Achy Obejas

There's a cluster of men hanging out on the vast expanse of sidewalk on Kedzie Avenue on the West Side. It's all men, all ages, all sizes. They are gathered...

It's a rainy night in Lincoln Park, the green's all shiny on the lawn. The street lights have a blurry glow, and it's just cold enough for a sweater or...

What's most striking about Angelique Kidjo's latest recording, "Oremi" -- with its soulful vocals, hip-hop beats and funky guitars -- is how utterly American it sounds. Kidjo, with her smoky...

There's this fellow up front, he's swinging his arms up in the air like he's at a church service, swinging from left to right, his eyes closed tight, face all...

Miguel Bose 11 maneras de ponerse un sombrero (WEA) Miguel Bose is unquestionably one of the Spanish-speaking world's most curiously inventive and prolific artists. An actor frequently featured in Pedro...

The basic notion of "So I Killed a Few People," the surprisingly effective late Friday night offering at the Annoyance Theatre, is that we love our murderers, especially our serial...

Marie's Rip Tide Lounge is empty. You could roll a dime down the narrow corridor between the long, long, bar and the handful of booths, and it would fall flat...

Bringing together the mundane with the historic, Labor Day 1998 featured everything from the annual rites of parades and politicians, to good ol' American baseball and the most fabled record...

Jesus "Chucho" Valdes is one happy guy. He's sitting in his home in Havana yakking it up about his recent visit to Miami, where he played a showcase at the...

The most immediately noticeable thing about the bhangra bashes at Club Elixir is the harvest of movie-star-handsome men. These are not Hollywood types, but more rightfully the kind of dark...