Lifestyle Stories from November 6, 2014 (Change date)
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Highland Park's Sprout Kids filled with fashionable holiday giftsNov 10, 2014 3:13 pm - Sprout Kids in Highland Park is known for carrying the trendiest styles, from brands like Stella McCartney to Scotch Shrunk, and Twirls & Twigs to American Apparel. Not ...
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Home inspector didn't disclose leaky roofNov 07, 2014 9:03 am - Q. Before I bought my house, several friends said, "Don't buy a place with a flat roof. You'll have leaks." But I didn't listen. I figured that a home inspector would le...
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Your son's decision to join Marines isn't something done to youNov 06, 2014 5:05 am - Q. My 20-year-old son wants to enlist in the Marines. He is a very smart kid who was accepted to several good colleges and chose not to go. If he wants to go into the Ma...
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Kansas prairie park preserves vanishing tallgrassNov 07, 2014 5:17 am - STRONG CITY, Kan. - Stand here in a field of tall, windblown grass and wildflowers, and twirl around like a child. It's like being inside a prairie snow globe: You're su...
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Go for the food: Make an odyssey of 1 meal, 1 chefNov 07, 2014 5:17 am - NEW YORK - So you've landed in a foodie destination, a happening city brimming with top-tier restaurants and chefs sporting scary-good culinary cred. You want to make th...
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Reel life: 'Interstellar' is not the place for IMAXNov 07, 2014 5:16 am - Taken to the IMAX? The IMAX company didn't finance, market or distribute Christopher Nolan's new science-fiction drama “Interstellar.” Yet, the company is, accordi...
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'Welcoming lights' ring in Naperville Marathon, holiday seasonNov 07, 2014 5:17 am - A marathon is coming to town, it now gets dark an hour earlier and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Downtown Naperville doesn't need any more reasons than that to...
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Ask a designer: Making your clutter into decorNov 07, 2014 5:17 am - Designers often surprise their clients by sharing a secret: You can dramatically change the look of a room simply by changing or rearranging the items on your bookshelve...
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Edet Belzberg's excellent 'Watchers' tells a horrible taleNov 07, 2014 5:17 am - Mini-review: 'Watchers of the Sky' Anyone possessed with even a fleeting sense of social justice should be amazed and appalled by what he/she sees and learns in Edet Bel...
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Globetrotter Pico Iyer makes case for staying putNov 07, 2014 5:17 am - RIO DE JANEIRO - Pico Iyer has spent the past several decades on the move, incessantly hopping from one far-flung destination - Ethiopia, Morocco, Indonesia - to another...