Featured Writers Column Summaries
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March 11, 2010
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards has passed, and it had its usual moments of miscues, melodrama, emotion and, yes, actual awards.
We know that the low-budget and hardly seen...
February 26, 2010
Comedian and occasional actor Bill Murray starred with Scarlett Johansson several years ago in a film entitled “Lost In Translation.”
The main plot of the movie...
February 17, 2010
One misconception of an election is that vote totals compiled the day after ballots are cast are official. The Cook County Clerk’s office reminds us that it takes about...
January 8, 2010
With the new year comes another election. It seems that I have been dealing with elections every year.
Of course, this year will not top January 2009 when Barack Obama...
December 31, 2009
Christmas is here and New Year’s Day is just around the corner. The year 2009 is fading from view and another decade will be put to rest.
The early 2000s can be...
December 17, 2009
It’s a funny thing about traditions. Many rites of passage sometimes occur just by accident. But those yearly rituals become more important with time.
Case in point...
November 17, 2009
Youths dying on the streets of Chicago have become an all too familiar refrain. However a recently retired man from Chicago’s Southwest Side would like to offer his...
November 6, 2009
By the time you read this, the World Series will be over.
Really. At press time, the American League champion New York Yankees were scheduled to host the National League...
November 2, 2009
Despite rain, the cold and occasional snow, Halloween will be celebrated in every corner of Chicago and the suburbs. This is a time for kids to dress up and fantasize. And,...
May 19, 2009
This weekend I watched a movie that was a whole lot more heartbreaking than “Marley and Me” – something I never thought possible.
While flipping through...
March 5, 2009
The first time my 5 year-old dropped the “F bomb” he was in my friend’s minivan. I wasn’t there. Apparently, he told his 10 year-old brother to...