Chef Michael Lachowicz says the pandemic shouldn’t prevent us from giving thanks for what we have in these times and what we have to look forward to. With that in mind, he has prepared a family-style Thanksgiving feast at his…
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Chef Michael Lachowicz says the pandemic shouldn’t prevent us from giving thanks for what we have in these times and what we have to look forward to. With that in…
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Jody O’Connor’s black-and-white photograph of the blinds in her Edgewater apartment features shadows and light. Some of the shadows blotching the white slats could pass for either gnarled tree branches…
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Visitors to Whitehall in Lake Forest can be forgiven for assuming they’ve been cast as modern-day extras in a classic British period drama.
The estate, commissioned in 1920 by Continental…
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Portugal native Sonia Afonso calls the world home, having lived in locales like Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and Tokyo before eventually landing in Lake Forest. But it was in 2018 when…
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It was a place of pleasant scenery and natural beauty. But not everything natural is beautiful.
You’re at a North Shore lagoon. Nearby, you see a flock of Canada geese…
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In early September, the iconic Mayflower Place (better known as the Schweppe Mansion) in Lake Forest sold for $5 million after spending 13 years on the market. The 28-room mansion…
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Have tie-dye T-shirt, will travel.
To Europe. To Canada. To Maine and to California. And to states in between. Highland Park resident and public relations maven Ilyse Strongin attended hundreds…
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Kristi Kohut’s art philosophy is quite simple: there are no rules. Using bold brights, shiny crystalline touches, mixed mediums, and unexpected materials, Kohut creates special pieces that radiate joy, all…
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RECIPE AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY WENDY FRANZEN
SERVES 2
INGREDIENTS:
• 2 pounds mussels
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 large shallots, finely chopped
• 4…
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Sports
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Alexandre Cotard, The Racquet Club of Lake Bluff ’s (RCLB) Junior Program Director and Head Tennis Professional, coaches young athletes with a focus on character-building, care, and self-esteem.
“For me,…
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Connor Clark got cut from the Lake Forest High School freshman boys basketball team in 2016.
“I’d anticipated making it,” Clark, now a senior, recalls.
But the Lake Bluff resident…
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Northwestern University women’s lacrosse midfielder Brennan Dwyer left her painting of a pink castle out to dry in the Dwyer house in Winnetka last month.
Her father, Loyola Academy girls… -
My feet hurt. My mind churns.
Behold a new regular walker’s reality in this nascent COVID-19 Age. Painful and blissful, with every step.
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Fish need water.
Sports journalists need insightful thoughts and reactions from athletes and coaches and admin- istrators.
We never thank them enough for helping us enliven our pages. Thank you,…
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How fine were the feats of The North Shore Weekend-area athletes in 2019?
North Shore Country Day School’s boys soccer team finished fourth at the Class 1A state tournament—and just…
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Sneakers squeak-squeak-squeak atop the hardwood. A basketball bounces. A referee’s whistle chirps. A basketball clangs off the rim.
It’s not the sweetest combination of sounds, but it’s the haphazard symphony…
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Emmett Burnside paced New Trier High School’s boys basketball team in a trio of statistics in a home game last week.
Two were conventional. The 6-foot-7 senior pulled down nine…
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That mad-about-basketball math department at Lake Forest was “sum”thing else last winter.
A good chunk of its faculty members—about half, according to math teacher Kyle Wilhelm — showed up faithfully…
