Lifestyle Columns
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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...
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Punk the Burbs 5 takes over Lisle's BaseCamp Pub with two-day punk, ska festivalSep 28, 2022 9:00 am - When Caitlin Edwards of Bumsy and the Moochers first formed the Punk the Burbs Facebook group back in 2014, building an annual music festival around it hadn't even cross...
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A creamy smothered cucumber salad with a 50-year historySep 28, 2022 6:00 am - This story begins with James Beard's now 50-year-old 1972 cookbook: "American Cookery," where, on page 48, Beard shares his version of Smothered Cucumbers. If you opened...
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Make it a family fiesta as kids help with Tex-Mex dinnerSep 28, 2022 6:00 am - I recently hosted a pair of Tex-Mex classes for kids and families. Registered dietitian Mary Zupke from The Garden Plate taught alongside me and offered a few healthy re...
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Sound check: Violent Femmes, Nora Marks, Beer Can'd Fest and moreSep 28, 2022 6:00 am - Dionne in Des Plaines Six-time Grammy-winning hitmaker Dionne Warwick (“Walk on By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “That's What Friends Are For”) brings her catalog of soulfu...
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Neighbors in the News: Oakton administrator elected to serve on national boardSep 26, 2022 11:00 pm - • Palatine resident Katherine Sawyer, Oakton Community College's chief advancement officer, is among four higher education leaders elected to serve on the board of direc...
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Bendoff: Residents cry foul when garbage day becomes garbage weekSep 26, 2022 6:00 am - By David Bendoff Q. I live in a single-family homes common interest community association. Our declaration of covenants concerns garbage. The declaration states with spe...
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Suburban Punjabi festival returns after pandemic hiatusSep 26, 2022 5:30 am - A long-running suburban Punjabi cultural festival resumed earlier this month after a two-year pandemic hiatus. More than 400 Sikh community members from across the Nort...
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Good News Sunday: 3:36 a.m. phone call from president announces release of brother held hostage in AfghanistanSep 25, 2022 7:30 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Charlene Cakora devoted "every day" of t...
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Home inspection report was poorly writtenSep 25, 2022 7:00 am - Q: The home inspector we hired seemed to do a very thorough job of finding defects, but his written report was so poorly written that we began to doubt the quality of th...