Ross Werland

An outlet for musicians: The yet-to-open Gurnee Mills outlet mall is preparing to make a big noise-or something more symphonious-by sponsoring a community band through the Gurnee Park District. This...

It`s payback time: Okay, kids, your parents have dumped all that dough on lessons and harped at you to practice all these years, so this is your chance to make...

Good times and bad times: For all those folks who enjoyed the benefit performance by the Second City Touring Co. last weekend, the Libertyville Junior Woman`s Club would like to...

New kids on the block: It`s sort of like walking into a party of strangers. You try to impose yourself into the little knots of conversation going on around the...

Putting in for a transfer: War has compelled the David Adler Cultural Center to retreat. The center had planned to hold its Mardis Gras fundraising party Feb. 16 in the...

In this day when workplaces and restaurants have established tiny leper colonies for smokers, being a billower may not seem like the most chic thing to be. But as in...

To look at the artwork of Jack Pi, you`d think he must have been wielding a carving knife even before he picked up his first chopsticks. The designs are painstakingly...

At first it looked like your typical ribbon-cutting, with a pair of scissors and some guys in suits. But the ribbon was different-a 4-foot piece of pasta. In public relations,...