Achy Obejas

1. Chucho Valdes, "Bele Bele en La Habana" (Blue Note) 2. Los Van Van, "Te Pone La Cabeza Mala" (Caribe Productions/EMI) 3. !Cubanismo!, "Reencarnacion" (Hannibal) 4. NG La Banda, "Echale...

One of the hallmarks of Jenny Magnus' work has always been its ability to rise beyond personal experience. Not that her wildly original, highly imaginative and very polished pieces didn't...

`A perfect shade of lipstick. . . ." Patricia Barber's at the piano, her fingers digging into the keys. She's pale, raven-haired, her lips like blood tonight, shaping oohs and...

Los Super Seven Los Super Seven (BMG) Even if you're not a fan of Mexican trad music, you'll love Los Super Seven--a grouping of rock and country artists of Mexican...

After Friday evening, the friendly, airy Java Cat Cafe on Argyle does a little dressing up, a switcheroo: Its big front windows lose their view when huge sheets of black...

Johnny Almendra y Los Jovenes del Barrio Reconfirmando (RMM) Johnny Almendra's first CD updating Cuban charanga was a huge surprise and delight and in "Reconfirmando," there's much to suggest a...

There was a time when My Scarlet Life, the ethereal combo birthed after the demise of Big Hat, drew stares at its shows. The group is fronted by women --...

It is a Sunday night at the Rosemont Horizon and more than 10,000 Mana fans are squeezed into metal folding chairs across the length of the floor and into the...

Think of it as a kind of Latina Lilith Fair. Sunday night at the House of Blues, the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum presents "De Diva Voz," three rock en...

Chicago's a cauldron for Latino artists -- writers such as Ana Castillo and Luis Rodriguez, painters like Paul Sierra, theater actors like Henry Godinez, and even salseros like Jesus Enriquez...