Beneath the bark of knobby tree branches reaching toward February’s gray sky, spring is beginning to swell. Many flowering trees and shrubs set buds during the previous growing season, and a close look will reveal rounded, plump flower buds…
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Beneath the bark of knobby tree branches reaching toward February’s gray sky, spring is beginning to swell. Many flowering trees and shrubs set buds during the previous growing season,…
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A framed black-and-white photograph of the late Mexican film actress and singer Maria Felix hangs on a wall inside the contemporary Mexican restaurant Guanajuato in Winnetka. Known as La Dona,…
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Two women, two arduous journeys.
Lois Gibbons’ trek began with a cancer diagnosis in 2018. Her daughter Kate Neal’s journey began shortly thereafter, with a commitment to train for her…
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This satisfying Southern dish full of richly flavored stock, smoky pork, vegetables, and creamy white navy beans, came to me by way of a North Carolina chef who had ready…
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A teenage boy wakes up and sees the first Valentine’s Day card he’d ever received hanging on the wall in his room. He’d put it there. Maybe he was a…
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Mila Furman was 11 years old, maybe 12, when she first watched the Food Network show “Essence of Emeril” with her mother, Dora.
Mila and Mom kicked back at home…
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A few years ago, Cathy Barancik Graham made a promise to herself to wake up every morning and sketch. She even labeled the drawings by day and date until there…
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Late last year, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High…
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Crawfish season is in full swing, and there’s no better way to prepare those bright red “mudbugs” than in a hot boil of spices. The traditional meal version…
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Sports
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Late last year, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High…
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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.
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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…
