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A Meatless Thanksgiving

Tina Traster | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Meat-Less, Harvest, Vegetarian, Righteous Porkchop, Suburbia, Food Inc., Jonathan Safran Foer, Thanksgiving, Living News

No one wants a turkey-less Thanksgiving. I resigned myself to a meal at someone else's house, cringing at the sight of a gravy-dripping bird proudly displayed in the center of a dining room table.

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The Great Divide: A Healthy Halloween

Tina Traster | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Carve, Halloween, Suburbia, The Blaze, Trick-or-Treating, Pumpkins, Van Cortlandt Manor, Living News

Certain things are beyond your control when you become a parent. You lose sleep, worry a lot and embrace Halloween, even if it is your least favorite holiday.

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Mad Men and the High Cost of Advertising

James Block | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Consumer Culture, Mad Men, Television, Don Draper, Suburbia, Corporate Culture, Entertainment News

That Mad Men chronicles the rise of contemporary advertising should be our first warning. The fantasy machine that propels the American consumer culture achieves this leverage simply with make believe.

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The Great Divide: Milk & Cookies

Tina Traster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Elementary School, After-School Program, Relationships, Suburbia, Milk and Cookies, Second Grade, Fuse Beads, Living News

A few weeks into kindergarten I felt air leak from my chest every time I picked my daughter up. A bunch of tattooed, nose-ringed counselors did little more than supervise a band a wilding children.

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The Great Divide: A Dose of Reality We Can Do Without

Tina Traster | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Deadbeat Dad, Suburbia, Divorce, Lifetime TV, Child Support, Fathers and Families, Family Court, Living News

Who among us wouldn't thrill at the idea of humiliating not only a man who is behind on child support but inadvertently shaming his children, who would get to watch him collared on national television?

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The Great Divide: Divorce, American Style

Tina Traster | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Valley Cottage, Suburbia, Divorce, Family Court, Attempted Murder, Allen Pelcak, Laura Matousek, New Jersey, Dead-Beat Dad, Living News

In America, fathers who can't pay child support are "deadbeats" rather than men who have become overwhelmed or sabotaged by unreasonable financial obligations ordered by family court judges.

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The Great Divide: Rosh Hashanah My Way

Tina Traster | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Baking, Rosh Hashanah, Marriage, Grandmother, Childhood, Challah, Suburbia, Jewish, Tina Traster, Living News

The sweet yeasty aroma rising from the blessed creation stimulated my salivary glands and my memory. As I reached toward the loaf to tear off an end my husband tapped my hand as though I were an impetuous child: "No," he said, "You've got to wait for it to cool." I really was back in the kitchen with grandma, being taught the virtue of patience.

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The Great Divide: 90 Miles North

Tina Traster | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhattan, Catskill Mountains, Woodstock, Tie-Dye, Suburbia, Country Life, Living News

I saw myself gazing in the mirror, trying on Woodstock, and liking it.

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Empty Is as Empty Does

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Small Business, Retail Industry, Housing Prices, Suburbia, Economy, Recession Fears, Business, Recession, Housing Slump, Housing Crisis, Business News

In a formerly rural part of Long Island, many bountiful farm stands used to flourish. Now there are very few, as the land that had produced the harvests was sold during past abundant years to builders and developers.

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The Great Divide: A Second Act in Suburbia

Tina Traster | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Dancing, Community Theater, Broadway, Beauty and the Beast, Suburbia, Burb Appeal, Living News

When my husband suggested we take our seven-year-old daughter to see a local performance of Beauty and the Beast, I had to duel with my demons. Community theater? Me? "Shouldn't I rear my daughter on the Great White Way of Broadway plays and musicals?

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The Great Divide: Swimming Against the Tide in Suburbia

Tina Traster | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Unique, Suburbs, Living in Suburbia, Suburbia, Kids, Suburban, Uniformity, City, Parenting, Tina Traster, Urban, City Living, Living News

Not playing by the rules is dicey in suburbia where children are raised in a culture of uniformity. I don't let my daughter go to birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese or eat cafeteria school food or watch television during the week. This makes her different. This makes us different.

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Rescued by the House No One Wanted

Tina Traster | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Rescue, Old House, Suburbia, Burb Appeal, Rescue Plan, Abandoned Pets, Pets, Home Prices, Home Sales, House Renovation, Adopting Pets, Happiness, Adoption, Living News

I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.

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The Great Divide: Love Means Never Having To Sleep Alone in Suburbia

Tina Traster | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Suburbia, Burb Appeal, Manhattan, New Jersey, New York, Living News

Nothing could have frightened me more than moving out to suburbia with a man who was never home. I was too young and jaded to picture myself in the isolation of a commuter town.

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How I Got Across the Great Divide

Tina Traster | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Suburbia, Brooklyn, City Living, Moving, Living News

I was once mentally and physically asphyxiated by my long-held beliefs that the sticks were filled with people who stopped going to independent films and who ate dinner before 7.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Amat Escalante on Los Bastardos

Dan Persons | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment

Los Bastardos is a spare and brutal survey of the suburban wasteland.

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Field of Dreams: Organic Gardens Planted To Lure Homebuyers

nytimes.com | ALEC APPELBAUM | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: House, Suburbs, Subdivision, Suburbia, Organic Garden, Home Owner, Swimming Pools, Homebuyer, Home, Green News

From Vermont to central California, developers are creating subdivisions around organic farms to attract buyers. If you plant it, these developers bel...

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So Cal Chronicles Suburban-Style

Jane Minogue | Posted 06.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Suburbs, Elderly, Women's Rights, Widowhood, Medieval, Suburbia, Magna Carta, Alcoholism, Racism, Widows, Style News

At the checkout in front of me was a frail, elderly lady in a gray sweat suit. Her liver-spotted hands shook as she put 2 jugs of wine onto the counter. One red, one white. Her drugs of choice.

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Scenes from a Greek Restaurant

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Friendship, Housing Prices, Suburbia, Restaurants, Middle Class, Living, Families, Housing Crisis, Recession, Style News

I am wistful not because I miss Georgia's split pea soup (though I truly do), but because I'm expecting that such gleeful times in places like Deities may never occur again.

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Suburbia's Dirty Little Secret

Lauren Cahn | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living

Read More: No Idling, Driving, Idling, Suburbia, Kids, Cars, Chauffeur, Parenting, Carpool, Dirty Little Secret, Happiness, Back to School, Suvs, Living News

We moms find ourselves racing out of meetings, tearing off our tennis outfits, throwing down the great American novel we were writing. Mom is gone. In her place: The Chauffeur.

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''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''

Martin Nolan | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alexander P. Throttlebottom, 12th Amendment, Chester Alan Arthur, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson, George and Ira Gershwin, Barack Obama, Aaron Burr, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert C. Wood, John Adams, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Great Society, Millard Fillmore, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney., Barack Obama Vice President, Vice President, Suburbia, Hillary Clinton Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers, Politics News

Barack Obama is pressured by Hillary Clinton to select her as VP, a mathematical question arises: why would he choose someone whom record numbers of Democrats have voted against?

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