Lifestyle Columns
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'Gas for Less' is touching story of urban renewalJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Customers get more than cheap gas at Art Pelenkovic's Chicago filling station. They get conversation. They get companionship. Or at least they did until gentrification o...
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Polanski film reverses preconceptions about the fugitive directorJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - If I were R. Kelly, I'd want documentary filmmaker Marina Zenovich to make a movie about me - as soon as possible. Zenovich's documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Des...
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'Zohan' a cut above usual Sandler fareJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Adam Sandler's new comedy "Don't Mess With the Zohan" revels in juvenile tastelessness, rude nudity, sexual shenanigans and cartoon violence. And yet, it might have a gr...
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Funny 'Kung Fu' martials the art of animated action-comedyJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - DreamWorks Pictures' crisply scripted, computer-animated action/comedy "Kung Fu Panda" propagates the fantasy that any slacker doofus, even a lazy panda, can become a he...
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CBS' wife-swapping 'Swingtown' a saucy '70s period dramaJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Staid, stodgy, predictable CBS, the self-proclaimed Tiffany network, is feeling frisky and going experimental this summer - like a freshly committed '70s swinger with a ...
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Bananas can step in for fat in baking recipesJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - If your family's like mine, you often face the lone banana quandary. What to do with the overly ripe fruit everyone abandons. Becoming more speckled by the day, that sol...
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With weight loss, he's a work in progressJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - On June 2 of last year, I stepped on a scale and achieved my goal weight: 177 pounds. Finally! After 20 months I had lost 150 pounds. That day marked the end of a chapte...
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Readers pour out their bottled-water talesJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - In an earlier column, I wrote about the cost-savings and environmental advantages of drinking filtered water using a home-pitcher system rather than buying individual ha...
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Acne 'cure' needs more studyJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. Can you tell me anything about using D-calcium pantothenate for clearing up acne? Would it be effective as a cure? I am also concerned with the safety of the requ...
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Introducing the 8-foot-long plasma TV; only $69,995Jun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - An 8-foot-long plasma TV? That's the size of the Panasonic Professional Plasma 103-inch 1080p HDTV. To put it in perspective: If the gigantic former NBA star Manute...