Best facts and factoids for '07 form the Frugal Yankees.

BOURNE ULTIMATUM'S Stunt Fight Coordinator Jeff Imada reveals how staging a movie fight is done, how it has changed over the years and whether Matt Damon has the chops.

It's deadly. 30,000 Americans die every year. Can it be stopped? Will you get it? The answer is yes. Dr. Mark Drapkin explains how to get rid of it and even better how to avoid it. Helpful tips for a healthy you.

It's regifting. Is it recycling or being cheap? The Frugal Yankee explores this modern dilemma.

Managing employees, being an employer is more difficult today. Award winning Bruce Katcher clears through the misconceptions to offer solid advice on how to be effective and respected.

Ready for retirement? Not financially, emotionally! It's not the end, it's really a beginning.

Humans vs. machines. Computers control too much and it makes us vulnerable. Author Don Norman doesn't like it.

Encrypted web site to protect your records from disasters is now available. Is it worth it? Is it for you? Check it out.

Making resolutions? Don't. Listen as the Frugal Yankee has a diffierent idea plus tips.

Get ready for 2008 with the Frugal Yankee predictions for the coming year.

Center for Media & Democaracy announces their annual 'Falsie' award winners. The Frugal Yankee knows it has nothing to do with lingerie.

We all know the glamour of Hollywood was manufactured and manipulated. Yet it has shaped our vision of beauty and eroticism. Listen in as the Frugal Yankee chats with Jeannine Bassinger on her new book, THE STAR MACHINE, a deep look how they did it.

Blu-Ray is beating out HD-DVD for dominance in your living room, but is it already too late? Frugal Yankee tech maven Brian O'Connor hits play and reports.

The sub-prime mortgage mess is spawning a credit card crisis. SMARTMONEY.com's Aleksandra Todorova gives the Frugal Yankee the inside look. Will you be a victim?

Indie film director John Sayles' latest film HONEYDRIPPER chronicles the birth of rock 'n roll. Listen as the Frugal Yankee interviews him on his 16th film.

Will the writer's strike affect television, specifically Reality TV? Veteran producer DMA shares her insights with the Frugal Yankee

Business strategist Barrie Atkin sees positive aspects in football's execution for today's entreperneurs, especially with the New England Patriots. The Frugal Yankee kicks off to her.

Will Leitch of Deadspin.com fears the ego driven sports stars and the syncophantic sports reporters. Are we the fans doomed? Will's book is God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back)

No more software, no more hard drive. It's the next net wave. Tech maven & author Nicholas Carr wrote The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.

Sneaky charges, nickeled & dimed, bait & switch. You've been "gotcha"ed. It's costing you over $1000 a year and you don't even know it. Bob Sullivan knows how to stop it. His book is Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day-and What You Can Do About It

Were you bullied? Were you a bully? Is you child being bullied? It's bad for everyone. Dr. Melissa Holt's new report lays bare the real cost. Listen in and find out how to stop it.

Is your car rental safe? SmartMoney.com's Neil Parmar gets behind the wheel and finds out. The Frugal Yankee asks him the questions you want to know. Listen in.

Yankee Magazine Food Editor Annie Copps simmers soup recipes warming the bones of any chilly New Englander.

Brett Milano's insightful history of Boston's rock scene from the 50s to now. The Frugal Yankee whips out their air guitar ans strums along for the ride.

Americans are going broke. The Frugal Yankee looks into the psychology of over spending with tips to avoid. Also famed Hollywood actor and director LQ Jones stops by with some humor and an inside look at the film making business. Plus factoids on fish, magnets and more.

Film director LQ Jones restored A BOY & HIS DOG starring Jason Robards, Don Johnson. Written by Harlan Ellison the cult classic is enjoying a re-release.

Recession, consumer spending and going broke. Americans have it all wrong. Psychologist Stuart Vyse probes the reasons with the Frugal Yankees and in his book, Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money.

Brown-nosing, sucking up, flattery. It's everywhere, but we never discuss it. Willis Regier's new book, In Praise of Flattery, explores flattery in all its forms.

No time to cook? Check out this new company from Maine! Simmering sauces made all naturally. The Frugal Yankees talk with CEO Kurt Shisler.

Organic food, organic clothes, now organic funerals. Natural burials are a burgeoning phenomenom. What is it? The Frugal Yankee chats with Cynthia Beal of the Natural Burial Company.

The Frugal Yankee outlines an inexpensive, frugal, creative, family-oriented, good time for Easter. From ways to save money to fun treasure hunts and cool items for the basket, it's spending less and enjoying more.

Newton Wellesley Hospital's Carl Faust has savvy tips on running specific problems. How to get healthy and stay healthy especially as the Boston Marathon gets closer. To find more, go to RUNNING STRONG.

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Can a hangover be cured? Ed Humes on MONKEY GIRL. Alex Boese discusses ELEPHANTS ON ACID, plus some humor and crankiness.

Whenever Jason Reitman, director of the award winning film JUNO, is in Boston, he checks out the Frugal Yankee.

LQ Jones is the acclaimed director of the cult classic A BOY & HIS DOG. He is also a well known actor. He has some kind words to sy about the Frugal Yankee.

As all God's children know, New England's great humorist Jimmy Tingle is a big fan of the Frugal Yankee.

She was the next big thing in Rock 'n Roll, but the Frugal Yankee is the next big thing in saving money.

Weird scientific endeavors abound in this science/history/bathroom anthology. The Frugal Yankees get experimental with Alex Boese, author of Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments.

Darwin deniers, intelligent design, creationism and evolution collided, again, in 2005. Edward Humes' Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul etches both sides of this volatile debate.

Alcoholic overindulgence means hangovers. Is there a cure? Are there tips? Hair of the dog? Listen as the Frugal Yankees do more than sleep it off.

On this installment: is medical tourism safe, are extended warranties worth it, how some Monks are making money selling toner plus a sneak peak at a sustainable living expo coming to Boston on March 28.

Rising medical costs are sending thousands of Americans abroad for surgery. Is it safe? Is it worthwhile? A frugal look at medical tourism with the author of Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism.

Consumers buy extended warranties as insurance against breakdowns, but are they worth it? Probably not. The Frugal Yankee checks it out.

Sustainable living, carbon footprints, frugal living, locavore food shopping and more all at one Expo coming to Boston on March 28

The story of how a bunch of monks created a successful business and melded community action. The inspiring book is Lasermonks: The Business Story Nine Hundred Years in the Making

This week's show: Gatroporn and the Puritans, the flu epidemic of 1918, saving on your property taxes plus some grumpiness and kvetching.

650,000 Americans died. Politicans failed. Medicine failed, but we don't talk about it. Could it happen again? Probably. Are we prepared? Probably not.

The Puritans created our weirdness when it comes to food and now we have gastroporn. Frederick Kauffman's A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STOMACH explains it. The Frugal Yankees dig in with relish.

Rising taxes. Lowered house values. Town errors. Your property taxes are probably too high. Listen as the Frugal Yankees give you some tips on how to lower them.

This week's show: Young@Heart and Yankee Magazine's Justin Shatwell

Yankee Magazine's Justin Shatwell explores NE's rich music scene and reports back to the Frugal Yankees. Who's hot, where is it hot and how to find it?

Stephen Walker directed YOUNG@HEART. The Frugal Yankees get behind the camera with him in discussing this crowd pleasing documentary about octogenarian rock singers.

Young@Heart Music Director Bob Cilman reveals how his octogenerian singers define the famous group and the new ht documentary.

This Week's Show - Young@Heart film director Stephen Walker, inside Wikipedia and getting Crankee with a telemarketer and on a credit card rip off.

Taking their own advice, listen in on how the Frugal yankees handled it when unwanted telemarketing calls came in and a credit car number was ripped off.

A close look at the popular web destination. Is it reliable? How does it work? Can you use it to your advantage? The Frugal Yankees go beyond editing.

This weeks show: Tom McCarthy & Richard Jenkins from THE VISITOR, Carl Faust on post Boston Marathon injuries & Martha Lear discussing if memory oss is dementia.

Tom (The Station Agent) McCarthy, the director and Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) the star of THE VISITOR discuss the making and meaning of the new indie hit film.

Alzheimer's, dementia or natual aging? Is memory loss something to fear? Auhor Martha Lear remembers it all. Her book is Where Did I Leave My Glasses?: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss.

Whether you run the Boston Marathon or not, your body can undergo terrific stress. Physical Therapist Carl Faust explains what happens and how to make it better.

This week's show includes the legendary Buck O'Neill story, discovering unknown Diane Arbus photos and frugally vacationing in New England by Yankee Magazine.

Tight budgets in a bad economy shouldn't mean eliminating your vacation. Listen as Yankee Magazine's Mel Allen explains how you can still have a great time, but the frugal way.

From the Negro Leagues to Ken Burns' BASEBALL, Buck O'Neill's life is placed in perspective in Joe Posnanski's THE SOUL OF BASEBALL .

Undiscovered Arbus photos, a seedy Times Sq. circus sideshow and a paranoid empherma dealer merge in Gregory Gibson's true book. Compelling and stranger than fiction.

The Frugal Yankee for May 3, 2008 - Gregory Gibson on "Hubert's Freaks", Frugal Summer Travel Tips, Betty Fulton on Boston Print Fair & Michael Borer's new book, "Faithful to Fenway."

The economy stinks and your vacation looks like a goner. Think again. The Frugal Yankee has thrifty tips to get away this summer for little money.

The most beloved baseball field in America is Fenway Park. Sociologist Michael Borer has explored what it means to New England, the fans and the players.

Early one morning, a animal cry emanates from the woods behind the house. What is it? Fisher cat? Coyote? The Frugal Yankee starts investigating. The search and what was found.

For May 10, 2008 - Big Screen Boston, Yard Sale Pointers, Bad Art Gallery, Restaurants: Locally Grown & the death of Irish pubs.

Ireland's surging prosperity has an unintended victim. Listen as the Frugal Yankee bemoans the death of Irish pubs.

Films like THE DEPARTED or MYSTIC RIVER show Boston in a recent light. Yet since the beginning over 250 films have used New England's largest city as a backdrop. Author Paul Sherman explores all of them in BIG SCREEN BOSTON.

MOBA, the Museum of Bad Art, is expanding. Are America's values threatened? Will real artists become extinct? Is this part of a new 'culture war?

A few timely tips on how to score at a yard sale.

Sustainable, locally grown, carbon footprint. All buzz words. Now these ideas are reshaping restaurants and the food you order. Yankee Magazine Food Editor Annie Copps explains.