Chicago Jewish Film Fest screens 18 films at eight venues
The Jewish Community Center's third annual Chicago Jewish Film Festival grew by 50 percent last year, from 1,000 to 1,500 attendees and the JCC is confident the audience will double...
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Bauhaus-influenced design on display at Oakton’s Koehnline Museum
Chicago's Institute of Design typically receives most of the credit for continuing the influence of Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design in America, but there was once another educational...
Woman’s Club benefit serves up tasty song parodies
It surely matters to the Evanston organization Family Matters that the Woman's Club of Evanston has entitled its 65th annual benefit show "It's a Matter of Taste." The neighborhood program...
Lake Bluff native voices two roles in new animated film
Lake Bluff native William Townsend took an unusual path to becoming a voice actor in the animated family comedy "Open Season: Scared Silly." Despite attending the University of Southern California,...
LCBA Gridiron Show returns with ‘Bar Wars’
The law in Lake County — or at least the legal profession in general — is up for its bi-annual ribbing when the Lake County Bar Association Gridiron Show returns...
Training puppies to be of service
Catherine Rupp wasn't the most likely person to wind up training puppies to become service dogs. For one thing, growing up, she wasn't a dog lover, since her family didn't...
Eagles fly high in Barrington family
According to the Boy Scouts of America, only about seven percent of Scouts — a percentage calculated in 2013 — advance to the highest rank: Eagle Scout. However the Bill...
Woodlands unveils new, improved Winter Wonderwalk, Boutique
Woodlands Academy has been around for more than 150 years and the Winter Wonderwalk/Holiday Boutique fundraiser has been happening every year since 1995, but no one is resting on laurels,...
Two parties from Oak Brook Infant Welfare Society
As usual, when it comes time for the annual Oak Brook chapter's fundraiser for the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, you get two fabulously festive events to choose from, not...
Local short films take the screen at Catlow Theatre
Last year's Catlow Local Shorts Festival was something of an experiment, but it was an experiment that worked our quite nicely. Nicely enough that the second annual Local Shorts film...