Lifestyle Columns
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Ramis reflects on comedy career, recent honorJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - The weather was wet, but the wit dry when Harold Ramis arrived at Chicago's Music Box Theatre to show his new movie "Year One" and accept a lifetime achievement award at...
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'Friday' films new and old slash their way onto DVDJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Talk about scary. This week's DVD lineup includes no less than four "Friday the 13th" flicks, which makes it a bloody great week for fans and an, um, interesting one for...
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George Lopez coming to Rosemont TheatreJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Comedian George Lopez - sitcom star, HBO headliner and soon-to-be talk show host - performs his standup at the Rosemont Theatre as part of the Just for Laughs Festival's...
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Schaumburg's Post Honeymoon to play the HideoutJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - The aptly named Chicago husband-and-wife group Post Honeymoon has an album-release show for its eponymous debut at Chicago's renowned Hideout this weekend. Schaumburg na...
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Getting chummy with da guys from Restaurant RadioJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - I've been a regular contributor to Restaurant Radio Chicago for a couple of months now and while I talk each week with hosts Tom Reboletti and Dane Neal, I really don't ...
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Diversity abounds in tiny Central CoastJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - The Central Coast isn't the country's largest American Viticultural Area; that would be the Ohio River Valley encompassing about 16 million acres. It isn't even Californ...
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Amazing Steaks, how sweet they soundJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - A friend mentioned just the other day that her husband asks for Amazing Steaks from our "Desperation Entertaining" cookbook every week - whether they're entertaining or ...
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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...