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THE BUZZ: JANUARY 2025

DINNER AND A MOVIE Mountainfilm on Tour and Winterfest return to Gorton Center on January 24 and 25. Join friends and neighbors for two days of inspiring films, handpicked from Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Before and after viewing, get the full mountain experience by diving into the festive atmosphere of Winterfest, a free event

RUN TO GLORY

Nearly two decades before running and placing second in his age group at the 2024 Pumpkin Chase 5K in Lake Bluff, Phillip Howell—then Student Ministries Pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Bourbonnais—delivered his first sermon. “Running the race,” he says, referring to the theme of his address that had nothing to do with passing other

MOVIE REVIEW: RED ONE

Despite its flat plot and title, Red One, co-starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, glimmers. Adapting producer Hiram Garcia’s story, Chris Morgan, who wrote the taut Chris Evans debut Cellular in 2004, with director Jake Kasdan pulls off an entertaining, thoughtful and poignant Christmas movie. Take the picture as is—an Amazon movie stitched to formula

BELOW THE SURFACE

The imagery of artist Mairin Hartt occupies a zone between the solid and the immaterial. Hinting at both disorienting randomness and inscrutable organization, it registers as remnants of what was and intimations of what may come to be. “My work,” she has written, “is an attempt to establish a physical representation of the elusive—exploring the

ROAD TO HOBBITON

Growing up in Winnetka, Alina Taber wasn’t really exposed to The Hobbit until she started watching the films as a student at New Trier Township High School. But when she landed the role of the half-elven queen Arwen in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s (CST) The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale, which made its

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