You may know (and recognize) actress, writer, and singer/songwriter Jessica Harper from movies such as My Favorite Year, Stardust Memories, Pennies From Heaven, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show sequel…
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Renaissance Man: Michael Feinstein
Beginning with his professional association with Ira Gershwin more than 40 years ago and continuing through his 33-year recording career and his Emmy- nominated PBS series and related projects, musician…
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All Strings Attached
Classical crossover act Well-Strung has got it going on (yes, that’s a reference to the NY-based string quartet’s viral video parody of the Fountains of Wayne hit “Stacy’s Mom”). Consisting…
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Waukegan’s Got Talent
Singer Jackie Evancho may be just shy of her 19th birthday but she’s already had enough of a performance career to last a lifetime. A young woman with a soaring…
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Invisible Words
When Highland Park resident James Lynch took over the reins at The Art Center Highland Park (TAC HP) last year, one of his first priorities was to address some inconsistencies…
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Working the ‘Night’ shift
Like Carl Sandburg, Nelson Algren and Gwendolyn Brooks, the Chicago writers Jessica Hopper references in her new memoir, Night Moves (University of Texas Press, 2018), she makes the “neon wilderness”…
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An Interview with Rebecca Makkai
If you’ve been waiting for the arrival of the best book of 2018, look no further than The Great Believers (Viking, 2018), the new novel by Rebecca Makkai of Lake…
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Jeffrey Schwarz on ‘The Fabulous Allan …
The late film producer Allan Carr, a Highland Park native, was known for his creative flair and his fondness for caftans. His film work ran the gamut from boffo box…
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Indigo Girls Coming to Evanston
Emily Saliers’ solo debut album, Murmuration Nation (released in August 2017 by Emily Saliers Music), was worth the wait. The other half of the Indigo Girls band—with Amy Ray—Sailers began working on…
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Introducing William Patrick Corgan …
For many of us, he will always be Billy. But as William Corgan, front man of The Smashing Pumpkins, began to edge closer to age 50, he was having second…
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