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The first significant snow of the season has ended but was just a precursor to a storm system predicted to hit the area late Tuesday into Wednesday, according to forecasts. Although the snow was light with little accumulation in most...

I just saw Jon Woo's latest effort Red Cliff based on the historical battle staged during the Han Dynasty in 208 AD and was pleasantly surprised. Having watched Kurosawa's Ran several times I supposed there would be several flag waving...

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal In this claymation/stop animation, music video the old band members reverse time for a short while. M. Ward Chinese Translation This is just a great song and music video I came across. The singer...

A short drive from the Meramac River, in the quaint community of Valley Park, Missouri, two not-quite middle-aged family men sit at Iggy’s Mexican Cantina on Big Bend Road, feasting on their usual dishes of steaming carnitas and chicken chimichangas....

CHICAGO (AP)—The way Jay Cutler (notes) started, the Chicago Bears looked as though they were headed to a lopsided win. Instead, they had to hang on to get by lowly St. Louis. Even so, they’ll take this. Cutler faded after...

Chicago, IL SEVERE WEATHER ALERT Forecast Details: Cloudy with intermittent snow showers and flurries becoming a steady light snow later. Low around 30F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 90%.

Despite concerns raised by congressional Republicans, the Obama administration might go ahead and move scores of terror suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to the state prison of Illinois in rural Thomson. That's not all! The U.S. government...

One day after holding a White House “Jobs Summit”, President Obama seemed gleeful to report that unemployment has fallen from 10.2% to 10.0 % in the last month. It is a sad commentary on the fecklessness of a president and...