Have you read Evanston resident Freda Love Smith’s delicious 2015 memoir Red Velvet Underground? Published by Evanston-based press Agate, it’s a delectable “rock memoir, with recipes” that makes for tasty…
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Something For Everybody
During these uncertain COVID-19 pandemic days, people are finding creative and fulfilling ways to cope, as well as to fill the days while we shelter in place. Liz Surlin Gordon,…
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Charming Chanteuse
North Shore native and chanteuse Ann Hampton Callaway is perhaps best-known for being the composer and performer of one of the jazziest TV theme songs ever—“The Nanny Named Fran” from…
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Be Your Own Band
Three-time Grammy nominee Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for Naptime Players will present an interactive, one-day-only “Be Your Own Band” concert on Saturday, September 21, at Marriott Theatre in…
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The Story of Us
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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