Larry Kart

It's summertime in Chicagoland and that means it's outdoor movie, theater and concert time. In our ongoing series of picnic pointers, we offer a few suggestions for repast at upcoming...

It was 20 years ago that avant-garde jazz composer and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell recorded for the Nessa label three of his most important works - "The Maze," for eight percussionists;...

Something of a musical time traveler, jazz clarinetist Don Byron has dealt with many styles, eras and themes, from early Duke Ellington to calypso to the comic Catskills sounds of...

He may be less well-known to the public at large than such fellow New Trier High School graduates as Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret and Rock Hudson, but in his own field,...

When the Art Ensemble of Chicago first locked horns (and bass and percussion), no one thought that this boldly avant-garde group would turn out to be history's second-longest-lived jazz combo...

THE BE-BOP REVOLUTION of the 1940s was certainly a bold and brassy affair, and the musician who epitomized it was an extravagantly gifted brass virtuoso--trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. So it's fitting...

Integrity, not oratory, was generally agreed to be the strong suit of Sen. Paul Simon, who left the Senate in January and now is a professor at Southern Illinois University....

We've heard a lot about Tibet recently - what with Hollywood stars like Richard Gere, Brad Pitt and Uma Thurman proclaiming their affinity with things Tibetan. But what is Tibetan...

Sex and politics, fashion and fetishism, gender and identity: You name the topic and the artists in the exhibit "No Small Feat: Investigations of the Shoe in Contemporary Art" at...

Grit, savvy and sheer brutality--those are classic Chicago traits, no matter the endeavor, and they brought the National Football League championship to Chicago on this date, when the Bears defeated...