Kyle Flubacker
A Black History Month concert by the Chicago Children’s Choir features “Right on Be Free,” a collaboration with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer, a backup singer with The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and Chaka Khan whose story was told in the documentary “20 Feet from Stardom.” The Grammy-winning quintet Ranky Tanky, whose music celebrates the Gullah culture, also performs. Other concert selections include a performance of Peter CottonTale’s “Together” and a preview of music from “Rainbow Beach,” a full-length commission about the historic wade-in protest that helped desegregate Chicago’s beaches in the 1960s. Livestreams free at 7 p.m. Feb. 25. Visit ccchoir.org.
Summary: It’s February. Dr. Roguska’s wisdom understanding that our moods often cycle along with the seasons won’t fix everything that ails everybody, especially not this winter. But it can help. The light is coming back, in its own time, and we’ll appreciate it all the more because it’s been gone.
The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert Every year about this time, when we ve reach the psychological pit of winter when it seems we will always be cold, the ground will always be frozen, the trees will always look dead I think about the wisdom of Dr. Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts.
I ve told this story before but it s worth telling again, because we reach these depths every year. Here in the pit of winter, the novelty of the new year is long gone and spring is still a rumor. Day after gray day, we re either underdressed or overdressed
When we’ve reach the psychological pit of winter when it seems we will always be cold, the ground will always be frozen, the trees will always look dead columnist Mary Schmich remmbers the wisdom she received from her doctor.