Pat Harper

Once upon a time a lion got caught in a trap and a tiny mouse helped to set him free. This is one of the ancient tales from India that...

The timetable for deciding whether a Home Depot will come to Mokena was pushed back when the Planning Commission agreed earlier this month to the developer's request for a continuance....

It's a three-ring circus at the Evanston Public Library. On Friday as part of its Friendraiser event (an effort to encourage library membership), the Bumblinni Brothers, two wannabe acrobats with...

The cakewalk is a dance created by slaves that remained popular after Emancipation. It inspired Patricia C. McKissack's "Mirandy and Brother Wind," a book about a girl in the early...

The title of the play "Duke Kahanamoku vs. the Surfnappers," being presented by Chicago Playworks, is set in Hawaii. Someone has stolen all the ocean waves and two teenagers set...

Storyteller Naomi Leithold is thinking about telling some "how and why" tales when she participates in an event called "YOU TO THE RESCUE: WILDLIFE CONSERVATION" at the Lincoln Park Zoo....

Griffin Theatre is bringing "THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE" from the TV screen to the stage. For this adaptation Bill Massolia has chosen the episode in which Bullwinkle swallows...

Chicago rocker Ralph Covert, who teaches Wiggleworms classes at the OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC, is giving a concert to celebrate the release of his CD "Ralph's World." It's...

Love is a multifaceted feeling. Young lovers may have one definition of it, parents another and children one of their own. For kids love is what they feel for their...

Children can find out what it means to be a member of the global village at KIDS WEEKEND at Navy Pier. They can move to the calypso, reggae and merengue...