The Champaign Public Library is hosting an event this evening that looks like fun: “Ethnic Illinois: French Traditions in Music and Food:” Dennis Stroughmatt, an authority on French Creole music, […]
Month: December 2009
Dinner for Mr. Ringo
Four years ago at this time I had just started at the Press and was planning my first publicity trip to Chicago. My predecessor had provided a list of her […]
Sending David Beckham a copy of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
Among the many stories generated by the Tiger Woods debacle is this one from the Chronicle’s Tweed column. A book in the floorboard of the famously wrecked Escalade appears in a […]
Sing It Pretty
Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]