Peter ten Brink has been a fixture on the North Shore theater scene since he began acting at age 8. But now, a national audience will get to know the New Trier High School teen when he appears in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “A Smile as Big as the Moon,” airing Jan. 29 […]
North Shore native Betsy Morgan, who currently stars in Broadway in Chicago’s “Les Miserables,” launched her musical theater career right here in Chicago. She landed a role in “Mamma Mia!”—even after a flustered audition. “I forgot my shoes outside the room, I went in with bare feet and I swore by accident,” she remembered. “They […]
Gym teachers don’t often get the credit they deserve, perhaps because of the saying, “Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym.” But Mark Howard’s teaching refutes that saying completely, according to New Trier senior Jessie Serrino of Glencoe, who says Mark’s love of teaching shows, as he lights up the room with […]
They scale the world’s tallest mountains. They navigate shifting sheets of ice on the Arctic Ocean. They trek the treacherous North Pole. And they do it all together. They are the father-son expedition team of Rick and Taylor Sweitzer. As we sat on the porch of their home in Wilmette, Rick, 56, and Taylor, […]
