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Birding expert aims to make gull identification less intimidating

By Jeff Reiter
Jan 22, 2025 7:36 am - Gull expert Amar Ayyash of Orland Park seeks to make gull identification less intimidating through his new guide covering North America's 36 species.
Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a midlife crisis

By ANN LEVIN
Jan 21, 2025 11:28 am - Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that.
Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hard-boiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracy

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jan 17, 2025 12:12 pm - Traci Beller was 13 when her father went out on some service calls and never returned home. Ten years later, she turns to Elvis Cole, the self-declared world’s greatest detective, to help find him in Robert Crais’ “The Big Empty.”
Cook like a grandmother with ‘The League of Kitchens Cookbook’

By MARK KENNEDY
Jan 17, 2025 8:16 am - Lisa Kyung Gross was so convinced that everyone should learn dishes from an elder that she founded The League of Kitchens in 2014, a network of culinary workshops hosted by immigrant home cooks. Last fall the League released a cookbook featuring 75 family recipes.
Artists, writers living in Dist. 214 invited to enter Arts Unlimited contest

Submitted by District 214
Jan 15, 2025 11:13 am - District 214 has announced its call for submissions to the annual Daily Herald and District 214 Arts Unlimited Art and Writing Contest. Submissions will be accepted through March 3.
Book Review: Kyle Paoletta’s ‘American Oasis’ offers lessons for a hotter, drier world

By ANITA SNOW
Jan 14, 2025 10:13 am - As cities worldwide grapple with drought and rising temperatures from climate change, author Kyle Paoletta describes how the Southwest developed a resilience that he says other regions will need as the globe grows hotter and drier.
Side Street Studio Arts hosts multidisciplinary artist Ramona Rotten for interactive poetry workshop and Winter Fringe Festival performance

By Erin Rehberg, Side Street Studio Arts
Jan 13, 2025 11:36 pm - Ramona Rotten, the 2025 Going Dutch artist-in-residence, will lead a Blackout Poetry Workshop and perform at the annual Winter Mini Fringe Festival at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin.
Book Review: ‘Open Socrates’ shows why philosophy isn’t a spectator sport

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Jan 13, 2025 11:35 am - In “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn’t just a spectator sport. It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each other, and admitting mistakes.
Oprah Winfrey opens 2025 with an encore. ‘A New Earth’ is her book club pick for a second time

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jan 07, 2025 7:50 am - Oprah Winfrey is beginning 2025 with an old favorite. She has selected Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose” for her book club, marking the first time she has chosen a publication twice.
Book Review: Kenitz’s debut novel transforms ‘The Perfect Home’ into a gut-roiling thriller

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jan 06, 2025 1:29 pm - In “The Perfect Home,” Dawn and Wyatt Decker are a reality TV couple renovating homes on-screen and dealing with fertility problems off-screen. Their story and their marriage seem like a foregone conclusion, but only a few chapters in, a sharp twist turns this unassuming world of domesticity upside-down.

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