“How Can You Run with a Shell on your Back?” is a delightful romp for audiences of all ages. The musical, directed by Dominic Missimi, tells the story of six students, all with unique personalities and foibles, who bond together through the creative retelling of several of Aesop’s fables. Together, the kids learn the importance […]
On March 9th, more than 60 5th and 6th grade students from Chicago and its surrounding suburbs participated in an Anti-Bullying workshop entitled STAND UP! Youth Leadership Day at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. The workshop included museum tours, group activities, and a presentation by a survivor of the war in Bosnia, Nadja […]
Good News Partners (GNP), a faith based community organization, will now provide affordable housing for an additional 27 families in Rogers Park. “For families crammed into a single room occupancy units or in shelters, this building secures, long term, another step from homelessness to home ownership” says Ronn Frantz, executive director of GNP. On average, […]
Viper Alley in Lincolnshire is the hot new music venue on the North Shore. It’s part restaurant, part concert venue, part nightclub, part bowling alley. The space is cool—the decorating is “industrial chic” with cement walls and floor-to-ceiling windows, so you feel like you’re in a downtown loft. The space is versatile and can be […]
For most of us, the spa getaway doesn’t happen all that often. So when you finally get the time, money and motivation, you want to pick the perfect spa. Sometimes, that’s spa treatments, a beautiful pool and enough staff so that you’re not lifting a finger—unless it’s to call for another skinny-tini. But if you […]
Call out the fire trucks! The Lyric Opera’s second cast for Bizet’s “Carmen” is hot. The popular opera, which runs at the Civic Opera House through March 27, has been infused with new blood and its gripping drama flows fiercely toward its brutal finale, when Carmen pays for her sins with her life. Making her […]
“I got the job!” are the best four words in the English language to Ann Jennett, who has spent her life helping young people enter the workforce. It started several decades ago, when she worked at Evanston Township High School part-time, and then full-time, and then founded the school’s career center. She became famous with […]
Like Studs Terkel himself, the musical “Working,” based on his book of interviews, celebrates men and women from all walks of life. Some characters love their work, others hate it—but either way, the 1-hour-40-minute, no-intermission show explores the many ways that work can give meaning to our lives. In this revised version of the ‘70s […]
As the Festival’s fearless leader, Welz Kauffman knows this summer’s schedule inside and out—so, we asked him for a tour. And while of course the Highland Park resident loves everything on the lineup that he helped create, “there are some things that are very special and unique this summer,” he says—one of them being the […]
Rotary International is such a Make It Better institution! Club meetings lift your spirits – comraderie, laughter and ways to help others are served along with breakfast or lunch. Members pay a buck to charity in order to share good news. Visitors are celebrated. Want a better day? Attend a Rotarian meeting. Want a better […]
