| Tue, 9 Feb 2010 A global perspective: music to warm a Chicago winter
| From Guadaloupe to Cape Verde and soul to jazz, Glawdys N'Dee fuses a distinctive sound and style. artist's web site | Oh sure, the calendar says less than seven weeks till spring – and perhaps more telling, less than two weeks till the headline “Pitchers ... | IRT presents the Going Solo Festival Featuring Three One-Actor Plays
| The IRT announces a festival of intimate stories in an intimate setting in “Going Solo” which opens on the Upperstage Tuesday (Feb. 9). This is IRT's first time to present a festival of three unique one-actor plays within a season. Theatre buffs can ac... | On Feb. 7, 1812, author Charles Dickens was born
Today is Sunday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2010. There are 327 days left in the year. | Today's Highlight in History: | On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk, which lasted nea... | On Feb. 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born
Today is Saturday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2010. There are 328 days left in the year. | Today's Highlight in History: | On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. | On this date: | In 1756, America's third vice presid... | Ebo to release album soon
Andy Kwabena Ebo Adisi, musician and younger brother of Kwabena Anokye Adisi, otherwise known as Bola Ray of Joy FM, is making a comeback after what is perceived to be a hiatus from the music scene. | Ebo exploded onto the music industry with his single 'Once-Twice'. Al... | New CDs
| MASSIVE ATTACK | "Heligoland" | (Virgin) | Massive Attack is less a band than a cloud of free-floating anxiety. Its members, Robert Del Naja (or 3D) and Grant Marshall (Daddy G), are pioneers of the trip-hop that emerged from clubs in Bristol, England, in the late 198... | Ziggy learns from 'Family Time'
| In the process of recording a subsequent Grammy-wining album, Ziggy Marley experienced a renaissance of sorts in his storied career which started in the mid-1980s as the leader of the sibling group, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. | Marley's latest solo album, Fam... | Gilzene and The Blue Light Mento Band: Love affair with music
| Mento, as an art form, seems to be dying but the Gilzene and The Blue Light Mento Band is working to keep it a vibrant part of the Jamaican culture. | Founder of the band, Lanford Gilzene, said he was taught how to play mento, as a child, by his father. Hence, he want... | Pauline Petinaud keeping 'Fi Wi Sinting' going
| Next Sunday, much love is going to be in the air, well at least at Somerset Falls, Hope Bay, Portland. But forget it if you are thinking it's about Valentine's Day, roses, chocolate and that fictitious Cupid and his little bow and arrow. Hearts will be fluttering, yes... | |
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