Lifestyle Columns
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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 ...
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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...