Evanston, Ill. – With the New Year right around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about choosing a calendar for 2009. Evanston pet photographer David Sutton unveils Sutton Studios’ seventh annual Dog Days Calendar to benefit animals in need. Here’s a way for you to adorn your wall with artful photography and make a difference to a needy animal at the same time. Sutton Studios provides the Dog Days Calendars at no cost to shelters and animal welfare organizations throughout the greater Chicago area. The agencies in turn sell the calendar and use the proceeds to support their mission to care for homeless and abused animals.

Chicago, IL (November 12, 2008)- Teaching more than 5,000 local kids foreign languages is literally child’s play according to Language Stars, a growing foreign language instruction center focused on children. The organization is strategically focusing on reaching children as young as one year-old foreign languages. Scientific research shows that the younger children are the more receptive they are to picking up a foreign language.

Looking for something to do this weekend? We've taken a look at our calendars and picked five local events that will make your weekend more enjoyable:

As we await tables piled high with turkeys, stuffing, cranberry sauce, cornbread, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, pumpkin pie… is your mouth watering yet? As we wait, there are plenty of events to work up an appetite until you sit down to dinner Nov. 27. Here’s our handy guide to Thanksgiving events.

There was a time when an animated feature film was a synonymous with Disney– even those rare cartoon movies produced outside the Magic Kingdom tried to imitate the Mouse’s formula of musical fantasy based on classic children's literature.

Getting a chance to meet the jolly old man in the red suit at Christmas time will make any child’s day during the holidays. We’ve gathered up all the times and places in Lake County and the North Shore you can catch Santa Claus out and about before his big adventure delivering gifts to good boys and girls around the world.