This past year, television has seen a renaissance of new, inspired series in a time when reboots and remakes have become commonplace. These shows have won the hearts of audiences and critics alike, as evidenced by the 74th annual Emmy Awards held on September 13, that saw fan-favorites take home the hardware. At the center of […]
The Opera Festival of Chicago celebrated a successful second season in July with fully staged productions of Italian opera masterworks Il Corsaro and L’Inganno Felice, along with a special concert honoring the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of legendary soprano Renata Tebaldi. The Festival, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, was born during the pandemic to bring rare […]
Abundant resources offer school districts in New Trier Township advantages when it comes to staffing needs. But even local schools are feeling the squeeze from the well-publicized teachers shortage. Administrators at the township’s six public school districts (New Trier High School District 203, Wilmette 39, Winnetka 36, Glencoe 35, Avoca 37 and Sunset Ridge 29) […]
It was addition by subtraction over the last week for 8-year-old Cooper Roberts, who is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained during the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade. Doctors removed Cooper’s two intravenous lines and feeding tube, and the survivor celebrated by indulging his cravings for Lay’s pickle-flavored chips, Chik-Fil-A, cheddar flavor-blasted Goldfish crackers […]
In nearly every community across the Midwest students ride yellow school buses. It’s a classic feature of American life, so common it’s easy to overlook. But the diesel engine inside your average bus is not so sunny as its exterior, producing air pollution that poses health risks to our children, along with carbon emissions that […]
While mental health concerns in sports may have once been described as a low tide, larger waves of recognition have poured over the sports world in recent years concerning the matter. Mental health is not typically talked about the same way as physical health. Mental health challenges can impede performance, affect happiness and motivation, and […]
Don’t call Bailey Morris an activist. Or if you do, don’t mind if she cringes. It’s not that she dislikes the term. It has just never applied to her. That is until a gunman shot more than 40 people gathered at a community parade in the town up the street. “I was just so sad […]
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the Marin Valentine’s Ball is a time-honored tradition that benefits three critical youth-focused Marin nonprofits: Side by Side, North Bay Children’s Center and the Godmothers of Catholic Charities St. Vincent’s School for Boys. All three organizations collectively help to ensure that all Marin children and youth have a chance […]
New and longtime supporters of Lifehouse, a Marin-based nonprofit that improves the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, were only too happy to show up for great food and wine at this year’s Great Chefs and Wineries – which returned in-person on April 23 after being held virtually for the past […]
They live all over the Bay Area, quietly doing their jobs out of the spotlight. They tend to other people’s babies, wash dishes at restaurants, clean homes and push brooms down school and office halls. They are the working class poor — and while they can usually make enough to barely scrape by, they exist […]
