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• LOKI, SEASON TWO

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  Loki, Season 2 (6 episodes) picks up where Loki, Season 1 left off. The Timeline is in crisis and disaster approaches. Loki leaves...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #761: ROOM TO SWING By Ed Lacy

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  Ed Lacy’s Room to Swing won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1958. Room to Swing made history by featuring the first...

• TELEVISION’S GREATEST HITS 70s & 80s: 65 MORE OF YOUR FAVORITE TV THEMES

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  I consider the 1970s and 1980s the Golden Age of great TV theme music. The theme song to “Sesame Street” welcomed Patrick...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #144: GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY By M. R. James

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  I’ve read a number of ghost stories by M.R. James over the years in various anthologies. This collection brings many of his unique...

• THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR [Netflix]

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  Director Wes Anderson loves Roald Dahl’s fiction. Anderson produced a feature film with Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2009. Now, Wes...

• RUSSIA AGAINST MODERNITY By Alexander Etkind

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  “Symbolically, Putin’s most notorious crony, Evgeny Prigozhin, began his career as Putin’s personal chef....

• MIAMI DOLPHINS VS. BUFFALO BILLS

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  The 3-0 Mighty Miami Dolphins hung 70 points on the Denver Broncos last week. This week Miami faces the 2-1 Buffalo Bills in a game that...

• FLORA AND SON [Apple TV+]

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  Flora and Son  is a 2023 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by  John Carney , featuring original...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #760: PAPERBACK FANATIC #46 and THE DIGEST ENTHUSIAST #16

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  If you love vintage paperbacks and digest magazines as much as I do, you’ll really enjoy the latest issues of Justin...

• THE PRETENDERS: THE SINGLES and THE POLICE: THE SINGLES

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  I own several CD collections that collect a band’s singles so I decided to listen to a couple of them last week. The Pretenders:...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #143: BABY YOU’RE GONNA BE MINE By Kevin Wilson

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  Kevin Wilson’s short story collection features a wide array of characters and situations. My favorite story in Baby, You’re...

• MRS. DOUBTFIRE: THE MUSICAL

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  Mrs. Doubtfire: The Musical takes the concept of a male actor pretending to be a woman and blends it with a dysfunctional family....

• THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE By Julie Schumacher

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  I’ve enjoyed Julie Schumacher’s clever and snarky novels about the English Department at Payne University (where students...

• BUFFALO BILLS VS. WASHINGTON COMMANDERS

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  The 1-1 Buffalo Bills travel to Washington, D.C. to take on the 2-0 Commanders and Tropical Storm Ophelia. The Bills are favored by 6 1/2...

• THE CONTINENTAL [Peacock]

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  If you’re a fan of the John Wick series, you’re going to be disappointed with this prequel to the saga where we’re...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #759: DUE TO A DEATH By Mary Kelly

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  Mary Kelly (no relation) is best known for her Inspector Brett Nightingale and Hedley Nicholson series of mysteries. But as Martin...

• THE LONG BLACK VEIL By The Chieftains & BETTER TOGETHER: THE DUET ALBUM By Johnny Mathis and Others

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  Last week I was listening to these collaborative CDs. The Chieftains and a bunch of their friends–Sting, Jagger, Sinead...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #142: FOURTH PLANET FROM THE SUN: TALES OF MARS FROM THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION Edited by Gordon Van Gelder

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  Perfect Summer reading! That’s what Fourth Planet from the Sun (2005) turned out to be for me. Gordon Van Gelder collects some...

• THE WHEEL OF TIME, Season Two [AMAZON Prime Video]

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  Loosely based on Robert Jordon’s best selling Fantasy series, The Wheel of Time , Season 2 continues the storylines set up in...

• LAS VEGAS RAIDERS VS. BUFFALO BILLS

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  After the debacle in the Meadowlands on Monday Night football, the 0-1 Buffalo Bills face the 1-0 Raiders with Bills fans fired up for...

• ANN PATCHETT ON ZOOM

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  Diane and I drove over to the North Tonawanda Public Library and joined a dozen other Ann Patchett fans to watch a ZOOM interview...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #758: COLLABORATIVE CAPERS By Barry N. Malzberg & Friends

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  Most readers of this blog are familiar with the collaborations of Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini especially The Running of the...

• BOB’S BACK PAGES: A NIGHT OF BOB DYLAN SONGS By Lucinda Williams

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  A couple months ago Jeff Meyerson mentioned the Lucinda Williams series of cover albums. I immediately ordered them and as they arrived,...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #141: THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS By August Derleth

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  I was in the mood for some faux-Sherlock Holmes stories and picked up the first Solar Pons volume published in 1974 by Pinnacle Books....

• GUYS AND DOLLS

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  “ Guys and Dolls  is a musical with music and lyrics by  Frank Loesser  and book by  Jo Swerling  and  Abe Burrows . It...