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Good Afternoon
Monday, November 9, 2009
NEWS ALERTS ::
A group of area artists, including (from left) Anthony Stanford, Jeannie Norris, Marissa Amoni and Shirley Flaherty, network Thursday in downtown Aurora.  (Tyler Stoffel/For Sun-Times Media)
Nestled in a corner of a downtown café, artists, poets, musicians and writers shared their passion for the arts and culture in Aurora. The first in a series of "Downtown Aurora Arts Mixers" was hosted last week at River's Edge Café at 18 W. Downer Place. The gathering gave people in the art community an opportunity to network, mingle and get to know one another.




VETERANS DAY 2009
Salute your veteran
Veterans Day 2009 is Nov. 11. Celebrate your veteran by sharing a picture and a story about him or her. To submit, click here. Please include your full name, along with the full name and town of residence of your veteran, and a brief description of your veteran's service to the country. We will publish photos in our online gallery.

Photos: Saluting our veterans

COFFEE MUGS
Love your mug? Tells us why
Coffee drinkers have two passions: their coffee and the mug from which they drink it. Share a photo of your favorite mug and tells us the story behind it by clicking here. Please include your full name and town of residence, and brief description of why you love your mug and how you got it. We will publish them in our online gallery.

Photos: Favorite coffee mugs

Child in critical condition after pool incident
A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after apparently falling into a swimming pool at his home Sunday afternoon, Aurora police said.

Accused drunken driver flips car
Juan Carlos Olmedo-Guzman, 21, 900 block of Lebanon Street, Aurora, was charged with drunken driving, no driver's license and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after a crash around midnight Saturday, Aurora police said.

5 treated after College of DuPage gas leak
Retailers say they need holiday helpers
Artists getting acts together downtown
Top tips to a holiday job
Live near a train stop? That's a good thing
Geneva seeks bids for road project
Accused drunken driver flips car Child in critical condition after pool incident Child in critical condition after pool incident Artists getting acts together downtown Geneva seeks bids for road project Body betrayed, Geneva man fights on Cities, towns cut back on holiday celebrations Parolee charged in stabbing, beating
Something to talk about »
Wistful "write soon" phrases have kept two women connected across the Atlantic Ocean for 52 years. One from the Midwest and one from Finland, they met on paper in 1957.



Bears are who they are—a mediocre team
Two-and-a-half seasons removed from their Super Bowl appearance, the Bears are who they never imagined they would be—just another mediocre football team. Photos: Cardinals 41, Bears 21
Mulligan: Lovie Smith must go
Telander: Total loss of dignity
Hayes: No longer competitive
Cardinals feel at home in Chicago
Local Briefs: A hole in one
Scott Mickelson used a 5-iron to ace the par-3, 147-yard 10th hole at Phillips Park on Oct. 18. Witnesses were Tim Carlson and Matt Bartlett.





'Pirate Radio' set was one big 1960s music fest
Bill Zwecker: Along with outfitting his entire cast with iPods featuring some 300 songs from the mid-’60s, "Pirate Radio" director Richard Curtis felt it important to have that music blasting from speakers all over the boat, during lunch breaks or any time they weren’t filming specific scenes. ‘‘You just couldn’t escape it — nor did we want to,’’ said actress Talulah Riley.

Artists getting acts together downtown
John Cusack saves the world in apocalyptic '2012'
Get over fear of outlets
Five Things to Do
Air Force band performs on Veterans Day
'Cats' continues its long run



 

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