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WHITNEY HOUSTON TRIBUTE

She gave us some of the greatest songs of our lives. From such legendary hits as “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and “Higher Love” to “How Will I Know,” the enduring popularity of the late Whitney Houston’s iconic songbook is a testament to her legacy. On Friday, August 30, thanks to a special arrangement with

SOUND SERVICE

Chris Pickering was just a kindergartner when he discovered the restorative power of music in his family’s living room in Evanston. He had come upon his mother, Linda, who was resting and listening to Handel’s Messiah after work. The melodious large-scale work was working its magic right before his eyes. “Her eyes were closed,” Pickering,

SALE SPEAKS VOLUMES

Nancy Mieling is reading four or five books these days, but the Lake Forest resident also has more than 100,000 other books on her mind. That can mean only one thing: The start of the four-day annual Friends of Lake Forest Library Book Sale, which doubles as a fundraiser to launch some of the library’s

EARTHBOUND

One doesn’t immediately think of “risk-taking” when it comes to ceramics. After all, clay most commonly finds its way to us in the form of dinnerware, tile work, and vessels for the garden. But there are those, like the 19th-century potter George Ohr and the contemporary Los Angeles-based sculptor Julia Haft-Candell, who’ve taken their medium

CONSUL CONNECTOR

Perched high above the city on the 37th floor sits the office of the Consul General of France. Surrounded by huge picture windows, it is one of the best views Chicago has to offer. However, for Yannick Tagand, the Consul General of France, moving to Chicago was not about the view. “It is about new

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