Music
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Concert picksOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Nina Nastasia and Jim White with Jim Becker and Scott Tuma, 10 p.m. today at Schubas, 3159 N. Southport Ave., Chicago. $12. (773) 525-2508. This is a collaboration no on...
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Top dogsOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - When Dr. Dog was given the chance to record by Rough Trade, the legendary London label that famously plucked Lucinda Williams, Belle Sebastian, The Smiths and, ...
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Top 10 music hits
Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Here are the top 10 music hits as they appear in Billboard magazine. Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold. Ho...
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The soulful side of a warrior princessOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Excuse me, is there a butt-kicking warrior princess in town? Inside a recording studio on Chicago's South Side is blond-haired Lucy Lawless, and she's not screamin...
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Maná rocks the crowd at sold out concertOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - If a great rock concert is about blasting the crowd into a delighted frenzy, Mexican band Maná hit the mark Thursday night. Maná, which has won three Grammy and five La...
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Departing conductor looks back on 51 years of opera in Chicago
Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Back in 1956, the 2-year-old Lyric Opera of Chicago desperately needed a replacement conductor for its scheduled production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and almost reluctan...
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What Mark Guarino's listening to this weekOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Home spun What Mark Guarino's listening to this week Robert Pollard, "Coast To Coast Carpet of Love" (Merge) GBV veteran can't stop making albums ... Robert Pollard, "S...
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Award-winning soprano back with Lyric for debut in 'La Boheme'Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Back "home" with an opera company she loves, American soprano Nicole Cabell is taking her recent worldwide celebrity in stride. Cabell, a 2005 alumna of the Lyric's Patr...
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Cubs + '80s song = World Series championship?Oct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Should the Cubs go with Prince's "Let's go Crazy" -- or another '80s song? An '80s pop anthem can take you places. The Bulls used Alan Parson Project's 1982 hit "Eye in ...
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Genesis lives in land of contradictionOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - The schizophrenic classic rock behemoth known as Genesis played the United Center Tuesday and demonstrated that everything about it is writ large. The number of nights i...