My wife and I did things differently this Christmas. We had some friends over for a Vigilia supper on Christmas Eve. That means a meatless meal, in this case a large mixed salad with a mustard mayonnaise dressing, Sonny D’Angelo’s wondrous seven-fish sausages, mushroom caps stuffed with crabmeat, lots of shrimp, and some brie de meaux from DiBruno’s. That’s the advantage of living a few feet away from the Italian Market.

Anyway, that was Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, having no one visiting and visiting no one ourselves, Debbie and I went Jewish: We joined out friends Kass and Eric Mencher for Chinese food at Mustard Greens. [Read more →]

Tags: art & entertainment, that's what he said, by Frank Wilson by Frank Wilson
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Welcome to 2011 ladies and gentlemen! Hard to believe that in a mere four years we will be riding hover boards, at least according to what Back to the Future 2 told us. I hope that 2011 is going to be a good year, and while I haven’t made any crazy resolutions, I want to make some positive changes in my life. This year I am hoping to get my groove back, like Stella did. However, I am hoping that doesn’t involve me being seduced by or sleeping with Taye Diggs.      [Read more →]

Tags: family & parenting, Marty digs by Marty O'Connor
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Check this out. A guy inherits his wife’s mom’s assets, after he kills her (the mom). The guy robs his wife’s mom, the mom catches him in the act, so he kills her. Her substantial fortune goes to her daughter, who might have been in on the heist and the cover up. The daughter kills herself in a potential suicide/drug overdose a short time later, and her money is willed to her jailed husband. When he is released in a dozen or so years, he stands to get the cash!???

Talk about coming out on top. This guy must be an inspiration to every guy on his cell block — and to every man outside of prison that wishes he could kill his mother-in-law. It sounds like this thing will be contested. Could we see something like this go to the Supreme Court? I mean there has to be a strong conflict between the integrity of posthumous rights (those of the daughter) and what is just plain wrong. You could make the argument that the mom should have been more careful with willing money to her delinquent daughter. What does the Coliseum think? Also, is this guy a PWSBKTW candidate?

Tags: on the law, people who should be killed this week by Robert O'Hara
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It is very easy to complain about officiating. I have done so in this column several times. As a fan, it is much easier to blame a loss on a bad call than it is to accept that your team may just not be good enough. Occasionally, a call is so egregiously bad, though, that you can’t help but yell and scream and know your complaining is justified. One of these instances occurred in the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. Considering the supposed offense, the point in the game at which it occurred, and the enormous significance to the game situation at the time, this was one of the worst calls I have ever seen. [Read more →]

Tags: bad sports, good sports by Alan Spoll
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10. During your physical, they found traces of blood in your alcohol

9. At AA meetings you begin: “Hi, my name is… uh…Wait, I know this as well as I know my own name….‘Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday, dearrrrr…’”

8. You keep claiming you’re “as jober as a sudge”

7. You make Lindsay Lohan look like Susan Boyle

6. The room is spinning faster than a hamster wheel

5. You’re wondering how you wound up with a chest tattoo of Cloris Leachman

4. You have toilet seat bruises all over the back of your head

3. Your idea of cutting back is less salt on the rim of your Margarita glass

2. You keep falling off the floor

1. You think Sarah Palin would make a great President
 

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Tags: advice, Bob Sullivan's top ten everything, drugs & alcohol by Bob Sullivan
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New Year’s Day is an underrated holiday without a solid identity. Christmas has presents, Thanksgiving has food and football, Easter has brunch and church, and 4th of July has fireworks and hot-dog eating contests. But what does New Year’s Day have? [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, television by Robert O'Hara
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Recently while trying to sign in to my yahoo mail account I was greeted by this image:

That is an advertisement for a television program called “Southland,” which is apparently about Los Angeles police officers, and the difficulties they face in their jobs (actually, its official website bills it as a raw and authentic look at a police unit in Los Angeles. From the beaches of Malibu to the streets of East Los Angeles, “Southland” is a fast-moving drama that will take viewers inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families). Just look at those statistics: 11.9 crimes per officer! That’s a lot of crimes. Los Angeles must be full of, well, criminals.

It is. But mainly because Los Angeles has so many laws to break. And they’re about to get a whole lot more. 725 of them. Or, more than 730 of them. Depends on the source. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government, television by Ricky Sprague
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