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A number of Chicago venues are gearing up to offer music, live entertainment, food and the traditional bubbly to partygoers looking to dance until the break of dawn or sit down for a traditional dinner.
Whatever your party style, there are many New Year�...
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Most of the year, Alexandra Galvan, 28, is pretty health-conscious. The second-grade bilingual teacher from Berwyn stays active – from tango classes to jogging – and is careful about her diet.
But once the holiday season approaches, Galvan can’t ...
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Just ask a psychologist. A recent survey by the American Psychological Association shows gift-giving is among the three top causes of holiday stress, next to lack of money and credit card debt. To help you avoid the stress and pitfalls of buying gifts fo...
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It’s Christmas Eve. You’ve eaten the tamales, dug into the lechón, and the pastelitos are all gone. What to do now? Tradition prevails in all families. But if you’re in the mood for something different, here are a few things you can try that may...
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T’was the night before Christmas. The weather outside was frightful, and we were all bundled up inside our home. After being hit by a blizzard that downed power lines, we were left in darkness. But I didn’t care. I was 10 years old and thrilled about ...
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Anyone who's thrown a party knows what it feels like to be a waitress in their own home. You¹re still chopping the veggies and haven't even changed clothes when the doorbell rings. It¹s that guy from work you hardly know, arriving 20 minutes early.
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High above an ivory tower on State Street, a princess, a toy soldier and a Russian rehearse. This trio — a Cuban-American mother of two from New Jersey, a Mexican-American raised in Texas who attended an all boys school and a Spaniard working to improve...
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The Goodman Theatre’s annual production of “A Christmas Carol” was the first play Adam Poss ever saw, back in 1986. And it was the first play he was professionally cast as an actor before he graduated last year from De Paul University’s Theater Sc...
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It’s tough to be hard on “Nothing Like the Holidays.” It has its heart in the right place. You can tell that the cast and crew were having a lot of fun making it, that they all felt a sense of purpose. They clearly want to show the Humboldt Park nei...
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The tigers crept out of their train of cages in the dark, following Daniel Raffo’s whip, as he guided them to their spots inside a circular cage in the center of the ring. Six 700-pound tigers sat silently glancing around the United Center as clowns in ...
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James Bond, welcome to the real world.A world where there is no absolute good or evil, a world full of grays, a world where even the country you so fervently serve and its allies can turn on you at the drop of a pin. In other words, a world more akin to J...
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Twelve years ago, Danny Boyle blew my brains off with his brilliant cinematographic adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel “Trainspotting,” the story of a group of nihilistic Scottish junkies and how one of them chooses life above everything else ‑eve...
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Stroll down Paseo Boricua along Division Street, between Mozart Street and Western Avenue, and you’ll find more than just businesses and organizations. Along with murals that mirror the faces of Humboldt Park’s residents and the occasional overnight m...
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After four years in the making, The Field Museum’s “Aztec World” finally opened its doors to Chicago. This exhibit is the product of a collaboration between 10 different Mexican museums, including El Museo del Templo Mayor and the Instituto Naciona...
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“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” was meant to be your traditionally loud, vulgar, slightly gross and very raunchy comedy. But something happened to the film on the way to the multiplex. And I am not referring to filmmaker Kevin Smith’s appeals to the MP...
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Latinos were there when the thumping beat of house music first took the Chicago underground scene by storm in the early ‘80s. Hector Lopez, a teenager at the time, was captivated by the sound, and soon would learn the basic moves from his big brother, D...
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Couples do a lot of things together. They stroll, they dance, they sip wine. And sometimes they register to vote. That’s exactly what Mario and Diana Dávila did on a Sunday afternoon while taking in the Fiesta del Sol festival in Chicago’s Pilsen n...
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Days after I saw it, I still do not quite know what to make of Oliver Stone’s “W”. The movie is being released three months before George W. Bush leaves office in the middle of the worst economic crisis this country has seen since the Great Depressi...
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Luis Guzmán
Chicago’s Puerto Rican community left its mark on the Nuyorican character actor.
You’ve acted on a few roles where you’re straight-faced serious, yet still manage to be funny. Who do you play in this Humboldt Park Boricua story?I play...
