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'So You Think Can Dance': Top 12 perform
Reality CheckThis week on So You Think You Can Dance, the couples take on two dances per week for the first time. Well, two competition dances, since they always have to learn a group dance and they prep a solo, too.The......Tags: Bars and Clubs, Mandy Moore, Behavioral Conditions, Dining and Drinking, Nigel Lythgoe
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Why I blame Rob Kasper for my new addiction
Dining@LargeMy colleague Rob Kasper is like the drug pusher on the school playground.One afternoon we were standing around talking about Important Work Matters, and he offered me some of his Smartfood White Cheddar-Flavored Popcorn, which he had gotten from the......Tags: Popcorn, Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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"Living mojito bar" coming to Corks
Dining@LargeIt's a nice enough day to talk about outdoor dining, even if the "living mojito bar" at Corks hasn't quite come to life.Corks is building a deck out back that will seat about 35. When it opens in the middle...... -
Britain's hateful politics
Cal ThomasBELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain's far left that takes bad taste to new extremes. During its Top 40 music countdown Sunday night, BBC Radio 1 was "forced" to play...Tags: Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom, Government, Cal Thomas, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Addiction creates friendship dilemma
Dear Amy: I recently reconnected with an old boyfriend. It seemed so perfect at first. Well, over time I've come to realize he's an alcoholic and addicted to pain pills. He's on edge when he's not medicating himself, which causes me to be on edge, and I...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions
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Philadelphia group is "braking" the cycle of addiction
Gearing Up is more than a motto before strapping on your helmet and going out on a bicycle ride. For women in the Philadelphia region, Gearing Up is a way to climb out of the hole and over the hill of alcohol dependence, drug addiction and physical...Tags: Baseball, Track Cycling, PBS (tv network), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Abusive Behavior
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Safe Haven gives veterans a hand getting back to 'normal' life
Neli Vazquez-Rowland believes that the best way to honor fallen soldiers is by supporting veterans who are struggling to make the transition back to civilian life. Vazquez-Rowland is the co-founder and president of A Safe Haven Foundation, a nonprofit...
Tags: Social Issues, Veterans Affairs, Homelessness, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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For Moore, this season certainly a success
Every Bears fan remembers when Lovie Smith contacted colorful nickel back D.J. Moore back in September to reprimand Moore for criticizing teammate Jay Cutler after his sideline antics against the Packers. Yet a call later that month changed Moore's life...
Tags: Chicago Bears, Jay Cutler, Heroin, Tim Jennings, Boston Celtics
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Dogwood made good food and a difference in lives
Has it been mentioned anywhere that the couple who ran the Dogwood Restaurant in Hampden tried to change the lives of desperate people while serving good food and drink? There aren't a lot of businesses willing to hire ex-offenders and recovering drug...
Tags: Prisons, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Heroin, Dining and Drinking, Social Issues
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Do you love being in love?
Are you in love with being in love? When that infatuation fades are you the type of person who moves on to someone else? According to experts, you could be addicted to love — and we're not talking about a song by Robert Palmer, but a real problem...
Tags: Robert Palmer, Behavioral Conditions
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Storytelling on L.A.'s skid row
Once a week for the last several years, I've driven to skid row to visit a friend. I get depressed about the area at times because it's such a depository of the unfortunate and the forgotten. But then I'll catch a warm greeting, or see a sign of hope in...
Tags: The Soloist (movie), Documentary (genre), Rentals, Behavioral Conditions, Social Issues
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'Keep the Lights On': A stormy New York tale of love and addiction ★★★
There's a nerve-racking sequence set in the late 1990s in co-writer and director Ira Sachs' "Keep the Lights On" when Erik, the Danish expatriate filmmaker living in Manhattan played by Thure Lindhardt, is on the telephone, trying to extract information...
Tags: HIV, Keep the Lights On (movie), Music Box Theatre, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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