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A serious simulation

A serious simulation

Oak Lawn Community High School students wobbled as they tried to walk on white lines in the school parking lots, and swerved and crashed as they attempted to navigate golf carts through a course of orange construction cones last Friday. The students weren’t drunk, but they were wearing special goggle simulated a state of intoxication. The driving course and sobriety tests were part of the Cook County Sheriff’s Police’s DUI and... Read more

  • Flip that house?

       Evergreen Park trustees on Monday delayed voting on a proposed ordinance that would require certain home buyers to pay the village an up-front fee of $10,000.  The proposed ordinance would pertain…

  • Best of the Wine Guy - Watch what you eat, think

      In ancient Egypt, around 400 to 55 A.D., the fad of the day was for men to become hermits. Some lived alone, while others lived in monasteries, but most of…

Sports

Stumbling to the finish line

Four straight losses erase Astros’ momentum     Frank DiFoggio doesn’t care if practice fails to make Shepard perfect.   He just hopes it put Astros players back in the proper frame of mind.   Shepard had been on a roll prior to the start of last week, and after notching a Monday victory over Evergreen Park nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But that wound up being the Astros’ lone triumph of the week.   The Mustangs gained their revenge on Shepard the... Read more

  • Bartosh

     Pointing the finger at idiocy    What can you get for a few thousand dollars these days…

  • Hoping for second-best

    Chargers tied for runner-up spot in SWSC Red     If Stagg winds up as second-best, the C…

  • Still hanging on

    Spartans, Astros tied for first after split     Even when Oak Lawn gets rocked, it refus…

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DiCaprio great as the 'Gatsby'

DiCaprio great as the 'Gatsby'

It's been a bit of a shaky ride for Baz Luhrman's version of "The Great Gatsby." His take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic was originally slated to open during the 2012 holiday season, then was pushed back to July, then moved forward to this month. There is no doubt Luhrman's projects have tended toward the extravagant, to put it mildly, and the director is known to be a perfectionist. Still, the constant... Read more

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