Last week, we looked ahead to Thanksgiving with the family by showing you that yours is not the only crazy family out there. Sooner or later, we had to become a little more earnest, so today, as we're on the eve of turkey dinners, we asked for suggestions that give us, well, a little more love for the holidays. With a few exceptions, most of the books with a happy family theme are aimed at children....
I’m taking a few days off to go stuff myself with turkey and coconut cake at grandma’s house and spend some quality time with my dysfunctional family. Wishing you and yours a peaceful Thanksgiving. Meet me back here bright and early Monday morning for more celebrity nonsense and gossip. Backwash is OUT!
Prologue This is not news: your primary care provider (PCP) has been listed on the endangered species list. Harvard Medical School has decided to no longer train primary care physicians – they are too quaint and old fashioned. Estimates show that for every seasoned PCP leaving primary care (which they are doing in larger numbers), it will take 1.7 PCPs to replace them due to expectations of shortened...
Anyone looking for trends in our selection of the best books of the ’00s might have a hard time finding them amid the wizards, 19th-century serial killers, dysfunctional families and such. Narrowing down our decisions was pretty tough, and the process required a number of back-and-forths about what was significant as well as beautifully executed, which book from a given author represented his...
Having recently read Anna Karenina I can rewrite the opening line without shame: "Happy family businesses are all alike; every unhappy family business is unhappy in its own way." Indeed, there is no shortage of stories about family businesses that go awry. And now Park Slope has its own dysfunctional family business, Cafe Regular (11th Street branch) which has become city-wide news thanks...
Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath takes his regularly irreverent look at some of the past week’s headlines. 1. Big Rise In Kids Raised On Benefits - The number of children living with beneficiaries rose just under 7% in the year to April 2009. The total number of unemployed is up nearly 9% over 3 months. These are serious numbers. The DomPost interviews two Wellingtonians, paedatric surgeon...
Plot: Mad Sad and Bad- HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary...
Over the years the dysfunctional family lives and upbringings of Sirius XM hosts Gregg "Opie" Hughes, Anthony Cumia and Jim Norton have been the subject of many memorable Opie & Anthony Show moments. Now, for the first time, these classic tales have been collected into a hilarious Thanksgiving special entitled "Sharing the Laughter and Love: An Opie & Anthony Family Special."...
I’m 36, but I feel much older, I feel like I’ve been around the block more than enough times. I’ve been working since I left home at 16, done a lot of different jobs, lived in a lot of different places, had a lot of different relationships, spent a lot of time being single. Been high, been low, made a few friends, pissed a few people off, learned stuff, forgot stuff, seen a lot of...
Photo by rstavely Good morning, Washington. Still smarting from the outcome of that fairly stupid 'Skins v. 'Boys game ? Well cheer up, it's one of the shortest work weeks of the year, and in just a couple days you'll be in the warm embrace of your own dysfunctional family. Hopefully the turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie yet to be consumed can help dull the pain just a little. Developer Lacked Proper...
For three decades, Christopher Durang has been one of American theater's preeminent social satirists. From his breakthrough play, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (a scathing yet hilarious contemplation of Catholicism), to his latest, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Durang has skewered dysfunctional families, psychotherapy, homophobia and more.
Reclining her hospital bed yesterday, the 66-year-old Harlem woman who took a stray bullet in the leg in Harlem Wednesday sent a strong message to Mayor Bloomberg about what Harlem needs: "Bloomberg's getting in there and making the place look fancy and all of that, but it's not safe and people won't want to come here," Virginia Valree told the Daily News . "If he could purify the city...
I pulled the proof out of the box and thought wearily, ‘Not another one.’ With its hot pink and shiny silver cover, clearly this was going to be another teen girl, boy trouble, best mates fall out, average book I’ve seen a hundred times before, full of nothing more than angst, lip gloss and lurve. Who was it that said you should never judge a book by its cover? I couldn’t put...
Children's R.J. Anderson/FAERY REBELS: SPELL HUNTER (Fantasy, HarperCollins Children's, age 10+, April): A fierce young faery fights to save her dying people while concealing her forbidden love for a human. Rebecca Barnhouse / THE BOOK OF THE MAIDSERVANT (middle grade historical fiction, Random House, October): A medieval pilgrimage to Rome. Difficulty! Danger! Abandonment! Love? "A compelling...
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