Lifestyle Stories from October 25, 2018 (Change date)
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China building boom uncovers buried dinosaurs, makes a starOct 29, 2018 6:22 am - YANJI, China - At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100...
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Review: Boy George and Culture Club make long-delayed returnOct 25, 2018 3:05 pm - Boy George and Culture Club, "Life" (BMG) Like clockwork, every decade or two you can count on a Culture Club reunion album. In 1999, "Don't Mind If I Do" closed a 13-ye...
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ASCAP hosts all-female songwriting camp to improve diversityOct 25, 2018 11:05 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In a spacious recording studio in Nashville, two singer-songwriters, Priscilla Renea and Jillian Jacqueline, were working through a song idea, tr...
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Study finds LGBTQ characters on network TV hit a record highOct 25, 2018 11:05 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A record-high percentage of LGBTQ characters are part of the new TV season's prime-time network series, according to the media advocacy group GLAAD. T...
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Movie review: Story gets muddled in well-acted 'What They Had'Nov 02, 2018 7:38 am - “What They Had” - ★ ★ ½ “What They Had” begins, appropriately, in a state of confusion. Ruth (Blythe Danner) has wandered from her Chicago apartment into the snowy ...
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Movie review: Slapstick bests the bad guys in 'Johnny English Strikes Again'Nov 02, 2018 7:38 am - “Johnny English Strikes Again” - ★ ★ ½ Johnny English, the secret agent of last resort, need not mean the movie of last resort. In “Johnny English Strikes Again,” the ch...
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Movie review: 'Hunter Killer' blasts through over-the-top action, cliched plotNov 02, 2018 7:38 am - “Hunter Killer” - ★ ★ There are so many good movies in theaters right now - thoughtful, artistic, well-acted films that studios save for this time of year with the dista...
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Movie review: Melissa McCarthy shines as bitter writer in 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'Nov 02, 2018 7:38 am - “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The early 1990s New York of Marielle Heller's “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” isn't so long ago but it already feels staggeringly distant...
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Elgin funeral director goes above and beyond for Vietnam War veteranOct 29, 2018 6:23 am - Daniel Symonds' unique opportunity to help a fellow veteran came last year when he received a phone call from Kane County Coroner Rob Russell. The body of a homeless ma...
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Love it or hate it, candy corn has more varieties than ever this HalloweenOct 29, 2018 6:22 am - The thing that is hard to grasp about candy corn-flavored candy - not candy corn, but other candy that tastes like it - is that it's a candy defined more by its texture ...