Staten Island writer, musician, and former radio host, "The Mighty" Vin Forte has been producing a new podcast on island based pop-culture outlet Dog and Pony Show for a few months now. His new show, called 'Any Time', is released bi-weekly and each episode features an interview with a new interesting guest. So far in 2015, 'Any Time' has featured chats with "The League" star Paul Scheer and "The X-Files" star William B. Davis. The show doesn't only feature TV stars, however, he's also spoken to alt-musician Daedelus, and video game developer Howard Scott Warshaw. 
For the holiday season, Vin plans on releasing a special episode featuring Staten Island Jug Band, The Wahoo Skiffle Crazies. This holiday special will feature a full length concert…

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Last week, we brought you the latest rendering from the Empire Outlets project. Today, we have more news about the mall -and- about it's sister project, the New York Wheel. New videos were posted to the official New York Wheel YouTube channel recently featuring the likes of New York Wheel CEO Rich Marin as well as Staten Island Borough President James Oddo. These heavy hitters of Staten Island sound off about what these projects are going to mean to SI and it's residents. 

Watch the video featuring BP Oddo below:

You can check out all of the interviews over on Staten Island based blog, This Way on Bay, here.

As the construction progresses, we'll be seeing more and more of the Empire Outlets, which will be opening in St. George in 2016. The video below shows new renderings of the complex which is now more than 50% leased out. If you're looking for another reason to brag about our island to your out of town friends, showing them this video would be a pretty good place to start. 

Some of the stores that will make a home in the state of the art mall include Francesca's, Nordstrom Rack, H&M, Ghirardelli Chocolate, Starbucks, U.S. Polo, Gap Outlet, Banana Republic Factory Store, White House Black Market, Columbia Sportswear Company, Guess Factory Store, Wilsons Leather, G.H. Bass & Co., Lids, Obey Your Body, Innovation Luggage, Walgreens, Haagen Dazs, Krispy

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