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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by Mitch Hurst •
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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by DNS Contributor •
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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by Bill McLean •
The first word Maddie McCormick ever uttered at her home in Winnetka wasn’t “Mama” or “Dada.” It was “beast.” “I loved the movie Beauty and the Beast at a young…
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by Mitch Hurst •
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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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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by Bill McLean •
John Holecek’s winning percentage in armwrestling bouts against NFL Hall of Fame running backs isn’t anywhere close to the success rate (185-35, .841) he enjoyed in 17 seasons as Loyola…
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by Mitch Hurst •
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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by Bill McLean •
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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by Sherry Thomas •
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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by Bill McLean •
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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