the owner of Archestratus.

Archestratus is a cookbook shop, specialty grocery and community space in Greenpoint (est. 2015). For the first 8 years it was also a Sicilian cafe of which Lipari was the chef.

The cafe became known for its Sicilian Blue Plate Dinners, Pizza Nights, Rainbow Cookies, Arancine, Sandwiches and Etna Mess (a Lipari invention). Her food is continually inspired by growing up Sicilian American and by her family who still live on the island in Alcamo.

One summer in 2023, she decided to close the cafe side of things. This was correct. She still loves to cook and is in the process of figuring out the right way to share her recipes.  

She sings and makes music. And art. And is writing a screenplay.

She once wrote a lil chapbook (Augury Books, 2011) and is reading some new poetry at Sunview Luncheonette on April 15th, 2025 and at Unnameable Books sometime in May possibly. 

Lipari takes a lot of classes on the weird and esoteric, and, for fun, makes flashcards with words like unheimlich.

The inextricable link between music and transcendence is her main organizing principle for life. 

While her psychic abilities have always guided her, her mediumship abilities were a BIG SURPRISE to her. She didn't see it coming, even though her mother is a professional medium and she grew up around all that stuff.

She deeply wants to be helpful and will keep doing this as long as it is helpful. 

She visits her Papa and 103 year old Nonna Oliva in Prospect Heights, but lives with her twin cats Zeno and Annunizatina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 

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Email her at paigelipariisland@gmail.com for readings or other inquiries