| Lots of Entertainment Under Roker's Umbrella |
| from USA TODAY |
| If Today's Al Roker ever steps down from his NBC morning role as America's weatherman, he'll have plenty to keep him occupied. Monday, Roker was named host of NBC's prime-time Celebrity Family Feud, scheduled to make its debut July 1. His Al Roker Entertainment's docu-reality series DEA (tonight, 11 ET/PT) premiered on Spike TV last week. |
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| Helping Kids Whose Parents Aren't There |
| from Providence Journal |
| At Daddy's house, the view out the window is of high fences topped by coiled concertina wire. There are some children, like Donna Narcovich's twins, who grow up knowing a father, sometimes a mother, only through prison visits. Narcovich saw what the experience was doing to Skyla and Robbie, the 12-year-old twins who were her grandchildren before she made them her children. |
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| April is National Grilled Cheese Month |
| from The Santa Fe New Mexican |
| Apr. 9--Not that we need another holiday, but April is National Grilled Cheese month. To celebrate (and promote its Heartland products) the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board offers the following tips and recipes for preparing contemporary variations on the ultimate American comfort food. To distribute the butter more evenly, butter the bread, not the pan. |
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| 'The Take' Doesn't Give Back Much |
| from The Philadelphia Daily News |
| Apr. 11--"The Take," a film about the effect of violence on its victims, is a well-detailed character study that devolves into a mediocre action flick. Felix De La Pena (John Leguizamo), an armored truck driver in Mexico, is ambushed by a group of thugs while on his daily route. It's refreshing to see Leguizamo, often typecast as a hothead or as comic relief, portray a normal family man and father here. |
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