5 ways to go green for St. Paddy’s Day
Lake County residents will be donning green the week of St. Patrick's Day and beyond, as they watch local parades and Irish dancers, enter limerick contests, listen to live music,...
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Reel in ‘Fryday’ catch, during Lent and beyond
When Debbie Tover, born and raised in Wisconsin, came to work at Bittersweet Golf Club in Gurnee, she introduced the Friday fish fry to the menu. "We use my grandmother's...
Wind ensemble to perform battle scene music, hits from ‘Les Mis’
Michael Flack and the College of Lake County wind ensemble are taking on the challenge of preparing a piece called "To Tame The Perilous Skies" that was commissioned by the...
Acrobatic shenanigans in Slapstick Sonata
Acrobats jump up and down on a teeter totter then propel themselves to a trampoline while a ballerina dances on her toes in circles to the music of Mozart. A...
Addressing hope and despair, Chekhov play still resonates
Directing "The Cherry Orchard" has been one of Scott Mullins' biggest challenges. The College of Lake County professor is guiding local actors and actresses through the 1904 Anton Chekhov play,...
Cheap Trick’s bass player talks music, luck, family
Bass player Tom Petersson admitted when he and the rest of the founding members of Cheap Trick were just starting out in the 1970s, "We never expected a thing. Honestly,...
Round Lake area youths set aside video time to learn to knit, crochet
When Christopher Sanders, 13, needs to relax and de-stress, he doesn't necessarily turn to video games — though he does enjoy them. More often, though, he grabs a hook and...
Veterans to show off creative talents at Grayslake festival
Air Force veteran Ed Mosteig creates art by burning wood, and when he learned about the annual Veterans Creative Arts Festival competition held in Lake County, he submitted, on a...
Most of county’s lakes still impaired
Last spring, Tony Baade came up with a low-cost solution to keep Canada geese away from Loch Lomond in Mundelein, where the birds' deposits were contaminating the lake. He lined...
Vanilla Ice, Coolio, Tone Loc bring ’90s hip hop to Genesee
Colleen Rogalski knows right where she'll be at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 -- sitting in the audience at Genesee Theatre listening to Vanilla Ice, Coolio and Tone Loc, 1990's hip...