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News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 24 days ago
Blame it on the economy, a love of fine craftsmanship, an appreciation of beautiful detail or nostalgia for an earlier, more genteel era. Whatever the reason, homeowners across the United States are recognizing the unique beauty of old homes and
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News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 25 days ago
Women & Children First, the feminist bookstore in Andersonville that hugs the corner of Clark Street and Farragut Avenue, turns 30 Tuesday. That's a lot of copies of "Backlash" and "The Feminine Mystique"! In all seriousness, folks, it's quite a
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News Source: The New York Times
| 25 days ago
It was clear that Sunday was shaping up to be a rare shot of Indian summer, the ideal day for wandering through a park or lazing around on stoops or eating outdoors. But Theresa Cheung, 27, a fashion designer, had somewhere to be at 9:45 a.m., and a
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News Source: Bookforum
| 26 days ago
In his 2003 memoir, Istanbul , the five-story Pamuk Apartments in which he spent nearly all his first five decades are described as a "dark museum house," cluttered with sugar bowls, snuffboxes, censers, pianos that are never played, and glass
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News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
Why is it that when you get older you have to start doing all the stupid things that you used to laugh at when you were younger? I've lost count of the things that I swore I'd never do that now form part of my daily routine. I now make weird
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News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
For 30 years, a famous bundle of 138 index cards has remained in a Swiss bank vault...The novel that Vladimir Nabokov was working on at the time of his death, The Original of Laura, was preserved by his family against his apparent wishes to have it
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News Source: The Independent
| about 1 month ago
Autumn leaves falling on my garden in Sussex and, wonderfully, a beauty of a bird of prey (hawk, kite?) wheeling above the distant trees and setting crows to flight...Marc L�vy's Resistance novel, The Children of Freedom and the last novel from the
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News Source: The Hutchinson News
| about 1 month ago
It is especially for those teachers of grades seven through 12...The bright spot here in Hutch is all the work being done at the schools as a result of the massive school bond this community passed several years ago. However, there is little reason