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‘The Mikado’ gets a makeover in latest Savoyaires production
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 25, 2025 The most famous and beloved of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas — The Mikado — has had a bumpy time of it since 2014, when a Seattle production
Solti’s legendary assistant
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 4, 2025 If Georg Solti put Chicago on the world culture map, as Time magazine raved in a 1973 cover story about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, longtime
Pet Peeves
Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 14, 2025 Who knew so many people were bursting to share their pet peeves? I periodically post stuff on my Facebook page, and sometimes I get a
Life’s big questions
Evanston RoundTable, July 31, 2025 I used to think that as one got older, the fog that obscures life’s Big Complexities would lift, life’s Big Puzzles would become clear and
Library 101: A community treasure, Evanston Public Library faces a difficult road ahead
Evanston RoundTable, July 16, 2025 Some fun facts about your Evanston Public Library: The nucleus of what might be considered Evanston’s first library came from a donation of books by
Four reasons to love the parade
Evanston RoundTable, July 6, 2025 We moved to Evanston in 1983. I’ve been to every Fourth of July parade since — that’s 42 years of parade watching and cheering. (My wife
How to lose the news blues (and make the world a better place)
Evanston RoundTable, June 28, 2025 If you’re feeling seriously glum about the current tidal wave of bad news, little wonder. Daily headlines overwhelm us about war in Iran and Ukraine,
The year of living magically
Evanston RoundTable, June 11, 2025 “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life
The scourge of park litter
Evanston RoundTable, May 21, 2025 Taking advantage of the beautiful spring weather — sunny and sixtyish — on Earth Day Sunday, I made my first foray of the year to Butler