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    Feb 7, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  1. Jay Leno spotlights Allentown and IronPigs

    In this week's medical news, it turns out that a chain of hospitals run by the Roman Catholic Church has decided that unborn babies are people, after all, and an Allentown group of urologists has been featured on national television in an alarming way....

    Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Hospitals and Clinics, Allentown, Jay Leno

  2. Feb 7, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  3. Punkin Miller should be remembered with a smile

    It has been a tough week for our area when it comes to losing quality people. I didn't know either Linny Fowler or Priscilla Payne Hurd personally, but I certainly knew of them and their vast contributions to so many here in the Lehigh Valley. These...

    Tags: Diabetes, Sports, Baseball, High School Sports, American Legion

  4. Feb 5, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  5. CBS wasn't sharp in covering Super Bowl

    If you watch Phil Simms on Showtime's "Inside the NFL" you get an aggressive, get-after-it kind of guy who is not afraid to express opinions and challenge co-host Cris Collinsworth, among others. Simms has been outspoken about the excessive...

    Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Entertainment, National Football League, CBS Corp., Alec Baldwin

  6. Sep 18, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  7. Civil War history exhibit stirs passion all the way to Dixie

    As you approach Lookout Mountain, towering high over Chattanooga, Tenn., you cannot help but think of the almost unbelievable valor of the Union soldiers who struggled up those steep slopes, on foot, less than five months after Gettysburg.
    As you approach Lookout Mountain, towering high over Chattanooga, Tenn., you cannot help but think of the almost unbelievable valor of the Union soldiers who struggled up those steep slopes, on foot, less than five months after Gettysburg. The Battle...

    Tags: Trips and Vacations, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Museums

  8. Aug 31, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  9. Allentown Fair is perfect for the young at heart

    "Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you, if you're young at heart," Frank Sinatra once sang. "… For as rich as you are, it's much better by far, to be young at heart." As rich as I aren't — Grammar Police, pipe down, this is art &#...

    Tags: Mike Tyson, Frank Sinatra, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Wars and Interventions

  10. Aug 29, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  11. Allentown Fair full of laughs, food, oddities

    I know many of you are envious of my role as a perennial judge in the Allentown Fair's chocolate cake baking contest, despite my protestations that it's much more grueling than it appears.
    I know many of you are envious of my role as a perennial judge in the Allentown Fair's chocolate cake baking contest, despite my protestations that it's much more grueling than it appears. People don't want to hear that. They just see some lucky slob...

    Tags: Labor Day, Chocolate Cake, Judges, Justice System, Lehigh Valley IronPigs

  12. Aug 28, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  13. Civil War Road Show exhibit at the Allentown Fair helps reveal the nation's soul

    Most of the time, the precious decoration is kept hidden in a vault, deep in the dark bowels of the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in Allentown. It represents, after all, one of the Lehigh Valley's most momentous historical episodes.
    Most of the time, the precious decoration is kept hidden in a vault, deep in the dark bowels of the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in Allentown. It represents, after all, one of the Lehigh Valley's most momentous historical episodes. People get to see...

    Tags: Labor Day, Awards and Prizes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Injuries and Wounds

  14. Apr 20, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  15. Mathematicians round, but do nurses?

    I have a college professor friend whose special cause is the way nouns are being turned into awkward verbs His latest discovery, he reported, was at a local hospital. He wrote, "In each patient room is a poster featuring a smiling nurse standing next...

    Tags: Phillipsburg, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Health, Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom

  16. Jul 28, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  17. Lollapalooza at 20: Highlights, lowlights, revolution and evolution

    Lollapalooza wasn’t built to last two years, let alone intended to be around long enough to celebrate a 20th anniversary Aug. 5-7 in Grant Park.
    Lollapalooza wasn’t built to last two years, let alone intended to be around long enough to celebrate a 20th anniversary Aug. 5-7 in Grant Park. “I haven’t said this before, but after the first year, I went on my merry way, thinking...

    Tags: Entertainment, Economy, Business and Finance, Electronics, Guided by Voices (music group), History

  18. May 19, 2013 | Allentown Morning Call
  19. Musikfest's 2013 lineup: Is it the festival's worst ever?

    Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOG
    In the past few days since Musikfest announced the completion of the main stage lineup for its 30th anniversary run, Aug. 2-11, we’ve gotten repeatedly asked the same question: Isn’t his lineup especially weak? Some, in fact, have whispered...
  20. May 14, 2013 | Allentown Morning Call
  21. The Top 10 Concerts in Sands Bethlehem Event Center's first year

    Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOG
    Thursday, May 16, marks the first anniversary of the night Sands Bethlehem Event Center opened with a nearly sold-out show by alternative rock band Incubus. Incubus, opening night at Sands Bethlehem Event Center a year ago In the 365 days......
  22. Aug 31, 2012 | Allentown Morning Call
  23. Victoria Justice talks about end of her Nickelodeon show, start of music career

    Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOG
    The day Nickelodeon TV star Victoria Justice calls from a tour bus for an interview about her Sept. 2 show Sunday at Allentown Fair turns out to be the same day the network publicly announces that “Victorious,” Justice’s top-rated...
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