May 15, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
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Births
A daughter Lillian Dale Baynham, was born to Adam and Katy Baynham of Petoskey at 4:29 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, at McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey. Lillian weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was 19 3/4 inches long at birth. She has a...
May 10, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Reuters
LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - Everyone likes a bit of excitment
on holiday. But for those bold travelers who enjoy testing their
limits with exhilarating stunts, rides and thrills, the members
and editors of VirtualTourist (www.virtualtourist.com) have...
Apr 18, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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A year or so ago, not long before chef Ryan McCaskey opened Acadia in the South Loop, he began thinking about what his soon-to-be restaurant might serve at brunch. A lifelong Deadhead, he was traveling around the country, following what remains of the...
Mar 7, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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The first thing that catches your eye when entering The Boarding House is the chandelier. Except it's not really a chandelier, but an art installation consisting of 9,000-plus (official count: 9,063) suspended wine glasses.
"One glass for every wine I'...
Mar 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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We admire this sugared peak from our downtown L.A. offices on the clearest winter days, a 10,000-foot postcard of pleasures. Indeed, Mt. Baldy offers challenging (though limited) ski terrain. Serious hikers use it to train for Everest. In short, this...
Feb 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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Hollywood considered Matt Mattox one of the best dancers in the country when he was cast to dizzying effect in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," the 1954 Oscar-winning film celebrated for its imaginative and masterful dance moves.
Billed as one of...
Dec 18, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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Maurice Herzog, a French mountaineer who became a hero to his country in 1950 when he and a fellow climber became the first men to successfully scale a peak of more than 26,000 feet, has died. He was 93.
Herzog, who wrote a best-selling account of his...
Jan 19, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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PARK CITY, Utah -- About three years ago, Randy Moore, a struggling screenwriter living in Burbank, had an out-there idea: What if he took a tiny camera and, without asking permission, began shooting a narrative movie at Disney theme parks?
Moore had...
Dec 18, 2012
|Story| Burbank Leader
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Someone once told me the best thing about being a journalist was that I got a first-row seat to history. What I didn't know then — and what I'm only beginning to understand now — is how one defines “history.”
For example, last...
Jan 3, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25...
Dec 27, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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I have this problem. I made more New Year's Eve reservations than I can use. More than 100 of them, actually.
Which is why, for the 12th straight year (and the 17th time in the past 19 years), I'll be giving them away to nimble-fingered readers who ask....
Dec 6, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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"The Book of Mormon" opens next week in the Bank of America Theatre, drawing a couple of thousand people each day (except Monday) to the Loop.
Quite a few of them will arrive hungry. Add in the multitudes with tickets for other Loop theater performances,...