Linda Lipp

Return to the days of music`s yesteryear, when bobby socks, poodle skirts and the Platters were all the rage and couples still danced together. That`s what the Shoreline Ballroom Dance...

Attention to detail: A passion for perfection paid off for architects Richard and Nancy Becker, who recently won a preservation award for the rehabilitation of their Highland Park home. The...

Teaching a 7-year-old to disable an opponent with a single kick may seem like a questionable goal, but there`s a lot more to the martial arts than fighting and self-defense....

20 years and counting: When a time capsule is buried to commemorate a specific event, plans usually call for it to be reopened in 100 years or so. But the...

An index to history: There`s something old and something new in a book on Lake Forest history recently reprinted by the Lake Forest Historial Society. The book, titled ''Lake Forest,...

Art took second place to enthusiasm last weekend at a holiday card-making workshop at the Suburban Fine Arts Center in Highland Park. A dozen youngsters, age 3 and up, created...

Dad`s dream comes true: Former newspaper columnist John J. Dierbeck Jr. died last December before he could finish the book he`d always wanted to write. Determined that their father`s lifelong...

Santa made an early visit to Lake Forest recently to have breakfast at the Gorton Community Center with some of his most devoted fans. The breakfast- with-Santa fundraiser was organized...

A political party animal: Some politicians win friends and attract attention by kissing babies, but when state Senate candidate Paul Chervin wants to get noticed, he takes his dog for...

It was anything but the typical charity benefit last weekend as 400 people gathered at the Multiplex in Deerfield to raise money for the Cancer Wellness Center of Skokie. Instead...