Susan Martin
- Susan Martin: Note to self: Start that to-do list
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Updated: 02/05/10 8:47 AM This time of year, I find myself wanting to make a few changes around the house without spending much money.
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- Susan Martin: Toe socks can tickle your fancy
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Updated: 01/29/10 7:54 AM Toe socks are a new addition to our household. Tween parents know of what I speak. Usually knee-high, toe socks are essentially gloves for the feet.
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- Furnishing those first apartments
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Updated: 01/22/10 7:07 AM Irecently read an article from the Washington Post about cost-effective ways to transform a rental into a place to call your own.
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Alan Pergament
- Pergament: Times are changing for cable users, too
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Updated: 02/08/10 9:04 AM With the arrival of another unpopular rate hike and increased competition, Time Warner Cable wants to get its message out about plans that it expects will please its subscribers.
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- Pergament: ‘Undercover Boss’ a covert op in the workplace
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Updated: 02/04/10 8:02 AM It is tempting to call the new CBS series “Undercover Boss” trash TV. After all, it’s a reality show and Sunday’s post-Super Bowl premiere highlights the boss of Waste Management, a company that picks up trash, recycles and cleans port-o-potties.
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- Growth of bandwidth no boom for stations
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NEWS TV CRITIC
Updated: 02/01/10 4:35 PM When the so-called digital transition arrived, one of the popular theories was that the extra channels available to local stations had the potential to lead to a programming and advertising boom.
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Jeff Simon
- Jeff Simon: Oprah the winner as Leno loses battle to restore his image on her program
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Updated: 01/29/10 8:11 AM The doctor was in Thursday afternoon. And it seems to me doubtful that it made any difference.
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- Jeff Simon: The Oscar drama begins to build
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Updated: 02/02/10 8:21 AM The film was unappealingly titled “K- 19: The Widowmaker.” It starred Harrison Ford, but even Ford fans could be forgiven for giving the film wide berth. There weren’t many reasons to see it, frankly.
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- Jeff Simon: The hip jazz local radio ignores
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Updated: 01/26/10 8:22 AM The decidedly unlikely name of the group is Mostly Other People Do the Killing.
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Janice Okun
- Gourmandise
Updated: 04/05/09 7:45 AMMystery pecan pie is one of 410 recipes in “Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off Cookbook: Recipes from Americas Favorite Cooking Contest” (Wiley, $29.95). Mary McClain was the $1,000 winner in the 16th bake-off contest in 1964. The collection of recipes includes all the $1 million grand prize recipes, as well as those that have become classics, such as the tunnel of fudge cake or French silk chocolate pie.
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- Gourmandise
Updated: 03/22/09 7:49 AMJanice Okun
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- Gourmandise
Updated: 03/08/09 7:07 AMJanice Okun
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Jeff Miers
- Sound Check: New discs bode well for 2010
Updated: 02/05/10 8:08 AMNow that we know that, of all the music released in 2009, Taylor Swift’s album is the best of the best, we can get back to our insignificant little universe where all that glitters isn’t necessarily gold.
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- Jeff Miers: Pop extravaganza fails to represent today’s music
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 02/01/10 7:19 PM “Music’s biggest night,” they call it. Well, it was big, all right. But size isn’t everything, apparently.
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- Smithereens are among the artists who have perfected the genre
Updated: 01/29/10 1:00 PMThere’s a litmus test for power pop songs, one that decides with permanence whether said song should be filed beneath the heading “classic” or “Meh, so-so.”
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Miss Manners
- Miss Manners: Polite way to turn suitor down
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Updated: 02/09/10 8:17 AM Dear Miss Manners: There is a young man I met through mutual friends at college who has been asking me out. I considered him an acquaintance— an acquaintance I had become increasingly unfond of.
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- With friends like these . . .
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Updated: 02/07/10 6:38 AM Dear Miss Manners: When I was laid off after six years, it was not unexpected—there had been a change of ownership over a year ago, and it was only a matter of time until the entire “old management team” was replaced. I was actually thankful, considering how unhappy I had been, and the fact that I’m now eligible for unemployment insurance.
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- Miss Manners: Rudeness escalates; what now?
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Updated: 02/04/10 8:07 AM Dear Miss Manners: I foolishly did something I should not have. I’m very embarrassed to have made such an error, and of course have rectified the situation. Honestly, it was pretty minor.
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Carolyn Hax
- Expecting the worst doesn’t help
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Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM Dear Carolyn: We recently found out that my wife is pregnant. It will be our first child. This is usually joyous news, and while I’m elated, I’m also terrified. This is her third pregnancy; the last two ended in miscarriage. Both times, we were devastated, and while it’s unspoken, I think this is our last shot at it. We’re both in our late 30s and have been at it now for more than two years.
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- Don’t try makeover on grandma
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Updated: 02/07/10 6:38 AM Dear Carolyn: My wife shares my views of the extreme difficulty, on a few fronts, of her mother’s extended visits to our home. My wife is amenable to discussions with her mom, but fears we may be expecting too much from her—a 60-year-old woman whom we both agree is a very unusual combination of neutral congeniality and stone-quiet stoicism.
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- Upset at daughter’s breakup
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Updated: 02/05/10 6:44 AM Dear Carolyn: My 25-year-old daughter met a guy about a year ago. He’s the perfect partner for her. She told me that he is “the one” and that she loves him so much. My whole family welcomed him as one of our own. They did everything together, even adopted a dog. They moved in together two months ago.
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Dear Abby
- Mom keeps tabs on daughter
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Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM Dear Abby: I am 20 and live most of the year on my college campus. I’m on a full scholarship, so my parents are not paying my tuition. Most of my mail— bank statements, etc.—still goes to my parents’ house since I don’t have a permanent address. For the last two years, my mother has opened my bank statement and read the entire thing. She then calls me and goes through all of my card charges and checks, and asks me to explain where I was and what I bought.
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- Dear Abby: Turning 50 is occasion to celebrate
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Updated: 02/09/10 8:17 AM Dear Abby: “49 and Holding” (Dec. 5), who doesn’t want her daughter to give her a 50th birthday party, needs to grow up and learn to celebrate life instead of hiding from the fact that she’s growing older. She is aging because she’s alive—and what a blessing that is.
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- Dear Abby: Revealing past abuse causes pain
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Updated: 02/08/10 7:57 AM Dear Abby: My parents divorced when I was 6, and my father remarried when I was 8.My father got custody of my brother and me. A year later, my half-sister was born and that’s when my stepmother began physically and mentally abusing me.
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Liz Smith
- True love for Madonna?
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Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM “To think, I only had to wait 50 years for this!” That’s what Madonna told a friend months ago discussing her love affair with the 22-year-old Jesus Luz. (And she wasn’t just talking about the sex.) Mr. Luz is apparently attentive, tender and in tune with Madonna in a way she feels she missed out on with her two ex-husbands and, well, others.. .
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- John Mayer rambles on
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Updated: 02/03/10 7:01 AM “I’ve never gotten over it, it was one of the worst times of my life.” That’s rocker John Mayer on his breakup with Jennifer Aniston. Too bad for John. Miss Aniston has recovered nicely, to Gerard Butler.
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- Joan Collins keeps rolling
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Updated: 01/29/10 6:43 AM “Liz, do you mind if we cut this short? See, I’m baby-sitting my 5-year-old grandchild, and we just made sugar cookies!”
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Other Life Columns
- True love for Madonna?
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Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM “To think, I only had to wait 50 years for this!” That’s what Madonna told a friend months ago discussing her love affair with the 22-year-old Jesus Luz. (And she wasn’t just talking about the sex.) Mr. Luz is apparently attentive, tender and in tune with Madonna in a way she feels she missed out on with her two ex-husbands and, well, others.. .
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- Explaining saltpeter’s effects
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Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM Q. I’m a 28-year-old male, and I’ve never had much of a sex drive. I recently learned from a family member that my mother, believing it curbed sexual appetite, dosed my brother and me with a spoonful or two of saltpeter each day.
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- Expecting the worst doesn’t help
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Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM Dear Carolyn: We recently found out that my wife is pregnant. It will be our first child. This is usually joyous news, and while I’m elated, I’m also terrified. This is her third pregnancy; the last two ended in miscarriage. Both times, we were devastated, and while it’s unspoken, I think this is our last shot at it. We’re both in our late 30s and have been at it now for more than two years.
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