Lifestyle Stories from May 7, 2020 (Change date)
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Music Review: Jason Isbell firms up his place among the bestMay 07, 2020 5:05 pm - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, 'œReunions'ť (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers) Jason Isbell long ago earned his place among the finest songwriters of his generation. Now he's ju...
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Upcycled art: Cary native uses old tires, found objects to make sculpturesMay 10, 2020 7:32 am - Cary native Tani Ojeda has a menagerie of wildlife for sale from his family's Wonder Lake garage. But there's no need to call McHenry County Animal Control - these frogs...
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Storytelling, performances elevate grim gang film 'Blue Story'May 14, 2020 5:02 pm - War is futile. War is a waste. War lays ruin to generations of promising young people. It's the message of so many war films, but even more when the war in question is n...
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A teen turns snarky rock critic in film comedy 'How to Build a Girl'May 09, 2020 10:04 am - To every girl who watched “Almost Famous” and “High Fidelity” and bears the scars of trying to shoehorn her inner self into the male protagonist's cramped psyche, “How t...
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Today's Recommended Read: "Daisy Jones & The Six" by Taylor Jenkins ReidDec 31, 1969 6:00 pm - "Daisy Jones The Six" is not a book I normally would choose on my own. It was my book club's selection for last month, a lighter, last-minute substitution for what we'd...
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Constable: Mother's Day brunches give way to COVID-19 loneliness, confusionMay 11, 2020 6:24 am - I've written dozens of Mother's Day columns during my newspaper career. This will be my first Mother's Day without my mom. Lois Constable died in November at age 92. I r...
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Today's Recommended Read: "The Music Shop" by Rachel JoyceDec 31, 1969 6:00 pm - In Rachel Joyce's "The Music Shop," Frank Adair's vinyl record shop is part of a cozy, quirky community of shopkeepers, and personally, he is well-insulated from the ris...
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Signer of the times: Hinsdale South grad helps interpret governor's briefings for deaf communityMay 11, 2020 6:24 am - June Prusak has known exactly when Saturday and Sunday have fallen during the daze of a pandemic week. Those are the days when Prusak, using American Sign Language, has ...
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