Columns
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Here's why spending fights are getting more frequentFeb 10, 2023 12:00 am - People are uneasy about the debt ceiling fight. Many think it's unhealthy and a sign of poor fiscal management, and they are right. However, they should get used to it. ...
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Buffalo Theatre's 'Andy Warhol's Tomato' a moving glimpse of artists connectingFeb 09, 2023 7:45 am - “Andy Warhol's Tomato” - ★ ★ ★ ½ There's nothing flashy about “Andy Warhol's Tomato,” Vince Melocchi's fictionalized account of the pop art master before he became famou...
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'Somebody' a dramatically flat story of rejected romance remorseFeb 09, 2023 5:00 am - “Somebody I Used to Know” - ★ ★ I really wanted to like the indie rom-com “Somebody I Used to Know,” but the longer its freight train of dramatically flat, passionless,...
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Columnist Jim Slusher: Truth, untruth, lies, belief and balanceFeb 09, 2023 12:00 am - Probably since before Charles Pinckney took five years off his actual age so he could be seen as the youngest member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, an inclina...
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Widescreen: Billy Corgan's Highland Park cafe to host film festivalFeb 08, 2023 10:00 pm - Madame ZuZu's Plantbased Emporium, the versatile venue in Highland Park owned by Smashing Pumpkins superstar Billy Corgan, will add a film festival to its considerable o...
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Creamy cauliflower with Gruyere is a side worthy of ribsFeb 08, 2023 5:00 am - Now is the perfect time to slow-simmer beef short ribs. I'm lucky to have a farmers market source that raises grass-fed cattle. When I ask if he's got any short ribs and...
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Sound check: Don't snooze on Saturday's SNUZFEST; Bitter Jester applications are openFeb 08, 2023 5:00 am - SNÜZFEST 2023 Break out the PJs! SNÜZFEST is back this weekend with its annual punk-rock pajama party. This year's edition at Chicago's Beat Kitchen features some of the...
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Spotlight: Citadel Theatre examines a matter of faith in 'The Christians'Feb 08, 2023 5:00 am - Breach of faith? The well-loved pastor of a Christian megachurch causes an uproar in his congregation when he announces he no longer believes in hell in "The Christians,...
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Syndicated columnist Elwood Watson: A police interaction with a young, black girl with a happy endingFeb 08, 2023 12:00 am - Last month, the Yale School of Public Health held a ceremony to celebrate Bobbi Wilson, a 9-year-old Black kid from Caldwell, New Jersey, whose efforts to eradicate spot...
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O'Donnell: Cubs, Bears, Sox - where didn't Andy McKenna leave his mark?Feb 08, 2023 12:00 am - IN THE IMMEDIATE MOMENTS after Harry Caray called his inaugural game at Wrigley Field as a Cubs play-by-play man, he wanted to see only one man. And it wasn't Milo Hamil...