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Reality Bites
When I was a little kid, I used to watch a show called Romper Room and hoped each day with all my might that Miss...
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Up a Creek
About the best thing that can be said for Cold Creek Manor is that it isn't completely dull. You'd think it would be, given how...
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Half-Baked Beach
It is that end of summer time, that back to school time, that Congressional recess is over time, that time for something light to read....
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Diva Fatigue
When any half-pint pop singer can call herself a diva in song, something is woefully wrong. Becky Baeling sings -- no, shouts -- ''I'm a...
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Growing Pains
In the liner notes to Erykah Badu's ambitious if perplexing EP Underground Worldwide, she writes that several tunes were inspired by her ''Frustrated Artist Tour...
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Missing the Boat
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've come to expect too much from a Tom Stoppard play by way of cerebral titillation and a love affair...
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Powerless Flower
You've got to at least admire Ken Ludwig for doggedly attempting to revitalize the classic farce genre. His early efforts, Lend Me A Tenor and...
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All Good
Something had to come along. Something charming, funny, even addictive. We just never thought it would come from ABC. Sure enough, the network's new sitcom,...
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Toast with the Most
Villaware's Uno Classic Since their introduction into the home in 1926, toasters have become a culinary icon spawning dozens of incarnations -- from the classic...
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Funny Girl
''Next to ‘Why do you always serve chicken?' and ‘Can I have a table as far away from my ex-lover as possible?‘ the most-asked Gala...
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Night Riders
Photography by Michael Wichita Zipping around in bumper cars may be child's play compared to today's high-intensity roller coasters and gravitational thrill rides. But the...
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Everyday Terror
On the second anniversary of the September 11th attacks I thought about the kinds of ''domestic'' terrorism that America has chosen to ignore for so...
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Tactile Impressions
''He might be the best-known artist no one knows, '' David C. Levy, Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, says of J. Seward Johnson,...
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Eyes on the Prize
That giant sucking sound you'll be hearing this Sunday night will be the TV industry planting a big fat French kiss on HBO. And that...
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Mucho Mexico
''Are you a Mexi-CAN or a Mexi-CAN'T? '' a blue-spectacled, quirky fellow named Sands (Johnny Depp) asks a hired henchman near the start of Once...
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Three's Company
From the moment that a bouncing young man knocks on the front door of a rural Canadian farmhouse and steps into the lives of two...
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Soundwaves
CREATING A NEW BUZZ… DC nightlife watchers were abuzz last week over the return of Buzz to Nation after a yearlong exile in Baltimore. Buzzlife...
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Color Me Now
Raven's Rage, Wine Tasting, maybe Hot Amber? In the world of wall paint ''Red'' simply doesn't describe a whole lot. With paint for every shade...
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Small Plates, Big Tastes
Photography by Todd Franson Everywhere you look these days restaurants are increasingly emphasizing small portions, either as a reflection of cultural preferences or as a...
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Northern Exposure
The trouble, of course, with the recent burst of gay and lesbian characters on American TV is that they become the immediate targets of self-appointed...
