Bill McLean

After another one of her spot-on historical portrayals of a famous woman from mid- 20th century America, Leslie Goddard was approached by a concerned audience member. Goddard had performed a 45-minute, one-woman play about Rachel Carson, the marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose 1962 book, Silent Spring, documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate

An only child who grew up in Cincinnati, jazz vocalist Petra van Nuis today likes nothing more than to be surrounded by talented musicians when she entertains. She formed the band Petra’s Recession Seven in 2008, right in the middle of the Great Recession. Her six partners in sublime artistry are her husband, Andy Brown

For jazz vocalist Sarah Marie Young, performing music on stage is more than creating notes and beats for an audience. “We’re up there having ‘conversations’ among ourselves, through our music,” Young says. “The audience can interpret what we’re performing any way they’d like. “We’re expressing ourselves to each other, and our audience is listening.” Young,

Vancouver native and Highland Park High School senior swimmer Kevin Obochi sits in the back row of his Statistics class this semester. The teacher is Obochi’s swimming coach, Tim Sirois, who, if he wanted to shake things up one day, could teach History—HPHS Swimming History, specifically—to the math students instead. All he’d have to do

Richard Franklin remembers teaching golf to kids the old-fashioned way, stressing repetition, repetition, repetition. And more repetition. That way was the best way—the only way— to either make young linksters fall in love with the challenging sport or to develop future scratch golfers. Or so the part-time Lake Forest resident/ part-time Arizona resident thought. “I