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Tidying Up For Oscar [The Clip Show]
· Yo! Oscar! Over here! It’s the 80th Annual Academy Awards Sunday evening, and good things invariably come in extremely round numbers. As is our custom, we’ll be liveblogging the entire, bloated affair. Live! (Did we mention that already?) It promises to be four-plus hours of wildly inebriated fun. [...]

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Coffee Rush
Wake up and smell the coffee! The Smokestack Coffee Company is polluting the town with bad coffee! Open your own Coffee Shop and take back the town! Swap coffee beans, milk, sugar and other tasty ingredients to prepare a menu full of tasty blends. Hold on tight for a fully wired rollercoaster ride [...]

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The Dead Dads Club Redux
My Dad once said that he thought February was the most miserable month ever and I’m inclined to agree – especially living in New England and just wanting winter to go away while it tenaciously hangs on with one bout of lousy weather after another. By this time of the year [...]

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Green Gear: Band Aid
The closest most women come to accessorizing with rubber bands is a wrist full of hair ties. Thankfully, international landscape architect and jewelry designer Christiane Diehl has provided more fabulous alternatives. Fashioned from recycled rubber bands and inner tubes, her line of necklaces, bracelets, and rings are definitely “wearable objects” that provide [...]

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Effort to save old theater is long, uphill battle
FULLERTON, CA — Years into to the fight to save the Fox Fullerton, the theatre is still in need. More than three years after Fullerton residents raised $3.5 million to save the Fox Theatre from the wrecking ball, the 82-year-old structure remains in peril. Despite the efforts [...]

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State regulators fine businesses, individuals (Honolulu Advertiser)
The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the boards and commissions that oversee professions and vocations recently took disciplinary actions against individuals and businesses. Read More…
AUTO INSURANCE!: Where’s the Fire?
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Georgia Assist-2-Sell Owner Earns Real Estate Brokers License
Michele Feeley, owner of the Newnan and Peachtree, Ga., Assist-2-Sell franchise offices, recently passed the state brokers exam to become a licensed real estate broker for the state of Georgia. She is now serving as the managing broker for both Assist-2-Sell offices. Feeley passed the exam after completing [...]

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Video: Watch the spy satellite go boom
The USS Lake Erie scored a direct hit at 10:26pm ET last night on the failing spy satellite, leaving little else behind but pieces “nothing larger than a football,” Pentagon officials said today.Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an expert on military [...]

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The art of forgiveness
Tomorrow marks the start of two weeks of events centered around the “F” word. No, not that one. Forgiveness. Realms of Forgiveness: An Opportunity for Dialogue is a series of talks, panels, films and art exhibits designed to get members of the community thinking about forgiveness and applying it to their own [...]

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Feral Cats Displaced in Favor of Waterfront Fun
Bay Ridge: Gotta love this “crazy super,” whose psychotic signs routinely threaten to kill tenants who don’t take out their trash properly. [Right in Bay Ridge] Bedford-Stuyvesant: Elation erupts upon news of an imminent Duane Reade: “No longer will we have to drink Tropical Fantasy ginger ale. We’ll [...]

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