Lifestyle Columns
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Update the look of your house with new exterior lightsMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - A dated exterior light fixture can give your whole home a dated look. But updating it is fairly easy. Here are the basics. When choosing a new fixture, design is very i...
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You gotta 'Love' Rudd and Segel together againMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - When you put actors Paul Rudd and Jason Segel together in a room with their "I Love You, Man" director John Hamburg, a film critic can just forget about having any contr...
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Juvenile humor, sympathetic characters in comedy about candorMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - What we get in John Hamburg's funny, moronic, platonic comedy "I Love You, Man" is an inspired, undercranked comic performance by Paul Rudd, whose mastery of the art of ...
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Today is 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' DayMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Today is the second annual "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Day, created a year ago by friends and colleagues of PBS kids' show host Fred Rogers to mark what would have been ...
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What's new and notable on stageMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Musical whodunit Drury Lane Oakbrook marks its 25th season with the regional premiere of "Curtains," a play-within-a-play in which the leading lady is murdered during th...
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Swedish vampire flick gets it 'Right'Mar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - "Let the Right One In" Quick! Before the inevitable Hollywood remake arrives, see this Swedish vampire film, which also happens to be a touching drama about preteen ...
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Say no to 'Knowing,' a silly merger of the occult and sci-fiMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Alex Proyas' "Knowing" has got to be the most ridiculous, far-fetched and silliest attempt at a serious work of science fiction during the last two decades. Yet, I found...
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Grass-fed vs. grain-fed beefMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. Is grass-fed beef included in the recommended limit on red meat consumption? A. Yes. The most recent recommendations based on a research-grounded, peer-review...
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Roger McGuinn mixes Byrds hits with the folk traditionMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - About 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Roger McGuinn will sit down for a late lunch in the Elgin area, or perhaps somewhere between there and Chicago, and start drawing on ...
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Jacquie Jenkins makes Savory Crouton-Apple StuffingMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - For Jacquie Jenkins, Easter is bound with tradition. From attending Sunday morning Mass in their Easter finery to preparing the holiday feast, Jacquie and her extended f...