Achy Obejas

Jose Alberto "El Canario" On Time (RMM) (star) (star) (star) (star) When Jose Alberto "El Canario" released 1994's "Juegos de Amor," he seemed tired, like one more out of RMM's...

`I was going to read some poems but now I'm just going to tell a dirty joke about Newt Gingrich," says Tony Fitzpatrick. He's doing two unlikely things at once:...

Mairin Fahy is known as one of Ireland's best fiddlers, but when you hear "Siul A Run," what lingers is her voice: something dark, lonely and effortless. It's a song...

B-Tribe featuring Deborah Blando Suave Suave (Lava/Atlantic) (star) (star) (star) (star) This original, invigorating and strangely dark recording has it all: a serious dance groove, a dreamy, hypnotizing sensibility and...

Forget about Niles and Daphne doing that tangy tango at the Snow Ball on "Frasier." At the Old Town School of Folk Music, on a cuttingly cold night, a beautiful...

David Sedaris stopped cleaning houses about two weeks ago. It had been one of his curious claims to fame -- here he was, a successful author (his critically acclaimed collection...

The music industry--in English and in Spanish--has suddenly discovered that there's a whole generation of Latinos who have grown up listening to English-language R&B, rap and hip hop, whose roots...

If you go see the Mighty Blue Kings during their regular Tuesday night gig at the Green Mill Lounge in Uptown, be prepared for the following: First, you must get...

RMM Records & Video Corp., the largest U.S.-based tropical-music label with 1995 sales of more than $15 million, has left Sony/CBS Records and signed a two-year agreement with Uni, the...

Most people would tend to think of the Pequod, the ship torn to bits by Moby Dick, as a harbinger of bad luck, or at least as a sinking ship....