Novelist Amy Shearn authored today’s post.
(UPDATE: This show has been postponed until Sunday, May 16th at 2:30 PM)
At the Wilmette Theatre, North Shore residents and beyond will have an opportunity that would make seven-year-old me shriek with joy. No, it’s not a pet unicorn or a canopy bed: it’s a performance by the talented show business veteran Andrea McArdle, who created the role of Annie in the Broadway musical Annie in 1977.
Andrea McArdle
Andrea was kind enough to chat with me recently about her upcoming performance, her illustrious career in show business, and a certain spunky orphan named Annie.
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Chinese Laborer, 1885
The final program of the Music Institute of Chicago’s excellent series “From all Sides: Paving the Way to America’s Cultural Identity takes place on Sunday, January 24.
This chapter concentrates on the Chinese role in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and how Eastern tradition influenced culture on the West Coast.
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If you can’t find something to do this weekend, you’re really not trying.
US Olympic Curling Trials, (photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
Men’s International Bonspiel: Chicago Curling Club: January 14-17,
555 Dundee Road, Northbrook
A bonspiel is a curling tournament, traditionally held outdoors on a frozen freshwater loch. The 
word comes from the Scots language and means league (or alliance or household) match (or game).
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