Columns
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Oldie but goody cast scores extra points in fun, but fumbled gridiron fantasy '80 for Brady'Feb 02, 2023 5:00 am - “80 for Brady” - ★ ★ ½ The screenplay's lame, but the dames are game all the same. Lily Tomlin is 83. Jane Fonda is 85. Rita Moreno is 91. Sally Field clocks in at a yo...
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Don't knock this 'Cabin': M. Night Shyamalan returns in apocalyptic formFeb 02, 2023 5:00 am - “Knock at the Cabin” - ★ ★ ★ Leave it to M. Night Shyamalan to turn a simple, creepy home invasion thriller into an apocalyptic tale steeped in the biblical Book of Rev...
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Guest columnist Raja Krishnamoorthi: Even in chaotic Congress, we can make progressFeb 02, 2023 12:00 am - After the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy requiring 15 ballots to secure his position as House speaker, are we doomed to two years of chaos and dysfunction? I share the conc...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Blood on many Memphis hands: To be Black at a traffic stopFeb 02, 2023 12:00 am - A 21st-century policing pattern has emerged from Freddie Gray in Baltimore, George Floyd in Minneapolis and now the death of a young man, Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennes...
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Late artistic director's spirit animates First Folio's 'And Neither Have I Wings to Fly'Feb 01, 2023 5:00 pm - “And Neither Have I Wings to Fly” - ★ ★ ★ ½ From story to staging, the spirit of the late Alison C. Vesely animates First Folio Theatre's “And Neither Have I Wings to Fl...
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It's time to make chardonnay your winter white wineFeb 01, 2023 5:00 am - There's a good reason to make chardonnay your winter white wine, and that reason is butter. Butter as in lobster dipped in butter, poultry and seafood sauteed in butter,...
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Sound check: Catch the classics of Jim Peterik at Hey NonnyFeb 01, 2023 5:00 am - Jim Peterik Berwyn-born Jim Peterik, the singer/songwriter/producer behind The Ides Of March and some of Survivor and 38 Special's biggest hits, heads to Hey Nonny's lis...
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Jim O'Donnell: Both "The Score" and AM-1000 remain lost in spaceFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - TAKE ONE FLOUNDERING CAPTIVE SPORTS CITY and mix in two feeble sports talk radio stations and what's the result? Like Billy Preston once sang, "Nothin' from nothin' leav...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: The Joe Biden-Hunter Biden scandal convergenceFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal is also a Hunter Bi...
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Syndicated columnist Elwood Watson: What the Tyre Nichols case tells us about racismFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - The death of Black people at the hands of law enforcement has become so commonplace that it's easy to feel both outraged and psychologically numb. Over the past few deca...