… that interspersed among the many houses decorated for Halloween are homes that serve as canvases for art installations as part of Terrain Exhibitions. The theme of the 2021 biennial show is “Keep in Touch.” Running concurrently in more than 50 cities around the globe, the installations will be displayed through Nov. 15. Twenty-six of […]
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ETHS chess team takes second in season opener
The Evanston Township High School varsity chess team successfully began its 2021-22 season by taking second place at Saturday’s Hinsdale Central Red Devil Challenge. The team won its matches against Oak Park River Forest, Glenbrook North and Hinsdale Central, losing only to Whitney Young, the current state champion. Notably, this was Evanston’s first in-person tournament […]
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Eye on Evanston: Thoughts on Design | Evanston architect Stuart Cohen
Longtime Design Evanston member Stuart Cohen received the American Institute of Architects’ prestigious 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 15. In receiving this award, Cohen joined such Chicago architecture luminaries as John Syversten, Carol Ross Barney, Peter Landon, Stanley Tigerman, Ben Weese, Helmut Jahn, Gertrude Lempp Kerbis and Natalie De Blois. Cohen was born in […]
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Les Jacobson: To make something beautiful
Recently I came across a statement Duke Ellington made at the funeral of his longtime bandmate, alto sax player Johnny Hodges. Hodges, Ellington said, had “a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes.” Given that the Duke wrote more than a thousand songs, suites, oratorios, concertos and movie scores; won 13 Grammy […]
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Peggy Tarr: Caring
After enjoying a meal at Le Peep, I stood outside near the door to wait for a friend to exit. A lad about 11 years old came up, opened the door, and held it open. He looked at me and motioned with his head for me to enter. “Thank you,” I said, “but I’m waiting […]
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Nancy E. Anderson: My parents had a lot to say. Sometimes I actually listened.
“A relationship should enhance your life,” said my mother to one of my sisters, who was in high school at the time. According to my sister, my mother was sitting at the kitchen table working on a crossword puzzle when my sister walked in after being out with her boyfriend. From what I remember, my […]
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Rank and File | Nakamura finishes second in Champions Chess Tour Finals
The Champions Chess Tour, sponsored by Meltwater (a media monitoring and social listening company) came into being during the COVID-19 pandemic as a series of online competitions among the world’s top chess players. Over the past 10 months, grandmasters competed for a total of $1.5 million in prizes; the top 10 performers in the first […]
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Les Jacobson: Chasing the dream
My 12-year-old grandson Ben still calls every night so I can read to him. We’ve been doing this for five years, starting with the Harry Potter series, which we’ve read twice. We’ve also read “The Hobbit,” two of the Redwall books, “The One and Only Ivan,” the Hunger Games series, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, […]
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Peggy Tarr: Equality and equity, please
Equality and equity are often used interchangeably, but there is a difference between the two. “Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.” (www.onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu) Equality and equity, please. […]
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Eye on Evanston: Thoughts on Design
For over 41 years, Design Evanston has promoted good design in Evanston. Starting in October the architects, landscape architects, graphic and industrial designers, planners and other design advocates who are members of the local group will contribute occasional articles to the RoundTable. The articles will reflect the original and continuing objectives that spurred Design Evanston’s […]