The First Annual YO SOLO Theatre Festival

Enjoy Some Excellent Solo Shows By Talented Artists (For a Great Price!)

Celebrate Clark Street Festival

Taking the music to the streets!

Goodbye Folk and Roots, Hello Square Roots Festival!

Dance the weekend away at Old Town School of Folk Music’s new Fest

My Hair Despair (Or, a Chronicle of Having “Ethnic Hair”)

My TV is telling me to straighten my hair.

Interview: Jose Ivañez of Orchesta El Macabeo

Orchesta El Macabeo will be in Chicago July 21, 2012 at the Square Roots Festival in…

Concert Review: Teen Daze at Schubas

Much of Teen Daze’s performance consisted of the usual DJ knob-turning and synchronized bouncing up and…

Wake up Madagascar, wake up world: Music to save the rainforests

“We are hoping the music will take the message straight to people’s hearts”.

Book Review: “Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions” by Michael Czyzniejewski

His surname is unpronounceable, but his writing enables a Chicago grammar you won’t get from anywhere…

Novalima: The Musical Mark of Fire

Talking with Grimaldo del Solar about the sources of Novalima’s Afroperuvian Electronica