Steve Knopper

Real spirits are unlikely to haunt the play "Ancestors and Orishas," in which teen actors from the Pilsen neighborhood and Dearborn Homes address their West African and Cuban cultural heritages....

Having eaten a corn dog billed as "banquet on a stick" and ridden a saddled camel at a state fair (in Kansas), we feel qualified to endorse the upcoming Illinois...

Imagine how many cars you could park in the world's largest garage. Imagine how many rags, brooms, rakes, gas cans and stacks of newspapers you could fit and ... wait...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin' Daddies and the Daddy Daddying Daddies have made some pop-music fans so sick of swing music they're ready to swear off it entirely. That...

Whatever you do, avoid shouting for "Danny Boy" during breaks at The Irish Tenors' concert Wednesday. These tenors - John McDermott, Anthony Kearns and Ronan Tynan, along with classical-easy-listening flute...

Etta James Heart of a Woman (Private Music/Windham Hill) Though she's known as a blues belter, Etta James has detoured into loungey jazz, soul and pop standards -- with uneven...

Given his other eclectic obsessions-soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, the Velvet Underground -it's no surprise that pop-art hero Andy Warhol eventually came around to Jewish people. The murmuring, white-haired painter's obsession...

"We Are One/Nations Come Together" is the theme for this year's reggae-dominated African/Caribbean International Festival of Life. The four-day Washington Park fest's headliners include 26-year-old reggae band Third World; dancehall...

Charlie Musselwhite Continental Drifter (Pointblank/Virgin) Five songs into a fairly typical blues record by this harp-playing veteran, we're in the middle of an epic western. Working with the Cuban band...

Buddy Guy Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy (Silvertone) "The best" doesn't include the Chicago blues guitar hero's '60s Chess Records singles or perhaps his best album, "Stone Crazy"...