Interfaith comedy show takes a stand
Chicago journalist Ray Hanania, who won awards for covering city hall for the Chicago Sun-Times and just happens to be a Christian of Palestinian extraction with a Jewish wife, has...
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Music of the dead enlivens Forest Home Cemetery
The last thing you might expect to hear while walking through a graveyard is music — and lots of it — but that's precisely what's in store Oct. 18 during...
Staying positive is key for ‘Make Me a Model’ contest winner
The odds were somewhat daunting when Kaylyn Pryor decided to compete in this year's Mario Make Me a Model contest. She was one of 500 potentially professionally gorgeous hopefuls in...
WSSRA fundraiser reaches for the stars
Though Illinois does support special recreation programs for individuals with disabilities, there's always a need for more financial assistance. That's why the West Suburban Special Recreation Association will be hosting...
DC Comics writer talks career, Caped Crusader and Grayson
DC Comics is sending some of its top talent out on a special mission to celebrate nationwide Batman Day in thousands of bookstores, comic-book shops and libraries. That includes Chicago...
Mingle with authors, artists for Ragdale’s Novel Affair
It's not surprising that Ragdale Board Trustee Jeanna Park is a big fan of the Lake Forest artist-colony's annual Novel Affair fundraiser, an event she is helping organize as a...
Exhibit drafts Chicago’s place in beer history
What did Benjamin Franklin, Kaiser Wilhelm, Plato and Thomas Jefferson have in common? Well, an appreciation of beer, for one thing. The first thing patrons who enter the Elmhurst Historical...
Fundraiser set to benefit sexually abused children
When children are forced into sexual servitude in the movies, there's usually a Hollywood thrill factor—a gripping kidnapping and rescuing. The real-life situation, however, is far more manipulative and grim....
Evanston’s Charity Wine Walk returns for a second pour
Last year's Evanston Charity Wine Walk, hosted by the Chicago Dempster Merchants Association and Vinic Wine, went down so well they're pouring out another just like it — though a...
Professor’s memoirs range from dugout to Dostoyevsky
As a young boy around the time of the Great Depression, Irwin Weil, now an emeritus professor of Slavic studies at Northwestern, recalls spending a lot of time in the...