Nobody knows how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown.Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell who in early November became separated from Jacob and Bonnie Richter at an R.V. rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., appeared on New Year’s Eve — staggering, weak and emaciated — in...
Steel company forges ahead with new South Side plant
Label: Business One evening during a Cubs game in 1988, A. Finkl & Sons Co. received a frantic phone call: The ballpark's lights were flickering....
Jan
19
Ricketts: Cubs will fund renovation if city eases Wrigley restrictions
Label: WorldCubs Chairman Tom Ricketts discusses Sammy Sosa and the renovation of Wrigley Field. Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts said the team...
Google CEO Page on Apple’s ‘thermonuclear’ Android war: ‘How well is that working?’
Label: TechnologyGoogle (GOOG) CEO Larry Page seems unimpressed by Apple’s (AAPL) “thermonuclear war” against his company’s operating system. In an interview with Wired posted Thursday, Page was asked to respond to reports about the late Steve Jobs being “competitive enough to claim that he was willing to ‘go to thermonuclear war’ on Android.” Page responded with one sentence: “How well is that working?” Wired...
Paul Dano Playing Beach Boys Legend Brian Wilson
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Paul Dano will play Brian Wilson in a new biopic about the gifted, but troubled Beach Boys leader.Entitled “Love & Mercy,” the film will be directed by Bill Pohlad, who produced “The Tree of Life” and is also the son of billionaire Carl Pohlad, the owner of baseball’s Minnesota Twins. Oren Moverman, who earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for “The Messenger”...
Personal Health: That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work
Label: HealthWhen people fall in love and decide to marry, the expectation is nearly always that love and marriage and the happiness they bring will last; as the vows say, till death do us part. Only the most cynical among us would think, walking down the aisle, that if things don’t work out, “We can always split.”But the divorce rate in the United States is half the marriage rate, and that does not bode well...
Chicago seeks investors for potential Midway Airport deal
Label: Business Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration on Friday began testing the investment market's appetite for a potential deal to privatize...
Jan
18
Autopsy today for lottery winner poisoned by cyanide
Label: WorldThe body of poisoned lottery winner, Urooj Khan, is exhumed at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. (John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune) ...
RIM offers Android developers up to $2,000 to port apps to BlackBerry 10 this weekend
Label: TechnologyRIM (RIMM) really wants Android developers to bring their apps over to BlackBerry 10, and it’s got the cash to prove it. Via AndroidGuys, it seems that RIM will hold a “BlackBerry 10 Last Chance Port-A-Thon” that will pay Android developers $ 100 for every approved app they port over to BlackBerry 10, with a limite of 20 different paid apps per developer. RIM says that the “port-a-thon” will start...
Karl Rove re-ups With Fox News channel
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Karl Rove’s election-night brouhaha is apparently water under the bridge at Fox News. Rove, the former senior advisor to President George W. Bush, has extended his run as a contributor with Fox, the network’s CEO, Roger Ailes, said Thursday.The new deal will keep Rove on through the 2016 presidential election.Under the extension, Rove will also continue to contribute to...
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