Lifestyle Columns
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Words, music blend in Lookingglass showJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The most striking thing about "Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day," Lookingglass Theatre's artful and absorbing multimedia homage to Chicago's not-quite-native so...
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'Art' looks at fragile bond between menJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Friendship can be as inscrutable as a piece of conceptual art: challenging, sometimes frustrating, often delightful and fragile if clumsily handled. While it may not qua...
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No insight in 'Savage Grace'Jun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Tom Kalin's "Savage Grace" boasts top-shelf performances, well-crafted camera work, a literate script and a fact-based story that includes betrayal, adultery, three-way ...
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CSO still centerpiece in Ravinia scheduleJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The Ravinia Festival is ready for a classic summer. Programming underway this month in the intimate Martin Theatre includes such early-season gems as the Juilliard Strin...
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'Fugitive Pieces' lacks dramaJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - "To live with ghosts requires solitude," observes Jakob Beer, the tortured novelist hero of Jeremy Podeswa's plodding dramatic interpretation of Anne Michaels' novel. A...
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Venting or tantrum? There's a differenceJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. What's the difference between a female who's "just venting" versus having an "adult tantrum"? Seriously. My adult daughter (37) says she's just venting; but on this e...
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Video game violence, mayhem make 'Hulk' not so incredibleJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Hardly anyone liked Ang Lee's character-driven 2003 "Hulk" movie with Aussie star Eric Bana, so French action director Louis "The Transporter" Leterrier took over for th...
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'Happening' disappointing in the endJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - It begins with two women sitting quietly on a bench in New York City's Central Park. Above the din of traffic noise and the rising wind, a scream. "Did you hear that?" t...
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Lead actresses rise above bland TBS sitcomsJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The first flaw in TBS' "My Boys" is no Chicago sportswriter looks like Jordana Spiro, who plays the foxy blond PJ Franklin. What's more, no Chicago sportswriter works li...
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The pool is open!Jun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Like it or not, it's time to put on your bathing suit. If your current suit is ill-fitting or out-of-date, you can buy a cute new one that's stylish and still appropria...