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Portrait of an Artist

Diane Crites was a young girl living in Detroit, or maybe it was Florida, when she first realized that she saw the world a little differently from others. An alley vignette could be a black-and-white photo. A field of flowers could be an abstract painting or an expressionist drawing in charcoal. Everything, everywhere she went,

With Equal Pleasure

As a teen living in Winnetka, Ryan O’Donnell practically pulled a hamstring muscle each time his mother/cooking instructor, Beth, started to welcome eight cooking students into the O’Donnell household for a French culinary class. “I made sure I was out of there before Mom began teaching,” a chuckling O’Donnell recalls. “When she taught, I golfed.”

For The Love Of Bread

At the height of the COVID-19 outbreak last spring, avid bread baker Jim Challenger and his wife Lisa decided to bake bread every day for their North Shore community until the pandemic reached its end. They lasted 55 days—baking daily upward of 16 loaves from their home kitchen—but then had to slow down. “Bread has

Wheels Of Industry

You’ve probably seen them on the road—they often travel in packs, clad in brightly colored Lycra—zipping along in formation, some closely paired, others in looser proximity, but all heading in the same forthright direction, as if on a mission. They are. It’s the Accenture Chicago Road Cycling Club, launched just this year by Accenture’s Midwest

Party of the Year(s)

For the last 10 years, Hinsdale Living has had the distinct privilege of covering the Western Suburbs’ most loved events. While the pandemic may have redirected some of our parties, a look through the archives proves that Living & Giving is something our communities do best. We invite you to take a peek inside some

Figurative Traditions

What you notice first about the painting are the subject’s eyes. Clear blue and direct, they seem to study you as you study them. And then, there’s the graying beard, so long it flows past the collar of the white shirt, which (you notice) drapes over some rather gaunt shoulders. Breathtakingly beautiful, the oil

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