Tivy to take on Pflugerville Hendrickson (Kerrville Daily Times)
The football gods sure are mischievous. Known to often be fickle and hard to please, they also have a twisted sense of humor. Just look at the mess that we call the Bowl Championship Series.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Book Review: Sedaris' humor hums in latest collection of essays (The Dartmouth)
David Sedaris is the last person you'd want to sit next to on a plane, and he'd tell you so himself. In one of the funniest moments of his latest book, "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"(2008), the comic essayist struggles to enjoy flying in the "Business Elite" section of the plane, while sitting next to a man on his way to a funeral.
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Between the Lines: Titles of the holiday kind (The Sacramento Bee)
Is it the start of December already? We'd best get on with rounding up some holiday- oriented books, which include mystery, humor, feel-good and romance: "Dashing Through the Snow" by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $23, 240 pages): The mother-daughter (respectively) mystery writers set their fifth yuletide suspense novel in a small New Hampshire town. Two visiting ...
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No Joke! Ledger’s role is Oscar-worthy (MSNBC)
Nomination, or win, for turn in ‘Dark Knight’ more than mere sentimentality
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A twisted Scrooge comes to Antioch PM&L (Lake County News-Sun)
Ebenezer Scrooge has been portrayed by many people and in many genres over the years but he generally comes across as a mean old man. The PM&L Theatre's director Tom Hausman said he sees the pompous and paranoid Scrooge in a different light: As an unintentional source of comedy.
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Sarcasm takes place of satire in 'SantaLand Diaries' (Cape Cod Times)
A word to the wise when visiting the Provincetown Theatre Company at the Art House: Don't ever, ever use the word "merry" to describe Christmastime.
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Contra Costa's CARE connects parents (Pleasanton Tri-Valley Herald)
Contra Costa's CARE Parent Network is a First Five-funded program that provides support for parents with newly diagnosed special-needs children.
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This sucks (Tulsa World)
It was like a scene from some bad 1960s movie. I was sitting in a stark room, facing a man dressed in a tuxedo and he was telling me I had cancer. The fact that I was woozy from the sedative did not help - or maybe it did.
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Discovery, Shame & More Namecalling (Bristol Herald Courier)
Gawker.com has given columnist Stephen Lewis of the Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Post the dubious distinction of “Most Racist Newspaper Column About Obama’s Election.”
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Making a Habit of Mr. Wrong (The New York Observer)
Love Junkie: A Memoir By Rachel Resnick Bloomsbury, 245 pages, $24 It’s not just the title that makes Rachel Resnick’s Love Junkie so incredibly hard to put down. There’s an urgency to Ms. Resnick’s writing, a please-you-must-let-me-just-get-this-off-my-chest quality that begins on page one—when the author discovers her ex-boyfriend has broken into her house and destroyed her ...
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