Lifestyle Columns
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With winter coming, fix costly air leaks before they're a problemOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - If you didn't worry about those air leaks during the summer, you might reconsider when the temperatures start dropping. Even a small leak can cost you plenty over time, ...
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Starz's new series 'Crash' an accident waiting to happenOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Premium-cable Starz tries to get in on the cable programming boom by taking the feature film "Crash" and turning it into a TV series. It would seem to be a natural. Not ...
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LEED certification lowers a home's environmental impactOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I am planning to design and build a new house and I want it to be energy efficient. I want to try to make it a LEED house so I get reduced property taxes. What exactl...
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'Secret Life of Bees' not typical HollywoodOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - This sanitized 1964-set drama centers around three fascinating, educated, cultured black women running their own honey business during the Civil Rights movement in South...
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'Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train' an explosive, chilling dramaOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - One thing you learn after a few months spent covering crime: when trouble finds a person, more trouble follows. It took less than four months on the Cook County criminal...
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Banks can't base loan approval on a borrower's ageOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - It's legal for lenders to ask how old a loan applicant is, but they generally can't use the information when deciding whether the mortgage is approved or rejected. Q. My...
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'What Just Happened' talent-laden but inertOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Top-notch talent both behind and in front of the camera can't save "What Just Happened," a surprisingly inert dark comedy about two weeks in the life of a Hollywood prod...
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'Iconoclasts' returns, bright-eyed if a bit patOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Two people can bring out the worst in each other, as anyone who's seen the presidential debates can attest. But a unified couple can also have the opposite effect - on t...
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Ruhl's 'Eurydice' an ancient myth entrancingly toldOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - A raining elevator deposits a bewildered young bride into the afterlife. A doting father builds for his daughter a room made out of string and pink helium balloons. A pe...
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'Sex Drive' coasts on cheap laughsOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - In the mood for a raunchy, gross-out road comedy about sex-crazed nerds and nervous virgins on the loose? Or a movie that tries to make amends for its dumb-but-calculate...