17+ hour, 6+ min ago   (390+ words) Saturday’s opening day of the 2026 Evanston Folk Fest was blessed with mostly sunny weather, but it was a bit warm — the temperature stayed in the mid-to-upper 80s throughout the day. This didn’t seem to sap energy from the performers or the…...

5+ day, 27+ min ago   (186+ words) Fortunately, there’s a lot of fun stuff going on this weekend, so I can have a weekend redo while my child begins refilling his room with stuff for next time. As long as the weather is warm, there are still…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (191+ words) Evanston RoundTable The inaugural French Fest Evanston brought French food, art and colors to Fountain Square on Sunday. Themed “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. Mangez!” the event featured more than a dozen local vendors and a dog costume contest that drew fashion-forward…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (272+ words) Evanston resident and author Paula Kamen is the founder of HystericalFest: Women+ Act Out, a festival featuring short comedic plays about invisible disabilities, running Friday, Aug. 28, through Sunday, Aug. 30, at the Piven Theatre Workshop at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (148+ words) Evanston RoundTable Mako Ichikawa and her husband, Ken Friedenberg, head to the Amazon rainforest every year to pick up fallen seeds from Tagua palm trees. Each seed is then hand sliced to the desired shape and size by Friedenberg, and…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (744+ words) For Leslie Johnson Piotrowski, writing has always been a part of her life. As a child and young adult, she wrote poetry and later in her life she wrote songs while in a band with her sister. Professionally, she worked…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (179+ words) Americana-inspired local band Alongside Harold entertained a large crowd that filled Fountain Square on Thursday. It was the fifth of nine performances in the Downtown Summer Sounds concert series, now in its third year. Evanston resident Daniel Knudsen, also performed…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (130+ words) Evanston RoundTable Beginning Oct. 16, the Skyline Piano Artist Series features five performances, with highlights including the return of the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, as well as the series debuts of Kate Liu, David Fray and Paul Lewis. The Segovia Classical…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (802+ words) Part 2 traces the proliferation of movie theaters in Evanston during the 1910s and city residents’ embrace of the wildly popular new silent film industry. Two Evanston residents and theater proprietors, John Keane and John Bodkin, took the lead in shaping the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (770+ words) [1] “Society Girls Play in Movies,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 1, 1914. It should be noted that the vast majority of the films of this period are considered lost. The Bodkin & Keane films are, to the best of the author’s knowledge, among the lost…...