Lifestyle Columns
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When turning attic into living space, attention to quality is keyApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Other than the basement, the attic is the part of the home most often adapted to new uses. So I suppose the attic will soon be given a new name. Once remodeled, a baseme...
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Job loss doesn't automatically relieve renter of one-year leaseApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Rising unemployment has made it impossible for many tenants to fulfill their lease obligations, but local rental laws dictate how the landlord must proceed when the rent...
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New on DVD: Disney animation collectionApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - "Disney's Animation Collection Volume One" There are three titles in the new collection from the Walt Disney Studios. Each DVD is part of the series which represents cl...
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Microwave could save electricity, depending on food quantityApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. I plan to use my microwave oven more instead of the range/oven to save electricity. I gave my old microwave to my mother and I need a new one. What should I look ...
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O'Neill's 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' gets better with ageApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Romeo and Juliet have nothing on Jim Tyrone and Josie Hogan, the would-be lovers in Eugene O'Neill's eloquent "A Moon for the Misbegotten." The Connecticut farm girl wit...
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CBS readies Masters coverage; HBO looks at 2nd Ali-Frazier boutApr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Masters & vanquished CBS does its usual highfalutin coverage of the Masters golf tournament starting at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday on WBBM Channel 2, but in ex...
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Dann and Raymond's Movie Club goes sci-fi this weekendApr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - The best of sci-fi Join me and film scholar Raymond Benson as Dann & Raymond's Movie Club goes out of this world to discuss the greatest science fiction films from 1970 ...
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Mauled cop comedy is Rogen's dark counterpart to popular 'Paul Blart'Apr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - "Observe and Report" is a dangerously funny movie, an unnerving shock-o-rama of laughs, blood, sex and swear words that actually earns the right to be described by the o...
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'Yes Man' gets a nod for quirky moments from Carrey, castApr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - "Yes Man" (two-disc special edition) Is the premise of Jim Carrey's latest comedy silly? Yes! Do the filmmakers rely too much on Robin Williams-style riffing from Ca...
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What's new and notable on stageApr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Cutthroat Steel Beam Theatre presents David Mamet's dark comedy "Glengarry Glen Ross," about real estate agents resorting to desperate measures when they're forced by m...