If you are planning a trip to Cooperstown, New York for the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction weekend, you should know that it gets crowded, but in a friendly sort of way. Being on your feet with lots of walking to and from the induction ceremonies and making your way through every inch of the Hall of Fame itself can be tiring for even the biggest fan. What you need is a nice spot to rest your weary tootsies in front of a picturesque and cool slice of water with an even colder beverage in hand. Where you should go is the Lake Front Motel Restaurant & Marina.

Just one block beyond the HOF, take a left down the road to glistening Ostego Lake. Full Post…

He’s “winning” — again. Charlie Sheen, who had a spectacular fall from TV grace on his former sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” confirmed on Monday reports that he will return to television in a new comedy, “Anger Management,” based on the 2003 movie of the same name.

The film starred Adam Sandler as a man who is forced into anger management counseling only to meet an instructor , who is more than a bit angry himself.

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Charlie Sheen will soon be starring in a new sitcom.NEW YORK — Charlie Sheen, who was fired from “Two and a Half Men” in March, aims to launch another hit sitcom — this time, on his own terms.

The tempestuous star is planning to return to series television in the aptly titled “Anger Management,” based on the 2003 film of the same name.

With no network currently in place, the new series will be produced by Lionsgate Television and shopped to prospective broadcast and cable networks by Lionsgate subsidiary Debmar-Mercury, the company announced Monday.

The 45-year-old Sheen will have a “significant ownership stake” in the series, Lionsgate said.

Not only that, but, as Sheen noted in the statement, he will have “a certain amount of creative control.”

“I chose ‘Anger Management’ because, while it might be a big stretch for me to play a guy with serious anger management issues, I think it is a great concept,” he said.

Anger issues and what he complained was a lack of creative control led to his terminal clash with “Two and a Half Men” producer Chuck Lorre and the show’s network, CBS. By

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Title: The End of Everything

Author: Megan Abbott

Genre: Crime/Literary Thriller

Publisher:Reagan Arthur Books (US) / Picador (UK) Publication date: July 7 2011 (US) / August 19 2011 (UK) Hardcover/Paperback: 304 pages

Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood and her next door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable. They are best friends who swap bathing suits and field-hockey sticks, and share everything thats happened to them.

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Buffalo, to put it mildly, has a serious branding problem.

To the majority of people across the United States, the image of our city remains suspended in a murky snow globe constructed sometime around the Blizzard of ’77. To them, it’s a decayed hinterland of little redeeming character whose residents long ago stopped trying to break free from the death-grip of inexorable decline.

We all know that to be patently false. But we can’t really blame them for holding that viewpoint, because until very recently, we’ve given them almost no reason to know better.

But thanks to a spate of small but important efforts to radically re-engineer the city’s brand name and its national image, there’s reason to believe the tide may soon turn.

The first and arguably most important shift toward recasting Buffalo in the national mind-set came with Visit Buffalo Niagara’s quietly radical, much-maligned “Buffalo. For Real.” camp

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The exceptional Three Cellars (7133 S. 76th St., Franklin) is well worth the drive. At first it seems to be solely a retail store specializing in wine and beer—the large inventory features 300-plus wines and more than 500 beers—but there also is a small lounge area in the front and a small bar in the back. A few beers are on tap and there are plenty of wine glasses. Simply purchase a bottle of wine or beer and, for a modest corkage fee, you may drink it here. The wine list is impressive, but the beer is even better. Imports are well represented, as are domestic microbrews, but the best feature is the comprehensive selection of Wisconsin beers. In Full Post…