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By day, he made ads promoting musicians from Pearl Jam to the Rolling Stones, and by night he frequented bars, clubs, restaurants and parties, always with a camera at the ready.

Discovery is central to the work of an artist who seeks and finds all kinds of things on the shores of Lake Michigan. John Soss makes artwork out of seemingly nothing, sifting the sand for debris left by people and nature.

There’s plenty to see and do online and in-person in the week ahead.

The lions are again decked out in wreaths and ribbons and just seeing them so “dressed” jump-starts my holiday spirit.

In his new book, William Swislow writes, “Hidden in plain sight on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline is one of the world’s great public art treasures.”

Comcast’s free WiFi zones benefits hundreds of low-income students at these N.J. nonprofits Updated Feb 08, 2021; Posted Feb 08, 2021 Melbaliz Morales, 9, right and Germaine Leach, 8, left, work on computers in the CYO center on South Broad Street in Trenton.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Facebook Share During a time in which the Internet has become more essential than ever before, hundreds of youth across two nonprofit organizations in Mercer County have recently gained unli...

Print Phil Springer maneuvers his knobby but agile fingers across the keys of the upright piano in his daughter’s living room and croons the opening lines of the Christmas song so sexy that when Eartha Kitt recorded it for the first time in 1953 it was banned in parts of the South: Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree / for me / Been an awful good girl / Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight. At 91, his voice might not purr like Kitt’s did — it’s more an affectionate bar...