Meet Our Staff: Mark Nemirow, assistant news editor


Job description: Coordinate news coverage for the Sunday edition. Supervise copy editors who work during the daytime shift and assist with editing and page proofing for news, Opinion, Life and Money sections. Field calls and e-mails at the news desk. Ass


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An Internet Fable About More Than This

The internet, 24 hours television and things of this sort are a goldmine for the armchair philosopher, i.e. virtual bullshitter. In the past the philosopher had folk with whom he could share the deepest of longings, or if not that, he could at least find


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How Feminism Is Literally Screwing Women

And yet despite the fact that women are holding the sexual purse strings, they aren’t asking for much in return these days—the market “price” of sex is currently very low. There are several likely reasons for this. One is the spread of pornography: Since


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Should Clarke MacArthur stay or go?

TORONTO - Clarke MacArthur was born in small town Alberta in 1985, two years after the final episode of M*A*S*H, so you can excuse him if he doesn’t know the story of the late McLean Stevenson.
Perhaps he should be enlightened to the relevance of the his


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Ex-cocktail server sues Light Group


A former cocktail server is accusing nightclub giant The Light Group in a federal complaint of illegal and unsavory business practices. The plaintiff alleges she was "groomed on cocaine" and trained to party with VIP customers and "engage in inappropriat


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Sightings

Al Pacino bowling with his castmates from his hit Broadway show, "The Merchant of Venice," at Bowlmor Lanes Times Square on Sunday -- and then taking a Virgin flight to LA, where he happily took a picture with a "Flat Stanley" cutout doll for Dior Beauty


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The IBWM Eredivisie Review: Round 24


Hawkeye.  That what’s needed.  Not Alan Alda, but the magic eye.  Confused?  Here’s John Dobson.
PSV took advantage of a blunder of officialdom in Enschede to open up a two-point gap at the top of the table. Kevin Blom was the referee, but he’s not going


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No Concessions: “Unknown” Quantities

Liam Neeson is the star of Unknown–an unusual choice, as Neeson may be the most known actor around. There’s little that’s ambiguous about Neeson, who was large and in charge as far back as Suspect (1987), where he made the part of a homeless deaf mute at


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What's the craziest storyline ever pitched to CHEERS?

Ed starts us off with a doozy.
One of the co-creators was lobbying the first year to have Norm and Cliff buy a circus. I kid you not. For the next ten years, whenever someone pitched something too far-fetched we would always say, “I know the perfect B-S


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Greatest Football Movie Ever Tournament: Invincible vs Paper Lion

Well, we're on to the last of our first round match-ups in the Professional bracket, and our last match-up gave us what can definitely be termed an upset, as the young upstarts. . .The Replacements. . .knocked off the old standby, North Dallas Forty. I t


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TRD tours a $30M one-bed pad on UWS

Wanting to see what's available on the high-end real estate market, The Real Deal took a look at a 5,861-square-foot penthouse unit at the Millenium Tower near Lincoln Center (Park Millennium is the name for the condominium units up to the 44th floor and


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Fans and critics vote on the Best Football Movies of All Time...


Permian Panthers Brian Chavez (Jay Hernandez), left, Mike Winchell (Lucas Black) and Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) take the field for the pre-game coin toss in 2004's "Friday Night Lights" ... Peter Berg directed from H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's 1988 book about


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The Urbanist: Building Congress President Richard T. Anderson on Construction Troubles


Only days before the streets of Cairo spilled over with anti-government protestors, Richard Anderson and his wife were nearing the tail end of a vacation in the Egyptian metropolis. With unrest already unspooling across Tunisia 800 miles to the west, the


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Day of the lout

If you've seen a beer commercial in the last two years — and how can you avoid them? — you know the type. He's a twenty- or thirtysomething, sort of a slacker, with a beautiful and adoring girlfriend who just can't seem to pry his attention away from his


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Perspective: The attack of the louts


If you've seen a beer commercial in the last two years — and how can you avoid them? — you know the type. He's a twenty- or thirtysomething, sort of a slacker, with a beautiful and adoring girlfriend who just can't seem to pry his attention away from his


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Which TV Doc Do You Want in the Delivery Room?


I am sure you love your OBGYN. I am sure she is lovely, warm, reassuring, and, of course, a fantastic doc.
But, since you're sitting there, getting bigger by the second (not really, but it feels that way, doesn't it?), let's have a little fun. If you cou


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'Mr. Sunshine' - 'Pilot': The elephant in the room


The acclaimed sports documentary series ends on a solid but not inspiring note
Jonathan Hock tells the heck out of the story of the college fooball shooting star
John Singleton lends a very sympathetic ear to the disgraced track star
Cruz Angeles looks a


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Taking Back From the Grating-est Generation

By David Weidner This year the leading edge of the baby boom will hit the traditional retirement age of 65. As a member of one of the unlucky generations that followed, let me be one of the first to say don't let the door hit your tie-dyed backside.Sure,


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Michael Moore to Make a Fictional Film Next?

Briefly: In one of the many pieces that ran last night about the lawsuit Michael Moore is bringing against the Weinsteins over the profits for Fahrenheit 9/11, there was a minor nugget of info. Deadline says that the Weinsteins were just discussing the f


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Review: ABC's 'Mr. Sunshine' a so-so Matthew Perry showcase


Matthew Perry and friends in "Mr. Sunshine."
When ABC announced that Matthew Perry's new sitcom "Mr. Sunshine" would temporarily replace Courteney Cox's "Cougar Town" (the new show debuts tomorrow at 9:30 p.m.), the obvious jokes about Chandler's show bu


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Alan Alda in the background edition [Commenter Of The Day]

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'SNL': Classic Carvey?

Dana Carvey brought along some old friends, including Mike Myers and Jon Lovitz, and a new one, Justin Bieber, in returning as the host of Saturday Night Live . In the process, he proved that some old routines hold up well, and others are wobbly from fam


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'Saturday Night Live' - Dana Carvey / Linkin Park Recap

['Saturday Night Live' - 'Season 36, Episode 14']
When former cast members return to host 'Saturday Night Live,' they bring with them heightened levels of enthusiasm, anticipation and possibilities. When those cast members who I grew up adoring, imitatin


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SNL Recap: Dana Carvey / Linkin Park

Although Dana Carvey may not have had as much post-SNL success as his fellow cast-members, like Mike Myers, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, he remains upbeat and zany as ever.  After having starred in the brief ABC sketch comedy series, The Dana Carvey Show


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Super Bowl XLV Parlay

Take the over on both the 105 and 106.5.
As in a Super Bowl record crowd of 105,000 people in and around Cowboys Stadium and 106.5 million average viewers, which would ease past last year’s title tilt as the largest audience in U.S. TV history.
The NFL i


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Recap: 'Saturday Night Live' - Dana Carvey (and Justin Bieber) with Linkin Park


For those that continually say that “Saturday Night Live” isn’t as good now as it used to be, well, tonight should prove to be an interesting test case for that theory: “SNL” alum Dana Carvey is back to host tonight. He’s not promoting anything, unless t


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'Saturday Night Live': Dana Carvey, 'Wayne's World' and Bieber in a hit-and-miss episode


"Saturday Night Live" rocked it like it was 1991 with host Dana Carvey. Old characters, familiar faces and a classic, let's-dump-the-iffy-stuff-after-"Weekend Update" structure gave Saturday's (Feb. 5) show a vintage feel.
Not every sketch worked, but t


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Megan Fox's doppelganger

Feb 03, 2011 · MEGAN Fox thinks she looks like Steve Buscemi! The sexy actress recently posted an album of baby photos on her Facebook page, and revealed her unlikely
Spicy Pictures of Girls on Break.com. ... Description: In This Picture: Photo of a gril


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'Parks and Recreation' - 'Time Capsule': Twilight time

Leslie (Amy Poehler) dedicates the Pawnee time capsule on "Parks and Recreation."
A review of tonight's "Parks and Recreation" coming up just as soon as a fish ends up dead in a cowboy boot...

"Parks and Rec" does many things consistently well, but the


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Fabulous football flicks: Gridiron movies that will help get you warmed up for Sunday's Super Bowl


Football long ago turned into the great American pastime in terms of sports movies.
Whether they focus on the team, the town, the tomfoolery or the occasional agent or waterboy, they typically draw audiences in droves.
It is not too late to raid the publ


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Cenk Boasts About Conservatives: 'I'm Going To Rip 'Em Apart'

he was talking about the doughnuts that contribute to that jawline.  Chunk and Schultzie must both be "rippin' 'em apart" in the LSDNBC dressing rooms.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Which reminds me, his show probably has a


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TV: A Very Special Episode: Taxi, “Vienna Waits”

Sometimes a single TV episode can exemplify the spirit of its time and the properties that make television a unique medium. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club’s survey of TV at its most distinctive.
Consider the establishing shot: so brief, so


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Same Time Next Year

Kim Shippey and George Araujo of Port Dover are giving the stage at the Simcoe Little Theatre a workout this winter.
The pair recently co-directed SLT's production of Little Shop of Horrors. They had a blast doing it, so they jumped at the chance to star


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NBC sets 'Friday Night Lights' premiere date


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The acclaimed sports documentary series ends on a solid but not inspiring note
Jonathan Hock tells the heck out of the story of the college fooball shooting star
John Singleton lends a very sympathetic ear


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"There aren't any great golf clubs in Chicago!"

That's The Donald. Who apparently hasn't been to, oh, I don't know about 20 clubs in the greater Chicago area!
Guilty! I decided that 30 minutes of torture was in order so I did indeed watch Golf Channel's Fabulously Wide (and boy The Donald is wide thes


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'Human Target' - 'Kill Bob': From Russia, with love?


The recent "Human Target" double features aired while I was at press tour, and at this point my interest in the show has waned enough that I never bothered to chase any of those down. Last night, FOX aired a new episode in order to use up the remaining o


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