It’s a snowy Thursday night and Shawn Bard’s house is lit up like a film set. Out in front, cars park, doors slam, and clusters of women hurry up the…
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No Strings Attached: Toby Nicholson
Just after his 80th birthday, a very spry Toby Nicholson scrambles up to his attic to fetch the handmade marionettes he now holds in his arms. Sleepy, Doc, Dopey, Bashful—all…
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Honest Laughs
When Evanston-based comedian Jimmy Carrane tells a story, images bloom. Funny, poignant, sad, and then funny again, each picture pops up, to be replaced by the next. We see a…
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Forever Young
By 4:05 p.m. on a chilly Thursday afternoon and the Winnetka Community House’s Matz Auditorium has filled with the cast for Children’s Theatre of Winnetka’s (CTW ) upcoming production of…
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The Great Connector: Abby Baine Dunn
Abby Baine Dunn was in a hurry. Moving through the press of bodies crowded into New York City’s Times Square, she’d left the stress of high-level public relations back at…
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Love Shack
Karen O’Sullivan’s bright and breezy boutique siblings Share and Shack stand side-by-side on Wilmette Avenue. It’s about an hour before opening time, and with the morning sun lighting up the…
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Baking Onward
There was a time when the stretch of Sheridan Road just round the bend from Evanston heading South to Loyola University, was home to luxury residential hotels that boasted concierge…
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Spectacular Styles
When meeting antiques dealer Lee Thinnes at her 1930s Mediterranean house in Winnetka to talk about design, one thing is clear—she’s at home in her work and at work in…
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Poetry in Motion
Six young poets gathered one recent summer week in a soft-lit sitting room at Ragdale, architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s former Lake Forest estate, and now one of the country’s…
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Sunday Funday
Supporting great causes financially is a worth while endeavor. Finding ways to engage with the people and programs one supports, makes the giving even more meaningful. That’s certainly been the…
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