Alan Pergament
- Sports on the Air: Sabres, HD won’t mix on the road
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By Alan Pergament
Updated: 09/06/08 10:07 AM This is what I’m thinking: • It is my unfortunate duty to advise you that the Buffalo Sabres’ road telecasts on MSG won’t be carried in high definition in the upcoming season. The home games will be in HD again, reminding HD viewers how much better they look from HSBC Arena.
- Pergament: In covering Palin, media is just doing its job
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Alan Pergament
Updated: 09/05/08 9:47 AM To paraphrase the line made famous by the late Ronald Reagan, there they go again. The Republicans are attacking the media and using the “L” word— for Left Wing — to criticize the treatment of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
- Collinsworth a triple threat in covering NFL
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Updated: 09/04/08 6:39 AM Cris Collinsworth, more recently known as Debbie Phelps’ new best friend at the Beijing Olympics, has something in common with her superstar son, Michael.
Carolyn Hax
- Wedding not time to settle score
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Carolyn Hax
Updated: 09/07/08 7:27 AM Dear Carolyn: My daughter is getting married next summer. Her father had an affair and left me when she was
- Worried about mom’s mental state
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Carolyn Hax
Updated: 09/03/08 6:28 AM D ear Carolyn: My mother has always been difficult, but in recent months her actions have gone so far beyond the pale that I think they indicate serious mental illness. I can see the pain she is causing my father, and she has contributed significantly to the breakup of my brother’s marriage.
- Make sure you want this friend
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Carolyn Hax
Updated: 08/31/08 6:29 AM Dear Carolyn: How do you feel about people who flip out on a friend who admits s/he had an affair? I’m in the camp of those who think a friend shouldn’t condone the act, but still be supportive. (Ya know, friendlike.) My flipping-out friend thinks cheating is wrong and verbally and emotionally flips out on cheating friends. Thoughts?
Dear Abby
- Kindness of strangers goes long way
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Abigail Van Buren
Updated: 09/07/08 7:27 AM Dear Abby: Please let the world know that kind people still exist. I was on my way to two job interviews. Not surprisingly, I was nervous, so before I got off my train, I took my phone out to check the directions to the first one. A short walk later, I reached the subway, but when I went into my purse for my wallet to buy a MetroCard, lo and behold, my wallet and new glasses were missing.
- Woman can’t find right match
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Abigail Van Buren Dear Abby
Updated: 09/06/08 6:18 AM Dear Abby: I am a woman living with a man, but “in love” with another man whom I formerly dated but broke up with because he’s an alcoholic. “Spike” is a true biker — exciting, funny and fun. Our lifestyles didn’t mesh, so I made the decision we shouldn’t be together. I miss him very much, and it keeps me from being totally committed in my head to the man I live with.
- Washing hands is important
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Dear Abby
Updated: 09/05/08 6:32 AM Dear Abby: My sister-in-law, “Carol,” doesn’t wash her hands after changing diapers. I find it repulsive, and I can’t help but cringe. I have also noticed that her kids don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom — or any other time, for that matter — unless instructed to do so and closely watched. Even then, they don’t use soap.
Janice Okun
- Restaurant owners can make life easier on themselves
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Janice Okun
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM It’s no secret that these are bad times in restaurant land. Rising prices for food and supplies, money worries for customers — even the most savvy restaurateur is caught in a painful bind. It’s a difficult business anyway and now, especially, uncertainty lies ahead.
- Samurai offers good Asian food in a nice setting
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BY JANICE OKUNNews Restaurant Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 10:44 AM I don’t know if you’ve noticed it yet, but Western New York has been undergoing a sort of Asian invasion of late. There’s been lots of Far Eastern activity. Asian/fusion/sushi bars — whatever you want to call these places — are opening or enlarging all over the place. If this keeps up, there may soon be as many Asian places as Italian dining spots around here.
- Gourmandise
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Janice Okun
Updated: 08/10/08 7:08 AM Kraft has introduced a new product just in time for summer sandwiches and salads. Kraft Mayo with Olive Oil Reduced Fat Mayonnaise, also made with canola and soybean oils, is being touted not only for its Mediterranean taste, but also for the fact that it has half the fat and calories of regular mayonnaise. There are 45 calories and 4 grams of fat in every one tablespoon serving.
Jeff Miers
- CLUB CHATTER
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BY JEFF MIERS News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 09/06/08 11:20 AM Country comfort
Jeff Simon
- The further decline of the TV movie critic
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Jeff Simon
Updated: 08/17/08 6:46 AM It’s my favorite Web site ad: “TIRED OF AMATEUR REVIEWS?” it asks on the masthead of the appropriate movie info Web site — and then goes on to tell you about the newly available 2009 edition of “Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide” (formerly “Movies on TV”), now 17,000 movies strong and 40 years in.
- Jeff Simon: ‘Buffalo Gal’ plays best in NYC
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Jeff Simon
Updated: 08/12/08 10:45 AM When Betty Buckley left town after her stint in A. R. Gurney’s play “Buffalo Gal,” the cast and crew of the Studio Arena Theatre production gave her a toilet seat with my picture on it. So I was cheerfully told by people there later.
- Loss of star power dims local TV news
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Jeff Simon
Updated: 08/10/08 7:09 AM Go ahead. Call me crazy. You won’t be alone. Even though the retirement of Carol Jasen in 2002 was followed by an initial downturn in the ratings of all Buffalo TV news, my notion still wasn’t an idea that sat well with the indentured followers and analysts of TV metrics.
Liz Smith
- Eszterhas finds religion
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM Recently I dropped the bomb that screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, the most outrageous talent in movies, has gotten religion and written it all up in a book called “Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith.” It comes out in October from St. Martin’s.
- A little Emmy history
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM “Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other,” said the late Ann Landers.
- Berkley sizzles on ‘L Word’
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Judith Martin
- Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/22/08 7:14 AM “Aphrodite! There appears to be no end to the number of times she can demonstrate her ability to destroy a powerful man in an instant!”
Miss Manners
- Let me introduce you
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Judith MartinJudith MartinMiss Manners
Updated: 09/07/08 7:27 AM Dear Miss Manners: What, precisely, is a “letter of introduction”?
- Guests should try to reciprocate
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Judith Martin Judith Martin
Updated: 09/04/08 6:39 AM Dear Miss Manners: My beau and I just met a wonderful married couple we bonded with who enjoy inviting us to their home for dinners they prepare for us. As we get along famously, they invite us often (two or three times a week) and lavishly serve us filets with shrimp or fish. Dessert is as five-star as the wine and the meals are surely expensive!
- Too much touch spoils gathering
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Judith Martin Judith Martin
Updated: 09/02/08 6:44 AM Dear Miss Manners: Yesterday night, my mother wanted to have a “little talk,” so I listened to what she had to say. It was that this past weekend, at a family picnic with my boyfriend present, apparently I was a little more hands-on than what she prefers. I will respect her wishes and not be to touchy with him.
Susan Martin
- Susan Martin: A familiar feeling every September
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Susan Martin
Updated: 09/05/08 11:47 AM My most memorable first day of school was when I was 11. We had just moved into a new house, in a new town.
- Susan Martin: Taking steps to prevent falls at home
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Susan Martin
Updated: 08/22/08 7:33 AM On Tuesday, I heard a story that unfortunately has become a too-familiar one: Someone we know fell and broke her hip.
- Susan Martin: Selling your house? Get extreme
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Susan Martin
Updated: 08/15/08 8:18 AM If I wanted to sell my house – which I don’t –would I agree to scheduling not just an open house but an Extreme Open House – complete with live music, catered food and cool prizes?
Other Life Columns
- A taste of Wolf Blass
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Updated: 09/07/08 7:27 AM Do you remember that as a kid, you were curious about anything your parents said was bad for you? That was the case for Chris Hatcher, who was told by his father — a Methodist minister — that wine was evil. Then his older sister won a bottle in a raffle and, too young to drink it, put her winnings on the shelf for Chris to examine with typical child curiosity.
- Wedding not time to settle score
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Carolyn Hax
Updated: 09/07/08 7:27 AM Dear Carolyn: My daughter is getting married next summer. Her father had an affair and left me when she was
- Duplicate Bridge: Sept. 7
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Updated: 09/05/08 1:59 AM The Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport, 247 Cayuga Road, Cheektowaga, will hold an extra session to host the annual ACBL Instant Matchpoint Pairs game at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Bridge Center of Buffalo, 3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst, also will host the game, beginning at 7:15 p.m. after a free mini-lesson at 6:45. The Bridge Center will not hold a mentoring game Thursday.
