Sherry Thomas

ONE HAND, ONE HEART

When a lavish new production of the Broadway classic, West Side Story, hit the Lyric Opera stage in Chicago in 2019, it sold out performances and wowed local critics. Praised as both “a suite of searing, soaring melodies,” and “musical theater euphoria,” the 1957 musical that retells the story of Romeo and Juliet on the

#HASHTAG: ALLISON BRUCE

Allison Bruce is a “intentional” jewelry artist and award-winning writer. As founder of Flourish Integral Health, her mission is to help people feel cared for, empowered, and elevated. She is also a columnist for Energy Magazine. Bruce says it was “a time of despair followed by the pursuit of joy” that led her to develop

THE PORTRAIT: JOI HUNT

Joi Hunt has long been an engaged citizen of the world, eager to find beauty in the most ordinary moments and calm in a sea of chaos. So when this wife, mother, and acclaimed professional calligrapher was helping her Lake Forest family cope with the stress of the pandemic lockdown, she reflected on an experience

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

It’s an overcast day in late March and Elaine Madansky is minding the farm. Originally part of the A. Watson Armour estate in Lake Forest, this 16-acre “gentleman’s” parcel and early 20th century farm complex known as Elawa Farm is a living laboratory of how Madansky and others believe we should grow our food more

REMEMBERING JERRY SPRINGER

The child of refugees who escaped the Holocaust, Gerald Norman Springer— known about the world as politicians, journalist, and talk show host Jerry Springer— died April 27 at his home in Evanston. He was 79. And while he may have been raised in New York, the legacy of Jerry Springer was made in Illinois. After

LIFE, STILL

Thousands of humans living on the street without the food or support they needed to survive. Faced with the inhumanity of this scene, other people might keep walking, careful not to make eye contact. But that’s not how Lake Forest artist Diane Feldpausch Tang navigates this world. Instead, she uses what she encountered on one

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