By Jair Brooks-Davis Certain versions of hockey have been played for almost a thousand years, solidifying the game’s significance in world sporting culture, yet in the United States, it regularly falls short in TV viewership and team revenue when compared with basketball, football and baseball. Why? Local players and coaches…

By Elise Robley New York State Sen. Anna Kaplan, a Democrat from Great Neck, and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, a Democrat from Rockville Centre, unveiled legislation last month that proposes the establishment of a pilot program that could lead to creation of a statewide network of crime victim and trauma survivor…

By Griffin Schmoyer Since the start of the year, Wordle has been one of the hottest topics across social media. In just…

By Daniel Gall and Samantha Sivert WRHU reporters Samantha Sivert and Daniel Gall went to Ogden Elementary School in Woodmere March 16 to interview James Murray, star of “Impractical Jokers,” an improvisational comedy show that airs on truTv and TBS, along with Carsen Smith, author and writer for TV and…

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By Benjamin Rifkin In a previous Long Island Advocate column on Feb. 28, I debunked Russia’s claim that Ukraine has never been an independent country with a history and culture separate from Russia. Now I examine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s false justification for the invasion: that Ukraine must be de-Nazified. …

By Damali Ramirez On March 7, a little more than two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, members of the Hofstra University community packed the Guthart Cultural Center Theater to learn more about the attack from university experts on Eastern Europe. The event, hosted by the Center for Civic Engagement and…

By Annabel Hofmann Construction of the South Fork Wind project — New York’s first offshore wind farm — began with installation of underground transmission cables in East Hampton Feb. 14. The project is a starting point toward meeting New York State’s goal of eventually producing 9,000 megawatts of electricity with…

The scene is semi-chaotic, with people moving about and talking hurriedly in a white-walled basement-turned-bomb-shelter somewhere in Ukraine. A baby is crying. Clothes and bags are strewn about haphazardly. Then a little girl named Amelia, 7, starts to sing “Let It Go” from the Disney film “Frozen” in Russian, and…