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Did I actually once say that I thought that I wouldn’t buy World of Warcraft? Call me a fool. Please. As you might have guessed I fell utterly, deeply in love with the World of Warcraft. Any time not spent researching (generally in the wee hours of the morning) was spent exploring and leveling in [...]

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Saved! is released on DVD tomorrow. Seek out (rent, buy, whatever) this outstanding film and encourage Hollywood to produce more gems like this one. Plot Outline: When a girl (Jena Malone) attending a Baptist high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.

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This is a word-for-word transcript of a voicemail message I received from my friend Simon. I swear to God I am not making this up. I had this epiphany, like, you know we could write a theme song for you. And I’m thinking about it like, ya know sorta a la Shaft. Ya know, the [...]

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I’m a bit of an NPR junkie. I also love food. So when NPR does a story about food – well, you can imagine. In any case, Fresh Air interviewed Ruth Reichl, editor of Gourmet Magazine and the excellent Tender at the Bone. She was also the former restaurant critic for the New York Times. [...]

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There’s a chill in the air and almost all the leaves have dropped off of the tree outside the door to my apartment building. Winter is arriving. And with the change in season, it’s time for a change in cocktail. Last winter was all about bourbon, but while bourbon should retain a place in your [...]

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I really like Allen-Edmonds dress shoes. They are amazingly comfortable, cut in a sort-of timeless style and they are built to last. They are traditional leather dress shoes with leather soles and yet I frequently walk home from work in them (about 4 1/2 miles) and they’re totally comfortable. So, ok, they’re incredibly expensive. But [...]

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Apparently at some point on Tuesday the Chicago Tribune printed a story in Wednesday’s Women News section without the knowledge of senior editors. When the editors heard about the story, they led a massive effort to pull the section out of the paper by hand, however a few copies apparently slipped through. Crains explains that [...]

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Pepsi Holiday Spice hits stores today, but we found some in Pilsen over the weekend. We had no idea what it was when we found it, but described as “spiced cola,” it was just weird enough that we had to buy it. It’s reddish, first of all, which makes it a little odd. And it [...]

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Las Vegas was everything Las Vegas promises to be. I had fun and I think the rest of the group did too. We had dinner at N9ne at the Palms and spent some time at Ghost Bar. The beautiful people were out in force and we weren’t totally out of place, if I do say [...]

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I’m not what you’d call obese or chronic fat, but like many women after another Christmas binge eating and drinking (was on the seafood diet, I SEE food and eat it I’ve put on a lot more weight, especially belly fat and my ass looks HUGE, move over Beyonce I look flabby around the waist [...]

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