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ighwood once again is transforming into Pumpkin Fest headquarters and going big! The Autism Society of Illinois and the City of Highwood are proud to announce the 6th Annual Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival will be held October 9-11. Kicking off the Halloween season, this fan favorite event will bring communities together while working to beat the Guinness World Record of 30,581 for most jack-o’-lanterns carved and lit at the same time (a record held by Keene, New Hampshire). The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival will shine a light on hope, possibilities and options for the Continued on PG 12

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back; they’re like time machines. I get to feel again like I felt when I saw a certain movie and heard a certain song from that movie.” Berneche and three other women — Amanda Horvath, Sarah Larson and Mary Robin Roth — will sing movie songs spanning seven decades in “Hollywood’s Greatest Song Hits,” a Wilmette-based Light Opera Works concert. The two-hour show, suitable for ages eight and older, runs Oct. 2-11 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston. Among the hits: “As Time Goes By” (from Casablanca, 1942); “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (from Buck Privates, 1941); “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969); “Nobody Does It Better” (from The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977); “My Heart Will Go On” (from Titanic, 1997); and “When You Wish Upon a Star” (from Pinocchio, 1940). Berneche will sing the theme licia Berneche watched song from Titanic and “I Will Grease 2, the movie, Wait For You” (from The Umbreldecades ago. Michelle las of Cherbourg, 1964), among Pfeiffer and someone named Alicia Berneche other songs. Maxwell Caulfield starred in it. “I’m in love with that song,” It received exactly zero Academy Berneche back then. Music is a ers in cars, in kitchens, in dens. she says of “I Will Wait For You,” Award nominations for movies huge part of Berneche’s life today. Some are iconic tunes. Some are adding she’ll sing half of it in made in 1982. The opera singer has performed ditties from flawed flicks. All tend English and half of it in French. The snub did not surprise Ber- at Lyric Opera of Chicago and is to transport the listeners to “Each of the women [in the cast] neche, an Evanston resident and a voice instructor at Glenbrook another time, in many instances has her niche, her genre of music. a native of Kokomo, Indiana. North High School in North- a better time. What’s exciting for me is the op“Horrible movie,” she recalls. brook. “I’m 16 years old all over again portunity to perform music But the movie had a Oldies radio stations play all when I hear Grease 2 songs,” Bersoundtrack. Music appealed to kinds of songs, delighting listen- neche says. “Movie songs take me Continued on PG 12

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is “cool” to him. He finds himself — hears himself — outside of my niche. Think about humming classic movie songs all movie music … it’s not bound day long. His dog, Sherman, to one composer, and it’s not hears his master hum during bound to one time period. I am walks. What happens to a having so much fun rehearsing, leashed dog’s gait when the dog so much fun singing songs from is subjected to the catchy notes the 1930s to singing power of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” from the ballads [from the 1970s to 1930 movie with the same title? Riley must know. 1990s]. “The songs that will be per“I walk around in public after rehearsals, looking like a zombie formed are great ones, truly great and mouthing words to all of ones,” Riley says. “People who these great songs. People must don’t know the exact titles of the look at me and think, ‘What’s songs know the songs because wrong with her?’ ” they’re all memorable ones. Christopher Riley, Director People, through the years, have of Audience and Press Services heard bits and pieces of these at Light Opera Works, has heard great songs. Now, with this the cast rehearse in front of Rudy concert, they’ll be able to hear Hogenmiller, Artistic Director, entire songs. To me, that’s excitand Linda Madonia, Music Di- ing.” rector and Conductor. Hearing To Berneche, singing is one an a cappella version of “Rain- of the perks of performing in drops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” “Hollywood’s Greatest Song Hits.” Dressing up is another. Stylists Jane DeBondt and Jesus Perez went the whole nine hemlines to make sure each performer looked the part for each song. The threads had to match a song’s era, glamour for “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Dorothy’s blue gingham dress for “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz (1939). “They provided us with a huge stash of dresses and gowns,” Berneche says. “Looking at all of them and trying some of them on, it was like going through a candy store.” Light Opera Works is a resident not-for-profit music theater, founded in 1980. The company’s mission is to produce and present musical theater from a variety of world traditions. Nichols Concert Hall is located at 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston. For “Hollywood’s Greatest Song Hits” ticket information and start times and other upcoming Light Opera Works productions, visit www.light-opera-works.org or call (847) 920-5360.

“Movie songs take me back; they’re like time machines. I get to feel again like I felt when I saw a certain movie and heard a certain song from that movie.”

–Alicia Berneche

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PUMPKIN FEST Cont. from PG 1 Sunday evening. In addition, new highlights for 52,000 individuals impacted by 2015 include: Autism in Illinois, by striving to • “Another Pumpkin on the light a pumpkin for everyone Wall” fundraising program for affected, while raising much The Autism Society of Illinois, needed funds and awareness. in which each section purchased “52,000 jack-o-lanterns may represents 40 pumpkins for be a big dream to carve out, but donor carving. Families and our true goal is to help raise companies are encouraged to awareness, acceptance and purchase these sections by texting monies needed for advocacy “wall” to 91999 to watch them outreach for Illinois families,” lit to music! Each brick will be said Matt Ackerman, Executive labeled with signage, for easy Director of the Autism Society recognition as they are lit. of Illinois. “All money raised in • Attendees can “Adopt a Illinois stays in Illinois and we Pumpkin” by texting “pumpkin” strive to exceed the already ex- to 71777 to donate to The traordinary amount of $40,000 Autism Society of Illinois. • Brian Larsen the winner of raised last year. With this event, we know it is possible.” ABC’s “The Great Christmas Fest goers will be thrilled to Light Fight” will be onsite setting have their favorite activities back, the majestic lit pumpkin walls to including: all you can carve onsite music every night at 6:30, 7:30, pumpkins, the Great Pumpkin 8:45 pm. It will be a sight to Maze sponsored by Home behold! His pumped up song list Depot, Trick or Treating, Pet includes: Chicago Blackhawks Costume Contest, Kids Costume Goal Song, Peanuts Theme Song, Contest, Pumpkin Parade, Jump Around by House of Pain, Pumpkin Pie Eating Contests, Turn up the Lights by Kanye hay rides, pony rides, petting zoo, West, Imagine by John Lennon carnival rides, kids crafts, two and Last Dance by Donna stages jam packed with solid Summer. • Pumpkin seed spitting and entertainment, seasonal food and beverage vendors galore and a pumpkin pie eating contests! 5K Pumpkin Run, Walk & Kids’ Submitted by Ripple Public Dash! Relations. All lit jack-o-lanterns will be placed on pumpkin walls Schedule (Subject to changes) throughout the Festival grounds, with a ceremonial wall lightings October 3-8 set to music Friday and Saturday PRELUDE TO THE nights, and the grand lighting on FESTIVAL

• 9 am-9 pm EVERYDAY! Come out and carve pumpkins in front of City Hall (17 Highwood Ave.) with the goal of filling all the walls with pumpkins with special lights for the nightly light shows during the festival (don’t worry, there will be plenty of other scaffolding walls to fill thereafter!)

teractive demo- Fall around the house • 4 pm - Meet & Greet with HGTV Cousins Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri • 4 pm - Pumpkin Pie eating contest (North Stage) • 5 pm – HGTV Magazine interactive demo- That’s a Wrap • 6:30, 7:30 and 8:45 pm- Light shows on the wall presented by Friday, October 9: Brian Larsen of ABC’s “The Great • 4 pm – Festival opens with rides, Christmas Light Fight” vendors, activities, all-you-can- • 10 pm Close carve pumpkin stations and more! • 4-6 pm- Young pumpkins are Sunday, October 11: encourages to dress in their Hal- • 11 am- Festival opens with rides, loween best to participate in trick vendors, activities, all-you-canor treating. carve pumpkin stations and more! • 6:30, 7:30 and 8:45 pm- Light • 11:45 am -Tito’s Vodka College shows on the wall presented by Game Day Tailgate area opens Brian Larsen of ABC’s “The Great • 12 pm- Pumpkin Parade • 1 pm- Pet Costume Contest Christmas Light Fight” • 2 pm- Kids’ Costume Contest • 10 pm- Close • 3 pm- Adult Costume Contest Saturday, October 10: • 5:30- Record Attempt Official • 9 am- 5K Pumpkin Run, Walk Lighting begins! and Kids’ Dash to benefit Autism • 9 pm Festival Closes! Society of IL • 11 am- Festival opens with rides, Once again, this years’ Autismvendors, activities, all-you-can- friendly event will have a sensory carve pumpkin stations and more! quiet area located at the City Hall, • 11:45 am -Tito’s Vodka College 17 Highwood Ave. Game Day Tailgate area opens In addition to these fundraising 12 pm- Meet & Greet with efforts, there will also be a $2/day HGTV Cousins Anthony Carrino admission. All the proceeds from and John Colaneri The Great Highwood Pumpkin • 1 pm -HGTV Magazine in- Festival will go to Autism Society teractive demo – five ingredient of Illinois. Pumpkin Fest is made centerpieces possible by generous sponsors • 2 pm –Fastest Carver Compe- including: Chiro One, Comcast, tition (North Stage) Gart Partners, HGTV, Home • 3 pm – HGTV Magazine in- Depot, and many more!

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Move Over, Mozart day a week, he also plays with his school orchestra at hile many students Edgewood Middle School, he’s start to seriously part of a string quartet, and he consider a performs as the entertainment vocation toward for the occasional fundraiser. the end of high school, Liam A little over a year ago, Diethrich from Highland Park Diethrich found an even deeper had it figured out a little earlier. way to engage with music. His Right around the time he was great-uncle Harvey composed finishing kindergarten. an original piece called “I knew that I wanted to play “Rhapsody for Two Violins” a musical instrument, so I that Dietrich could perform started with piano for a month,” with a f riend. Seeing the Diethrich says. “Then, I wanted possibilities, and having already to switch to violin. I just liked taken three years of music how it sounded.” theory at MYA Conservatory, Now 13 years old, Dietrich Dietrich began composing his has spent a majority of his life own original music. with the violin. He’s currently His first effort, “A Happy the first chair violin in the Death,” ran 40 minutes long concert orchestra at Midwest and took place in three Young Artists Conservatory movements. (MYA Conservatory). Since “It was for two violins, two that only keeps him busy one flutes, and two tubas,” Diethrich By Jake Jarvi

Liam Diethrich

says. “It ’s pretty much impossible to play. I didn’t really know how to compose well then, so it’s not the best thing

I ever wrote. After that, they became much more playable.” He composed a duet for violin and flute to play with his

grandfather. At Interlochen Center for the Arts, a summer camp for musicians, he composed and performed a solo violin piece. For a Solo/ Ensemble Contest coming up this Februar y, Diethrich composed a piece to be performed on two basses, violin, piano, trombone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and horn for himself and seven of his friends. Its working title is “The First Friends Sonata.” “I think of a melody and I’ll play it on violin,” Diethrich says of his writing process. “Then I write it down and add the chords.” Finding time to devote to composing can be difficult. In addition to schoolwork, Diethrich has violin lessons twice a week and rehearsals with his various performance groups.

He also volunteers his time to Peer Buddies, an organization assisting students with special needs and he takes tae kwon do lessons, which he began taking around the same time he first picked up a violin. One wonders if he’s the only 13-year-old first chair violinist who’s also a black belt. Despite the busy schedule, he’s still found the time to compose more than 30 original, classical compositions over the last year and a half. “He just loves music,” says Paula Diethrich, Liam’s mother. “If we’re driving for five minutes, he’ll take out his computer and work on a composition. There isn’t always time between homework and practicing, so, in the car, five minutes, he’s got the headphones on, adding notes to a score.”

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All that jazz: an interview with The Jazz Palace author Mary Morris By Gregg Shapiro

ears in the making, Highland Park native Mary Morris’ melodic new novel The Jazz Palace (Nan Talese/ Doubleday) is now available through your favorite bookseller. Set mainly during the Jazz Age, the novel tells the story of two musicians, Napoleon, who is black, and Benny, who is white, and two women, sisters Pearl and Opal, who figure into the men’s lives. The Chicago-set novel features dynamic characters created by Morris, men and women of all ages and creeds who find ways to overcome adversity. Morris also peppers the novel with some of the real people from the era, including Al Capone. Morris, who is now based in Brooklyn, recently spoke with me about the book and more. Presented by the Chicago Art Deco Society, on Oct. 20, Mary Morris will be at the Green Mill in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for a reading and jazz performance from 6-8 p.m. She will also be at a Society for Midland Authors event at the Cliff Dwellers, 200 S. Michigan in Chicago, on Nov. 10, 6-8 p.m. Gregg Shapiro: Mary, is there one particular source of inspiration that you can cite as the genesis of The Jazz Palace? Mary Morris: Definitely my dad. My dad was born in Chicago in 1902. He lived until 2005 – 103 years. He was filled with stories of Chicago from that era. He fiddled with the piano. I thought he played pretty well. It’s really a lot about my dad and my father’s own struggle that he never articulated – perhaps between the desire to be an artist or musician and a businessman. He never went the musical route at all. My dad’s at the heart of the source of the novel. GS: Are you musical? MM: It’s funny, yes, I probably am. I love music and I always have music on around me. But I’m not very good at it. I try to bring music to my writing. I try to bring it to the page. I think I have a very good ear. I bring that to the sentences. I think part of my fascination with jazz is – how do they do that? How do they know how to do that? I think that even after the 17 years that I spent with this book I still am in awe when I hear

jazz musicians playing. GS: Was it fun for you to come up with the song titles? MM: Oh, yes! There was a lot of fun in writing this book. Certainly the tunes were fun. At one point I worked with a friend who wanted to write some of the tunes. He did, in fact, envision them and we worked together a little bit like that. It was also hard work in that I’m not a musician, I’m definitely not a composer, and I tried to think about what you would put, what you would bring to your music. There’s a moment when Benny’s playing and he says, “This is the best I’ll ever be.” I feel as a writer that I’ve definitely reached those moments. There’s definitely a parallel there. It wasn’t easy, but it was fun. GS: What can you tell me about your process when it comes to researching historical data for something such as the Eastland disaster, for instance, which opens the novel? MM: Everything for me begins with a story. My dad actually witnessed the Eastland going down. He was an incredible storyteller, but this was the one story he wouldn’t tell. He wouldn’t talk about it. We knew that he saw it, but we would never tell what he saw that day. I liken it a little bit to New York. My husband’s a survivor of 9/11. He can’t talk about what he saw that day and I understand that from my dad. This is not an autobiographical novel at all. I think I wanted to better understand what shaped my father’s character. I’ll always begin with a story and then I’ll go into the research. There was a lot of things that I learned when doing the research about why the Eastland sank, for example. I looked at archival photos and newspaper articles at the Chicago History Museum; reading about the nautical issues that the Eastland faced in the first place, why it was so destabilized. The research only comes to me as part of the story. In fact, I know I’ve got the story down when I lose interest in the research. Once I know enough, I don’t need to know anymore [laughs]. I don’t really need to know how those ballast tanks get filled. I just need to know that they were empty. GS: Benny is described as someone with “a propensity for disaster and a musical ear.” Is

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that how you pictured him from the start? MM: I always liked that sentence. That sentence comes from very early drafts and it is how I pictured Benny. I think those two things go hand in hand with him as they do with any artist. There’s always that thing that makes you an artist that is unknowable, in a sense. That’s pretty much how I saw him. Kind of a mess [laughs]. GS: Benny has synesthesia. Please say something about why you chose to give him that ability. MM: In doing research about musicians I thought it was super cool. That comes out of research. I can share this one anecdote. I have a friend who’s a jazz musician. I called him and was asking him questions. He said, “Mary, you shouldn’t have trouble with this, you’re not writing about musicians, are you?” I said, “Yes, I am.” He said, “Oh, that’s not going to be easy.” And he was right. But I read about synesthesia and I thought it was interesting to see notes as colors and how that impacts on people who have perfect pitch. GS: The rivalry between Chicago’s North Side and South Side

goes way back. What do you remember about it from growing up in the area? MM: Nothing, because we moved to the suburbs when I was a girl. I knew I wanted to write a certain kind of book. I knew I wanted Chicago at the heart of it. Initially, Napoleon wasn’t really a character. That’s a whole other story how he came to be a character in the book. But I felt I couldn’t really write about Chicago unless I understood Chicago demographics. What the North Side meant and what the South Side meant. The more I read and the more I came to understand, including how different gangs owned and operated different clubs, who ran the North Side, who ran the South Side and who ran the West Side. That came out of reading Chicago history and particularly biographies of Al Capone and the gangster era, which I loved. I devoured those stories. GS: He’s a standout character in the book. MM: Thank you! I probably

would have more with him, but it didn’t happen. When I was learning more about Chicago, I read an Al Capone biography that said he was a great dancer. I thought, “I’ve got to make him dance.” That’s how the research weaves in and out of the story for me. GS: In 2015, the same year that The Jazz Palace was published, Aviva Kempner’s doc Rosenwald is being released. Your book and the doc examine the relationship between the Jewish and African-American communities. Why do you think this is now a subject of interest? MM: It may be a subject of interest because of how fraught everything is. How divided our country is right now. I do know that I have always felt that Blacks and Jews came from similar disadvantages in the culture at certain moments historically. The immigrant experience, the emigrant experience, the migrant, being outsiders, being places where they weren’t allowed. E v e n though the Jews have fared very differently in this culture, I have often b e e n struck by the connections. I love the connection that Louis Armstrong had with the Karnofsky family who really encouraged him and got him his first cornet. In fact, he wore a Star of David his whole life in honor of them. I feel there is an affinity, but race just gets in the way. It’s really difficult to overcome it. I also think there are cultural affinities, for food, for music, for dance. I feel there’s a lot of affinity there but class has gotten in the way. Perhaps what’s more relevant is that this is a moment where race is playing out in such a public arena that we can pay attention to these things in a different way. GS: In the book, you make reference to Balaban and Katz of movie palace fame. If there was a movie version of The Jazz

Palace, perhaps directed by Bob Balaban… MM: What a great idea! I have to mention this to my film agent. GS: OK. Who would you want to see playing characters such as Napoleon and Pearl and Opal? MM: Well, you just ambushed me [laughs]. I’d love to see someone like Carey Mulligan. I could see her as Pearl because she’s beautiful, but not traditionally so. She’s beautiful in an interesting way. For Napoleon, David Oyelowo. I would love to see him play Napoleon. GS: We are speaking shortly after the passing of Ragtime author E. L. Doctorow. Would it be fair to say that you would like The Jazz Palace to do for Chicago and jazz what Doctorow’s novel did for New York and ragtime? MM: That would be very fair to say [big laugh]. There’s nothing I would like better. There’s a lot of interest in the book in Chicago now. I feel momentum the building in Chicago as more and more people are becoming aware of the book. Jazz Times just reviewed the book. They never review fiction, but they reviewed The Jazz Palace. GS: Finally, Mary, do you have fond memories of growing up on the North Shore? MM: It’s home to me. It’s more than memories. I’m very connected to that part of the world. I love to go there. I’m still friends with all the girls I walked to school with all through grade school. We get together a few times a year. This is an interesting factoid: there’s more magnetism on the shores of Lake Michigan than there is at the North Pole. I’ve always felt this tug of the lake and home. I have very fond memories and I go back as often as I can. My deep roots are there. In terms of the North Shore, for me it’s all about the landscape. And Ravinia! The music! I spent every night I could at Ravinia. (It was) very formative to me. You know how there are places you walk into and say, “This is my childhood”? That’s Ravinia to me. I would go to concerts with my parents. I would hang out on the lawn with my boyfriend. I heard many concerts over many years. Having Ravinia there was one of the great aspects of my childhood.

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hink back to when you were young and in love. Maybe your career was just getting started and budgets were tight; you had no children to zap your

energy and drain your creative juices. Think about the creative things you did instead for romantic love. Like the final scene in the 1984

John Hughes classic Sixteen Candles, when Jake Ryan picks Samantha Baker up from the wedding, and finally kisses her while they’re seated on top of the dining room table, illuminated only by the candles on her birthday cake. Or George Bailey’s wedding night in the rundown Granville house in It’s a Wonderful Life. George is called to the bank moments after he and Mary exchange vows, leaving Mary to reimagine their honeymoon. She uses travel posters and their wedding gifts to turn the leaky house into a glamorous far-off land, and woos her husband all over again (while Bert and Ernie serenade them in the rain). On television’s Friends, we swooned over Chandler’s proposal. He enters their living room (which Monica had filled with candlelight so that she could propose to him) and takes over the conversation after she starts crying. Chandler tells Monica, “I thought it mattered what I said or where I said it. Then I realized, the only thing that matters is that you…you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” These are grand, enduring, romantic gestures. They are creative and inexpensive and personal, and successful because of their simplicity. Consider the alternative. A knuckleheaded Romeo in Idaho

made headlines in September because he dragged a full-size patio grill more than four miles through the Sawtooth Wilderness in order to prepare a romantic lakeside dinner for his girlfriend. To get through the 217,000-acre federally protected area (where motorized vehicles are prohibited), he would have had to drag the grill through water crossings, over downed trees and up a number of steep inclines, according to people familiar with the area. Extreme and inexpensive? Heck yes. Romantic? Sure. But something I would enjoy today, as I stare down my 12th wedding anniversary? Heck no. My first thought was that a lightweight cheap Smokey Joe could be found at the nearest hardware, and so how dumb does this guy feel for carrying the full-size grill all the way to the lake? Second on my list of objections is the four-mile hike; the sweat that I would produce going over downed trees

“If we looked for candlelight to remind us of how much we love the ones we’re with, we’d be lost.”

and hills would kill any romantic vibe this mope was hoping to achieve. I would need a nap lakeside, not a steak. And so I can see that love evolves. As we mature and life becomes a crazy puzzle of career and family and community, the most romantic gestures change shape. They become a leisurely bike ride on a Sunday afternoon, or a shared morning walk to the nearest coffee shop. They are trips to the drycleaner without being asked, waiting in line for my fa-

vorite movie candy while I warm the seats, and gentle reminders to take your vitamins each morning. If we looked for candlelight to remind us of how much we love the ones we’re with, we’d be lost. Look instead to the giant pile of clean laundry by the dresser and the gas tank that you don’t remember filling up this weekend. Share with me the smallest gestures that remind you of how much you are loved, via email to joanna@northshoreweekend.com.

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Hole In the Wall: Charming, Italian Dining By Simon Murray

alk into Francesco’s Hole in the Wall, in Northbrook, and you might hear the crooning of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett on the speakers. Look around, and you’ll realize you’re surrounded by the black and white, autographed photos of movie stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Chazz Palminteri, Patti LuPone, and Joe Pesci. Listen to your senses. Because they are telling you Hole in the Wall has some of the best Italian food in Chicagoland. Frank Gallo has owned the Hole in the Wall for more than 34 years. In that time, it has undergone four interior design changes, as it outgrew its adolescence and needed to expand and mature, coming into its own. The petite, Italian nook became, in a word, “upscale”—Hole in the Wall has since become an affectionate misnomer—without losing an ounce of its rustic, old world charm. “Come here, sit down, we’ll get you something to eat,” says Gallo. One of the first times I ever ate here was at a foldup table behind the kitchen. To get there one had to pass the chefs tossing red snapper and veal

shanks over the licking flames. More recently, Bears’ coach John Fox and radio personalities “Mancow” Muller and husband and wife team Marianne Murciano and Bob Sirott called themselves regulars. But it’s the local customers who get the star treatment. Gallo assures me that people come from all over the North Shore to sample the old world favorites and trendy new dishes overseen by his daughter, Lucy Gallo, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America. For such a small space, the menu is comparativel y mammoth and worth the wait. (The Hole in the Wall doesn’t take reservations.) One of the trattoria’s entrees, written daily on a blackboard, is the ossobucco with gremolata: forktender veal shanks, slowly braised with wine, vegetables, and herbs that dissolves off the bone into a creamy bed of risotto. The recipe below is a derivation of Gallo’s family recipe, rooted in Neapolitan cooking with influences of Northern Italian cuisine. “The trick,” says Gallo, is to get the veal shanks, “so tender, you don’t even need to cut it.” Francesco’s Hole in the Wall is located at 254 Skokie Blvd in Northbrook.

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Francesco’s Hole in the Wall’s Ossobucco with Gremolata TOTAL TIME: 1 hour SERVES: 8

Francesco’s Hole in the Wall’s Ossobucco with Gremolata • 2 tablespoons butter • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 5 pounds veal shanks, cut 2 inches thick, tied with string around their circumference • 1 cup all-purpose flour • 2 onions, coarsely chopped

• 1 large carrot, coarsely chopped • 1 rib celery, coarsely chopped • 3 cloves garlic, crushed • ½ teaspoon dried marjoram • ½ teaspoon dried basil • ½ teaspoon dried thyme • 1 28-ounce can tomatoes, drained and coarsely chopped • 2 ½ tablespoons tomato paste • 2 cups dry white wine or dry vermouth

• 1 cup chicken stock • 3 strips lemon zest, about 2 inches long • 1 large bay leaf • •4 sprigs fresh parsley Gremolata • ½ cup minced parsley • 3 cloves garlic, minced • 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest 1. In a large pot, melt the butter with the oil over moderate heat.

2. Dredge the veal in the flour and shake off any excess. Working in batches, brown the veal on all sides. Do not crowd the pan. Remove to a bowl. 3. Add the onions, carrot, celery, and garlic to the pot, cover, and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes. 4. Put the veal on top of the vegetables, making sure the bones are upright. Sprinkle the marjoram, basil, and thyme on top. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, wine, stock, strips of lemon zest, bay leaf, and parsley sprigs. If necessary, add enough water to cover the shanks.

Osso Bucco at Francesco’s Hole in The Wall. Photography by Joel Lerner

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but not quite... Recently, you found yourself hey say you can’t step into recommending a novel to a friend the same river twice, and who got an e-reader and wanted maybe that’s true. But you to start with something fail-safe. can read the same book twice if The book you described was an you want. old favorite of yours. It sounded It’s a smart idea, as long as the so compelling that you looked it book is good, and you liked it the up again yourself. After scanning first time around. the first page you couldn’t help This opinion provoked dis- reading the second...then the agreement and disapproval over whole thing. deep dish pizza the other night How do you justify this? The in a North Shore restaurant. answer hit with the feel of an Friends said: “C’mon there are a epiphany: hey, you’ll listen to a million unread books to discover, piece of music more than once, why backtrack?“ right? Say you like the Beatles Their argument almost worked or the opera Carmen. You wouldn’t

say, “Been there, heard them, never again.” No. You’ll listen, and like them, time and again whenever you’re in the mood. This is probably a matter of taste, sure. But speaking of taste, here’s the best argument for rereading something you liked: take that slice of pizza you just ate as an example. Can you imagine yourself saying, “Yeah, I had pizza once. Really great, but I’d never order it twice.” A pretty lame and limiting way to treat the fun things in life. Same goes for books. If you want to read a good one, get an old favorite and enjoy.

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9. 1140 Sir William Lane Lake Forest Sunday 2-4 $1,099,000 Nancy Feddermann, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.826.9382 10. 1420 Lawrence Avenue Lake Forest Sunday 2-4 $1,145,000 Tracy Wurster Team, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 312.972.2515 11. 166 Kimberly Lane Lake Forest Sunday 2-4 $1,545,000 Martha Pedersen, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.687.2946

18. 15914 W Port Clinton Road Lincolnshire Sunday 2:30-4:30 $699,000 Robert Casorio, @properties 847.881.0200

28. 900 King Richards Court Deerfield Sunday 2-4 $610,000 Laura Kerstein, Baird & Warner 847-209-1131

19. 1325 Ferndale Avenue Highland Park Sunday 2-4 $679,000 Jorge Abreu, @properties 847.432.0700

29. 1000 North Deerfield Sunday 2-4 $849,900 Marlene Rubenstein and Dena Fox Rubenstein Fox Team (847) 565-6666

20. 260 Bloom Street Highland Park Sunday 2:30-4:30 $625,000 Claire Schwab, @properties 847.432.0700

30. 2417 Peachtree Lane Northbrook Sunday 11-1 $879,000 Kathy Menighan Wilson, @properties 773.472.0200

3. 309 Rothbury Lake Bluff Sunday 2-4 $999,000 Suzanne Myers, Coldwell Banker 847.234.-8000

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31. 2549 Virginia Lane Northbrook Sunday 12-2 $479,000 Cara Feld, @properties 847.998.0200

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32. 4024 Brittany Ct. Northbrook Sunday 11am to 1pm $589,000 Bryce Fuller, Coldwell Banker 847.208.7888

23. 1666 Cloverdale Ave Highland Park Sunday 1-3 $1,019,000 Amy Antonacci & Debbie Glickman, Baird & Warner 312-543-2758 & 847-687-4332

33. 551 Oakdale Glencoe Sunday 12-3 $695,000 Peg O'Halloran, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

24. 1115 Kenton Rd Deerfield Sunday 1-3 $489,000 Amy Antonacci & Debbie Glickman, Baird & Warner 312-543-2758 & 847-687-4332

34. 566 Washington Avenue Glencoe Sunday 1-3 $2,295,000 Marion Powers, @properties 847.881.0200

25. 809 Castlewood Ln Deerfield Sunday 1-3 $985,000 Amy Antonacci & Debbie Glickman, Baird & Warner 312-543-2758 & 847-687-4332

35. 474 Oakdale Avenue Glencoe Sunday 2-4 $735,000 Katie Traines, @properties 847.881.0200

26. 1407 Arbor Vitae Road Deerfield Sunday 12-2 $399,000 Karen Skurie/Margie Brooks, Baird & Warner 847.361.4687/847.494.7998

36. 560 Drexel Ave. Glencoe Sunday, 2:30-4:30 $525,000 Hilde Wheeler Carter, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

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47. 1070 Sunset Winnetka Sunday, 2 – 4pm $2,150,000 Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.565.4264 48. 335 Woodley Rd. Winnetka Sunday, 2 – 4pm $2,899,000 Ann George, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 49. 1200 Sunset Rd. Winnetka Sunday, 12-2 $1,745,000 SFC Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 50. 1185 Elm St. Winnetka Sunday, 1-3 $969,000 Mark Kay Burke, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 51. 139 Bertling Ln. Winnetka Sunday, 2-4 $969,000 Beth Groebe, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 52. 1099 Merrill St. #2 Winnetka Sunday. 12-2 $115,000 Hilde Wheeler Carter, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 53. 320 Abbotsford Road Kenilworth Sunday 2:30-4:30 $2,995,000 Team Mangel, @properties 847.881.0200 54. 650 Park Kenilworth Sunday, 2 – 4pm $945,000 Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282 55. 2737 Virginia Glenview Sunday 1-3 $299,900 Christine Drimalla, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 56. 2275 Winnetka Road Glenview Sunday 2-4 $3,350,000 Kathy Menighan Wilson, @properties 773.472.0200

57. 2230 Silverpine Drive Glenview Sunday 1-3 $899,000 Cathy (CC) Cascia, @properties 847.998.0200 58. 700 Laramie Avenue Glenview Sunday 2:30-4:30 $800,000 Lyn Flannery, @properties 847.881.0200 59. 1919 Central Road Glenview Saturday 12-2 $524,900 Connie Nadia Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200 60. 1421 Evergreen Glenview Sunday 2-4 $1,099,000 Marlene Rubenstein and Dena Fox Rubenstein Fox Team (847) 565-6666 61. 2125 Chestnut Wilmette Sunday 12-2 $899,000 Dinny Dwyer, Jean Wright Real Estate 847.446.5146 62. 320 Central Park Wilmette Sunday 2-4 $836,000 Betty Finn, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 63. 1031 Greenwood Avenue Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $1,095,000 Jacobs/Hall, @properties 847.881.0200 64. 1535 Greenwood Wilmette Sunday, 1 – 3pm $635,000 Jeanie Moysey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.800.8110 65. 1519 Monroe, #A Evanston Sunday, 1 – 3pm $390,000 AG Krone, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.732.3055

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All’s well with Moderwell Soccer ace making the most of his second tour with the Scouts BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

he soccer ball rocketed off Matt Moderwell’s left foot. The Lake Forest High School senior midfielder, from about 35 yards out, had hit the ball squarely in a match in Wisconsin earlier this month. Soccer balls hit squarely tend to knuckle and swerve at high rates of speed. The goalie eyed the Moderwell cracker and didn’t have to move much. “The shot,” Scouts coach Rob Parry recalls, “was down the middle.” The ball got closer, closer, closer to the goalie. The ball, though, hadn’t lost much speed at the end of its journey. Did it rise at the last second? It might have. The goalie failed to stop the shot. Goal, Moderwell. “It was like a batter not being able to catch up to a fastball,” Parry adds. “The goalie, at first, looked around, wanting to blame one of his defenders for the goal. I think the goalie eventually realized it was nobody’s fault. It was just a very good shot from a very good player.” Matt Moderwell, a 5-foot-10, 170-pounder, is a very good Scout again. The Northwestern University recruit had taken a season (2014) off from high school soccer to train and compete for the Chicago Fire Development Academy in Bridgeview. He started a combined 21 varsity matches and played in three others as a freshman and sophomore in the 2012 and ’13 seasons, netting seven goals and dishing seven assists. In nine matches for a 3-5-2 team this fall, the co-captain already has seven goals and six assists. His point total (20) through Sept. 24 ranked first among teammates. Scouts senior midfielder Keegan Kullby stood second (15 points — five goals, five assists). “Matt,” Parry says, “is usually good for a goal each game and usually does something spectacular in a game. He’s got it all — pace, great dribbling ability, great shots with both feet. He’s got flair, too. When he “nutmegs” [scoots a ball

“It helps in soccer, being flexible,” the son says. “My mom helped me become flexible. It’s important to be flexible in soccer, especially when you’re trying to shield the ball against defenders.” Before he could drive, Matt Moderwell relied mostly on his father to drive him to Bridgeview for Chicago Fire Academy commitments. Round trip: 92 miles. The son was grateful back then. Still is. One of the most grateful coaches in these parts has to be Parry. Welcoming Moderwell back in August was like signing a coveted free agent — minus the multimillion-dollar bonus and use of a luxury car for road matches. Moderwell scored two goals in a 2-1 defeat of Lakes on Aug. 27, the Scouts’ second match of the season. Three of his shots hit a crossbar in the same contest. Moderwell struck for two more goals in a 4-4 tie with Bradford (Kenosha, Wisconsin) High School on Sept. 12. He finished with two assists and the match-winning goal (on an assist from sophomore midfielder Jacob Danneker) in a 4-3 decision against visiting Zion-Benton on Sept. 8. The clincher came with a few minutes left in the second half. “In that [Zion-Benton] game,” Parry recalls, “Matt had the ball on TEN-acious: Matt Moderwell (No. 10) of the Scouts takes possession of the ball during earlier action this season. The Northwestern a breakaway, and the keeper made University recruit leads his team in scoring. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER a save. He later had another breakbetween the legs of ] a defender, sophomore forward, missed the sport like football … there are too student and as a soccer player. That away, and that time he scored. Matt he’s not showing off. He does that entire 2014 season with a foot many stops in football. There’s lefty shot of his is wicked, but goes to school on every play, pays because it’s the right play to make injury. Matt Moderwell is also well action, and then there’s not action. what’s most amazing about him is attention, and then finds a way to at the time.” on his way to building Bluetooth I’m not into that; I like to be con- how well he holds the ball, some- take control. He learns something Life is good for Matt Moder- speakers in his Engineering stantly moving.” times with three defenders on him. on every play, and he never makes What he liked to do as a youth: Great leader, he listens to every- the same mistake twice.” well, sunny-skies-forever good. He Honors class. He shoots. He scores. He aces take things apart. He disassembled body, and he’s always got a smile helped the Chicago Fire Academy U18 squad capture a U.S. Soccer difficult courses. remotes and bikes and other items going.” Notable: Lake Forest High Who wouldn’t want to be Matt and put them back together again, Development Academy national Moderwell plays hockey for School senior midfielder Keegan championship in California this Moderwell for a week, at least? a curious kid with an industrious Scouts teams in the winter months, Kullby scored his fifth goal of the past summer. He is back playing “I love playing on this team,” work ethic. Humpty Dumpty sure usually as a center or as a wing. His season in a 1-1 tie with visiting soccer for his school colors and Moderwell says of the LFHS team. could have used a Matt Moderwell father, Charlie, played hockey at Warren on Sept. 24. Classmate with his high school buddies, and “I had missed it. after that fall from a wall. Miami University in Ohio. His Matt Moderwell fed the assist. “What I like most about soccer he will resume academy training “I’m taking a class [Engineering mother, Lisa, was a gymnast. Mom The Scouts received strong defenafter his final prep season. He gets is the team aspect of it. I also like Honors] with Matt,” Scouts junior Moderwell taught a young Matt sive efforts from freshman goalto look forward to playing NU the flow of it, the chance to be co-captain Daniel Hanson, a Moderwell how to flip in the Mod- keeper Guillermo Pons, senior soccer with his brother, John Mod- creative, the chances to figure out forward/back, says. “Brilliant. He’s erwell back yard. The son was Sebastian Ziaja and junior Daniel erwell, next fall; John, a Wildcats ways to move a ball. You look at a brilliant. He works hard as a grateful back then. Still is. Hanson.

| saturday october 3 | sunday october 4 2015

the north shore weekend

SPORTS

One-der boy Lara sets his sights on breaking LA’s all-time rushing record BY kevin reiterman, sports@northshoreweekend.com

ara Laja, known for his great vision, is a “now you see me, now you don’t” kind of running back. He’s got the patience of Job and the swiftness of a gazelle. The Loyola Academy running back not only has the ability to bust tackles, but he also can tear off a long run in a blink of an eye. And right now, the senior is on the cusp of something big. He’s worth keeping an eye on. This is Laja’s Season of Don’t Blink. He needs only 438 yards to become the Ramblers’ all-time leading rusher. On Sunday, there was a rare total lunar eclipse. A day earlier, there was another Laja eclipse. He went over 100 yards rushing for the third game in a row in LA’s 35-7 victory over visiting St. Ignatius on Sept. 26. He capped his afternoon with a Laja-than-life 39-yard touchdown run just before halftime. “He sees the hole well, and he’s got good acceleration and a lot of power,” LA head coach John Holecek said The 5-foot-9, 180-pound senior has found his rushing rhythm. The Mount Prospect native earned the trust of LA’s coaching staff, and he has developed into an important piece in the Ramblers’ high-end offense. And on that long TD, Laja put all the pieces together: patience, power and speed. He eventually was taken down where a running back doesn’t mind being taken down after a long run — one step inside the end zone. “I thought I was tackled at the one-yard line. It was a little too close for comfort,” Laja said. LA’s offensive line — featuring center Sam Badovinac (6-2, 250); guards Thomas Nute (6-0, 280) and Jack Badovinac (6-1, 250); and tackles John Brekke (6-3, 260) and Daniel Kurkowski (6-3, 275) — has become dominant. “(On that 39-yard TD), the hole was pretty huge,” said Laja. “I’ve had some holes like that this year.” He finished the game with two

St. Ignatius went for two yards or fewer. “I think I’m too patient at times,” said Laja. “Sometimes, it’s difficult for me to tell when I should or should not be patient. “But once I get it down … that’s when things pick up for me,” he added. “He’s always been a patient runner,” Gallagher added. “But now, I think he trusting his ability more. “And our offensive line allows him to pick and choose (the right hole),” Gallagher added. Laja’s emergence has served his team well. He’s added balance to LA’s offensive attack. The Ramblers have outscored their opponents 201-31. “Cover Dara or cover our big receivers,” said Gallagher. “You have to pick your poison against us.” Notable: Despite having several receivers sidelined, including Eric Eshoo, Robert Sullivan and Jake Marwede, LA’s passing game continued to shine. On the opening drive — seven plays, 66 yards — quarterback Emmett Clifford (13-19-1, 176 yards) tossed a perfect jump-ball pass (12 yards) to Thomas Smart in the right corner of the end zone. On the team’s third series, Jonah Isaac showed off sprinter’s speed by catching a deep slant pass and racing 66 yards into the end zone. ‘1’ to watch: Dara Laja of the Ramblers is on a roll. He rushed for more than 100 yards for the third game in a row in LA’s 35-7 win over And, with 9:09 left in the first half, St. Ignatius. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER Paul Escalante displayed plenty “Gallagher has taught him to of grit by battling two Wolf Pack TD runs and now has 10 rushing two speeds, and you can see him past three games, he has TD runs TDs for the season. And, after go from one to the other.” measuring 39, 46 and 54 to go run through tackles,” said Naugh- defensive backs and coming up carrying the ball 13 times for 118 In LA’s Week Two win over along with a 36-yard TD catch. ton. “You see him out there, he’s with a two-yard TD on a simultaneous catch in the back of the yards, Laja has amassed 506 yards Brother Rice, Laja blew the top “His yards after contact have always falling forward.” this fall and 1,673 yards for his off his game. He ran the ball 31 gone up quite a bit,” said LA “I really think he’s become a end zone. … Isaac was the team’s career. times for 209 yards against one running backs coach Ryan Gal- complete back,” said Gallagher. top receiver: 5 receptions, 122 Thus, he’s primed to break of the best defenses in the state. lagher. “He sees a seam, and he “He’s developed is receiving skills, yards. … The string is over. LA’s “That,” said Naughton, “was a hits it. Loyola’s all-time rushing record which is something he didn’t have first-team defense allowed its first of 2,110 yards. And there’s a coach milestone game for him. “He can pretty much outrun last year. points of the season, when St. “And I thought he did a phe- Ignatius’ Ryan Coolidge scored on on LA’s current staff who is clearly “That’s when Dara proved that anyone on the field,” Gallagher, a rooting for him: receivers coach he’s an old-school running back, 1993 LA grad, added. nomenal job of blocking and a 22-yard QB keeper in the Pat Naughton, a 1996 LA gradu- who can run the ball over 30 times Besides making people miss protecting today,” Gallagher opening quarter. … LA’s defensive ate and owner of those 2,110 in a spread offense against a very with his quick-twitch moves, Laja added. “And that’s something that leaders were Jack Hough (6 good team (Brother Rice is 4-1 also is running the ball with au- he has to do, if he wants to play tackles, 2 QB sacks), Ben LeRoy yards. at the next level.” Naughton is a huge fan of on the season),” Naughton added. thority. (6 tackles, QB sack, tackle for loss), “I’ve brought more physicality Laja’s running ability. “I was very impressed.” It’s not uncommon for Laja to Mickey Kane (5 tackles, 5-yard “I like his vision, and I like how Laja, who rushed for 1,066 to my game this year,” said Laja. start slowly on any given Friday tackle for loss), Charlie Dreher He added 10 to 15 pounds to night or Saturday afternoon. (6 tackles, QB sack) and Graham quickly he can get to the second yards last fall, has turned into a level,” Naughton said. “He’s got dangerous home run hitter. In the his 5-9 frame in the offseason. Three of his first five runs against Repp (4 tackles).

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Returning all-stater is a powerful presence for reigning state champs BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

New Trier field hockey game ends. Trevians, most of the Trevians, jog toward their bench to congregate briefly before forming a line for the postgame handshakes. One Trevian runs the other way, toward an adult on a sideline. The adult is holding a bag of cookies. Rose Gorski, a 5-foot-8 senior defender, grabs the bag of goodies from her mother, Michele, and sprints across the field to catch up to her teammates. Teens shake hands with other teens. Rose Gorski then dishes cookies, rather than a field hockey ball, to her teammates. One for you. And you. And you. And … Postgame assists galore, from the Trev who provided the assist [to Kitty Kenyon, a 2015 graduate] on the game-winning goal in NT’s 2-1 overtime defeat of twotime reigning state champion Lake Forest High School in the state championship game last fall. Consumers of cookies shout, at various decibel levels, “Thank you, Rose.” Rose Gorski had helped the Trevians win another field hockey game. Rose Gorski had baked the cookies. “She’s very talented in many ways,” New Trier junior goalkeeper Therese Cooney, a 2014 all-stater, says. Gorski, also an all-stater last fall, hears the compliment, smiles hard, blushes harder. It is her turn to say, “Thank you.” How many times has New Trier field hockey coach Stephanie Nykaza thanked Michele Gorski and her husband, Bill? Too many to count, probably. Rose’s parents, after all, encouraged Rose to go out for a fall sport before the start of her freshman year. Their daughter chose field hockey. Rose Gorski’s first organized field hockey game in a New Trier uniform was her first organized field hockey game. Ever. “My parents,” Gorski says, “wanted me to make friends, and they thought playing a sport would help me do that. It’s still new to me, field hockey. I’m learning every single day. The learning

Cleanup hitter: New Trier’s Rose Gorski gets ready to powder the ball during earlier action. The senior has verbally committed to Cornell University. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

has kept me energized. “I love this team. I love the team chemistry, the really positive atmosphere. We win together; we lose together. I value that kind of thinking.” New Trier (12-4) routed visiting Lakes 11-0 on Sept. 24 and defeated host Oak Park-River Forest 3-1 on Sept. 26. Gorski, primarily a shut-down defender, scored a pair of unassisted goals in the win at OPRF. Nykaza values that kind of versatility. “We let her play some [in the midfield],” Nykaza, a nine-time

state champion coach at NT, says. “Against strong teams, though, we put her at center-back, where she played last year. We have scorers this years, plenty of scorers. Rose is a key factor for us back there, a solid and calm athlete. Last year I noticed a tough player when I watched Rose play. She’s athletic, skilled, tenacious, a rock star for us. She has natural athletic ability, but she did not become as good as she is through that alone. Rose worked hard in the offseasons, put in the time.” Gorski, explosive and powerful

and fearless, made Windy City Field Hockey (WCFH) club teams, practicing and scrimmaging among the best players in Illinois. She played for a WCFH Flame team that topped the field at the 2014 National Festival Tournament. She was selected from a U19 USA Field Hockey Regional Futures event to compete at a Futures national event this past summer. All this from an “infant” in the sport. Gorski lost the pacifier and ripped the Gerber bib off in a hurry. Gorski refuses to take credit for

her rapid progress and heap of honors in the sport. The credit, Gorski insists, belongs to Nykaza, WCFH owner and director Katie Beach (a member of the USA field hockey team from 1994-2004), current New Trier teammates and former New Trier field hockey stars, Katy Weeks (NTHS, ’13) among them. Weeks, the 2012 Illinois High School Field Hockey Association Player of the Year, was a New Trier senior when Gorski was a freshman. Gorski never got the chance to play varsity ball with Weeks, now a junior forward and

two-time Ivy League secondteamer at Cornell University. Gorski watched Weeks play in 2012. Weeks’ play moved Gorski, inspired Gorski. Three years later, freshmen in the New Trier field field hockey program observe Gorski, wearing jersey No. 20, in varsity games. They see No. 20 dart this way. They see No. 20 dart that way. They conclude: No. 20, dominant and savvy, is a “10” on a hockey field. But Gorski comes to a different conclusion. She looks at the New Trier field hockey roster, notices the jersey numbers of 24 teammates and surmises, I’d be nothing without them. “Rose is humble, extremely humble,” Nykaza says. “She’s a confident athlete, yes, but she’s also understated. She comes off as a hard-nosed athlete, but she’s a softy on the inside. And she doesn’t like attention. I love athletes who don’t like attention.” Gorski made a verbal commitment to attend a college on the East Coast. Her plan is to major in hotel administration. Her major outlet will be field hockey. She will suit up and wield a stick for the Big Red of … Cornell University. Gorski will get to play, finally, a season of field hockey (the 2016 season) with Weeks. “I can’t wait,” Gorski, flashing a goalmouth-wide smile, says. “I can’t wait for that opportunity. Katy Weeks, what an amazing player. I know I’m going to savor that opportunity.” Notable: Trevians senior Sophia Crnkovich scored the other goal in NT’s 3-1 defeat of host Oak Park-River Forest on Sept. 26. NT junior goalkeeper Therese Cooney made five saves. … NT sophomore Hannah Roth tended the goals in the Trevians’ 11-0 victory over Lakes’ Eagles on Sept. 24. Junior Clare Kennedy struck for four goals, one more than senior Claire Weaver’s goal total. Crnkovich and juniors Nell Van Schaack, Bergen Soudan and Elizabeth Mather each tallied one goal.

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In a good frame of mind Focused Fishbein carding consistent scores for HP’s boys golf team BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

he son reached into the hole to retrieve his golf ball. The son’s father videotaped the moment, had to videotape the moment. This was big, a first. The son had just holed an eagle, from about 200 yards out, using a 3-wood in a tournament. The son, Noah Fishbein, was 11. The father/videographer, David Fishbein, was proud, soaring. “He’s a great guy, generous and thoughtful,” Noah, now a Highland Park High School senior golfer, says of his father. “He taught me so much. His mental approach, that’s the strength of his game. He’s a pretty good putter, too. “I’m sure I spent a lot of time near ranges when I was young, before I started caring about the sport. I started caring about golf when I was seven.” People continue to capture Noah Fishbein moments on golf courses. See photograph, on this page. You draw that kind of attention when you’re one of the best players on a varsity golf team. Fishbein, a captain this fall and a fourth-year varsity member, won the Warren Invitational on Aug. 29, shooting a 70 at Bittersweet Golf Club. He carded another 70, third place this time, at the Buffalo Grove Invite on Sept. 5. His 73 at Twin Orchard Country Club in Long Grove was a fifth-place score at the Deerfield Invite one week later. He shot a 36 to bag medalist honors in a dual meet with Maine South in late August. His best ever nine-hole round? A dinky, snappy 32, achieved at Twin Orchard. “He’s putting up some scores, isn’t he?” Noah Apter, a former Giants teammate and current Emory University freshman golfer, says. “He’s worked really hard at golf. He overcame some struggles, some inconsistences. He dealt with physical growth and a swing change.” Fishbein stood 5-foot-4 and weighed 120 pounds at this time

last year. Today he stands 5-8 and weighs 136. Such a significant change in stature usually necessitates a swing change, along with steady shopping sprees for clothes. Fishbein made the golf alteration under the guidance of Brett Packee, a three-time Illinois PGA Award winner and an instructor at Pine Meadow Golf Club in Mundelein. The Giants’ varsity golf coach for the first two years of Fishbein’s prep career was Paul Harris. Scott Leibfried succeeded Harris last fall. Fishbein welcomed the new coach and pointed things out for the new coach, a teen fulfilling an invaluable role for an adult. Fishbein created a smooth path for the new coach; Leibfried found traction. “Noah helped me learn the ins and outs of the job,” Leibfried recalls. “He is the consummate teammate. Noah is very passionate about golf at Highland Park High School; it is evident in his play and the way he helps his teammates become better. His teammates look to him to shoot low scores and lead us on and off the course. “From [the start of the 2014 season],” the coach adds, “he helped carry on the tradition of what it means to be a Highland Park golfer.” Fishbein shot lower than 70 for the first time in the summer of 2014. That breakthrough moment came at Mill Creek Golf Club in Geneva. He shot a 67. Not long after that he needed only 68 strokes to complete a round at a U.S. Junior Qualifier in Schaumburg. A competitive golfer’s favorite “weather” forecast is “a low in the 60s.” The super rounds of 67 and 68 lifted Fishbein, especially north of his neck. “My confidence went up that summer,” he says. “It’s what every serious golfer wants to do, shooting in the 60s.” Fishbein swung and putted his way to a 69 in a round at a threeday Mid-American Junior Golf Tour event held at the Illinois State University’s golf course

as mentally strong as I can be when I’m playing.” Fishbein used to like Tiger Woods. He now admires Jordan Spieth and Jason Day, a pair of sudden superstars on the PGA Tour. Good guys and class acts, both of them, cut from the Noah Fishbein cloth. “Noah loves golf, loves to be around golf, loves to talk golf,” Apter says, adding his former teammate has a deft short game. “It seems he’s putting it all together now. What he really loves is being a part of his high school golf team. I remember him as a great teammate, very supportive, always about the team. He wanted what was best for the team. He’s not an outspoken guy, not one of those let’s-get-everybody-charged-up kind of guys. “He’s a quiet guy,” the Emory Eagle adds. “And a great guy.” Notable: Highland Park was scheduled to compete Sept. 30 in the CSL Invite at Glencoe Golf Club. Glenbrook South (301) won last year’s league invite, three strokes better than runner-up New Trier’s total. … Highland Park senior Ben Udell shot a 77 to pace the Giants (320, seventh place) at the McDermand Invitational at Lake Bluff Golf Course on Sept. 25. Classmate Noah Fishbein (78) was next, followed by junior Max Moss (82) and senior Griffin Burstyn (83). Host Lake Forest High School (303), Loyola Academy (310) and Glenbrook North (311) went 1-2-3. … Giants junior Ari Herzog carded a team-low 35 at the Highland Park Quad at Northmoor Country Club (White Course) on Sept. 24, two shots better than Fishbein’s round. Scores from Moss (39) and Udell (40) also counted for HPHS (third place, Locked in: Noah Fishbein shows his intensity during a tee shot at the recent Deerfield Invite. 151). Lake Forest High School PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER finished in first place (149) (Weibring Golf Club) this past bein, a 2014 Central Suburban ties to do something you love to behind medalist Jason Folker (35, summer. Earlier, in another League golfer, says of what at- do outside. Golfers, in general … scorecard playoff winner). New tourney, he finished in eighth tracts him to his favorite sport. I like being around them because Trier (150) placed second, and place with a 71-76. “That and the beauty of golf their heads are in the right place. Loyola Academy (155) took “The challenges of golf,” Fish- courses and the great opportuni- I’m still working on trying to be fourth.

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Sculptor Embraces Realism By Simon murray

few years ago, the sculptor Oscar Leon took a trip to Istanbul. A city of gilded mosques, Byzantine architecture, and at least three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the trip abounded in ancient influences. He was blown away when he visited the Hippodrome of Constantinople. U-shaped, the imperial racetrack—flanked by obelisks and adjacent to the Hagia Sophia—is missing many of its statues. Some were destroyed. Others can be found today in museums as far away as Italy. But the bronze base of the Serpent Column remains. “Bronze can last millennia,” says Leon of the coiled pillar. “The heads were cut off, but the body remained. And it looks fantastic.” The sculptor is sipping coffee and taking careful bites of fresh fruit and house-made granola mixed together in organic Greek yogurt. His hand muscles ripple with every bite; there is power in those hands. We’re sitting at Café Selmarie in Lincoln Square, and after we’re done Leon will meet with a local graphic designer friend to tinker with his website. Owner of Sculpture Resource, Leon has had a long career working with bronze. Many if not all of his commissioned works to date have been life-size representations. Most are of notable figures. These include Napoleon Dynamite for 20th Century Fox Studios, Frank Thomas and Nellie Fox at the White Sox’s U.S. Cellular Field, and a recreation of the frozen tongue scene in the “Christmas Story” for a welcome center in Hammond, Indiana. Most recently he finished a fully interactive “Lambeau Leap” sculpture for Lambeau Field—

complete with a green wall and adoring bronze fans—a perfect photo opportunity for cheeseheads. Leon prescribes to the hyperrealism school of sculpting. He studied the renaissance and the masters: Michelangelo and Donatello, who cut from marble lifelike embodiments of the human form. Rippling sinews. Flowing garments. Quizzical, distrustful or haughty expressions that color faces; bestowing eternal life to the rigid. “I really admire what they were able to achieve,” says Leon, “and today, most artists—most sculptors—have not even come anywhere close to that kind of quality.” He pauses before adding: “There’s such a beauty in what was done so long ago where you feel like they could come alive at any given moment.” Such thinking placed him in direct opposition with one of his teachers, the selftaught, Israeli-American artist Omri Amrany. Co-founder of the Fine Art Studio of RotblattAmrany in Fort Sheridan, Amrany is influenced more by surrealism. For evidence, look no further than his statue immortalizing Michael Jordan outside of the United Center: legs spread apart, mid-jump (a symbol that has since become ubiquitous) a pedestrian defender dissolves into a blur of particles at Jordan’s knees. Leon studied under Amrany (and co-owner Julie Rotblatt) for

“There’s such a beauty in what was done so long ago where you feel like they could come alive at any given moment.” –Oscar Leon

Leon says that it wasn’t until his family started living in Highwood that he found his calling. Oscar Leon | Illustration by Barry Blitt His father worked as a laborer, a mason; manipulating the world almost 15 years; many of which litely, resisted [his] influence so around him with his hands. “He he worked as an instructor to to speak.” would have some vision in his Born in Highland Park, Leon head and then actually execute younger students. But after awhile, he realized he needed to spent his earliest years living with it,” says Leon, which he found distinguish himself and follow his parents in Guanajuato, appealing; but not appealing his own path if he was going to Mexico. Nestled in a little valley enough to follow in his father’s develop his own aesthetic. between the mountains, the pic- footsteps. Says Leon of Amrany: “After turesque setting, off the beaten By his own admission, Leon awhile I think I knew what I path, was a fertile place for a says he was a poor student at wanted to do and gradually, po- young imagination to grow. But Highland Park High School.

When he graduated his father gave him two options: working alongside him at the construction company (“Which I was not too keen on doing”) or going back to school. Leon chose the latter, eventually gravitating towards the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. That spawned a career that continues to this day. One that, like Pygmalion before him, can be obsessive at times. And lonely. “A reason why I immersed myself, and essentially lost my friends at the same time, is because I knew that if I worked 16 hours a day for however many months, that’s my only opportunity,” says Leon, who has been known to work ceaselessly during a commission. “That’s it. After that, it’s going to last hundreds of years.” Recently, Leon has been hard at work with the city of Chicago to honor the victims, survivors, and the heroes of the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes: the SS Eastland. His concept (which he admits has been steadily evolving) incorporates a larger than life black umbrella. (A common sight following the disaster and days of Victorian mourning that followed.) Along the river edge between LaSalle and Clark St, or the exact site of where it happened. This past July marked the 100th anniversary of the disaster. With the help of Alderman Edward Burke and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Leon plans to construct it “with no cost to the city” and with the intent of opening a pop-up studio downtown. Says Leon, “Ideally, the fantasy version [is]: we start this and somebody else says, ‘I want you to do something when you’re done with this.’ And allow me to keep that space.”

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