Lifestyle Columns
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Give your furnace a quick check, cleaning each seasonOct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I want to keep my utility bills as low as possible. With the heating season soon upon us, is there much I can do myself to keep my heating system running at its maxim...
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Imaginative 'Ember' rushes fast-paced plotOct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - The real star of "City of Ember," which could be the first post-apocalyptic sci-fi film for the whole family, is the city itself: an underground metropolis teeming with ...
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Not-so-great Scott!Oct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - At a key moment in "Body of Lies," Ridley Scott's Middle Eastern bid to rip off a Jason Bourne adventure, a Jordanian security chief lectures CIA agent Roger Ferris that...
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Sister needs to stand up to stepmother herselfOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. My younger sister is 21; she has dated her boyfriend for two years. They had some rocky times, which made the family a little worried, but in the last 16 months h...
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Catch 'Million Dollar Quartet' while you canOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" will have to hold off packing their bags for Broadway. For now. Any plans Chicago-based Dee Gee Theatricals and John Cossette Produ...
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'Century' turns on flimsy narrativeOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - "Turn of the Century" wants to go to Broadway. And it has a pedigree that all but guarantees it will get there. There's the score comprised of 20th-century standards an...
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On stageOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - 'Midsummer' at NWRT Like she did with last season's "Hamlet Remix'd," director Jean Gottlieb puts a contemporary spin on Shakespeare's romantic romp "A Midsummer Night's...
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'Starter Wife' on the reboundOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The second time around isn't quite as giddy-gleeful spontaneous for "The Starter Wife," but it never is. Debra Messing's miniseries about a Hollywood divorcee returns as...
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Bakers hot and cold when it comes to popoversOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Occasionally my husband will chime in with a suggestion or two for this column. I listen more intently when they involve tales from his childhood. Recently he recalled t...
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Grandma cut off by her controlling daughter-in-lawOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. My son is married and has two kids, 8 and 3. They live several states away. My daughter-in-law dictates the rules by which my husband and I are allowed to spend t...