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22 | March 21, 2019 | The glencoe anchor life & arts
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Guanajuato opens second eatery
Megan Bernard, Editor
After 11 successful years in the
Village of Glencoe, Guanajuato
Contemporary Mexican and Tequila
Bar is spreading its wings.
The restaurant opened up a second
location this February in Kildeer
in the northwest suburbs, offering
a scaled back menu focusing
on tacos, its owner Margarita Challenger
said.
“We love what we do and we love
our customers in Glencoe,” Challenger
said. “People tell me that
if you make it in the North Shore,
you’re good; plus, we’ve never had
a bad experience here. So, we’re
extremely grateful to keep doing
this in the same business.”
The second location, Tacos Guanajuato,
took about three months to
open at 20771 North Rand Road,
Kildeer, and “it has been a seamless
transition,” Challenger added.
“We have been talking and thinking
about this for a long time,” she
said. “Duplicating what [Guanajuato]
is was never going to happen.
We thought about just doing tacos
because there’s not a lot of places
that reflect real Mexican street
Anne Loucks Gallery to exhibit ‘Silent Shores’
Submitted by Anne Loucks Gallery
Anne Loucks Gallery is pleased
to announce the opening of “Victoria
Adams and Leslie Wu: Moment
In Time,” an exhibition of 25 of the
artists’ recent landscape paintings.
The show will open April 5 and
run through June 15 at 309 Park
Ave., Glencoe. Both artists will be
present at the opening reception
from 5-7 p.m. April 5.
Victoria Adams paintings are inspired
by the panoramic vistas and
reflective waters that surround her
Pacific Northwest studio, as well
as the traditions of the American
Luminist and Hudson River School
painters. Her ethereal landscapes
include grand views, sweeping
horizons and dramatic skies which
combine to present the viewer with
Guanajuato Contemporary
Mexican and Tequila Bar opened
a second location, Tacos
Guanajuato, in Kildeer, where it
makes fresh tortillas for traditional
tacos. Photo Submitted
food. So we’re doing just that with
more of a modern take on it.”
Two experienced chefs lead the
kitchen at Tacos Guanajuato — or
“Baby G,” as Challenger calls it.
Challenger herself is taking more
of an ownership/management role,
leaving the kitchen.
At Tacos Guanajuato, there is a
“nice selection” of tacos, she said,
an almost dreamlike connection to
the natural world.
Leslie Wu’s work explores the
emotional response to place, as
gleaned from memory, experience
and observation. Her paintings reflect
a combination of places and
elements from the natural world, filtered
through memory, experience
and identity. With glistening waters,
misty atmospheric light, and nostalgic
figures, her compositions suggest
the passing of time, influence of generations,
and a distinct sense of place.
Anne Loucks Gallery specializes
in contemporary American painting,
sculpture and works on paper.
The gallery is located at the corner
of Green Bay Road and Park
Avenue in Glencoe. Gallery hours
are from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-
Saturday.
ranging from steak and chicken to
fish and vegetarian.
“We also brought a machine there
from Mexico to make the tortillas,”
Challenger said. “They are freshly
made. That’s the whole idea so our
tacos are made traditionally starting
with the corn tortilla.
“It’s a fresh take on tacos and
street food, making it fresher all
around. It’s a place you want to be
seen and eat food.”
The restaurant also serves burritos
and quesadillas, plus sides,
soups and margaritas.
The physical space has the same
type of aesthetic as Glencoe’s Guanajuato
with bright, festive wall
colors and decor.
Looking forward, Challenger
said they will have Taco Tuesday
specials and will be planning something
for Cinco de Mayo at Tacos
Guanajuato. In Glencoe, they currently
have a celebration for Day of
the Dead.
For more information, visit
tacosg.com or call (847) 847-1056.
Tacos Guanajuato is open for lunch
and dinner from 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Monday-Saturday. It is closed Sunday.
Victoria Adams’ artwork called
“Eastern Shore.” Photos Submitted
Writers Theatre announces
new season’s show lineup
Submitted by Writers
Theatre
Writers Theatre Artistic
Director Michael Halberstam
and Executive Director
Kathryn M. Lipuma
announce the company’s
2019/20 six play season,
opening with “Into the
Woods,” with music and lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim,
book by James Lapine, and
directed by Gary Griffin in
the Alexandra C. and John
D. Nichols Theatre.
The season will continue
with “The Niceties,” written
by Eleanor Burgess and directed
by Marti Lyons; Lydia
R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly,”
directed by Ron OJ Parson;
and “Mementos Mori,” created
by Manual Cinema. A
new adaptation of Henrik
Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,”
adapted by Sandra Delgado
and Michael Halberstam
and directed by Lavina Jadhwani,
will open the season
in the Gillian Theatre, followed
by Anna Ziegler’s
“The Last Match,” directed
by Keira Fromm.
The 2019/20 Season
marks the fourth full season
in the company’s awardwinning
new home at 325
Tudor Court in Glencoe, designed
by Studio Gang Architects.
Productions will be
presented in two spaces in
the theater complex including
the 255-seat Alexandra
C. and John D. Nichols Theatre,
as well as the Gillian
Theatre, a 50 to 99-seat flexible
theatre space.
From its very first year,
Writers Theatre has brought
quality and excellence to the
stage while maintaining the
company’s hallmark intimacy.
The last 27 years have
seen unprecedented growth
in both the artistic and business
arenas as the company
has garnered national
acclaim and recognition,
marked by the celebrated
opening of the theater’s new
facility in February of 2016.
With a longstanding reputation
for consistent artistic excellence
and with strong ties
to the community, the theater
has built an award-winning
repertoire and serves as a
vital and highly regarded
company in the Chicagoland
theatre community.
“We are delighted to present
to you the 2019/20 lineup
for Writers Theatre,” Artistic
Director Michael Halberstam
said. “With a refreshing
mix of revitalized classics
and exciting new voices, we
have compiled a season that
captures the essential conversations
we are having as a
nation right now. Art has the
primary function of holding
the mirror up to nature but,
in doing so, it must also entertain
and engage. The messages
we share with you this
coming season are essential
and necessary. But they will
arrive skillfully and delightfully
crafted to draw you into
worlds of theatrical magic
that encourage you to think
about the world with nuance,
empathy and, perhaps most
importantly, imagination. In
other words, we have compiled
six must-see productions
and have invited the
Chicago area’s most exciting
storytellers to bring them to
thrilling and sophisticated
life.”
Season packages are
available at the Box Office,
325 Tudor Court, Glencoe,
(847) 242-6000 and www.
writerstheatre.org.
Writers Theatre is pleased
to welcome back BMO Harris
Bank as the distinguished
2019/20 Season Sponsor,
marking the Bank’s ninth
consecutive year as season
sponsor.