10. Wildest Dreams Favorite Lyric: “Standing in a nice dress / Staring at the sunset, babe” “Wildest Dreams” was my favorite Taylor Swift song in 5th grade. It’s one of those songs that takes you back to the time of your life when it frequented the radio. The song is a time machine....

10. Cruel Summer Favorite Lyric: “He looks up, grinning like a devil”  “He looks up grinning like a devil”--that line gets me every time. When Taylor sings the lyric, I have to sing (or scream) along. That verse alone (I'm drunk in the back of the car/ And I cried like a baby coming...

The scariest thing to happen to me so far this spooky season?  Opening an unassuming Insomnia Cookies box to find a dessert alarmingly shrouded with shiny sprinkles and bloodlike red velvet frosting: the Glampire Loaded Brownie. The promotional images on Insomnia’s website, while relatively...

Michael Myers. Freddy Krueger. Jason Voorhees. Ghostface. All fear-instilling figures. All the stuff of nightmares. After opening the Insomnia Cookies' box, I could add another name to that list -- the Glampire Loaded Brownie. One glance, and I, too would be having nightmares. Gazing at the brownie...

The smell of bonfires, the taste of S’mores.  Short sleeves traded for sweaters, sandals for boots.  Ice cold lemonade turns to hot apple cider.  Pictures posted from Raiders, Tanners, Curtis’ Orchard & Pumpkin Patch. Corn mazes. Hayrides. Pumpkin carving and hand-traced turkeys.  It’s...

From donuts to pie, cupcakes to ice cream, there’s no better way to get in the fall spirit than with a pumpkin-flavored dessert.  My expectations entering Nothing Bundt Cakes to sample their seasonal Pumpkin Spice Bundtlet for the first time?  High. I’ve enjoyed many of the bakery’s “bundtlets”...

I could bask in that perfect pumpkin scent of fall-flavored food every day for the rest of my life. It's the first thing I look forward to when the blankets come out and the leaves start to turn. When the opportunity arose to start the Sweet Spot column with Starbucks' seasonal Pumpkin Cream Cheese...

Pumpkin and I have a love-hate relationship.  Pumpkin bars? Adore them. Pumpkin pie? Despise it.  When Starbucks released its fall offerings this year on Friday, Aug. 30, the Pumpkin Cream Cheese muffin intrigued me.  Despite my questionable relationship with pumpkin, my stance on Starbucks...

Witzig’s four years playing point guard for Morton High School, “got [him] interested in basketball, [in] high school basketball,” Witzig said. “They had a great team that was undefeated… until the end,” Witzig said. In high school, Witzig said he was “the little guy,” but was the only...

Then, something clicked. Community overcame the double-digit deficit, defeating U-High 42-38. Mr. Matthew Schweinberg, who was a senior then, playing combo guard on Witzig’s 2000-01 squad, credited the team’s character in the comeback win. “The team’s…character reflects the leadership of...