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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Works in progress: Jack Clark in Paris

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Paris, 2017       Jack Clark spends his springs in Paris — talk about a good judgment call. This year he told me he was off for France with ...
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Friday, April 17, 2026

Technology always wins, but we can make our own magic until then

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"The Hand & The Eye," $50 million worth of high end magic palace located in the old McCormick Mansion on East Ontario. It open...
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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Flashback 2009: Lump of coal from Keillor — His 'Christmas' gift won't keep on giving

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      Garrison Keillor is coming to the Park West  on May 4. I can't go — previous commitment — but I've seen him perform several ti...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Trump feuding with the pope? I thought he was the pope

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       By now you know what happened.      President Donald Trump, up to his neck in the Iran quagmire and thus perhaps more angry than usua...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Freedom and coffee go together

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Coffee break, Amsterdam        Honest question:      Have you ever gone to a coffee shop for a cup of coffee?      I don't mean, have yo...
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Monday, April 13, 2026

Older, sicker Americans waiting longer to get into crowded hospitals

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     An endocrinologist is a doctor specializing in hormone-related diseases, such as, in my case, diabetes. When first diagnosed in late Se...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Flashback 2011: Maybe that pain in your gut is cancer

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      Sometimes one aspect of life can have an odd resonance with another. I was looking through the archive, noticed this story, and figure...
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