Alan Pergament
- Sports on the Air: Jaworski enjoying bigger role
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News TV Critic
Updated: 11/15/08 10:09 AM Like Buffalo Bills quarterback Trent Edwards, ESPN’s Ron Jaworski is getting much more to do in his second year on the big stage.
- 'ER' flashback is hauntingly effective
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Updated: 11/13/08 10:04 AM My first thought upon hearing that Anthony Edwards was returning to “ER” for one November sweeps episode to play his deceased character, Dr. Mark Greene, was “uh, oh, desperate times have hit.”
- Jon Stewart prepares his trademark spin
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News TV Critic
Updated: 11/13/08 10:06 AM Jon Stewart has a tough act to follow at the University at Buffalo on Saturday night. He’s doing his show seven months after his buddy Stephen Colbert wowed a UB audience in Alumni Arena.
Carolyn Hax
- Carolyn Hax: Divorces raise loyalty questions
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Updated: 11/19/08 8:41 AM Dear Carolyn: My husband says that since my two brothers divorced, their exes are out of our family. I am nice to my brothers’ new girlfriends, but they were both married for 20 years, and I think of the exes as my sisters.
- Daughter has eye on older men
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Updated: 11/12/08 6:26 AM Dear Carolyn: We are the parents of a 22-year-old who has recently graduated college, moved out on her own and begun work at a large corporation in another state. She is outgoing, smart and attractive, and has become a “big hit” with the single men at work, all of whom are older by five, six or more years. She mentioned that one is divorced but “good looking.”
- Couple needs to think together
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Updated: 11/09/08 7:30 AM Dear Carolyn: I met the love of my life in college and we both graduated last year. This college happens to be in my home state, but not his. His career plans before we met were to move after graduation to a neighboring state with better opportunities in his field (which he did).
Dear Abby
- Standing a sign of respect
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:13 AM Dear Abby: “Silent Supporter, Benson, N. C.” (Aug. 26) cannot say the Pledge of Allegiance because of religious reasons. I support his or her right not to participate. However, I disagree with “Silent’s” interpretation that standing is participating.
- A roommate choice gone bad
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM Dear Abby: I moved to a small town a few years ago to take a job in a very public position. This is a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business, so I try hard to maintain a good reputation.
- Wedding was nothing but a sham
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Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM Dear Abby: My wife and I received an invitation from a family member to attend their daughter “Heidi’s” wedding on Father’s Day weekend. We canceled our existing plans in order to attend, and gave “Heidi and Dave” an appropriate gift. As the ceremony progressed, the minister asked, “Do you, Steve, take Heidi” ... at which point the guests began whispering to themselves, “STEVE?”
Janice Okun
- Janice Okun: Language lessons for restaurant servers
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News Food Editor
Updated: 11/19/08 10:53 AM Restaurant Speak — yes, there is such a thing. And I’m not talking about “Adam and Eve on a Raft” or any other vivid order codes, shouted by servers to the cooks in the kitchen.
- Gourmandise
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Updated: 11/16/08 4:22 AM ‘Home, Heart, Hearth’
- Janice Okun: It’s getting easier to ‘eat locally’
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News Food Editor
Updated: 11/12/08 8:33 AM How can you be a locavore during a Western New York winter? That’s the question often asked, and –let’s be practical here –the answer is you probably can’t, not 100 percent.
Jeff Miers
- CLUB CHATTER
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/14/08 6:49 AM The church of soul
- The music of Hunter S. Thompson
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/14/08 10:35 AM “You might say Thompson craved the screech of the locomotive tracks and the silence of the backwoods — anything but the blase gray land known as neutral.”
- Jeff Miers: Singing an American tune
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/07/08 10:26 AM It has been said that tracing the bloodlines of black American music is the same as following the arc of American song over the past century.
Jeff Simon
- Jeff Simon: Another man of the media
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News Arts Editor
Updated: 11/18/08 11:42 AM It came in the final seconds of Steve Kroft’s “60 Minutes” interview with Barack Obama. Which means they could have edited it out, but they left it in because it was a moment of charming levity that also gave us a little intimate access to the president-elect’s personal style.
- Jeff Simon: Three life stories we desperately need
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News Arts Editor
Updated: 11/16/08 8:31 AM "Call Me Ted" is the title of Ted Turner’s new memoir. So he went on Letterman on Monday to peddle a copy or six.
- Jeff Simon: Memories of a critic much loved
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News Arts Editor
Updated: 11/11/08 12:19 PM The best American critic ever to make television his domain died last week. So did one of our most passionate and erudite literary critics.
Liz Smith
- Craig makes ’em scream
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 11/15/08 6:58 AM “SHHHHHHHH!” That was the sound heard as the lights went down at the special New York screening of “Quantum of Solace.” Who was that shushing the noisy audience? 007 himself, Daniel Craig, impeccable in a beautiful suit, seated on the aisle.
- Taylor shops, shops, shops
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 10/31/08 6:46 AM “D oesanybody still wear ... a hat?” That is the famous opening line to the great Sondheim song, “The Ladies Who Lunch” (performed so memorably by Elaine Stritch.)
- No more farewells for Cher
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 10/25/08 6:57 AM “I will never stop performing. Not so long as I am physically able and as long as people want to see me!”
Miss Manners
- Miss Manners: Redirect conversation back where it belongs
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Columnist
Updated: 11/20/08 4:14 PM Dear Miss Manners: Many times, I will find myself in a group of people including a very young child or a very elderly person.
- Thanks, but no thanks for ticket
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Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM Dear Miss Manners: Receiving a citation from a law enforcement officer, in person, is generally a very unpleasant surprise (for example, when being stopped for speeding). However, at the conclusion of such interaction, it seems dismissing the officer with a “thank you” after receipt of the citation is awkwardly impotent. I can think of no other appropriate — yet polite and neutral phrase — to dismiss the officer after such an involuntary transaction has transpired that would serve to acknowledge receipt, yet not necessarily be thankful for, such notice.
- Hostess gets a pass here
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Updated: 11/16/08 4:22 AM “Thanksgiving is not infrequently done as a cooperative meal.”
Susan Martin
- Susan Martin: Decor that makes me feel like a kid
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Updated: 11/14/08 8:11 AM Maybe I need to grow up, but the truth is I love looking at cool stuff for kids’ rooms. I enjoy flipping through the catalogs that arrive in the mail. I can’t resist meandering down the kids’ decor aisle at Target.
- Susan Martin: Pajamas break out of bed
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News Columnist
Updated: 11/07/08 10:11 AM I discovered something fairly recently: I like pajamas that don’t look like pajamas. Maybe it’s those 6 a.m. outings with the dog; the multiple trips to the recycling bin on trash day, or those 9-year-old friends’ sleep-overs (“Go to bed, girls!”) that brought me to this point.
- Susan Martin: A mixed bag of Halloween trivia treats
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Home & Style Editor
Updated: 10/31/08 1:05 PM It won’t be as much fun as raiding my daughter’s trick-or-treat bag later tonight but, before that, I intend to share some Halloween trivia with my family.
Other Life Columns
- Agent 007 is on the loose
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:13 AM “Quantum of Solace” (PG- 13, 1 hour, 45 minutes)
- Interactions can be deadly
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:13 AM When you take more than one medication at a time, it’s a little like rolling dice. You never know when a particular combination will put you out of the game.
- A fun-loving transition
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Baltimore Sun
Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM In our People magazine culture, the Obama family is photo-op gold.
