All Stories from May 18, 2013 (Change date)
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Tony nominations bittersweet for 3 actorsMay 18, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — For three actors, the Tony Award nominations are somewhat bittersweet. Sweet, because they'd each gotten a prestigious nod. Bitter, because their shows were l...
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Weekend picks: Naper Settlement transforms for Civil War DaysMay 18, 2013 6:00 am - Civil War Days See hundreds of re-enactors participate in an authentic battle, staged with artillery and marching infantry, when Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St...
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Artist replaces paintbrush with jet engine thrustMay 18, 2013 5:42 am - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The hurricane-force thrust from a jet engine pushes Tarinan von Anhalt into the air as she splatters an array of colors into the wind and onto a ...
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DVD previews: ‘Parker,’ ‘Beautiful Creatures’May 18, 2013 5:36 am - Coming May 21 “Parker” (R, 118 minutes, Sony): Parker, the antihero of Taylor Hackford’s serviceable action thriller, is an odd duck. Partly, it’s the quaint code of eth...
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Choices in potty seats aboundMay 18, 2013 5:31 am - NEW YORK — For some hopeful parents, summertime is “tinkle time,” as in setting toddlers free and diaperless outside while potty training. And like so many aspects of li...
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Faltskog reflects on ABBA, releases new solo albumMay 18, 2013 5:30 am - LOS ANGELES — For most of the last three decades, ABBA was but a memory for Agnetha Faltskog. She made concerted efforts to leave behind her past as one of two principal...
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Discovering your city on footMay 18, 2013 5:07 am - Adah Bakalinsky says there are more than 650 public stairways in San Francisco. She knows because she’s climbed them all, except the newest ones. And at age 90, she stil...
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The SoapboxMay 18, 2013 5:00 am - A courtroom first: This week’s conviction of Johnny Borizov in the murders of three Darien family members marked the first suburban gavel-to-gavel trial coverage with st...
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Rooftop owners have no rights to CubsMay 18, 2013 5:00 am - I don’t get it. If a serial bank robber gets caught, does he get to keep 83 percent of the stolen loot by cutting a deal with the feds? Yet, that is exactly what is happ...
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A way to make Internet tax fairMay 18, 2013 5:00 am - Sen. Dick Durbin thinks it unfair that Internet retailers don’t have to charge the same high rate of sales tax that the brick and mortar retailers are required to charge...