Saturday, May 19, 2012
Award winning writer wants to help women deal with suburban life.
Award winning Deerfield author Lisa Barr wants to help local mothers with life in the suburbs as she launched her website, GIRLilla Warfare: A Mom’s Guide to Surviving the Suburban Jungle this month, according to a news release. The website was created to motivate women to deal with what Barr describes as their real enemies allowing them to blog real stories by women to help them deal with the suburban lifestyle, according to the release. Late last month Barr’s award winning novel, “Fugitive Colors,” debuted on Amazon.com after winning first prize at the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Unpublished Manuscript. The story is set in post World War II Europe and deals with an artist’s revenge, according to the release. To better keep up with …
Friday, May 18, 2012
A majority want the shuttered theaters to become an arts venue, but most want private financing.
An arts center is the preferred use of the shuttered theaters at the rear of the Deerbrook Mall by more than half the readers who responded to the latest unscientific Patch Poll gauging interest in such a project. Of the 137 people who answered Patch’s questions, 83 want to see some kind of art center in the space while 54 would rather see the theaters demolished as part of the existing renovation plan. Of the 83 who want the art center, 20 would be willing to pay additional taxes but the other 63 want private financing. Earlier: Should Deerbrook Theaters Become Art Center? One reader, Larry Mason, thinks examples set in places like Highland Park, Skokie and Highwood are ones Deerfield could follow. “Deerfield has a long tradition of …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Obama makes a statement in support of gay marriage.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Wayne Rhodes combines skills from his vocation with his passion to create quilts.
What do quilting and computer systems analysis have in common? The junction of these two skills came together for Deerfield artist Wayne Rhodes and comprise the display this month on the art wall at the Patty Turner Center. When you put sewing and logic together you come up with quilting,” Rhodes said. He has made more than 100 over the last 17 years and a good representation is now on display. His passion for manual creation started when he was young. “I always did something with my hands,” Rhodes said. “I made model planes when I was a boy. When my children were young I made their Halloween costumes but that was only once a year and they got bigger.” Not long after, Rhodes began making quilts. Some he makes for the sheer enjoyment of …
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Festival sold 110,000 tickets on Thursday, selling out six concerts completely.
Ravinia Festival began selling tickets for its summer season Thursday morning, and by the end of the day had sold a record-breaking 110,000. Want more Ravinia news? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. Six concerts completely sold out (meaning both pavilion and lawn seating), including Colbie Caillat and Gaving Degraw; Santana; both James Taylor shows and both Train shows. Pavilion seats sold out for Earth, Wind & Fire; Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers; Sarah McLachlan; Idina Menzel; and Duran Duran. "The season includes 50 artists who have never been to Ravinia before," said Ravinia Communications Director Nick Pullia in a statement. "That has attracted great attention, and could bring us new audiences as well." Some customers …
Friday, April 27, 2012
Long waits didn't stop people from buying tickets to Santana, Train and James Taylor.
Thursday was a big day for Ravinia Festival, and a long day for its fans. The festival began selling tickets for its summer season Thursday morning and within hours had completely sold out for three shows, according to Ravinia's Backstage blog: Santana, one of two Train concerts and James Taylor. Want more Ravinia news? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. As of 4:40 p.m. on Thursday, lawn seats were all that remained for these shows: The thousands of fans that logged onto Ravinia's website to buy tickets on the festival's busiest ticket sales day in history had to wait at least 30 minutes to get them, though for many the wait was much longer. Patch reader Jennie Moore commented on Patch's Facebook page that she was waiting for over …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Leonard A. Lauder donates $260,000 Tuck Postcard Collection to the Teich Archives.
This information was provied by a press release from the Lake County Discovery Museum. Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman Emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. has donated more than 35,500 Raphael Tuck & Sons Oilette postcards to the Lake County Discovery Museum’s Curt Teich Postcard Archives. The donation, valued at about $260,000, includes funding for the storage, preservation, cataloging, and digitization of the postcards. The Teich Archives is a world renowned collection of postcards and materials relating to their production dating from the 1890s to the present. The Teich Archives is used daily by researchers for a variety of projects including restoration of historical buildings and landscaping, scholarly papers, genealogy, …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Deerfield actuary finds creative outlet in writing.
When your academic strengths are English literature and mathematics, how do you combine your talent and passion? For Deerfield’s Jerrold Levy it was quest to satisfy his joy of writing with his desire to provide a solid livelihood for his family. Levy, a pension actuary by profession, won the $200 first prize in the 16th annual Rosemary Sazonoff creative writing contest sponsored by the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library recently for his short story, “Who Cares?.” It was the second time he won the contest. “My strengths in school were English literature and math,” Levy said. “I wasn’t sure what I could do with English literature so I went with the math,” he added explaining his career choice. Never giving up his love of writing as …
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Michael Zidman’s photography graces Art Wall of Patty Turner Center this month.
The work of Deerfield photographer and graphic designer Michael Zidman is displayed this month on the Art Wall at the Patty Turner Center. When describing his work, Zidman compares the effort of a photographer to that of a painter transferring the image viewed by his eye to a picture people can enjoy. “My camera is the brush, the colors in the subjects are my palette and the prints are my canvases,” Zidman said. “My objective is to take a simple subject, and, with the use of creative and natural lighting, color, and depth of field and composition, make a pleasing and interesting photograph.” The display includes a series of photographs taken at Chicago’s Millennium Park dubbed “Children at Play” as well as a series of landscapes and …
Friday, March 30, 2012
TV pilot was set in luxurious Bannockburn home that was once on the market for nearly $5 million.
Update: March 30 A Bannockburn home which had been on the market just under two years ago for nearly $5 million was the setting for a medical drama filmed in Deerfield and Bannockburn by Sony Pictures and Fox TV. Filming was completed Thursday as the trailers stationed at Deerfield’s Mitchell Park departed and executives at Sony and Fox will decide whether to name and air the pilot or make it into a series. The luxurious four bedroom home with eight fireplaces built in 1935 was on the market for just over a year for $4.99 million before it came off in June, 2010, according to information from MRED, LLC. Original Story: March 28 Hollywood invaded Deerfield ealthis week and the result may be local scenes showing up on television in the …
Julie
11:31 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Beautiful, visible signs of the incredible person I am grateful to call my father-in-law! Thanks for the great article Julie Rhodes more ›