Columns
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Feder: Chicago Sound Check turns local music scene up to 11Mar 15, 2019 1:00 am - A music writer for the Daily Herald has turned his passion for discovering new artists and up-and-coming bands into a vibrant website that explores the Chicago and subur...
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Feder: New CBS 2 anchor Brad Edwards says he's still 'just a news guy'Mar 15, 2019 1:00 am - Just because he's been promoted to the top news anchor job at WBBM-Channel 2 doesn't mean Brad Edwards will be off the street. One day after he was named to replace Rob ...
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Baldfaced hornet nest: Nature's architectural marvelMar 14, 2019 11:00 pm - It wasn't the Great Pyramid of Giza, but the nest outside my office window was an architectural wonder. I marveled at this structure from its incipient stages last July...
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Movie review: Cystic fibrosis patients share a potentially fatal attraction in 'Five Feet Apart'Mar 14, 2019 8:00 am - "Five Feet Apart" - ★ ★ ½ In the dying teen drama "Five Feet Apart," a charismatic adolescent couple suffering from cystic fibrosis not only must avoid personal contact,...
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Constable: How a newly sober man plans for a dry St. Patrick's DayMar 14, 2019 5:30 am - Last St. Patrick's Day, Connor celebrated his Irish heritage with a few beers. “Just drinking and enjoying the time,” the 25-year-old Park Ridge man says of his time spe...
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Accountability makes good governmentMar 14, 2019 1:00 am - As various House committees gear up for a season of investigations and hearings on President Donald Trump and his administration, a lot of people are worried that progre...
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Yes, Trump is target of 'presidential harassment'Mar 14, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump often complains that he is the victim of "presidential harassment" - or, as he sometimes puts it, "PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!" "After more than two ...
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O'Donnell: Is Northwestern's Collins on the threshold of falling in with the haunted?Mar 14, 2019 1:00 am - THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A FEELING the basketball life of Doug Collins was haunted. When his on-court existence looked like Easy Street - en route to Munich, Philadelphia, Mi...
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Widescreen: Cirque du Soleil at home, 'Close Encounters' on the big screenMar 13, 2019 11:40 am - Normally, you have to wait for the big tent to go up outside United Center or fly to Las Vegas to see the artistic acrobats of Cirque du Soleil, but you can watch a one-...
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Movie review: 'Steve McQueen' film finds comedy in real-life bank heistMar 13, 2019 9:00 am - "Finding Steve McQueen" - ★ ★ ½ The superficial, yet amusing, fact-based bank heist tale "Finding Steve McQueen" begs to be a full-out comedy. Instead, director Mark Ste...