Columns
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Spotlight: Mike Lew's family comedy 'Tiger Style' opens at Writers TheatreSep 30, 2022 6:00 am - Sibling rivals Christopher Thomas Pow and Aurora Adachi-Winter play squabbling siblings in "Tiger Style," Mike Lew's comedy about Chinese American heritage, in which a b...
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How Mike Simon's vision for the 'next Rodeo Drive' helped shape Geneva's Third Street shopping, diningSep 30, 2022 6:00 am - No one would blame Mike Simon if he simply wanted to rest this week after much of this year's 100th anniversary celebration of his family's The Little Traveler home déco...
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FBI honors suburban tattoo artists for helping victims, ex-criminals replace reminders of pastSep 30, 2022 5:00 am - It's bad enough having your ex-girlfriend's name tattooed on your biceps. Imagine having the name of the pimp who forced you into sex work inscribed on your neck. Or a g...
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Lincicome: When Judge homer chase fails to excite, what does that say for baseball?Sep 30, 2022 1:00 am - Irony is not baseball's friend yet when New York Yankee Aaron Judge's 61st home run of the season sailed over an outfield sign promoting gambling, it seemed the right de...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: In midterm politics, historical analogies work - until they don'tSep 30, 2022 1:00 am - If history is any guide, Democrats do not have a chance - not even a small a chance - of keeping control of the House in the midterm elections. But the question is: Is h...
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Derivative, jump-scary horror tale not much to 'Smile' aboutSep 29, 2022 10:00 am - “Smile” - ★ ★ Normally, a starless, derivative, overly long, jump-scare-saturated horror movie like “Smile” would be sent directly to streaming on a digital platform a...
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Feathered flyways: When, what birds to look for during fall migrationSep 29, 2022 6:00 am - • This column by Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto is reprinted from "Horizons," the quarterly publication of the Lake County Forest Preserves. You can ...
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Chicago area needs to consider climate change in storm plansSep 29, 2022 1:00 am - I knew the recent storm here in the suburbs was trouble when my son noticed rainwater slowly dripping from a light fixture in my family room. I got off relatively easy. ...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Loan forgiveness with other people's moneySep 29, 2022 1:00 am - There was a time in America, more than a decade ago, when horror stories of six-figure student debt racked up by graduates with faint prospects and no idea how they'd re...
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Widescreen: Music Box Theatre's 31 nights of horror movies begins with all five 'Final Destination' flicksSep 28, 2022 11:00 pm - The Freeform channel famously packs its 31 Nights of Halloween with family-friendly scares, but Chicago's premier movie theater brings the gore for its 31 Nights of Horr...