For example, a traditional Barnes & Noble store in Los Angeles was selling the DVD boxed set of "Band of Brothers" the weekend before Thanksgiving for $119.95, while the online store was selling it for $71.99, plus about $4 in shipping charges.
On a visit to the doctor to get his flu shot, my 12-year-old lectured me on finding "healthy" ways to vent my sadness and frustration, gently pointing out that I might have come down too hard on his two brothers that weekend.
Approximately fifth-grade level: I went fishing with my brother this weekend.
"Massive thanks to @QuadeCooper for taking the time to visit my brother this weekend and donating his jerseys!
IF LEHMAN HAD BEEN SAVED | With the five-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers approaching this weekend, "the most intriguing hypothetical question about those fateful days is what would have happened had the government bailed out Lehman," Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the DealBook column.
The films spoofed the Hollywood schlock the brothers devoured during weekend marathons at the local movie house, where they essentially grew up, while conveying what The New York Times, in a 1983 retrospective, called "a compassionate sense of the human condition, especially of loneliness".
The San Antonio location will host free memorial screenings of "The Blues Brothers" throughout the weekend, while the Drafthouse in Omaha will hold two "in memoriam" screenings of "The Burbs" and "When Harry Met Sally" in early January.
"I had her on a Tuesday and started kicking the ball around with my brother on the weekend," Fawcett recalled.
"I look for tags of 50percentt off," said Louanne Tan of Toronto, who shopped at the Manhattan Mall in Herald Square while visiting her brother for the weekend.
Marling moved to Cuba for a year, but the lure of LA brought her back; she drove there in a station wagon across America with Mike Cahill (Another Earth director and ex-boyfriend) and Zal Batmanglij (big brother of Vampire Weekend's Rostam and director of Sound Of My Voice and The East).
