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'The Connection': '60s shocker returns, with emeritus status ✭✭✭
Two time capsules in one, "The Connection" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961 and received a scant, notorious U.S. release in 1962, its rough language (for the time) causing all sorts of censorship troubles. Bring-down, man! Total bring-down....
Tags: Music, Drugs and Medicines, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards, Movies
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'House I Live In' explores war on drugs and its toll on America ★★★
Taking on a hellacious societal problem, a documentary filmmaker benefits from finding a narrow path leading to the heart of that problem — a specific angle, an image, a detail, that opens up to the wider world and a host of provocations. Eugene...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Movies, The House I Live In (movie), Cocaine, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Scandal at jail another symptom of war on drugs
Let me start with this: If not for the absurd war on drugs — by far, the nation's longest war — we would not have had so many killings on the streets of Baltimore over the years. The United States leads the world in incarceration. Without the...
Tags: Murder, War Crimes, Prisons, Taliban, Afghanistan
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Tragedies connect parents
Michelle Ross of Oklahoma City never followed the playing career of Erik Kramer, who was the Bears' quarterback in the mid-1990s. "I am not much of a sports person," she said. But after coming across a Tribune story about Kramer's late son, Griffen,...
Tags: Death and Dying Customs, Depression, Behavioral Conditions, National Football League, Substance Abuse
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Lake residents continue to send care packages to appreciative soldiers in Afghanistan
Happy Nowruz to Lake County from the mountains of Afghanistan. Navy Lt. j.g. Laura Cook sends greetings of the Persian New Year from her unit, which is stationed near the border with Iran. Laura, if you recall from previous columns, is a 1998...Tags: Memorial Day, U.S. Military, Holidays
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'City of Fear': A nuclear-age noir to savor ★★★ 1/2
There's an antidote for this bizarre March cold spell we're having: an equally bizarre warm front known as Cobalt 60 — the radioactive time bomb in a canister coveted by the killer played by Vince Edwards in the 1959 Columbia Pictures noir "City...Tags: Vince Edwards, Movies, The Wild Bunch (movie), Sam Peckinpah, Entertainment
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Dogwood made good food and a difference in lives
Has it been mentioned anywhere that the couple who ran the Dogwood Restaurant in Hampden tried to change the lives of desperate people while serving good food and drink? There aren't a lot of businesses willing to hire ex-offenders and recovering drug...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Addiction, Restaurants, Harbor, Prisons
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'Gideon's' promise still unfulfilled
Leonard Pitts"Make me wanna holler, way they do my life." -- Marvin Gaye, "Inner City Blues" Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of "Chasing...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Marvin Gaye, The Washington Post, Criminals, The Miami Herald
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All jokes aside, it's time to get serious about legalizing marijuana
Now that longtime activist and irreverent Fort Lauderdale attorney Norm Kent has become leader of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, what should we call him? His Highness? Boss Weed? Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Joints?...
Tags: Charlie Crist, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Lake Worth, Plantation, Lou Gehrig's Disease
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave talks about 'painful births' in songwriting
AUSTIN, Texas -- Nick Cave has written novels, movie scripts and a few dozen of the greatest songs of the last 30 years. Yet for him, it never gets any easier. The problem with finishing a song, Cave said Tuesday as a featured speaker at the 27th...
Tags: Music, Brazil, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, David Bowie, Landforms
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Retirement bounty leads to chore deficit
Dear Amy: I am retired and live with my girlfriend, who still works full time. Financially, we're good, but problems arise when she gets home from work. She seems to have this expectation that I should do all of the household chores: cleaning, shopping,...
Tags: Alcohol Addiction
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Marijuana decriminalization compromise may be necessary in Pennsylvania
"Politics is not an exact science," explained the exalted 19th-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. "Politics is the art of the possible." Of course, Bismarck also said, "We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear...
Tags: Methadone (drug), Drugs and Medicines, New York City, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Tom Corbett
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