Columns
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Broadway tours, world premieres, revivals heat up suburban and city stages this winterJan 05, 2023 5:00 am - Theatergoers have plenty of options this winter, including world premieres, touring productions of Broadway tuners and a couple of new plays inspired by Andy Warhol. Of...
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Guest columnist Ashbey Beasley: Within days, Illinois can act to protect against gun violenceJan 05, 2023 12:00 am - Six months ago this week, on July 4, 2022, I had just wrestled my 6-year-old son into an oversized tee shirt emblazoned with a cheerful sun and big block letters spellin...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Remember the hysteria over Trump's tax returns?Jan 05, 2023 12:00 am - By Byron York Democratic lawmakers had fought for years to get the documents. They claimed they needed them not for partisan political reasons but in order to oversee ...
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The history of the wines of Graves, Bordeaux, is a tasty tale you'll enjoyJan 04, 2023 5:00 am - Of the 6,000 wine grapes, you've probably heard of cabernet sauvignon, “the King of Grapes,” ranging from gulp-able examples stocked on lower retail shelves to wines of ...
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Columbo murders: Frank DeLuca dies in prison while serving more than 300 yearsJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - Convicted killer Frank DeLuca, who was sentenced along with lover Patricia Columbo to more than 300 years in prison for the murders of Columbo's father, mother and broth...
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Overdose prevention sitesJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - They call them "overdose prevention sites." I'd never heard of them until I saw the picture in the LA Times of a drug user literally falling down in the middle of a city...
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Syndicated columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: My hope for more healing in 2023Jan 04, 2023 12:00 am - I got an unexpected Facebook message from someone I had unfriended a couple of years back. We disagree on politics, and I just could not handle all the hateful rhetoric ...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: COVID only accelerated the blue state exodusJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions com...
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'He led and created from love': Steppenwolf ensemble members recall Tony winner Frank GalatiJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - Beloved theater artist Frank Galati - a Highland Park native and longtime Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member described as a leader who "infused joy into the rehearsal r...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe.Jan 03, 2023 12:00 am - On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe. These days, smoking in a store is as bad as smoking ...