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<p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">See inside the 2024 Fall/Winter Fun Book with guides to u-pick apple orchards, pumpkin farms, holiday festivals and more.</span></p>

Guide to fall fun

It's that time of year, when the fun starts to move inside. Here's where you can sing karaoke, play arcade games and more. 

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The best item at Red Lobster is the one you don't have to pay for -- but it isn't an insult.

Revisiting Red Lobster: It's still all about the biscuits

A food critic returns to the eatery known for half-price latenight appetizers.

Dining at the chains: How does Applebee's measure up in 2024? 

There are only 10 Friendly's left on Long Island — a food critic explores how the experience holds up.

Dining at Friendly's: A food critic returns after decades

The theater opened in 1995 as part of a redevelopment of what was then called Broadway Mall.

Movie theater at LI shopping mall closing

The Hampton Jitney — which started in 1974 — has grown from a small van shuttling East End residents to a multimillion-dollar business with a total annual ridership of about 500,000.

From Lauren Bacall to 'Sex and the City': Looking back at 50 years of the Hampton Jitney

Explore the changing fads, fashions, foods and formalities of Long Island weddings through the decades, from tuxedos to golf shirts and prime rib to vegan options.

How Long Island wedding fads have changed over the years

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In the merry-go-round of memory, these three places all live on.

Places we loved: Remembering Freedomland, Rockaways' Playland, Palisades Amusement Park

Once a movie palace, the Calderone became LI's go-to rock venue of the 1970s and '80s.

Remembering Hempstead's Calderone Concert Hall

Tribute bands have become the go-to form of live entertainment for clubs, theaters, performing arts centers and outdoor festivals on Long Island.

Send in the clones: Why tribute bands are thriving on LI

Looking back at the station's legacy and what will it mean to Long Islanders once it's off the air on Aug. 26.

WCBS/880 AM ending: 'It's like a death in the family'

Long Island can lay claim to a number of old-school fish houses where little has changed over the decades.

3 classic LI seafood houses for nostalgia-lovers

In recent years, the once-ubiquitous game has gained in popularity again, but technicians with the know-how to keep these physical machines running are hard to find.

Pinball doctors: Meet the LIers who keep the lights flashing on these old-school games

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NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano checks out the fall menus at The Union in East Meadow and Off the Hook in Freeport.

Butternut squash pizza and more fall dishes to try

Newsday food critic Andi Berlin dives into why two eateries made the cut on this year's Top 50 restaurants list. 

Ramen and baleadas: 2 favorites among LI's Top 50 eateries

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits Belmont Lake State Park in West Babylon.

Exploring Belmont Lake State Park: 'We're more than just a picnic park'

Long Island sisters Amy Lynn and Danielle Safaty each had both breasts removed in their 20s, before they had any signs of breast cancer. Newsday family reporter Beth Whitehouse reports.

'Almost nearly eliminate your risk'

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits ClawCADE at Roosevelt Field mall.

'People love prizes'

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits Dark Horse Tavern in Rockville Centre and Prost in Garden City.

Elisa DiStefano visits LI beer gardens

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano got a sneak peek at Oheka Castle's "Bridgerton"-inspired high tea, which will take place on Sept. 29.

'We have a location; we're having a party'

NewsdayTV's Elisa Distefano tries apple cider doughnuts at Woodside Orchards in Aquebogue and Breeze Hill Farm in Peconic.

Watch the doughnuts being made at LI farms

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano and Newsday deputy lifestyle editor Meghan Giannotta explore the fall 2024 issue of Newsday's Fun Book.

Sneak peek inside Newsday's fall Fun Book

The Fire Island Pedicab, which provides two mile long rides from Robert Moses State Park Field 5 to the border of Kismet, is under review by the state parks department to determine whether such a service should continue next year. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports. 

'I'm upset, I take it every weekend'

From GoBungee Fitness in Massapequa to Fit Factory in Bohemia, NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano has your look at some aerial fitness classes on Long Island.

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano tries a bungee fitness class.

NewsdayTV's Jasmine Anderson sat down with Newsday's FeedMe team to talk about the top 50 restaurants project.

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