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Jose Arriaga has run out of excuses for missing work to watch the U.S. men's soccer team in the World Cup.

A listing of places to watch the USA vs. Germany World Cup game on Thursday, including some with special deals.

If you hate the extreme polarization of American life today, with more and more people talking to and living alongside only people who share their world view, blame Roger Ailes, president of Fox News.

After decades of writing about television and media, this is the year that I have lost journalistic faith in two TV news institutions in which I have long believed: 60 Minutes and CNN.

Symphony Woods in downtown Columbia is a patch of nondescript land used mainly as a pathway for the tens of thousands of people who attend concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion each year.

The 19th-century German classical music repertory is not directly represented on the Columbia Orchestra's next concert, but its romantic influence will be heard in the program scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jim Rouse Theater at Wilde Lake High School.

Twenty dancers enter, 16 leave -- or four dancers leave, however you'd like to put it.

I have had my disagreements with Keith Olbermann the last few years, but I have watched mostly with admiration as night after night he has covered the Occupy protest movement like no one else in the media.

President Obama finally gave his "big" jobs speech on national TV Thursday night. Only it wasn't nearly large enough to compete with news of a "credible" but "unconfirmed terrorist threat and the start of National League Football.

With this week's skirmish over whether President Obama or the GOP presidential candidates would dominate prime time Wednesday night, a couple of observations seem impossible to ignore.