Sharon Stangenes

Leave it to Charles Kuralt, anchorman for the CBS News program ''Sunday Morning,'' to strike a note of humanism and optimism on a topic as big as ''World Culture: Agenda...

Could you expect less from the museum that has given you a coal mine, a submarine and a beating heart to walk through? A whole house is part of the...

Michael and Katherine McCoy stood in the midst of McCormick Place North near four 25-foot structures, too small to be true houses, yet larger and more blocky than most sculpture,...

Though it was a dark and stormy night, about 300 people made their way to the opening reception for a recent exhibition by Glencoe photojournalist Jessie Walker at the Ruth...

In the 1967 hit movie ''The Graduate,'' college graduate Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, is told by a well-meaning middle-aged friend of his prosperous parents to consider ''plastics'' for...

If contrasts make for a good party, the opening of Marshall Field`s 1989 Spring Trend House benefiting Chamber Music Chicago and the DejAvant 89/The Concert Series had it all. More...

It was like winning the lottery when Julie Stracks, chairwoman of the 1989 Winnetka Antiques Show, saw a free full-page ad for the event in the Feb. 13 Newsweek. ''I...

Style has won a few, lost a few, in previous `People to watch` features. But even when we`ve been wrong about outcomes, the names we`ve mentioned have made interesting news....

There`s a lot to be learned when working with the Rockettes, of Radio City Music Hall fame-and what actor Wes Skelly gained from the experience was learning to knit. Skelly,...

Holiday shoppers might never suspect it, but on the lower level at the Mark Shale store at Oakbrook Center, hidden behind the women`s wear section, is a well-equipped video studio....