Asian cinema fest pops up again at Wilmette Theatre
Sophia Wong Boccio grew up on Hong Kong film sets, with an award-winning film editor for a father and a popular supporting actress for a mother, so it's not surprising...
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UNICEF Chicago honors Geraghtys of Glencoe
Since meeting at Northwestern Law School, where both represented children in juvenile court as part of the university's legal clinic, Glencoe's Thomas and Diane Geraghty have devoted their careers to...
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast turned caring for aging parents into darkly comic memoir
After growing up the isolated only child of neurotic, already middle-aged parents, veteran New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast left home at age 16 to attend college and rarely returned to...
Huge inflatable art takes over Elmhurst Art Museum
Some sculptures are made out of stone, some are made out of metal or wood, and some you take out of a box and inflate with an air compressor. That...
Lana Wood coming to Pickwick for ‘Searchers’ screening
Pickwick Theatre Classic Film Series founder Matthew Hoffman doesn't need much of an excuse to open his fourth season Sept. 15 with a 60th-anniversary screening of John Ford's classic western...
Eye on India Festival presents the best of Indian culture
Anuradha Behari, founder and president of the Eye on India festival, gearing up for a two-week run at many prominent Chicago venues, says she and her team are acutely conscious...
Community Nurse Center celebrates with a Lobster Bake
Long, long before the Affordable Care Act, the Community Nurse Health Center of La Grange has been providing low-cost or no-cost healthcare for patients in financial need. Yet, there are...
Brookfield Zoo’s annual Brew Zoo offers 80 beer samples
It'll be lions and tigers and craft beers, oh my, when the fifth annual Zoo Brew sets up its tents Aug. 26 and 27 at Brookfield Zoo. Well, the lions...
Pull up a chair for outdoor film fest at Brushwood Center
Back in the 1960s, when Edward L. Ryerson donated the hundreds of acres of Lake County land that have become an Illinois nature preserve, he envisioned it being preserved in...
Evanston Art Center launches artist residency series
You can't fault the Evanston Art Center for limiting the scope of its ongoing artist-residency series, "Society!" "it's a really broad, broad topic, of course," said independent curator Jessica Cochran,...