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Top 10 Sunday havens for escaping the Ravens
Dining@LargeNot everyone loves the Ravens. Not everyone loves televisions in bars, lounges, and restaurants. Even with the sound off, there is always some lunatic at the bar doing that rhythmic clapping thing on a gain of three on second down.......Tags: International Trade, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Brunch, Real Estate, Dining and Drinking
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'Work of Art': The naked truth
Reality CheckI never had a chance to recap last week's Work of Art, but I'm still surprised Trong is gone. I mean, really, did you see Jaime Lynn's set dressing? Oh well. What's done is done.Before the first challenge, the contestants......Tags: Arts, Crimes, Judges, China, Arts and Culture
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What are the best movies based on books?
Less than a year after “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. “Come and see it all!” beckons the trailer for the silent film. “And enjoy the entertainment thrill of...
Tags: Photography and Video, Chicago Tribune, Tom Tykwer, Arts and Culture, Services and Shopping
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Remy Bumppo announces 2013-14 slate
Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 season. The ensemble based, Equity-affiliated company begins the year with the U.S. premiere of a new adaptation by Tim Luscombe of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey," slated for October. In... -
Women Shouldn't Use Men For Measure
The Hartford CourantImagine hearing the phrase: "Wow, you're just like one of the boys!" Then imagine hearing the phrase: "Wow, you're just like every other woman!" Now decide which phrase is a compliment. That didn't take very long, did it? Let's face it: For a... -
Tension fills author's book, family
Scientists have yet to prove that there is a genetic predisposition to good writing, but as they continue the search they would do well to read "The Chocolate Money," the first novel by a former Chicagoan named Ashley Prentice Norton. This novel,...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Literature, Great Chicago Fire (1871), Bipolar Disorder, New York University
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College student can make a date with Cupid
Dear Amy: I'm a college student and participate in a club at college. We often work with another club, our "sister club," at a nearby university. My friend "Mark" was hired to be a supervisor for the other school's club. I'm really happy about that...
Tags: Reviews, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Students
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The operatic governor
TRENTON, N.J. -- Coyness is not part of Chris Christie's repertoire, which does not stress subtlety, delicacy and intimation. New Jersey's governor is more Mickey Spillane than Jane Austen and his persona, which sometimes is that of a bulldog who got up...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Elections, Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Rand Paul
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A perilous journey for 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee
The critics and reporters assembled to watch the new “Life of Pi” a few weeks ago weren't expecting a filmmaker introduction, but in stepped the ever-soft-spoken Ang Lee to inform them that this had been his hardest film to make and that...
Tags: New York Film Festival, The Sixth Sense (movie), Film Festivals, Pacific Ocean, Entertainment
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Flirtatious poking bothers girlfriend
Dear Amy: I'm 27 and have been with my boyfriend "Mike" for three years. We intend to get married down the line. However, I'm discovering that Mike has a string of female admirers in all of his friend groups — women from college, clubs, interest...
Tags: Truman Capote, Book, Authors, Willa Cather
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Women Are Funny, That's No Joke
The Hartford CourantGet your pen, keyboard or tattoo gun, everybody, and please write this down: Women are funny and always have been. Women's humor is not a "new thing." It's not like an iPhone 5, the use of genomic analysis in medicine or gay couples with babies on prime-...Tags: Apple iPhone, Wanda Sykes, Nora Ephron, Christie Brinkley, Justice and Rights
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James takes on Austen
"Death Comes to Pemberly" by P.D. James, Alfred A. Knopf, 304 pages, $25.95. One of my favorite authors has written a sequel to one of my all-time favorite novels. Life doesn't get much better for book lovers! It is 1803, six years after the end of...Tags: Prague (Czech Republic), Umberto Eco, Discrimination
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