Lifestyle Columns
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Buyer regrets bypassing home inspectionOct 30, 2021 6:00 am - Q: I'm embarrassed to confess that I broke your cardinal rule: I bought a rental property without having it inspected, and now the chickens have come home to roost. The ...
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Constable: Former Des Plaines man's apocalyptic cooking show serves up horror, sci-fi, creepy catsOct 30, 2021 1:00 am - Watching cooking shows while stuck at home during the pandemic, Tony Trimm longed for something more entertaining. So Trimm, who grew up in Des Plaines, used his creativ...
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New Mad Batter Bakery in St. Charles mixes family, creativityOct 29, 2021 6:00 am - St. Charles downtown and tourism planners years ago liked the concept of a big Scarecrow Festival every fall to not only please local residents, but also attract visitor...
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Neighbors in the news: COD announces its new director of human resourcesOct 28, 2021 6:00 am - College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, has named Alma Camarena director of human resources. A seasoned human resources professional, Camarena has provided human resource soluti...
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Style, substance at heart of infectiously cinematic, sensational shocker 'Last Night in Soho'Oct 28, 2021 6:00 am - “Last Night in Soho” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The less you know about this gleeful, supercharged masterpiece of movie manipulation, the better. One spoiler can be allowed because...
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Suffering characters hang on for deer life in handsomely mounted creature feature 'Antlers'Oct 28, 2021 6:00 am - “Antlers” - ★ ★ ½ Don't get all excited just because freaky creature feature filmmaker Guillermo del Toro produced one of the scary movies playing this Halloween w...
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Widescreen: Will 'Eternals' at last give Marvel the grand, memorable music it deserves?Oct 28, 2021 6:00 am - If there is one consistently disappointing aspect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's the music. But two early tracks from next week's "Eternals" suggest the world's ...
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Constable: Tournament will draw table tennis elite to LibertyvilleOct 28, 2021 5:30 am - YouTube #8220;You see a world-class player playing a kid's game with little kids,#8221; says Englebert Solis, owner of tournament sponsor Edgeball Table Tennis. #8220;It...
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Do horror movies have value? 13 horror fantasies that will open your mind this HalloweenOct 27, 2021 11:00 pm - Horror movies have been popular ever since the dawn of cinema. But of what value can they possibly be? I posed this question to George Romero, creator of the modern zomb...
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Put that Halloween pumpkin to tasty use with this easy trickOct 27, 2021 6:00 am - This best-of Lean and lovin' it column originally ran Oct. 27, 2015. It would be hard to imagine that you haven't already had your fill of pumpkins, and yet, Halloween's...