Performers in traditional flowy Chinese regalia swayed tambourines with red and orange strings in the air at the fourth annual Umbrella Arts Festival, held at Fountain Square Saturday. The Flying Fairies Dance Troupe was one of the myriad of dance, skit and musical groups that performed at the event,...
About 10 people stopped in their tracks early Saturday morning on the Northwestern lakefront path and focused upward at the bird nests that line the Regenstein Hall of Music exterior. Unlike the morning exercisers who sometimes jogged past them, these early birders set out on a different exercise: a “bird walk” to spot as many avian species as possible. The walk weaved from the lakefront to the trees near University Hall and the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. On Saturday — World Migratory Bird Day — the more than two-hour birding excursion took on a distinguished air. “You’ve heard ‘the canary in the coal mine,’” said Sarah Flax, a member of the Evanston...
