Lifestyle Columns
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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...
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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...