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Big band sound is set for music concert at The Community House
Toes will be tapping and smiles will form naturally Sunday, May 20, when the Jolly Boys, Cantate and the Free Notes perform at the Community House. The three ensembles will perform light spirituals, some Broadway music and patriotic works as well as melodious love songs …Read More
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Photo of a local sight touches imagination, wins recognitions
Luke Chen’s “The Wall” is a photograph of the south side of the Hinsdale Central auditorium, yet it is not immediately recognizable due to the photo’s composition. In the way the lines of stairs and even bricks are framed, it could be almost anywhere. It’s …Read More
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Engineering student recognizes his English teacher’s influence
Just about the last place you may expect to find an English teacher would be a Silicon Valley luncheon with an elite group of engineers whose main study, obsession even, is math and science. But that is exactly where Hinsdale Central English teacher and drama …Read More
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Student one-act plays are no joke, but bring work, hopefully laughs
If Dr. Seuss, Woody Allen and God were together at the same time, it really would seem as if some great cosmic joke was being set up along the lines of “three men walk into a bar.” Metaphorically, anyway, those three characters will get together …
Saturday train show a delightful way to help the historical society
It’s not just the tots who will be rapt at the Clarendon Hills Historical Society’s Model Train Show this Saturday, April 14. Their adult chaperones are often equally as entranced at the annual event. This year’s show promises bells and whistles and lots of locomotion …
Hinsdale ‘campus’ of The Chapel will open doors on Easter Sunday
“Rediscover God” encourages the sign outside of the church on 620 N. Oak St. in Hinsdale. I am always reading church signs as I like to think about the provocative ones. “God is still speaking” — the banner which hung outside of the Union Church …
Salt Creek Quilters Guild prepares for show
Here is a truly terrifying pair of words: “teen driver.” Our household hosts two of these expensive and defiant creatures, and judging by the more than 75 other parents who crowded into the Hinsdale Central High School Community Room last week for the Parent Teacher …
Part of the appeal for platform tennis lies in making winter fun
Last week I stepped way, way out of my so-called comfort zone when I picked up a racquet and repeatedly tried to hit a ball with it. I was one of seven women taking an introductory platform tennis lesson at the Katherine Legge Memorial Park …
Middle schooler’s digital artwork exhibit is evocative, imaginary
If you happen to be over at the Hinsdale Public Library, do stop in at the Quiet Reading Room where “Focus on the Middle: Mrs. Stewart’s Shutterbugs” is on display. While the room is indeed silent, sometimes filled with readers and those tip tapping away …
Different, rewarding things to do in towns
Finally we have more than 11 hours of natural daylight, a sign that spring is nigh. What follows are other energizing, interesting and even a little under-the-radar ways to emerge from winter’s hibernation. The name says it all for the Newcomers and Neighbors of Greater …
Start early, get good grades, be involved
Ashley Gersuk’s college experience was atypical. She didn’t just hoist an NCAA championship trophy, she played a critical role in earning that award as part of the 2005 Northwestern University Womens LaCrosse team. For Gersuk, athletics were a critical aspect of her collegiate years. “I …
Salt Creek Quilters Guild prepares for show
It takes as much skill to craft a quilt show as it does to craft to a quilt. Just ask Elsie VonKerens or DeAnn Ellis, co-chairmen of the Salt Creek Quilters Guild quilt show coming up next month. The show, called Quilted Gems, will be …
Central’s musical will showcase cast talent
In any given year, Hinsdale Central High School’s crop of graduates always impresses, but its yield of talented musical theater seniors is a particularly strong one, so strong in fact, that “Les Misérables” is the spring musical performance. This all-singing production — it’s an opera …
‘Beauty Captured’ is a great library art show
Don’t let the label “Quiet Reading Room” at the Hinsdale Public Library lull you into thinking that anything sedate, hush-hush or even remotely bordering on the boring is happening on the walls there. In fact, this space with its abundant natural light has become a …
Writer’s block leads to many other pursuits
In the six and a half years I’ve been writing a Doings column, I’ve found two annual dry periods for column material: one in the throws of summer’s heat and languor and the other in the midst of winter’s endless grey and dark days. So, …
Nite at the Net is high energy fun for a cause
While tennis shoes and sweat suits will be de rigueur — leave those painful high heels and other fancy trappings in the closet — at the Hinsdale Racquet Club’s Nite at the Net fund-raiser on Feb. 4, those of us, ahem, who wouldn’t think of …
Bible study offers women spiritual oasis
Thursday morning Zion Lutheran Bible study offers women a spiritual oasis Area women are invited to consider the question: “What are your spiritual gifts?” Okay so this is not your usual top-of-the-mind issue in the midst of winter’s drear, but Zion Lutheran Church in Hinsdale …
Hoping ‘long-term’ is in the works for 2012
“No news is good news.” The old saw about “no news” was an apt summary for our Christmas card missive this year. It meant that we didn’t have anything particularly unique — good or bad — to report and that we weren’t going to bore …
Fiction or nonfiction, books are the answer to giving dilemmas
Dollar for dollar, whether for entertainment or education or edification, books are the best value out there. I can’t imagine a Christmas without receiving or giving them. I am talking about real books, those things you can wrap up, put on top of a coffee …
Dream Home designed as part of raffle will be open to public Dec. 20
While most trees have already been erected and ornaments hung, decorating of a different sort has been going on over at 532 Justina St. in Hinsdale. That is the address of what is being called the Chicago Dream House Raffle, a $1.2 million house which …
