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Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies
Dining@LargeBlair River, the 575-pound spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill in Chander, Ariz., is dead, at the age of 29. The Heart Attack Grill earned itself some notoriety (including a report on CBS Sunday Morning) for being, as the USA......Tags: Health, USA Today, Obesity, Physical Conditions, Heart Attack
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Robert Sickinger, pioneer of Chicago theater, dies at 86
Robert Sickinger, a pivotal figure in the development of Chicago's off-Loop theater scene, died Thursday morning at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. Sickinger was 86. His daughter, Erika, said her father died from natural causes. To the extent that...
Tags: Chicago Reader, Jane Addams, Delray Beach, Chicago Loop, Hull House
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An obit for a local news seller, and an ode to the local paper
Newspapers ran through Roni Frye’s blood, first as a linotype operator at papers in her native Ohio, then as the owner of MacCarthy’s, a Fort Lauderdale newsstand on Las Olas Boulevard (next to The Floridian diner) that she ran for nearly...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Newspapers, Kentucky Derby, News Media, Newspaper and Magazine
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An obit for a local news seller, and an ode to the local paper
Newspapers ran through Roni Frye's blood, first as a linotype operator at papers in her native Ohio, then as the owner of MacCarthy's, a Fort Lauderdale newsstand on Las Olas Boulevard (next to The Floridian diner) that she ran for nearly three decades....Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Kentucky Derby, News Media, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine
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A rocket scientist who did much more than cook beef stroganoff
At the risk of sounding like someone who "can't let it go" — a feminist's badge of honor if ever there were one — I'd like to offer a few tips on how to write obituaries about accomplished women in America. It's a short list really. 1)...
Tags: Science and Technology, Beef Stroganoff, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes, Twitter, Inc.
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Which comes first, husband or career?
Maybe it's spring fever or maybe it's the centrifugal force from all that Sheryl Sandberg-led "leaning in," but it's been a big week for outrage about women and their place. Last Friday, Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton published a letter...Tags: Science and Technology, Beef Stroganoff, The Huffington Post, Marriage, Family
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Daum: Which comes first, husband or career?
Maybe it's spring fever or maybe it's the centrifugal force from all that Sheryl Sandberg-led "leaning in," but it's been a big week for outrage about women and their place. On Friday, Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton published a letter in...
Tags: Science and Technology, Beef Stroganoff, The Huffington Post, Marriage, Family
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'John Dies at the End' fails the cult test ★ 1/2
"John Dies at the End" dies closer to the beginning, before writer-director Don Coscarelli's adaptation of the book of the same name has reached minute 20. Some films have just one thing on their cine-minds: to become the next midnight-movie cult item,...
Tags: Entertainment, Tanya Roberts, John Dies at the End (movie), Chinese Restaurants, Movies
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Michael Hainey book raises questions about truth versus family
Say you had a family secret. A juicy one. The kind that speaks volumes about families. And you wrote a book about it. But your family hates the book. Or, at the very least, potentially feels embarrassment from it. Would you still release that book?...
Tags: GQ, Other Desert Cities (play), Goodman Theatre, Literature, Ronald Reagan
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Getting back to the basics
Last month I mentioned I am beginning the process of writing a family history on my father's McWain family. I have been organizing my records in preparation for research where holes in my records appear. I have really gone back to the beginning with my...
Tags: Research
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'John Dies at the End' review: Comes pre-spoiled!
*1/2 (out of four) A midnight movie that makes you wish you went to bed early, “John Dies at the End” falls into the no-man’s-land of movies you may need to be high to enjoy, but can barely follow when sober. Throughout “John,&...
Tags: Entertainment, Richard Kelly, Movies, Gregg Araki, Paul Giamatti
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Progress made in cleaning up St. Vincent Cemetery
It's been two years since some descendants began agitating for recognition and reverence for their ancestors' resting place in an unmarked, abandoned 7-acre cemetery surrounded by the Clifton Park golf course. The group, the Friends of St. Vincent...
Tags: Prisons, Belair Road, Christianity, Vincent de Paul, Religion and Belief
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