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Thursday, May 17, 2018

The word police

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Stephanie Izard     A future column I'm working on necessitated a stop by the Chicago Ideas seminar at the Museum of Contemporary Ar...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

You mean you’re NOT an undocumented immigrant? Take your diploma and get out

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        It wasn't that the graduation festivities were without value—a class day speaker was very candid. A political science professor ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

In-N-Out

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     Epicures are odd people.      My older son likes fancy restaurants, and he is all Michelin stars this, and coq au vin that.  The swa...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

Waitlisted for dumplings

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      We drove half an hour to Monterey Park, a sprawling city east of Los Angeles that is 2/3 Asian, in order to sample the authentic soup...
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Graduation flashback: Taking a pass on a 'bar ritzvah'

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         Birth might be the last life transition done without ceremony of any kind. A few phone calls to family and friends, a photo o...
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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Flashback: Lincoln relic or just old hat?

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Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       My former colleague, Ray Long,  reports in the Tribune  that...
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Friday, May 11, 2018

Flashback 1998: TV's latest 'British invasion' is putting children in a trance

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     My older son Ross graduates from college in a couple days. I haven't seen him in ... more than five months, as he used the past...
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