Hugh Hart

Every Friday afternoon, artist Gretchen Travers hands out paintbrushes and canvas to a pair of high-powered businesswomen, tells them to think ''beautiful thoughts'' and stands back. One result: Retailer Judy...

Glen Ellyn Children`s Chorus celebrates its 26th anniversary with a concert Saturday at Prairie Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg Ct., Schaumburg. The chorale has sung on four Grammy Award-winning...

News to cheer you weary shoppers: - Check out the view of the Michigan Avenue lights from the 4th-floor outdoor balcony of the Crate & Barrel store. There`s a totally...

Fashion designer Joseph Abboud always has appreciated the written word. Before joining the fashion industry he studied comparative literature, first at the University of Massachusetts, then at the Sorbonne in...

WMAQ-TV weather woman Roberta Gonzalez has been married to sportscaster Randy Hahn for six years. And with Hahn on the road half the year covering hockey and soccer for the...

`Holidays Remembered,'' a program of holiday music featuring guest soloist Ollie Davis, will be presented by the Elgin Symphony Orchestra Friday through Sunday. Davis, who teaches at the Universty of...

The first salons were established in 17th Century Paris, where nobility mingled with intellectuals in parlors of well-connected women, including poet Madeleine de Scudery, to discuss ideas that would eventually...

The third annual Winter Solstice Concert will be performed by several artists from the Windham Hill new age music record label at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Prairie Center for...

She was a soul diva back when Whitney Houston was still in diapers, belting out her first gold record, ''I Sold My Heart to the Junkman,'' in 1962. Since then,...

''Actually, it was a pretty pleasant shoot,'' says dancer Geoff Myers, ''except that we had to shave our legs. Victor wanted us very clean so you could see muscle tone....