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• CICADAPOCALYPSE: Staten Island is ‘ground zero’ in 17-year cicada invasion

  05/22/13
  Mike Sheehan - Pix 11
  It’s one of nature’s great mysterious miracles: every 17 years the cicadas emerge from the earth. They lose their shells and then they mate. The males congregate in thousands at different wooded areas and they start to call the females – a sometimes deafening chirp. Read more:

  http://pix11.com/2013/05/22/cicadapocalypse-staten-island-is-ground-zero-in-17-year-cicada-invasion/#ixzz2U8fUEH64

• Cicadas Stirring up on Staten Island

  05/22/13
  WNYC News
  Cicadas are starting to emerge on Staten Island’s south shore. “I’m personally elated,” said Claire Aniela Arthurs, manager of education at the Staten Island Museum. “I’m wearing my cicada necklace, and my husband is picking me up to take me to go look at cicadas for our afternoon date…so I’m thrilled.” To read further, go to:

  http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/may/22/cicadas-stirring-staten-island/

• Finding Love at 17, Staten Island Cicadas Come of Age

  05/22/13
  New York Times
  "There they were, finally, stuck on the undersides of fresh green leaves, on the trunks of trees and on the sides of fence posts in Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island." To read further go to:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/nyregion/cicadas-take-stage-for-their-final-act-on-staten-island.html?smid=pl-share

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• Q&A: What City Dwellers Need to Know About Cicadas

  05/20/13
  The Wall Street Journal Metropolis Blog
  Slowly but surely, the great cicada invasion of 2013 is starting in parts of Staten Island – and this is only the beginning. In the coming weeks, the noisy bugs are expected to crawl up from the ground along the East Coast from Georgia to upstate New York. The blog entry can be found at

  http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/05/15/qa-what-city-dwellers-need-to-know-about-cicadas/

• Cicadas to soon come alive on the east coast

  04/18/13
  CBS This Morning
  As the weather warms, cicadas move from underground, making a lot of noise.

• The Cicada-Obsessed Prepare to Scratch a 17-Year Itch

  04/18/13
  Wired - The plague of cicadas is what made the wedding memorable. Maybe not for the bride and groom, but for at least one of the guests the horde of chirping orange-and-black insects that descended on the 1996 ceremony was a life-changer. Dan Mozgai, an Internet marketer, could barely process what he saw. “All of these creatures were crawling around and singing,” he says. “My response was what a lot of people did back in 1996: I made a website.”

• Old Space to New Home - The Staten Island Museum Goes 'Green'

  03/28/13
  Wall Street Journal - The Staten Island Museum Goes 'Green' in 19th-Century Building at Snug Harbor. The Staten Island Museum had long hoped for a new home to showcase its arts and sciences collection, a task made more difficult by its desire for an eco-friendly space rich in history. Naturalists eager to protect the Staten Island's bucolic past had founded the museum in 1881 and moving to a sleek high rise or demolishing an existing building wouldn't do.

• After 17-year wait, cicadas will return to Staten Island in the spring

  02/16/13
  SI Advance - One of nature's more mysterious cycles will reach its climax in late spring and early summer, as the 17-year cicadas sprout from the ground, sing their way to buggie love and plant the seeds for their next emergence, in 2030.

• Bugging out on Staten Island: 'They're Baack! The Return of the 17-Year Cicadas'

  02/14/13
  "It was the best of swarms ... it was the worst of swarms ... but it is always 17 year olds who need to find love ..."

• They're Baaack! Staten Island Museum pays homage to the unyielding cicada

  02/14/13
  Time Out NY - Magicicada Septendecim, also known as 17-year cicadas, are a bit like head colds: occasional but unavoidable nuisances whose presence must be endured (a high threshold for ickiness also helps).

• Staten Island Museum receives 450G grant

  02/02/13
  The Staten Island Museum has received a $450,000 grant from the Richmond County Savings Foundation.

• Mastodon Exhibit To Come To Staten Island Museum

  01/30/13
  Link to video coming soon.

• True 'GRIT' on Staten Island: Photographer Michael Hanulak snaps Gotham in all its sexy,sleazy glory

  01/27/13
  In his nearly 50-career as a photographer, Michael Hanulak (1937-2011) shot some bold-face names, people like the singer Etta James and the trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie. He liked jazz and spent time in clubs. But he was even more interested in the unnamed stars of the open-air circus that is New York: Gay marchers in pride parades, Village Halloween revelers, cross-dressers, junkies, AIDS demonstrators, colorful commuters, vagrants, the deranged and the misfortunate.

• Staten Island Museum's 'Mastodon' project gets a hefty fiscal boost

  07/27/12
  SI Advance - Funds to build “Tales of the Mastodon,” a permanent exhibit planned for the new home of the Staten Island Museum, are trickling in. The museum figures it’s a little better than halfway to a goal of $400,000, thanks to a $150,000 grant from the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services.

• Staten Island Museum Will Be Keeping It Cool

  07/23/12
  SI Advance - When the Staten Island Museum opens its new home 18 months from now at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, it will be the only landmarked building in the city equipped with geothermal heating and cooling, and one of very few 19th-century buildings to have green, state-of-the-art temperature control.

• WPA murals back where they belong

  06/20/12
  SI Advance - Swaddled and lying on their sides in the conservation studio of the Staten Island Museum, murals created for the Farm Colony at Sea View by the Works Progress Administration are one step closer to a permanent home back on Staten Island.

• More preservation funding headed to Staten Island's historic spots

  06/13/12
  SI Advance - Let's hear it for Staten Island's historic spots. The Alice Austen House Museum in Rosebank received $120,000 and the Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston received $100,000 as part of the remaining cash in an online vote.

• Extreme Makeover Bldg A, 2 Years and Counting

  01/15/12
  SI Advance - Long awaited new home for the Staten Island Museum: 2 years away

• Elizabeth Egbert Louis R Miller Business Leadership Award

  01/15/12
  SI Advance - Elizabeth Egbert receives Louis R. Miller Business Leadership Award

• Staten Island Museum receives $2500 grant

  11/04/11
  SI Advance - TD Charitable Foundation donates to Staten Island Museum for the programs for financially disadvantaged students.

• SI Museum will celebrate 130 years of growing

  10/30/11
  SI Advance - SI Museum will celebrate 130 years of growing

• SI Museum Breaks Ground

  10/01/11
  NYCT Newsletter - SI Museum breaks ground on new home with great neighbors.

• Super Saturday Fence Show

  09/15/11
  SI Advance AWE - Spotlight on the Staten Island Museum Super Saturday Fence Show.

• SI Chamber of Commerce - Groundbreaking

  05/01/11
  SI Chamber of Commerce Newsletter - Congratulates Staten Island Museum on the groundbreaking for their new home in Snug Harbor.

• SI Museum Breaks Ground on New Home

  03/23/11
  The New York Times ArtsBeat - The Staten Island Museum on Wednesday broke ground on its new $25 million home in Building A, a landmark on the campus of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

• Staten Island Museum to begin preparing its new home

  03/07/11
  SI Advance - The Staten Island Museum will break ground March 23 on a $25 million renovation/construction project in its long-designated new home in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden complex.

• West Brighton artist Andrea Phillips earns her first one

  01/16/11
  SI Advance - West Brighton artist Andrea Phillips earns her first one-woman show.