Lifestyle Columns
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Cheaptickets hotel booking turns out to be costly for consumerJun 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I have a problem with a missing hotel reservation that I need your help with. I recently booked a room through Cheaptickets.com at the Executive Inn Airport in Fo...
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Check out 'mancations' for lads and dadsJun 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Having been worshipped and adored recently on Mother's Day, I'm reminded of a stand-up routine by Chris Rock. Rock talks about Mom getting all the glory and thanked for ...
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Seniors can save on last-minute dealsJun 07, 2008 11:00 pm - With gasoline so costly this summer, perhaps the surest escape from the misery is to drink a gallon and get it over with. Certainly, we can assume many vacations are bei...
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Time an Alaska cruise for most comfort, sceneryJun 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. We are kicking around the idea of going on an Alaska cruise with the thought that we would like to go inland and go on a bus or train tour. Our friends live in No...
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'll buy you a few and some for meJun 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Monogrammed plates or place mats make a nice gift if you're having a backyard shower or birthday party. Unless you want them for yourself, of course. The 10-inch melamin...
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Elegant 'Wit' shows toll of cancerJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Vivian Bearing personifies our greatest fears. Solitude. Pain. Death. Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer, the 50-year-old literature professor around whom playwrigh...
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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...