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Bill Daley
Bonny Doon founder is a punster d'vine - January 20, 2010 - Randall Grahm is the legendary founder of California's Bonny Doon Vineyard, noted for creating delicious Rhone-style wines. He is an innovator not only in the vineyard, where he fearlessly experiments with different grape varieties, but also in the marketplace, where his eye-catching labels and...
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Steve Johnson
Judge DioGuardi may get tougher on 'Idol' hopefuls - January 19, 2010 - There were times last year when Kara DioGuardi felt as if she had — to borrow a phrase — her pants on the ground.
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Chris Jones
Big dreams, delivered - January 22, 2010 - A restless, edgy and frequently thrilling fusion of projections, movement and vocal pyrotechnics, Robert Longbottom's eye-popping, all-new, post-Hollywood production of "Dreamgirls" reinvents this 28-year-old title for an "American Idol" generation.
Julia Keller
What you ought to be reading right now - January 24, 2010 - Toward the end of "Still Alice" (2009), Lisa Genova's remarkable debut novel recently published in paperback by Pocket Books, the title character gives voice to her worst fear: Soon she might not recognize her loved ones. Once a high-functioning Harvard University professor, 50-year-old...
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Greg Kot
Who will get the Grammy? - January 24, 2010 - You want "artistic excellence"? Though that's what the Grammy Awards vow to recognize each year, you may not necessarily get it when you tune in to the 52nd annual ceremony at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 on WBBM-Ch. 2. For every deserving winner in recent years (hard to argue with last year's album-of-the-...
Michael Phillips
'The Book of Eli' -- 3 stars - January 15, 2010 - I used to think the apocalypse was so "tomorrow." Lately at the movies, though, what with "Zombieland" and "2012" and "The Road" and "Daybreakers," the end of the world seems so yesterday. Another day, another sky full of ash. Another ribbon of highway littered with charred vehicles and human...
Howard Reich
MacArthur genius still fights for ragtime, after the money runs out - January 24, 2010 - Five years fly fast when you've got $500,000 to spend as you please.
John von Rhein
At 85, Boulez pays brilliant homage to modern times - January 23, 2010 - One of the privileges famous people enjoy in old age is being able to do just about anything they want to. In the case of Pierre Boulez, whose 85th birthday the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been celebrating with great éclat all month, one of the gifts the French maestro has given...
Phil Vettel
Pelago: Simplicity at the top of its game - January 21, 2010 - The restaurant class of 2009 was top-heavy with ambitious Italian restaurants. Agio, Il Poggiolo, Orvieto, Ottimo, Ristorante al Teatro, Terzo Piano, Tocco — by the end of the year, the "o" on my keyboard was just about worn away.
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