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Red Hot Spots: Chicago-style Dogs Reign on the North Shore BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
Chicago-style hot dogs are famous for a reason. No where else in the country do they drag a hot dog through the garden like we do here. And while you could make a hot dog at home, why bother when there are so many great spots right here on the North Shore? What’s particularly notable is how long many North Shore hot dog joints have been around. Little Louie’s in Northbrook was started in 1967 and subsequently bought by its current owner, Pete Weiss, in 1999 when he was just 22 years old. Weiss was in college when he decided that he wanted to own his own business and heard that Little Louie’s, near his hometown of Highland Park, was up for sale. “Louie’s is a modern day Cheers,” Weiss said, referring to the popular 1980s sitcom. “Everyone knows your name and your order. It’s this organic atmosphere.” At this point Little Louie’s boasts many regulars. It’s what happens when a restaurant has been open for five decades, Weiss pointed out. Many of those customers are multi-generational, with grandparents bringing in their grandchildren for a hot dog. “You make people feel like it is theirs, like they
PART OF THIS WORLD GLENBROOKS’ PERFORMANCE OF THE LITTLE MERMAID HITS THE HIGH NOTES
BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
Using a technicolor set, punk-inspired costumes and a cast of talented students, The Glenbrooks brought Disney’s underwater fairytale The Little Mermaid to life in a series of four performances April 26-29 at Glenbrook North High School’s Sheeley Center for the Arts. A stage remake of Disney’s 1989 animated movie of the same name, The Little Mermaid is adapted from Hans Christian Anderson’s 1837 story about a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea to gain a human soul. The Little Mermaid debuted on Broadway in 2007, running almost two years before closing in 2009. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, The Little Mermaid’s iconic songs, including “Under the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl,” and the power ballad, “Part of Your World,” are now considered timeless Disney classics. The show’s elaborate stage and technical complexity makes The Little Mermaid one of the The Glenbrooks’ most ambitious productions to date. A substantial portion of the play takes place underwater; coral reefs, moving ships and swimming mermaids all feature heavily in the musical’s storyline. The Glenbrooks’ crew used flying equipment to simulate
Ursula, played by Ilana Silver, rehearsing for the Glenbrooks’ performance of The Little Mermaid. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF NORTHBROOK/GLENVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT 30.
deep-sea swimming. “Tech was by far the biggest challenge of the show,” said Director Mark Maranto, who also teaches in the fine arts department at Glenbrook South. “You can do anything you want with animation, but when you have to stage those movements, it becomes difficult.” Maranto and his co-director, Julie Ann Rob-
inson, spent hours poring over footage of regional productions of The Little Mermaid on the internet, gleaning as much information as they could for the Glenbrook North staging. “I have probably watched Denver’s preBroadway production of The Little Mermaid 50
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