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Started 2012 by watching a movie from 1989. I've always wanted to see Sea of Love. Now I have.

Friends is a band from Brooklyn. If January's Song of the Day is any indication, look for big things from them in 2012.

The winter's been pretty mild and snow-free so far. How about a drive to Pottsville to check out America's oldest brewery?

Word of the Year

A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2011 is occupy, a noun, verb and combining form that powered a protest movement here in the US and around the world.

Officers from the American Dialect Society admit that the word occupy is old, but they say that it took on another life in 2011 and moved in new and unexpected directions.

The American Dialect Society chose the Word of the Year on January 6, 2012, at its meeting in Portland, Oregon. Other nominees for WOTY include the Occupy-related 99 percenters, which refers to those of us who are not among the one percent of top earners, and humblebrag, defined as an expression of false humility, especially by celebrities on Twitter.

You can read the entire news release here.