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On this week’s Global Notes, Jerome and Radio M host Tony Sarabia listen to the new album, Mumtastic, by the eclectic New York outfit Tareq Abboushi & Shusmo.

Hannibal Buress is hands down the funniest stand-up comedian in Chicago. OK, he lives in New York now, but he grew up here, he performed here for years and technically he is in Chicago right now — in the middle of a two-week run at Zanies.

During six days at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), I was very much surprised to find close to two dozen Chicago theater artists connected with the OSF in capacities ranging from artistic administration to playwriting.Choreographers Randy Duncan and Thomas Rapley (House Theatre of Chicago) bot

To get to the Dave Matthews Band Caravan, you had to travel far. Not just to the South Side, where most, if not all, of attendees of the festival did not live, but east of the Red Line stop at 87th Street east. The CTA supplied shuttle buses that appeared to be constantly running.

It was quite the spectacle watching people streaming in to Lakeside--the former USX Steel site in the South Chicago neighborhood--for the three day, 39-act Dave Matthews Band Caravan festival that concluded last night.WBEZ's Robin Amer did a fantastic blog post last week that was a set-up piece for

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Chicago, IL as the site of its 39th annual conference, June 13-17, 2012.

Violence and crime plagues all corners of Chicago, and gentrification of this notoriously segregated city often causes even more tension in the streets. But demographic shifts in urban areas could be bringing a whole new wave of change.