November 30, 2008

Music to match your decor (San Jose Mercury News)

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Imagine walking into an airy Upper East Side apartment with 18th-century antiques, gilt mirrors and chintz upholstery. Now imagine Metallica playing on the sound system.

New books advise: Stay home (Cape Cod Times)

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Cheer up by reading about everyone else’s horror stories

Travel tales of the bad, ugly and down-right funny (The Morning Call)

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Feeling bad that you can’t afford a vacation? Travel books with titles like ”Don’t Go There!” and ”I Should Have Stayed Home” may make you feel better. For $15 or so, you’ll get a laugh out of vacation horrors that you’ll be happy to miss.

Actor’s daughter grows as director (The Columbus Dispatch)

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NEW YORK — Amy Redford makes her directorial debut with The Guitar, the story of a young woman (Saffron Burrows of The Bank Job) who discovers she has a terminal illness.

Simon Garfield: Cable, digital, satellite … or Strictly Come Dancing? (Guardian Unlimited)

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In the early hours of yesterday, a fair reflection of British culture and aspirations: Cops Uncut 3 (Virgin), Special Victims Unit (Hallmark), Boozed-Up Brits Abroad Unleashed (Bravo+1), 12 Steps to Poker Heaven (Information TV), Live Roulette (Open Access 3), Sextastic Double Header (Nuts TV), America’s Fattest City (Sky Real Lives +1), Single In The Hamptons (Wedding TV +1), Extreme …

A Taste of Puerto Rico in Cities Across the Land

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Once carried by wives to laborers in the fields, the meat-filled cakes called pasteles are now an indispensable part of holiday gatherings.

November 29, 2008

‘Frost / Nixon’ is a tale of the tapes (Newsday)

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‘Why didn’t you burn the tapes?”

Concert to benefit local man (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)

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SARANAC LAKE - In August, Eric Thompson, 25, of Lake Clear, gathered scrap metal to help fund his motorcycle trip to the Hamptons for a friend’s bachelor party. This Saturday, a special concert will collect money to help him cope with the loss he experienced that weekend.

Village still open to purchase of White house (The Southampton Press & The East Hampton Press)

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The Southampton Village Board has not completely ruled out buying the historical White property from the Southampton Historical Museum.

Blog Watch (South Bend Tribune)

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