Columns
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Flourishes of cinematic brilliance fight superficiality, numbing gore in blackly comic 'Bullet Train'Aug 04, 2022 6:00 am - “Bullet Train” - ★ ★ ½ Imagine that Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie conspired to create a blackly comic Grand Guignol version of a classic 1970s disaster film set abo...
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Spotlight: 'Kitties in Space' soars into Otherworld TheatreAug 04, 2022 6:00 am - Felines in space In a future where humans are extinct and pets have enhanced intelligence, cat buddies Socks and Mittens "go where no cat has gone before" in Otherw...
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Neighbors in the news: Northbrook native named Outstanding Young EngineerAug 04, 2022 6:00 am - • Dr. Jamie Spangler, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was named a 2022 Outstanding Y...
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Constable: Prius, columnist are racking up miles on the way to the finishAug 04, 2022 5:20 am - My first road trip in our new Toyota Prius was to Springfield in January 2007 to watch a promising young politician, whom I had been touting in my columns, announce tha...
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Hub: Watson's behavior has been laid bare for all to see; can the NFL get the punishment right?Aug 04, 2022 1:00 am - When the honorable Sue L. Robinson - the retired federal judge jointly selected and appointed as "Disciplinary Officer" by the National Football League and the NFL Playe...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Manchin: The man in the middle movesAug 04, 2022 1:00 am - Now I can say it: I never thought West Virginia Democractic Sen. Joe Manchin, was as nefarious - ahem! - as accused by Democrats of a more liberal stripe. I never though...
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Contreras, Happ glad to stay with Cubs, but how long will it last?Aug 03, 2022 11:00 am - When the night was over and Willson Contreras was still standing in front of the same locker, he admitted no one ever told him he was likely to be traded from the Cubs. ...
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A cool gazpacho is a happy medium in a hot, sticky AugustAug 03, 2022 6:00 am - It's August, and I'm hot. It's August, and I'm cold. Between the blistering heat and the ubiquitous overcompensating air conditioners, it seems like there is no happy me...
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Pairing wine and cheese never goes out of fashion for good reasonAug 03, 2022 6:00 am - As a home cook and culinary pro, I hear a lot about what people don't like to eat - broccoli, cilantro or tofu. But in all my years, I've never heard anyone say, "I don'...
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Sound check: Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams play Evanston's Out of Space weekendAug 03, 2022 6:00 am - Out of Space with Costello, Williams and Guy Evanston SPACE introduces the first of its two 2022 Out of Space concert series this weekend, with four shows set under the ...