Columns
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'Glass Onion' a spectacularly fun and mentally challenging sequelNov 23, 2022 5:00 am - “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “I need a great case!” declares Benoit Blanc, the bored and allegedly best detective in the entire world. On cue, he recei...
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Just as Spielberg's life story 'Fabelmans' finally starts rolling, it endsNov 23, 2022 5:00 am - “The Fabelmans” - ★ ★ ½ This should have been a real-life superhero origin movie with youthful stand-ins serving as early versions of Steven Spielberg before he evolved...
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Sound check: JORDY, Louis the Child, Night Spice and moreNov 23, 2022 5:00 am - JORDY's back With a joyful and uplifting view on life (with just a light touch of self-deprecation), Northbrook native pop singer JORDY has been spinning his relatable p...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Weinstein's disturbing opening statementNov 23, 2022 12:00 am - If she hadn't married the governor of California, she would've been "just another bimbo" who engaged in "transactional sex" to get ahead. Harvey Weinstein's lawyer, in a...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Voters' verdict: end of the Trump eraNov 23, 2022 12:00 am - The country came to its senses Nov. 8, after a seven-year famine in our politics. The worst in our nature showed up in vulgar, violent and virulent former President Dona...
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Neighbors in the news: LCDOT promotes two employees to assistant engineersNov 22, 2022 5:00 am - • The Lake County Division of Transportation has promoted Kevin Carrier and Jon Nelson to serve as assistant county engineers. Together, Carrier and Nelson will help lea...
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'Devotion' a handsomely produced, anti-white savior dramaNov 22, 2022 5:00 am - “Devotion” - ★ ★ ★ Ever since I began writing about Hollywood's white savior syndrome in 1986, I have seen only one movie that rejected the genre's implicit white suprem...
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The Constitution Article I: Rules for the Legislative BranchNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - This is the fifth in a series of essays about the Constitution of the United States. After identifying the reasons for and powers of the Legislative Branch of our federa...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: A topic more important than the presidentNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - Out there in Nebraska, where the air is clean and pure, up there in Minnesota, where they have those gosh darn cute accents, federal investigators found 30 teenagers wor...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The GOP's challenge now: Make America Good AgainNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - "I don't own this job. Anybody who wants to run for it can feel free to do so," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday. "I'm not in any way offended by ...