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Woman Around Town: Gretchen Rubin—Happiness Project

Sunday, April 11th, 2010
by Merry Sheils on Woman Around Town

If Gretchen Rubin can’t be happy, what chance do we mere mortals have? To coin a common cliché, she had it all. Or so it

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LOST in an Ocean of Clues

Sunday, February 7th, 2010
by K.C. Woods on Playing Around

It is taking every ounce of willpower I have not to visit Google and type in one very popular, seasonal four-letter word. (No, not L-O-V-E

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Sue Grafton: Solving Mysteries One Letter at a Time

Sunday, December 27th, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around

When Sue Grafton began her alphabet series in 1982 with A Is for Alibi, female detectives in the mystery genre were rare. (Marcia Muller’s detective,

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New York City: We’re On The Move

Monday, October 5th, 2009
by Reid Goldstein on Living Around

We’re always on the move. That’s what New Yorker’s do. We move around New York City, but we never move out of it. We move

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Their Time is Occupied, But Not Their Brains

Friday, June 26th, 2009
by Woman Around Town on Living Around

By Kirsten Olson It’s the end of the school year, exam time for school age children. Everywhere around the country children are studying (and Facebooking

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Need a Laugh? Who doesn’t? Visit a Comedy Club

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Never before have we needed a good laugh. I don’t mean just a chuckle or giggle. I mean a full-throated, belly shaking, wet-my-pants, can’t breathe—stop,

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Woman Around Town: Jill Martin—Sports with Style

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Woman Around Town

Jill Martin is an Emmy-nominated reporter who wears many hats. From fashion to sports, she has taken New York by storm. Martin always dreamed about

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State of Pay: Newspaper Pushes for Profits Not Facts

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Investigative journalism just isn’t what it used to be. Remember All the President’s Men? Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post journalists, brought

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