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Winter Events 2013
This list is not all-inclusive DEC. Date/Time TBD LAKE BLUFF Tree Lighting Head downtown for a horse-drawn carriage ride, followed by pictures with Santa at the Historic Museum. Later in the afternoon enjoy live reindeer and a visit from the...
Tags: Holidays, Music, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Entertainment
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Carlos Miguel Prieto takes CSO audience on a supercharged travelogue
Enough tremors were unleashed by a huge battery of percussion instruments at Thursday night's Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert that management may wish to have the auditorium walls checked for cracks once the dust from the weekend concerts has settled....
Tags: Music Theater, Culture, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mexico
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David Zwick: Lowering alcohol limit makes sense
The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended all 50 states reduce the legal blood alcohol limit for driving from the existing .08 to .05. Their reasoning is the level is too high and leaves some drivers still impaired even though they are...Tags: Transportation Industry, Criminals, National Transportation Safety Board
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'Dancing With the Stars' recap: It's the Finals Countdown
“This is the spray tan traffic zone, right here.” — host Tom Bergeron We’ve reached the “Dancing With the Stars” Season 16 finals, ballroom fans! And this two-hour, heavily padded first-night showcase had each of...Tags: Mark Ballas, Television Industry, Peanuts, Len Goodman, Entertainment Events
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To do Wednesday: Red Carpet Treatment at Mardi Gras Casino, Cuisine for Art and '3 Geezers'
Benefit Cuisine for Art: This 16th annual fundraiser to benefit all the good stuff going on at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood begins with a reception at 6 p.m. at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood), followed...
Tags: Celebrities, Tim Allen, ABC (tv network), Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach
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'Dancing with the Stars' recap: The finals
For The Baltimore SunThe show starts with a very long “10 weeks ago” montage and then segues into a live number from troupe members andpro dancers. If you wonder how they’re going to do this show in just one episodea week next season, I think I have some...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, Tameka Cottle, Music
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Jacoby and Karina have work cut out for them in 'Dancing with the Stars' finale
Jacoby Jones begins the finales tonight coming down the staircase in purple and gold, with partner Karina Smirnoff in a purple dress -- a nice nod to Jacoby’s hometown of New Orleans. Their first round is the "judges' pick" dance, and it's the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Brooke Burke, Flat Feet, Justice System
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'Dancing With the Stars': Kellie Pickler should win
Staff writerThe whole season of "Dancing With the Stars" was determined Monday night in the third round. Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough delivered a stunning freestyle that confirmed they are the strongest team in a tight contest. The winner will be named in a two-...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Mark Ballas, ABC (tv network), Justice System, Judges
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Part 1: Antoine's next course
Tribune senior correspondentThe maitre d' is dead. He perished at home, along with his son, sometime after the levees broke and the floodwaters rushed in and his tiny house in northern New Orleans filled to the ceiling with fetid water. Most of the rest of the restaurant's staff...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Corporate Officers, Natural Disasters, Restaurants
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Still adrift after the storm
First Hurricane Katrina took John Hoffmann Jr.'s home, which flooded, then exploded, and then burned. Next the storm took Hoffmann's job of 23 years washing dishes at Antoine's Restaurant, a position that vanished when the heavily damaged New Orleans...Tags: FEMA, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Politics, Prisons, Personal Data Collection
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Floods, Racism, Media Industry, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Houston Chronicle
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Reopening Night
Scaffolding still surrounds a huge hole in the southeast wall, the staff is a shadow of its former size, only two of 15 sprawling dining rooms are functioning, half the specialty dishes have been lopped off the menu and there was a last-minute scramble to...Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest, Hurricanes, Dining and Drinking
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