Kevin Williams

Once you become a working stiff in Chicago, spring break doesn't have quite the same ring as it did when you were a carefree undergrad or school kid liberated from...

"The Debut" is a delightful coming-of-age film that becomes universal by way of its subject matter. Ben Mercado (Dante Basco) is a Filipino-American who would like nothing more than to...

Comedian Chris Rock once quipped that Black History Month occurs in February because it's the "shortest, coldest month." In fact, the late Carter G. Woodson chose the second week of...

Last year some folks in California decided that prunes needed sprucing up, so they relabeled them dried plums. With a simple name change, voila -- a fruit was reborn with...

Auspicious beginnings can be hell. Gravity Kills hit the industrial music scene in 1995 like a ton of bricks. In less than a year, the group went from barely making...

"My car looks really different without hubcaps," was my last thought before heading down to Maxwell Street to, as it turned out, buy them back for the bargain price of...

As India.Arie self-effacingly gushed "This is one of the best shows I've ever had," an Alicia Keys video played on the video monitors scattered around the House of Blues. The...

Stephen King, an acknowledged master of the macabre, submitted yet another horror classic on Wednesday night--his singing and guitar playing. But if you're King, and it's Halloween night, why not...

High Rise Psychobomb (PSF) High Rise is a scary band, fronted by noisemaking shaman Asahito Nanjo (Mainliner, Musica Transonic); the trio allies jazzlike improvisational gifts with an ability to blast...

At Lee's Unleaded Blues, nothing is as it seems. Walking up to the bedraggled red door you expect skankiness, which isn't what you get inside. Shouldering your way past an...