Kevin Williams

Sometimes being a star, even for a night, is as simple as putting your name on a sign-up sheet. At open mike nights, poets, singers and musicians hold forth in...

MORNING A gorgeous day in Evanston begins with joining the active hordes for a run or walk along the lakefront, over beaches and wooded trails. Your mileage depends upon the...

The 2001 Target Grand Prix at the Chicago Motor Speedway is a weekend shindig of music, food and the smell of combustible fossil fuels. And while it's easy to show...

In the dim light of a sparsely peopled back room, through a haze of cigarette smoke and the din of cranked amplifiers, you can make out the four-member band onstage....

It's easy to think of going to see a band like High on Fire as something akin to when shows like "Wild Kingdom" tracked wild critters. But instead of mating...

The air was redolent with the smell of butane as suddenly, rock music was reduced to its essence: Three shaggy, sweaty men, jagged sonic spikes from an electric guitar, and...

There are two ways to come to grips with Vertical Velocity, the newest roller coaster at Six Flags. First is "Unghhh," the sound you make about a second after the...

As they sit down to be interviewed, the members of U.S. Maple -- frontman Al Johnson, guitarists Todd Rittman and Mark Shippy, with drummer Pat Samson, unconsciously array themselves around...