By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer The Hyde Park Neighborhood Club is continuing to add new programs that supplement its After School Learning Lab program. “We offer continuity across childhood offerings that work for each age,” said Sarah Diwan, director of Early Childhood Programs at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club. High School Programs The HPNC(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer Greg Guttman is the new board president of the Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce. Guttman, director of marketing at MAC Property Management, replaced Hyde Park Herald Vice President and General Manager Susan Walker. The chamber had a successful 2012 and plans to build on its strengths in 2013, said(…)
The Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., opened the exhibit “My Life is an Open Book: D.I.Y. Autobiography” Monday Jan. 14. The exhibit features “zines,” or small, self-published magazines, primarily written by women. A major cultural phenomenon in the 1980s and 90s, zines circulated among friends and(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Kevin Lawrence, 46, is being held on $50,000 bail after he allegedly spit on a Secret Service agent guarding President Barack Obama’s home. Lawrence, who lives on the 5200 block of South Harper Avenue, approached a vehicle with a Secret Service agent inside and spit on the man inside on(…)
The DuSable Museum of African American History will begin its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration with a live screening of the inauguration of President Barack Obama for his second term at President of the United States of America. The inauguration broadcast will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, and end following(…)
The eighth annual Roosevelt University Jazz-Gospel performance of Handel’s “Messiah” will include two Hyde Parkers in its chorus. The concert, billed as “Too Hot to Handel,” will take place at the Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Jan. 19 and 20. A tradition since 2006, the performance is offered as a tribute(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer The Hyde Park-Kenwood Interfaith Council is resuming its Sharing Sacred Spaces tour this month. This second round of tours will be held monthly through May. On Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3:30 p.m., the council will lead a tour of Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park, 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave.(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer University of Chicago first year student Robert Lipman missed home cooked meals when he came to Chicago from California. He assumed that other students might be tired of eating out of dorm cafeterias or ramen noodles, too. He was right. Lipman has begun a monthly pop-up restaurant, known as The(…)
