I've always enjoyed visiting my sister in Louisiana in February. Not only is it much warmer there than in Chicago, but I really love Mardi Gras season. The season officially begins in January, but most of the festivals and parades happen in February, with one last big party on “Fat Tuesday.” People throughout Louisiana, and…
Women in Photos: The Lean In Collection
Have you all seen the buzz surrounding the new collaboration between Getty Images and Sheryl Sandberg’s organization LeanIn.org? Sandberg is the author of last year’s bestseller Lean In as well as Facebook’s COO. The goal of this new Lean In Collection is to provide, “a library of images devoted to the powerful depiction of women, girls…
Extraordinary Biographies for Extraordinary Girls
March is Women's History Month, but these compelling picture book biographies will make you want to celebrate women year round! Brave Girl: Clara Lemlich may have been tiny, but she was one brave girl! Discover how this brave five-foot tall factory worker from the Ukraine organized one of the most influential labor strikes in American history. Illustrated by…
Women Who Solo…Travel.
"On my 10th birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders." —Dervla Murphy Long before Elizabeth Gilbert ate, prayed…
Horror and Music at the Oscars
When I sat down to enjoy Sweeney Todd again the weekend before the Oscars, I was under the impression that it had won in 2007 for Best Picture. I was wrong: that honor went to No Country for Old Men, another film with a high creep score. Of course, for pure spine tingling, it's hard to…
Female Hysteria
Call us whatever you like: females, women, girls, ladies, babes. I'm sorry if any of these terms offend you. I'm not trying to make you girls angry. All I really want to do is share the names of some really funny chicks and the books they've written. By funny, I don’t mean that they are…
Read Magazines Online or on Your Device
You can read the latest issues of more than a hundred popular magazines, including Billboard, Mental Floss and Seventeen, as well as cooking, crafting and computer magazines anytime you want. It is super simple to get started and all you need is your library card. From Online Resources, click on Zinio, and from there, you can choose what…
Books Meet March Madness
March is almost upon us, and that means spring is just around the corner. For many that means the NCAA is gearing up for its big annual single-elimination basketball tournament. Not into basketball, you say? Not to worry. The online news magazine The Morning News has cleverly put together a friendly competition that has, for…
Schooners: Technology That Changed Chicago
Although cargo carrying sailing ships crossed oceans for thousands of years, their time on the treacherous waters of Lake Michigan was much more limited. They faced competition from faster and more reliable birchbark canoes in their early days. As soon as canoes went out of fashion, faster and more reliable steamships began traveling the Lake…
Tales of the City: A Beloved Series Comes to a Close
"There are biological families, and then there are logical families." —Anna Madrigal I first picked up the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin in the early 1990s and was immediately drawn into the saga of 28 Barbary Lane and its "logical" family headed by pot-smoking and pot-growing landlady Anna Madrigal. I became so enmeshed in…
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