Lifestyle Stories from February 2, 2018 (Change date)
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Things to consider with a HVAC maintenance contractFeb 02, 2018 5:00 am - Q. The main floors of my three-story townhouse get heat and air conditioning from a Trane natural gas furnace with an outside air conditioner unit. The basement apartmen...
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Boom in small ship cruising: 'It's not about the slides'Feb 04, 2018 9:17 am - NEW YORK - Cruise ships carrying thousands of people have gotten all the headlines in cruising in recent years. But there's also been a boom in small ships, river cruise...
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How to order a wine you'll really like at a restaurantFeb 05, 2018 5:18 am - How do you describe the flavor of a wine? Gobs of fruit, including some you perhaps have never tasted? Forest floor, flint, stones or other things you would never put in...
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Sandra Bland case to wrap Viola Davis' 'Two Sides' docuseriesFeb 05, 2018 6:39 am - Viola Davis knows how to make an audience see into the heart of a character, whether a burdened mother in "Doubt" or the flawed attorney in "How to Get Away with Murder....
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New real estate survey offers helpful insightsFeb 10, 2018 7:32 am - WASHINGTON — They are gnawing questions that many homebuyers inevitably ponder: What are my chances of getting the house I've fallen in love with at a price I can afford...
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Why a textured ceiling shouldn't be covered with drywallFeb 02, 2018 5:00 am - Q. When we remodeled our home, we wanted to get rid of the "cottage cheese" ceilings, but we didn't want the mess of scraping them off. Instead, we covered the ceilings ...
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Brothers Osborne embrace traditional country on musical riseFeb 03, 2018 8:56 pm - Country music upstarts Brothers Osborne may have started their career as underdogs, but now that they've been crowned the genre's biggest duo, the pressure is on. In a f...
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Chelsea Clinton to sign new book in La GrangeFeb 05, 2018 11:49 am - Chelsea Clinton is set to make at least her third book tour appearance in the suburbs, this time promoting a new children's title called "She Persisted Around the World:...
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Feder: Sun-Times drops theater critic Hedy WeissFeb 05, 2018 11:49 am - Eight months after the Chicago Sun-Times ran an editorial declaring "We support our theater critic, Hedy Weiss," the paper is dropping the curtain on her. "Today is Hedy...
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Barrington neighborhood rallies behind elderly couple, daughter after evictionFeb 05, 2018 5:26 am - Many residents in a Barrington neighborhood have rallied behind an elderly couple and their daughter since they were evicted from their house this week. Fox Point subdiv...