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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Good news: Lucas museum breaks ground somewhere other than Chicago

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     Those who hooted down the white carbuncle that movie mogul George Lucas wanted to erupt next to Soldier Field can take a measure of ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Many schools support Student Walkout. And then there's Northbrook...

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Snap the Whip, by Winslow Homer (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentr...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Toast Bags and Garbage Pantz

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2018 Home + Housewares Show      This year  I almost skipped the Home + Housewares Show, despairing at ever topping last year's r...
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Calls to denounce Farrakhan are yesterday's news in Chicago

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Jews in a Synagogue, by Rembrandt (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       You must always check the date on news stories popping up on Faceb...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

There's more to Irish Chicago than turning the river green

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                                Hazel Lavery living and dying, that tale                                As though  some ballad-singer ha...
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Saturday, March 10, 2018

The Era of Contempt

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      People  try to soften the sting of whatever humiliation Donald Trump is inflicting upon the nation today by pronouncing it "the...
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Friday, March 9, 2018

What's with tomato soup and grilled cheese?

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Morton's, 3/8/18       The 100 lucky winners of the Sun-Times Night at the Opera contest had a wonderful time Tuesday at Lyric Opera...
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