Conversations From Main Street Presents:

Evolution of the News Media

Series Sponsored by

Thursday, February 25, 2010   7:30 PM

The way the world gets news and information is changing far faster than we expected a mere two years ago. Iranian protestors and Haitian quake survivors communicate on Twitter. Cell phones and FlipCams held by “citizen journalists” get the pictures out. The advertising model that once supported extensive staffs of reporters, editors and photographers is collapsing in not-so-slow motion. Traditional newspapers are firing their photographers and using freelancers instead. More and more print newspapers, such as Newsday, and now The New York Times, are trying to entrench themselves behind online pay-walls in an attempt to earn income and save circulation.  Meanwhile, Americans are absorbing information from a welter of websites of wildly varying accuracy and even-handedness. Don’t believe people who say they know how this is going to end up. They don’t.

But the work is still going on, with its workers peering into the dim future while going about their rapidly changing business.

On Feb. 25, we will hear from a traditional journalist at Newsday who straddles the worlds of print and the web; a journalist on Patch.com, a brand-new, “hyperlocal” website that covers Port Washington; and a Hofstra University scholar who has been watching the phenomenon from slightly off to the side. Moderated by Peter Goodman.

Theaterworks USA’s “Click, Clack, Moo”

Children's Series Sponsored by Roslyn Savings Foundation
Pegalis & Erickson, LLC and NYS Senator Craig Johnson

Program Sponsored by Agovino & Asselta, The Lipset Family,
and Joan & George Nahas & Family

Saturday, February 27, 2010  2 PM

All day long, Farmer Brown hears "click clack moo, clickety clackety moo..." – the cows are typing and protesting their working conditions!   See this fun, "moo-ving" new musical about collaboration, cooperation and conciliation, based on the award-winning book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin

Purchase tickets on-line by clicking here.

Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia:

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites”

Children's Series Sponsored by Roslyn Savings Foundation
Pegalis & Erickson, LLC and NYS Senator Craig Johnson

Program Sponsored by King Kullen

Sunday, March 14, 2010   11 am and 2 PM

The magical stories of award-winning illustrator and author Eric Carle come to life with beautiful puppetry: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and The Mixed-up Chameleon.  Two performances are available.

Purchase tickets on-line by clicking here.

Duncan Sheik

Saturday, March 20, 2010  8 PM

Sponsored by WFUV Radio, Laura & Howard Schwartz and

Ozymandias Fund of the Tides Foundation

hosted by WFUV Radio's John Platt

Duncan Sheik is a versatile artist whose range includes pop hits like "Barely Breathing" to award-winning theater credits like "Spring Awakening" and his new project "Whisper House."

Tickets:

Premium $40 (Friends $35)

Standard $35 (Friends $30)

Call the box office at 516-767-6444 or buy tickets on-line by clicking here!