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'Mortal Kombat' wages grim, vapid battle in film adaptationApr 23, 2021 6:00 am - “Mortal Kombat” - ★ ½ If you base a feature film on a violent video game in which fighters pull out their opponents' hearts and rip the spines out of their bodies, the l...
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Window shopping: A look at some creative displays in the Tri-CitiesApr 23, 2021 6:00 am - For more than 10 years, glancing at The Limited women's clothing store window display in the now empty Charlestowne Mall in St. Charles provided me with ideas for holida...
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Proposed state law would ban police from misleading young suspectsApr 23, 2021 5:30 am - For police trying to crack a tough case, one tool in the arsenal is deception - letting suspects think there's strong evidence against them, even when there's none, in h...
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Cornerback again features multiple first-round talents and excellent depthApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - Fifth in a series Over the past decade it seems cornerback has been one of the strongest positions at the top of the draft and one of the deepest. While this year will b...
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Feder: Chicago Public Media promotes Tracy Brown to WBEZ content chiefApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - Tracy Brown, who joined WBEZ 91.5-FM as managing editor in 2019, has been promoted to chief content officer of the Chicago Public Media news/talk station, Robert Feder w...
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Jim O'Donnell: A year later, 'The Last Dance' remains a very neat TV featApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEKEND, the United States was reeling as the COVID-19 pandemic steamrolled into its second month. There was no light at the end of the tunnel. The dim...
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Walter Mondale: Behind a great manApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - I spent the 1984 presidential campaign in the seat behind former Vice President Walter Mondale. From nomination to landslide defeat, I was there, right behind him, givin...
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Derek Chauvin: The great white defendantApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - In the brilliant novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," author Tom Wolfe describes what he calls the intense media interest in covering "The Great White Defendant." A revi...
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Gourmet Kitchn finds a big e-commerce appetiteApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - Jamie Moriarty figured surely Amazon already was shipping cold food products across the country. But as Moriarty and his business partners looked into it, they discovere...
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Are big, stud defensive tackles a dying breed in the NFL?Apr 23, 2021 1:00 am - Maybe it's proliferation of 3-4 schemes, but big uglies getting harder and harder to find