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Question of the day: What’s your all-time favorite baseball call? [Updated]
Reporters from around Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses and feel free to leave comments letting us know what's your favorite call of all time. [Updated...
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Join our live chat with 'The Office's' Jenna Fischer
Jenna Fischer has had quite a ride for six years on the NBC comedy "The Office," but this summer she's working behind the scenes producing the absurdist comedy "Sad Happy Sucker," written by her...
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Common Sense Media fires opening salvo in battle over California law banning...
Common Sense Media, a San Francisco family-advocacy organization, this week lobbed the first of what is likely to be many grenades thrown from all sides as a controversial California law banning the...
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Cabo San Lucas Picante sportfishing reports some big marlin showing
Outposts will attempt to post the Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, saltwater sportfishing report, courtesy of Team Picante from Picante Sportfishing, each week:The water has been hot and the fishing has been...
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Carl Hiaasen talks well-placed sea urchins, paparazzi and Florida
Carl Hiaasen (pictured, center) signs books after speaking at Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot Station on Tuesday night, when he graciously answered my questions in front of a full room. It was part of the...
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Archival images by Herb Ritts to be shown at Fahey/Klein Gallery
If you've ever flipped through the pages of Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ or other glossy style magazines, chances are you've come across the work of celebrity photographer Herb Ritts.The photographer, who...
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Egg recall tied to salmonella: Here are some reactions
Wright County Egg has issued an egg recall for possible salmonella affecting many of the brands it sells, as our Booster Shots blog reports. Those include Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph’s,...
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Your morning adorable: Black rhinoceros calf sticks close to mom at German zoo
At Germany's Krefeld Zoo, the birth of a black rhinoceros calf in late July was big news, indeed. The calf has been given the name Kibibi, which translates to "young lady" in Swahili. Black rhinos are...
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Books by Betty White, coming to a coffee table near you
Not satisfied with sitcom darling Betty White appearing only on your TV or computer? Well, now you can have your Betty and read her too. The 88-year-old actress, who is currently on TV Land's "Hot in...
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Rock star Ted Nugent pleads no contest to California deer baiting charge
Legendary rock star and hunting advocate Ted Nugent was fined $1,750 in Yuba County Superior Court Friday after pleading no contest to charges of baiting deer and not having a properly signed hunting...
View ArticleDemi Lovato hearts Kelly Clarkson, and Bill O'Reilly hearts Demi Lovato
Who's Demi Lovato's role model? That'd be one Kelly Clarkson, a person who "has stayed out of trouble; you don’t really read about her in the tabloids, yet she has an incredible music career," Lovato...
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Will Google TV do to Hollywood what Napster did to the music biz?
My colleagues Dawn Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn have a fascinating Page 1 story in our paper today about the upcoming arrival of Google TV, which would allow viewers to watch movies and TV shows...
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Brett Favre will return to Vikings for his 20th NFL season
Brett Favre officially announced his return to the Minnesota Vikings for the 2010 season, his 20th as a professional in the NFL. Favre has been on the brink of retirement for several years, but has...
View ArticleKobe Bryant finds a 'Little Mamba' at his basketball camp
The campers gathered around Kobe Bryant, hoping to get a high-five or hear words of encouragement for a job well done. Bryant, running the Kobe Basketball Academy this in July at UC Santa Barbara, did...
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GM files for public stock offering
General Motors Co. on Wednesday filed its official paperwork to sell stock to the public, the first step in its plan to pay back billions of dollars of taxpayer support that kept the company alive in...
View ArticleACLU sues for government surveillance records of former Hawthorne man
Maintaining that the U.S. government was behind a U.S. citizen’s imprisonment for more than a year in the United Arab Emirates, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking...
View ArticleZoo official issues dire warning about the treatment of animals at...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — All of the animals at Indonesia's largest zoo -- many of them critically endangered -- could be dead within five years unless strong action is taken to change the culture of...
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Music review: Pietari Inkinen makes his Hollywood Bowl debut with Leon...
Pietari Inkinen, who made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, is 29, music director of the New Zealand Symphony and yet another success story for Finland's fabulous...
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