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Stowe, Vermont

Skiing and New Year's Eve in Stowe. We stayed in The Green Mountain Inn in the center of the village. Very New Englandy -- and not too many Dean bumper stickers. Good news: It turns out skiing is like riding a bike. Started on the little bunny slope and found

DVR != HDTV

A quick note: I'm told that the new Time-Warner DVR is not capable of delivering HDTV output, for those few channels which have that today. Seems like quite an oversight. I'll have to decide which is more important, time-shifting Letterman, HDTV Leno, or several more set-top boxes to do both.

Farrelly Funny

Stuck On You Hard not to smile at the wit and warmth of this film. Huh? From the directors of There's Something About Mary and Me, Myself & Irene? Well, yes. Sadly the film is not much more than an after-school special about following your dreams and sticking up for

Rings, Kings, and Things

Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Whew. Made it through the three movies, ten-plus hours of computer generated effects, several Yanni songs, and six or seven endings. All in all, thanks. This last segment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy finishes the tale with swashbuckling fun

Christmas Spectacular

Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Music Hall Not my usual cup of coffee, but when guests come to visit, sacrifices must be made. Many New Yorkers - of all persuasions - have come to treat the annual Xmas show as a mandatory bit of yuletide treacle. This was my first time

Architecture

I've selected Robin Bernstein to design the renovation of my combined apartment. He's started to work on the plans and we've settled on a basic outline. It's a compromise of a couple ideas I've had (over the past six years). Basically, the office/bedroom is a little smaller, and the

Wonderfully Corny

Wonderful Town, Al Hirschfeld Theatre This revival of the '53 musical more than makes up for the thin book and no hit songs with its simple exuberance and wit. While this may be second-rate Comden and Green and Bernstein, obviously that makes it first-rate Broadway. The simple story concerns two

Icons

I've finally fixed the icons. If you're interested, some were found at Icon ArchiveIcons Tree looks good too. And Icon Town is over the top.

DVR

Just replace my old-fashioned digital cable box with a DVR - a tivo-like recordable cable box. Has all the old functions (video-on-demand, etc) plus the ability to record up to 30 hours of video on an internal hard-drive. So far, thumbs up. I got home with it, plugged it in,

The Stage Upstages Art

La Boheme, Metropolitan Opera House Franco Zeffirelli manages to upstage the action in this opulent and overstaffed production at the Met. The scenery is gorgeous, and lit with a painter's eye, which all serves to overwhelm the singing of this perennial favorite. Yet, though somewhat unbalanced, the show -- with