Culture

Ever met Italian-born Lidia Lattanzi Ragusi, the 90-year-old woman who started volunteering at the Winnetka Thrift Shop around the time the movie Rocky hit the theaters in the mid-1970s? You should. The longtime Winnetkan is part treasure, part comedian, part storyteller extraordinaire, and all kinds of fun. She’s not as sharp as a tack; she’s

Columnist and Wilmette resident Georgia Garvey likened an interminable respiratory infection to a drawn-out Allman Brothers song. She also transported her readers to summery days when the trill of an ice cream truck meant anybody with working taste buds turned into Olympic sprinters dashing to a sound. And, in another column, written near Thanksgiving 2020,

Vanderbilt University English degree holder Lis Settimi became an entrepreneur— and a geometrician of sorts—in 2020. That was the year, after all, when her path in the food industry had come full circle. Settimi served as a bakery assistant at a specialty grocery store back in her days at Brookfield East High School in Wisconsin.

Bob Apter was a pass-first, shoot-second hockey center when his adult league team needed him to be a shoot-often skater in a game decades ago. So, he acquiesced, pummeling the puck past a goaltender seven times. The score stood Apter 7, Opposing Team 3 when Apter, a true-to-his-word guy, exited the rink in the middle