ENTERTAINMENT

• Anderson on the 'artistification' of the boroughs
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Since the early 1970s, the St. George-New Brighton-Tompkinsville-Stapleton corridor has been hailed (depending on the decade) as the new SoHo, the new East Village, the new Williamsburg.

• Islander returns with 3rd crime novel
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- When we last met Tom Braddock, the Civil War veteran-turned-New York City cop was bringing bad guys to heel in the first two of West Brighton resident Richard E. Crabbe's novels, "Suspension" (2000) and "The Empire of Shadows" (2005).

• Sugar plums, raspberries and lobsters: New at Greenmarket
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Anyone else impressed by those endless quarts of sugar plums this past weekend at the Greenmarket? A vision of loveliness.