Classics Rock
Jonathan Salem Baskin wants to bring classic literature to the modern masses and figures he’s found a good way to do it. The PR man, author, and Glencoe resident has…
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People
Playing For Keeps
Lacrosse, fencing, crew. All fine sports. But for most fans, they don’t hold a candle to baseball, football, and basketball. Yet, in what you could only call a counterintuitive move,…
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Bank With A Purpose
John Calk considers himself a corporate brat. The Chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings bank grew up all over the world, but in 8th grade his family settled in…
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Dining With Deeda Blair
The new Deeda Blair: Food, Flowers, & Fantasy (Rizzoli), is a page-turner, both for its presentation and its prose. In the book, Catherine Gerlach Blair, known as “Deeda,” reveals the…
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Need For Speed
Bryce Aron says it might sound cheesy, but his first words were, “I see car.” Those first words turned out to be prophetic. Aron began watching Formula 1 races on…
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Keefer Still A Keeper
Glenn Keefer’s stint as a commercial fisherman on a lobster boat some 52 years ago did not exactly go swimmingly. The vessel, skippered by a rookie captain, caught fire and…
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The Bowie Project
A few days after iconic British musician David Bowie died on January 10, 2016, Paul Marinaro and Jim Gailloreto—cofounders of the Metropolitan Jazz Octet—began listening to Blackstar, Bowie’s 26th and…
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Hometown Hender
When Tim Hender, 49, was Timmy Hender, Deer Path Middle School 8th grader, he’d join his peers on weekends in the basement of the Gorton Center in Lake Forest to…
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