For many during childhood, unexpected company meant Mom whipping up the two cans of condensed soup, ground beef, bacon, and sour cream stroganoff. Although that was a comfort classic for then, this deeply-flavorful short-rib rendition elevates this dish to gourmet status…
For many during childhood, unexpected company meant Mom whipping up the two cans of condensed soup, ground beef, bacon, and sour cream stroganoff. Although that was a comfort classic for then,…
Early in their courtship, nearly 30 years ago, Carrie and Tom Buchwald took a Chicago Architecture River Cruise. While traversing all three branches of the Chicago River, they passed more…
Chatting with North Shore residents Kristen Rajewski and Alex Delger is a breath of fresh air. The two friends, who recently launched a start-up health and fitness business, 2 Clean…
This is comfort, pure and simple. Smooth and creamy vanilla pudding, fresh sliced bananas, crisp little vanilla wafers, and a dollop of whipped cream. Perfection. When I was little, we…
The pandemic changed everything about 2020 and will continue to impact our lives in the new year ahead. However, one positive side effect of this new reality was a robust…
We could all use a little good luck to kick off the new year—platefuls of it, in fact. Good thing eating “lucky” on New Year’s Day is a worldwide tradition….
Catherine Grace Katz’s earliest memories of growing up in Winnetka were of her mother, Andy Katz, reading books to her and her siblings—everything from the classics to Harry Potter. She…
Thirty years before the onset of COVID-19 in the United States, Kevin McCallister screamed, “This house is so full of people, it makes me sick!”
Later, after being picked on…
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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,…
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…
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.
I approach a neighbor walking a dog…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
