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Friday, September 5, 2008

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Dress your age
ORLANDO, Fla. – Miniskirts are back in vogue. So are halter tops, skinny jeans and patterned tights. On a 20-year-old, those items are cute and trendy. On her mother, they likely look more trashy than trendy. On her grandmother, they’re simply ridiculous. It’s unfair and frustrating, but it’s a fact: Outfits that look adorable, or at least forgivable, on the young, simply don’t cut it on older women.
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Susan Martin: A familiar feeling every September
My most memorable first day of school was when I was 11. We had just moved into a new house, in a new town.
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Bravo Cafe gets bigger and busier
We first reviewed Bravo Cafe when it was in teeny quarters farther up Seneca Street next to a plumber’s shop. That was way back in 2004. What a change: It’s bigger, and it’s busier.
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Extensive menu, quick service at Cappelli's
The door at Cappelli’s Pizzeria opens onto a counter that looks like a busy take-out joint, with a counter and a visible kitchen in which staffers assemble and bake pies at a furious rate. But keep walking past the counter, and you will enter a bright dining room full of comfy booths and tables with quick and efficient table service. That’s where Ruth, Dan, John and I settled in for dinner on a recent Saturday.
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Buy a shovel that fits you –and the job

Early fall is tree-and shrub-planting time, which makes this a good time to shop for a shovel.

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Garden Notes / News of area clubs and events

The Bowmansville Garden Club will meet at 7 p. m. Monday at the Bowmansville Fire Hall, 36 Main St., Bowmansville. Members will exchange perennial plants and discuss upcoming flower show. Everyone welcome. For club information, call Judy Visco, club president, at 684-6239.

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Design Notes

Bring out the baskets

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Pergament: HBO scores with ‘True Blood’ vampire series

Struggling HBO will try to come back from the dead this weekend with a new Sunday series, “True Blood.” The series, from the maker of “Six Feet Under,” is about vampires and a pretty waitress who can hear people’s thoughts.

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‘Everybody Wants to Be Italian’: A big fat, hot mess

If you’ve seen the commercials for “Everybody Wants to Be Italian” and think it has the makings of another “Moonstruck,” here are four words for you: “Snap out of it!”

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Susan Martin

My most memorable first day of school was when I was 11. We had just moved into a new house, in a new town.

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