All Stories from September 4, 2014 (Change date)
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Gire: Hollywood Palms hosts 'No Place Like Home' benefitSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - Film critics notebook • A 75th anniversary screening of MGM's classic musical “The Wizard of Oz” will benefit Aurora's Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity on Monday, Se...
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Baby's name won't change family's sad pastSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - Q. My husband and I are expecting our first child. We have been receiving a lot of family pressure to name him after my uncle “Ben.” Ben suffered from severe depression ...
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Flawed 'Falcon' flies with action star WhiteSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - This marks a first for any action movie I've ever seen: a tough, PTSD-suffering, suicidal ex-soldier takes a U.S. government agent job for the health benefits. But not f...
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'The Congress' a mad, meta Hollywood tripSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - "Very soon, this whole structure that we all love so much will be gone," prophesies Danny Huston's wide-grinning movie studio head in Ari Folman's "The Congress." He's ...
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Bananas Foster WafflesSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - 2 cups baking mix (see note) 1⅓ cups milk 1 large egg ½ teaspoon cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling 8 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter 1 cup brown sugar 6 ripe large (or...
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Move over Mom: Hold the fire, not the taste in kid-friendly bananas FosterSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - A few weeks ago I went to an exclusive dinner at Kendall College in Chicago (read in a snotty accent). It was a fundraising dinner and was made by chef Darin Nesbit, who...
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Gire: Conventional 'Robin Hood' misses the sensational boatSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'The Last of Robin Hood' The most interesting piece of trivia to come out of this bio-drama is that Hollywood star Errol Flynn could have played Humbert Hum...
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'Identical' a lackluster Elvis imitatorSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Here's a bit of Elvis Presley trivia that might surprise some: The King was a twin. His brother was stillborn and Presley, by some accounts, was haunted and fascinated b...
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Gire: 'Life After Beth' a lifeless rom-zom-comSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'Life After Beth' For a romantic zombie comedy, Jeff Baena's "Life After Beth" comes up way short on laughs, scares, action and political insights into our ...
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Residents of Grayslake's Prairie Crossing subdivision compete for county boardSep 04, 2014 5:30 am - Two Grayslake residents who live in the same subdivision and have a history of community involvement are competing against each other for a regional political office. Re...