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Those friends and family members who are no longer here anymore are always in our hearts.  But when big political news breaks, or around election time, it’s especially difficult not to miss pal and colleague Carlos Hernandez Gomez.  Thursday, FitzGerald’s in Berwyn is hosting the seco

The Chicago Cubs opened their home schedule last week, Thursday it’s the South Siders’ turn. White Sox fans will see some new players at U.S.

Jim Nayder says:April is here, and that brings allergies and tissues. 

A second wave of relief efforts to help Japan is spreading across metropolitan Chicago. Volunteers hope to spur donations by touching people through food, music and ancient traditions.Over at the Japanese American Service Committee on Chicago’s North Side, several drummers rehearsed.

Except as employed in the traditional music of its native Hawaii, the undersized four-stringed chordophone may be the lamest—or at least the silliest—instrument of all time; it just screams “kitsch,” and to these ears, it obnoxiously cutesies up any music it touches.

It’s not every day a legendary blues musician comes to your high school. But it helps if he’s your grandpa.When teacher Kathryn Guelcher learned one of her student’s was Buddy Guy’s grandson, her jaw dropped.

In these waning days of dead-tree media, one might expect that more than ever the topics that do make their tortured way between covers to sit on the dwindling number of bookstore shelves are more worthy than ever. But the publishing industry, like music or film, bows to nothing more than the n