Achy Obejas

Nataraja, a god of dance, watches over the temple room at Karma, one of the city's newest megaclubs. Multi-limbed, surrounded by a ring of fire, Nataraja eyes the smoky environs...

There seems to be a little discrimination at work at the Household Pet Weekend's cat and dog shows. Dogs - who'll be judged at the show on Saturday - get...

There is tremendous carnage here: blood oozing out of wounds to the stomach, both eyes like black hollows, faces completely red. In spite of his wounds, the blind hero crawls...

It doesn't get much stranger than "The Clown," a post-World War II novel by Heinrich Boll. In it, a man bemoans the wife who has deserted him. It's a dark,...

The films in the second week of Reeling '97: The 17th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival (through Thursday) will screen at Chestnut Station, 830 N. Clark St.; 312-337-7301....

Isaac Delgado Isaac Delgado (RMM) (star) (star) (star) (star) Isaac Delgado is Old Havana's party boy. He's streetwise but full of yearning, harmonizing with his home boys, the lights of...

According to Elizabeth LeCompte, the MacArthur "genius" grant-winning director of the Wooster Group, the ensemble began when its members "just started working together 20, 30 years ago -- to be...

Various artists: The Story of Tango (Hemisphere) As an introduction to tango music, the zenith of Argentinean musical expression, "The Story of Tango" is incomplete. Although it spans the 20th...

The great meeting between Celia Cruz, the reigning queen of salsa, and Albita, the talented upstart, never took place. But the San Francisco Jazz Festival, where the two played on...

Cesaria Evora -- a 57-year-old grandmother who performs barefoot -- is the unlikely voice of Cape Verde out in the world. Last year's eponymous Evora CD sat atop the world...