Sunday Breakfast

For jazz vocalist Sarah Marie Young, performing music on stage is more than creating notes and beats for an audience. “We’re up there having ‘conversations’ among ourselves, through our music,” Young says. “The audience can interpret what we’re performing any way they’d like. “We’re expressing ourselves to each other, and our audience is listening.” Young,

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

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

For one inning circa 2006, during a Major League Baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, Stephen Alltop sat behind a legend in the press box. The music director of both the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and Apollo Chorus of Chicago watched. And listened. And … tingled.