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Virtual kidnapping can shake your senses
BY NORBERT RUG You get a call late at night and the caller ID says it is from your grandchild. It’s frequently late at night so they can catch you when you…
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Pizza Oven in Lockport offers up a good, hearty pie
BY NORBERT RUG We wanted a pizza for dinner last night so we ordered from Pizza Oven, 54 Vine Street, 433-4390. You can order for pickup or delivery. They said it would…
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Unisex bathrooms are the wave of the future
BY NORBERT RUG One of the issues that many transgender individuals face concerns restrooms. The best choice is to use a unisex bathroom if one is available. Unfortunately, most public places don’t…
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Beards, now fashionable, always practical
BY NORBERT RUG You’ve most likely noticed that beards are in and the plaid shirted, beard wearing male is now fashionable. I have sported a variety of beards, side burns and moustaches…
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The Upside features utterly likable performances
BY NORBERT RUG When Philip Lacasse, a quadriplegic billionaire, who was paralyzed from the neck down after a reckless paragliding adventure, played by Bryan Cranston employs an ex-convict Dell Scott, played by…
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Beautiful Boy tells an emotionally complicated tale of addiction
BY NORBERT RUG Beautiful Boy is centered on the two books “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” written by David Sheff and “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines” by Nic…
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For homestyle breakfast, try Toast and Roast Cafe
BY NORBERT RUG Outbound: Toast and Roast Cafe: 4823 Saunders Settlement Rd, Niagara Falls, New York In my quest to try and hit as many eateries in Niagara County as I can,…
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WBEN should add Weppner to morning programming
Kathy Weppner, the former Republican nominee for Congress, has launched a podcast about current events and local politics. Weppner once hosted the weekend talkshow Kathy from Williamsville on WBEN, the local conservative talk radio…
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Every season brings its own pleasures
BY NORBERT RUG Every winter, my father would shovel our back yard forming a walled dish. He would then attach our rubber hose to the laundry tubs in the basement, take the…
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Green Book, about friendship, can surprise viewers
BY NORBERT RUG The premise of the movie “Green Book” seemed, at least to me, a bit mind-numbing, but I decided to give it a try and I am glad I did.…
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Memories of Rocketship 7 and WBKW’s glory days
BY NORBERT RUG A long, long time ago, in a place that seems far, far away, many Buffalo area children, myself included, would turn on their TV sets in the morning and…
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Performances, plotlines in ‘Replicas’ disappoint fans
BY NORBERT RUG What can I say about the movie “Replicas”? I saw this last week and it seems like I have seen this all before. I have. This movie seems to…
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Mark Hill responds to The Chronicle’s early reports of Chief candidacy
Dear Buffalo Chronicle News, For starters I’d like to wish you and your team a Merry Christmas and Happy Nu;ya! May your year be filled with much prosperity, transparency and accountability. I…
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Baby, it’s snowflakes outside
BY NORBERT RUG The song ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside” ‘ is seen as sexist In the current #MeToo era, and is being banned by some radio stations. The radio stations have stopped…
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KLG leaving Today Show, for NBC’s top-secret remake of Golden Girls
Longtime Today Show host and media celebrity Kathy Lee Gifford announced this morning that she will be leaving the flagship NBC program to pursue “exciting new projects” that she “couldn’t talk about yet.” The emotional announcement was…
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Why not build a border wall?
BY NORBERT RUG All in all it was, just a brick in the wall. Pink Floyd, 1979. The internet is filled with pictures of refugees amassing at the U.S-Mexico border in California.…
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Solender: “New York Dems should vote for Republican Marc Molinaro”
BY ANDREW SOLENDER As a liberal who takes voting very seriously, I do not take lightly the decision to vote Republican. I, like most of my fellow liberals, believe the national Republican…
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Buffalo News lambasted for all-White prospectus gala
Yesterday, The Buffalo News hosted its annual prospectus gala at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens on Transit Road in Williamsville. Sources liken the event to Cape Town in the 1980s, under apartheid. Attendees report that there…
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NBC wants Megyn Kelly to host a second hour on Today
Programing executives at NBC want Megyn Kelly to manage and produce a second hour of its flagship morning program, Today — and they want her to get political. The network’s executives think that they are underutilizing…
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Wooten likely to be next WGRZ anchor, but ‘chemistry’ could be too much
Station managers at WGRZ are widely known to favor installing Michael Wooten as the lead evening news anchor of the market leading broadcast that has slipped to second place in recent months.…
