Month: December 2004
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Online Picnics
I got a letter from the Cook County Forest Preserve District today. Seems that they are finally allowing for online permit applications, beginning January 3, 2005 at 6 AM. Last year I got a permit for the O’Neil Family Reunion and I had to go all the way to River Forest, get in line in…
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Jerry Orbach
Lower right picture/ headline with full obit in section one. Jerry Orbach was the real deal.
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An Appreciation of Susan Sontag
I just read the most amazing appreciation of Susan Sontag from William Drentel: For more than twenty-five years I was her son’s close friend, her occasional companion for dinner or a movie, and a fellow reader and book collector. I was never among her closest of friends. But I was her graphic designer. Read this.
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MARLENE SCHAMS, 45
Remarkable. Marlene Schams was born in an elevator in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “That’s why she had her ups and downs all these years,” quipped her father, Donald Schams. Ms. Schams, 45, a single mother and longtime Rogers Park resident who fought hard to give her son better opportunities, died Thursday, Dec. 23, at…
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John F. Burns Archive
A copy/ paste collection of articles written for the New York Times by this epic war correspondent. Focus is on itesm from the Persian Gulf War as well as the Bosnian War and Afghanistan in the mid to late 90s.