Steve Knopper

After blockading the door to prevent a hostile glockenspiel take-over, the Chicago Zither Club will convene at 2 p.m. Sunday at Grazie!, 1050 E. Oakton St., Des Plaines. The community...

A chicken probably won't walk up and lay an egg at your feet during the Green City Market's Winter Pantry, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. But the food -- root...

Alvin Lucier is most famous for strapping electrodes to his scalp and, through a series of amplifiers, "playing" percussion instruments with his brainwaves. This was a bizarre idea when the...

Keb Mo The Door (OKeh/Epic) Singer-guitarist Kevin Moore's acoustic, adult-contemporary blues style becomes more sophisticated with every album. Best here is "Stand Up (And Be Strong)," a soft but funky...

R.L. Burnside Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Fat Possum/Epitaph) The first album from Holly Springs, Miss., bluesman R.L. Burnside since his heart surgery more than a year ago,...

Various artists New Beats from the Delta (Fat Possum/Epitaph) Hip-hop has snipped up and reshuffled jazz, funk, soul and heavy metal, but with few exceptions it has yet to stamp...

When elephants, clowns and acrobats are not enough, there's always Marilyn Monroe. The actress came out of seclusion in 1955 in dramatic fashion, wearing fancy jewelry and riding a pink...

Why, you might ask upon visiting Rosemont this weekend, are all the babies donning Penzoil and Valvoline stickers? Because 500 of them will make like future NASCAR drivers and compete...

To avoid the dreaded dance whiplash, we recommend attending just one of these weekend events: Zephyr Dance and Milwaukee-based Wild Space Dance Co., which once set its abstract wriggling inside...

Scott Radinsky is 7/12ths relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and 5/12ths singer for the Southern California punk-rock band Pulley. Though he had elbow surgery last June and missed...