Audrey Niffenegger has a porcupine near her pantry, two snow white doves behind the settee, and a rabbit on one of many bookshelves. Upstairs in her studio, the pages of…
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Sunday Breakfast: Dr. Jeremy Warner
As a precocious five-year-old in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jeremy Warner wanted to learn to ski. His dad agreed, but on one condition. “I had to put my skis on…
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Family Act
Actors Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti can’t decide which was more fun: Meryl Streep ad lib-ing silly new endings in scenes of the Emmy-winning HBO series Big Little Lies just to…
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Telling Tales
There is the story, and there is the telling. The jumble of wordplay, timing, whimsy, and daring that comes together to make a great story always transcends, leaving the listener…
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Clean and Green
The morning sun coming through the windows at Forest Greens Juice Bar in Lake Bluff splashes little pools of light on the café tables, illuminating the rainbow-hued array of cold-pressed…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg
Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg is used to it. Strangers meeting him for the first time hear his title, see his bright, bearded face, and the yarmulke perched on the back of…
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The Little Closet that Could
North Chicago’s Mary Carmody stands in the middle of a tangled field of grasses, with wooded acreage beyond. To her right, a clapboard farmhouse looms near a copse of oak…
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Kenilworth Cooks
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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