Carpentersville Lifestyle
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Suburban auditionsMay 07, 2009 11:00 pm - • Artists are needed to exhibit at "Art & Soul on the Fox" as part of the 3rd annual FoxFireFest of the City of Elgin, which is to be held on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1...
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Cheap stuff to do: Free trolley rides, nature craftsMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Free Climb aboard, Mom! The Fox River Trolley Museum is offering free trolley rides for mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers in honor of Mother's Da...
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The Methadones: punk with pop sensibilitiesApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - If the softening and corporatization of pop-punk has weakened the genre's street cred, that does not matter to Dan Schafer. "I like a lot of genres of music, but it has ...
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Café Roma in Elgin is simple yet satisfyingApr 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Café Roma in Elgin satiates through simplicity. Frank and Jennifer Redisi opened Café Roma in June 2008, banking on Frank's Cordon Bleu skills and the year he spent in ...
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Empty Can Band helping to fill food pantryApr 23, 2009 11:00 pm - The Empty Can Band - Dave Glynn, Johnny Mack, Rich Van Hamm, J.D. Klatt and Paul Wegman - brings its classic-rock repertoire to Doug's American Grill & Bar this weekend....
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He's creating special surprises in the kitchenApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Don Cwynar breaks one of his cardinal, culinary rules for us today: nobody is allowed in his kitchen while he's cooking. "I chase them out," he says. "I get too nervous,...
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Bartlett woman one of nation's few wine aerialistsApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Working your way through college can have its ups and downs. But for Adelynn Drescher of Bartlett, swinging up, down and upside-down through a 40-foot-high wine cellar p...
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West Dundee woman gives new life to old clothesApr 20, 2009 11:00 pm - If you found a hideous, stonewashed pair of Guess jeans from the 1980s, you'd toss them straight in the garbage, right? Jessica Clute wouldn't. The 38-year-old West Dund...
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Record Store Day celebrates the indie spiritApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Despite what you might have heard, you don't have to buy music in a cavernous box that displays compact discs next to dishwashers. And you don't have to buy it as an inv...
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Where to get your chocolate fixApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Chocolate is good for you? You bet we're believers. But even if that claim never quite pans out, we're sure a little chocolate indulgence will improve your outlook. So i...