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Gema y Pavel Trampas del Tiempo (Intuition) "Trampas del Tiempo" ("Tricks of Time"), Gema and Pavel's ode to Havana, was actually recorded a couple of years back but has just...

Raul Paz Imaginate (RMM) Trying--like everybody else--to cash in on the Cuban treasure trove, RMM Records has snared Raul Paz, a 26-year-old living in Paris who worked as a producer...

One of the sweeter aspects of the Neo-Futurists up on the North Side is their longevity. Currently celebrating 11 years with "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind," their...

Gema y Pavel Trampas del Tiempo (Intuition) "Trampas del Tiempo" ("Tricks of Time"), Gema and Pavel's ode to Havana, was actually recorded a couple of years back but has just...

Welcome to the last installment of our admittedly Eurocentric, somewhat Anglophiliac, U.S.-heavy and Chicago-focused chronicle of the most important cutural events of the last 1,000 years. (Movie) 1968. "2001: A...

1914-World War I, which will destroy a large percentage of the young artists of Europe and will drastically affect the creative thinking of those who live through it, begins. (Visual...

(Visual art) 1946-Detroit photographer Harry Callahan comes to Chicago to teach at the Institute of Design and embarks on a series of masterpieces that becomes chamber music for the eye....

Last Sunday we began the daunting chronicle of the pivotal cutural events in the last 1,000 years. What follows is Part 2 of our admittedly Eurocentric, somewhat Anglophiliac, U.S.-heavy and...

(Music) 1889-The "divine" Claudia Muzio, one of the most celebrated dramatic sopranos of the first half of the 20th Century (especially in Chicago, where she reigned supreme from 1922 to...

Aw, heck, until last week it hadn't been that cold this winter. But now we are back to being the hub of hoarfrost, the nave of floe, the very umbilicus...