that are accustomed to being reviewed — a musical performance in...
04.26.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Where there’s a Will there (isn’t) a way I recently had occasion to attend a lecture by noted conservative newspaper columnist/pundit/Sunday talk show panelist/baseball nut George Will. It was an entertaining 60 minutes but I came away...
04.14.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Pleased to be back on the North Fork Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. And so it was as the former Joan Giger Walker and I returned to the North Fork this week after an...
03.29.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: That dreaded left turn, always in mind It was the sort of news alert that causes all motorcyclists to quake in their boots. A biker, heading east on the North Road in Mattituck, collided with a...
03.16.2014 Columns Gustavson: Still reporting on what matters to us The three-sentence-long news alert from The Suffolk Times jumped off the screen of my computer when I fired it up first thing Tuesday morning. The headline declared, “Town Board...
03.02.2014 Columns Gustavson: In the end, the deer will outlive us all We surrender. Bambi has won the war. The several thousand dollars we invested in new landscaping in our back yard is slowly but surely serving as the outdoor salad...
02.15.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: My new best friend, Nike Fuel Band My new best friend goes everywhere I go. He’s the first to greet me in the morning, the last to say good night. The only place he doesn’t follow...
02.01.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Hey, who are you calling a fat @!#$? Have you heard the one about the overweight governor and the overweight Senate majority leader? I have, thanks to a college buddy of mine who happened to be in...
01.25.2014 Columns Column: An appreciation of one Otis Grey Pike The bow tie. That’s the first thing I noticed about Otis Pike: the bow tie.
01.19.2014 Columns Column: A delightful month spent at the movies With the arrival of January comes my annual immersion in a veritable sea of movies. Anything to get me through the next few months, when the sun will shine...