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A Few Less Usual…Gifts for Them

Thursday, December 1st, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

Things to evoke a smile, enhance aesthetics, help entertain with style. Left: Delicate, graceful champagne flutes. Set of 6, each one different-bands, stripes, bubbles… (also

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White Collar Makes White Collar Crime Sexy

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Let’s get one thing straight: Neal Caffrey is no Sad Sack Bernie Madoff. As played by Matt Bomer, Caffrey is hot—smart, charming, nice to elderly

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Here Comes the Bride—In Ten Memorable Films

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
by Justine Garcia on Living Around

Weddings are filled with drama and comedy. So it’s no surprise that weddings crop up often as a plot device in films. Will that couple

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New York Childhood in the Olden Days: Nostalgic Look Back

Thursday, April 8th, 2010
by Aimee Garn on Living Around

“The Olden Days,” a phrase that my daughters used when they were young, amalgamates wildly different times in the past. In New York City’s Olden

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice—A Favorite for Film Makers

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

When Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland opens on Friday, March 5, the film will join many others that have sought to bring Lewis Carroll’s tales

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Caroline May Hartwig Lynch—1939 Rockette Can Still Kick

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
by Merry Sheils on Playing Around

Her mother always said, “She came out kicking,” and at 86, Caroline May Hartwig Lynch can still muster the dance routine of Radio City’s Rockettes

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Movies to Warm the Heart on Christmas Day

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around

You work hard all year. Why not take off one day and just watch some great old flicks? Get beyond the old standbys. If you

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