Columns
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Widescreen: HBO's 'Last of Us' shunned actual gameplay to become the best video game adaptation everMar 09, 2023 5:00 am - Sunday's season finale of “The Last of Us,” at 8 p.m. on HBO, doesn't need to air for me to call the series the best dramatic adaptation of a video game ever. The shocki...
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Suburban theater artists discover joy of puppetry in Music Theater Works' revival of 'Avenue Q'Mar 09, 2023 5:00 am - Comedy is bread and butter to theater artist Melissa Crabtree, whose resume includes roles in such tuners as "A Christmas Story," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to t...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Suffrage march tied to our timesMar 09, 2023 12:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm "Votes for Women!" was a showdown between Alice Paul, 28, versus Woodrow Wilson, 56, which opened with a colorful Washington parade on March 3, 1913, wi...
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Guest columnists Brian Urbaszewski and Susan Mudd: Electric school buses are healthiest choice for kids' lungs, our communities and the planetMar 09, 2023 12:00 am - In a Feb. 6 Daily Herald Letter to the Editor, Tucker Perkins, president of the industry lobby group Propane Education & Research Council, called for a planet-friendly a...
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Neighbors in the news: Highland Park foundation welcomes two new membersMar 08, 2023 10:00 pm - • The Highland Park Community Foundation (HPCF) has welcomed Caroline Mead as a new board member and Eric Zoberman as senior director. Mead was raised in the suburbs of...
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Who will win? Film critic Dann Gire makes his Oscars picks, from sure bets to up-for-grabsMar 08, 2023 2:00 pm - Predicting this year's Academy Awards winners might appear to be as easy as blasting womp rats on Tatooine with a T-16 Skyhopper. So who will win big on Sunday night? I ...
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An ingredient substitution shines in a great recipeMar 08, 2023 5:00 am - Milk Street magazine showcased a recipe for broccoli raab and Italian sausage in its March/April 2023 issue that looked enticing, and I decided to try it. I already had ...
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Sound check: Lucky Boys Confusion hosts MS benefit concertMar 08, 2023 5:00 am - Fighting MS Stubhy Pandav and his Lucky Boys Confusion cohorts take the stage for a night of music, fellowship and fundraising as the Singing for A Cure 2023 benefit con...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Income inequality loves student loan forgivenessMar 08, 2023 12:00 am - I'm old enough to remember when college-loan recipients expected to repay their loan balance. The whole thing. That was before President Joe Biden decided he unilaterall...
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Jim O'Donnell: Presenting a solution for Big Ten flameout in NCAA men's tournamentMar 08, 2023 12:00 am - SPECIES THAT EAT THEIR OWN face constantly diminished dinner options. No sports species of the new mill has proved more effective at devouring its own than Big Ten men's...