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Books in brief
Homemade Contrivances And How to Make Them: 1001 Labor-Saving Devices for Farm, Garden, Dairy, and Workshop Skyhorse Publishing / 640 pages / $14.95 If you feel the need to learn how to reinforce a stone wall, press hay, make a device to clean a horse's...Tags: Foreclosures, Homes, Books and Magazines, Thomas Jefferson, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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Family mourns death of Washington Heights soldier
Special to NewsdayArmy Sgt. Jose "Ricky" Ulloa, 23, never walked away from a fight in his Washington Heights neighborhood. So when he decided to enlist in the U.S. Army after high school there was no talking him out of it, said his family, who mourned his death yesterday....Tags: Armed Forces, Defense, Armed Conflicts, Schools
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'Batman's' Gotham is New York, right? Nah! It's really a grittier Chicago
Of The Associated PressChristian Bale's Batman is perched atop a skyscraper, looking over a dark and foggy skyline pierced by glittering lights, preparing for a dive to the gritty streets below. But when he alights, he won't find the gargoyle-infested, bricks-and-mortar city...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Chicago Skyline, Heath Ledger, Chicago Board of Trade, Magnificent Mile
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Gotham City, Illinois
Associated PressChristian Bale's Batman perched atop a skyscraper, looking over a dark and foggy skyline pierced by glittering lights, preparing for a dive to the gritty streets below. But when he alights, he doesn't find the gargoyle-infested, bricks-and-mortar city...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Chicago Skyline, Heath Ledger, Chicago Board of Trade, Illinois
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New York real estate: Gramercy
Special to amNewYorkGreenwich Village has Washington Square Park, Flatiron has Madison Square Park, and Gramercy has its own eponymous center in Gramercy Park. Samuel B. Ruggles bought the farmland that would become the park in 1831 with the goal of creating a London-style...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Babe Ruth, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Roosevelt, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Wrestling With A Question Of Beauty
Special to The CourantNeil Labute's "Reasons To Be Pretty" explodes instantly with a fusillade of obscene invective that would make David Mamet blanch. The attacks come from the incensed Steph, filled with righteous fury by the excellent Alison Pill. As its title suggests,...Tags: Malcolm Johnson, Safeway Inc., Steppenwolf Theatre, Theater, Labor Legislation
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Donald White, 71; social activist on human rights in Central America
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDonald White, a former schoolteacher and social activist who helped organize and coordinate dozens of initiatives involving human rights in Central America and antiwar efforts around the world, has died. He was 71. He died of an apparent heart attack...Tags: Los Angeles, Vernon (Los Angeles, California), Advanced Training, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights
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Resourceful traveler
Special to the TribuneAlternative guidebooks "Las Vegas Wallpaper City Guide," Phaidon Press, $8.95; ISBN: 978-0-7148-4744-3 These chic "anti-guides" for "anti-tourists" are slim and stylish enough to consult on the run while concealing the fact that you are just an out-of-it...Tags: Los Angeles, West Point, Reviews, Books, James Smith
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Photographing the Greek Isles
Special to the TribuneThe Greek islands of Santorini, Anafi and Thirasia are the setting for the June 14-20 "In Search of the Real Greece" photo workshop directed by San Francisco photographers Glenn and Rose Steiner. Geared to a variety of abilities, from intermediate-to-...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Samuel Gompers, Petroleum Industry, Photography, Andrew Carnegie
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Follow the links to spooky Halloween sites
We're in the Halloween spirit, so we took a look at some websites, such as www.haunted-places.com and www.headlesshorseman.co.uk, that help travelers tune in to ghostly -- or ghastly -- fun. What's hot: Haunted Places has lists and some tales of spooky...Tags: Fiction, Long Beach (California), Public Holidays
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Good food with a Hudson River view
dave.marcus@newsday.comSoon after moving to Long Island last year, I found myself searching for great restaurants with water views. I found a few on the bluffs overlooking the Atlantic, the Sound, the Peconic River and assorted inlets and tidal basins. During my search, I kept...Tags: Andy Warhol, Broadway, Rivers, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Richard Serra
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In with the old in Irving Park
Special to the TribuneResidents of Old Irving Park inhabit a bit of history. Businessman Charles T. Race created the area as a suburb in 1869 and named it "Irvington" to honor the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Washington Irving. Eventually, the district was...Tags: Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Irving Park, Metra, Chicago Transit Authority
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