Mary Daniels

''Anybody interested in the visual arts would be interested in seeing `Graphic Discourse at Cranbrook,''` says Rob Dewey, director of communications at the American Center for Design Gallery, where this...

''We have all the French flavor here,'' says Nicole Borione in her lilting Parisian accent, speaking of Walton Street, her new ''home.'' Walton Street is fast becoming a little slice...

An extraordinary exhibit of bowls, chests, and other ''Containers of Spirit and Substance'' has been extended through Jan. 12 at the May Weber Museum of Cultural Arts, 299 E. Ontario...

For those who want to know more about Africa, here is Robert Vavra`s reading list. ''Out of Africa'' by Isak Dinesen (Random House). ''West With the Night'' by Beryl Markham...

Christmas is over. You didn`t get what you wanted, but that`s OK; give yourself a present. Here`s the one addition to the home that some would like to make in...

''I love the world where art is; I love Paris, Mexico, Haiti, Africa,'' actor/dancer Geoffrey Holder, perhaps best known as the ''Un-Cola man'' from some years back in TV ads...

John O`Toole left a career as a registered nurse to doctor the home environment with his sponges, rags and toothbrushes. His alternative medicine to traditional cosmetic treatments such as painting...

Original watercolors by top artists from the People`s Republic of China have been assembled for a special exhibit debuting at the Marshall Gallery during the Naperville Art League`s 4th Annual...

It was a day gently stolen from more romantic times as 20 horse-drawn carriages and farm wagons and 130 passengers participated in the Fourth Annual Barrington Carriage Drive held at...

Many women have loved a weasel of the two-legged kind. So perhaps one shouldn`t have been too surprised at seeing so many people of both sexes openly kissing their ferrets...