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#HASHTAG: ERIN DONALDSON

Winnetka’s ERIN DONALDSON spent her early post-graduate years singing and tap dancing across The Goodman Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s stages. A vocal cord injury sidelined her theater career, but not one to miss a beat, Donaldson pivoted into advertising, where she helped real estate mogul and Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran build a multi-billion-dollar

POOL TALENT

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

TEED UP FOR SUCCESS

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

#HASHTAG: AVA SUMMERS

New Trier High School senior AVA SUMMERS is excited to join fellow seniors and co-chairs for this month’s Rush Junior Board 2023 Fashion Show, “Walking on a Dream.” Held from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 23, at Sunset Ridge Country Club in Northfield, this is the third special event of the year hosted

MOVING ON

The third feature-length chapter in the Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin franchise (excluding their TV comedy series, Grace and Frankie) is called Moving On. Because it is directed and written by Paul Weitz, a more organized and humane artist than the oafs they usually choose, it is more memorable than the usual farces they’ve concocted in the

INSIDE

A lumbering bore called Inside is a crucially wooden and mechanical vehicle for the peculiar talents of Willem Dafoe that amounts to nothing more than nearly two hours of pretentious bilge. He plays a thief named Nemo who breaks into a magnificent Manhattan penthouse to steal a fortune in art treasures when the power system

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