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alumni MARKETPLACE Celebrating Alumni Entrepreneurship, Accomplishment and Ingenuity ENTERPRISING ° Jan Wilson, Faculty Alumna Jan Wilson is the proprietor of Di's Den, one of the best dart bars in Chicago! Located at 5100 W. Irving Park, Di's Den is a favorite Portage Park hangout. Stop in for a drink, darts, or just to say "Hi." ° Peter Jackson '97 Peter launched a remodeling business for homeowners in the Chicagoland area called Sogno Home. "Sogno" means "dream" in Italian, and the company has removed the nightmares traditionally associated with exterior remodeling by offering quality – education, products, installation and promises – with the convenient option of purchasing online. Products currently include windows and sliding patio doors from quality brands like Marvin, Pella and Andersen, with more exterior products/services coming soon. www.mysognohome.com ° Noor Shikari '00 In March, Noor opened Citrico, Brooklyn's purveyor of fresh authentic Mexican cuisine in the illustrious Prospect Heights neighborhood. Stop in for some amazing food! www.citricobrooklyn.com ° Emily Hanan '02 Emily co-developed CURATE, an app that allows users to visualize how any art will look on the walls of their home. e founders created the app with the intention of making it easier for people to see art virtually on their own walls before deciding to make a purchase. Simply snap a photo of a piece of art and the app will show how it might appear in your home. Soon the app also will have artwork from galleries pre-loaded. Available in the iTunes store today. IN PRINT ° Cynthia Weingartner Bardes '59 Cynthia has written two children's picture books for ages 3-7. e first, Pansy at the Palace, was published in 2012, followed by Pansy in Paris and soon to be joined by a third, Pansy in Venice. Pansy in Paris was just picked up by e Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Both books sell at Selfridges in London (where she had a book signing in July), Bergdorf Goodman in New York City (where she has had four book signings) and independent bookstores around the country. Both books are available on Amazon. ° Kevin Cooke '64 Kevin recently published a memoir of his mother, Dr. Pauline Cooke, a member of the Chicago Porter family and feminist pioneer as well as a student of the occult. Obtain your complimentary PDF copy of Arts & Letters by emailing Kevin at klcooke@earthlink.net. A paperback edition is available on Amazon (search under KL Cooke). ° 1974 A member of the class of '74 has had a novel published under a pen name, Michael McGhee (no relation to Kristen McGhee, Class of '74). Happiness Ltd. is a dark comedy that imagines our world after the triumph of the consumer state. Set in the marshes of hurricane-ravaged downtown Manhattan, two young lovers make a run for freedom and find themselves on trial for "economic terrorism." Publishers Weekly called Happiness Ltd. "a highly original and gripping novel... also a frightening commentary on overarching government control, with just enough plausibility to be terrifying." It's published by Laughing Fire Press and is available from most booksellers. 50 L AT I N M A G A Z I N E M A R K E T P L A C E