EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It sounds likely that Panthers' wide receiver Steve Smith will play today vs. the Jets, but we're still awaiting definitive word and will pass it on when it arrives. Smith was added to the injury report Saturday with sore ribs. He was listed as questionable to play today. -- Charles Chandler

... Grace, and counts the photographer Patrick McMullan as an investor. So far, the early word back from the bloggers and foodie set is a mixed bag, with some citing it as a revelation for midtown while others deem it a ... I had no problem getting a table at 7:45pm without a reservation; however, as word gets out about this little gem I suspect it will be wise to book in advance." The ...

A number of outlets are reporting that the bill that Harry Reid will take to the Senate floor has gotten a pretty favorable "score" from the Congressional Budget Office. I'll be writing more as I get details, but here's the email I got from one Democratic source: We are awaiting a final CBO report but

PHOODIE: Lee Frank may be a New York food blogger — he runs the all-nachos site NachosNY — but having grown up here in Philly, he still reps hard. So when Frank comes home next week for Thanksgiving, he’ll be mixing his wonderful past with his dizzying present for what is, as best we know, the first-ever Nacho Crawl Philadelphia. MORE

I think "politely respectful" might be the best way to describe the first reviews of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, a movie that, for the past several months, has been hyped by many pundits and prognosticators as sure-fire Oscar-bait. Were those predictions -- many of them issued even before Eastwood actually began filming on location in South Africa -- premature? Well, tell me what ...

A handful of analysts issued cautious ratings on AOL as the Internet company began trading Thursday. Associated Press AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, center, during opening bell ceremonies of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 10. AOL spun off from former parent Time Warner, intending to compete with online giants such as Yahoo as it beefs up its content and attempts to turn its Web traffic and ...

Cocoa V bills itself as the city's first vegan chocolate and wine bar. The brainchild of Pamela Blackwell, who owns three locations of Blossom, a vegan restaurant and cafe, it opened two weeks a... Continue reading "The Early Word: Vegan Cheese and Truffles at Cocoa V" >

A logline. That's all we have on the new horror-thriller Behind Your Eyes . The film landed on our radar earlier in the day and a bit of digging has yielded little info. Casting has begun in the L.A. area and the story concerns a young couple on a weekend trip to meet family are kidnapped and held prisoner by a psychopath until one of them escapes. More as we hear it since shooting ...

Update from VA Blogger: Hunt 955, Horinko 479, Nance 469. Hunt wins over 50% of the vote; turnout 1903, about 100 more than seven years ago in a shorter amount of time. Loooong line stretched all the way from the library to the street from 6:30 until the polls closed. More thoughts soon. Tweet This Post 

I've got little or nothing useful to tell you at this stage of the game (so, if you're hoping to be the next AG, just keep your britches cool for a while). Boston looks like it's going to have lower turnout than the Mayoral primary, probably a little under 20%. Somerville -- Capuano's home base -- looks a little higher. The rest of the state is low, low, low, from what I'm ...

... button. Confusing isn't it? It will take a while to get used to the new menu system. However, if you have NEVER used any previous Microsoft Word, perhaps you will actually LIKE the new organization. My favorite new feature is the equation editor. It is so ... write an integral symbol or a summation sigma on an early word processor. Sure, previous Word versions has equation writer but it was ...

... are looking for something writery/readery/short storyish/poetryish/flashish/fun-get-togetherish - look no further! RIDE THE WORD is a freebie event, but come early - venue not large, and the audience - - vast. Hosted ... de Souza and short story writer and novelist Jay Merill, RIDE THE WORD is a monthly live literature event, held at different venues across ...

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... 24 hour trip to Weatherford and Plano this weekend. I picked Sophie up from school early right when I got off work and then the 4 of us headed to Weatherford. When we got there we ate a quick dinner and had a ... "bad guys" in Disney movies usually scare your kids, this one probably will too. Just a word of warning :)Saturday morning we had a pretend Christmas morning and we got to open ...