Lifestyle Columns
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Antonio DePau makes pasta and peasJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Fast-food restaurants and frozen dinners don't impress 13-year-old Assunta and 10-year-old Robert DePau. Their favorite foods are the authentic Italian meals their fathe...
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Eclectic Los Lobos to play Blues on the FoxJun 15, 2009 11:00 pm - I remember seeing Los Lobos while on vacation on the Delaware shore in what must have been the early '90s. It was the last show of a long tour, played in an overgrown ro...
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What you should know about complementary medicineJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Last week, I gave a lecture at the Arlington Heights library on ways to improve one's health. It was a well-attended lecture and afterward, one question from the audienc...
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'For sale by owner' may cost you time in a slow marketJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. Unfortunately in February 2008 my father passed away, leaving my sister the executor of his estate. My sister lives in another state and my father's home and the...
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Mortgage borrowers suffer disclosure overloadJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Editor's note: This is the first column in a two-part series on "poking holes in mortgage reform." The series concludes next Sunday in Homes Plus. Reading pr...
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Running out of options for leaky basementJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. I have had leakage coming in over my basement wall for many years. Every time a moderate-to-heavy rain comes in from the east, southeast or northeast and hits the out...
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Bypassing the 'introspection stage' is what makes you an idiotJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. I'm an idiot. I cheated on my girlfriend of five years. When she found out, I went through hell trying to regain her trust, and I ended up proposing to her befor...
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New 'Woodstock' director's cut should be added to your collectionJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music - The Director's Cut 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition" For those of us who remember the classic concert film, this grea...
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Yoga movie doesn't enlighten viewers; quest for domestic blissJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - 'Enlighten Up' Kate Churchill, a former producing director at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, follows a non-religious, 29-year-old Canadian ex-journalist (Nick Rosen) ar...
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Nothing antiquated about this 'Gran Torino'Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - "Gran Torino" Clint Eastwood directs and stars in a drama that reminds me a bit of the 1983 White Sox - it wins ugly. Sure, the film is hobbled by some unconvincing ...