by Eileen Daday | Dec 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
The story of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is familiar to most theatergoers, but the adaptation playing now at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, is well, warmer, according to Executive Director David Victor. “Though it’s the same one-act...
by Eileen Daday | Dec 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
“To say we were caught off guard — would be an understatement.” That’s how Northwest Suburban High School District 214 Superintendent Scott Rowe described his reaction to learning that the White House had invited district officials to attend...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Gertie Rodig of Arlington Heights turned 102 earlier this month, but don’t tell her that. She’s too busy enjoying life and especially meeting new people. Her family threw an open house to celebrate her birthday, in the home where Gertie has lived since she...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Junior Emily Griffis is involved in nearly every music ensemble at Conant High School, from playing her flute and piccolo in the school’s top band, as well as in the orchestra wind ensemble. She also plays piano with the jazz ensemble, and even teaches piano to...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Theater students at Hoffman Estates High School are bringing to life a show that is both hundreds of years in the making and a world premiere all at once. A Walk with the Bard was written and directed by Christina Ordonez, a former English teacher at the school and...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Prospect Marching Knights have played military marches for years in the Memorial Day parades in Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect, but this week they played those same marches in the nation’s capital for a Veterans Day salute. After months of fundraising,...
