Yet Another Concert Announcement

October 10th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

The Musica Bella Orchestra of New York performs the Tchaikovsky Piano Concert No. 1 with Jeremy Hwang, piano soloist; and the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony.

October 22, 3:00 p.m. at The Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 152 W. 71st Street, Manhattan. Free admission, donations graciously accepted.

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Spammers 645, Readers 44

October 10th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Uncategorized |

Where’s your team spirit? Post someting! The spammers are beating the real humans here by a huge margin in comments. Thank goodness for spam trappers, or this would be really ugly.

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Damn Yankees

October 7th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Baseball |

I mean, damn. A lineup of nine all-stars and we get this? Of course it was preordained yesterday, when it turned out that the season was going to hinge on the starting pitching of Jaret “I Wonder If I Can Last Beyond The Fourth Inning Today” Wright.

Sheffield Strikes Out

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Halloween Concert

October 6th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

The Broadway Bach Ensemble is presenting a very special Halloween concert “for children and adults” on Sunday, October 29, at 2 p.m. The locale is our regular home, the Broadway Presbyterian Church, 115th Street and Broadway, New York.

Armen Ra

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Newark Renaissance?

October 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Entertainment, Food, Home, Music |

Newark has always been the place to go for good Spanish and Portuguese food, and NJPAC is a terrific concert hall. But there are other omens and portends in the air indicating that Newark may finally be turning a corner. Since any omens worth their salt come in threes, here are the ones I’ve seen: [...]

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Times’ Firsthand Account of Mid-Air Collision

October 5th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Uncategorizable |

If you haven’t yet read this story, you must. Late last month a Boeing 737 and a private jet sideswiped each other over the Amazon rain forest. The 737 went down with no survivors. The private jet made an emergency landing at a military airstrip, and all survived. Among them was Joe Sharkey, a business-travel columnist for The New York Times, and his story is riveting.

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The Dead Zone

October 4th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Politics |

Where fiction meets reality. Even though I’m pretty politically inclined myself I try to not go deeply into it here because it’s not my main point. But this is too over the top to leave alone.

End of a Political Career

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How About Them Yankees?

October 3rd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Baseball |

Jumping all over the slumping Tigers in game one of the division series, 8-4. Led by the insanely transcendent Derek Jeter, who went 5 for 5 and was the pivot man on the game-ending double play. The crack research team at waffleass will need to find another joke, at least for tonight. Bobby Abreu continues [...]

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