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See inside the 2024 Fall/Winter Fun Book with guides to u-pick apple orchards, pumpkin farms, holiday festivals and more.

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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Where to dine out in one of Long Island's busiest villages.

The best places to eat in Patchogue

The revitalized South Shore town has restaurants, bars and shops lining its Main Street and wide, gracious avenues leading down to the Great South Bay — where you'll find even more.

The best places to eat in Bay Shore

From fire pits to wine and oysters, fall dining experiences from FeedMe's food critics.

Fall dining guide: Where to eat on LI this season

You can walk into a restaurant on the spur of the moment, gesture toward the bar and, before you know it, you're in. No reservation, no fuss, no big deal.

Eating at the bar: 5 restaurants to try it on LI

Flip Circus highlights include Bubi the clown's acts and Priscilla Tangara's aerial performances.

The circus comes to LI mall this month

Families can walk paths lined with thousands of carved pumpkins. 

The Rise and Blaze return: What to know about the pumpkin trails

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Suffolk Credit Union Arena in Brentwood welcomes the Brick Convention, showcasing Lego artists, fan builders and exclusive creations. 

Traveling Lego Brick Convention coming to LI for the first time

A Caribbean spot has opened in the heart of the village, replacing Grecian Grill.

New restaurant opens in downtown Farmingdale

Nothing conjures up the feeling of the tropics like giant, lush-leaved plants, and if you live in the tropics or subtropics, you get to enjoy them year-round.

How to help your tropical plants survive the winter blues

More than 180 eateries are participating this go-around. Here are nine best bets.

LI Restaurant Week is back with discounted prix-fixe meals

It may have a French-sounding name, but this homey, hearty, tomato-forward chicken braise, made with sofrito as its base and with golden rum as part of the cooking liquid, is Caribbean in essence and flavor.

Tomato-forward chicken fricase is warm and hearty

There are over 33 criteria that the organization considers when deciding winners, including water quality and safety.

One of the cleanest beaches on the East Coast is in southern Florida

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NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano learns all about seasonal color analysis, a method used to determine the palette of colors that best complement your natural features.

Color analysis TikTok trend reaches Long Island: How to find your perfect shade

Feteness is a Caribbean-inspired fitness class in Elmont led by Allie Guilbaud, who said she started the class because she wanted a space where fitness felt fun.

'Leave your woes on the dance floor'

Rob Cervoni, owner of Taglio in Mineola, teaches Newsday food writer Erica Marcus how to make a pizza.

Making pizza at Taglio in Mineola

Spas in Brightwaters and Garden City offer pumpkin skin treatments for the fall season. NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano reports. 

'This is the best from the massage world and hydrating world'

When you're a restaurant critic, however, the chills come all year long, and every dinner has the potential to morph into fright night.

Food critics dish on Long Island dining nightmares

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'

An inside look at local Long Island businesses getting in the spook season spirit

Here's where to get fall themed treats on Long Island

Halloween is soon upon us and fall festive pop-up experiences are appearing on Long Island.

These Halloween inspired pop-ups are coming to Long Island

Emmy Winner: What happens when strangers eat together? Newsday's Scott Vogel invited four random people to dine at the communal table at Barrique Kitchen & Wine Bar in Babylon.

'Will you come eat with me?'

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits Per Tutti in St. James, an Italian language and cultural center that offers classes for children and adults of all backgrounds.

'This was always my dream'

Emmy Winner: The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers are 6 indigenous women who work to re-seed the bay. But for them, while it's important to help rid the waters of toxins, it's also a way for them to stay connected with 10,000 years of their cultural heritage.

WINNER For the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, reseeding the bay is a way to keep ties with cultural heritage

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits Sea Cliff to see what's new.

4 places to visit in Sea Cliff 

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The advent calendar phenomenon is growing every year, with so many exciting, fun, beautiful, and delicious options available.

If you want to stretch your gift game into days this holiday, check out these advent calendars

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