Lifestyle Columns
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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...
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First La Scala, now the Met: A year of firsts for Lyric alumna Erin WallApr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - An amazing season for soprano Erin Wall will continue Monday when the alumna of Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Center for American Artists makes her Metropolitan Opera de...
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Mary Anne Lund makes baked pears with seasoned goat cheese, baconApr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Cooking for 425 teenage girls sounds as challenging as a tour of duty with famously crabby Gordon Ramsay of the Fox reality show "Hell's Kitchen." But it isn't, accordin...
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Fresh coconut worth the effort for special holiday cakeApr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Over the years I've baked my share of lamb cakes. You know the type I'm talking about: heavy pound cake adorned with jelly beans, sweetened coconut and sometimes a plast...
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Supplement proven effective for macular degenerationApr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. I am a 73-year-old man. I was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration about a year ago by my optometrist. He used a special camera to photograph my retina...
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Even those chips carry some riskApr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Could eating an extra large bag of potato chips increase your risk of heart disease? Recent research has shown that a diet of fried potato chips increases blood markers ...
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Preventing another crisis: Capital requirements could hurt banksApr 04, 2009 11:00 pm - This is the first column in a two-part series that concludes next Sunday in Homes Plus. While policymakers and their kibitzers, among which I count myself, debate w...