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Oct 23, 2024 | 
chicagomag.com | Kathleen Rooney
Everyone’s a critic, but some critics are more critical — as in vitally important — than others. A bibliophile to best all bibliophiles, Donna Seaman is the editor for adult books at the American Library Association’s Booklist. Seaman has worked at the Chicago-based publication since 1990, orchestrating much-needed coverage for countless thousands of titles. She is also the author of the acclaimed Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists (Bloomsbury, 2017).
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Jul 18, 2024 | .html&sz=64)
fis.tu-dresden.de | Amsterdam Reproduction |Peter Lauffer |Kathleen Rooney |Ananília Silva
Abstract Externe IDs PubMedCentral PMC11087720 SchlagworteHumans, Transcription Factor 4/genetics, Hyperventilation/genetics, Intellectual Disability/genetics, Female, DNA Methylation, Male, Child, Facies, Adolescent, Epigenomics/methods, Epigenesis, Genetic, Hyperkinesis/genetics, Child, Preschool, Adult, Young Adult
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
chicagomag.com | Kathleen Rooney
Who says poetry is for sad sacks sighing over their diaries or delicate flowers musing obscurely about actual flowers? Not the poets at Giggle Hour! Cofounder Kailah “KP” Peters explains: “There is a time and space for trauma dumping and crying in a group, but we also need to hold space for joy.” The silly, anarchic, and interactive show, complete with a crowdsourced Mad Lib, entertains a rowdy but supportive audience (admission is $10) inside the low-key Lincoln Lodge in Logan Square.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
chicagomag.com | Kathleen Rooney
POV: You’re strolling down Broadway when you spot a petite corner shop exuding an unmistakable je ne sais quoi. Marais, says the front, after the historic district in Paris. You enter an airy space, punctuated by the scent of fig and earth.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
chicagomag.com | Kathleen Rooney
Some wise creative writing advice suggests that to achieve intimacy in your work, you should imagine yourself writing for just one other person. In her debut short story collection, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil— out June 18 from Tor Books — Chicago-based writer Ananda Lima pushes this concept to its most absurd and effective limits.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker |Kathleen Rooney
John Beranek isn’t a big fan of surprises, but he does love flowers. The surprise his boyfriend, Alonso Turado, had for him Sunday was a road trip from Mundelein to the Richardson Adventure Farm near Spring Grove for its fourth annual spring Tulip Festival. The couple spent part of their day taking selfies surrounded by blooming daffodils. Other tulip festivals may not like customers walking among the flowers, but Richardson Farm encourages it, Robert Richardson said.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
chicagomag.com | Kathleen Rooney
It’s rare to find a place where you can see the actual Milky Way spilling itself across the firmament and contemplate the cosmos on an elemental level. But one of the best spots to do so in the Upper Midwest is Newport State Park in Ellison Bay, near the tip of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula. My spouse and I first trekked to this wilderness — an officially designated Dark Sky Park — in September 2020.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
chicagomag.com | Kathleen Rooney
Suzanne Scanlon is the picture of a successful literary artist. Born in Aurora and currently a professor of creative writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University, Scanlon is the author of the critically acclaimed Promising Young Women and Her 37th Year, An Index. But as she explores in her latest book, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen, out April 16, her past was not as smooth as her present position suggests.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
beltmag.com | Kathleen Rooney
By Kathleen Rooney“Fairy tales are thus more realistic than they may appear at first sight; while the magic in them almost heightens the realism. The magic sets us wondering how we ourselves would react in similar circumstances. It encourages speculation. It gives a child license to wonder. And this is the merit of the tales, that by going beyond possibility they enlarge our daily horizon. For a man not given to speculation might as well walk on four legs as on two.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 00028-9&sz=64)
cell.com | Amsterdam Reproduction |Peter Lauffer |Kathleen Rooney |Ananília Silva
AbstractPitt-Hopkins syndrome (PTHS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by pathogenic variants in TCF4, leading to intellectual disability, specific morphological features, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Epigenetic dysregulation has been implicated in PTHS, prompting the investigation of a DNA methylation (DNAm) "episignature" specific to PTHS, for diagnostic purposes and variant reclassification, and further functional insights into the molecular pathophysiology of this disorder.
