Lifestyle Columns
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Shower odors may be due to bad trapAug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I look forward to reading your column every week in the Daily Herald and respect your opinions. I need help. For five years, we have owned an 18-year-old, three-story...
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Amazing experience at crossroads villageAug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - The year was 1919 and American doughboys were returning from war-torn Europe when Arthur Anderson opened his candy shop in Chicago. In 1926, with Chicago rents escalatin...
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How to dress for success in the airAug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Last week when I cleared security at O'Hare, I saw something you rarely see these days. An elderly woman was tying one on. I'm not talking about throwing a few belts bac...
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Buyers must be patient when purchasing home in a short saleAug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I am interested in purchasing a property that is currently in foreclosure from a friend. What additional things do I need to worry about because the property is i...
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Celebrate nature with all kinds of artAug 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Artistic Gardener is the latest Long Grove gallery opened by Rachel Perkal and Tobin Fraley, owners of Woodland Grove Gallery and Trillium. Artistic Gardener, 248 Robert...
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Forget money management gambling systemsAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - I just met another blackjack player who thinks he can beat the game with a money management system. Some of these systems are based on a clever betting progression, and ...
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This weekend in local cinemaAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Second Teen Film Fest Join me as master of ceremonies for the Second Annual Teen Film Fest today from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Twelve film shorts are entered. Three will receiv...
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Creative bankruptcy fuels 'Death Race' remake 'Death' a race with audience-pandering pablumAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - You know the movie industry must truly be creatively bankrupt when it remakes a futuristic 1975 thriller set eight years in our past. Paul Bartel's "Death Race 2000" sta...
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'Fake Lake' entertains and educatesAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Rarely has an artistic team expressed righteous indignation as disarmingly as playwright/actor Sharon Greene and director Halena Kays express it in the Neo-Futurists' en...
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Ravinia celebrates all things LincolnAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the Ravinia Festival's most well-received recent innovations is its free "family fun day," and this summer's all-day event, set for Sept. 7, will offer a glimpse ...