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Kid-friendly eateries dish up fun for everyone

Crain’s Chicago Business, April 19, 2004
Most workdays, children and professionals are best kept in separate corners. But not on April 22, when millions of youngsters nationwide will grab a glimpse of their future as part of Ms. Foundation’s “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” now in its 10th year. Here are a few kid-tested lunch spots downtown.
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Old Town offers lunch break from Loop

Crain’s Chicago Business, March 15, 2004
With its comedy clubs, Old Town comes to life at night, so dropping in for
lunch can be like visiting a resort off season. But the architecture-brick row houses and cobbled mews-shops and diverse lunch spots make it a terrific daytime destination, too. Old Town is just a hop from the Loop (an $8 cab, or the Brown Line to Sedgwick). Parking lots and valets charge $8.
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Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

People Magazine, July 2001
Oh-so-smart Manhattan book editor Katie Wilkinson is kicking herself for
being oh-so-blind: Matt, her out-of-town lover for nearly a year, has just dumped her, leaving her with a diary-written by his wife, Suzanne.
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Fevers of a Young French Heart

The Bergen Record, July 26, 1985
“The Lover” is a small, odd gem of a novel: It glistens from the beat of its subtropic setting, and flashes with violence. It is unsentimental and sparely written, and its unusual narrative structure makes it a standout among recent novels. …
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Kennebunkport, Maine, is perfectly disheveled

The Bergen Record March 31, 1985
Some resort towns are too close to perfect, with a glut of charming inns and taffy shops that robs them of the character that first attracted visitors. This town isn’t perfect, but It does have the right ingredients for a seaside resort.
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Here’s what I’ve been reading and liking lately. Evicted is a thick work of nonfiction by sociologist Matthew Desmond, about tenants and landlords in a poor part of Milwaukee. The book is richly told, detailed, Dickensian. I liked the telling more than the tale, which is depressing, heartbreaking, hopeless. Women and children, the disabled, the

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I settled in for a bar lunch the other day at Joe’s, an elegant seafood and steak house off Michigan Avenue with my friend and colleague Barbara. I’d been to Joe’s (60 E. Grand St.) several times, for review or to meet with editors. It’s pricey, but the seafood — especially their signature stone crab

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With friends and family griping about the dearth of good new reads, it’s worth a look back at the best of the last decade. That’s always my default: Nothing new? Look back. Explains reading all of Hardy, and Richard Yates, repeatedly. Of course, the last decade gave us the me me me “Eat, Pray, Love”

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