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Shirley Temple 7UP

6oz Ginger Ale 1oz Grenadine 1 Maraschino cherry The original recipe for a Shirley Temple. The very first mocktail… But did you know there is a name for an alcoholic Shirley Temple?  If you add 2 ounces of vodka it becomes… a Dirty Shirley! The lore is that a bartender at Chasen’s restaurant in Beverly […]

Sports

March was not Madness

I’ve been devoted to watching the round of 32 since the early 1980’s.  Its highlight is always the spoilers and the upsets. Not this year… Let me get right to the point:  the men’s Final Four was #1 ranked in the South Auburn, #1 ranked in the East Duke, #1 ranked in the West Florida […]

Television

Beyond the Gates

Uhhh… soap operas are dead aren’t they?  Apparently not… Daytime dramas were hugely popular in the 1970’s and ‘80. By the ‘90’s, they had begun to lose viewer’s attention to the rise in cable options and by the turn of the century, streaming started to take over.  One decade in and there were only four […]

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I’m Still Addicted to Deli…

My quest for deli will never end but I feel like I should have titled this post, THE DEATH OF THE DELI… I’ve previously written about my love for deli delights and sadly, I must report the closure of yet more opportunities for me to feed my nosh… Two of my New York delis have […]

Television

Abbott Elementary

Abbott Elementary is a show about being an educator. The lack of resources, the modest pay and its effects, and most importantly, the commitment it requires to do the job. The set up:  A mostly black inner city school in Philadelphia. The teachers are – of course – a cast of character creating their own […]


 
 
 

 

The Fiscal Cliff 2012

Another fiscal cliff; Didn’t we do this a few years ago? I guess to be fair, the actual issue was raising the debt ceiling – this go-‘round it’s reducing the budget in an effort to avoid raising the debt ceiling aga...
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Guns and Violence

Over a three month period, we had three mass, public shootings: The Colorado movie theatre shooting, the mall shooting in Minnesota and most tragically, the elementary school shooting in Connecticut. Parents, teachers, communit...
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The Fiscal Cliff Averted?

So we basically parachuted off the cliff and landed to safety. However, we’re currently tangled in the parachute and patiently waiting for the instructors to get us out. How’s that for an analogy? The biggest hurdle our ele...
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Super Bowl XLVII

I’m going to start out honestly: I am not a Baltimore Ravens fan nor am I a San Francisco 49ers fan; I’m also not a Beyonce fan, so, this Super Bowl didn’t have a lot for me. Here’s what I took away… I decided to ...
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The Luxury Wrangler

I’ve been obsessed with the Jeep Wrangler for decades. In the early 90’s, I was so concerned about the design direction Chrysler was taking the Wrangler that I wrote them a letter telling them EXACTLY what I didn’t like&#...
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Habemus Papa

We have a new Pope! Pope Francis has been elected to succeed Pope Benedict and this is being reported as unprecedented. I don’t know that we should make as much of the fact that a sitting Pope hasn’t resigned in centuries a...
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