Laser cutters. Pinking shears. Cupcake-printed papers. Adhesive sticks. Every style of sticker, button and ribbon on the planet. Walking around the Craft & Hobby Association’s SuperShow Convention in Rosemont this year, I couldn’t help but feel like I had entered the wondrous, over-the-top-elaborate temple of a secret sect. The religion? Scrapbooking. And when I say […]
“Voltaire is a relatively recent writer for me to adapt,” says Tony Award-winning Director Mary Zimmerman. She was having lunch on the tiny outdoor balcony on the fourth floor of the Goodman Theatre during a rehearsal break for Goodman’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway musical “Candide,” based on the novella by Voltaire. The show […]
Some people dream of dancing. Others simply dance. And on one fall night for the last five years, anyone’s dream of becoming a dancer can come true. The Women’s Board of the Joffrey Ballet presents the Fifth Annual Couture & Cocktails on Friday, September 24 at the W City Center (172 West Adams, Chicago). Co-chaired […]
More than 300 top young athletes from around the country arrived at Deerfield and Lake Forest High Schools in July to compete for medals and beat their personal bests. But unlike most athletic competitions, the participants were all significantly physically or visually disabled. The event, hosted and organized by the Lake Forest-based Great Lakes Adaptive […]
On the football field, 17-year-old Loyola Academy senior Alex Amato looks like your average high school quarterback—athletic, broad-shouldered and square-jawed. But off the field, this varsity quarterback is working to make his community better in a way that makes him stand out. Alex, of Evanston and oldest of four, launched CHOICE Chicago—a not-for-profit that recycles […]
The Evanston Health Department recently completed its second year of its Women Out Walking (WOW) program. Building upon the success and support of 500 women from the first year, the 2010 initiative saw approximately 1100 women participating in this community health initiative—more than double the previous year. The goal of this program is to encourage […]
As a young Jewish girl, Anya Cordell read The Diary of Anne Frank, and wondered whether she would have had the same kind of courage as the people who helped the Frank family hide during the Holocaust. Many years later, Cordell proved to herself that she could follow, in her small way, in the footsteps […]
The Julia Child of Japan lives in Evanston. Constance Chang taught Japan about Chinese food, just like Julia Child taught America about French food. Chang is now 93-years old and lives in The Mather, where she retired to be near her three children and grandchildren, but when she was a restaurant owner, television chef […]
“The best way to know a person is to learn his or her language,” Laetitia Carquet says. By that philosophy, Carquet wants to know a lot of people: She speaks fluent French, English and Spanish, has taken courses in Russian, Italian and German, and is currently teaching herself Japanese. Hailing from Marseille, the energetic Carquet […]
Most of us have long forgotten our primary school teachers—but many of Saachi Kumar’s students keep in touch with her. One recently graduated from the prestigious Wharton School for Business, another studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and yet another is pre-med at Georgetown, recalls the Highland Park resident. Saachi has been nurturing children ages […]
