Lifestyle Columns
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Owners should quickly clear paid-off loan from titleMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - It's the owner's job to ensure that his or her mortgage is removed from the title to their home when the final payment has been made. Q. We never thought the day wou...
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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 ...