OFFBEAT: Lassie's Timmy and Blackhawk Denis Savard here this week

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OFFBEAT: Andy Cohen signing book that includes Lansing's Harry Smith

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Self-Destruction Made Easy: An Addict Assesses Addiction Books

Advice books have ancient origins. The Bible, which has been a bestseller for so long no one even keeps track of the numbers anymore, was full of plenty of good advice like love your neighbor as yourself, some advice that may be considered marginal and inevitably some just plain bad advice.

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Tour de Farce: Armstrong admits doping in interview with Oprah

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey interviews Lance Armstrong on Monday during taping for Thursday's show "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive" in Austin, Texas. Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France cycling, reversing more than a decade …

ADVANCE PLANNING: Role models for a longer-than-anticipated life

A few years ago, I thought I had found a useful role model in Frank Lloyd Wright. Broke and a social pariah who had alienated all of the few friends he ever had, at the age of 70-something he wrote an autobiography about how great he was. He started a school for architects and proceeded to b…

LAST RESORT: The value of role models

A few years ago, I thought I had found a useful role model in Frank Lloyd Wright. Broke and a social pariah who had alienated all of the few friends he ever had, at the age of 70-something he wrote an autobiography about how great he was. He started a school for architects and proceeded to b…

Lake County Council paves way for highway department raises

CROWN POINT | The Lake County Council on Tuesday approved across-the-board 3 percent pay raises for the Lake County Highway Department.

How Bunny Fisher Learned About Herself from Her Father’s Story

Much of what Bunny Fisher now knows about her father's life as a child and a young man she learned more than a decade after his death. By reading it in a book. While sitting on the beach, in St. Martin, around the time of what would have been her father’s birthday—Christmas Day—in 2010. Bunn…

Mark Nepo—Becoming Part of Life's Flow

You'll never see Mark Nepo throwing a club or uttering a curse if he hits a ball into the rough. Because for Nepo, author of New York Times No. 1 bestseller The Book of Awakening, it's not about the score (he doesn't keep one), it's about the experience.

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Gary woman receives new car from Oprah

HOBART | Purchasing a new car wasn't in Marcella Ruffin's budget.

Oprah Winfrey chats on Facebook Live talk show

Oprah Winfrey got plenty of 'likes' on Facebook Thursday from fans who tuned in to watch a live online chat with the social networking site.

OFFBEAT: VU student spreads message of dog bite danger

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Peninsula Chicago celebrating 10 years as hotel haven with Hong Kong connection

The imposing entrance stone statues have become landmarks off East Superior Avenue in Chicago since arriving a decade ago.

Speaking Up: PNC Sinai Forum speaker series offers face-to-face experience with famous

Wendy Levenfeld, executive director for the Purdue North Central Sinai Forum, finds it difficult to pick her favorite famed speaker over the decades of the group's popular lecture series.