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		<title>Neon Chickens and other Great New York State Fair Adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not proud of the fact that I spent 5 of my 6 hours at the New York State Fair looking for a deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich.&#160; (We spent the other hour sitting on the highway off-ramp waiting to park.)

But I will say this: The &#8220;Great&#8221; New York State Fair knows how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to talk to your Mom about Drake.  At Binghamton University.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you don&#8217;t know that hip-hop artist Drake is coming to Bing U on October 1st, you obviously haven&#8217;t been Facebook stalking me.&#160; Which is frankly unacceptable.&#160; Start right away.

Drake is famous for a bunch of reasons. He can sing, he can act, and he was a regular on Canadian teen drama &#8216;Degrassi:&#160; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STOLEN NEWS: Drake Coming to BU.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have shamelessly stolen this news from local music writer Chris Kocher who somewhat less shamelessly stolen this news from local reporter Chris Strub for the express purpose of getting people to come check out the blog:
DRAKE IS COMING TO BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY.

Also stolen is the fact that tickets go on sale Thursday.
This is all.
PS: For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Tier: Ya gotta have a gimmick.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, people, let&#8217;s consider this a virtually delivered pep-talk.&#160; I&#8217;m all about tradition.&#160; Tradition is great; some of the very best events in the Southern Tier are based on tradition: The Spiedie Fest; JulyFest; the Chris Thater Memorial (which, I should add, I will be huffing and puffing my way through this coming Sunday&#8230; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Paparazzi: &#8220;PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE&#8221; Opening @ R Wells Gallery 8/19/10</title>
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		<title>If you see people frozen solid on the Vestal Rail Trail, don&#8217;t panic.  Get a doggie treat.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flashmobs are a lot less dangerous then they sound.&#160; Really.&#160; But if I&#8217;d never heard of one, I&#8217;d personally avoid it at all cost.&#160; Seriously, who decided to combine the phrases &#8220;flash flood&#8221; and &#8220;angry mob&#8221; and thought that people would come running to take part?

But come running they have.&#160; In fact, if you were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;ll walk on your back.  For a small fee.  In Binghamton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a foot fetish.&#160; I actually have the opposite of a foot fetish.&#160; A bit of foot fear.&#160; A footaphobia?
::: Hang on; I gotta google this. :::
Podophobia.&#160; That&#8217;s what I got.&#160; A fear of feet.&#160; No foot fetish at all, nosiree, not me.&#160; I once had a friend with a shop vac fetish.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyberstalking in Binghamton Made Easy!  The case for (and against [but mostly for]) FourSquare!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have made it easier to answer some of life&#8217;s greatest questions. Questions like:&#160;
&#8220;Who did my ex go to dinner with last night?&#8221; &#160;And, &#8220;where exactly is my ex spending his lunch hour?&#8221; &#160;And, &#8220;why is that bitch leaving winky emoticon messages on my ex&#8217;s Facebook wall?&#8221; &#160;And, &#8220;why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Paparazzi: 2nd STAP Rock Star Celebrity Bartending Bash @ Tranquil 3/7/10</title>
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		<title>Weekend Watch Sneak Peek: Mad Dance Party in Johnson City and More&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEWSCHANNEL 34 WEEKEND WATCH TRANSCRIPT
Welcome back to NewsChannel34; I&#8217;m Joshua B from Star 105-7.
Looking like a pretty busy weekend in the Southern Tier&#8212;plenty to do, but I&#8217;m recommending these 3 events for the weekend watch.
Event number one is for the mature set; the CD Release Party for Binghamton singer/songwriter Lukus Wells at Tranquil Bar &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Paparazzi: Mardi Gras @ Kilmer Brasserie 2/16/10</title>
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Photos by Suzan Wisniski
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		<title>Cirque meets City meets Bing meets So You Think You Can Dance meets the Forum Theater meets&#8230; um, IKEA.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you&#8217;ve never seen a &#8220;Cirque&#8221; show in person and somebody tries to describe what it is using&#8212;well&#8212;words, you&#8217;re more than likely to spend the conversation smiling and nodding so as not to look like an idiot without REALLY understanding what they&#8217;re talking about.&#160; Sure, you can describe what a Cirque-style show is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dungeons and Dragons and Spiedies, Oh My.  One Binghamton native turns D&#038;D from geek to chic.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what do Binghamton, my Mom, and the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons all have in common?

Stick with me here&#8230;
A long, long time ago (I was 13), in a land far, far away (North Jersey), my mother asked me to explain: &#8220;What is this Dungeons and Dragons thing all about?&#8221;
She said it in that tone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BingPop&#8217;s Guide to Not Being Lame on New Years Eve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, Binghamton, we have a problem.&#160; And it&#8217;s lame people who plan on staying home New Years Eve.

Yeah, lame people, I&#8217;m talking to you.&#160; Not sure that you&#8217;re one of the lame people?&#160; I&#8217;ve got a little &#8220;Lame People Quiz&#8221; that you can self-administer find out if you&#8217;re one of the lame-o&#8217;s..&#160; Think back of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dog&#8217;s got the Potato Pancakes covered&#8230; Chanukah in Binghamton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am on a very serious quest to find the Best Latkes in Binghamton.&#160; Don&#8217;t mess.

When I moved to Johnson City 3 years ago, I knew a grand total of 1 other Jew in the Southern Tier.&#160; Our first Chanukah together, we decided to make latkes.&#160; Well, we decided to ATTEMPT to make latkes.&#160; Important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton&#8217;s got the future of Virtual Reality.  And it&#8217;s a giant hamster ball.  Sort of.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little bullsh*t about virtual reality.&#160; Seriously.&#160; I mean, come on, it&#8217;s been like 20 years.&#160; Where is my VR mansion?&#160; My virtual trip in an X-Wing?&#160; Why aren&#8217;t I sleeping with virtual people that are way out of my virtual league?
Yeah, I&#8217;m bullsh*t about VR.

Technology moves too slowly; Who&#8217;d have thought the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK, First Friday, take THIS.  Dogs plot art scene takeover from Otsiningo Park.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dog people hate me.

And it&#8217;s not because I hate dogs.&#160; It&#8217;s just because I think of them as cuddly chickens.&#160; That don&#8217;t taste as good.&#160; But if they did, I might eat them.
OK, OK, it&#8217;s not true.&#160; I had a dog growing up.&#160; It had a name and everything.&#160; And I never once ate it.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Binghamton does &#8220;Live&#8221; better than &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Freakishly knowledgeable&#34; may not be the most flattering way to describe Larry Kassan&#8217;s relationship with the Twilight Zone, but I think even he&#8217;d agree: if the shoe fits&#8230;

Sure, sure, I could rattle off a long list of Larry&#8217;s professional credits and involvements in things like the Lake Placid Winter Olympics and an ABC TV special&#8212;but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My circus kicks your circus&#8217;s ass.  Artistically speaking.  In Syracuse.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something about being from New York City that makes you pretend you&#8217;re impressed by absolutely nothing.&#160; It&#8217;s true; I imagine it comes from years of watching mid-western tourists gawk up at 10 story buildings as if they never realized the atmosphere could support life at that height.

And when you&#8217;re from a Jersey suburb just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BROKEN NEWS!  Third Eye Blind returns to Binghamton.  This time, with air conditioning!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can imagine, I&#8217;m very proud to make this major announcement that I stole from Chris Strub&#8217;s blog on pressconnects.com which he stole from Melissa Bykofsky&#8217;s article on bupipedream.com:
Third Eye Blind is coming to Binghamton.

You remember Third Eye Blind, doncha?&#160; Their bubble-gum-punk-pop-sounding singles got oodles of radio play because it took three or four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This event doesn&#8217;t require alcohol.  But it should.  At NYSEG Stadium.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, being the home to IBM, one of the most famous computer companies on the planet is nice.&#160; Having Lockhead Martin, the world&#8217;s largest defense contractor, in our backyard might bring some notoriety.&#160; But what I&#8217;ve often said&#8212;and what has just as often fallen on deaf ears&#8212;is that what the Southern Tier really needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat, drink, and be, er, loft-y. This Friday in Binghamton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me make you hate yourself for not living in downtown Binghamton for just a sec, K?&#160; In addition to the ever-increasing restaurant options, the free wi-fi, the variety of bar (cocktail) choices, and the obscenely low urban rent, it&#8217;s home to the best housing (and more importantly, house parties) in Binghamton.&#160; Seriously.&#160; Just because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bingpop.com/binghamtonnews/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,12/p,365/</link>
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		<title>Melissa Etheridge: And why she&#8217;s better to see live in Binghamton than Britney Spears.  Most of the time.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Yeah, OK, Melissa Etheridge is a gay icon.&#160; And an environmental awareness icon.&#160; And a breast cancer survivor icon.&#160; And a rock chick icon.&#160; And a songwriting icon.
Jesus Christ, Melissa, leave room for somebody else to have a cause, would ya?
But more than all of these things, she&#8217;s a brilliant live performer.&#160; I had never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Paparazzi: CFF White Party @ Kilmer Brasserie 6/5/09</title>
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		<link>http://www.bingpop.com/binghamtonnews/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,12/p,357/</link>
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		<title>I interview Shawn Wayans.  And  my former roommates suck it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was kind of a loser in the early 90&#8217;s.
So it speaks to exactly how successful Shawn Wayans was that even I knew his name.

I didn&#8217;t watch &#8220;In Living Color&#8221;, I hadn&#8217;t seen &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Get You Sucka&#8221;, and I&#8217;m sorry to say that I missed out on &#8220;The Wayans Bros&#8221; sitcom&#8212;a TV show that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dowtown Binghamton&#8217;s Sake Tumi Gets Boozy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t like to play favorites.
Oh wait, f*ck it.&#160; I do.
And one of my new faves is Sake Tumi, the new sushi place on State Street.&#160; One of the reasons I love Tumi is that it proves the &#8220;haters&#8221; wrong&#8212;those that say that a trendy, upscale, student-friendly restaurant in downtown Bing can&#8217;t survive.

And now they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just In: Melissa Etheridge Coming to Vestal; Buckcherry Coming to Binghamton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Busy, busy week.&#160; Last night, Lori &#38; I interviewd Hinder on their tour bus at the Arena.&#160; I&#8217;ll be posting that little nugget later.&#160; THEN the KGB boys announced live on stage that Buckcherry will be coming to town (the Arena)&#160;May 20th.
THEN an even bigger announcement as far as I&#8217;m concerned;&#160; Melissa Etheridge is coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This New York robot is probably too cute to kill you.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some robots like to morph into a human form and shoot you (like in T2).&#160; Some robots like to take over your spacecraft and shoot you (like in Battlestar Galactica.)&#160; Some robots like to have identical evil twin brothers that shoot you with phasers (Star Trek).&#160; And still some other robots will terminate your life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Theater make advertisements that don&#8217;t suck at all.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artsy people aren&#8217;t always good at pimping their s@%t.&#160; So that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s nice to see the KNOW Theater (Caroll Street, Binghamton) working their marketing machine as hard as their method acting.&#160; KNOW&#8217;s dedicated themselves to producing less commercial theater.&#160; And if you think it&#8217;s tough getting people to live theater in general, just imagine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT&#8217;S OFFICIAL: OWEGO IS REALLY REALLY REALLY FRIGGIN COOL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owego has been declared the Coolest Small Town in America by Budget Travel Magazine.&#160; Duh, we could have told you that.&#160; The results of the Budget Travel poll were announced moments ago on CBS&#8217;s Early Show.&#160; In addition to having a postcard perfect downtown and &#34;fish&#34;,&#160;Owego was commended for quirky touches like the Jailhouse Restaurant.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just In: Budget Travel Will Announce (OWEGO WE HOPE) Winner of Coolest Small Town&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You already know that BingPop has been shaming Southern Tier residents into online voting their asses off so that Owego could win Budget Travel&#8217;s Coolest Small Town competition&#8230; what you may NOT have known is that BT was supposed to announce the winner today.&#160; We&#8217;ve been pestering their PR company all week for details (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Paparazzi: Battle in the Boonies @ Owego 4/09</title>
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		<title>Binghamton and the American Civic Association Tragedy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 4/10/09
The WBNG phone-athon has moved to this coming Tuesday, 4-14.
This past Monday, Lori and I did a number of interviews relating to the ACA shootings of 4/3.&#160; I&#8217;ve included a few links to those interviews&#8230;
Mayor Matt Ryan
discusses moving forward as a community.
Dara Raboy-Picciano
a counselor over at BU talks about coping with the tragedy.
Marsha Maroney
from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bingpop.com/binghamtonnews/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,12/p,330/</link>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T. CALL. US. GHOSTBUSTERS.  We just bust ghosts.  In Binghamton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so look: I&#8217;ve got a message for all you haters claimin that the Bing isn&#8217;t a &#8220;real city&#8221;.&#160; Does YOUR hometown have its very own troop of supernatural ghost-hunters?&#160; Huh? Huh? Well?

I thought not, bitches.
That&#8217;s right, Binghamton does; and don&#8217;t you dare call them &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221;, or they&#8217;ll go paranormal on your ass.
Apparently, the &#8220;Binghamton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Giddybird, Downtown Bing. You see art; I see cute penguins.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Webb is not edgy.&#160; And she doesn&#8217;t understand why we&#8217;re writing about her.

At least, that&#8217;s the impression I got when I sat with her in her new gallery/gift shop on Court Street.&#160; She stared at me with a dubious sort of &#8220;why are you interested in me&#8221; look as I explained what BingPop was.
&#8220;It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strippers of Madame Oars: You are on notice.  The robots WILL be taking over eventually.</title>
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Look, I wasn&#8217;t alive when machines took over manufacturing; but I think that I would have been OK with it.&#160; I&#8217;m pretty friggin&#8217; lazy.&#160; When computers learned how to spell for me, I was actually damn glad&#8212;even if I do have to click undo every time my cell phone auto-corrects &#8220;Binghamton&#8221; to &#8220;Birmingham&#8221;.&#160; I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Not Tina Fey or Alec Baldwin from 30 Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor Scott Adsit;&#160; it must really suck to endure interview after interview based on the question: &#8220;So what&#8217;s it REALLY like to work with comic geniuses Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin?&#8221;

Of course, Scott&#8217;s a talented comic actor in his own right&#8212;he&#8217;s done improv for years and starred in Moral Orel.&#160; But sometimes, when you start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This girl is SO off my twitter list.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this all week.
&#160;
This girl should be found and dealt with accordingly.
By angrily frowning at her.&#160; (I&#8217;m only clarifying that because I used to live in Boston; most normal people would take it at face value that you shouldn&#8217;t hit somebody for liking another sports team.&#160; But Boston used to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homicidal Barber. Big Laughs. Binghamton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not all rainbows and sunshine inside the mind of a man who slits people&#8217;s throats and bakes them into meat pies&#8212;just &#8216;cuz.&#160; But it sure makes for a fun little ditty.

Musical theater composer/genius Stephen Sondheim (&#8220;Sweeney Todd&#8221;) is loved by many people for many reasons.&#160; But this is why I love him; he can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Recap: What happens at Tranquil, Stays at Tranquil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is, it seems, no greater power in the universe, than that of the desire to have a cocktail named after oneself.

At least, that was my takeaway from Sunday night&#8217;s Rock Star Celebrity Bartending Bash @ Tranquil Bar/Bistro.&#160; The night was so phenomenally entertaining that I think it was worthy of a recap.&#160; In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binghamton Paparazzi: STAP&#8217;s Rock Star Celeb Bartending Bash @ Tranquil 3/22/09</title>
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		<link>http://www.bingpop.com/binghamtonnews/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,12/p,296/</link>
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		<title>For 5000 bucks, you should at least get a night in jail&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If this appeals to you, please e-mail me right away.&#160; Because I&#8217;d like to stop being friends with you.

There&#8217;s a web site out there called &#8220;Celeb4aDay.com&#8221;.&#160; I don&#8217;t know what it says about a company that its clientele are too stupid or lazy to type the word &#8220;for&#8221; in its entirety.&#160; This web site offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama shows no love for Binghamton University Bearcats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I&#8217;m not looking for the President to betray his keen sense of basketball brackets&#8211;but considering that Broome County voted for him over McCain 52%/44%, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d show just a little bit of Bingo love.&#160; Like actually bothering to MENTION Binghamton as he filled out his NCAA bracket on ESPN this week.&#160; But there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK, people; Pass the mini-quiches and Carlo Rossi.  I&#8217;m ready to party in Downton Bing.</title>
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OK, let me just get you oriented;&#160; before you accuse me of being a snob, I want you to point your browser over to the Hillshire Farm web site.&#160; Do you know what the URL is?&#160; www.GoMeat.com .&#160; Seriously; on the front page of this site is an energetic young housewife cast as an overgrown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official: If you&#8217;re over 27, you&#8217;re old and decrepit.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew it the day I turned 22&#8212;it was all down hill from there.&#160; After all, who actually looks forward to a birthday after 21.&#160; At 21, you get to drink.&#160; Maybe we need to legalize another substance and allow you to smoke it at 25.

Yes, it&#8217;s true.&#160; I knew that the good life ended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse me; I&#8217;ll be hiding in the back of Court Jester stealing people&#8217;s used gym towels.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PETA&#8217;s done some screwed up s&#38;%t, but I&#8217;ve never thought of them as the guy that slips into the girl&#8217;s locker room after a long soccer match to sniff a forgotten sock.&#160; But thanks to their newest publicity stunt, I now do.

For some depraved reason, instead of donating money to the cause, a PETA supporter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just In: Huey Lewis &#038; the News to Play Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just In: Huey Lewis &#38; the News to Play Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Open.&#160; The show goes down on June 26th and tickets go on sale March 21st.&#160; Eat &#8216;em up, people.&#160; May take a credit card to ride this train, though&#8230;
They&#8217;re expected to take the stage around 8 PM&#8211;after Day 1 of the tournament.&#160; They&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homicidal Fun in Endicott; This Sunday at Antonio&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, look, I&#8217;ve kept it in long enough.&#160; I just need to come right out and say it: I have an unnatural obsession with Angela Lansbury.

Yes, Angela Lansbury; the 84-year old Academy Award winning star of the Manchurian Candidate and (MORE IMPORTANTLY) the fine actress who portrayed singing teapot Mrs. Potts in the masterpiece musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark It: 3/22/09 - STAP remixes the &#8220;Charity Event&#8221; with style and camp.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One part local celebrity;&#160; One part booze;&#160; One part charity event;&#160; Touch of drag queen.&#160; Mix vigorously.&#160; Serve with camp.
It&#8217;s the recipe for STAP&#8217;s Rock Star Celebrity Bartending Bash on March 22nd @ Tranquil.
OK, look: I like the &#8220;spaghetti fundraiser&#8221; this and the &#8220;taste of the&#8221; that.&#160; But every once in a while, I like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMERGENCY: Don&#8217;t make the Village of Owego a loser.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, people, it&#8217;s time to pull together.&#160; Because, let&#8217;s face it, nobody likes a loser.&#160; And that&#8217;s what the Village of Owego is about to become.&#160; A loser.
Here&#8217;s the deal: Budget Travel Magazine is running a contest to find the Coolest Small Town in America.&#160; And like most important contests in life, it&#8217;s a popularity [...]]]></description>
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