Lifestyle Columns
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Itasca Giving Garden having its best year yetJul 16, 2010 11:00 pm - From the trading pit at the Board of Trade to the community garden plots in Itasca. That's how far Marty Lundeen has come since walking away from his career as a bond tr...
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No 'Ovation' for shallow kids musical that never should have been madeJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - "Standing Ovation" is a spiritually bankrupt, morally reckless, ethically unhinged and emotionally vacant musical comedy about a group of tweenies who can't act, sing or...
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Quick fixes to ease aging in placeJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - "Aging in place" is something we all are doing. Some of us are moving faster than others, but this is also a new catchphrase being used to describe the option of staying...
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A few flaws mar Bard's playful 'Twelfth Night'Jul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Typically, a director sets a Shakespeare play in an alternate era to make a social or political statement. Cases in point: Robert Falls' unrelentingly violent 2006 produ...
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First-time buyers get some breathing room to close their sales dealsJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Although Congress has refused to extend the $8,000 tax credit for buyers who purchase their first home, legislators have approved a separate bill to give taxpayers who s...
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Contractor won't repair uneven floorJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Q. We recently hired a contractor to enlarge our living room. But there is a dip in the wood flooring where the addition meets the original construction. When the work w...
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Fresh offering of film noir on DVDJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 5 Film noir was a film style with its roots in the 1930s. The films featured dark or dim lighting to set a mood for the story's...
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32 films, live concert launch inaugural Blue Whiskey film festJul 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Blue Whiskey what??? It's a new local film festival created by Fremd High School grad Michael Noens, and he intends for it to grow in popularity and become a majo...
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DiCaprio stars as a corporate raider in mind-bending 'Inception'Jul 14, 2010 11:00 pm - I love this movie! Christopher Nolan's insanely imaginative and intelligently trippy "Inception" is "Mission Impossible" led by a corporate Freddy Krueger in a mind-bend...
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Ruth Wright makes Farmers Market Apple CrispJul 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Doesn't every good cook have a kitchen drawer, a box or a folder stuffed with recipes they've clipped out but never tried? Ruth Wright did, but during a three-month cook...