Ask Amy
Single man feels heat from a friend - August 2, 2011 - Dear Amy: Recently my wife and I separated.
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Fred Mitchell's Around Town
Bears newcomers try to fit in - July 31, 2011 - This is the time of year when football coaches typically refer to new players by their uniform numbers instead of their last names.
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Barbara Brotman
Doctors hope new CPR method puts lifesaving technique in everyone's hands - August 1, 2011 - The fellow in the hospital bed looked pretty poorly. His mouth was frozen in a strange grin and his skin tone was waxy. Rubbery, really.
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Steve Chapman
What the debt ceiling fight won't fix - July 31, 2011 - The debt ceiling fight has been long and exhausting, but it will have a big payoff. After it's finally resolved — with the Boehner plan or the Reid plan or something else — we will have confronted our budget crisis, made tough choices...
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Teddy Greenstein
18 holes with David Chung - August 1, 2011 - A spectacular run as an amateur golfer has afforded David Chung some rare experiences — shaking the hand of a former U.S. vice president, dining with Tiger Woods in the Champions Locker Room at Augusta National and being showered with...
David Haugh's In the Wake of the News
Peavy far from an ace for Sox - August 1, 2011 - On the same night Paul McCartney captivated a crowd at Wrigley Field, eight miles away on the South Side another performer aging quickly in front of our eyes tried recapturing lost glory at the Cell.
Melissa Harris' Chicago Confidential
A Kennedy on a quest to do more - July 31, 2011 - I had just 30 minutes to talk with Christopher Kennedy, the outgoing chief of Chicago's Merchandise Mart and the eighth of Robert F. Kennedy's 11 children. So I got to the point.
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Philip Hersh
No Hollywood ending yet for Chicago boxer - August 2, 2011 - This looked like the script of a heartwarming movie: a promising 15-year old boxer gets falsely accused of murder, spends 15 months in juvenile detention before a jury acquits him, comes back to win a national title and earn a shot at the 2012...
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Jon Hilkevitch's Getting Around
Zeppelin impresses at Oshkosh air show - August 1, 2011 - — Captain Jim Dexter takes passengers up for a spectacular 360-degree view of the earth aboard an aircraft he dubs "the ultimate skybox."
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Ask Rex Huppke: I Just Work Here
I Just Work Here: Handling the office stinker - August 1, 2011 - Did anyone consider just painting the debt ceiling the same color as the walls? It really would make the whole room look bigger.
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Chris Jones
Casting announced for 'My Fair Lady' at Paramount - July 19, 2011 - The Paramount Theatre has announced the cast for its first self-produced musical: Jim Corti's fall production of "My Fair Lady."
Gregory Karp
Why we blunder when we buy - July 22, 2011 - Consumers might say they like easy buying decisions, but they don't.
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John Kass
Don't pass up 2nd chance to crack open a good book - July 24, 2011 - Some of you do your summer reading with sand between your toes. Others read while sitting at a lake in the woods, smelling faintly of mosquito repellent, wondering if there's a bear in the bush.
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Julia Keller
The ABCs of summer reading - July 30, 2011 - Henry James once opined that the two most beautiful words in the English language are "summer afternoon." I would like to edit James — alas, who wouldn't? — and bestow the most felicitous phrase award upon the words "summer reading."
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Rick Kogan's Sidewalks
Marina City's story among many on river - July 29, 2011 - I heard another sad story last week from an 8-year-old boy who lives on the South Side and told me that he has never seen the Chicago River.
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Greg Kot
Lollapalooza's must-see bands: An hour-by-hour guide to 3 days of music - August 2, 2011 - Lollapalooza: More than 130 bands and artists on eight stages play 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday in Grant Park; all three days are sold out.
Gail MarksJarvis
Debt ceilings, earnings and stocks - July 31, 2011 - Luckily, it's summer.
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Nina Metz
The new doc 'Life in a Day,' starring Chicago - July 29, 2011 - A year ago, producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald asked anyone with access to a video camera (or even a camera phone) to record bits of their lives on July 24, 2010, and then upload the footage to YouTube, after which Macdonald would...
Clarence Page
Black voters' Obama blues - July 31, 2011 - It is only in comparison to today's Republican Party, divided between its old-school establishment and its tea party zealots, that today's Democrats look unified.
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Michael Phillips
Farewell to 2 character actors of distinction - July 29, 2011 - For decades now, whenever one of my work colleagues put forth a dubious idea or exhibited irrational or violent behavior, I couldn't help but think of the scene in "Apocalypse Now" when Gen. Corman informs Martin Sheen's Willard, over a meal of...
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Mary Ellen Podmolik
Many workers still priced out of housing market - July 29, 2011 - The Chicago area's ranking in a new study of home affordability looks promising, until you start to look at paychecks.
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Dan Pompei
Bears thinking bigger - August 2, 2011 - BOURBONNAIS — The players have come and gone at a dizzying pace.
Howard Reich
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Phil Rogers
Cubs losers at trade deadline too - July 31, 2011 - At least one Chicago team is all in.
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Phil Rosenthal
Austerity now a tall order — at Starbucks - July 31, 2011 - One look at the line of folks eager to plunk down three bucks for a Starbucks latte or some other treat, and you might get the idea all is hunky-dory with the economy.
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Ameet Sachdev's Chicago Law
U. of C. professor argues privatization of public assets just like borrowing money - July 22, 2011 - Mayor Rahm Emanuel may want to update his summer reading list with an article by a law professor at the University of Chicago.
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Mary Schmich
Former Borders employees hold online wake for bookstore chain - July 31, 2011 - Some of the saddest and most enjoyable reading to be found online these days is written by former employees of the dying Borders bookstore chain.
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Dawn Turner Trice
Breaking the silence - August 1, 2011 - Donna Rogers spent Saturday afternoon marching through a portion of the Englewood community denouncing the area's violence. This was her first time marching.
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Phil Vettel
Pub honors its inner Brit - July 28, 2011 - Owen & Engine is a 10-month-old gastropub with charming British decor, a beer list bulging with British-style ales and a menu that includes dishes such as bangers and mash and hairy taddie. But chef de cuisine Charles Burkhardt would rather not...
John von Rhein
He's the hottest young composer around. But catching Nico Muhly isn't easy. - August 2, 2011 - Nico Muhly apologized for missing our phone interview. By an entire day, as it turned out.
Ellen Warren
Cool solutions to hot summer temperatures - July 29, 2011 - You're steamed! And so am I. The temperature's been brutal out there. Some hot questions. And, of course, Angel's got answers…
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Jen Weigel
Tired of lame excuses? Excuseman to the rescue - August 2, 2011 - Do you make excuses? Has it become a bad habit? If Jordan Margolis had his way, he would use his "Power of Reverse Apology," a pseudoscience he created for his alter ego, Excuseman to rid the world of useless excuses.
Jon Yates' "What's Your Problem?"
Problem Solver: Updates on the phantom car loan, air conditioner - August 2, 2011 - It's still unclear who reported Gloria Gates as a deadbeat car owner, but a week after her story appeared in What's Your Problem?, the Englewood resident's situation has improved dramatically.
Eric Zorn
A shockingly common sense recommendation - July 31, 2011 - I was startled to read recommendation 3.3 near the end of the Chicago Federation of Labor's "City of Chicago 2012 Budget Efficiency Report," a document released last week by union leaders hoping to prevent the hundreds of layoffs threatened by...
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Julia Allison: Social Studies
How airlines are embracing social media - July 26, 2011 - DEAR JULIA: I'm a young professional who flies upward of eight times a month -- what the oldsters used to call a "road warrior." Unsurprisingly, I'm addicted to my "CrackBerry," my laptop and iPad are practically fused to my fingers, and I...
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Matt Bowen
Waiting for name to be called on draft day nerve-wracking - April 24, 2011 - The dynamic of the NFL draft goes much deeper than first-round picks walking across the stage in three-piece suits (bought by their agents) to shake the commissioner's hand.
Dennis Byrne
The truth hurts: Bleak indicators - August 2, 2011 - The fierce debate over raising the federal borrowing limit has had at least one happy result: The public's newly found awareness that Washington must borrow 40 cents for every dollar it spends.
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Meghan Daum
The siren song of Google+ - July 29, 2011 - Google+, which launched a month ago to great fanfare, is so far feeling more like Google nonplussed. Reported to have crossed the 20-million-user mark last weekend, the new social networking site is designed to correct one of Facebook's major...
Don Dziedzina
Testing waters at Rock Run Rookery - July 29, 2011 - The Rock Run Rookery has been on my go-to list since it first opened to fishing last month.
Leah Eskin
Tried and true - July 31, 2011 - Fish takes naturally to the grill. It must be the contrast between water and fire, cool and hot, brine and char. Or the affinity between summer and easy. Rightfully, they go together.
Ilyce Glink
How to save the housing market: Realtors have a few ideas - July 27, 2011 - Last week the National Association of Realtors sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Timothy Geithner, secretary of the Treasury, and Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.
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Jonah Goldberg
Men behaving badly - June 3, 2011 - Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York is a very busy man. He sits on several important committees. He's newly married to a high-powered wife. He's planning a run for mayor of New York, which they call "the city that never sleeps" for a reason. In fact,...
Benny Kass
Giving property as a gift requires careful tax planning - July 29, 2011 - I receive a large number of email questions on a monthly basis, and try to answer as many as I can. I wish I could respond personally to everyone, but that is not possible.
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Joyce Lain Kennedy
Severance pay: Get your fair share - July 31, 2011 - Q. After 14 years working for a company, I'm being let go with a month's severance pay. Is this as chintzy as I think it is? -- C.H.
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Charles Krauthammer
Big push for the Half-Trillion plan - July 25, 2011 - WASHINGTON — The debt ceiling looms. Confusion reigns. Schemes abound. We are deep in a hole with, as of now, only three ways out: the (Sen. Mitch) McConnell plan, the G6 plan and the Half-Trillion plan.
Dan McNeil
Hendry, Angelo can't compete with Sox GM - July 28, 2011 - My money would be on Kenny Williams if I could get action on which Chicago roster boss distinguishes himself this week.
Robert Pagliarini: Your Other 8 Hours
Start living your miracle life - August 1, 2011 - Last week I asked the Miracle Question from Solution-Focused therapy, which is simply, "If a miracle occurs tonight while you sleep that solves all of your problems, how would you know when you woke up that a miracle occurred? What would be...
Kathleen Parker
Rule of politics: Educating Cain - July 23, 2011 - WASHINGTON — Politics Rule No. 1: Never say what you really think, especially before you think.
Mark Pearlstein
Board has right to examine accounting records - July 29, 2011 - Q: I am currently the treasurer of our association in the western suburbs. Since taking this office, I have been questioning charges by our management company. We pay bank charges for check deposits and direct debits. These charges do not appear...
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Leonard Pitts
'Everybody look what's goin' down' - July 28, 2011 - Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.
Janet Portman
Don't get stuck paying for tenants' blight - July 29, 2011 - Q: My tenants incurred a fine from the city that claimed that their poor housekeeping (really, their yard-keeping) was a violation of city codes. The ordinance says I'm responsible for paying the fine, too. I think that's unfair — after...
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Dean Richards
Moore talks 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' and playing Sarah Palin - July 29, 2011 - NEW YORK CITY — Julianne Moore is a four-time Oscar nominee who's just coming off of the critically acclaimed "The Kids Are All Right." Her best-known movies are all thoughtful, often heavy dramas, so playing opposite Steve Carell in the new...
Daneen Skube: Interpersonal Edge
Dealing with emotional terrorists - August 1, 2011 - Q. Our organization is considering promoting a current vice president to CEO. She is prejudicial and overbearing, has no people skills, calls employees stupid, belittles them many times, resulting in tears, is always right, and yells in public at...
David Sobolewski
'We had bigger goals' - March 21, 2011 - Obviously, the Benet team and community had an extremely rough time with the unexpected end to the season.
Joe Trost's Corner Kicks
Girls soccer | Joe Trost's Corner Kicks: Madison County teams sweep the state tournament - June 9, 2011 - Darren Geisler, an avid soccer fan from downstate Illinois, sent an email last week thanking me for picking Granite City to advance to the semifinals of the Class 3A state tournament last weekend.
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Mary Umberger
The down-payment hurdle - July 29, 2011 - Tight credit is leaving the housing market gasping for air. That's the drum beat from many corners of the real estate industry, which has been complaining loudly that restrictive mortgage-lending standards are a leading reason housing can't seem to...
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Bob Weber
An inflated tire diagnosis? - August 1, 2011 - Q: I have a 2003 Chrysler Town & Country with 76,000 miles. It has begun displaying the message "Service Tire System Soon/Read Owners Manual." Since all tires are inflated with nitrogen I am wondering if it may be a TPMS malfunction. Any...
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George Will
Who will bat against 'Alibi' Obama? - July 8, 2011 - "If he popped up in the pinch he should of made a base hit and the reason he didn't was so-and-so. And if he cracked one for three bases he ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn't lively, or the wind brought it back, or he tripped on a...
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