Tag: chicago
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& Juliet – A Review
I’ll be honest, my daughter started telling us she wanted to see & Juliet quite a while ago. I’d never heard of it, and despite her trying to explain it to me, I did not quite understand the premise. It then happened that & Juliet came to Chicago for a very limited duration (I believe…
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Looking For a Show In Chicago? I Recommend The Play That Goes Wrong
My good friend urged us to see The Play That Goes Wrong during our spring break trip to Chicago because he and his family saw it in New York and they all loved it. He even went so far as to say he would buy me a steak dinner if I saw it and didn’t…
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Grin and Bear It
I had zero expectations for the Chicago Bears before the season started. We have Green Bay and Minnesota in our division, after all, and those two teams are pretty good. Then, right before the season started, we picked up Khalil Mack. I honestly didn’t know who he was before we got him, but it sounded…
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Seeing Hamilton In Chicago – Our Complete Journey
My wife recently celebrated a milestone birthday, and so I thought it would be nice to mark the occasion with a special event. Because she’s been dying to see Hamilton for years, I figured that would be something special for us to do. However, tickets for Hamilton are always in demand, so I had to…
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The Break-Up – A Movie Review
I’ve argued in the past that I believe Jennifer Aniston could be a very good actress if only she’d start taking meatier roles like she once did with The Good Girl. I really feel like the last several movies I’ve seen with her have been the same character over and over. She’s become like the…
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Support An A-T Marathoner For The Chicago Marathon
The following comes from my brother-in-law, Chad Schultz: Friends and Family, Join me in supporting the A-T Children’s Project by sponsoring me in my marathon efforts. I am raising money for a cure or life-improving therapies for a rare genetic disease called ataxia-telangiectasia, or A-T for short. Visit my fundraising page, and please pass…
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Meeting Michael Chabon
Note: Originally Published 5-24-07 About a year ago, Michael Chabon (who is, in my opinion, America’s greatest living author) had been scheduled to do a book signing at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago in order to promote his latest novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. One problem-the book got delayed for many different reasons. That…