Monica Kass Rogers

MAHJ, BABY!

Tigre de Tartán puts mahjong mats on the design world’s map. Tigre de Tartán’s renegade designs are setting the mahjong gaming world on its ear. The company’s name says everything about its designs: wild, playful, a bit rebellious but with tradition, structure, and heritage still embodied in its creative DNA. “I’ve always been drawn to

HOUSE-MARINATED ARTICHOKE HEARTS WITH HOT + MELTY CHEESE DIP

Artichokes amaze. They look almost prehistoric with their tough green skins, prickly heads and spiky stalks, and yet their ﬂavor is so mild and earthy. More than once, I’ve imagined standing in a ﬂowering ﬁeld of them, nose level to purple blossoms that stretch as far as the eye can see. But that’s pure fantasy,

S’MORES AND MORE

Lake Forest Open Lands Association’s popular Cattails & Cocktails event supports its ongoing preservation programs. WALKING THROUGH THE Mellody Farm Nature Preserve on a bright spring morning, Tyler Lisenby stops to point: “This is where the tent will be,” he says, with a gesture to his right. Just steps behind, Heidi Clifton nods in agreement,

RUMMAGE RUMINATIONS

First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest presents its 75th annual rummage sale, a community tradition. REACHING UP HIGH, Melissa Burger stretches to finish styling an outfit on a dressmaker’s form in the window of the Lake Forest Shop. Promoting the 75th First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest Rummage Sale which happens Saturday, May 3 from

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

New programming gives the community another reason to explore Lake Forest Open Lands Association properties. “THAT CICADA HAD BLUE EYES!” Lake Forest mom Marilla Perkins recalls in amazement. Discovered by her 6-year-old son Fritz during a Lake Forest Open Lands Association (LFOLA) “Cicada Sensation” guided hike last June, the rare-bug sighting was just one in

GENERATIONS OF GEMS

Barrington’s M.J. Miller & Co. Continues its 56-year legacy of fine jewelry. “If we are able to see far into the distance, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants.” This famous aphorism—first attributed to 12th-century scholars, was among the many wise sayings Michael J. Miller’s father, Milo, liked to quote. Decades later,

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