Lifestyle Columns
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The Adams Family: HBO does John, Abigail and founding fathers proudMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The founding fathers, so forbidding as historical figures, come to life in all their contradictory complexity, their courageousness, self-sacrifice and mortal dread, in ...
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Local bands make mark with spring releasesMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - With spring fast approaching, it's time to look at area bands that hold major promise for the new year. Here are a few recent releases that deserve further inquiry, and ...
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Director plays games with horror genre in 'Funny Games'Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm guessing that most people will hate "Funny Games" with the level of passion usually reserved for toppling governments or creating new religions. Two sociopaths weari...
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Can you play basic blackjack with no house edge?Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Typical blackjack players give about a 1½ percent advantage to the house because of the mistakes they make playing their hands. But even those who get their entire basic...
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Questions answered about Debt Relief ActMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - New rules published by the Internal Revenue Service could save huge amounts of money for millions of financially troubled homeowners, especially those who sell for less ...
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Greasy Joan's modern flair enlivens MoliereMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The mission of Greasy Joan & Co. as expressed in rhyme, involves re-imagining classics for contemporary times. For its first foray into the oeuvre of Moliere, the compa...
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Famed tenor had Lyric tiesMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The two greatest Italian tenors of the post-World War II period are now gone. Giuseppe di Stefano, regarded as one of the most dynamic opera stars of his generation, die...
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Slow-moving 'Crimes' falters on tight stageMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - On the surface, "Crimes of the Heart" seems like a fairly easy play to pull off. A dark domestic comedy about estranged sisters who return to their rural Mississippi h...
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Acclaimed 'Bountiful' concludes Goodman's salute to Horton FooteMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Trip to Bountiful" makes no grand pronouncements. Yet Horton Foote's bittersweet play, a study in character about an elderly woman returning to her childhood home ...
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'Married Life,' Sleeping Walking' openMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - 'Married Life' Piece Brosnan's dumbed-down narration treats us like blind idiots in this darkly comic, post-World War II look at a middle-aged man (Chris Cooper) who dec...