Mental jewelry Customer Review: worst album of the nineties These guys are the biggest joke in rock music. All of these 5 star reviews are an even bigger joke. Ed Kowizsychik(SP) or however you want to spell it sounds as pathetic as he looks. This is garbage, plain & simple. Im glad radio is […]

Fans of spring–and baseball–find new cheer in old Arizona
This story contains corrected material, published Feb. 20, 2008.

Abe’s ‘new’ home in D.C.
The Lincoln revival keeps reviving with the opening of his summer cottage The place where Abraham Lincoln spent almost a quarter of his presidency isn’t elaborate. No spectacular gold decorations, no breathtaking architectural feats. Instead, Lincoln’s Gothic Revival-style cottage was sparsely furnished, just the bare necessities, as his family lugged their belongings to and from the White House , 2 miles to the south, five months out of every year.

An era goes up in smoke
Chicago s always been a rollicking town, big shoulders, shot and a beer. You know the drill. We work hard, we play hard and there was a time that the newspaper business was Exhibit A for all that, an era romanticized…

Disney kids’ spa to include Hannah Montana makeovers
Get ready for a bunch of 6-year-old girls running around Walt Disney World in blonde wigs.

Whitney Design 80-Pocket Cotton Canvas Jewelry Organizer
Whitney Design 80-Pocket Cotton Canvas jewelry Organizer No more rummaging in a jewelry box or drawer for that particular pair of earrings. This double-sided organizer features eighty pockets, forty on each side–and because the pockets are made of vinyl, one glance is all that’s needed to find the desired object. The backing is made […]

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Signed Costume Jewelry Vol. 2
Signed Costume jewelry Vol. 2 - Kiss Me, Kate (1948 Original Broadway Cast) Opening at the tail end of 1948, Kiss Me, Kate became an instant classic–and amazingly didn’t receive a full-scale revival until 1999. All the more reason to revel in its original version. With its cunning play-within-a-play premise (a […]

Kiss Me, Kate (1948 Original Broadway Cast)
Kiss Me, Kate (1948 Original Broadway Cast) Opening at the tail end of 1948, Kiss Me, Kate became an instant classic–and amazingly didn’t receive a full-scale revival until 1999. All the more reason to revel in its original version. With its cunning play-within-a-play premise (a musical update of The Taming of the Shrew […]

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