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Television

• Too much Thirteen ruining 'House'

• Why 'Grey's' is making me sick

• Hutton brings balance to wobbly 'Leverage'

• 'Arrested Development' coming to the big screen

• '24' doesn't quite measure up

Movies

• 'Nothing Like the Holidays' (3 1/2 stars!) calls Chicago's Humboldt Park home

• 'Doubt' (3 1/2 stars!) stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

• 'Frost/Nixon' stars Frank Langella, Michael Sheen

• 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' stars Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith

• 'Were the World Mine' stars Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane

Music

• Fall Out Boy blasts out more ambitious hooks

• GNR's 'Chinese Democracy' fails to get the vote out

• Wu-Tang looks back but sells to the future

• Common performs 'secret' show

• Oasis set list

Theater

• In McPherson's world, holidays can be a long, cold walk through the rain

• Second City takes aim at Chicago pols in 'America: All Better!'

• 'The Seafarer': Best Irish play since the glory days of Beckett

• 'Shrek The Musical'

Art & Architecture

• Best architecture of 2008

• What impact will Obama's public works have on the American landscape?

• Steve Chapman: Maybe patience?

• No tug of war here: Art Institute's curators and architects resolving differences over Modern Wing

• Kathleen Parker: You can't get there from here

Dining

• Steaks at the casinos

• Deli memories

• CHEAP: Bergstein's Deli, 2 forks

• Eat this: Great spicy wings

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