Steve Knopper

There's one great line in Marc Cohn's song "Walkin' In Memphis," in which a gospel pianist, playing in the Rev. Al Green's hometown, asks the narrator whether he's a Christian...

Plenty of small, realistic-looking children made of wood, cloth, resin and wax will make up an inanimate army this weekend at the Chicago Hilton and Towers in the International Doll...

The first person to shout "swing your partner round and round" at the Metropolitan Chicago Association of Square Dancers Octoberfest gets it. This is a serious dance event, with separate...

Various artists Chicago/The Blues/Today! (Vanguard) In a photo with this CD reissue, Jimi Hendrix appears with volume three under his arm, which pretty much sums up this 1966 collection's influence....

Luther Allison Live In Chicago (Alligator) Just a year or two away from challenging Otis Rush and Buddy Guy for local guitar-hero superiority, veteran Chicago bluesman Luther Allison died of...

Susan Faludi, who bothered Rush Limbaugh fans everywhere by meticulously documenting anti-feminist propaganda in her 1992 book, "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," has turned her focus toward men....

The sane music fan will select a few segments of Marshall Field's 24-hour-long "Day of Music" and drop in and out of performances when it's convenient. The insane music fan...

Without swing, there's no bebop jazz. Without bebop jazz, there's no beat poetry. Without beat poetry, there's no Lawrence Ferlinghetti (at right), who wrote the million-selling 1958 poetry collection "A...

Jewelry's Egyptian craze began in 1922, when archaeologists discovered King Tut's tomb - and the fancy House of Cartier was there, of course, bulking up on jade, coral and mother-of-pearl...

In celebrating the anniversary of 1963's Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., Chicago's Unity Month addresses concerns of African-American, Asian, gay, lesbian, Hispanic, British, Irish, veteran, Jewish, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Indian,...