Lifestyle Columns
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Racy new British teen series strives to outpace its American influencesAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - If you missed the U.S. premiere of the randy new British series "Skins" earlier this week, consider yourself lucky. Now is when things really start to get interesting. A...
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Glamorama? Radical!Aug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - This year's Macy's Glamorama is going to be, like, totally awesome. Glamo-whatta? For those who haven't heard of it, Glamorama is the splashy, annual fall fashion show ...
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Modern Sicilian wines coming into their ownAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Sicily's ancient peoples - the Sicanians, Sicels, Elymians - - are lost to antiquity, but her ancient wine culture thrives, connecting Sicily's past and present to the f...
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Comic 'Rocker' rocks the aged with fun and affectionAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I saw a press screening for "The Rocker" five weeks ago, and the best thing I remember about it was a scene where Rainn Wilson sticks his head through the sun roof of a ...
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A little tweaking goes a long wayAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I enjoyed your column on baking with fats but wanted to tell you about some of my efforts. I found that by minimizing my ingestion of saturated fats, I could mana...
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Restaurant labels help diners make informed choicesAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - When mandatory food product Nutrition Fact labels first appeared, two-thirds of those surveyed said that they read those labels. Those results led me to believe that man...
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Writers' Theatre reviving 'Nixon's Nixon'Aug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Writers' Theatre revives its acclaimed production of "Nixon's Nixon," Russell Lees' imagined exchange between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on the night before the m...
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Dividing time between kids, new relationshipAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. Am I a big whiny baby with unreasonable expectations, or are most men in Washington state cavemen who know more about deer and salmon than they do about women? I'm hi...
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'Sesame Street' abides, endures as it starts 39th seasonAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Today's column is brought to you by the letter A and the number 1, because "Sesame Street" has been producing Grade A educational television as the No. 1 program for kid...
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'Street Kings' a grim but entertaining cop thrillerAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - "Street Kings" - Crime writer James Ellroy has spent his career exploring the demonic side of the City of Angels. His bloody fingerprints are all over "Street Kings,...