Black Friday is creeping into Thanksgiving evening

Marling Sequeira has her Thanksgiving all planned: turkey, trimmings and pumpkin pie at her boyfriend’s in Miami, then a moonlit drive to Walmart to snag a 72-inch Samsung TV on sale for $800.“It’s more exciting at midnight,” said Sequeira, 22, a medical assistant who is moving into a new Brickell-area apartment with her boyfriend on Friday. “Besides that, the specials are...

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A stuffed paper: Thursday’s Herald filled with Black Friday sale circulars

Turkey: DoneCash: in pocketCar tank: full Now all you need is a guide on where to find the best deals on Black Friday.And that’s where the Thanksgiving Day print edition of the Miami Herald comes in. The largest paper of the year – weighing in at a whopping 5 pounds — will be stuffed with 66 merchant circulars.Winning the battle of the circulars, and the...

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PlayStation Mobile Now Lets PS Vita Owners Create Their Own Games

Think you (or someone you know) has what it takes to write games for the PlayStation Vita? Sony just opened up its PlayStation Mobile game store to anyone who wants in. All you need is a half-decent Windows PC and a Vita, and the cash for a $ 99 developer fee — the same yearly price Apple charges.​How PlayStation Mobile fits in PlayStation...

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Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou Split

Though never married, Djimon Hounsou and Kimora Lee Simmons are ending their relationship, according to People.com.PICS: The 10 Most Shocking Breakups in HollywoodHounsou's rep tells the news source that the couple has "officially separated after 5 1/2 years."The actor, 48, reportedly met Simmons, 42, in February 2007 after her split from hip hop mogul Russell Simmons.They have one child together,...

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'Unstable' man busted after headbutting guard at UES jewelry store

A deranged man clad in sweatpants and a hoodie showed the staff of a hyper-expensive Upper East Side jewelry store today that he’s got champagne-and-caviar tastes, police and witnesses said.The man shoved his way past a security guard into di Grisogono, a Madison Avenue watch-and-gem emporium, at about 1:40 p.m.“He was demanding business cards and catalogs,...

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Shopping 411: How to survive the rush and get the deals for Black Friday

EARLY BIRDS GET THE DEALS:If you’re willing to brave the masses, here’s where you can go:•  Open all day Thursday: Walmart; •  6 a.m. on Thursday: Kmart opens;•  8 a.m. Thursday: Bass Pro Shops opens;•  8 p.m. Thursday: Sears and Toys “R”Us open;•  9 p.m. Thursday: Dolphin Mall, Sawgrass Mills and Target stores everywhere open....

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Miami receives mixed bag of bond ratings

Don’t look to Wall Street to sort out Miami’s complicated finances.On Tuesday, Moody’s Investors Service issued a negative outlook for some of the city’s outstanding bond obligations, and gave a below-average rating to a bond issue expected to close next month.Fitch Ratings, meanwhile, upgraded the outlook for the outstanding bond issues from negative to stable. But it, too,...

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Tablets, discounters top U.S. holiday shopping lists: Reuters/Ipsos

(Reuters) – Move over computers, your sleek siblings are the prized gift of the holidays.One-third of U.S. consumers are thinking about buying an electronic tablet this holiday season, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters. And 22 percent of those who want one of the hot devices said they plan to cut back on other holiday purchases...

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Amazing Race's James & Abba Talk Moscow Misfortune

The Amazing Race bid farewell to long-haired music industry veterans James LoMenzo and Mark "Abba" Abbatista on Sunday night, and ETonline caught up with the pair to find out how hard it was to have their bags stolen in Moscow, if they ever made it out of Russia, and what they thought of two other teams taking their cash, in an interview filled with lots of laughs.James: (Plays the ET theme song on...

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WATCH: Superstorm Sandy floods Queens Midtown Tunnel

No, that’s not Niagara Falls -- its the Queens Midtown Tunnel! Raging river water completely submerged the toll lanes during super storm Sandy, according to the never-before-seen video released by the MTA. The water is so high it pours over the lane dividers and almost reaches the security gates. At one point, the camera pans back and reveals the whole...

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