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Pie lollipops, pumpkin-shaped pumpkin pies and rum pumpkin custard

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

For Thanksgiving, the elegant Luxirare molds Silicone Plastique Food Grade Silicone Mold Putty around a real, tiny pumpkin, cuts it in half to make two molds, then presses pie-crust dough around their inside walls, pipes in pie filling, removes the......

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Bob Dylan sings Mitch Miller

2:21 AM Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Bob Dylan, Must Be Santa by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks (1960), first made popular by Mitch Miller. Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic......

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Black Friday 2009 roundup for hardy shoppers

12:24 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips. Doug Stanglin of USA Today blogs the roundup (so I don't have to). For instance, Dealnews is awash with Black Friday information, including a Buying Strategy Guide. If nothing could get you......

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2009 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Here's the first pass of 2009 through the nation's newspaper's Thanksgiving food sections online. I'll add more over the next few days. Akron Beacon Journal: Holiday sides from scratch, Maple Candied Yams, Green Beans With Mushrooms, Almonds And Caramelized Onions,......

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Wolfgang's Vault: Thousands of free concerts, Newport '59 to now

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Wolfgang's Vault lets you listen free to more than 3,000 live concerts and interviews from hundreds of groups and musicians -- Bill Graham's West Coast concerts as well as, as of yesterday, 27 acts from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival,......

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Okami for Wii is a bargain, a classic and beautiful game

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

I am watching the 12-year-old play Okami, a game I gave him last Christmas, on the Nintendo Wii. It is stunningly beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful video game ever, and he is still enthralled by it, playing it again.......

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Links: 'Belle de Jour' uncloaks; Remember Tony Lioce?; Nirvana '91; Lobbyists astroturfing; Long-lived apple

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Long Sunday before the Pats game tonight. I'm Belle de Jour: "Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The (London) Sunday Times: She's Dr Brooke Magnanti." Just another London student paying the......

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Paintings on books, not in them

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Paintings by Mike Stilkey; photos by by Dave Kinsey Mike Stilkey's Library : The Book Bench : The New Yorker: Books are sacred objects which we are all free to worship in different ways. The L.A.-based artist Mike Stilkey,......

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Significant water on the moon: Some see dollar signs

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Go to Google today and the search may already be filled out, under a special logo honoring NASA's discovery of significant water on the moon. AP: Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The......

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Hats parade at the races in Paris

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Tara Bradford's Paris Parfait usually shows lush, large photos from elegant curio shops and fashionable shop windows in Paris, or perhaps lush countryside with lovely stone walls and a castle. A field trip trip suggests there are a lot of......

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