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First comes the white wedding in the woods, then the sultry honeymoon on an island off of Rio De Janeiro, then, the sudden and life-threatening pregnancy.Major bummer dudes!

Jean Luc Godard’s 1968 film Weekend is exactly the weekend you DON’T want to have!  A couple jumps in the car, heads to the country, hits the mother of all traffic jams and then?  Mayhem, murder, and cannibalism!  What is it about a couple of days off from the grind that prov

"The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday that it lost $5.1 billion in the past year." — Associated PressHow the U.S. Postal Service can make up the $5.1 billion it lost this year: • Raise price of stamps to $5.1 billion for one year.

In her documentary, Eleanore & the Timekeeper, Chicago filmmaker Daniele Wilmouth took on a very personal topic, her family.

Early last April, when Rahm Emanuel merely was Mayor-Elect, I used this blog space to send him an open letter about the CityArts Program. I never heard back from him.

This week on Global Notes, Jerome and midday host Tony Sarabia get a lesson in Tuvan throat singing.

The U.S. remains one of the top tourist destinations in the world, but it’s getting some steep competition from other countries. The European Union spends a collective $800 million per year promoting foreign tourism; Mexico spends $150 million; Australia, $113 million.